The thought of the oil-covered chef rubbing his back bare-chested with his thick chest hair on his bare shoulders made Stannis shudder.

But Aya looked happy and didn't feel any discomfort at all, "I'm a woman, but I don't have the strength to help you turn over, your men are rushing to wash you, isn't it a good time for them to show their loyalty, and what reason do I have to object!"

She had a point, but Stannis still felt that his body, as pure as a flower, had been greatly damaged.

The lord knew that this dangerous woman could never be as docile as a cat, but wasn't this kind of dangerous love that was only in movies exactly what he had always expected?

With more intact sensitivity, he began to grunt and put clothes on himself, and he urgently needed to know what the divine seal in the mouths of the townsfolk was, and what the connection was to this chain of tragedies.

Aya didn't stop him, she just helped him get dressed, and of course a smart woman like her wouldn't say useless nonsense like telling him not to get up, but would only support him silently behind his back.

"Be careful, you've just recovered, don't be too tired to handle official business. ”

"Got it. Stannis left the bedroom.

As soon as he went out, he ran into his chief knight, and because of some unspeakable secret, Stannis sent him to lead people across the river to guard him.

He then continued to search for the others, and when Stannis found the townsfolk they had rescued, he found that they had all settled.

As a former refugee chief, it seems that Lucia has a knack for rehousing other refugees.

The sudden influx of 500 people made the logistics of Zivinie, who was spending the winter, a little unbearable, in this deep winter season, whether it was houses, food, clothes or even heating firewood, it was already stretched, and most of the women and children who escaped from that city were old and young, which made Bachelor Lomon, who was in charge of internal affairs, scratch his ears and cheeks.

"How's the situation, old man?" Stannis asked as he approached Bachelor Lomon, who was busy counting them, and the old man's snow-white hair looked to be turning black.

"Your Excellency, we didn't expect to accept so many refugees on the first day of the new year, you know that the last time we rescued the 3,000 people from the bandit village have not yet been fully digested, and now so many people are popping up to settle down, you must know that these are all mouths for food! ”

"It's a New Year's gift, isn't it?" Stannis didn't look as anxious as the old man.

"Your Excellency, what time is it, you are still talking witticisms!"

"Don't be angry, my scholar, be careful, besides, it's not a big problem. ”

As soon as Maester Romon heard it, he knew that he had already made up his mind, "Your Excellency, in this case, you already have a solution!"

"Of course!" Stannis snapped his fingers, and then whispered to Master Romone, "isn't it hard to train in the snow now!, the barracks are empty, and there are ready-made wooden huts and tents to house those refugees, and those fences are not needed now, can they be removed and burned for firewood!"

The old man frowned when he heard his thoughts, "That's not good, the chief knight regards that barracks as the most precious thing, and now you not only have to send refugees to live there, but also dismantle half of them for the winter, I'm afraid that he will come back and fight with you." ”

"That's why I sent him to take people to patrol the other side of the river, he won't be able to come back for a week, don't worry, by then the wood is already in the boat, no matter how unhappy he is, he can only accept this fact, is it possible to let me hang the living outside to freeze to death for a military camp?"

Maester Romon agreed, unaware that he was on one of Stamnis's thief ships.

"By the way, call that Kate and her mayor's father, and I'm going to ask them about the Divine Seal. Stannis commanded again.

But the old man didn't move, he flipped through the notebook and said: "Your Excellency, I have already asked about this matter, they don't know much about why the divine seal is buried in the ground, they only know that if humans get close to it, it will become disgusting and painful, and then there will be a desire to kill in their hearts, so Lecoto sent someone to transport it to the depths of the forest, but they still didn't expect this to happen." ”

"Do you know what that Divine Seal is, and why does it drive people crazy out of thin air and resurrect them into monsters?"

"I searched through the books in the castle, but I didn't find any information about the seal, not even the city, and I even drew the seal through their dictation and sent it to my old classmates, but they have never heard of this mysterious totem. ”

With that, Master Romon took out a sketch from his notebook, on which he briefly and vividly drew the divine seal that caused the source of everything, it was a totem made of unknown material, and the cylindrical shape that spiraled and rose like a snake completely entwined an obelisk, even if it was just a picture, Stannis could feel the unsettling strangeness emanating from the object.

Stannis suddenly felt familiar, because the black warrior he killed was covered with this totemic-shaped object, and at that time he thought that he was just hanging the wire bent on his body to harm himself, it turned out that the monster was using this painful method to show the most fanatical worship to the Divine Seal.

"That's weird, isn't there anyone on this incident who can tell me what happened?" Stannis complained loudly.

But Maester Romon gave a negative answer.

"I know where to find out about that seal. ”

Stannis hurriedly said expectantly, "Where?"

"School City. ”

A day later

"Boss, you have appointed me to be the acting lord, your wisdom is truly comparable to that of the gods in the sky!" Robert raised his head excitedly and said to Stannis on his horse.

Stannis had already heard him repeat him for half an hour, and felt that the Western Continenters were really short of sycophants.

As for why Robert was appointed acting lord for about a week while he left the realm for the school, it was because there was no one left in Stannis, and Korodov was sent by him to the east bank of the river to keep guard, and Maester Romon was to accompany him to the school.

Picking and choosing, only one idle Robert was pulled over by him to sit on the throne of the lord, and he also needed a guy to carry the cauldron to face the anger of Korodov when he returned to find that the barracks had been demolished.

At the same time, he appointed Lucia as his protector and was responsible for the resettlement of refugees, although there was a lot of discrimination against women in the Western Continent, especially in terms of rights. But Stennis is more innocent than the other, and they don't want to be officials, if it weren't for the fact that those guys popped up once a week when the salary was paid, Stannis really thought that those guys were the shareholders of Zivini, and he just worked for these guys, and paid dividends to these uncles at the end of each month.