Chapter 0149: Royal Grievances
Just when the recruitment and training of the Demon Mountain, the first villain of the Seven Kingdoms in the western Rock City, was in full swing, in Winterfell, the capital of the northern border, King Robert Baratheon was looking at the seven-year-old Brandon Stark with a serene expression on the bed.
The child fell from the remnants of the tower for more than a month and still does not wake up.
King Robert wore a cloak made of the skin of a black bear he had slaughtered with his own hands, and a long sword hung from his waist. He was a tall man with a bold personality, and sixteen years ago he killed the crown prince of the year, Rhaegar Targaryen, by the Red Fork River in the Bendlands. Thus the main force of the royalist army was routed, and the victory of the usurper war was established in one fell swoop.
The knighthood of the Magic Mountain was given to him by Prince Rhaegar Targaryen when he was sixteen years old, and it was the honor that Tywin Lannister asked Prince Rhaegar to give the Magic Mountain the supreme glory.
A knight bestows a man, and with the high status bestowed on the person, it becomes more honorable.
Born in 262 Aegon A.D., King Robert is 36 years old, in the prime of life, sixteen years ago, when King Robert was twenty years old, he ascended the throne. At that time, the king had a well-groomed face, clear and charming eyes, was tall and strong, and used two war hammers, and many brave generals could barely lift his war hammer, let alone dance and kill.
The twenty-year-old Robert, who ascended the throne, was the dream "qingren" of the girls of the Seven Kingdoms.
It's just that after winning the crown, Robert has been addicted to food and wine since then, and sixteen years of comfortable time have hopelessly increased his weight by eight stones, and now Robert, let alone wielding a war hammer, can no longer even lift that pair of war hammers. His hammer, now in the throne hall, is an ornament for him to remember the past and show off his prowess.
Although the king's double chin was covered by a thick black beard, his protruding lower abdomen and round body could not be covered by the layers of splendid splendid clothes, and all the calluses on his hands were long gone, and his hands became white and tender, fat and fat. He drank anytime and anywhere, fāshēngguānxì with many women anytime and anywhere, gave birth to illegitimate children with them, and then ignored them again.
Robert Baratheon, who sat on the Iron Throne, went from a brave and warlike young hero to a round and fat middle-aged fat man.
At King Robert's side, Queen Cersei Lannister, with a hypocritical look of concern, is very beautiful and charming. She has curly blond hair and turquoise eyes typical of the Lannisters, and although she is a mother of three, she is still very slim and has smooth, fair skin.
Behind the queen stood a Kingsguard, Jaime Lannister. He and Queen Cersei are twin siblings, the two look exactly the same, their facial features are very similar, but their temperaments are very different. Queen Cersei has a beautiful temperament, and Iron Guard Jaime has a handsome temperament. When they were young, Cersei and Jaime swapped clothes and pretended to be each other all day, not even recognising their father, Duke Tywin.
When she was a teenager, Cersei fell in love with her twin brother and crossed the red line, maintaining a close physical relationship.
Queen Cersei's most admired man was her father, Tywin Lannister.
Sixteen years ago, when Cersei had not lent money to Robert, she was captivated by Prince Rhaeggar's looks and temperament, which she will never forget. Although she fell in love with Robert Baratheon for a short time when she was later married to him, the love died on the wedding night, and when Robert Baratheon was at her peak, he shouted another woman's name: Lyanna Stark.
For sixteen years, starting on their wedding night, Cersei hated Robert to the core. She always has the shadow of Prince Rhaegar Targaryen in her heart, as well as resentment towards her husband, Robert Baratheon, which accumulates over time.
Lyanna Stark, sister of Eddard Stark, Duke of the North. She was the fiancée of Robert Baratheon before she secretly married Rhaegar Targaryen. At a jousting match, Prince Rhaegar meets Robert's fiancée Lyanna, who gives a wreath of love and beauty to Lyanna Stark instead of his wife, Princess Elia Martell, and the sight of the starks are deeply ashamed of the aristocrats. Prince Rhaegar planted the seeds of the Usurper War with his own hands for the sake of a beauty.
Eventually, Rhaegar and Lyanna come together, and their disappearance of playing with fire leads to a civil war in the kingdom, which ends in the death of Rhaegar but he gains Lyanna Stark's heart and heart, Robert wins, but he loses his beloved fiancée forever, and the gods reward Robert with the Iron Throne, which rules the Seven Kingdoms.
On the other side of King Robert was the king's eldest son, Joffrey Baratheon.
In the year 286 of Aegon, Joffrey was born, and he is exactly 12 years old this year. Although he was named the Grand Prince of Robert Baratheon and had the right to inherit the throne, he was actually born to Cersei and Jaime Luànlún. Prince Joffrey had all the qualities of a Lannister family, he was tall, with curly blond hair, green eyes, fair skin, and very handsome. He is arrogant, and his lips are habitually upturned.
He looked at Brandon Stark as he fell asleep in his hospital bed, and a smile on his lips could not be concealed, which was rude, but the prince always did. As soon as he came to Winterfell, he noticed that Sansa Stark, the eldest daughter of the Duke of Winterfell, was unusually beautiful, so he launched a crazy pursuit of her and soon won Sansa's heart.
Sansa Stark was a traditional beauty, having inherited from her mother the Tully's delicate cheekbones, clear blue eyes, and thick maroon hair. She has a slender figure, and although she is only eleven years old, she has already shown the characteristics of a great beauty. Joffrey uses Sansa's favorite lemon cake to capture the girl's heart in one go.
King Robert and his queen and prince came to visit Brandon Stark because the king would leave Winterfell tomorrow and return to the Red Keep in King's Landing, the capital of the Seven Kingdoms, as part of the king's etiquette before leaving.
Accompanying the king to the south was Duke Eddard Stark of the North, who had been appointed by the king as the prime minister of the Seven Kingdoms, and the hand of the king above 10,000 people under one person was in charge of the affairs and military affairs of the Seven Kingdoms.
The Hand of the King, also known as the Prime Minister, was the King's chief advisor and executor when he sat on the Iron Throne to conduct government affairs. In the king's absence, the prime minister sits on the iron throne in place of the king, exercising all the powers of the king - commanding the army, drafting bills, proclaiming laws, managing the day-to-day affairs of the kingdom, and dealing with disputes among the nobles and vicious cases among the people.
When the king returned to his lodgings with the queen and prince after the tedious parting of the king, he was almost paralyzed from exhaustion, and immediately Lancel Lannister, a sommelier who understood the king's wishes, approached, and poured a full glass of wine for the king with a golden flask in his hand.
The king took the wine and drank it dry, and immediately refreshed his spirits, his face radiant, he threw the wine glass to the bartender Lancell, and muttered regretfully: "Seeing that Branna's child is paralyzed in bed, only breathing and not feeling anything, it is more merciful to fall to death in the first place." If I lived like that, I'd rather die. ”
Prince Joffrey's eyes lit up and he said, "Father, why don't you order the end of Bran's life in the name of the king, it will be a good thing for him." ”
Robert narrowed his eyes: "Joffrey, if you were heard by the Starks, you would be hated for the rest of your life, didn't you see the grief-stricken eyes of Lady Catelyn, hey, Lady Catelyn kept Bran day and night, but what was the use? The old gods of the North were so cruel to this child!"
Queen Cersei smiled coldly, raised her head proudly, and looked at the king with contempt: "Speaking of cruelty, who can compare to the Magic Mountain." He's the one who did the dirty stuff for you to sit on the Iron Throne. He killed Prince Rhaegara's wife, and killed the prince's youngest son, who could not walk, my esteemed king, how did your upright and kind heart tolerate such a cruel and ruthless person as the Magic Mountain, is it not that you yourself are more cruel and ruthless and hard-hearted. ”
The king was furious at the queen's words, and he shouted for his glass, and by the time the sommelier Lancel Lannister poured the wine, and the king raised his glass to pour it on the queen, the queen and the prince had already walked out of the room quickly.
The king drank glass after glass and cursed the Lannisters, from Cersei to Duke Tywin, and the king soon became drunk, and when he fell, the king swore to the bartender that the first order he gave when he returned to King's Landing was to kill the Magic Mountain.
The sommelier Lancel Lannister obediently complied with the king's words, and he could not lift the king's fat body, so he had to find a blanket to cover the king's body.
Lancel Lannister is the eldest son of Kevon Lannister of the Westlands. He was young and handsome, with sandy brown hair, light green eyes, and a handsome face. He had a bit of a shadow of James Lannister, and was only sixteen years old. When Jaime Lannister was absent and the king was drunk in Jìnǚ's bed, Queen Cersei summoned Lancel to her room and asked him to accompany him to talk, drink, and talk about trivial stories to survive sleepless nights.
Early the next morning, the King's procession left Winterfell and headed south. The king was asleep in the huge palace, and the queen lifted the curtain of the door, leaning against the door frame of the palace and watching the endless stream of royal courtiers and royal guards outside, and the red-robed army from the west formed a group of their own, protecting the back of the palace.
Eddard Stark, Duke of the North, stopped at the crossroads, and looked behind him, two horses galloping towards him, one was his brother Bunyan Stark, who was the night watchman of the Wall of Desperation, the chief ranger of the Wall, and the other was a boy named Jon Snow, his illegitimate son, Aegon was born in 283 A.D., and was fifteen years old, and the boy would leave Winterfell today to be a glorious night watchman on the Wall of Despair, thousands of miles away.
Jon Snow came to chase his father, and he had a very important question to ask him: Who was his mother?
The difference between father and son, one north and one south, and since then, I don't know when and what month we can see each other again, has always been a question in Jon Snow's heart, and today he hopes that his father can give him an answer.