Robb received a reply from White Harbor the next day, knowing that Earl Wyman had dealt with Maester Xiomer, and that Maester Xiomer had also sent out the final information.
Earlier today, Clay took Hal to the Bachelor's Tower in Winterfell and captured a crow's nest cleaner who was no longer of use value on the spot.
After the two men confirmed each other, it was confirmed that there were no other spies in Winterfell. At this point, Robb finally cleared out the internal spies.
As for the external eyeliners, such as Wallis's little bird, they are like weeds. If you clean up a batch, another batch will grow.
As long as important information could not be conveyed, Robb chose to ignore it for the time being.
The information about the manservant Hal was told to his brother by Torun before he died.
Maybe at the last moment, the jealousy and the temptation of certain powers disappeared in his heart, and he suddenly woke up and wanted to use this information to save his brother from being implicated in his betrayal!
This is one of the reasons why Robb is willing to help him hide the betrayer's secret.
Thinking of Torrhen's words at the south tower of King's Landing, he kept repeating the dream, and a strange crow appeared in the dream to bewitch him.
Robb understood that this must be the disgusting trick used by the Three-Eyed Raven who once trapped him in his dream.
Although he didn't understand why the Three-Eyed Crow was targeting him so much, Robb was determined that this time it was time to deal with this Three-Eyed Crow who liked to make small moves.
In his memory, what is closely connected with the three-eyed crow must be the representative of the old god belief in the north, the heart tree.
At first, he always thought that the heart tree was a weirwood, but after consulting with Maester Luwin, he realized the difference.
Although weirwood trees have been extensively cut down south of the Neck and have been basically extinct, they are still widely distributed throughout the north.
But not all weirwoods can be called heart trees.
It must be the descendants of the ancestors who cherish the belief in the old gods. Through their sacred carving ceremony, the weeping human face must be carved into the weirwood. This can be regarded as a heart tree that allows believers to pray to the old gods.
As the King of the North, Robb naturally cannot order all the heart trees in the North to be cut down in order to maintain the stability of his rule.
On the Wind Miko, he was thinking hard about the solution, and he remembered a small mistake in his previous life.
Gulu! Gulu!
In the kitchen of the inner castle of Winterfell, Gendry was holding an iron ladle and stirring a cauldron of steam.
Robb had already sent away all the kitchen servants because he wanted to make some experiments.
"Your Majesty, do you want to continue adding more to it?"
Gendry wiped the sweat off his face and turned to ask Robb.
"Keep adding!"
Hearing Robb's nod in reply, he used the iron spoon in his hand to scoop out a large spoonful of large white particles from the wooden basin next to him and added it to the cauldron.
Watching Gendry constantly adding coarse salt to the pot, Robb's mind recalled scenes of his previous mistakes.
That time, he accidentally used high-concentration salt water, the same as water, to water the flowers. As a result, the flowers and plants withered and died in just two days.
Therefore, he thought that in this world, although the heart tree was a bit special, as long as it was still a plant, it should have an effect.
Until the coarse salt block is thrown into the boiling cauldron and cannot melt anymore.
Robb called Daisy, who was guarding outside the kitchen, and asked her and Gendry to secretly water all the pot of highly concentrated salt water near the roots of the thick heart tree in the godswood of Winterfell.
If, after a few days, the effect is obvious, then Robb will ask his selected personal guards to kill all the known heart trees in the north using this method.
Having not returned to Winterfell for more than a month, Robb had a lot of accumulated government affairs that needed to be dealt with.
Before that, he first counted and distributed the pensions of the sixteen Winterfell cavalry who died in King's Landing.
Each surviving family member received a pension of two golden dragons, and their names were included in the warriors' tomb so that the surviving family members could enjoy corresponding preferential treatment.
Only two golden dragons were given, not because Robb was stingy, but because this was enough for the survivors to live for a long time. Any more would not be a good thing.
In this era, if there is no power matching wealth, then wealth may be a disaster.
All the earls in the north have gone to the Winterfell barracks to make final preparations for the army and prepare to go south.
Robb, who had been unable to get away to go to the military camp because of some pre-war planning, asked Clay to bring his own handwritten letter and asked Theon and other generals to make pre-war preparations according to the plan.
When Robb was in the council chamber, he and Maester Luwin were studying the first aid measures to expand into a formal battlefield ambulance team.
Jory, who had always been very calm, stumbled towards the meeting hall. As soon as he saw Robb, he loudly reported: "Your Majesty, Lord Eddard...is back!"
On the grounds of Winterfell, the dusty Yoren, with his reserve team of night watchmen, was standing silently with his head bowed.
When Robb hurried to the school grounds with Jory, the rest of the Stark family had already arrived.
Looking at a dilapidated wooden coffin on the transport carriage, Caitlin bit her lip tightly, big tears streaming down her face. Sansa and Rickon burst into tears and burst into tears.
Brandon, who was being carried on Ado's back, had a sensible and indifferent expression on his face, as if he was used to seeing separation and death.
Robb walked to the wooden coffin in a few steps and reached out to open it. Yoren saw this and stepped forward and whispered to him: "My lord... Your Majesty, you'd better be mentally prepared."
After Yoren said this, he looked in the direction of Catelyn and Sansa.
"Robb, open it! Let's see him one last time."
When Robb heard Yoren's words and was hesitating whether the family behind him could bear it after opening it, he heard Catelyn speaking to him in a firm tone.
Click!
After hearing his mother's words, Robb pushed open the old wooden coffin with one hand.
It took more than a month to travel from King's Landing to Winterfell, even though Yoren had embalmed Eddard's body and treated it against insects on the way.
But Ed's body was still unrecognizable, and his former appearance could only be vaguely distinguished. This was due to the fact that the further north you went, the colder the temperature became.
call!
Robb took a deep breath, calmed down, turned to Catelyn, who was staring at Eddard's body, and Sansa beside her who couldn't stand it and closed her eyes, and said: "Mother, I asked someone to reshape my father's face and face.
Body. Then, hold a funeral for him."
"No, Ned doesn't like these things.
We are holding a funeral for him here, and we can just let him enter the family tomb directly."
Upon hearing this, Catelyn shed tears while staring directly at Eddard's corpse, while shaking her head and rejecting Robb's proposal.
Indeed, Ed is not a person who likes grand ceremonies.
When Robert held the King's Hand Tournament for him, he found it too expensive and useless, so he wanted to cancel it.
Robb didn't have time to thank him at this time. Yoren, who had traveled all the way to return the body, could only nod to him.
Then he relied on the strength of his own hands to carry Eddard's wooden coffin alone, and walked step by step towards the tomb of Winterfell.
Caitlin and others followed Robb closely, walking heavily towards the tomb.
Yoren, who was behind them, looked at the family that was clinging to each other and murmured: "Lord Eddard, you are home!"