There were still a few riders at the rear of the group, who were the tails of the enemy.

Lan Li had ordered a veteran member of the assembly to hurry up and ask for help, and he had completely adjusted his route to shift his destination, heading towards the nearest place to them, called Shitang, where there was a sanctuary and a gathering place for the sons of the warriors nearby.

It's just that he can't guarantee whether he can come to reinforcements, and it's unknown whether the team can really reach that safe place-

Although there are two captives in their hands, who can guarantee that they will always be reliable?

If the lord family behind them was afraid that these two would confess to them, and sent an army to kill people to get rid of the trouble, wouldn't the team be equally unsafe?

This may not be non-existent, the nobles of Westeros have always had the interests of their families at the forefront, and the Church, despite its scattered power and current rivalry with the Targaryens, is a behemoth. If you show your head rashly, you will only be devastated.

Therefore, despite the many wounded in the ranks, he still demanded to speed up the march without stopping.

The fertile fields on both sides seemed endless, the road beneath them was muddy with a single rainfall, and they could occasionally encounter scattered travelers along the way, as well as farmers seeking protection, but despite the criticism of the members of the assembly, Lan Li refused to do this kind of work again, for fear that there would be a mole among them.

On the third day after the bearded man's death, the procession passed through a village where a rally member claimed that he was a frequent visitor and trustworthy, so they stayed here to make some repairs.

The local villagers welcomed the arrival of the group and actively provided shelter and food, so the team stayed here for a night.

Originally, Lan Li was going to get up early the next morning and go on the road again, but it may have been a stable recuperation, and the old knight, who had been unconscious, suddenly woke up.

……

When Knight Lelin woke up, it was early in the morning, and Lan Li, who couldn't sleep, was originally on a watchtower in front of the village, looking out at the fields shrouded in dawn in the distance, and hurried over after receiving the notice.

Seeing Lan Li push the door in, the old knight who had awakened in the thatched hut took a breath, and then waved his hand to signal one of the members of the assembly who had fed him porridge to step down.

"I heard about you." When there were only two people left in the room, he said weakly, "Originally, I thought you wanted to run away. ”

If it weren't for those two people, I would have run away. Lan Lixin said, blurting out a different paragraph.

"How's Jazz's body?"

"It feels pretty good." The old man leaning against the dirt wall smiled at the corner of his mouth and said, "But even if I die like this, I am comforted to see my brother's descendants before I die." ”

These words made Lan Li's face stunned, but the other party had already closed his eyes weakly at this time, so he didn't say anything more, and turned to leave after looking at the old knight a few times.

After the sun rose, the team continued on the road, but again attritional.

Several members who were not part of the Poor People's Assembly chose to stay, and some of the seriously injured members of the team were also arranged by Lan Li to stay here to recuperate, preparing to come back to pick them up when reinforcements were found.

Originally, he planned to leave the knights here as well, but the other party struggled to follow the group on the road, claiming that the duty of the warrior's son was to lead the members of the assembly, and there was no reason to abandon them and leave them behind.

The old man was very stubborn and insistent on this, and Lan Li felt that he actually had another purpose.

The next few days were a continuous rush, and there were less than ten members left, so the speed of the team was not slow, and the old knight who was especially concerned by Lan Li also woke up intermittently and unconscious during this time, and woke up again and again, and every time he woke up, he would call Lan Li to say a few words.

Lan Li felt that he would not live long.

It's just that one day, after waking up, the old knight became unusually energetic, his pale face also became ruddy, and he called Lan Li to the front and back of the ox cart, he habitually glanced at the big blond man in front of him a few times, and then said: "You know, I am a deserter. ”

Lan Li was stunned when he heard this, but the other party did not end his words, but said to himself: "I am your grandfather's attendant, and I participated with him and your great-grandfather in the war that made the royal family of Hewan extinct, and when your grandfather died, I should have stayed by his side, but the dragon, those three dragons really made me-" Speaking of this, he spoke.

"So I ran away."

Knight Lelin's voice was much smoother than a while ago, without any emotion, it sounded like a normal old man babbling, and he didn't seem to want any response from Lan Li's audience.

"I was so ashamed that I gave up my family inheritance and chose to join the church to atone for my sins. I have spent half my life worshipping the gods in the sky, but in the end I can still dream of the scene of that day, my father and brother fought to the death, I turned around and fled, they died, I survived, it was a nightmare. ”

"That's normal, Sir." Lan Li comforted when he heard this: "Otherwise, if you stay there, you will also die." ”

The other party did not feel comforted by this, but shook his head.

"You say it's normal, but if I was given a choice, I would want to die in that war."

Lan Li didn't say anything, he felt that the other party was full of memories of the past at this time, and he could clearly find the twilight hidden under the old man's rosy cheeks, which made him faintly uncomfortable.

Seeing this, the old knight smiled, stared at him for a long time with cloudy eyes, and said with a sudden: "I wanted to teach you with my own hands, you are a talent that can be created, learn quickly, and the most important thing is to know how to use your brain, but I didn't expect my death to come so soon." I've been looking forward to this day, but it shouldn't be now, it shouldn't be when I first met my brother's offspring. This must be the punishment of the gods in heaven......"

As he spoke, he raised his hand and patted the guard behind him, so the ox cart stopped properly, and then he saw the old knight staggering up with his hand on the side railing of the ox cart, and got down to the ground with Lan Li's support.

Taking a few breaths of breath, he bent his body and looked up at the gloomy sky above him, and then said to Lan Li, who was standing in front of him: "I can't teach you anything, Lemon, but you have to remember one thing, a knight is not a knight who can be a knight on horseback with a gun and a suit of armor." No matter how sharp the spear in your hand is, no matter how strong the horse is, and how superb the sword skills are, it is not a knight. The most important thing in a knight is spirit, faith, without which you cannot be called a knight, or even alive. ”

Lan Li was stunned when he heard this, but the other party took out the long sword he was wearing on his waist and put it on his left shoulder, and then said to Lan Li with a stern face: "Now, kneel, Lemon, the illegitimate son of the Osgray family." ”