81 The Judgment of the Seven Sons (4)
After Lan Li's words fell, the atmosphere was silent for a moment, and then the old knight asked.
"Are you sure, Pawin Osgray?"
His face was very strange, and Lan Li was secretly a little confused when he saw it.
There are many people named Pawin in history, but the person he refers to is not a person who is too far away, but the heir of a family of the lords of the Riverlands during the Conqueror's War that he has seen in historical sources, and who was killed at a young age in a battle called the Burning Plains.
Out of some kind of speculation about the old knight in front of him, he pondered for a long time before he figured out the name, it was originally just a layer of tiger skin, but depending on the situation, does this person know the person he said?
It is also possible that, in his time, the surname Osgray belonged to a small aristocracy in the Riverlands, but at present, it belongs to one of the most numbered nobles in the Riverlands, and it seems understandable to say that this old knight from the Westland knew the man in his mouth, after all, the Westlands are close to the Riverlands.
"That's the name."
Thinking in his heart did not affect Lan Li's apparent answer, he touched his head and said hesitantly, "Pawin Osgray, I remember this is the name, Sir, my father told me personally. ”
"What's your father's name?" The old knight asked again.
"His name is Jerry Flower, Sir Flower." Lan Li replied.
The surname Buddha Flower is one of the many surnames of illegitimate children in Westeros, in Westeros, the illegitimate children of nobles in various parts of the Seven Kingdoms have no right to inherit their father's surname, but it is not without a surname, and each region of the Seven Kingdoms has a corresponding bastard surname, such as the Bend Land is called Buddha Flower, the North is called Snow, the Stormland is called Storm, and so on.
Lan Li felt that the old knight might be familiar with the Osgray family, but that didn't stop him from saying who he had preset for himself.
After all, you may be familiar with the party, you can't be familiar with the party's illegitimate child, right?
And this illegitimate child was made up casually by him.
When the other party heard this, he didn't ask any more, but frowned and pondered, as if he was recalling.
Lan Li felt that things were a little wrong.
He didn't mean anything else by pulling this name, it was just to bring the relationship closer and the status of both parties closer.
It's a trick to get closer.
Before the Conquistador's War, the Osgray family was a great nobleman in the Riverlands, and they were quite rich and powerful.
However, after Aegon's enraged battle of conquest of Riverbends and the West, the Osgray family suffered heavy losses and began to decline, and later suffered setbacks, until in his time they were even a family of propertied knights.
This alone is just a history of the rise and fall of an aristocratic family, but considering the origin of the old knight in front of him, it is not necessarily simple.
According to his inquiry, the old knight in front of him was from a noble family in the Western Realm, but 41 years ago, he suddenly gave up his family's inheritance and inheritance rights and chose to join the church.
What kind of blow could make him suddenly give up his family property in the Westlands and run to the church to become a poor and simple church knight?
There are many possibilities, such as family infighting, trapped by love, and maybe even this person suddenly enlightened and thinks that faith is more important than material wealth.
But if you consider the time and what happened in the Western Realm at that time, you have to think of a possibility for Lan Li.
Did the person in front of him participate in that angry battle, or did his father and brothers participate?
As a result, after the death of a loved one, he was devastated, and finally converted to the church?
This is not a small possibility, because the original anger burned the plains, and the riverbends and the western realm were all suffering, and the dragons burned them badly.
Lan Li couldn't be completely sure of this, but if this was the case, what would an old man who had his life changed because of that battle face the descendants of a noble heir who also had the fate of his entire family changed because of that battle?
Although one was a nobleman from the Western Realm and the other was a nobleman from the Riverland, the two sides were difficult to brother in that battle.
Therefore, no matter how indifferent the temperament is, it is impossible to be indifferent in the face of the down-and-out descendants of the "difficult friends", right?
Of course, if you want to disguise this, you must have a certain historical foundation, at least you have to know the heraldry and family history of your "own family", you don't need to know too much, but you can't understand anything at all.
Otherwise, there will be many mistakes and omissions, and people will only be regarded as liars.
At the same time, you can't find nobles who are too close around, too close is easy to be debunked.
You can't claim to be a family descendant, otherwise how could you be so miserable?
Lan Li knew that the Osgray family had been changed by anger, but he didn't know what the situation of that family was in the current era.
Therefore, Lan Li positioned himself as an illegitimate son, or the son of an illegitimate child, who is not well known, has been reduced to the civilian class, but still remembers the son of an illegitimate son from whom he was born.
It's not that difficult to disguise this, after all, a common person, whose life is based on the village, and most of the guys who don't know each other except for their own lords, can pull out many things between nobles to prove that his identity is not simple, and Lan Li is also literate, which can better show his identity.
In this way, he became the son of a poor illegitimate son of a noble family in the Riverbend who had been devastated by the Battle of the Burning Plains.
Although the same status is low, it is also much stronger than ordinary farmers, and the emotions that the other party may breed because of the same "difficult friends", I think the status will be completely different from before.
And as long as this status is improved, then Lan Li will be able to accomplish his goals more conveniently-
Try to learn the knowledge and skills of knights from the other party, and rely on the other party's identity to successfully become a knight, and eventually join the son of a warrior.
Only by becoming a knight, or a knight who looks like a knight, can he join the son of a warrior, and only by joining the son of a warrior can he go to the future trial of the seven sons.
This is a serial mission, and Lan Li is ready for the first step of the long march, and the starting point is the knight of Lelin in front of him.
It's just that this first step has just been taken, and it seems that something has gone wrong......
Obviously, the old knight couldn't have imagined that the big blond man with thick eyebrows and big eyes in front of him would have so much thought in his simple words, but it was true that he was very familiar with the Pawin Osgray in Lan Li's mouth, and he couldn't be more familiar.
It is precisely because of this that the old knight will carefully think about the hidden message behind Lan Li's words, instead of being aroused by the feelings of sympathy or not caring for himself as Lan Li expected.
It's just that he thought about it for a long time, and he didn't seem to come up with one, two, three, so under Lan Li's worried gaze, he raised his deep and dark eyes and carefully examined Lan Li's face, and finally patted him on the shoulder and sighed, and commanded his subordinates to turn around and leave with the two sheep shepherds who had initially woken up.
This made Lan Li feel a little inexplicable, and there was a faint premonition that something bad was not good, and this premonition did come true soon after-
After camping that night, the old knight suddenly came to the door, and after looking at him carefully for a long time, he spoke: "My name is not Lerin, my real name is Wise, Wise Osgray. ”
Lan Li was stunned when he heard this, and the other party said at this time: "The Pawin Osgray in your mouth is my brother. ”