Chapter 0172 Father's Love Is Like a Mountain
It was destined to be a sleepless night.
Many people will lose sleep during this night.
Queen Cersei who was slapped in the face, Prince Joffrey who was intimidated by his cheap father, Hound who was knocked away by a sword from the Magic Mountain, Mikay, the butcher's son and apprentice who escaped death, Arya who hated Sansa and Joffrey, and the people of the Riverlands who were awakened from their sleep by a fire.
Many people are doomed to a sleepless night!
As the Hound rode through the town's streets, in the three-story stone castle where the Northerners lived, Arya was talking to her father, Eddard Stark.
This dialogue will have a profound impact on the future trajectory of the world.
The conversation begins with Sansa apologizing to Arya.
After the guards, Sister Modan, the servants, her best friend Jane Pool, and others had gone to rest, Sansa, accompanied by her father, knocked on the door of Arya's hut.
Arya opened the door and saw Sansa, her eyes immediately became cold and sharp, she slammed the door shut, but the door was pushed by a large hand next to her, and Arya saw her father come too.
Arya turned and left, Sansa and her father entered, and her father, Duke Eddard, gently closed the door.
"Arya!" Sansa said, her eyes pitiful.
"Don't talk to me!" Arya shouted. Although it was over, she was still excited. It wasn't for Bernie who suddenly jumped out, her good friend Mikay had already been beheaded.
It was a human life, a human life in the Stark family of the North. How could Sansa be so indifferent in order to marry Joffrey and become a queen like Cersei.
As for Prince Joffrey and Queen Cersei, Arya didn't have a crush on them when she was in Winterfell, but Sansa liked them so much that she showed her embroidery to the queen, and was proud to be praised by the queen.
Sansa is disgusting, and of course, Prince Joffrey and Queen Cersei are even more disgusting!
In Winterfell, Arya witnesses Joffrey humiliating her eldest brother, Robb Stark. Robb was practicing his sword in the school yard, and Joffrey saw it and laughed at it, and Robb offered to compete with Joffrey, and Joffrey drew his sword and threw it on the ground, ordering Robb to pick it up and give it to him. Robb swallowed his anger to pick up the sword, but Joffrey suddenly kicked the sword away, and then, in the name of the prince, ordered Robb to pick it up.
When Robb angrily offered to duel Prince Joffrey, the prince triumphantly called out to his hound, Sandor Clegane, and told Robb that Robb would not be able to bring a duel to him if he had defeated his dog first.
Robb didn't fight the hounds, and Jon Snow, who had the deepest friendship with Arya's siblings, arrived, and he persuaded Robb away. Joffrey then laughed loudly at Jon for being a contemptible bastard.
From that day on, Arya had no crush on Joffrey and was deeply hostile to the swaggering Queen Cersei.
However, Sansa did everything she could to please Joffrey and Cersei, and repeatedly begged her father to agree to her marriage to Joffrey after the king proposed a marriage between the two families.
What happened today, Sansa chose to side with Joffrey once again, regardless of the facts, and had no regret for Mikay's life, which made Arya really hate Sansa.
Sansa stood with her hands in each other's hands, her figure slender and her temperament soft.
"I'm sorry!" said Sansa.
"I don't have you as a sister, I hate you. Arya stared at Sansa, making no secret of her dislike for Sansa.
Eddard motioned for Sansa to go and rest, and Sansa left the room helplessly, she was dignified and graceful, and the Stark family's ladylike education for Sansa was still very successful in terms of 'noble temperament and elegant manners'.
"Arya, come here!" Ed said softly. He sat down and held out his hands to his daughter.
Arya threw herself into her father's arms, her eyes moistened.
"It's over, no matter how you say that you are all sisters, I want you to love each other like sisters, you know?"
"But she's lying!"
"No, Arya, Sansa wasn't lying. She just didn't tell the truth, which probably doesn't count as a real lie. ”
"If she had told the truth, Mikay would not have been put to death. And my Icewolf, I drove her away, and my Namelia is no more. ”
"Mikay is fine, Arya, he's fine. If you want to have a pet, I'll buy you a cat in King's Landing, or a dog!"
"No, I don't want cats and dogs, I just want Namelia. Father I hate Sansa, really! It wasn't you who saved Michael, Father, it was the Magic Mountain. ”
"Arya!" said his father, Ed Masase, "listen to me, Joffrey is Sansa's fiancé, she will live with Joffrey for the rest of her life, and as a qualified wife, she cannot betray her husband." She's not married to Joffrey yet, but she's Joffrey's fiancée, you know? Sansa has her current difficulties, and you're more responsible than she is, so you have to be more considerate of her. In the future, you will also have a fiancé, and you will also have your own husband, and at that time, you will not be so willful, a qualified wife will rather wronged herself than betray her husband. ”
"And what if he's wrong?"
"Behind closed doors, persuade him to save face and preserve his honor and dignity outside. ”
Arya still felt very aggrieved in her heart, holding back her tears and not falling, she had to be wronged by marrying someone, Arya couldn't accept this: "I won't marry, father!"
Ed smiled slightly, gently stroked his daughter's hair, and did not 'entangle' with her daughter on this issue.
"Arya, you said it was the Magic Mountain that saved Mikay, what's going on?"
"It's not Bernie who is letting the horses behind the bushes, it's the Magic Mountain. Arya said.
Ed was shocked.
Arya's words were beyond his imagination.
"Did the Magic Mountain see your battle at Ruby Beach?"
"Yes, when I jumped over the bushes with Nemelia, I saw the Magic Mountain, and he told me to go with her, saying that he would bring me back in the evening, and that he might be willing to testify for me. ”
"You didn't promise him?"
"I asked his name, and after knowing that he was the Great Villain Demon Mountain, I refused his invitation and fled with Namelia down the river. I was afraid that Nymelia would be killed by the king, because she had bitten Joffrey, so I chased her away in a wood, I threw her with a stone, but she would not go, and finally I pulled out the sewing needle to drive her away, and she finally ran away" Arya finally burst into tears, and she went down the stream, and she stretched out her sleeve to wipe it, and her face was full of tears.
Ed gently wiped away her daughter's tears, but Arya's tears burst again, and as soon as they were wiped dry, they burst into tears again, and snot began to flow out. She misses her Icewolf Namelia too!
"Don't cry, you should go to bed too, and tomorrow morning, we'll go to the woods to find Nemelia. Ed stroked his daughter's hair and wiped away her tears again.
"Really?" said Arya's eyes lit up with hope.
"Really!" Ed assured.
So, Arya's little face suddenly showed a bright smile.
Ed smiled too.
A child is a child, a word, scratched her heart, and she immediately smiled, although her eyes were still teary!
Ed walked out of Arya's room and closed the door gently, he stood outside the door of his daughter's room for a while, and heard that his daughter was no longer tossing and quiet, he gently pushed the door open again, listening to his daughter's even breathing, Ed closed the door silently again, and left with peace of mind.
Instead of going back to his room to sleep, Ed went to the roof. Queen Cersei and Prince Joffrey had a fight today, and he was in a bad mood and couldn't sleep. Joffrey was his future son-in-law, and he was going to live with Sansa for the rest of his life, and this family affair made him feel very troubled.
The Magic Mountain saved Mikay's life today and helped Arya clarify the facts, why did he do this? Ed couldn't figure it out, and his mind was confused. Whatever the purpose of the Mountain, Eddard Stark knew that he owed the Great Villain Mountain a favor.
Ed is above board, and his grievances are clear. He doesn't have to repay the evil of others to him, but he must always repay the love of others.
The Magic Mountain was invisible and planted a small seed. Nowadays, there are more and more such 'seeds', and once they take root and sprout, they will grow into a green field.
Eddard Stark was thinking about things on the rooftop, and he couldn't calm down, and unintentionally, he saw the western sky, and he didn't know when it was already red.
There's a fire in the west!
And beneath that sky was the granary domain of Eddard Stark's father-in-law, Duke Horsttury.