Chapter 349 Trampling on guests’ rights

"Lord Stannis has no chance of winning?" After reading the battle report from King's Landing, Sansa asked Lind with concern.

"What you want to ask is actually whether your brother Robb can win the war, right?" Margaery made it clear what Sansa wanted in her heart, and then reminded: "Instead of thinking about Stannis here, you should be more concerned about it. Look at that warning letter you wrote! Judging from Robb Stark’s behavior, it seems that he didn’t receive your warning letter at all.”

Sansa couldn't help but retort: ​​"How is it possible? He should have received my warning letter, otherwise, he will never marry with the Frey family again. Now he has put aside his past grievances and married with the Frey family. Getting the support of the Frey family is the best thing he can do.”

"Is marrying the Frey family the most correct thing? Are you keeping your head in the room today?" Margaery began to imitate Rosso's way of speaking, and mocked: "Weasels are always small-minded, Robb Smith Tucker trampled all their dignity, and they actually proposed to remarry. Don't you think this is strange? Or do you think everyone should be as tolerant as you saw the protagonists in those knight novels? Be open-minded, even if you are slapped hard in the face, you should open your mind and hug the other person. "

Sansa looked a little embarrassed after being ridiculed by Margaery, but she soon no longer cared about the ridicule of her companions, but seriously picked up the information about Riverrun, and began to look at it from Margaery's perspective. When we look at the marriage between Frey and the Tully family, we quickly see the problem.

Sansa said with a pale face: "The Freys want to take action against Robb?"

"It seems that your brain is still there." Margaery looked at Sansa, sighed, and said: "It's too late to say anything now. According to the time of this information, Robb Stark should have already In Twin River City, even if Lord Linde is willing to help, it will take a long time for him to fly there on a dragon. "

As she spoke, she deliberately turned her head to look at Linde.

Lind looked at Margaery, then at Sansa, and said: "It's already too late. With Neltharion's flying speed, it should be already late at night to fly to the Twins. It takes such a long time to do it." It should all be over."

Hearing what Lind said, tears couldn't stop flowing from Sansa's eyes. Then she apologized and hurried out of Lind's study.

Seeing her best friend running back to the room crying, Margaery also felt uncomfortable. She felt that if she knew that Garland or Loras was about to die but could not do anything, she would definitely be even more sad.

"My lord, are you really too late to save Robb Stark, or do you not want to save him?" Margaery looked at Lind and asked seriously.

"Why do you think I don't want to save Robb Stark?" Lind put down the document in his hand and asked.

"Because you want to make Sansa the Duke of Winterfell." Margaery said as if she had seen through you: "Those things you taught Sansa during this period are things that you only learn as a lord. Why would you train Sansa specifically if you didn't want her to become a lord?"

"It's very logical." Lind nodded and said with a smile: "But if I follow your thinking, then you are doing the same thing as Sansa. I also want to train you to become the Duke of Highgarden. ?"

Margaery was stunned when she heard this, and couldn't help but picture herself becoming the Duke of Highgarden. Then she immediately shook her head and said in a panic: "No, no! I must have guessed wrong, I must have guessed wrong! "

It was reasonable for Margaery to be so panicked. She thought that if she wanted to become the Duke of Highgarden, all her father and brothers would have to die.

"You may have forgotten that Sansa still has two younger brothers alive. According to the order of succession, it is not her turn to return to the title of Duke of Winterfell." Lind took out a piece of special information from a pile and handed it to Margery.

Margaery quickly took it and looked at it seriously.

In the past, most of the information that Margaery and the others read were ordinary intelligence or battle reports. Because this kind of special information involved the secrets of the Summer Hall, they would not allow it to be read, even if this kind of information was just They were piled randomly beside Linde's desk, and they didn't dare to touch them.

A long time ago, they were curious about what was written in the information. Now that Margaery had the opportunity to read the information, she naturally wanted to satisfy her curiosity.

This special information started with some things that happened on the Wall. For example, the two Stark boys who escaped from Winterfell had arrived at the Wall. The strange thing was that they did not go to Castle Black, but I went to Icemark City.

Margaery remembered that Ice Scar City was where her brother Vilas stayed. She felt that this was not a coincidence. There must be something in it that was not written down in this intelligence.

In addition, the most recorded in the intelligence are some of the decisions made by the current acting commander-in-chief of the Night's Watch, Samwell Tarly, such as treating the wildling tribes differently, sending people to negotiate with the relatively friendly wildling tribes, dividing the wildling tribes coalition forces, etc. , and then there are measures such as building farms and savage settlements on the donated land.

Seeing this, Margaery couldn't help but ask: "Is Samwell Tarly the eldest son of Lord Randyll Tarly?"

"Yes." Linde nodded.

Margaery couldn't help but joked: "It seems that Sir Randyll Tarly has made a mistake. His eldest son is not simple! If Randyll Tarly sees his eldest son now, he will be divided according to the level of authority. He should first salute the Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch, even if the Commander-in-Chief is only acting."

Lind corrected: "No, Lord Randyll Tarly did not misunderstand. What the Tully family needs is not a commander like Sam who is good at political planning, but a general who can lead the family knights to charge into battle. Sam's ability is second to none in the Tully family." Can’t perform well.”

Margaery shook her head disapprovingly, but did not refute and continued to look at the information in her hand.

The subsequent intelligence content became a little unusual. For example, Lorath's boatman saw the ice dragon appearing many times in the Shivering Sea, and it was getting closer and closer to the northern end of the Essos continent.

For another example, a White Walker appeared at the southern end of the Frostfangs. The savage tribe controlled by Linde had already fought against the White Walkers. The obsidian weapon test results were better than expected, and the weapons against the wights also achieved the desired effect. .

The last line of the intelligence mentions the presence of winged men in Asshai.

Margery put down the information and asked curiously: "Are the Winged People here talking about the Winged People in the legendary Winged City?"

Linde nodded and said: "Yes, they belong to a family in Yiren City and plan to move to live near Yaxia temporarily."

Margery said with fascination: "Asshai! It's such a far away place. I hope I can have the opportunity to visit there in the future."

Lind shook his head and broke Margaery's dream and said: "I don't recommend you go there. It is a city that makes people disgusted just by looking at it. If you stay for a long time, you will feel that your soul has been pulled away from the entire city. Same, gradually losing all emotion."

Margaery disagreed and asked: "In the book of the sea serpent Corlys Valerian, it is mentioned that Alyssa Farman's ship was seen docked at the dock of Asshai. Is it true? "

"It's true." Linde nodded and said: "Alyssa Farman's ship is docked at the dock of Yaxia. The people of Yaxia respect the ship very much and often do maintenance and repairs. Today, the ship Still able to sail on the sea.”

"So..." Margery wanted to ask something more.

Lind immediately raised his hand to interrupt and said: "If you want to know more about Asshai, when Maester Marwin comes to the castle next time, ask the maester directly. He has lived in Asshai for a period of time and has a lot of knowledge about Asshai. He knows much more about the situation than I do." As he spoke, he pointed to the special information that Margaery had just read and said, "I think you should take this information to Sansa now. "

Margaery nodded and immediately hurried out with the information.

After Margaery left, Linde did not continue to deal with the matter, but pondered for a moment, then took a piece of paper from the side, quickly wrote a few lines of words, sealed it, then rang the bell, and sealed it. The attendant waiting outside called in and ordered: "Send this letter to Daisy with a letter falcon immediately."

The attendant took the sealed letter, turned and left the study.

Guest rights are the most important sacred law in Westeros. Whether it is the teachings of the Seven Gods or the laws of the old gods, the sacred law of guest rights is recorded, and they also describe what will happen if you violate this code. Such punishment.

In the past countless years, the nobles and commoners of Westeros have strictly followed this sacred law, and rarely trampled on the rights of guests. One of the most famous incidents of trampling on the rights of guests was the incident of the Rat Chef. .

A night watchman cook of the Nightfort, in order to avenge the king, killed the king's son when the king came to the Nightfort to establish guest rights and let down his guard, and made him into a pie for the king to eat.

Although the night watchman chef had the right to take revenge, he used the wrong way and was eventually turned into a female mouse by the gods, and made her hungry all the time. Only by eating her own children would she be able to survive. Can relieve hunger.

Almost every adult, child, and elder in Westeros knows the ballad about the Rat Chef and can sing it.

Because of this, the sacred law of guests' rights has been deeply engraved in their minds from childhood to adulthood. No matter how vicious people are, they will follow this law.

However, now the Freys of the Twins have trampled on this law. After establishing guest rights with the visiting Robb Stark and his subordinates, they took advantage of the wedding banquet and when everyone lost their guard, They launched a brazen attack and killed the unarmed Robb Stark and his men in the banquet hall. The Frey family soldiers also raided the Northern Alliance camp and massacred the Northern Alliance forces.

However, the punishment of the gods for trampling on the rights of the guests soon appeared. Robb Stark's subordinates, Lord Daisy Mormont of Bear Island, Lord Yorn Royce of Runestone City in the Vale, and Acting Lord Brynden of Riverrun ·On ​​the evening of the next day, when the Frey family was cleaning up the mess and celebrating their victory, Tully appeared outside the Twins, launched an attack on the Twins, and occupied the city gate without the other party being prepared. , directly invaded the city.

After Daisy Mormont learned that Robb Stark and others were dead, she ordered Yohn Royce and Brynden Tully to block the two exits of the Twins, while she He led his own Bear Island warriors and giant bear soldiers to massacre the city.

Including the Lord of the Twins City, Lord Walder Frey, almost all the Freys died in this massacre. Only a few Freys saw that the situation was not good and decisively jumped into the Green Fork River. end.

The Lord of Riverrun, Edmure Tully, who came to the Twins for marriage this time, was originally under house arrest by the Frey family. However, when Daisy Mormont massacred the Twins, he was killed by the Frey children who fell into despair. died, and his new wife also died at the hands of his brothers.

The massacre lasted from the evening of the previous day to the early morning of the next day. The entire Twins City nobles and noble-related families were slaughtered by Daisy Mormont's Bear Island warriors. Just when Daisy was about to turn the butcher knife on When he was a quasi-civilian, he was stopped by Brynden Tully, who could not see anything. Although this battle-hardened veteran was also extremely saddened by the deaths of Robb Stark and Edmure Tully, he He still felt that Daisy's massacre of the city was a bit excessive.

Bronze Yohn Royce also persuaded Daisy, thinking that the death of so many people should be enough, which made Daisy stop her hand and seal the knife.

Afterwards, Daisy Mormont asked Sir Patrick Mallister, who came from Seaside City, to lead the army of Seaside City to take over the Twins City and temporarily act as the Lord of the Twins City. She, Brynden the Blackfish, and Jon Bronze returned to Riverrun, awaiting further developments.

The fact that the Frey family trampled on the rights of guests and massacred Robb Stark and other northern lords and nobles in Twins City, and Daisy Mormont's righteous revenge and massacre of Twins City spread throughout Westeros almost at the same time. .

While everyone felt ashamed of the Frey family's trampling on the rights of guests, they were also shocked by the brutal massacre of Daisy Mormont. According to the subsequent statistics of the acting Lord of the Twins, Sir Patrick Mallister, approximately There were only more than 30,000 people left in the Twin River City of 100,000 people, and a full 70,000 people died overnight at the hands of Daisy and her Bear Island warriors. Although some of them were nobles, many were innocent. civilians, it was obvious that killing the red-eyed Bear Island warriors was no longer a matter of identity, as long as they were from Twin River City, they would be killed.

When Brynden and Jon stopped them, the Bear Island soldiers had actually killed many civilians.

Because of this, the name of the Bloody Bear Girl began to spread on the continent of Westeros.

With the death of Robb Stark, the war over the succession to the throne has come to an end, but the subsequent events have not ended and are still fermenting.