On the way back to the city, there was no word all the way, and Duke Ned Stark was thinking, thinking about how to discuss this matter with Maester Lewyn for a while. There are not enough brains, so naturally there is no nature of conversation.

The rest of the young people saw that the Duke did not speak, so it was naturally inconvenient for them to talk loudly. The leader is thinking about the problem, you are talking and laughing there, don't you want to get mixed up?

Until the news came from the pathfinder ahead. He said that he had discovered a strange thing and asked the Duke to take a look. Bran's face turned white in an instant, ahhhhhhhhh The dead stag covered with maggots is not much worse than the dead man's head.

Anyway, it makes no difference to Bran, the effect is equivalent, and after seeing it, I can't eat meat at night. The question is that in addition to meat, that is, brown bread can be eaten, and vegetables? No, the only vegetables in this weather in the north are potatoes and soybeans. Yes, you read that right, it's potatoes.

Other than that, what could Bran ask for? It is the northernmost country of the Seven Kingdoms, and the crops grown are similar to those of the three eastern provinces in the previous life, potatoes, sweet potatoes, wheat, soybeans, and soybeans are for horses. Their winters are calculated according to the years, and there are more than ten years of long winters at every turn, no matter what vegetables they have, they have to kneel, and they may survive a little frost resistance buried in the soil.

In the King's Dinner prepared by Mrs. Stark in the play, the kitchen is the chef chopping and serving meat, and there is a small amount of white bread baked by the oven. The white bread was for the king and other members of the royal family, but what did Arya and the others eat? Mashed potatoes, Arya also uses a spoon to catapult the mashed potatoes into Sansa's face, bread can't do this, only slimy mashed potatoes can.

You have to be clear, this is a state banquet-level dinner, except for beer and barbecue, there is nothing, have you seen any vegetables? Nope. Don't tell me that the cakes and dried fruits placed in front of the queen are purely decorations? It's not for food. It's like an apple that guests came to their house in the fifties and sixties, and it was placed there to make the guests feel that he was very popular, but as for eating, an apple is too expensive, but it's not for you to eat. Put it out for guests, put it away when the guests leave, and use it next time, only when it is almost rotten, it will be reluctant to let the child eat it.

Didn't you see the Queen and Mrs. Stark, the two most high-ranking women, sitting there without anyone moving?

As for the usual, it is black bread and barbecue, as for always eating meat, it is easy to be constipated? Non-existent, whole-wheat bread with a lot of don't want to don't want crude fiber will help you, and an occasional meal of mashed potatoes will replenish nutrients. Potatoes contain much higher protein and vitamin C, vitamin B1, and vitamin B2 than apples, and are also high in calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and potassium.

After Bran crossed, the most unbearable thing was the diet, occasionally with the help of the original bear child's climbing talent, digging bird eggs and roasting them, but it tasted good, and thus formed a deep foodie friendship with Miss Arya.

I hope I have mashed potatoes to eat tonight, otherwise, I can only go to the Shenmu Forest to eat crow eggs. Bran looked at the stag full of maggots and thought helplessly.

"What kind of beast did it" When Ned stepped forward, Jon asked, he was not very old, he did not have the experience of Duke Stark, he really couldn't think of what beast had bitten to death of such a large stag, disemboweled, but did not eat it and let it rot on the road, the north was scarce, and the beast was fierce and guarded, which was almost an incredible strange thing.

"Is it a mountain lion?" Theon interjected.

"There are no mountain lions in this wood," Ned replied firmly.

Bran didn't speak there, but he had a different idea in his heart.

It was not half a day before they went back and forth to the watchtower. And in just half a day, the dead stag has already rotted and grown, although this is a slightly warmer late summer, but the cold northern temperature, it is impossible for the stag's body to rot so quickly, right?

Bran has watched the American drama Crime Scene Investigation. He didn't remember the details, but there was a doctor who did a rotting experiment with pork. Infer the relationship between maggots and time of death. That is, by studying the growth stage of the insect on the corpse, it is possible to determine how long it has been dead.

Although Bran doesn't remember the exact time, it is definitely not possible to give birth to maggots in such a short period of time, first of all, the corpse must decompose and stink, before it will attract flies to lay eggs, from the form of the eggs to the active maggots, it also takes a certain amount of time, does this fly egg eat the catalyst? So big so fast.

Even if you think about it according to ordinary people's thoughts, people who pass away normally won't give birth to maggots in half a day, right? Then how to stop the coffin, how to say goodbye to the body? Someone must have done it on purpose.

Make the stag and the ice wolf kill each other, and both lose. The ancients were superstitious and made this kind of omenous event to hint at provoking the relationship between Duke Ned and the king's family, don't think that foreigners are not superstitious, in fact, even in modern times, foreigners are more superstitious.

Not to mention the Middle Ages, where many scientists, even if they were brilliant in science, still shouted that theology was the end of science. If you ask 10 foreigners if God exists, 8 of them will basically say that there is. But if you ask ten Chinese people if the Jade Emperor exists, they will definitely look at you with a caring and mentally retarded look.

In China, there are also many examples of such superstitions, such as what is the great Chu Xing Chen Shengwang, what stone man has one eye, instigating the Yellow River to rebel against the world, the fish belly to hide books, the white snake to behead, and the eighteen sons to oppose Sui. Our ancestors have played too many of these tricks, so Bran dares to use his own discipline to assure that there is definitely a conspiracy in this.

Just as he was thinking, everyone over there had followed the traces of the stag's internal organs and came to the river, Bran quickly turned over and dismounted, and came up, and when he went down, a huge beast corpse appeared in front of everyone's eyes. The beast had a severed antler stuck in its abdomen, as if it had been defeated after a fight with a stag. There were also a few cubs around the beast, screaming, as if they didn't know that their mother was dead, and wanted to continue drinking milk.

The young men, frightened by the size of the beast, remained silent for a long time. The older ones were also speechless by this strange omen.

"That's a freak!" Theon, as if to hide his fear, shouted contemptuously,

"No, it's an ice wolf."

As he spoke, Ned glanced at Rodric, the short, fat old man with a white beard, and only he and Rodric, who had really experienced winter, recognized this tenacious and ancient beast.

The rest of those who were born in the summer did not recognize the ice wolf, even if the image of the ice wolf was printed on the family crest of the Stark family, they could see it every day, but those who did not see the ice wolf with their own eyes could not imagine how shocking this ancient and ferocious beast was.

Even a battle-hardened warrior would not dare to take it lightly when facing the Icewolf head-on. Even though he was now a dead ice wolf, his sheer size still scared the summer-born boys speechless.

"But there can't be an ice wolf south of the Great Wall", Robb said this with a little unconfidence, perhaps because he knew too many things that subverted common sense that day. Perhaps the Stark family's quick temper and brains have kept him from turning the corner for a while.

"But now there are five." Jon didn't feel anything, teasing the little wolf cub who had lost his mother, and couldn't help but think of himself, he also didn't have a mother, but at least he had a father. If these cubs are not raised, I am afraid that it will not be long before they die.

Seeing Bran looking at the cub in his hand intently, he handed one over, "Oh, do you want to hug it?"

"Lady Catherine probably won't let herself have five wolf cubs, and she won't agree to it for the safety of Bran and Rickon." Jon thought to himself. Bran is just the right age and should be able to have a small pet.

"What about these little wolves? Their mother died? ”

Bran guessed Jon's thoughts, looked at his awkward and reluctant little resentful eyes, couldn't help but cooperate with him, and asked with a smile.

"They don't belong here." Said the chubby whitebeard head Rodric.

"It's better to give them a quick break." No one knows the horror of this beast better than Ned. Without their mothers, they may only survive one of the five cubs. But even if only one survives, a fierce and cunning head in this forest is not inferior to a three-man patrol team of the Night's Watch, or even stronger, threatening his people and children.

Theon, already frightened, immediately took out his dagger and reached out to snatch the wolf cub from Bran's hand.

Bran's face instantly became gloomy, this unfamiliar iron breed, is it to see that he is easy to bully. Just come up and grab it, who are you when you are?