Chapter 598: Battlefield Bride (II)
With the Seven Gods on top, what kind of stupid woman would be distracted at her wedding?
Margaery scolded herself, glad that her father's reminder was timely, and most of the guests hadn't noticed her slow response. It wasn't her first marriage—after quickly bowing in apology, she quickly figured out what to do, reminded of her physical memory: she turned to face Aegon and let her father remove the green cloak that symbolized House Tyrells for her under the gaze of thousands of people, and lowered her shoulders slightly, allowing the young king to drape herself in the bright red cloak representing House Targaryen.
Even if there was an opinion, Aegon didn't show it at the moment. With a gentle smile on his young and handsome face, he gently tightened his cloak at her throat, indicating that he would henceforth protect Margaery forever in place of Duke Tyrell, and seeing that the ceremony was finally completed, the archbishop held on to his exhausted body, and finally solemnly declared that Aegon and Margaery would henceforth be married and become one flesh.
From this moment on, the Flower of the High Court changed from Margaery Tyrell to Margaery Targaryen, and became the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms for the first time in a few years. A perfect alliance was settled, and the guests were thunderous and crowded to send their blessings to the newlyweds who had completed the ceremony.
In a joyful and peaceful atmosphere, the two armoured soldiers who came from afar seemed very out of place: one of them held a small flag representing the urgent military situation, and the other carried a small wooden box in his arms, shouting and crowding through the crowd to the center, and when they found their arrival, the guards immediately separated the guests and made way for them, and escorted them to the king's side after checking their identities.
"Did Daenerys' army launch the crossing, or did the Dornites pull out their camp and approach?"
What can happen at this juncture is just one of these two, or both.
The young king asked questions with a serious but unflinched expression, they were only a water away from the Night's Watch Industrial Park on the north shore, and there was also an ambiguous attitude of the Dorne army to the south, and it was a high probability that someone would cause trouble during the wedding. In addition to sending representatives from each family to attend the wedding, most of the generals remained in their posts, under the command of Landau Tully and his sons, they were on high alert and ready to engage the enemy at any time. Even today's protagonist, the groom, wears armor and a sword under his dress, and in a matter of minutes he can turn back into the commander of the army and personally join the command.
"No, a boat from the north left the dock and landed on the south bank, and dropped a local, saying that it had brought the Queen's wedding gift. ”
The second soldier squeezed forward and presented the wooden box he was holding in front of everyone.
The Queen's wedding gift?
The crowd approached the crowd – a delicate, but not unusual, wooden box, dressed as a gift with a red ribbon and bow tied on it.
Everyone knew that the comer was not good, so they speculated about what was inside.
A single head could not fit it, and besides, there were no important personnel of the Tyrells family and the Golden Regiment in the hands of the enemy.
A soak of cow is too tasteless, although it can disgust the princes of Hewan and the generals of the Golden Regiment, but it can arouse their anger and fighting spirit more and more.
The crowd chattered, only Margaery creepily alerted.
The bizarre assassination of her previous husband, Randly Baratheon, is still vivid, and it is likely that it will not be erased from her mind in this life, and this time, although the Golden Order claims to have hired two wizards from across the Narrow Sea at a high price, which is enough to protect King Aegon from the threat of Shadowbinding, there is not only Shadowbinding that can kill people in this world!
She grabbed little Aegon's arm beside him, preventing him from getting any closer to the box—regardless of the fact that he hadn't intended to do so in the first place.
"Your Majesty, please order the crowd to disperse, and then let the armored soldier bring his shield before opening the box. She suggested in a tone that was unquestioning and not at all in line with her usual gentle character, "There may be traps or traps inside, danger!"
King Aegon took his wife's first suggestion seriously, and quickly ordered the guards to drive away the crowd to make room, and then ordered the soldiers to prepare for protection before opening the wooden box...... After retreating in an orderly manner, let the person who had brought the wooden box at first put the contents of his hand on the ground, held the shield to separate it from himself, tensed the ribbon, and carefully turned the lid upside down.
The imaginary scene of exploding a fireball or a hidden weapon flying sideways did not happen, and the person who opened the lid took out the contents of the box and held it in his hand to show the people around him: it was a fist-sized round iron ball, black and shiny, and the weight must be solid, so that people could not think of what it did at all.
Just as the second round of discussion began with one after another, the person who opened the box made a new discovery.
"Oh, there's a note down there!"
There are a total of four iron balls in the box, three of which are arranged in a triangle at the bottom, and a fourth is pressed in the center. The soldier took them all out one after another, knocked them on the ground a few times one by one to make sure that they were all solid, and smashed open the box to make sure that there was no mystery in it, and then looked at the blank paper that he had taken out of it.
"What's written on it?" said the young King Aegon at last, "read it aloud, and let us all hear it!"
Anyway, it was just two vicious curses or doubts about his origin and the authenticity of the Long family's bloodline, and he had already gotten used to these things along the way.
The king was not afraid of verbal attacks, but he appeared to be weak in hiding and tucking, and he Aegon Targaryen acted above board, and he had never seen ugly things to handle, let alone the vacillating centrists who were gathered here today for his wedding to Margaery, but had firmly chosen reliable people on this side after analyzing the pros and cons.
What can a note do?
Aegon had a good idea, but unfortunately the soldier was illiterate, so he had to look at the people around him for help, and Prime Minister Jon Clinton stepped forward without hesitation, took the note in his hand, flipped through it, and finally confirmed that there was only one line on it.
He sneered and read it aloud: "It reads: In the name of Queen Daenerys Targaryen, the rightful ruler of the Seven Kingdoms......" Count Griffon paused, as if amused by the rest of the content, so much so that the words that followed were filled with a smile: "Announce this marriage...... Is it illegal......? Haha!"
There was a brief silence for a moment, at first only the Hand of the King was alone, and then someone laughed quietly, the sound became louder and denser, and finally even those who didn't think it was funny at first opened their mouths to laugh with the help of the people around them.
If you take this note in a beautiful box and pressed under several iron balls, it will indeed be extremely annoying and unpleasant, but Lord Clinton had an idea and deliberately treated it in a mocking tone, and once it deviated from the atmosphere of the scene, the embarrassment was immediately empty.
Anyway, as long as you are not embarrassed, the other party is embarrassed!
Under this laughter, the declaration of "marriage illegality" sent by the queen suddenly became the barking of the defeated dogs, which only added to their laughter; after this laughter, no matter how many boxes Egg or Daenerys sent and what notes were written in them, they would not be disgusted!
It is worthy of the hand of the king, and this quick wit, even if it is himself, can only be exerted when he is in excellent condition.
Margaery secretly admired in her heart, and while she breathed a sigh of relief, she still couldn't hold back the tension in her heart for some reason.
He followed little Aegon, who was also chuckling softly, into the middle of the field, and the others were watching and circulating the "marriage is illegal" declaration that had become a laughing point, while she silently picked up a certain iron ball that was thrown aside and no one cared about it.
It's so heavy, it's absolutely solid, and she's wearing gloves at the moment, even if there's any poison on its surface, it won't hurt her.
Queen Margaery watched her hand in silence in the midst of the commotion: jet-black, round, shiny, and heavy with a sense of power...... Obviously, she couldn't see anything abnormal, but for some reason, she just became more and more uneasy, so alert that even the hairs on her back stood up.
She had a strong but unprovoked intuition: the round iron ball in her hand was probably one of the few small pieces of the "puzzle" that were still missing!
The new siege weapon mentioned in the intelligence, the legendary nemesis of the strange ghost - gunpowder, and the iron ball in front of him, which is ordinary but Iger wants to send as his "wedding gift...... There must be some kind of internal connection between these people that they have not yet understood!
Margaery realized that she might be one step away from the final answer, but she didn't...... At least today there is no chance to think this through.
Because there was a sudden muffled thunder on the other side of the river, which not only overwhelmed the laughter and laughter of the wedding participants, but also interrupted her train of thought.
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