Chapter 287 Jia Kun’s revenge plan

It was inevitable that Arya would be punished after she returned to the Red Keep, especially after Lind mentioned taking Arya to a brothel. A hint of dissatisfaction.

Linde did not appear in the Red Keep in the following days. He mostly stayed in the camp outside the city.

As nobles and knights from various places participating in the tournament arrived one after another, more and more people wanted to see Linde. As a result, Linde had to return to King's Landing again and hid in the official residence. He would accept some nobles at night. invitation to attend the banquet hosted by them.

The day before the tournament, Linde returned to his mansion after attending a banquet hosted by a dignitary of the Red Keep. His attendant handed him a piece of surveillance information that had just been sent by King's Landing intelligence officers.

Linde looked through the information and found that the content above was related to Littlefinger. During the day, Littlefinger secretly met a man from Loras in the brothel he ran. The two parties talked for a long time in the brothel. The Loras left in the evening, and their intelligence officers followed the Loras man and eventually lost him.

"Lorath people?" Linde showed a trace of doubt on his face.

Loras are easy to identify. They usually dye their hair red on one side and white on the other, and then like someone to call themselves and the second person.

So when he saw the information, what Linde thought of was Jia Kun. According to the development in the previous life book, Jia Kun should have arrived in King's Landing by this time.

Just when Linde was planning to have people search for Jia Kun's whereabouts and confirm what Jia Kun wanted to do in King's Landing, Jia Kun silently evaded the Chosen Sons guarding the mansion and came to Linde before.

"I didn't expect that the person I was following was someone's person, so I was a little surprised." After seeing Linde, Jia Kun said calmly,

Although she said she was surprised, she actually looked very calm.

"I was about to send someone to inquire about your whereabouts, and your appearance saved me some trouble." Linde waved his hand to signal the Chosen Son of God who heard the noise to leave, then asked Jia Kun to enter the house and asked, "Come here What does Junlin want to do?"

Entering the house, Jia Kun replied very calmly: "Someone just wants to get back the justice that should have been found more than ten years ago." After saying that, she looked at Linde and asked: "Does someone just want to get back the justice that should have been restored more than ten years ago?" Stop it?"

"It is natural that you want revenge, and I have no intention of stopping it," Linde shook his head and said, "I just want to know what kind of cooperation you have with Littlefinger. Is it related to doomsday beliefs?"

"Doomsday beliefs?" Jia Kun's always calm expression became a little loose, showing a look of surprise, and said: "Why would someone be related to doomsday beliefs?"

Linde then told Jia Kun that Littlefinger had been in close contact with doomsday believers for a period of time. Jia Kun was completely stunned after hearing this. She obviously didn't know about this.

As the high priest of the House of Black and White, Jia Kun knows very well what the Doomsday Belief is, but unlike Linde, she does not stand on the opposite side of the Doomsday Belief. For the Thousand-Faced God, as long as she is with The gods associated with death are all clones of the God of Many Faces, and the same is true for the gods worshiped by the White Walkers beyond the Wall.

Jia Kun said in a deep voice: "Someone's cooperation does not involve doomsday beliefs. Someone just helped provoke a war between the northern and western territories."

Hearing Jia Kun's words, Linde immediately thought of possible answers, but still asked: "How to provoke?"

Jia Kun hesitated for a moment and said, "Hire someone to assassinate someone's second son who is now in a coma, and leave clues to someone."

"As expected." Lind thought to himself, and then said in a deep voice: "You want to make Mrs. Caitlin in King's Landing think that Bran spied on James and Cersei's affair, and then he was raped by the two. Pushed down the tower?"

Jia Kun was stunned for a moment, obviously not expecting that Linde would guess their plan, but he quickly recovered, nodded and said, "Yes."

Lind said in a deep voice: "As far as I know, when Bran fell from the tower, Jaime and Cersei were not in the ruined tower, but were with the king."

"Yes, those two people were indeed with the king, but there was another person who was not there. He did not appear until something happened to someone." Jia Kun's expression became a little strange when he said this, but he quickly recovered.

Although Jia Kun did not explicitly name the person he wanted to blame, it was not difficult for Linde to guess the identity of the person based on the information Linde received and Jia Kun's emotional changes when he mentioned the person.

"You want to blame the little devil." Linde didn't expect things to turn out like this. Everything turned a corner and returned to the starting point.

Jia Kun nodded, and then asked: "Does someone want to stop it?"

"No." Linde shook his head.

Jia Kun looked at Linde with some confusion and asked, "Is someone not a friend?"

"Tyrion is indeed my friend," Lynde sighed and said, "But I have tried to save him, and he rejected me. Since it is the fate he chose, he himself needs to bear the consequences." , he asked again: "So, Lady Catelyn is already on her way to King's Landing?"

The surprised expression on Jia Kun's face became more obvious, and before he recovered, he asked doubtfully: "Is this someone's guess, or has he been monitoring Winterfell?"

Linde did not answer Jia Kun's questions, but signaled to Jia Kun that he could leave, and once again gave his assurance: "I will not interfere in your affairs, but I don't want your affairs to affect Shengxia Hall, do you understand?"

"Someone understands." Jia Kun saluted to Linde, then walked out of the room, retreated into the shadow of the surrounding trees, and disappeared from Linde's eyes.

Seeing Jia Kun leave, Linde couldn't help but sigh. He could feel that Jia Kun still had many plans that he had not told him, so he probably had some concerns about him.

Lind could understand this. After all, everyone in Westeros now knew about the engagement between his son Augustus and Robert's daughter Myrcella, and he was indirectly related to the Lannister family.

No matter what, the situation is developing according to the established track. He just needs to wait for the curtain to open and harvest his favorite prey at the right time.

"Sir, Duke Ed is visiting." The manager of the official residence hurried to Linde's study and reported.

Linde hesitated for a moment and then ordered: "Invite him in."

After the director heard the order, he stepped back. After a while, he saw him bringing in Eddard Stark and his captain of the guard, Jory Kelso, who were in civilian clothes.

Lind looked at Eddard Stark and said: "Duke Ed, shouldn't you be preparing for tomorrow's tourney now? After all, tomorrow's tourney is held for you."

"There are more and more important things that need to be done. The tourney is exactly the last thing that needs to be done. If possible, I really want it to stop immediately." Duke Ed expressed his feelings about the tourney unceremoniously. Disgusted, he then looked at Linde and said very seriously: "Prince Linde, I hope you can lend the Iron Throne a sum of money."

"Loan money?" Linde was stunned and asked in a deep voice, "You probably haven't mentioned this to King Robert, right?"

"No." Duke Ed shook his head and asked puzzledly: "Is there any difference?"

"I have thought about lending money to King Robert before, but he refused. He would rather borrow money from the distant Iron Bank, borrow money from the Lannister family, which he despises, or borrow money from Highgarden, which he also despises. But he never wanted to borrow money from me." Linde sighed and said, "Do you know why King Robert did this?"

"Damn it!" Duke Eddard and Robert Baratheon grew up together, how could they not understand each other, so he immediately understood why Robert didn't borrow money from Lind, and couldn't help but curse. .

Lind said in a deep voice: "If I lend you money, that would be the greatest harm to King Robert. I'm sorry, Duke Eddard."

Ed didn't say anything more and went straight to the next thing. He took out a wax-sealed envelope, handed it to Linde, and said, "I found this in the bedroom of the Prime Minister's Tower. It should be a letter that Jon wrote before his death, but it was not delivered to you. I don’t know whether it was because I didn’t have time, or I wrote it without intending to send it. This letter is hidden in the crevices of a book, and it is very secretive. "

Lind couldn't help but be stunned when he looked at the letter that was handed over, because his relationship with Jon Arryn was not a good one, let alone correspondence. Even some of the government orders usually sent from King's Landing were not written by him. , but someone else copied it and stamped it.

Now a hidden letter suddenly appeared and was discovered by Ed. This made Linde couldn't help but think of Jia Kun just now. He had some doubts that Jia Kun had used some trick.

Although he was filled with doubts, Linde's hands were not slow. After taking the letter, he broke the wax seal directly in front of the two of them, opened the letter, and took out the letter paper inside to read it.

After reading it, Linde frowned, with a look of confusion on his face.

"What's written on it?" Ed Stark asked curiously.

Linde did not answer, but directly handed the letter in his hand to Ed.

After Ed took it, he looked at it quickly, with the same puzzled expression on his face.

The content of the letter is very simple, that is, Jon Arryn hopes that Lind can pick up some people to settle in the Summer Hall territory, and has attached the names and addresses of those people at the back of the letter to facilitate Lind's search. A rough count. There were probably dozens of people.

Judging from the names and places of residence, they should not be from the same family, and most of the people here live in brothels. They don't look like people with any special status.

"Could these be Prime Minister Jon's illegitimate children?" Jory Kelso, who was on the side, also read the letter and couldn't help but muttered.

After Ed heard this, he glared at Jory Kelso fiercely, but he did not completely deny the speculation in his heart, because he investigated that Jon Arryn had visited brothels several times before his death, and he went They are all different brothels, and now the addresses of these brothels are on the paper, which makes people have to doubt the identities represented by the names behind these addresses.

"Prince Linde, what are you going to do?" Ed asked Linde.

Lind thought for a while and said: "Although I don't understand why Prime Minister Jon would write such a letter, since this is his last wish before his death, I don't mind helping him complete it. I will let someone put it on the list. All the people were taken to Shengxia Hall for resettlement.”

"Thank you." Ed thanked him, and then asked: "Can I make a copy of the list? I want to investigate their relationship with Jon."

"Of course," Linde nodded and said, "But your investigation must be faster. I will return to Summer Hall after the tournament, and these people should go back with me by then."

"I understand." Ed nodded, picked up the pen and paper from the table, quickly wrote down the name and address, and then left the Linde mansion with Jory Kelso.

They did not return to the Red Fort immediately, but visited the addresses on the list overnight and met the people with corresponding names.

These people were not old, the oldest was only a teenager, and the youngest was only a few months old. And he also understood that these people were not the illegitimate children of Jon Arryn, but the illegitimate children of Robert. Regardless of whether they were Both men and women, each had the thick black hair and blue eyes that were characteristic of House Baratheon, and several of the boys looked exactly like Robert when he was a child.

After understanding the situation, Ed returned to the Red Keep, but what he didn't know was that his every move was being watched by interested people. When he visited those places and met those people, the whole process was gathered into information and sent one by one. Arriving at the Queen's bedroom in the Red Castle.

"Damn it, he's found it, he's already found it!" Seeing the contents of the intelligence, Cersei couldn't help but feel panicked and cursed repeatedly.

However, James on the side held Cersei in his arms, gently caressed her body, and said: "No, he hasn't found out yet. If he finds out, he will come to us directly instead of pretending." He returned to his Prime Minister's Tower and continued processing official documents as if nothing had happened. Ed Stark is not the kind of person who can hide things."

Under Jaime's comfort, Cersei calmed down and said, "Yes, yes! If he finds out, he must go to Robert first! Yes, he hasn't found out yet!" After that, she asked again: "What do we do now?"

"Don't worry, things haven't reached their worst yet." James shook his head, picked up a piece of intelligence and looked at it, then frowned and said, "Before going to those places, he first went to Linde 's official residence."

"Is he in cahoots with Lynd Terra?" Cersei asked again.

"No!" James shook his head and said: "Lind will not interfere in political matters, not to mention that his son is going to marry Myrcella. He is our natural ally. However, he should know that Ed ·Why did Stark go to those places?”

With that, he stood up, put on his clothes, and said, "I'm going to Linde's mansion to see if I can find out some information. Don't act rashly, let alone go to Ed Stark for confirmation."

"Okay." Cersei nodded and watched the twin brothers leave the room.