Game of Thrones: The Strongest Dragon Mother

Chapter 273 Crossroads Inn

"I'm afraid I can't help you," Dany smiled apologetically and explained, "We just came back from King's Landing and are heading north."

Seeing the disappointment on the skinny monk's face, she pointed at the wolf corpse and said, "Brother, do you want these wolves?"

"Yes, yes, of course, we are short of food." The old man pulling the cart shouted again and again.

More than 100 people cheered and ran to the river bank and began to skin and kill wolves.

But when she saw a peasant woman directly draining the blood, Dani hurried over to stop her, and said loudly: "Don't waste blood, you can fill it with blood sausage."

Dothraki people especially like to eat blood sausage, but in Westeros and the major free cities, she rarely sees people feeding blood sausage.

"How did these wolves die? There is no wound, so strange." Someone asked doubtfully.

Dany was teaching a few women to give blood sausage, and she said nonchalantly: "See that old man with a red nose? Look at the chain around his neck. It's a full forty knots. He's a master poisoner. But don't worry, everyone. The poison is harmless to humans."

Dr. Perestan glanced at her sullenly, but said nothing.

However, although he slandered the Dragon Queen as a liar witch, he was also shocked by her behavior of getting along with the sloppy peasant woman.

It's not a pretense at all. In this environment, no one knows her, and there is no need to pretend to be close to the common people in order to buy people's hearts. Moreover, her expression and smile on her face come from the heart without any force.

She would be a very good queen if she had no magic and dragons, the old man sighed.

But then he smiled wryly and shook his head, a princess of a subjugated country, a teenage girl, if she didn't have those mysterious powers, it would be difficult for her to survive, how could she restore the dynasty?

There are more than 40 wolves, and after more than two hours of tossing, they finally turned into pieces of bacon, strings of blood sausages, and more than 40 wolf fur coats.

Well, women and children put on bloody and rich wolf fur directly. The autumn wind is bleak and the weather is cold, and a piece of sackcloth is not cold at all.

Afterwards, the three of Dani also joined the team of the poor people's rally, and the old doctor was placed on the sack cart and squeezed together with a large pile of blood sausage.

Through chatting, Dani knew the origin of this group of people.

Those who came from Yanchang Town in the east, went west along the Trident River to the King's Road a few kilometers away, and then went south along the way to King's Landing.

"Well, we don't want to leave our hometown either, but there was a light snowfall in our village two months ago, and since winter is coming, there is almost no food stored.

This one cow, ten sheep, a few sacks of barley, and half a cart of turnips are all the food for the entire village. If you don’t go to King’s Landing, you will starve to death! "The old man pulling the cart said sadly.

"Salt Field Town is finally a small sea trade port, so it should be able to provide a lot of jobs, right?" Barristan asked doubtfully.

The burly man spat and cursed: "Don't mention it, the town of Saltpan is destroyed. Except for Quincy Cox's dog thief's stone castle, there is nothing left, which was burned to the ground by the bandits brought by the hound.

Clegane, that hell-deserving beast, kills anyone, rapes women, burns houses, even babies and nuns. "

"Clegane has fallen so far?" The old knight's eyes widened with disbelief.

"By the way, why did you curse Sir Cox?" he asked again.

Salt Fields Town is located on the banks of the Trident River. There is a small pier connecting the inland river to the bay. It is the fiefdom of Sir Cox, a wealthy knight.

"The old man Cox didn't care about the life and death of the townspeople. When the robbers raided the town, he didn't send his soldiers to resist. Instead, he closed the gate of the castle and didn't allow us to go in and escape." A young man said angrily.

"Hey, there's someone," Dani's pupils shrank, and she took the short bow from a "brother from the beggar gang" next to her. With a sound of "snatching", an arrow was nailed into a tree with a crooked neck in the ash forest.

A man in gray leather armor slid down from the tree trunk and ran away into the woods without saying a word.

"Damn it, it must be the secret whistle of the bandits." A tall woman in the team cursed.

"Is the Three Rivers so chaotic?" Barristan murmured.

"Hey, there are refugees everywhere, deserters, bandits, without the company of a dozen brothers, we dare not go out at all." The thin monk lamented.

"It's useless not to go out. The lions in the west and the wolf cubs in the north come to our village in turn to grab food and women, and the king doesn't bother." The old man shook his head.

"The king is useless. Only when we unite and form our own strength can we protect ourselves and our family." The skinny monk waved his fist and said firmly.

"Yes, our own power!" A star warrior patted his chest and began to chant scriptures aloud, and the others slowly joined in.

It was the same as when we first saw it, and the sound waves were rolling and spreading far away.

Not to mention, the beggar army is quite effective.

Along the way, they encountered several gangs of robbers hiding in the woods. They greedily glanced back and forth at the buffalo, goat, and the smoked wolf meat carried by the beggar brothers, but finally retreated amidst the overwhelming prayers of the crowd.

About two kilometers to the west, the ash forest became thinner, and they encountered the first corpse.

Hanging from the twigs of a charred tree trunk.

As the loudly praying team approached, the carrion crows lying on people's faces and pecking at strips of meat scattered with "croaks".

Dany found that the calf of the corpse near the ground was only white bones and a few pieces of rags, and there were marks of being bitten by sharp teeth on the bones.

The face of the dead body was a terrible gray-green color, the mouth was stretched open, and someone put a piece of uneven white stone

stuffed between his teeth.

"Salt," Barristan said grimly.

After walking another few tens of meters, they found the second corpse. The scavengers dragged him down. The remains were scattered in the yellow grass, and a tattered rope was hanging from a branch and swaying in the wind.

A teenager tripped and nearly fell, only to dig out a half-helm from the dirt, with the dead man's head inside, and wriggling maggots and tiny black beetles crawling among the rotting flesh.

There is also a lion head emblem on the top of the helmet.

"Lion's helmet, high-quality steel." The burly man brought the helmet over and knocked off the rotten heads and bugs on the tree trunk. "There is no rust or dent, and it can be used after washing."

Afterwards, every few steps, you will encounter one or more dead bodies, until you reach the intersection, which stretches for nearly one kilometer, and there are almost one or two hundred dead bodies.

They were hung from the branches of the trees, with ropes around their necks, their bodies were swollen, their cheeks were eaten by crows, they dangled under the trees, and their mouths were stuffed with salt.

Many have coats of arms sewn on their chests, direwolves, axes, arrows and salmon, a pine tree, an oak leaf, a bantam rooster, the head of a boar

The badges of the nobles of the northern, river, and western regions can almost be found here.

"Seven gods, they are all deserters, and they became bandits together?" The white knight said with a grim expression.

"These are the people who ransacked the town of Saltpan. They were captured by Earl Tully and hanged in this forest to warn the rest of the bandits," said the thin monk.

Then, a group of people set foot on King's Road, the road of Westeros, a five-meter-wide dirt road.

The yellow mud road extends to a small pier by the river, where several ferries are parked, and there is an inn beside the road.

It was a three-story stone building close to the Trident River, facing east from west, and the King's Road passed in front of the door. From a distance, a white stone chimney stood beside it.

After approaching, Danni was surprised to find that the south wing extended to the river, and half of the building was built on stone piles in the river.

If the traveler wants to, he can even open the window, lie on the bed, throw a fishing line in the river, and catch a few trout.

There is a thatched cowshed and a clock tower on the north side of the inn, and the whole building is surrounded by broken white stone walls.

The three of Dani parted from the team of the poor at the inn. Before leaving, the white knight quietly stuffed a handful of golden dragons for the monk, "This place is [-] kilometers away from King's Landing, and it takes a month to walk. The food is not enough You eat."

The hotel yard was covered with a large piece of brown mud. Dani stood at the entrance of the yard hesitating for a while, then gritted her teeth and stepped on it.

An old gallows stood in the yard, and a little boy was dangling from the rusty chains on it.

Four girls stood on the porch watching him, the youngest was only two or three years old, with watermelon hair, crawling around naked on the ground.

The eldest is in his teens, with brown hair and brown eyes, skinny, pale cheeks, and wearing an old blue dress.Seeing Dani and her group approaching, she immediately used her body to protect the little ones behind her vigilantly.

"who are you?"

Perestan clutched his ass, limped, and shouted impatiently: "Of course it's a guest, call your mother out quickly, and prepare a basin of hot water for me."

"I don't have a mother. She was killed." The girl in the blue skirt said in panic.

"Little sister, where is the shop owner?" Dany asked with a smile.

The gentle smile infected the girl. She looked at Dany curiously, and said: "My sister, Jenny, is the boss. She went to the river to fetch fish. We set up a net in the river, and we can harvest a few trout every morning. fish."

"Miss, you are so beautiful, even in men's clothes." The little girl blushed and said.

"Hehe, iron armor is not only worn by men," Dany shook her head and asked, "What's your name?"

"Weeping Willow, my name is Weeping Willow. Miss, do you want to eat or stay? By the way, do you have any silver coins?"

"We only stay for one night, and we need to pay a silver coin? Why don't you grab it?" The old doctor said angrily.

Weeping Willow glanced at Dani, gritted his teeth, and insisted: "Not one, at least three, we need money to buy food."

"Okay, just three, it's normal for prices to rise in troubled times." Dany went to the porch, found a wooden stick beside the steps, and scraped the mud off the iron boots before stepping on the wooden floor, looking at the The little girl rolling around on the ground bared her teeth and said, "Isn't she cold? Why don't you dress your sister?"

Weeping Willow shook his head and said, "There is a fireplace in the house, so it's warm. As you can see, Tracy always likes to crawl on the ground, and her clothes are dirty and worn out."

Picking up the little doll, she walked into the room and said, "Tracey is not my sister. Some of them were brought here by sparrows, and some were found by themselves. They are all poor children without parents."

"them?"

The weeping willow whistled, as if by magic, in the blink of an eye, boys and girls in ragged clothes and disheveled hair emerged from under the table, beside the window, beside the fireplace, and in the stairwell. Holding a fully-stringed crossbow, the boy holds a slingshot or a stone.

All "fully armed".

"Are you really planning to rob?" Perestan yelled strangely.

Weeping Willow glanced at the old man, like the queen in the castle, and commanded the group of orphans loudly: "Put down your arms, they are not enemies. Walter, go boil the water, Will, go to the river and find Jenny, and tell her that there are guests in the shop." Tansy, Pate, get some wood for the fire, and I'll show them the room."

The doors on both sides of the corridor were open, allowing Dany to choose at will. From the second floor to the third floor, the rooms were all empty.

Barristan frowned and said, "I came here two years ago, and it was almost overcrowded."

"There aren't many customers now, and the only ones walking on the road now are sparrows and bandits. The former have no money, and the latter rob us of our money."

(End of this chapter)