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#79 - Chapter 4: The Skinner's Plot (I)

Many local merchants with forked beards were constantly hawking their wares, using various methods to attract traveling merchants and wealthy individuals. They were essentially slave traders, showcasing the strong bodies of male slaves, while the female slaves were barely covered, wearing only a few pieces of cloth, with countless people below making comments.

Bandil introduced to Liu Yuan: "Tyrosh is the largest slave trading center on the west coast of Essos. Since Pentos was defeated by Braavos, Pentos had to make concessions in the post-war agreement, abolishing slavery and banning the slave trade. Slave traders from Pentos would hang Lysene or Myr flags on their masts to evade the slave ban, and transferred the slave business to Tyrosh. Pentos often receives captives captured inland by the Dothraki, and those slaves are sold here, with some of the higher quality ones being resold to Slaver's Bay."

Liu Yuan looked over and saw many unfamiliar races in the slave display, including the red-skinned Jogos Nhai and the Lei Islanders who resembled East Asians...

Suddenly, a fight broke out not far in front of a stall, and it was escalating. Many people excitedly gathered around to watch the commotion, and Liu Yuan also led his men over. It seemed a slave had broken free and was wielding a wooden cross used for binding people, waving it around to prevent the guards from approaching. This slave was particularly tall, about two meters one in height, with bulging muscles and thick body hair, covered in paint. He was constantly cursing: "@*%Φδ\u0026@#!¥"

Liu Yuan listened carefully, and the strong man was speaking a rough, sonorous language. He recognized it as the Old Tongue, spread from the First Men to Westeros. The pronunciation of the Old Tongue tended to be short, concise, and descriptive. Apart from the giants in the lands beyond the Wall and a small number of wildlings still using it, the Old Tongue had almost disappeared in Westeros. The giant had a heavy accent in the Old Tongue, but he could still barely understand it. The general meaning was: You damn bastards! How dare you treat me like this, I will kill you and eat your hearts!

The guards with iron-clad clubs and whips couldn't subdue the frenzied giant at all. Soon, soldiers maintaining order arrived, carrying long spears and shields, and also carrying thick fishing nets. Slaves often escaped in the market, and they were used to it, and were very good at suppressing slaves. The giant roared and struggled, but was forced back by the soldiers with spears, and then six or seven large nets were thrown over, covering him head-on. Several soldiers grabbed the iron chains wrapped around his feet and pulled him down hard, followed by several soldiers using thick wooden sticks wrapped in leather, and beat him hard on the head and face.

Before long, the giant was subdued. He was tied to a stone pillar with iron chains, and the commotion attracted many people to watch, pointing and commenting at the hanging giant. The slave trader took advantage of the popularity to vigorously promote his goods. He had to pay a lot of money for the soldiers to suppress the slave, which was not free, and he had to make some money back now. As he spoke excitedly, he tore off the female slave's top, revealing her full breasts, and cheers and whistles rang out below!

Bandil, who was knowledgeable, whispered to Liu Yuan: "Lord, look, that strong man is from the Skagos clans. They are descendants of the First Men, living a barbaric and uncivilized life. It is said that they have cannibalistic customs, and there are rumors that they have ancient giant blood, so they are very tall. But the Northmen call them 'Skagosi', but they call themselves 'Stoneborn'. They rarely leave Skagos, and may have been brought back by slave-catching teams who went beyond the Wall to catch slaves."

Liu Yuan: "I have read about it in the books of the Citadel, but this guy is so strong, it seems that he is not an ordinary Stoneborn. I am becoming more and more interested, let's go and take a look." He led his men up, mainly because he heard a word from the giant: Damn Bolton! Eh! Is it the Bolton family of the Dreadfort?

Liu Yuan walked to the pillar and looked at the giant with interest. The giant saw Liu Yuan in front of him, and he had no strength to struggle. He said in the Common Tongue with a strange accent: "Boy, what are you looking at? If you piss me off, I will kill you, and then take out your heart and eat it raw!"

"Interesting, I thought you could only speak the Old Tongue. Who are you? How did you end up being captured and enslaved?" Liu Yuan's words were also in the Old Tongue, which was very unexpected to everyone, and the giant was obviously stunned. He said: "I am Grig Stane, the next chief of the Stane clan of Driftwood Hall. I was tricked by the Magnar bastards, and the Bolton family bastards, they ambushed our hunting party."

Liu Yuan thought carefully, Skagos is a large island located outside the Bay of Seals. It is adjacent to the Shivering Sea, and nearby is the island of Skane. The waters near the island are treacherous, full of reefs, so the nearby waterways are quite dangerous, especially when encountering winter storms, the cold wind can freeze ropes and sails. Theoretically, this island is part of the North, nominally subordinate to Winterfell. However, it has little contact with the mainland and is virtually autonomous.

Driftwood Hall is located in the plains and forests of the northern part of the island, and together with Deepdown Motte in the mountainous western part of the island and Kingshouse in the southeastern part of the island, they control Skagos respectively. The other small tribes on the island basically depend on these three large clans. The three families are constantly in conflict with each other, what makes Liu Yuan strange is that the Bolton family's territory is not close to Skagos, how could they collude with the Magnar of Kingshouse? There is not enough information to make more judgments, it seems that this Grig is the key and must be rescued, he made up his mind and nodded and said: "Grig, right! I am a lord from Westeros, I can save you and help you go back to take revenge! But what can I get?"

Grig said with difficulty: "As long as you can save me and help me avenge, I will swear allegiance to you in front of the gods!" After all, he is also the heir of a large clan, not those simple-minded, well-developed brutes.

Liu Yuan was quite satisfied that this person was so sensible: "Very good, remember your promise. When you are released later, you must cooperate honestly and don't cause trouble. Bandil, go and call the owner over!" Bandil glanced at Grig and turned to call the slave trader.

After a while, Bandil brought over a slave trader with his hair and beard dyed blue. The man said flatteringly: "This respected lord, hello! I am Guger from Pentos, what can I do for you?" The merchant spoke fluent Westerosi Common Tongue.

Liu Yuan pointed to the person tied to the pillar and said: "I want to buy him, name a price!"

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