In Riverrun City, Edmure Tully sat on the main seat of the hall, with Tywin Lannister and Denys Arryn sitting on his left and right hands.
Except for the nobles participating in the tourney, all the nobles from the Riverlands are now seated on the west side of the hall, and on the east side of the hall are the nobles from the West, the Vale and other distant places.
As the Duke of the Riverlands, Edmure is responsible for investigating and mediating the murders between the Brackens and Blackwoods, and then making a ruling, with the Duke of Westerland and the Duke of Vale as witnesses.
The dead Horst Blackwood was cleaned up by the Silent Sisters. The family knights made a simple wooden bed and placed it in the middle of the hall. The body lay quietly on it and was covered with a white cloth. Today, there is no satisfactory answer.
Reply, the Blackwood family will not take the body away.
Lord Tytos Blackwood of Raventree City was the father of the deceased, and his four remaining sons stood aside and spoke quietly.
Lord Janos Bracken of Stonehedge City was also talking to his two sons.
The nobles around were also whispering and discussing what happened today.
Tywin put his hands on the armrests of the chair and supported his chin with his palms. He looked at the noisy scene in front of him expressionlessly. He turned his eyes to look at Edmure Tully, who was still sitting in the main seat and looked at a loss.
look like.
"Ahem!" Denis Allyn couldn't stand it anymore and coughed to remind Edmure.
Ser Blackfish Brynden Tully was sitting in the front row. Seeing that Edmure was still sitting there, he had to take the initiative to stand up and walk to Edmure to act as host.
"Please be quiet!"
The noise in the hall fell silent,
After Tytos Blackwood heard this, he stood next to the body of his dead son and said to Edmure, "Your Majesty, my son! My son was killed in the tent area outside Riverrun today, and he had a grudge against him.
There is only the Bracken family. They must be the ones responsible. Please ask Your Majesty the Duke to take his two sons of the Bracken family into the dungeon and interrogate them strictly!"
"You old dog! Yesterday, five of your sons beat my nephew, and one of them died today. This is a curse from the seven gods that violated the knight's oath. Die well! Your other sons will soon die too!"
The bastard son and nephew had already told him that neither of them had killed anyone. As soon as this guy came, he asked the Duke to arrest his son in the dungeon. This made him guilty even if he was not guilty. Janos Bracken was not willing to show weakness and directly cursed him.
"Genos! You are too old. I will definitely support you before my son dies!" The two quarreled again. Fortunately, everyone put their weapons outside the room when they entered the hall, otherwise they would have been fighting each other again.
scene.
Edmure Tully finally realized what he was going to do. "Lord Tytos, I feel equally sad about the death of your son! Lord Janos, I will also investigate whether your son is the murderer. Uncle, Robb
When will you come back?"
Blackfish Brynden took out his pocket watch and looked at the time. "The knight has been out for an hour and should be here soon."
Edmure nodded and looked at the two people in the audience, "Don't be impatient, young men. I have invited my nephew, Robb Stark, heir to the Duke of Winterfell in the North, to assist in the investigation. Everyone knows
He is a magician and is best at investigating murder cases."
"What about the others?" Tytos Blackwood was eager to convict the Brackens.
"I believe in the justice of the magician, and I am willing to wait for him." Janos Bracken glanced at his mortal enemy, walked to his nephew and ignored him.
"Ser Robb Stark has arrived!" The guard outside the hall opened the door.
Many nobles had seen him at previous banquets, but only people in the West were not very familiar with Robb.
Jaime Lannister saw that Robb was tall and had a resolute face. His strong muscles supported the black mail. He walked steadily and his hands were still thick with calluses from long-term martial arts practice. He also heard that he was always wearing
Carrying two giant swords, he recently dated a girl.
James thought to himself that this was a good opponent, a handsome young man. Unfortunately, he was a magician and he would definitely not be able to defeat him. He spoke highly of Robb and nodded unconsciously.
When Robb walked to the middle of the hall, another girl in a white dress walked in at the door. Saran Farman ran along the edge of the hall and sat down next to Earl Farman.
After James saw the girl, he looked at Robb again. He was a big, stupid guy with a lot of flesh. He was so poor that he couldn't even afford plate armor. He walked like someone owed him money. His hands were too long and the palms were too rough. He was carrying two handfuls on his back.
He looks cool with a sword, but whether he can swing it or not is a problem. He also has an arrogant face that deserves a beating. He is just a good-for-nothing bastard!
Tywin's eyes moved back and forth between Robb and Saran Farman, his face still expressionless.
"Hello, Duke Edmure, Duke Tywin, and Duke Denis, please forgive me for being late, because after I received the news, I went to the crime scene to see the crime scene before coming."
Edmure leaned forward and asked, "What did you find?"
Robb "There are too many people there, and no one has blocked it. It has been trampled to a great extent by the people."
Edmure "This..."
Robb "But I found a witness who saw the injured man, a guard, and brought him in."
A farmer's people were brought into the hall. The farmer looked very nervous when he saw that the hall was full of nobles.
"He is a farmer nearby. He saw the injured when he went to the city to sell vegetables. Don't be afraid. Three dukes are here this time. Tell him again what you saw." Robb walked to the farmer. p>
"I...I saw an injured person. He covered his lower back, which was bleeding continuously. He walked for a while and then fell on the road." The farmer was very nervous and roughly explained the situation. p>
Robb lifted the white cloth covering the body and asked the farmer, "Come and see, is it him?"
The farmer identified it and said, "It's him. Although he changed his clothes, I was deeply impressed by his high bridge of nose. It's him."
Robb asked again, "Was anyone chasing him at that time?"
The farmer thought for a while, "There were a lot of people on the road at that time, and I didn't see anyone chasing him. After he fell to the ground alone, someone reported it to the guards patrolling Riverrun, and then a large group of nobles surrounded the place." p>
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"He was stabbed and no one chased him. It must have been you who did it!" Tytos Blackwood shouted.
"Don't slander anyone. If we did it, we would chop off his head on the spot instead of letting him go!" Janos Bray stared at the other person and his voice was louder than the other person...
"Yes, if he seeks revenge, he will not be let go. He will definitely be killed on the spot." The nobles were also discussing.
"Quiet!"
"Send this farmer out." After Robb finished speaking, he walked to the body and lifted the white cloth to the legs of the body. He found that he had changed his clothes and could not see the location of the wound.
"Count Tytos Blackwood, can I turn over your son's body and take a look at the wounds?"
"Okay." After hearing Robb's question, Tytos quickly agreed. He was so angry today that he didn't have time to check his son's wounds, and he still didn't know how his son died.
Robb turned the body sideways and took off his clothes. There was a half-finger-long wound on the waist of the body. Robb gently touched the wound with his hand, and his magic power surged and coldness filled his hand.
Not long after, Robb stopped his magic and slowly pulled out a piece of white ice crystal from the wound. The ice crystal was in the shape of a shovel, or crescent. Robb held the tail of the ice crystal and showed it to everyone. Many nobles present recognized this kind of thing. "This is an arrow for hunting!"
"No, the arrows of bows and arrows are wider, this is a crossbow arrow!"
"Yes! Crossbow hunting arrows."
Robb turned over the body again. When he was at the magic school, Qyburn taught him a lot about corpses. After careful examination, he did die from excessive blood loss.
"Your son died from a hunting crossbow. The arrow must have been disturbed in some way. When it flew to him, it had very little power, so the wound was not very deep. After your son was injured in the lower back, he may not know what it was.
When something pricked him, he pulled out the arrowhead, causing him to bleed to death." Robb placed the ice crystal arrowhead in the hand of Lord Tytos Blackwood.
Jaime Lannister's attention is focused on his daughter Saran Farman. Looking at his daughter's obsessed look, he now wants to hang Robb up and beat him.
Lord Tytos Blackwood stroked the ice crystal arrowhead and slid his finger on the shovel-shaped gap of the arrowhead. "Thank you Ser Robb for finding out the cause of my son's death. Then it must be someone from the Bracken family who did it! They are
Taking revenge!"
Edmure sat on the chair and didn't know what to say. Blackfish Brynden interrupted, "Two earls, it would be very troublesome if it was a bow and arrow. Crossbows are controlled items everywhere and are generally stored in armories. They are only for war."
It will be taken out when the time comes.”
Robb continued, "The knights of the Seven Kingdoms, no matter whether they are of noble birth or not, have been practicing bows and arrows since they were young, and crossbows will only be issued to conscripts during wartime."
"Yeah, I've never seen anyone use a crossbow for hunting, that's shameful!"
"Only cowards and women use crossbows."
The nobles all agreed that no one would bring a crossbow to a martial arts tournament, let alone hunt with a crossbow and a shovel-shaped arrow. They couldn't afford to lose this person.
What Edmure Tully understood after hearing this: "My lords, crossbows are controlled items everywhere, and their sale and transportation will be strictly inspected. I can guarantee that every crossbow in Riverrun is placed in the armory. So,
We will send people to search the guest room where the Bracken family lives to see if there are any crossbows hidden, so we can know whether they are the murderers."
"Search! They must have done it!"
"If you don't find it! I want you to kneel in front of me and apologize to me! And you have to lick my boots clean!"
The two old men quarreled again.
Seeing that the Brackens had no objections, Edmure sent his men to search.
Robb "Please wait a moment, Lord Edmure. Lord Tywin and Lord Denys are both here as witnesses now. You can also ask the two dukes to send people to be witnesses during the search."
"Haha, if Sir Robb hadn't reminded me, I almost forgot that you are the best at framing people!" Lord Janos Bracken glanced at Robb gratefully and taunted his mortal enemy.
"We, the Blackwood family, will never let go of an enemy, nor will we wrongly accuse a good person!"
Tywin nodded, Dennis confirmed, and each sent a knight to follow them to search.
Tywin remained silent after sitting down. He saw the behavior and expressions of everyone present. He had previously paid attention to the situation of the two feuding families, but now his focus turned to Robb Stark, and he began to analyze the history in his heart.
Various members of the Tucker family.
Nothing happened to Robb next. Edmure gave his nephew a grateful look. Robb nodded coolly, walked back to his seat to rest, and continued to flirt with Saran Farman.
Not long after, the search party returned to the hall, holding a crossbow. "This was found in Harry River's guest room."
Coax~~~The nobles were shocked, it was really the Bracken family who did it!
Harry Rivers is the illegitimate son of Janos Bracken, the Earl of Stonehedge. He is about the same age as the Earl's nephew Hendry Bracken and has a good relationship.
"The murderer is your illegitimate son! He heard that his brother was beaten by my son, so he killed my son with a crossbow!" Tytos Blackwood roared, and his four sons also glared at the Bracken family. Harry Hewen looked at the crossbow and explained, "This is a crossbow I made myself. I have never taken it out of the bedroom. If I want to kill someone, I will only use my sword. Either he dies or I die, absolutely."
We will not let the enemy escape."
"You dare to be an irresponsible coward! What's the use of talking so much! Lord Edmure, now that the evidence is here, you can speak." Tytos Blackwood shouted to Edmure.
"If it was me who killed him, I would defeat him in front of everyone! What's more, if a son of the Blackwood family died, why wouldn't I dare to admit it? This is an extremely glorious thing in Shili City!
But listen carefully, I said I didn’t kill him, so I didn’t kill him!” Harry Hewen also shouted loudly.
"Lord Edmure, the facts are clear, why haven't you made a decision yet?" Tytos Blackwood shouted to Edmure again.
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Seeing the situation in front of him, Harry Hewen turned to look at his brother and father, "Please believe me, I have always bound myself with the honor of a knight. I would admit it if I killed him, but I did not kill him." Edmure thought that the evidence was conclusive and that it was an illegitimate child. In order to calm the anger of both parties, he immediately sentenced "Harry Rivers, guilty of murdering Horst, the third son of the Blackwood family..."
Up to this time, no one except his son had confessed. Thinking of his son's past behavior, Lord Janos Bracken chose to believe his son, "Don't wait, Lord Edmure, to convict my son with just a crossbow. What a child's joke!"
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Hendry Bracken also shouted, "You can't be convicted just because you have a crossbow. Your Majesty, it's best to investigate again."
Did he change his tune just now when he was about to pronounce his sentence? Edmure opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.
Harry Rivers grabbed his father and brother and said, "I choose trial by combat!"
The hall became noisy again.
Choosing trial by combat represents the will of the Seven Gods, which can be stopped, but the nobles will basically not do so. Edmure followed his words and said, "I agree, will you two fight on your own or find a proxy knight?"<
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"Here I come, I will kill this murderer myself to avenge my brother!" Lucas Blackwood, the second among the five sons, took the initiative to stand up. He had the best relationship with the dead third brother.
Harry Hewen is a young blond boy with ordinary martial arts skills. Hendry Bracken next to him keeps giving him hints, and he understands "I choose to be an acting knight!"
At this time, Robb Stark stood up and walked into the hall, "I am willing to act as agent for Harry Rivers."
The Bracken family had always felt that Robb Stark was favoring the Blackwood family. Seeing him acting as their agent in the battle again, they understood that Robb was just stating what happened, and he had not drawn any conclusions himself.
I feel that Harry Rivers was wronged.
"Robb Stark can't do it! The king has deprived magicians and knights of the right to duel in tourneys, so magicians are not qualified to act as agents in trials by combat!" Tywin finally said the first sentence of the day. "Yes!"
"Ser Robb, come back and sit down."
Hendry Bracken looked at Robb and said, "Thank you very much, Ser Robb. After all, our family has few men, so I will take care of the brothers' matters."
Robb nodded and returned to his seat.
Trial by Combat, Hendry Bracken versus Lucas Blackwood, the tables and chairs in the center of the hall were moved, the Tully guards put armor on the two of them, and asked them to choose weapons, Hendry used
It was a two-handed sword, and Lucas took a flail and a shield.
Trial by combat can end at the end of the trial, but in most cases, the plaintiff and the defendant have great hatred, and it basically ends with the death of one party.
Both swords and flails wanted each other's life. The two of them attacked tentatively at first. Lucas took advantage of his shield, raised it to protect his body, and bumped into Hendry.
Hendry kept looking at the opponent through the long sword held in both hands. When he saw multiple parties rushing towards him, he dodged sideways, and the long sword moved up to lift the opponent's arm.
Bang! The long sword hit the flail. Both of them have their own strengths in martial arts, and their overall level is almost the same.
One side focuses on finding the opponent's weak points and stabbing them, while the other side swings the iron chains and spherical spikes, each blow is powerful and heavy.
After a few moves, both sides were injured, but they still fought with all their strength. If either side slacked off, they would die. Hendry was hit by a spherical spike in his left hand, and his arm was hanging on one side and he could only hold the sword with one hand. Lucas
The shield also fell to the ground.
"Die!" The flail was swung, and Hendry found a gap, thrust a sword vertically through the gap in the armor, and pierced Lucas's throat.
The throat was pierced vertically, and the bleeding was not serious. Lucas was still very conscious at this time. Before the opponent could turn the sword to expand the wound, he held the sword tightly with one hand in advance, and waved the flail at the opponent with the other hand.
The helmet was smashed. But as the sword rotated, Lucas gradually became unable to swing the flail and fell to the ground.
"I win!" Hendry Bracken raised his sword.
Edmure "I declare Harry Rivers innocent!"
After hearing this, Hendry Bracken took off his helmet, looked at his father and his brother, smiled, and fell straight back, his skull had been smashed.