Winterfell.

In Eddard Stark's room, there are four people, they are Eddard Stark, Catelyn Tully Stark, Robb Stark, and Bachelor Ruwin.

"Glover has sent a letter asking for permission to send troops to hunt down the Wolf Forest tribe that has robbed and killed the soldiers of his four vassals, including a tribe named Wood Shield, and the Ash tribe among the Roaring Stone People of the Wolf Forest Mountains. Eddard Stark said, his eyes looking at Robb.

Fourteen-year-old Robb tried his best to appear mature and steady, and his father began to take him with him when he was twelve, whether it was taxes, territorial boundaries, vassal battles, knightly promotions, or punishment for crimes.

Whenever my father looked at him when he spoke, he wished to hear what he had to say.

Although he has two years of deliberation experience, Robb's performance is also very good, but in the eyes of his parents, he still lacks calm and solemnity, in the face of some major decisions, Robb still lacks self-confidence, although he has studied well, but the immature cramped uneasiness will always inadvertently reveal from Robb's expression or movements.

Robb still needs to practice!

It's like good steel, you still need the last quenching!

Robb said, "Father, Sir Glover must not have told the truth of the matter. His eyes couldn't help glancing at his loving mother, hoping to see her slight nod or appreciative gaze, but her expression was calm, and there was no hint in her eyes other than the usual encouragement.

"Oh, why do you say that?" Eddard Stark never changed his expression as he deliberated, and you couldn't tell in his eyes whether he agreed with or disdained to disapprove of your opinion.

"The Roaring Stone People will hardly set foot in the territory of the Glover family, and the villages they go down to rob are basically within the territory of the Amber family, because of the proximity, it is convenient to go up and down the mountain. The Ash Tribe is the most powerful tribe of the Roaring Stone People, and even the angry and brave Sir Jon is powerless against the Ash Tribe, so how can Glover cross the line and enter the Wolf Forest Mountains to kill them? I think that Glover concealed the truth of the matter, and he just wanted to get our approval to use the army, but as for why he used the army, the cause, the process, and the result, his letter says nothing. ”

Robb plucked up the courage to say what he thought, and after speaking, he glanced at his father nervously, but his father's expression still did not change significantly. Robb peeked at his mother, and in her mother's gaze, encouragement had turned into approval.

Robb's heart was relieved, his heart was full of confidence, he looked at his father, longing to hear his father's praise of him, even if it was only one word.

However, a father is a father, and he always hides his feelings like a rock in the north.

Eddard Stark said: " There was also a letter from the last of Sir Amber of Hearth, their scouts had found that two hundred-man regiments of the Ash tribe of the Wolf Forest Natives and the Roaring Stone People had descended the mountain, and they were well dressed and armed, and they formed a team of more than two hundred infantry and more than a hundred cavalry, and branded two flags, one of which was a shadow lynx, and the other was an oak shield, this team passed through their territory from the North Lake, and there was no looting along the way, so Sir Jon did not move, let them pass, and the team headed north, there was news, the black-clothed people of the Desperate Great Wall are with them, and among them is Will Cao, who we have returned here. ”

Eddard Stark looked at Robb Stark again.

"Lord Eddard, Lady Catelyn, Master Robb, it's the first time I've heard of the Ash Tribe's warriors passing through the villages and towns below the mountain without looting, when I saw this letter, my first reaction was not to believe it, but it has the family crest of the Great Jon on it, and the sealing wax is intact." ”

Robb Stark obviously showed a look of surprise, and he also thought it was incredible: "Father, I heard you right, Will the Man in Black is with this Wolf Forest Aboriginal Army, and the direction they are heading is the Great Wall of Desperation?"

"Yes, a contingent of cavalry and infantry, they are heading north, and to the north is the Great Wall of Desperation. Will was with them, and here was a letter from the Black Rangers. ”

Eddard Stark handed the reply from the Man in Black to his eldest son, Robb Stark.

He was going to leave Winterfell with Sansa, Arya, and Bran, and follow King Robert to King's Landing to be his Hand of the King, and after he left, everything in the North, all kinds of tricky and uncomplicated things, would be borne by the fourteen-year-old boy in front of him.

Robb Stark's eyes widened as he read the letter, and his look of astonishment gradually recovered after reading the letter, and he read it again, this time with a less exaggerated expression.

Eddard Stark saw the immaturity that Robb Stark's age had brought him.

A commander, the lord of a kingdom, must be able to express his mood and mood.

Ed read these three letters, all with one expression, and you can't tell his mood swings from his eyes. His mood swings are deep inside and don't go superficial.

"Father, the men in black said they picked up Will, Will is not a deserter, they are returning to the Wall. ”

Ed nodded.

"The letter said that Will led an army of more than 300 people, this army was composed of the Wooden Shield Tribe of the Wolf Forest and the Ash Tribe of the Roaring Stone People, and the letter also responded to some of our doubts, mentioning that Will had some different abilities, such as he tamed a huge shadow lynx as a mount, and the Wood Shield Tribe and the Ash Warriors respected him very much, as if he was the leader of the aborigines in the Wolf Forest and the commander of this army that suddenly appeared. ”

"Yes. ”

"Judging from the three letters, on the way back to the Great Wall, Will subdued the Wooden Shield Tribe and the Ash Tribe, and also accepted a shadow lynx as a mount, the shadow lynx is a divine beast worshiped by the Ash Tribe, and Will can easily get the Ash tribe to follow him with the divine beast as a mount, but, how is this possible?" Robb Stark did not hide the question in his heart.

"Do you not believe the letter of the Black Ranger or are you unwilling to believe the letter of the Black Ranger?" asked Eddard Stark.

Robb had a brief hesitation, knowing that his father did not like his indecisive self: "I don't want to believe it, father. ”

"So you actually believe it?"

"Yes, Father. ”

"Don't let personal likes and dislikes and common inferences cloud your judgment of the truth, and although I can't do a good job of this, I hope you are better than me. Eddard Stark said.

Robb finally saw a look of approval in his father's eyes, which made his heart beat faster and his whole body heated.

Caitlin said, "Robb, what do you think of Will Cao in the light of the three letters?"

"He's a great Chosen One, an alien, and he's going to be a prophet for every call. If he weren't the Man in Black, we Starks would need him so badly. ”

"He's the man in black, but our family needs him, so what do you do, Robb, without going against the will of the gods, the laws of the country, or the honor of the family?" said Eddard Stark.