24 Northerners at a banquet
The army was setting off with great sound, and the footsteps when entering the city were enough to beat the war drums.
The gate of Fengxi Castle, which had been closed for a year, was wide open at this time, and the narrow army was like a long crawling snake, slowly entering the castle.
At the forefront was a group of fully armed knights who sat on horses, who were constantly passing through the city gate holes under the steel gate. The cloaks on their backs were different, including horse heads, iron fists, buckets, and crossed axes.
But the most conspicuous one is the wolf - the dire wolf.
The army from the north was led by the wolf flag and settled in Fengxi Fortress, while the enemy troops outside the city that had been surrounded for a year were retreating in shame.
The crisis was thus lifted, and a grand banquet followed. The arrival of the northerners not only relieved the siege of the castle, but also brought truckloads of supplies, all pigs, turnips, carrots, castrates, cheese, bacon, and jerky...
There were too many people, and at first Renly was confined to go out and run around in the tower, but when the banquet began, it was naturally impossible for him, the third master of the Baratheon family, to be absent.
However, Lan Li did not feel honored or anything about this. Instead, he felt that the banquet was very noisy.
Or it's really noisy.
The first floor hall of the huge tower of Fengxi Castle was originally very empty, enough to accommodate hundreds of people, but now it is basically occupied. Looking around, there are long tables and benches, and servants shuttled through the dense crowds, and food was brought in endless streams.
The rushing hall is enough to make patients with dense phobia uncomfortable. If they do not block their ears, the continuous bragging, laughing, slapping the table, and even yelling sounds can drive people crazy.
When northerners entered the city, they were majestic in their helmets and armor, but now they made a big fuss and made bold styles. It seemed that everyone was bragging to the people around them how brave they were in the war and how rich their achievements were.
Lan Li even saw a big bearded man with a big waist and a round waist pounding the table with bare arms, and the reason for his laugh was that someone next to him claimed that he had broken a southern bastard's dick on the battlefield.
"He looks so scary." Bailey, who was sitting next to him, muttered beside Renli, "How come he looks like a lord master?"
"From the heraldry, he should be the patriarch of the Wol family in the North." Lan Li said absent-mindedly: "Or it should be called the Wol family, they are one of the mountain clans in the North."
"What is the mountain clan?" Fat Dun on the other side asked curiously.
Lan Li ignored his childish question and kept looking at another group of people not far from the bare-shoulder.
At this time, Lanli and her friends were sitting at a long table below the banquet chief, and the table he saw was blocked by three northerners not far from his lower left corner, but Lanli was still able to see the target from the gap in their heads.
It was a young man who looked very thin and short. Unlike other northerners, he was still wearing a slightly faded sleeveless bronze scale armor. He did not see any exaggerated physical movements when talking to his guests at the same table, but instead looked very quiet.
The senses should have been blocked in the noisy banquet hall, but as Lan Li stared at him, the man looked over in a short while, as if he had noticed his gaze.
However, when he saw that he was just a child, the thin short man didn't care much. He smiled gently at him from afar and turned his head back.
Instead, Lanli stood up and prepared to walk up to observe nearby.
Unfortunately, he did not notice that the two of them were whispering something at the banquet chief at this moment, and then pointed at him a few times.
So the boy had just stepped out of the narrow bench space when a faint greeting came from there: "Lanli, come and see our Lord Stark."
He looked in the voice, and his brother Stannis was nodding at him. He curled his lips secretly, but Lan Li walked over without resisting.
Although the owner of this place is Stannis sitting upright at the chief center, the young man with dark hair next to him is the focus of the banquet.
The young man looked in his twenties, wearing a brown wool top with silver thread embroidered with the family emblem of the direwolf, with a straight waist and a long facial features on his face. Only those gray eyes looked a little brilliant when they looked closely, but were influenced by the seriousness that filled it, which made him look a little cold.
At this time, the man frowned, as if he was worried about him, but after Renli came forward to pay a visit, he still barely smiled.
"Rob told me that his younger brother looked very similar to when he was a child. Now it seems that he is not lying."
"My brother also said that Lord Ed never likes to laugh, but when he smiles, he is as comfortable as the heavy snow in winter has melted. The boy's serious words made the person involved laugh, and the people around the north who were paying attention here also burst into laughter.
Only Stannis, who was sitting next to Stark, and the old bachelor standing behind him did not smile.
The former has always been like this, and he never knew what kind of happiness was. He kept his face straight during the banquet. The latter was used to boys' sweet words and was shaking his head helplessly.
But this was just a small episode at the banquet. After a brief conversation, Lan Li returned to his position, and then subconsciously looked at the short man who seemed very strange to him.
Unfortunately, after just a while, the figure of that person could no longer be seen.
"Is it a Zedi person..." The badge that I saw before flashed in my mind, and Lan Li was thinking.
The people of the land are a type of people living in the swamps. They live in the neck, and the neck is the watershed between Westeros and the south, or the gateway to the entire northern border, where there are rotting sludges, light or dark, and it is very difficult to get away.
But if you want to enter the northern border, you can only walk in that place or simply take the water route.
The reason why he cared about that little man so much was very simple, the other person had a fragrance on his body.
That smell of books, but a little burnt.
This smell was smelled by him when the cavalry entered the city, but it was not until the banquet began that he determined who the specific target was.
Lan Li, who had experience once, did not think that this fragrance was transmitted from the other party, but maybe something on him. Unfortunately, he did not give him a chance to observe closely, and the other party disappeared.
However, it is actually easy to find him, and you can do it directly by following the fragrance. However, after thinking about it, Ren Li did not act rashly - now there are many people and he is going to wait until the banquet is over.
So he looked at the chief Stark.
Whether it is my impression of Westeros in my previous life or now, Ed Stark is a very important person.
The young Duke of the North and Duke of Stormland Robert Baratheon was an adopted son in the valley since childhood. The relationship is as close as a brother, even more close than the brothers.
Stark's sister was once engaged to Robert, but unfortunately the wolf girl was later taken away by Prince Rega of the Targaryen family, and the war broke out.
The rebels initially only had the northern border, the storm land and the valley, and later the Hejian land also joined in. In the end, the western border and even the Iron Islands were also moved, so the Targaryen dynasty, which lasted for nearly three hundred years, was destroyed.
Now that the war is basically over, the capital Junlin heard that it has been occupied by rebels, but the man is still looking frowning. Obviously something is bothering him.
I don't know anything Snow?
A person's name flashed through Lan Li's mind, but before he could think about it, the fat man next to him who was chewing a burnt castrated chicken secretly poked him and said in a low voice: "Lan Li, look, that fat man is watching you."
Fatty?
Lan Li looked at the fat guy in front of him strangely, and then followed the other person's gaze.
A handsome young man with a burly figure and curly brown hair was sitting in the corner of the banquet, looking sneakily at this side.
When Lan Li left with a look, the other party subconsciously withdrew his gaze, but immediately moved back and then smiled at him.
This is not fat either.
Lan Li subconsciously flashed this idea, but then he saw a golden rose embroidered on the front of the other party's green velvet top.
From Tyrier's house in the river bay?
He was a little puzzled.
Chapter completed!