Chapter 197: Lingol's Expedition (XIX) Rewards and Punishments are Clear

"Your Highness Ringol, calm down, your friend can't die."

As soon as Lingol finished speaking, a strange voice came out from the swamp on the side. He seemed a little anxious, fearing that Lingol would act impulsively.

After all, Ringor is not as experienced as his father Longzell, who can remain calm and inhumanly rational most of the time. So much so that sometimes the children feel that Long Zell doesn't seem like a person anymore.

Ringol looked up and looked in the direction of the sound. A short young man with a face full of anxiety jumped down from the tree without stopping.

He was a small man whose height only reached Ringor's chest. He had long arms and long legs, like four bamboo poles, and his slender body was like a slender bamboo pole. This small young man Wearing armor sewn from lizard skin, with iron plates at key parts, he carried a basket of spears and a blow dart on his back, a frog net in one hand and a harpoon in the other.

The little man jumped and dodged to avoid danger in the swamp, and ran in front of "Kane" whose face had completely melted and was reforming into a handsome young man's face.

"Who are you?" Ringor raised the Starsinger vigilantly: "You"

He swallowed the words "How do you know me" and cast his eyes behind the little man. The Faceless Man "boy" Sage, who had returned to his original appearance, stood up with his lips pursed, but Ringol could feel the smile of his Faceless Man guard.

He is the apprentice of Kungul Potter, the faceless guard of Dragonzel. After being adopted by the priest of the Many-Faced God "The Indifferent Man" at the age of two, he studied in the House of Black and White in Braavos for thirteen years. After being ordered to bring death to a warlord of Andalos, he received a message from the Many-Faced God and came to Westeros to serve as the Faceless Guard for Dragonzel's children.

"Your Highness, please introduce yourself. I am Jojen Kare, the leader of Lizardton. Chief Brandon Reed is my lord." Jojen Kare bowed slightly and said with the etiquette of the Zelanders. : "Leader Brandon has the talent flowing in the blood of the ancestors. The ancient gods gave him green vision. He saw the real dragon flying in the swamp, so he sent me to greet him. Unexpectedly, I met this person first. Bit"

He complained a little, but looked at Sage warily: "The agent of death, Your Highness, he asked us to help him complete the test of Prince Silver Dragon on you, so we provided the venue and poison."

Jojen Kare glanced at Lingol's turquoise eyes with a guilty conscience, took a deep breath, and then said: "This is not a fatal poison, but the sap of the sleepy tree, and the sweet sleep flower." In comparison, the sap of the sleepy tree is more suitable for use as a hypnotic drug because it has weak toxicity and no addiction. Unfortunately, this plant only grows deep in the neck. We generally use it to prepare anesthetics or to Sleep aid."

"Are you sure?" Ringol confirmed again, after getting a positive answer. Alarion next to him also breathed a sigh of relief quietly. Although he is not as careful and clever as Lei Gen, his intuition about many things is much more accurate than Lei Gen. For example, in this attack, he almost saw Kane. The moment he suddenly betrayed them, it was confirmed that Kane was most likely the person sent by Long Zell, but he didn't expect that Kane turned out to be Sage, the Faceless Man.

He saw Lingol hugging Lei Geng without saying a word, and hurriedly stepped forward to help him, but Lingol signaled him to take the old James who was killed by Lei Geng.

The few people moved to a relatively dry open space. Ringor carefully let Lei Geng lean against the tree. Now that they didn't have enough medicine on hand, he didn't dare to touch the bone arrows on Lei Geng's body, so he could only do it first. Let Lei Geng have a good sleep.

The Faceless Man Sage stood aside with his mouth pursed. He didn't know when he picked up the arm that was cut off by the Starsinger, and pressed it back onto the smooth fracture. He didn't know what he put on the fracture. I saw that the fracture that had been motionless suddenly began to grow slowly. Soon, the broken arm was reattached, but it still lay limply aside.

The sword of dragon steel is also a sword of magic.

The Faceless Man Sage said in his heart.

The magic of the Many-Faced God can make its traveler change in a thousand ways, and even change the body and reshape broken limbs. However, it is powerless against a body damaged by Valyrian steel weapons. However, for this mission, Longzell gave it to him. Got a bottle of potion.

It's just that the recovery time will be much slower.

"Leader Jiu Jian, are there any bachelors in Zedi?" Lingol asked.

"Leader Brandon is coming here with the maester." Jiujian Kare said apologetically: "Now is the snowmelt period, the neck is changing all the time, and the gray water watch is also constantly moving. If something unexpected happens, it is now deep in the swamp. Sorry, Your Highness, we cannot provide you with a warm bed."

"It's okay." Ringor tried his best to smile. He knew that leaders Jojian Khare and Brandon Reed had good intentions and wanted to help him, even though they did hurt his friend Lei Geng. But he couldn't bring himself to punish them.

"Lei Geng needs medicine. I hope Leader Reed has enough medicine."

"Of course, please rest assured, Your Highness, Leader Li De's bachelor comes from Silver Crown City. He is very good at surgery and the use of external medicines including fire milk." Jiujian Kare said respectfully.

This made Ringor sigh in his heart.

I can't punish them.

Because they have merit.

He suddenly understood the purpose of his father's arrangement. He was not trying to remind himself that the people around him might betray him at any time, but to tell himself.

It is not wrong to have clear rewards and punishments and to follow the rules.

The mistake is to be too rigid and inflexible.

He did have the urge to draw his sword and kill everyone, but after the impulse, he regretted the ignorant Ringol.

He is the monarch who makes the code, not the one who can only follow the code.

"Brother Sage." He walked helplessly to Sage the Faceless. Sage the Faceless was a short, handsome Braavos man. He had Valyrian ancestry and his hair was light gold, but half of his hair was dyed blue, which made him very easy to recognize if he met people with his original appearance.

"I know you attacked us for me, following my father's orders." The young man said softly, "But Regen doesn't know this, he only wants to protect me, so, Brother Sage, do you understand what I mean?"

"His Royal Highness will be very satisfied with your performance." Faceless Sage finally stopped pursing his lips and smiled with relief: "I'm waiting for you to say this, His Royal Highness has promised, Regen Kaon." His green eyes looked at Ellarion and Albin who were still frightened. "Ellarion Hoss and Albin Hewen will both get their due rewards. And my reward will also be given to them."

Ringol nodded, and Sage understood what he meant. He would reward the Faceless for helping him, but would also punish the Faceless for hurting his friends with his plan.

"I am also wrong, Brother Sage, please tell my father that I hope that after I go back, I will compensate Regen with my annual salary this year." He paused. For him who lives purely on the annual salary, it is still a bit sad to live without the annual salary for a year, but his current small treasury is still quite fat, enough for him to live.

Elarion was not very excited. He knew that when Regen woke up and learned that Lingol was fine, he would definitely be more excited than he would get the reward medicine. After all, the two of them followed Lingol not for rewards or anything else.

It's just because they are friends.

That's all.

Elarion squatted beside Regen, watching that his breathing was still stable, and he was relieved. Although Regen didn't have time to put on armor, he was wearing thick clothes, and the wild man's bone arrow didn't pierce very deeply.

It just sent the sleepy tree sap into his body.

Ringol also knew this. He also knew that although his father Longzel was not rational like a human being, he was a normal person who laughed when he should laugh, drank when he should drink, and joked and boasted when he should joked and boasted in front of his family and old friends.

He also longed for friends like family.

The Faceless Man nodded. Looking at Albin with a confused face, the child was just frightened by the ferocity of Alarion and Ringol, but he also rushed up bravely. In short, he did have some tricks.

"Albin Hewen" The Faceless Man was interrupted by Ringol before he finished speaking.

"Albin, you know my identity now, right?"    "Prince Lingol Lingol Vareses?" Albin murmured, and suddenly he almost jumped up with excitement.

I'm rich!

This was the only thought in Albin's mind.

They actually traveled with a prince for so long, and he was a dragon knight prince.

The teenager always thinks too much.

The excitement passed, and what was left was unspeakable fear.

The excitement on Albin's face gradually faded, and what climbed up again was actually a trace of fear. He looked at several people with some fear: "Your Highness, I. I admit that I did want to steal your money at the beginning. I, I also wanted to." "I know." Lingol smiled: "Your eyes have never left my sword and armor since the beginning. How can I not know what you are thinking?" Albin scratched his head a little embarrassedly: "But. I heard." "Am I the kind of unreasonable person?" Lingol retracted his smile: "But, Albin, you said before when you were camping that you once robbed a caravan with your Sir Robert from Walnut Village when you were a child. Is it true?" Albin shook his head: "Sir Robert is a drunkard. Although he likes to beat me and call me a stupid kid, he is a very upright knight. It is because he refused to make a lot of dirty money like other wandering knights that he died so. Sloppy." The Faceless Sage nodded behind him and told Lingol that Albin did not lie to him. "Didn't you find out that Kane is a fake?"

Albin continued to shake his head and said sincerely: "I was deceived by him, and I still had to count money for him. Your Highness, I really didn't recognize that guy as a fake." He glanced at the Faceless Sage with some dissatisfaction.

Seven layers of hell, the real Kane deceived me, and you deceived me too.

Sir Robert, I am still the stupid boy from Walnut Village.

It's bad, it's bad, His Highness Lingol is not angry.

"That's good." Lingol breathed a sigh of relief quietly. If Albin really did the things he boasted about, he would have to chop off a few of his fingers, or half of his palm, before he could reward this loyal young man with peace of mind.

But now, this boy with good character has passed the test.

"Albin, I will reward you for your honesty, loyalty and service along the way." Ringol patted Albin lightly on the shoulder: "Are you interested in serving as the sworn knight of the Varese family? Varese The Zes family will give you an annuity, and you can choose as your mission one of guarding the cities and castles of the Varese family, or holding a military position in the Silver Blood Army."

Albin didn't realize what Ringol was talking about for a moment.

Oath Knight?

Did he hear it right?

It was a knight without a fief, but the lord would support his family and grant them key positions.

"I do, I do."

Albin hurriedly knelt down on one knee and swore fealty to Ringol to the gods old and new, and to Ser Robert of Walnutwood.

"Very good, Albin." Ringor drew out the Starsinger and tapped Albin's shoulder.

"Now, you are a sworn knight of the Varese family."

"Your Highness, this is my punishment." The Faceless Man Sage said suddenly. He walked to Albin and slowly told Albin's life experience. "I need to inform Sir Albin of his surname."

"Ah?" Albin had no idea about this. He only knew that his father was a businessman who didn't know where he came from, and that his mother did not marry his father, but had herself after a one-night stand.

The irresponsible man also disappeared after that night.

So he had the illegitimate surname "He Wen".

"Your father is a lost Fair Man, so, Albin, your name can be changed." Sage, the Faceless Man, said with a smile: "Your name is Albin Fair Man."

Albin had no idea what the name meant, he was just excited again to have a last name for himself.

Alarion had a poor history, and he wasn't sure what it meant.

But Ringol knew exactly what a fair man meant.

A royal family descended from the First Men and Andals.

Even after hundreds of years of blood flow, it is unknown how much fair blood Albin still has in his body, but he still has the blood of the king flowing through him.

He couldn't help but look at Sage, the Faceless Man.

This guy must be hiding something else from himself.

At this moment, a small boat slowly emerged from the woods.

A maester in gray clothes stood on the boat. Next to him was a small man with dark green eyes and a gray beard.

Brandon Reed.

The lord of the Marsh people, the leader of Gray Waterwatch, and the owner of Green Vision.