Chapter 0477: Cersei Makes a Move: The Bishop Falls
"Captain Osney Kate Black. ”
Young Osney immediately bowed: "Hello Sir Jaime!"
"Go ahead, I'll be on duty tonight. ”
Osney glanced at the Queen Mother's bedroom door, "Yes, sir." “
The status of the Kingsguard was the highest among the guards in the palace, and even the captain of the queen mother's guard was lower than that of a member of the Kingsguard.
Osney was about to leave when the door to the Queen Mother's bedroom opened: "Captain Osney, come in." ”
Osney glanced at Jaime and was embarrassed, he was afraid of Jaime: "Yes, Your Majesty the Queen Mother. ”
Osney entered the Queen Mother's bedroom door, and the Queen Mother stood in the door and looked at James: "Sir Jaime, you can come in too." ”
"No!" said Jaime.
Cersei looked at Jaime and slowly closed the door.
Jaime turned to look out the window at the starry sky.
The moon is like a silver disk in the blue sky, and the sky is full of stars. But if it's on the Great Wall in a desperate situation, it's either snowing or the wind is howling. Even if there are stars, there are only a few. In the north, the stars also give people a feeling of cold to the bone.
Eddard Stark hoped that Jaime's return to King's Landing would bring temporary peace to the North and King's Landing, but Jaime overestimated his abilities and returned to King's Landing, but no one supported him, on the contrary, many royal courtiers laughed at him, and they did not believe that there were strangers in the north.
Tyrion told him that whatever Jaime wanted to do and convince whoever he wanted to do was best wait until after King Joffrey's wedding.
I don't know how long it took, Osney Kate Black opened the door and walked out, he passed by Jaime and nodded to Jaime, who turned a blind eye.
Osney's father, Oswell is now the head of the Queen Mother, and his elder brother Osmond is one of the members of the Kingsguard, and he is very tall and can be called a small magic mountain.
The family's status and connections in the royal family are strong.
As Osney walked away, Queen Cersei stood at the bedroom door, looking at Jaime, "Are you really not coming in tonight?"
Jaime didn't answer, looking at Cersei.
He's going to kill Osney the same way he's going to kill Lancer.
"Tomorrow, accompany me to the Great Basilica of Baylor, and I will go to see the archbishop. ”
"Yes, Your Majesty the Queen Mother. ”
*
The Basilica of Baylor, also known as the Basilica of Baylor, is the center of the Seven Gods and the seat of the archbishop. It sits on the top of the Visenia Hill on the left-hand side of the Red Keep and is named after the monk king who presided over its construction, "the blessed of God" Baylor.
In the morning, the Queen Mother, under the protection of Jaime and Osney, went to the top of the Visenia Hill, and the procession passed through the white marble square, past the colossal statue of Baylor I, and into a marble-domed building.
Seven crystal towers tower over the Templar complex. Each of the seven towers has a large bell at the top. The temple bell is only ringed together on important occasions, such as the death of a king or the wedding of a royal family.
The sanctuary has seven gates, each of which corresponds to a deity. The monks enter the sanctuary through the Father's Gate, the nuns through the Virgin's Gate, and the Silent Sisters through the Stranger Gate.
The Queen Mother, Jaime and Osney enter the sanctuary through the Maiden's Gate, which represents purity, and walk through the long hallway of the "Hall of Lights". Many colored lead glass spheres hang from the ceiling of the hallway. Through the two gates leads to the place where the monks pray, where the tall altar of the Seven Gods is gathered under a dome of glass, gold and crystal.
The church floor is made of marble, and the massive windows on the walls are fitted with stained lead glass. In front of the altar, there are believers who are lighting candles to worship.
The archbishop, who was so fat that he could barely walk, wore the crown of seven gods and led the seven archbishops to greet Her Majesty the Queen Mother again.
After a brief greeting, the Queen Mother, under the guidance of the archbishop, lit a candle in front of the Seven Sacred Statues.
After a brief exchange of words between the archbishop and the Queen Mother in front of the altar, the Queen Mother signaled, and Jaime and Osney left the room with their guards, as did the rest of the monks, bishops, and faithful.
In the end, there were only two people left in the Seven Gods Hall, the Queen Mother and the Archbishop.
This chubby bishop barely moved a jade accessory, and he is said to have been a stonemason before becoming a monk. Once the stonemason is no longer working, he eats and wears good clothes, and he gets fat at a frightening speed.
The archbishop's crown of the seven gods is filled with gold, pearls, and all kinds of rare jade.
The Baelor Sanctuary was so wealthy that even the royal family owed the Templar millions of gold dragon coins. The wealth of the believers from the Seven Kingdoms supported the wealth of the Baelor Grand Sanctuary.
Jaime stood outside the Hall of the Seven Gods and waited, and after a long time, the Queen Mother came out, her face not looking happy, very cold.
Jaime followed closely beside the dashing Queen Mother.
The Queen Mother came to the marble square outside the church, sat down in the palanquin, and said to Jaime through gritted teeth: "The stonemason has rejected me, he really deserves to die." ”
"What did he reject you?"
"He refused to judge Margaery Tyrrell. ”
"Queen Mother, you have no evidence of Margaery Tyrrell's guilt. ”
"I had convinced Osney last night that he agreed to come forward and testify that he had an improper intimate relationship with Margaery. ”
"Framed out of thin air?"
"Do you think so?" it is an open secret that Margaery slept with her maids. ”
"Maybe it's because she's very peaceful with her subordinates, treating them like sisters. ”
"You disobey me, too?"
“............”
Cersei lowered the curtain, leaving Jaime with a resentful look.
The Queen Mother's sedan chair was activated, and before she walked out of the marble square, she saw a group of ragged monks walking on the avenue outside the square, dressed in gray robes, barefoot, and carrying wooden sticks in their hands. One of the young monks was handsome and indifferent, and Jaime stared at the monk, and the monk stared at him with no fear in his eyes.
Brother Lancel Lannister!
Jaime rode on his horse, while Ransell and his fellow monks walked past the Queen Mother's palanquin, surrounded by a very tall and slender old monk. The old monk's gaze and James' gaze were matched like an awl.
The old monk's gaze made Jaime's heart skip a beat.
Jaime had seen too many of these razor-like gazes, but it was the first time he had seen such a sharp look on the monk's face, the old monk was more like a menacing warrior than a monk.
Cersei heard the noise of footsteps outside, and when she lifted the curtain, she saw Lancel walking up to her palanquin, Lancel's long blonde hair had been cut off, almost bald, and he was dressed in a gray robe with a grim expression. Queen Mother Cersei's gaze and Lancel's gaze matched, Lancel's gaze was calm and calm, and Cersei was surprised in disbelief.
"Stop!" said the Queen Mother.
The sedan chair stopped.
"Lancer!" the Queen Mother lifted the curtain, "what's wrong with you?"
"Your Majesty the Queen Mother! I'm not Lancell, I'm a little sparrow. Rancell's face was expressionless, and he walked over.
A steady stream of monks walked by, all in gray robes, barefoot, with indifferent expressions, and their eyes were as cold as ice.
The sound of wheels sounded, and one by one the carts were dragged by the monks past the Queen Mother's procession, and the carts were all filled with the bodies of monks and nuns who had been killed by swords, looking at the coagulated blood stains and vertical and horizontal wounds, these monks and nuns all died miserably.
It took a long time for the cart to finish, and then there was a ragged procession of monks, like a steady stream of troops.
Jaime whispered, "Your Majesty the Queen Mother, let's go another way." “
These monks give the impression that they are not monks, but military, with a murderous aura.
Monks should have been innocent in naming people, healing people, praying, sacrificing, marrying, and funeral.
The Queen Mother agreed, so the team turned east and took a different route back to the Red Fort.
*
A few days later, in the evening. Baylor Grand Chapel.
"Your Excellency, the Archbishop. "A monk knelt down reverently, holding a string of pearls in his hand, and presented it to the archbishop.
Devout believers are always willing to give all their wealth for the faith. Some nobles, who became monks, donated all their wealth to the Basilica of Baylor, which was one of the sources of the great wealth of the Basilica of Baylor.
The archbishop motioned for the monk to stand up and give him the string of pearls.
The monk's face was hidden in his hood, and he walked on his knees before the archbishop's teaching, not daring to look up.
The archbishop's crown is also adorned with pearls, but none of the venerated pearls are larger and more even.
The archbishop took the rare string of pearls and played with it in his hand. The archbishop who wore silk and satin was fond of jewels and golden dragons. There is a special warehouse for storing golden dragons and beautiful jade in the Great Sanctuary of Baylor, which contains boxes of golden dragons and jewelry.
"Monk, where are you from?"
In the Great Basilica of Baylor, there were monks from all over the Seven Kingdoms. Many monks came to the Basilica to learn about healing, naming, singing hymns, marriage and funeral rules, and the various rituals of believing in the seven gods.
Monks are also a subject to hard study.
"Lord Bishop, I am from the Red Keep!" said the monk, taking off his hood and standing up, it was Sir Osney Kate Black, captain of the guard of His Majesty the Queen Mother.
The Archbishop was stunned!
Osney unhurriedly drew his long dagger: "Your Excellency, Your Majesty the Queen Mother greets you. ”
The archbishop, who was so fat that he had difficulty walking, now knew why the monk had asked to see him alone.
Osney's dagger pierced the fat bishop's neck!
The stab was precise and cut the archbishop's throat.
Blood stained the bishop's snow-white monk's robes.
Osney drew his dagger, wiped the blood from the archbishop's white friar's robes, put it away, pulled up his hood, and hurried out the small door......
Early the next morning, the bells in the seven towers of the Basil of Baylor struck together, shaking the entire city of King's Landing, and the news soon spread: the archbishop of the Baelor Chapel had been assassinated the previous night.
Monks, nuns, garrisons, magistrates, and sparrows who kept entering King's Landing all went into action, tracking down suspicious people and arresting the murderers, and after a few days, nothing came of it.
While King's Landing was in chaos due to the assassination of the Archbishop, a procession from the Westside to congratulate King Joffrey on his wedding entered King's Landing, including a special guest: Rosamon Lannister of Lannisport City.
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