Brandon's fall made the whole of Winterfell a little depressed, and everyone felt unlucky, but the clever Lady Catherine felt a little strange.

After all, she is the one who knows her son best, and knows that Brandon has loved to climb high places since he was a child, and the place where he fell has climbed hundreds of times before, so he shouldn't have stumbled and fallen. What's more, she had received a letter from her sister Lysa Tully in Eagle's Nest the night before.

It is stated that she had escaped from King's Landing, that her husband, Jon the King's Prime Minister, had been murdered by the Lannisters, and that the King was in danger. It's just that Ed obviously doesn't believe it, thinking that Catherine's sister is a little crazy, after all, her husband hasn't been dead for long.

Of course, as a pioneer, Li Lingyi naturally knew that this information was completely fabricated by Lysa and Littlefinger Petyr Berish, and Jon was completely killed by Lysa, of course, the source was a series of arrangements made by Littlefinger in order to cause chaos.

It's just that the letter didn't do much and only made Catherine suspicious, but Ed didn't pay much attention to it, which also reflected the dullness of his political mind.

After that, Robert and the others will return to King's Landing, and Snow will also go to the Wall to join the Night's Watch. Everything seems to have changed little, in fact, Li Lingyi has nothing to change, no matter what he changes now, it will not be good for him, not to mention that his attributes have been greatly weakened, and it is not so easy to take the head of the general from Wanjun.

So before the convoy left, Li Lingyi himself was the first to leave, he just made soy sauce in Lindong, and didn't think about what to do, but now after talking with the Green Prophet, he also decided to use the second way to complete the main line, that is, to establish his own power.

Although this method is more difficult in the early stage, it has a high growth potential. If you join a big family, you may rise very quickly in the early stage, but in the later stage, you want to rebel, or whatever. Because this continent is also more honor-oriented, and betraying the object of your allegiance is a very bad thing, and will make your reputation so bad that no good person wants to be with you. As for recruiting a group of wicked people who robbed homes and houses, Li Lingyi himself could not accept it.

Therefore, allegiance must not be allegiance, even to the king, like Jaime of the Lannisters, who is handsome and mighty, but can never escape the title of "kingkiller".

Some children think this title is cool and handsome, but it is not, it is an extremely humiliating and shameful title. Because Jaime had sworn allegiance to the gods as a former Imperial Guard, an honor of the highest rule, but when he plunged his sword into the king's body from behind, the honor was trampled to the bottom of his feet.

So on the surface everyone respects Jaime, but in private it is all sarcastic and swearing, and it can be said that any knight with noble character disdains to be in the company of him.

If Li Ling wants to avoid this situation, he can only be loyal to no one and let others be loyal to him, this is the royal way, but if he chooses not to be loyal to others, it means that there is no umbrella on his head, and everything has to rely on himself.

As for the beginning of everything, it is money, and without money, nothing can be done.

So Li Lingyi's first goal was to place it in King's Landing.

……

Three days later.

As soon as Li Ling arrived in King's Landing, King Robert had not yet returned, and it was estimated that there was still a day to go, so he found an inn to stay, and he began to look for the stables.

"We have the best horses here!" beckoned to Li Lingyi, the owner of the stable, who looked at him, "Let's get rid of the stallions first." ”

He came to King's Landing to participate in the martial arts competition, not for anything else, the 40,000 golden dragon of the champion is what he is determined to get, this will be the starting capital for him to establish his power, and there is no room for loss, so the choice of horses is naturally more important, after all, he doesn't want to be like the Magic Mountain, and be calculated by the Hundred Flowers Knight with a mare in heat.

Soon, Li Lingyi chose a good mare, spent the only two remaining golden dragons, and led the horse away. As for riding, he doesn't have anything to worry about, not to mention it, at least in the past few years of Attack on the Titan World, he has been riding a horse, and he has to avoid giants while riding, and the difficulty coefficient is much higher than ordinary equestrian duels.

The next thing was to wait, and it was only two days later that the king and others finally rushed back, and then the news of the upcoming war tournament was announced, so the knights from all over the country also arrived in the past two days.

The first thing to do is naturally the audition, after all, the king doesn't have time to watch the duel between hundreds or thousands of knights, and there is no restriction on the registration conditions, whether it is a noble knight or a lowly mercenary, you can participate, so Li Lingyi also signed up for the first time.

In the afternoon, he walked casually around the city, feeling the prosperity of King's Landing. Of course, it is actually very prosperous, except for the tall and magnificent Red Fort in the center of the city, the other areas are not much stronger than Winterfell, but the population is many times larger than Winterfell, so the road is also very crowded.

"Hey!"

At this time, a shout suddenly came from behind, and Li Ling turned his head and saw a petite figure running through the crowd.

"We've met again!" the little girl looked at Li Lingyi and said excitedly, "I didn't expect you to come to King's Landing too!" But didn't you say last time, as long as we meet again, you will teach me your swordsmanship!"

The little girl is the little wolf girl Arya, after she and her father came to King's Landing, they have been bored in the castle, so they sneaked out to play, but unexpectedly ran into Li Lingyi by mistake, which also made her very surprised, and hurriedly ran over.

"It's you, what are you doing in King's Landing?" Li Lingyi asked.

"I—" Arya scratched her little head, as if she didn't think there was a good reason left, so she told the truth, "Actually, I'm from the Stark family, and I'm here with my father. ”

"Oh, then you called your brother's full name last time?" Li Lingyi teased, Arya suddenly looked embarrassed when she heard this, and shook her head, "Anyway, you said it last time, if we meet again, you have to teach me!"

"Yes. But will your father agree?" Li Lingyi asked, "After all, I'm just a free mercenary. ”

"What does it matter?" Arya's eyes widened, obviously not very important about her status, and she showed a big smile, "Don't worry! Father, he will definitely agree!"