75 Wedding Messages and Wildfires
Obviously Robert was not on a whim. After a brief oath, he even ordered his servants to bring the sheepskin documents that had been prepared and printed on the spot, so the appointment of Renli took effect.
The nobles at the banquet witnessed all this and were initially incredible, because Longshi Island has always been the fief of the crown prince, but then they reacted quickly and thought of the title enthroned by the king, and then realized his true purpose-
In front of all the nobles, the third brother was the Duke of Dragon Stone Island, and skipping the current heir, Stannis, is naturally impossible to assign heirs beyond the inheritance rules that have been passed down for thousands of years, but to express the king's attitude of breaking the old traditions.
Although this thought is quite surprising, it is much easier to accept than the king's appointment of young brothers as heirs.
So applause and celebrations filled the banquet hall quickly. Regardless of how they thought about it, the nobles looked sincere and blessed.
This obviously disrupted Lan Li's original purpose. He ran forward with careless thoughts and pretended, but he took back the lord's enthronement document in a daze. After thinking for a long time, he could not figure out why he was sealed on Longshi Island.
Shouldn't it be from the storm?
The plot in memory seemed to have undergone earth-shaking changes here. Immediately afterwards, King Robert conferred Stannis Baratheon as Duke of the Stormland and Minister of the Imperial Sea, so there was another mess.
During the tour, Lan Li discovered that Duke Tyriel, who had been talking to him with a smile before, turned around and left with a gloomy face. He thought of something, but he felt that it had nothing to do with him, so he didn't care much.
Then King Robert announced that he and Cersei of the Lannister family would hold a wedding six days later, and officially invited everyone present to attend. So in the midst of cheers, the storm of the banquet came to an end. The black-haired boy who returned to the bedroom of Meghalou was in a mess and fell asleep soon after.
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What changes have happened after becoming a duke?
After that dinner, Lan Li thought about this issue carefully.
He had his own territory, an island at the end of the eastern Blackwater Bay. He had never seen it before, but he heard that the place was not big, and there was a volcano on it. It was said that it still gushed out steam for a long time, and maybe one day it would suddenly erupt and swallow the island.
He had his own castle, a unique castle that was said to be built with magic and dragon flames by the dragon kings of the ancient Valyrian Free Fortress. It is said that the appearance is very unique and completely different from other castles in the Westeros continent.
He also had several vassals who had been loyal to the Targaryen family before. As a result, the surviving Targaryen on Dragonstone fled after his fleet was destroyed by the storm, and they surrendered to Baratheon.
At present, those few vassals were also in the King's Landing City. Early in the morning of the second day of the enthronement, they ran to Lan Li to pay a visit and knelt down to swear allegiance. It seemed that there was no unruly place.
In addition, he also had the right to design his own seal, because after the enthronement was completed, he was equivalent to leaving the Baratheon family of Fengxi Castle and was considered to be a semi-independent entry.
Lanli had no idea about the heraldry, so he decided to temporarily delay the use of the current crowned Bucks without making any changes.
Originally, he thought that since he was enthroned, he might have gone to the narrow but mysterious place of Longshi Island after the wedding, and he was also worried about whether the curse he carried on would take effect—
Although it shows that the so-called curse has been swallowed by blood and only remains, it still clearly states that there is a small chance of causing a storm...
However, he was later notified that he would continue to stay in Red Fort, and everything on Dragon Stone Island was managed by the royal family. He would take office after he was a little older in two years.
In other words, the current enthronement is just to ask him to hang a name.
This may be the "frail and sick" to take care of him, or there may be other reasons. In short, when all the storms were calm, Renli found that his life had not changed much.
Except for people who started calling him adults.
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"Give up the way! All give way to Duke Lanley!"
The guards riding their horses kept shouting, and the high-headed horses were stomping on the narrow road. A group of simple-dressed civilian women hurriedly held the clothes they had dried in front of their doors to move their positions, and responded to the sudden aristocratic team.
On both sides of the road are three-story acres of brick buildings, and the ground below is full of mud and uneven after drying mud. A further distance ahead is the path leading to a deserted high hill. Four guards from front and back follow the carriage, staring at the surroundings with vigilant eyes.
Lan Li in the carriage ignored the riots outside. Now he was sitting there with some boredom, peeling apples. The dagger in his hand was sharp and clever, and he saw the apple skins spinning and being stripped off, and finally pulled to more than half a meter long.
This was the third day after Lan Li was enthroned. He successfully left the Red Fort Gate and was heading towards the target location.
But he is the only boy in the carriage.
Lan Li originally planned to pull the little Lannister demon with him, but she didn't know what was stimulating. The person who had already agreed to the banquet suddenly regretted it again. Now he was hiding in the Red Castle and reading the book and not going out.
This doesn't affect anything, because after becoming the Duke, Renli has already had a certain degree of freedom, and being able to leave the castle at this time is proof of it.
...
As we continued to move forward, the surrounding car body shook with the uneven roads, and the creaking sound of the wheels rolling sounded continuously. The stench that could be smelled in the nose was gradually replaced by a special smell. Finally, when the carriage stopped at the end of the narrow road, the smell was already very obvious.
Further ahead is a stairway that continues to spread to the top of the hill. After gnawing on the apple, the fruit core was thrown away. Under the front and back of the guards, the black-haired boy stepped towards the top of the hill called Reneth.
This trip to Lanli was to collect the copy medium that he discovered when he first entered the city.
The medium is on this hill.
As we kept moving forward, the obliquely upward stairs were thrown behind us, and the group finally stepped onto a flat abandoned square.
At the end of the square is a towering ruined dome building. When you turn around, you can see the dense yellow buildings below the hills standing together, like bulging hills.
A further distance can be seen from the other two hills, one of which is built on the Cathedral of Saint-Belle, and the other is the standing place of the Red Fort.
Aegon Gochurch, Visania Hills, Reneth Hills.
They are landmarks of King's Landing.
The Conqueror Aegon once officially landed on the Westeros continent on the coast where King's Landing was, and the three natural hills on the edge of the coast were also named after him and his sisters.
Now that the world changes, hills still exist, but things have changed.
"It's actually not very suitable for building a garden here." After glanced at the top of the empty hill, Lan Li muttered, and then walked towards the ruined dragon cave ahead with the smell floating in.
The dome building called Dragon's Cave is very large, but it has been abandoned for a long time at this time. It looks black and has a spider web and dust. A bronze entrance is closed, but not far from the door, there is a broken hole that can lead to the interior of the building without any obstacles.
After stepping in and wandering around the ruins for a long time, Lan Li confirmed that the smell did not appear from the surface of the dragon cave here, but under the dragon cave.
He shook his nose and kept searching, and finally walked to the abandoned wall of the dragon cave, looking at the dusty wooden floor under his feet.
"What are you looking for?" Seeing that his steps stopped, one of the guards who had been following him couldn't help but ask.
They had been observing the boy Duke for a long time and found that he didn't seem to be here to hang out.
"There is something hidden underneath." Lan Li replied, then called him forward.
The wooden board was finally opened by the long sword of the guard, so a dark underground passage came into view. Except for Lan Li, everyone else was surprised by this, but when Lan Li walked in first, they followed in without hesitation.
After entering the passage, the smell became stronger in Renli's nose, and the people behind him stared at the surroundings with vigilance, ready to prevent accidents.
However, no accident occurred. When they finished the passage and came to a gloomy and dark cellar, what they saw was rows of wooden shelves with gray crock pots.
Lan Li looked at the wooden shelves strangely, but he did not pay much attention to it. Instead, he followed the smell to the depths of the cellar. Two guards followed him, while others looked at the hidden place curiously, wondering what kind of treasure land might be.
"What is this?" An escort held up a torch and looked at the clay pots on the shelves. After a long time, he could not see any obvious signs on the enclosed jars.
Therefore, he picked up one of the cans and planned to knock them open them. As a result, he had just made some moves, and another local guard who ran in followed him and spoke hesitantly.
“These seem to be wildfires…”
Chapter completed!