"Jealousy is the original sin, sir," Loras said with a graceful smile instead of being angry when she heard the Knight of Arrynval.

"Hmph!" the knight of Arryn Valley snorted coldly, ignoring the sissy in front of him, took off his helmet and mask with a cold face, rode to the far right side of the dueling arena, and took the jousting spear handed by the servant.

At the same time, Loras turned his horse's head and rode to the far left of the dueling arena, taking the helmet and spear handed by the squire.

An official came out and looked left and right, and saw that the two knights who had entered the room were ready, and shouted: "The contest has officially begun!"

The attendant holding the conspicuous red flag on the side heard the order and waved the red flag vigorously.

The two knights kicked their legs and rode directly towards each other.

"Click! Click!" The sound of horses' hooves sounded crisply and rhythmically, and Loras looked at the knights of Arrynval, who were getting closer, and held their shields tightly in front of their chests, before bending slightly.

The distance of a hundred meters was fleeting in the continuous acceleration of the horses, and the moment Loras and the knight of Arryn Valley crossed the fence, Loras stiffened his back and stabbed the jousting spear at the knight of Arrynval.

The knights of Arryn Valley also stabbed the jousting spear at the same moment.

Loras's eyes narrowed, and with a flick of his hand, he stuck the jousting spear in his hand under the jousting spear stabbed by the knight of Arrynval.

Because the spear was stuck, the knight of Arryn's spear was forced to stab upwards, stabbing in the air, without stabbing anything.

However, Loras's spear hit the knight's shield directly, and with a bang, the spear broke, knocking the knight of Arrynval's horse directly.

"Good!" the crowd immediately cheered, at this time there was no difference between the nobles and the commoners, they were just one of the cheers, there is a good saying, the upper class people take advantage of this to fight for glory, and the lower people can also take advantage of this to forget their sorrows.

After carrying Loras along the inertia for a while, the white horse paced to a halt, listening to the cheers around him, Loras opened his mask and raised his shield to show his bravery to the people.

This was the end of the first contest of the tournament.

After a while, after Loras and the still unwilling Arryn Valley knight withdrew, several manservants hurriedly ran to the place where the two knights had just fought and cleaned up the broken spear.

Taking advantage of this time, people are not idle, and they all run to the casino dealer with their vouchers to get the money they won, or prepare to press down on the next competition.

In this martial arts competition, through betting on the victory or defeat of the knight competition, countless people lost and went bankrupt, but the winners did not get rich overnight, because the people who earned the most money sat in the dignitaries, and the people who got the biggest benefits from this first martial arts conference are probably these people.

One is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, so no matter how hard the common people gamble, the more people go bankrupt after the competition, there is no official to stop people from gambling.

At this time, Ma Shen was still walking slowly with this citizen, and exchanged a few words casually on the road, and Ma Shen knew that the ordinary-looking young citizen in front of him was called Thoreau, male, age 20, unmarried, and a professional tailor.

As the exchange deepened, Ma Shen, who thought he was already familiar with it, casually threw the shield into Thoreau's hand: "Help me get it, Thoreau." ”

In the past, Ma Shen felt that he was not like this, he had always been a vigilant person, he tried not to trouble others if he could, and tried to get along with others, but now he may have stayed in this world for a long time, and he gradually let go of himself, and always restrained himself in this way.

"Oh, yes, sir," said poor Thoreau, who hurriedly took the shield.

After chatting for a while, I felt that there was no topic left, so Ma Shen, who had been investigating Thoreau's account, planned to ask about Thoreau's parents, but Thoreau quickly interrupted: "It's here, Sir, my house is here." ”

So fast, and told me that it was a little far, and at a glance he knew that I was not welcome, Ma Shen muttered in his heart, and looked up, yo, the house is quite big, a palace made of white marble.

No, this place is a bit familiar, Ma Shen looked at this palace and thought for a while, and suddenly realized, look at this decoration, where is this palace, it is obviously a holy church, there is not only the Great Church of Baylor in King's Landing, because of the large population, there are also some scattered small churches.

When did this temple become his home, not that he was a tailor by profession, and he didn't look like a clergyman.

The clergy of the Seven Gods are customarily referred to as monks or nuns, and they are the chief servants of the Seven Gods.

They took different vows according to their duties and offered their services to the different forms of the Seven Gods.

The male clergy of the Church, known as "monks", consecrated themselves to a particular form of the Seven Gods and observed different religious rules depending on who they worshipped, for example, monks who swore an oath to a blacksmith with a small metal hammer hanging from their necks on a belt.

Monks who lived a monastic life were allowed to live in the sanctuary and live a self-sufficient life with their brethren known as the brown-robed monks, while monks without a sanctuary wandered the countryside to help the commoners in exchange for food and resting eaves.

"Come on, Sir. Thoreau woke up Ma Shen, who was in a state of confusion, and led the way to a small house next to the temple.

Whew, I'm scared to death, fortunately it's not those perverted clergy, otherwise I'd have run away first, Ma Shen secretly patted his little heart, some religious people are very perverted, and they will preach their teachings when they have the opportunity, so that you can let go of all your burdens, such as power, money, family affection, friendship, and then let you devote yourself to the past with them.

Fortunately, after the Order's armed forces were restored by the Queen Regent Cersei Lannister in the aftermath of the War of the Five Kings, they even used force to force others to confess their guilt, so although they admired them a little, Ma Shen didn't want to have anything to do with those fanatical religious people at all.

"How do you live here?" asked Ma Shen, quickening his pace to catch up with Thoreau.

"Because I was an orphan and had been living on the streets, not knowing who my parents were or what to do with the future, fortunately the merciful Brother Dilier adopted me, taught me the ability to survive, and allowed me to live near this church. Thoreau said, taking the key from his pocket and calling the door of the small room.

"A benevolent person is always so respectable. Ma Shen praised very consciously, I originally wanted to have a meal, but now I feel like I am running away after washing my face, and the deterrent power of religious people is still very strong.

"Yes, Brother Direll is the greatest man I have ever met, and I wanted to follow Brother Direll to become a great priest, but Brother Direll said that I could not become a monk now, and the reason was not to tell me. Thoreau said with some frustration.

"There is always hope in the future. Ma Shen comforted the frustrated Thoreau, then turned his head to look around, "Where can I wash my face here, and then I want to go to the toilet by the way." ”

"There's a toilet in the sanctuary for the faithful, you can go there, Sir" and led Ma Shen to a room in the house, "As for washing, I usually wash here, I'll go fetch water for you, Sir"

"No need. Ma Shen looked around and hurriedly stopped Thoreau, who was about to go out.

"What do you mean, sir. "Thoreau was a little confused by this sir, didn't he just say that he was going to wash his face.

"That is to say, I am not going to wash my face, and I suddenly remembered that I was about to go to the martial arts competition, and it was almost too late. Ma Shen said as he hurried outside to pick up his shield, waved his hand at Thoreau as a farewell, and then ran away without looking back.

"Really... What a strange knight. Thoreau was confused.