In the great plains of the Riverlands, which is rich in water and soil, there is not a single decent town! This is the saddest place in the center of the continent. As long as there is a war, armies from both sides will pass by the Riverlands. This place is suffering from wars.
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Riverrun City is located at the confluence of two rivers. It is a military castle surrounded by water on three sides. The venue for the tournament can only be temporarily built with wood on the plain to the west outside the city. The venue is crowded with thousands of heads of various colors.
Tents of different sizes formed a temporary town. Soldiers, followers, and various traders who came with the nobles lived in the tents.
The nobles were invited by Edmure Tully to live in Riverrun. At the noon banquet, Tywin introduced a young girl named Jeyne Westerling to Robb. Robb thought of the missing Aryan
Well, Martell, he just chatted politely with her for a few words and ignored her.
After the party, Robb and Meera Reed had some time to wander around the makeshift town.
Robb wanted to buy some grease and flowers. The grease was used to maintain his armor and sword. He bought flowers because he was recently learning the alchemy that Werther left for him. He wanted to see if he could find some alchemical plants in the market. Plants
The essence is usually found in flowers and fruits. Meera Reed also wants to buy some arrowheads.
The two were walking on the road between the tents. Robb was wearing a black mail suit from the North, with two long swords on his back, a black wolf head necklace on his chest, long hair shawl, and a tall and majestic figure. p>
Meera Reed was wearing leather armor and carrying a bow and arrow, with a red dragonfly standing on her shoulder. She recently discovered that as long as she was kind, she could get little bugs to crawl onto her hands every time. Robb explained to her this
It's the shapechanger's talent that is awakening, but her talent is relatively low.
The little girl Arya Stark walked last. The wolf cubs grew very fast in their infancy. Putting five of them together, it was very difficult for Arya to carry them now. She only carried Robb's Gray Wind and her Nami.
Leah was holding them in her arms, while the other three wolf pups were left to her uncle to find someone to take care of them.
When Werther went to the North, his wife Nymeria was ill and stayed in Winterfell. She told Arya stories every day. Her favorite was the story of the Dornish Warrior Queen. After Werther and others left, she took the
She was poked here and there with a wooden stick, and her father Ed said she was fascinated.
Meera asked her side, "Robb, is alchemy really so magical? Can the potion you make cure diseases and increase your physical strength?"
Meera Reed was a few years older than Robb. She was attracted to him when she saw him in Graywater Watch, but she knew that she was not good-looking and had not as attractive a figure as other women, and the relationship between them was just that.
Treating each other as comrades-in-arms, Robb is destined to be the one she can't get.
"Your brother is also a magician. He entered the magic school at the same time as me. You still don't believe in magic?"
Meera Reed "No way, I've seen magic before! It's just that alchemy is so magical. Mixing several kinds of grass can produce magical effects."
"It's not that flowers and plants are magical, it's magic. Without magic, these flowers and plants can only be fed to sheep." Robb stopped next to a stall where a peasant girl was selling wild flowers, squatted down and picked a petal from a flower and put it in his mouth.
Gather the magic power into your mouth and chew carefully.
Every tournament is a social event for nobles. As long as there are enough young female nobles, more flowers will be consumed. The champion can present a wreath to his beloved lady, but only a few people can get this opportunity. p>
The other knights figured out a way. Since the garland belongs to the champion, it's okay to present the bouquet yourself. Who knows if they will lose the game in the next round. If they don't present flowers, they will have no chance. So every time after a small victory,
Impatient knights will present bouquets of flowers to the girls they admire. Over the past ten years, a tradition has gradually formed. Before each game, a large number of farm girls collect flowers to subsidize their families.
"How is it?" Meera Reed didn't understand this and felt it was very strange.
Robb "How much do these cost?"
"One bronze star and one bouquet of flowers." After the peasant girl answered, she looked at the handsome Robb, lowered her head involuntarily, and retracted her muddy shoes under her long skirt.
Robb saw her little move and threw a silver deer directly to the girl, then picked up a large bouquet of flowers and left with Meira. Robb himself felt that this was not charity. Plants with alchemical properties are hard to find. Today, he found one.
It’s worth paying a silver deer for this luck.
Robb picked flowers carefully as he walked, stuffing the petals into a small cloth bag and throwing away the stems. The three came to a small square and found a blacksmith tent. Meera was picking arrows aside, and Arya put two
Put the little wolves on the ground, take out the dried meat from your pocket and tease them.
Robb took off two long swords and gave them to the blacksmith to grind and maintain. He stood alone in front of the blacksmith shop and looked at the noisy crowd.
The petals needed for alchemy were enough. He played with the remaining bouquets in his hands and silently turned on the tracking magic. People and things in Robb's eyes looked grayish-yellow. He looked around, but there was no red shadow in his sight. "It seems that Ramsay
The clothes left behind have deteriorated for too long and cannot be traced."
Stopping the tracking magic, Robb touched the wolf head necklace on his chest with one hand and put the bouquet to his mouth with the other hand, biting off a flower each time and chewing it slowly.
He began to observe the knights walking nearby, mentally evaluating how many he could defeat if they all went together. He opened his mouth and chuckled, then frowned. When Robb turned his head again with a flower in his mouth, he saw someone next to him.
In front of the stall selling wood carvings, several aristocratic girls looked at themselves with pity as if they were injured kittens.
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Littlefinger Baelish was adopted by the old Duke Arryn when he was a child. He grew up in Riverrun and was very familiar with this place. He walked alone to the sept of Riverrun to look for Lysa.
The church of Riverrun is built in the garden of the castle. It is a heptagonal sandstone building built by the late Duke Hoster. Inside, there are images of the Seven Gods painted on marble. In addition to hosting weddings and funerals, the church also
It is usually open to anyone, whether you are a noble or a poor person, you can come in and pray to the images of the Seven Gods.
There is a place where priests and nuns live in the church, and the silent sisters, who represent the "strangers" and deal with death, live in the deepest room of the church. Unless someone dies and needs to be dealt with, they usually don't come out. The dirty little finger followed the flow of people into the church hall, stuck to the corner of the wall when no one was paying attention, crawled along the wall and slipped into the back room. There were seven or eight women with their faces covered in the room.
Littlefinger hid in the corner without making a sound. After seeing a woman with red hair, he quietly slipped out of the church.
There were too many people during the day, and he had to get up at night to take them away. He touched his shriveled belly with his little finger and felt that he should go find some food first.
When passing by the main building of the castle, several maids carrying wooden basins were pouring out the leftover food that the nobles had eaten at noon. A large group of poor children gathered in front of the maids to snatch it. Little Finger licked his lips, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and stood there to watch.
After a long time, I finally turned around and walked towards the tent area outside the city.
The crowds of people in the tent area were intertwined. Looking at the small nobles in groups on the street, chatting happily, Little Finger realized for the first time that the money bags hanging on their belts were so beautiful, but he did not have that skill, so he could only find another way.
Find a way.
Finally, we came to a small square. There were stalls set up by several city bachelors. A large number of poor people gathered here and lined up.
People can ask them to write letters here. This kind of writing stalls for poor people are very time-sensitive. They are usually opened by assistant bachelors who are still studying letter science. They collect the letters and send them out every three days.
When the weather is bad, the letter may only be delivered once a week.
"Hello, bachelor, I can write. When you are too busy, I can write letters for you. The price for hiring me is very low."
An assistant maester looked up at the little finger who was speaking, looked him up and down and said
"You write the next letter. I will hire you if you are qualified. But there will be no pay, and I can only give you two square meals."
Littlefinger hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed. The assistant maester gave up his seat, and Littlefinger picked up a poor-quality pen and began to write letters while listening to the poor people's narratives.
Just when Littlefinger felt that he was about to faint from hunger, one of the assistant maesters finally came to change his duties. Littlefinger rubbed his sore wrist, took two pieces of black bread with pickles sandwiched in it from the maester, and smiled.
Finally, a smile appeared on his face, he sat down on the wooden stand nearby and started to devour it. For the first time, he felt that this poor man’s food was so delicious.
"Hahaha, a family of cowards who only rely on women!"
"Hang up a sign on their house for one silver deer at a time, and those women can support his father and this illegitimate son! Haha."
"What, you still want to take action, you coward?"
There was a noise from the side, and the people around them quickly dispersed after looking at it. The young nobles were about to fight again.
The crowd began to make noises. Littlefinger climbed up the table and looked around. He saw the two parties to the conflict. On one side there was only a young noble man and his three knights, and on the other side there were five young noble men, followed by more than a dozen knights.
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Littlefinger recognized the coat of arms on the robes of both sides. The side with more people had a circle of black crows on a red background, and the side with less people had a golden shield and a red horse. "It's the Blackwoods and the Brackens again. Now there's something good."
Watched the show."
The five men of the Blackwood family went out shopping after lunch in Riverrun, and by chance they met Hendry Bracken, the heir of the Bracken family.
The five people teased Hendry Bracken about sending his five daughters to the Red Keep to be maids. Even if the other party had a large number of people, Hendry could not lose his own face and immediately started to quarrel with the other party.
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But one mouth can't speak louder than five. Hendry Bracken was so angry that he drew his sword and challenged the opponent to a duel.
"Disarm his followers!" Brynden Blackwood, the eldest of the five brothers, spoke and directed the knights behind him to take action.
More than a dozen knights rushed over, and the three knights of the Bracken family were quickly knocked down. Their swords were thrown aside, and they were pushed to the ground, with their faces covered in mud.
Brynden Blackwood was very smart and did not accept the other party's request for a duel. I had the advantage of five people against one, so why should I duel? The five people began to besiege Hendry.
"You eggless villains, have you forgotten Duke Renly's wedding in King's Landing? I will beat you all to pieces by myself!" Hendry Bracken held the sword in both hands on guard, trying to use words to persuade him.
The other party is distracted.
"I seem to remember that you were carried home after being beaten, haha." The boss, Brynden Blackwood, turned behind him and kicked him in the crook of the knee.
Hendry Bracken was unsteady due to a sneak attack. The moment he knelt down, he leaned on the ground with his long sword to keep him from falling. However, he also lost his balance. Blackwood's third son took this opportunity to kick him on the ground.
chest and kicked him to the ground.
The two families have hated each other for thousands of years. There has been no bloody conflict in recent generations. Now both sides are still very restrained and just try their best to insult each other.
"Your five sisters might as well marry us. Five to five is just right, and we will become your brothers-in-law and brothers-in-law. You call us first to hear it!"
"Don't insult them!" Hendry Bracken's sword had already been knocked down. He tried to rush forward again but was kicked back.
The five people played with him and made him covered in mud. Every time he was kicked down, Hendry Bracken quickly got up. But he was alone and gradually lost his strength. He was kicked hard and fell backwards.
Got a tent.
"Hahaha, look at how embarrassed the Brackens are, relying on women to open their legs. Isn't it your turn to open your legs next?"
"Hahaha."
The vendors' tents these days are not very particular. They can pile as many things as they can inside. There are even some commodities on the top of the tent. The tent that Hendry Bracken knocked down and the tent bracket next to it were tied with ropes.
Together, several tents fell down one after another.
The crowd watching the excitement quickly dispersed, cheering and rushing around.
The tent of the wood carving vendor was also implicated and began to collapse. Several sharp wood carvings placed on the top of the tent fell, and were about to hit an aristocratic girl in pink. Robb, who still had a flower in his mouth, had no time to spit it out and rushed to
Go and save people.
Robb held the girl's waist and carried her away, and the two of them turned around in a circle. Robb looked into the girl's eyes. The sharp wooden sculpture fell on his head without piercing it. The wooden sculpture turned around and fell on Robb's head.
The head stood up, looking like a crown.
"Your saliva is dripping!" The girl looked at Robb, whose saliva was slowly flowing out along the flower stem.
Ignoring the teasing of the girls next to him, Robb quickly spit out the flower, blushed and sucked the saliva back into his mouth with a "hiss!", and made a polite smile that he thought was the most handsome.
"Aren't you going to let go of your hands?" the girl in pink asked him again.
Robb quickly let go of his hand.
Robb swore! At first, Arianne Martell took the initiative to approach her, but then he became confused and he was passive! Now is the first time that he feels a heartbeat.
"Get up! You coward!" The other side was still yelling.
They came just in time! Robb saw the whole process of the conflict. The side with more people restrained from being cruel. As long as no one was killed, it was normal for a fight to happen. It was just a show. Now he was trying to get rid of the embarrassment. How dare these people
Keep making noise.
"Stop!" Robb yelled.
The five members of the Blackwood family and their knights all looked over and said, "Are you trying to stand up for this coward?"
"Don't go!" Several girls wanted to hold Robb back.
"Let him go! He lost the fugitive recently and feels very uncomfortable. He just needs to vent." Meera Reed ate a small fruit and came to the girls.
"Hit them hard!" Ouch! Ouch! Alia and the two wolf cubs also started cheering.