27 Departed
When he heard this, Lan Li was running to a history class, but the "head blow" suddenly struck.
"Robert told Stannis to go to King's Landing, why should I follow?" In the bachelor's room, the boy across the table protested.
He thought about waiting for the short Zedhan to return before he could find a way to steal his dagger, but now that he had gone to King's Landing, he might not be able to see him.
"I think there must be a reason for that." The morning sun shone in through the narrow window embedded in the rock wall on the side, enveloping the smiling half of the old man's face, which, though wrinkled, seemed to be full of life, but the shadow on the other side looked very old.
"Maybe Robert misses his dear little brother."
Pull it down.
Lan Li pursed his lips when he heard this.
When he was less than a year old, his parents died in a shipwreck, and the old bachelor and a recently deceased uncle were responsible for taking care of their three brothers, but this was not as good as his biological parents.
And although he is a brother, he is more than ten years old with Robert and Stannis, the two elder brothers, and the generation gap is very large, and they are not a generation at all.
At the same time, the former went to the valley early to be an adopted son and rarely returned, while the latter had a stinky face all day long, as if everyone owed him money.
In this case, although the meeting will feel intimate, the three brothers actually don't have much family affection to speak of.
"Can I not go? I felt a little pain in my stomach and I felt like I was sick. He tried to find a roundabout way to solve it.
"It's okay." The old man said unhurriedly: "There are still three days before the departure time, child, I will find a way to cure your illness." ”
"If I follow them, will it slow me down?" Lan Li frowned and pretended to be worried: "If Robert tells Stannis that he is in a hurry, won't it be delayed?" ”
"Don't worry about this," the old man waved his hand, "It's not that urgent. ”
"I don't know how to ride a horse, how can I get there?"
"Of course there is a carriage."
Lan Li felt that he was a little out of words, and after sighing, he changed the subject and asked, "Then will you join us?" Master Clerson? ”
"I'm serving this castle, kid." The old man shook his head, "I will assist Sir Lomas in managing this castle, and then wait for you to return." ”
Ser Lomas was the uncle of Fatdon Erin, whose full name was Lomas Ismon, and now appears to have been appointed acting lord of Storm's End.
"Child, King's Landing is not so scary, you are already an adult, you must go out and see the world."
This sounded like he was coaxing a child, and Lan Li rolled her eyes when she heard this.
"Okay, three days later?"
"Yes, when the big army is ready."
Nodding, Lan Li didn't ask any more questions, and instead began to ask about today's lesson.
The old man replied, "Today we are talking about the conquest of Dorne, written by Daeron I, the eighth king of the Targaryen dynasty to sit on the Iron Throne, and he is also known as Daeron the Young Dragon, who was only 14 years old and ......."
……
"Are you really leaving? Blue Gift? "Fat Dun Erling ran up at the end of the lesson, and with him was Berry Dondelion.
"We agreed that we were going to Ismoun Island, and I told my uncle that I would prepare you a stew of the biggest turtles."
"Wait until I get back," Lan Li replied as he looked at him, a leather-covered parchment book tucked between his armpits, a "homework" he needed to read recently.
"And when are you coming back?" Fat Dun asked while jumping up the stairs.
"I don't know." Lan Li sighed beside him: "Tell me that I don't want to go yet." ”
"I'm leaving, too." The thin bamboo pole Berry on the side nodded and said, "Back to Black Harbor, the war is over, and the knights of my family will come to pick me up." ”
Many of the knights of House Dondelien had gone to war with Robert, so he and two of his guards were left in Storm's End.
Fat Dun's mood was even lower when he heard this, "You are all gone, then I will also go, there is nothing interesting in Wind Rest Castle." ”
"Did your dad tell you to go back?" Thin bamboo pole asked strangely.
"Why did my dad tell me to go back?"
"Otherwise, how are you going to go? Do you turn into a turtle and swim back? ”
Seeing that the conversation was a bit dangerous, Lan Li appropriately interrupted them: "Aren't your uncle and cousin still here?" ”
"I hate my cousin, he always slaps me on the back of the head."
Chubby Dun furrowed his flat eyebrows, "Doesn't he know that slapping a child's head will make a child stupid?" I suspect that's what he intended, so that I would become a fool and take my inheritance. You know, he is in lower order of succession than I am. ”
Children naturally have children's troubles, but Fat Dun didn't say much about this kind of housework, but looked at the thin bamboo pole and squinted his eyes.
"Berry, how about I give you a new nickname?"
"Forget it, don't you want to insult my name again." The other party stared at him warily.
"Lightning Kid!"
Fat Dun said to himself: "I've been thinking about this name for a long time, how do you feel?" ”
"I feel a little weird."
"What about Lord Lightning?"
"Not good!"
"Don't call the Lightning King again?"
"And what's your name, Turtle King?"
"I think the turtle prince on Ismun Island sounds better."
"The turtle prince who doesn't rub his ass?"
……
The children's emotions come and go, and the sadness of parting is initially frustrating, but it doesn't take long for it to dissipate, and they don't think it's a big deal.
From the tower to the courtyard, from the courtyard to the Divine Wood Forest, although Lan Li usually doesn't like the two little guys to play games, but when it was time to leave, he felt quite reluctant. For a year, they basically saw each other every day and were inseparable.
After trying to dig out a sparrow's nest in the dense sacred forest, to no avail, they sat down under the oak tree and talked about their future plans.
Don Delien's desire is to become a great knight, while Fat Dun Erin thinks that it would be good if he could inherit his Isle, and Lan Li hopes that they will all get what they want.
"What about you, Lan Li, what are you going to do in the future?" Thin bamboo pole asked.
"I want to be a traveler." Lan Li replied by sitting in the shade of a tree, and the "Conquest of Dorne" that was originally tucked between his armpits had been used as a cushion by him at this time.
"Go to the north to see the Great Wall, to Dorne to see the desert, and I'm going to go to the free trade city-state across the Narrow Sea, I heard that there is a very strange city there, and their people are bound by three big bells every day, get up to sleep, work and rest."
Aside from what the golden finger brought, Lan Li did plan it this way.
"It's weird." Thin bamboo pole commented on this, and Fat Dun asked a more practical question.
"Do you want to pee?"
"I'm curious, too."
"Then when you know, be sure to come back and tell me."
"No problem."
"Don't forget, I've always felt like you don't have a good memory."
……
Regardless of people's moods, time always moves according to its fixed frequency, without hurry, but no one can resist.
Three days passed in a flash.
After bidding farewell to his two friends and acquaintances in the castle, on a gloomy morning on the third day, Lan Li got into a carriage and officially set out on the road to King's Landing, the capital of the Seven Kingdoms.