Red Keep in King's Landing, King's Quarters!

Eddard, the former prime minister, sat at the head of Robert's bed, and the university scholar Paischer was on the sidelines for urgent treatment. There was no one but the two of them.

Paisher hurriedly treated Robert, and after a while he looked at Eddard, then shook his head and sighed, "Lord Eddard, Your Majesty may not survive tonight!" ”

Just now, Robert was still awake and asked Ed to summon a few people from the Imperial Council. But in the blink of an eye, Robert was in a coma. Whether you will wake up or not is still unknown. At this moment, Ed could no longer care about his grief, he knew what kind of situation he was facing next.

He looked at Scholar Paisher and said slightly, "You go to the Kingdom Library to find out if there is a cure for the king, I am here to guard him." ”

Paisher was in his seventies, and he immediately understood what Ed meant. It was to take him away, so he hurriedly replied, "Yes, my lord! ”

Paisher walked out of the king's chambers and looked around. There were two roads in front of him, one of which was the road to the Kingdom Library, and he didn't think about it, but walked towards the other way.

In the king's bedchamber, Ed took out the paper he had brought with him. Looking at Robert, he sighed slightly, then took out a quill and wrote. In less than two minutes, a testament came out that no one knew what had been written. He took Robert's hand and pressed a mudra on it, rolled up the edict, and sealed it with the king's fire paint. Then he looked at Robert and said firmly, "I will help you protect the kingdom!" ”

Varys hurried all the way, but was still a step too late. By the time he arrived at the king's bedchambers, Robert had already lost his breath. The death knell of the kingdom has sounded. Standing in the dormitory were the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Littlefinger, the captain of the Kingsguard, Barristan Selmy, and the Prime Minister, Eddard Stark.

He looked at the people around him, then walked into silence. Ed saw that except for the scholar Paisir, the Minister of Justice Ranley Baratheon had not come, and everyone else had come, so he took out the previous edict and said, "This is the edict left by the king before he died, and I have been appointed as the guardian of the whole realm, the regent, to lead the new king's enthronement and the affairs of the kingdom. Tomorrow the edict will be announced on the Iron Throne. Now, at my command, Varys informs the nobles of King's Landing to attend tomorrow's Council of the Kingdom. ”

"Yes, sir!" Varys replied sincerely.

Ed then said angrily: "Barristan, as the captain of the Kingsguard, failed to protect the king, and simply dishonored the oath of the Kingguard, now you take care of your six men, and your dereliction of duty will be investigated after the new king succeeds to the throne!" ”

Barristan knew that he was in a bad position and did not refute it, and hurriedly replied, "Yes, my lord! ”

"Varys, Barristan you can go and get busy!"

"Yes, sir!" The two of them answered and walked towards the outside of the dormitory, where only Littlefinger and Ed were left.

Eddard looked at Tyrell and said, "Can I trust you?" ”

Littlefinger smiled slightly, "The last time Catherine came to King's Landing secretly, I arranged it for you, and I betrayed you. You must know that the love for Catherine is enough that I will not betray you! ”

Ed felt a little uncomfortable in his heart when he heard this, but from the time he came to King's Landing until now, Littlefinger's performance could be trusted. So he chose to believe it and decided to inform Littlefinger of his decision: "You provided me with information before, and I have found out that former Prime Minister Jon Arryn was poisoned by the Lannisters because he discovered a shocking secret!" ”

Littlefinger showed an interested look: "What secret?" ”

"The King's three children are not his, they are born of James Lannister and Cersei's incest!"

"What, that's shocking!" Littlefinger acted in shock. After a while he continued, "In that case, my lord, you should have taken advantage of the Lannister's failure to react and capture Tomman and Messella. Then send an army to capture the hounds and rescue Prince Joffrey and Sansa. As long as we have hostages in our hands, we will definitely be able to gain an invincible position! ”

Eddard pondered Littlefinger's words, but by this time he was already emaciated, his daughter Sansa had been taken captive by the hounds, and her daughter Arya was nowhere to be found. Eighty of the hundred he sent to the north had gone to look for them, but there was no trace of them so far.

He had received the news shortly after, and he was now beginning to wonder if someone from the Lannisters had done it. But at the same time, he couldn't be sure that it wasn't the Lannisters who did it. He fell into a conflict, he followed Little Finger's advice to catch two children, and used the children as a bargaining chip. Or stick to your honor. He was caught in a contradiction.

Littlefinger knew the character of the Northerners very well, he knew Ed's entanglement, and was just about to continue speaking to Ed. But the guard brought by Ed opened his mouth and knocked on the door: "My lord, Scholar Sir has returned." ”

Only then did Ed realize that they were still in the Red Keep, which was Cersei's territory. It's hard to guarantee that you won't be able to walk. He hurriedly said to Littlefinger, "Let's leave the Red Keep and discuss!" ”

Littlefinger nodded, and Ed walked out of the room, looked at the twenty or so guards around him, and was shocked. With only such a little strength, if Cersei found out about the news and sent someone to arrest him, he would not have any room to resist at all.

His heart began to beat, thump, thump, thump. He looked at Fellow Paischer standing in front of him, and there was no one around. Ed couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He said to Scholar Paischer, "The king is dead, you go and dispose of the king's body, and I will go back to the Prime Minister's Tower first." ”

Scholar Paisher was respectful: "Yes, my lord! ”

As soon as he said this, Ed's entire body suddenly stood on end, and goosebumps appeared all over his body. It took him two days before he had fully investigated incest, and he thought about it for a long time before deciding to let Cersei and her children live. Originally, he was going to have a showdown with Cersei the day after tomorrow, when the king's five-day hunt was not over, and he found an excuse to let Joffrey come back early, and the remaining time was enough for Cersei to return to Castle Rock with the child.

But it backfired, and Robert went out in the morning and came back in the evening, and was seriously wounded. At the same time, it brought back bad news. Joffrey and his daughter Sansa are taken captive by hounds.

Instead of going to see Robert in the first place, he first went to talk to Cersei about sending soldiers to hunt down the hounds. After arranging this, he went to see Robert.

It's been three hours since she finished talking to Cersei, but after all this time, Cersei hasn't come to see Robert. What has she been doing for so long?

He had always thought that Cersei was unaware of his investigation, and it was only then that he realized that he was an idiot.

Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang!

The sound of the neat army resounded in the Red Keep, and little by little it reached Ed's ears. Slowly, a figure followed, followed by hundreds of soldiers. appeared in front of him, and that figure was Cersei Lannister!