Back in time, Cersei and her party, who escaped from King's Landing, were escorted by Adam Malbrand and his knights, and went all the way north from land and sea to Seagull Town in the southeastern part of the valley.
This is the largest port city in the Valley. Most of the maritime trade goods in the Valley pass in and out from here, making Seagull Town one of the richest cities in the Seven Kingdoms.
Six thousand to four thousand years ago, the Andals invaded Westeros by ship from the Essos continent. The Grafson family followed the Arryn family to invade the valley and killed the Griffin Queen and the Arryn family who originally ruled here.
The Kingdom of the Valley was established, and the Grafson family, as one of the great heroes, was granted a title on the fertile peninsula in the southeastern part of the Valley.
Now the head of the Grafson family is Count Gerald, and the dinner party for the Westerners has been prepared. Count Gerald is sitting in the main seat of his castle hall, teasing the maid sitting on his lap, waiting for the Westerners to arrive. "Father! Sir Adam has arrived."
An eleven or twelve-year-old boy ran up to Jello and said that he didn't even dare to look up at his father when he spoke.
Jello Grafson has the same name as his family ancestor. He has broad shoulders and thick arms, but is not tall. He also has a golden mop head that is always dirty. He is very polite and has a loud voice. Valley noble
The most talked about topic about Gerold is not how brave or rich he is, but that he has a common hobby with the Frey family of the Riverlands and likes to have children. His personal guards don't know how many sons he has, and from time to time
Just one was taken home.
Asking the waiter to follow him with a plate of bread and salt, Count Gerald personally walked to the door of the castle hall to greet him.
"Haha, I haven't seen Sir Adam for many years! What happened to your eyes?"
"Count Gerald's style remains the same!" Adam greeted him enthusiastically, without introducing the people following him. The identities of these people cannot be disclosed.
"The eye was injured by a sword during the contest, and now it has been fitted with a prosthetic eye." The tall and handsome blond man from the West has now become a one-eyed dragon. The eyeball injured during the battle outside King's Landing was cut off on the ship, and the injury is now healed.
Adam opened his blindfold, and a gem was stuffed into the frame of his missing eyeball.
The gem was pulled from Duny's sword. Cersei saw that her childhood friend lost her left eye to save her, so she pulled the gem from the sword while Duny was sleeping in the cabin.
Count Gerald: "There is a magician in my castle. You can ask him to show you."
"Thank you very much Count Gerald. Let him lose the lost eyeball. This will always remind me to be careful of the enemy." Adam knew that healing magic could not make the lost thing grow back.
"Haha, just watch it! Who's behind you?" Behind Adam, in addition to knights and soldiers, there were several others following him, who were obviously important people.
Adam took Count Gerald's arm: "They are my friends from the south. This time they will come with me to check out whether there is any business."
Earl Gerald glanced behind Adam and stopped paying attention. The matter in King's Landing was so big that Gerald had already guessed who the person behind was, but the more he could cause trouble for Robert, the happier Gerald would be.
Jero is old enough to be Adam's father, but he still takes Adam's hand and drags him into the castle like his friends: "Please come inside! Have a good meal today, tonight!"
Adam picked up the bread from the attendant's plate and dipped it in some salt. While eating, he waved his hand behind him. Of the three hundred soldiers from the West, there were less than two hundred left. Soldiers without knight status followed the attendants to the military camp. There were
Those with knight status began to take off their weapons and prepare to enter the castle for the banquet.
At the banquet, Adam naturally sat next to the host. James ordered Cersei, the important figure in the rescue, that Adam did not dare to let her get too far away from him, so he pulled her to sit next to him.
"This beautiful lady, if this is your first time coming to the valley, I, Jero, can take you on a trip in the best carriage tomorrow!"
On the long table, across from Adam, Gerald leaned out and kept looking for topics to chat with Cersei.
Earl Gerald likes to have children, and Lord Gerald never moved his eyes away after Cersei's hood was pulled down. After asking Adam that the woman was not his lover but a widow, Gerald vowed in his heart that he would give birth to a child tonight.
Take this blonde beauty from the West to the bed.
A 35-year-old woman is the most charming age, and Cersei cannot disclose her identity, which arouses Jero's passion.
"Count Gerald, your wife is still watching, are you just inviting other ladies like this?"
Cersei has a bad life and can go to bed with anyone, but she also has her principles. Men must be handsome! It is natural to be happy to be pursued by a man, but for a strong and short three-inch man like Gerald, under Cersei's
In his eyes, he looks like his younger brother Tyrion, and now I feel indescribable disgust.
"My wife has been dead for more than ten years, and she was my lover." After Earl Jero finished speaking, he wiped his broom head.
Adam and Cersei were dealing with Count Gerold, and Duny and the Hound were both knights. They sat at another table and looked at the three of them.
"That dwarf!"
Donnie stabbed the barbecue hard with the fork in his hand and cursed.
"That dwarf can only sleep with his maid tonight!" The hunting dog ate meat and wine next to him.
It didn't matter to Donny that Gerold harassed Cersei. He hated Gerold because of Adam. And Donny hated Adam simply because the gem from his favorite sword was pulled out and put in Adam's eyes. "What a dog! Who is this Jero?"
After watching for a long time, Donnie was also surprised to be harassed like this. Adam, who dared to lead someone to kill the golden robe, did not stop Jero, but kept changing the topic to help Cersei smooth things over.
Sandor, the hunting dog who looks like a rough guy but has a delicate heart, has long noticed the situation on the main seat and knows that what Donnie wants to ask is why Adam dare not offend him.
"This Gerald hasn't done anything big, but Earl Gerald's father, let me think about his name, oh, by the way, his name is Marco Grafson. He was smashed into a pulp by Robert with a hammer!" Hound Dog
It took me a long time to think of this name, because he died without honor.
"Been hammered to death by Robert?" Duny turned around and asked.
After losing his status as a prince, Duny blamed James for being incompetent and Werther for being too talkative. He only admired the heroic Robert. He often dreamed that if the scandal had not been exposed, he would still be living the life of a prince of the Seven Kingdoms.
The hunting dog was also full. He wiped his hands with a silk scarf and drank a glass of strong wine before speaking slowly. In fact, he was trying to recall what he heard back then.
"Back then, the Mad King killed the Duke of the North and many nobles. Jon Arryn was sending letters everywhere to call on the vassals of the valley to rebel. However, Marco Grafson of Seagull Town did not respond to the call of the Duke of the Valley and instead officially declared
Support the Mad King."
"He has betrayed his lord, the Aylin family!" Duny has not been ignorant in recent years, and has many bachelors teaching him knowledge.
"Betrayal is a betrayal, but Marko picked a bad time and didn't expect that Robert and Jon were not just talking about it, but they were really going to fight."
The hound grabbed a handful of nuts and began to peel them: "At this point in time, Ed has not returned to the North, Robert has not returned to the Stormlands, and Jon Arryn has also privately summoned his vassals to officially rebel against the Iron Throne.
The flag was set after Eddard returned to the North and Robert returned to the Stormlands! And even the Mad King did not publicly say that there were rebels. At this time, you, a young earl of Seagull Town in the Vale, jumped out and howled!
Donny: "Then he was hammered to death by Robert?"
"Isn't it? Think about Seagull Town, a peninsula surrounded by the sea on three sides. The army of Jon, Duke of the Vale, quickly surrounded this place. During the siege, Robert was the first to climb the city wall and rush to Count Mark.
In front of him, a hammer blew his head off."
Dhoni: "Honorable sacrifice?"
"This is what's so sad about him." The hound wanted to laugh, but his burned face lost consciousness and he just pulled his lips: "Earl Marko was loyal to the Targaryen family, but the two sides did not raise the flag to declare war at that time.
The mad king in question did not admit that he had any military exploits. Count Marco did not even receive the honor of dying in battle, so his death was in vain. Now you know why Adam did not want to offend him."
Regardless of whether Donnie wanted it or not, the hound held the wine glass and ignored him after speaking. Looking at Count Gerald, Count Marco's son, who was now on the main seat, the hound began to feel worried.
The Grafson family in Seagull Town has never been part of the current king's power. After the death of Count Mark, the Grafson family hated Robert for usurping power and hated the Mad King for his incompetence. But now Targaryen has completely eliminated male heirs and is his only enemy.
Only Robert is left. As long as someone dares to raise the banner of overthrowing the royal power of the Baratheon family, Seagull Town will definitely become one of the bridgeheads.
Adam secretly brought people to King's Landing to rescue Cersei, and he was even given a banquet here during his escape. Tywin in the West has such a good relationship with this potential rebel. If the mess between Jaime and Cersei hadn't happened, the hounds would have thought that Tywin was dating.
Vast, and now, the Hound thinks Tywin is doing something very dangerous.
That night, Count Gerald did not hold the blonde beauty in his arms. He just took a maid back to the bedroom and kept venting. To the ugly man, Cersei was a woman who could never reach him.
After eating and drinking, the group from the Western Territory stayed in Seagull Town for two days, loaded the ship with supplies, and sailed north again. Along the valley coast, after passing through the Five Fingers Peninsula and the Three Girls Islands, they met at Zeneck in the north of the Mingyue Mountains.
Landing everywhere.
The natural conditions here are harsh, with the sea on one side and steep stone mountains on the other. After climbing a rugged mountain road to the west, you will find endless swampland. There are no farmlands and no farmers. The port where you land is a wooden house with more than a dozen wooden houses.
Small fishing village.
The soldiers first got off the boat to be on guard, using their long guns to separate the fishermen who were watching the show.
Cersei, who walked off the ship wearing a hood, stopped, looked at the ground, hesitated for a moment, lifted up her skirt and put it on her left hand, stretched out her right hand and raised it by her side.
The handsome one-eyed blond Adam bowed in front of Cersei, held Cersei's hand and led her into the muddy field.
The Hound, who was still on the boat, looked at the polite two people and cursed Cersei in his mind, had she forgotten that the cabin was not soundproofed!
Adam is James's good brother who grew up together, riding horses and training martial arts together. Cersei is a famous beauty in the West. She was called the "Light of the West" back then. After long-term contact with her, many young men in the West have an admiration for Cersei.
However, Adam knew that Cersei would not marry a lower-level noble like himself, so he always abided by the knight code to silently protect Cersei, and also blessed Cersei and Robert after their marriage.
When Jaime was under house arrest by his father and secretly brought the news to Adam, he was really desperate to save Cersei, even committing treason and starting a military battle with the Golden Robes.
While living on the ship with Cersei, Adam heard Lancel's voice in Cersei's room.
No matter what Tywin said about a series of things that happened in the past ten years, there were many rumors among the nobles of the West.
Cersei is no longer the aloof queen she once was, and Adam's father is old, and he will inherit the position of Earl of Brand in the near future.
This thought couldn't stop once it slipped. One night at sea, Adam mustered up the courage to knock on the wooden door of Cersei's cabin.
The commander-in-chief of the West Riding Cavalry, the future Earl of Brand City, a tall, thin, blond, mature and steady handsome guy, with a life-saving spirit and a unique one-eye, Cersei did not refuse.
From that day on, Lancel Lannister, who only had a paler face than Adam, could no longer go to Cersei's bed. He could only have skin-to-skin contact with the queen in his heart after Cersei had gone to the toilet.
Dear.
Snap!
"What the hell is this place!" Donnie, who had just stepped off the boat, began to curse.
Donnie raised one foot, and his boots were covered with black and yellow mud. It was still drizzling in the sky. This kind of ghost weather made Donnie very uncomfortable.
The hunting dog ignored Donnie and jumped directly from him into the mud.
There were no horses or carts. After the captain drove the boat away, the group in the West could only exchange some unnecessary luggage with the villagers for some fish. Each soldier carried a package on his back and started walking westward.
"Adam, is there no one to help us?"
She had to pull her legs out of the mud every time she took a step. After climbing over a small hill, Cersei was already exhausted. She stopped and asked Adam, who was supporting her.
"The Frey family will come to meet you, but we must first walk a distance along the Mingyue Mountains. This is the territory of the savages, and the Frey family dare not come here!" Adam took out a small wine bottle and took a sip.<
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I visited the Zeneck area many years ago. It was also raining heavily and it was not as cold as it is now. Adam felt a little warmer after taking a sip of strong wine.
"Give me a drink too." After Cersei said, she grabbed the wine bottle and poured it into her mouth. The weather was getting colder, and no matter how powerful a person was, they couldn't beat the weather.
Adam took out his pocket watch: "Let's go! If we keep going, we should be able to reach an inn before dark, where we can spend the night."
Cersei raised her head under the hood and looked at the sky and thought for a moment. She would rather live in a simple inn than enjoy the weather in the open air. After a moment of hesitation, she reached out and took Adam's arm and started to move forward with difficulty.