Chapter 0217: Little Hostage

Elenia, like her sister Jenny, is a smart person in the snow. Wild Sand Literature Network

Children are not sensible, and it is often a kind of ignorance and arrogance of adults.

Whether a person is smart or not, whether he understands or not, is not the only thing determined by the age factor!

A very smart little girl with the help of an 'old bird' is very powerful, and it is not surprising that she surpasses the old bird in some aspects.

Horsttuli looked at Jenny and Elenia with a gleam in his eyes, and he vaguely saw the two sisters, Catelyn and Lysa, when they were children.

Lysa hasn't been home since she married Jon Arryn, and she hasn't written letters.

Horst knows why?

Because of tansy.

Tansy is a herb that can cause miscarriage in girls.

Horst tricked Lysa into drinking tansy tea, which caused Lysa's miscarriage because the child in Lysa's womb was Petyrberg with Littlefinger. This humble and ordinary guy took away the virginity of Duke Horst's daughter, which made Duke Horst furious.

He drove his adopted son, Littlefinger, out of Riverrun and tricked Lysa into drinking tansy tea.

This bowl of tansy tea robbed Lyza's child and killed the relationship between Horst and Lyza's father and daughter.

From then on, Lysa never returned home and cut off all contact with Horst.

It was also because of this bowl of tansy tea that it led to the miscarriage of the later Lyza habits. With each miscarriage, Lysa's hatred for her father increased by a few points.

This is a pain in Horst's heart.

He wanted to reconcile, but he couldn't go out, and he couldn't say anything to anyone else.

Back then, Lysa was just like the little girl Elenia in front of her, innocent and pretty.

And Jenny's beauty also reminds Horst of Caitlin from her girlhood.

When Caitlin was a teenager, she was as beautiful as Jenny.

"Jenny, Elenia, would you like to stay a few more days?"

"I do, sir. "Elenia is articulate and has a sweet smile.

Horst looked at Jenny, who curtsied and apologized: "Lord Duke, I want to accompany my husband to King's Landing to attend the King's Tournament, and I am willing to come back to see you after attending the tournament." ”

The Duke smiled: "I admire the ancient and noble Westerling family. Magic Mountain, congratulations on marrying such a beautiful wife, and thank you for your hundreds of catties of noodles and 100 catties of snow salt. A pound of snow salt is a pound of gold, the gift is very valuable, and I want to thank you for the chopsticks. ”

The magic mountain hurriedly bowed and saluted!

"It's just that I haven't seen your noodle machine, there are a lot of fine flour in the riverland, and the production of Westerling noodles will be better than the noodles in the West!"

"My lord, after the tournament, the noodle machine will be sent to Rushing City, and you will have to pay me another sum of money for the noodle machine. ”

"And what about snow salt technology? Since Westerling has married the Tully family, and everyone is a family, I don't want to have to ask you again after eating this hundred catties of snow salt, I hope that the salt ponds in the Riverland can produce snow salt by themselves. ”

"I'll tell Lord Tywin about Snow Salt's cooperation. "We haven't had time to discuss anything, and we haven't had time to get to Lord Tywin's City of Castle Rock yet, so the news of your serious illness has made Lord Edmure rush back!"

"Well, I understand this, plus there is a jousting conference, the king's decree, who dares to disobey?"

"Yes, Lord Duke, this national tournament is also to celebrate the inauguration of Lord Ed's new Prime Minister, Eddar is your son-in-law, after Elenia and Edmure got engaged, it also made me, a rough man, climb into a famous family like you, Magic Mountain is deeply honored. ”

"Well, Edmure, I've heard that the engagement between you and Miss Elenia isn't honorable!" said Duke Horst.

Edmure's face immediately turned pale, and his father hated him most for being 'presumptuous' in terms of women. However, who is not like this among aristocratic young men? Many low-ranking barons and viscounts have wives, and those graceful and luxurious noblewomen, wearing beautiful dresses and speaking elegant and polite words, are in fact all ronins in their bones.

Edmure was speechless and knelt down on one knee.

"Fortunately, you corrected your mistakes in time and made the right choice. Duke Horst said.

Edmure was taken aback, "No!" he said subconsciously.

"What?" said Duke Horst, his inquiring eyes at Edmure.

Edmure knelt on the ground, bowed his head, and said nothing.

He had to talk about his pretended engagement behind closed doors with his father.

In the evening, the study of the Duke of Horst.

"Did you take away Elenia's chastity?"

"Yes, I saw the redness on it. ”

"She's still a child, you bastard. ”

"I hate a guy like you the most, if it weren't for my son, I would have slaughtered you. ”

Edmure was speechless, he had always been ashamed of this. With a thud, Edmure fell to his knees, his head down.

After an unknown amount of time, Horst said slowly, "Caitlyn wrote that the Lannisters are moving frequently, and they want us to be careful. ”

"What did the Lannisters do?"

"I don't know, and the letter doesn't say anything about it, it only says that Jon Arryn's death is suspicious, and that Bran Stark was murdered. ”

"Did the Lannisters do it?" Edmure couldn't believe it, "Why? What were their motives?If Jon Arryn was murdered by the Lannisters, why did Caitlyn know and the King didn't?Jon was the King's adoptive father!If the Lannisters killed Jon and wanted to be Prime Minister, then it wasn't Ed's turn to be Prime Minister. ”

"Things seem confusing, and Caitlin is afraid that you will be held in the West, so she has written to me asking you to come back quickly. ”

"What evidence does Caitlyn have?"

"No! Elenia's family background is still good, although she is still young, she is very beautiful, and she will grow up in another year. I want to keep her in Riverrun. ”

"She and I are fake engaged. Edmure hurriedly said, "This idea was up to Elenia herself, and I ...... Drunk and broke into Elenia's boudoir...... Captured by the Magic Mountain and imprisoned in the dungeon, Elenia brought a cow to see me. ”

"Oh, this little girl doesn't know your ugliness yet, she still treats you as an earl, it's good that Moshan didn't kill you on the spot, Moshan can control her temper It's surprising to me, you must be careful of a sane and calm Moshan." ”

"I'm going to King's Landing tomorrow with the Magic Mountain. ”

"I won't stop you, but Elenia is willing to stay, and I can see that the little girl has a lot of affection for you, and when you say something nice, say that I like her very much, and ask her to stay with me, and she will definitely agree. ”

"Father, Elenia and I ...... Impossible. Edmure plucked up his courage.

Duke Horst let out a long sigh: "Edmure, I won't force you, but Elenia stays in Riverrun, at least the Magic Mountain won't do anything to you." In the past, the violent and vicious Demon Mountain didn't work for him with a little girl, but now he has become sane and calm and does not kill indiscriminately, which is his progress, but also his fetters, do you understand? In case there is something between you and the Magic Mountain, or if the people of the Westlands want to do something to you, we still have a sister of the Magic Mountain here. ”

"Father's ......"

"Needless to say, I do like Elenia, she is very much like Lyza when she was a child. ”

Edmure wanted to say that Elenia and Lysa were not like each other at all when they were children, but he put up with it and let Elenia stay in Riverrun first, he could see that his father did like Elena. After the tournament was over, he asked Elenia and the Magic Mountain to return to the West together, and his father wanted to use Elenia to prevent the Magic Mountain from hurting him, but the old man was really thinking too much.

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