Chapter 0463 - The Mother of a Genius Girl
Maester Ruwin of Winterfell looked at Catelyn Tully with a hint of scrutiny in his eyes.
Candles as thick as an arm illuminate the tower like day.
As she grew older, her eyesight deteriorated so badly that she slept less at night, so she developed the habit of reading and writing at night, studying medicine, astronomy, mathematics, theology, and history. In the window of the Tower, there is a long Mill Mirror from the Free Trade City of Mill, which helped him observe the distant stars in the night sky on many summer nights before his eyesight deteriorated.
The Mil Mirror is the most respected astronomical mirror for the scholars of each continent, but each continent has a different name for those who are engaged in learning, and only the people on the Westeros continent who are specialized in research and learning are called bachelors.
Maester Ruwen's bachelor's necklace is adorned with more than a dozen pieces of metal, each representing a kind of learning.
Being a bachelor is the same as being a night watchman, once you enter the Starry Sanctuary in the old town to study, you have to dedicate your life to learning, so a bachelor has no right to marry, let alone go to the girl's nest, self-cultivation is the most basic requirement of their noble character.
"Ma'am, have you figured it out?" said Maester Ruwen softly.
Although the climate has moved from summer to autumn, and the climate in the north has become very cold during the warm spring season in the south, the rooms in Winterfell are surprisingly warm, and Maester Luwen did not ask his apprentices to burn a charcoal fire in the fireplace to keep warm.
There are hot springs under Winterfell, and the hot spring water flows in the walls of the entire city, which is the unique geographical condition of Winterfell, but because there is only one city in the whole north of Winterfell, there is a hot spring underground, which has attracted the attention of the scholars of the old town, and there have been many speculations about the reasons for the formation of the underground hot springs in Winterfell, but in the end, none of the guesses can come up with real evidence, so as time goes by, people go from being surprised and curious to slowly and naturally accepting, and finally getting used to it.
Whether people's curiosity can be satisfied or not, after a long time, no matter how strange things are, they will not be strange.
Caitlyn Tully enjoyed the feeling of being in her room in the cold weather and bathing in the warmth, she was a southerner, and in the eyes of the northerners, as long as everyone was south of the neck, they were all called southerners.
Southerners are afraid of the cold, but thanks to the underground hot springs of Winterfell, southern women like Caitlin have gradually adapted to the bitter cold of the north, and thus become a real northerner.
Caitlyn Tully's beautiful big eyes looked at Maester Lewyn, she looked gentle and graceful on the surface, as if she were a very reasonable noblewoman, but Maester Lewyn did not think so. Caitlin is a good person, but not an enlightened person, she is stubborn and rarely changes what she sees.
Caitlyn looked at Maester Ruwen and said, "Maester, you are a man of great character and learning, and I would like to hear your advice. ”
"Since Madame has made up her mind, I don't need to say my opinion. Maester Ruwen said, closing a large book.
The book was as wide as an adult's chest, and it was placed on the desk, taking up half of the desk.
Caitlyn could hear the subtlety of Maester Lewyn's words, and he didn't think that Caitlyn's actions were worthy of approval.
"Bachelor, the Night's Watch cannot be married. ”
"That was in the past, Stannis I had changed the laws of the Great Wall, and the officers and soldiers of the Great Wall Legion themselves had passed the provisions of the new law, and the night watchman had the right to marry under the protection of the law. Madame may not know that the Night Watch brothers raised many bastards in a village called White Tree on the north side of the Great Wall, and that village was called the Bastard Village. ”
"Bachelor, the night watchman is always the night watchman. Caitlyn accentuated her tone slightly.
Master Lewyn smiled slightly, he did not approve of the marriage between Sansa Stark and Will, firstly, Will was a man of the Night's Watch, secondly, Will was too old, and thirdly, Sansa was too young to know what the love she wanted to pursue.
And Master Luwen knows that the beautiful love in fairy tales is a lie.
That's the story that pleases people!
Maester Ruwen looked as if he was on Sansa's side, but he wasn't, he was just trying to test Caitlyn's reaction and see how determined she really was.
In addition to Sansa herself, Caitlyn and Maester Lewyn, as well as the head of the school, Rodric, and others all know that Sansa has a crush on Lord Will. Only Sansa thinks her heart is still a secret that no one but Jenny Poole knows.
"Ma'am, he is no ordinary night watchman, he is an earl, the earl of Dragonstone. The heirs of the House of Targaryen all reside on Dragonstone, and they all have the nickname Prince of Dragonstone. ”
"Bachelor, do you really approve of Sansa marrying Lord Will?" Caitlyn's tone was tinged with displeasure and a hint of reproach.
"I don't approve of it, but I won't disagree with it either. ”
"Why?" Catelyn took Maester Luwin's words very seriously.
Maester Lewyn loved Sansa Stark, Arya Stark, Robb, Rickon, Bran, and the illegitimate Jon Snow as if they were his own children. He especially loves Sansa the most, Sansa is very beautiful, noble and elegant, whether it is singing and dancing and learning to read, Sansa is also the first.
And what impressed Maester Lew the most was that Sansa's aristocratic etiquette was not only the first of several children in the family, but also the more nobles, Maester Lewin knew that she could not find a child who could learn as fast as Sansa.
With Maester Luwen's super memory, he couldn't learn as quickly as Sansa.
Learning aristocratic knowledge is not only etiquette, but also the family history of each nobleman and the intricate relationship between various genealogical side branches, the major events that have happened in the family, and what outstanding talents have been produced.
Not only is Sansa unattainably beautiful, but her talent for learning is also incomparable.
It's just that Sansa isn't interested in using guns and sticks.
She and Arya are two completely different girls.
The day she revealed her interest was the day Will defeated Bronze Jon and Lynn Cobre in Eagle's Nest, but she didn't really want to learn swordsmanship, she actually liked Will because she liked it.
Catelyn was anxious in her eyes, she couldn't accept Sansa marrying a Night's Watch many years older than her, Will's blood was not noble, his family was just an ordinary commoner without a surname in the territory of Mellister, the lord of Sea Frontier City under the Tully family, and Will was notorious before he became a Night's Watchman, he was a notorious thief.