120 The Extinction of the Dragon
In the center of the power of the Red Keep, it seemed that even the life of a child could not be too quiet, and before Lan Li, who had finished trying on clothes, had sent off the old tailor and maid to take a breath, another visitor suddenly arrived.
Somewhat unexpectedly, it was Tyrion of House Lannister.
Although "a long time" has passed, Lan Li still remembers that he was a little resistant to contact him before, and it is quite strange for him to suddenly come to the door now.
"My sister saw that you didn't go to breakfast, so she specially asked me to bring these."
After entering the house, the little one, who was four or five years older than Lan Li but about the same height, said that the iconic crimson satin clothes of the Lannister family made him look very ugly.
Lan Li rarely commented on other people's appearances, but this appearance was really distinctive, and he couldn't notice it if he wanted to, but he still tried his best to restrain his eyes, and politely did not look too much, so as not to stimulate the sensitive nerves of the other party.
"Thank you for me, sister, Tyrion." He responded, and then looked at the plate of oily roasted steers that had been brought in, and suddenly felt a wave of hunger in his abdomen.
Obviously, after a long dungeon career, Lan Li's real body was already hungry.
So he put some of the remaining thoughts in his heart into his heart for the time being, and instead prepared a full meal.
The servant who had sent him to the door had now departed in good spirits, so that only two children were now in the house, sitting on either side of the small table on the verandah, one of whom began to cut food with a dagger, and the other who sat there and said nothing.
This Lannister seems to have a diplomatic mission on his body, and it doesn't seem like he came here out of his heart, but for a while, he can't seem to find any topic, and even has a look of embarrassment on his face.
Eventually, he suddenly saw several parchment books stacked on top of each other on a low cabinet in the corner of the balcony.
"You're interested in church arming?" He asked, and was secretly relieved.
Those books had been collected by Lan Li before he entered the copy because he wanted to learn about history, and now they were of little use to him.
"It's okay, just see." The black-haired boy replied with a mouthful of food, his mouth full of grease and a slurred tone. And the other party didn't continue to ask, and picked up the book and read it by himself.
Lan Li didn't care much about this, all he wanted to do now was eat, and the food on his plate seemed to be particularly to his liking.
Normally, his breakfast choice would be light foods such as porridge soup and bread, which stemmed from some habits in his previous life, but now that his stomach is grumbling with hunger, this plate of roasted steers covered with butter seems to have suddenly become a delicacy in the world, and he can't care about his balanced diet.
As the name suggests, a steer is a kind of rooster that has been castrated, or has been removed, raised by farmers since childhood, sold to noble lords at a high price to enjoy, or simply raised by the lords themselves.
Under normal circumstances, the rooster meat is not delicious, but these specially processed steers are tender and delicious, fat and juicy, much more fragrant than ordinary chicken, coupled with the faint milky aroma brought by butter, and the special roasted taste formed by the belly stuffed with various spices.
Especially for Lan Li -
Although the Church does not prohibit the eating of meat, it is clear that food cannot be very tasty.
So one of the two boys was devouring it without regard for the image, and the other was concentrating on reading, and the balcony window had been opened by the previous servant at this time, and the slight sea breeze blew in, and the whole atmosphere seemed leisurely.
The other party seemed to have forgotten the purpose of his visit, and Lan Li ignored these trivial matters, but it didn't take long for Tyrion to remember this, so after holding it for a while, he said, "Do you know why the dragon became extinct?" Blue Gift? ”
"Because it hurts to be burned by Dragon Flame."
Lan Li replied vaguely, looking a little bit out of the horse's mouth.
The other party was a little speechless when he heard this, but seeing that this black-haired friend was eating and drinking so relaxed, he gradually lost any sense of restraint and awkwardness, looked at the parchment book about the church armament in his hand, and said to himself: "My uncle said that the extinction of the dragon is due to the means of the church." ”
This one seems to be particularly interested in dragons, and the topic is always going back and forth, as it was before, and it is now.
"Really?" Lan Li asked casually.
"Of course."
The other party nodded, and then said solemnly: "You see, Queen Alicent during the Dance of the Blood Dragons was a Hightower, and it was a mad monk of the Beggars Gang who instigated the mob of King's Landing to rush into the dragon's den to slay the dragon. My uncle said that the few leaders who rushed into the dragon's lair without fear of death didn't look like ordinary people, and he said they looked like fanatical believers in the gods. ”
It seems that these words were moved from the script, and Lan Li didn't say anything when he heard this, and chewed his food there by himself.
Historically, the armed rebellion of the Church ended in failure. In the face of the Targaryen dragons, the Church had to surrender on its knees after paying tens of thousands of dead and wounded, and finally disbanded its armed forces. Even the Targaryen dynasty ushered in its most glorious period.
However, this glory did not last long, and was shattered by a civil war.
The Civil War was later known as the Dance of the Blood Dragon, and was also known as the Princess and the Queen, the Black Party and the Green Party.
As the name suggests, the two sides of the war are represented by two women, one is the eldest princess of Targaryen, who is eligible to inherit the Iron Throne, and the other is the eldest princess's stepmother who claims that her son is more qualified to inherit the Iron Throne.
The rivalry between the two women caused the Targaryen dynasty to split, and the dragon-to-dragon duel began, with a large number of royal dragon riders and their dragons falling.
By the end of the war, Aegon III, who had compromised between the two parties, succeeded to the throne, and the Targaryens had only three dragons left, and in the end, all of them died, and the hatchlings that hatched later were basically either premature or deformed freaks and could not grow up.
It is rumored that the Bachelor is responsible for this, and everyone knows that the Bachelor's headquarters and the Church's Starry Chapel are located in the old town of Riverlands, and seem to be closely related......
The other party didn't see him talk, and he seemed to be a little embarrassed, and he didn't know how to continue there. Lan Li then spoke: "Although the Hightower family is the lord and ruler of the old town, they may not necessarily wear the same pants as the church, and the queen Alicent at that time must have wanted her son to inherit the throne smoothly so that she can rule the Seven Kingdoms, so it is impossible to take the initiative to conspire and provoke infighting." ”
The Hightower family in the old town of Riverlands has a long history, and the school town where the bachelors were trained was founded by their family, and the Hightower family's territory is home to the Church of the Stars, the former headquarters of the Church.
Interestingly, their family has also produced many archbishops of the church, and in the copy where Lan Li was before, the archbishop at that time was a Hightower, that is, the guy who called on believers to oppose the monster king.
So if you want to talk about being prominent, this family is much more prominent than the Tyrell family, but it is also much more low-key.
This was some information that Lan Li did not have in his memories of his previous life, but the education he received in this life made it impossible for him to ignore this invisible behemoth.
"My uncle said that the Hightowers must want all the dragons to die, so maybe it's her family—"
Tyrion spoke, but stopped abruptly before he could finish his sentence, glaring at Lan Li with a look of horror.
Lan Li's face was also dull at this time, and he was even dumbfounded.
Because during the small talk, one of the chicken legs in his mouth actually began to move, and the writhing in his teeth was like a live chicken being bitten on the thigh, struggling frantically, vivid, but extremely terrifying.
Feeling the shaking sensation from his teeth, Lan Li's hand unconsciously loosened the clenching force, so the roasted chicken leg that was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside jumped on the table in front of him like a relief, leaving a puddle of greasy traces, and then rolled and jumped away along the window on his side, and there was a "jumping off the building" scene.
The two boys instinctively looked sideways, and saw that the leg had not stopped moving after it had fallen to the base of the tower, but had rolled and disappeared into the dry moat covered with spikes.
The atmosphere became very strange for a while.