At the behest of King Robert, Prince Joffrey became the adopted son of Eddard Stark.

As is customary, Prince Joffrey should have started as Eddard Stark's squire.

Being an adopted son basically starts with being an attendant.

Squire, a path to advancement. For ordinary people, this is the path to status. For Joffrey, Robert hoped it would be the next step in his talent and character.

Both Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon were adopted sons, and they both started as acolytes of their stepfathers.

Jon Arryn, Duke of Eagle's Nest, considers Ed and Robert to be his own sons.

Joffrey, however, is only Eddard Stark's nominal adopted son - he is not willing to be a stepfather to Eddard Stark's Northern Stone, let alone a Northernstone's attendant.

Joffrey was disappointed when he arrived in Winterfell with his father Robert, the Eddard Stark family's Winterfell was so shabby, the tallest watchtowers in the city had collapsed and could not be repaired, and the traces of the fire were still there, and it was simply a ruined building in the countryside. Moreover, not to mention the cold weather, the food is not exquisite enough. The tea has a bitterness of the north.

Joffrey despises the Northerners. He also looked down on Eddard Stark, a poor countryman with no aristocratic luxury.

Queen Cersei was even more adamant about Joffrey being Eddard Stark's adopted son.

After King Robert Queen Cersei wrestled, Joffrey ended up being Eddard Stark's adopted son, but not Eddard Stark's squire. If you want Joffrey to be the squire of the vulgar Northerners, you don't want to kill Cersei.

As a result, Prince Joffrey is only Eddard Stark's nominal adopted son, and Eddard Stark cannot train and guide Joffrey in any substantive sense. Joffrey still lives in the lavish palace of the King's Tower.

Robert's hopes that his son would learn from Eddard Stark for bravery, strength, loyalty, and honor were frustrated.

Despite this, Joffrey still has his own bedroom in the Prime Minister's Tower. He could live whenever he wanted, and the only one who looked forward to Joffrey being in the Prime Minister's Tower was Sansa Stark.

The little girl fell in love with Joffrey, a tall and handsome blonde hair, blue eye, at first sight.

Today, Sansa is picked up by the Queen's attendants to speak with the Queen, and Eddard Stark goes to the throne room, where he is both Prime Minister and King, and it is his daily business. In two months, King Robert only went to the throne room three times, and if there was any matter, he summoned Ed to his private room to talk. Arya is in full swing every day, and most likely she and her dance teacher go to the Blackwater River to practice swordsmanship.

The Prime Minister's Tower is generally only Bran there.

Bran was young and strong, but he gradually became a good talk in the Red Keep of King's Landing. His climbing ability is jaw-dropping, like a real humanoid spider. With King Robert's permission, he can show his skills in any tower of the Red Keep as long as he avoids his father's eyes. But the premise is that he has to take good precautions to make sure that if he misses, he will be suspended in the air by a rope, and not fall to the ground and become a puddle of jam.

Robert's royal decree was hated by Eddard Stark.

However, when Bran showed his father the iron hook and sturdy rope he had prepared, and was assured of the close protection of the captain of the guard, Jory Kesso, his opposition was no longer so strong and non-negotiable.

Bran could climb any tower he had his eye on as long as he had his eyes on him. - The king has orders, and no one is allowed to interfere.

In the garden under the Prime Minister's Tower, a huge spear target stands. This is a spear target like no other, as it has a round hole in the middle, just enough for a spear to pass through.

The other spear targets are solid spear targets, and the practitioner casts the spear into the red heart in the middle of the spear target for victory. Brand's passage of the spear through the round hole was a success.

It's very hard.

Because the spear is long. The tip of the spear is in the center of the round hole in the center of the spear target, the tip of the spear passes through, and the long spear shaft has to maintain the same strength as the spear tip, as long as the spear shaft is a little crooked, and the strength and accuracy are a little weak, you can't shoot through the round hole.

It's an almost impossible challenge.

But Bran was to complete the impossible challenge, for King Robert would make him a knight if he threw his spear through the hole three times in a row without shaking the target.

Every morning, Bran would practice spear throwing.

And after the morning spear throwing practice, every morning, Bran would hang himself with two fingers on the high door frame of his bedroom, his feet off the ground, and then stand still. When you get tired, switch to the other two fingers. This practice is a morning, and each session lasts at least three hours or more.

He never gets tired of it. And his arm strength is like his stature and muscles, maybe just drinking cold water, he will grow tall and strong quickly.

In the afternoon, it is immediately swordsmanship training.

Right next to the spear target, stood a huge wooden pillar with a sturdy wooden stick that could rotate three hundred and sixty degrees. At one end of the stick hung a half-man-high shield, on which were depicted the facial features and limbs of a man, and it was already covered with sword marks that Bran had slashed at on his horseback.

At the other end of the stick hangs a cloth-wrapped mallet. Bran practiced swordsmanship on his horse named Xiao Wu, and whenever the sword stabbed or struck the shield, the shield would ripple open, and at this time, the mallet at the other end would slam at Bran. Bran must ride Dance to dodge the mallet's attack and hit the target on the dangling shield again: either the hand, or the foot, or the face.

Bran's horse Xiaowu and the saddle, his own clothes, spear and sword targets, and arrow targets, were all white.

Because his dream is to become one of the Seven Kingsguards at the King's side, and the Kingskeepers are known as the White Cloaks, and they all wear white cloaks that symbolize purity and loyalty.

Every day, Bran practiced spear targets, sword targets, and the finger skills necessary to climb towers, and his reputation spread as fast as the wind. After only two months at the Red Fort, he became a well-known little celebrity.

Who can climb to the top of the King's Tower of the Red Keep with bare hands, and the people who look at the square below are like villains in Lilliputia, and the people who look at him below are so high that many people look up and feel dizzy.

Soon, Bran Jr.'s reputation surpassed that of his father, Eddard Stark. People like him very much, his smile is sweet, he is also sweet-looking, his expression is a little shy, his strength and agility are like his height, he is growing every day.

And this made Eddard Stark's adopted son, Prince Joffrey, very uncomfortable.

Moreover, many courtiers also compared Bran's appearance with Prince Joffrey's handsome face, and concluded that each had its own victory. And Bran's reputation for humility and courtesy clearly surpassed the prince's flying and domineering.

So, the duel between the two children finally happened, and in the garden under Ed's Prime Minister's Tower, where Bran practiced spear targeting, the two children, in the presence of the captains of the guards on both sides, came to a sword training fight, and the result was obvious, Prince Joffrey was beaten by Bran severely: his lips were broken, half of his face was swollen, and one eye was blinked.

In the midst of the downed Joffrey's Exhaustion, Bran dropped his training sword and soon climbed the Prime Minister's Tower.

And under the tower, Joffrey cursed angrily from time to time, walked around restlessly with a training sword in his hand, and slashed at the sword target from time to time. The attacking mallet at the other end of the target is caught by the red-cloaked Lannister guard to prevent the mallet from spinning and hitting the little prince in the face.

Bran hung a rope around his waist, climbed to the highest point of the Prime Minister's Tower, and looked at it, full of pride, between heaven and earth, there was only Bran.