Ed looked at Catelyn, "Catelyn, Will said he had an encounter with a strange ....... ”

"Ned, do you believe it?" Caitlyn said.

Ned is Eddard's nickname, and only Catelyn and Old Granny call him that. Caitlin is used to being called Ned, this is a little relationship between husband and wife, and it has merged with life.

Eddard is a man who only calls Catelyn Kate when he is alone with her, just as Catelyn's father, Duke Horst Tully, called Catelyn.

"I don't believe in ghosts. Ed shook his head, "The Alien is gone, like the Children of the Forest, no longer exists. ”

"I don't believe you brought him to the Divine Wood Forest?"

"He believed in the gods of the ancestors, and he got some fragments of oracles, some metaphors from dreams, and I wanted to see if the Heart Tree could bring me some divine revelations. ”

"What dream metaphor?"

"The stag is merciful, and the three wolves are going south. "Ed withheld the information that Will Cao had told him about the Oracle Fragment related to Jon Snow. The meaning of the dragon, the wolf, and the giant pillar, any oracle about Jon Snow, is safest to bury in the heart, "King Robert's family crest is a stag, and our family crest is an ice wolf, I brought him here in the hope of receiving the revelation of the Heart Tree and unraveling the meaning of this proverb." ”

Catelyn was visibly stunned, and she exchanged glances with Maester Lewyn, a proverb that was a striking match with the news she had just received. Maester Lewyn nodded slightly, and Caitlyn said softly, "My dear, I don't know how to speak to you, but I still have to tell you that Maester Lewyn and I have just received news from the Ravens in King's Landing that Jon Arryn has passed away. ”

Ed hesitated, "Jon...... Is the news true?"

"King Robert's handwritten letter, stamped with the King's letter. ”

Ed was silent!

Like Jon Arryn, who had been a father again, died suddenly, and the sadness in Ed's heart was indescribable, Caitlyn walked over slowly and gently took Eddard's hand. Her beautiful big eyes were full of tenderness, and the sadness on her face was moving.

After a while, Ed's gaze slowly looked at Will Cao, and his feelings of pain were complicated.

Jon Arryn is the adoptive father of Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon, and the three of them have the same bond as father and son.

Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon both grew up in Jon's Eagle's Nest, and Jon Arryn not only taught them martial arts with the best sword masters, but also taught them to read, pampering them like his own father.

After Crown Prince Rhaegar abducted Robert's fiancée, Lyanna Stark, Eddard's brother Brandon broke into the palace with a band of brothers from the North and demanded that Rhaegar hand over his sister Leanna, but Rhaegar was not in the palace, and he took Lyanna to hide in the Tower of Elysium in Dorne.

Brandon, known as the Wolf, was a brave man who broke into the palace and angered the Mad King Aerys II Targaryen, and was finally hanged alive by the Mad King.

The Mad King then burned Eddard's father, Rickard Stark, and took out his anger on Eddard and Robert. The Mad King Aerys asks Jon Arryn to hand over Ed and Robert's heads, but Jon Arryn refuses the Mad King's request and resolutely raises an army against the Mad King in order to protect Ed and Robert's two adopted sons.

Jon Arryn rebelled, in order to win the support of the army of the Tully family in Riverrun, Jon Arryn married Catelyn's sister Lysa Tully as his wife, and Ed also married his brother's fiancée and current wife Catelyn Tully, the two father and son married a pair of sisters, although the relationship between father and son became a brother-in-law relationship, but the relationship between relatives was deeper in the war.

And Robert also regarded his adoptive father, Jon Arryn, as his own father, and Robert became king after killing Rhaegar in the Trident River, and his own family did not need anyone, as long as Jon Arryn was his hand as king. In the whole of King's Landing, if there was anyone who could restrain the unbridled King Robert, it was Jon Arryn.

Ed and Robert are like brothers, but they also have limited influence on Robert, and with the exception of Jon Arryn, there is basically no one who can restrain King Robert.

Jon Arryn is gone, and King Robert, like Eddard, is grieving. The affection between these three men is closer than that of family.

Maester Lewyn is erudite, Ed asked him to come to the Sacred Wood Forest, hoping that Maester Lewyn's wisdom can parse the oracle that Will Cao said, and now, the mysterious prophecy has been verified, Jon Arryn died, and Robert was grieving, which was the oracle of the Buck's mercy.

Ed finally said, "Catelyn, where's your sister Lysa?"

"King Robert's letter says that Lysa has returned to the Eagle's Nest with the child and the guards. ”

"Eagle's Nest? What is she going to do there? There's no family for her. ”

"yes, I'd rather she go back to Riverrun, where there's still her brother and father. ”

"Then you take the children to Eagle's Nest City to accompany her, she shouldn't be alone and sad. ”

"I'd love to go, but not right now. ”

"Why?"

"The letter says that the king is on his way to Winterfell. ”

"Robert is coming?" Ed's sadness was powerfully relieved, he hadn't seen Robert in nine years. Brothers who grew up together, allies who fought side by side in the war.

"Yes, the letter says that Robert is coming to talk to you about state affairs. ”

"State affairs?" Ed looked at Will Cao, no longer suspicious of him.

Jon Arryn died, Robert's most revered adoptive father was gone, and he and Robert were left with three men who were like blood relatives.

Robert must have come to ask him to go to Winterfell to help him run the country, the so-called discussion of state affairs. Robert is a king, and he wants to summon a lord to King's Landing to talk about things, but he has to go on a trip in person, which shows Ed's status in his mind, and also because he knows Ed, he doesn't come in person, with a letter, it is difficult to invite Ed, who is indifferent to fame and fortune.

Ed resisted the king's order, and with the fateful relationship between Robert and Eddard, Robert jumped and scolded at most, but there was nothing he could do about Ed. However, when Robert himself came to invite him, the situation changed, and as soon as the king arrived, Ed had to go, and if he didn't go, he had to go.

Eddard's gaze met Will's, and he understood the fable of the three wolves traveling south. The wolf refers to Stark, these three, maybe the actual number three, maybe it is imaginary fingers, in short, the Hand of the King, Jon Arryn, died, and the Stark family, there must be a few people who went to King's Landing with the King.

From Ed's eyes, Will read that Ed had understood the meaning of the three wolves' southward journey.

Will breathed a sigh of relief: his oracle was right.

The head around his neck was saved.

Eddard Stark said, "Master Ruwen, the king spent two months running such a trip, naturally he didn't come to play, what do you think of the king's coming north?"

"The King has come to invite your Excellency to King's Landing to be the Hand of the King. Maester Ruwen said.

"Three wolves south!" Eddard Stark said slowly.

Master Luwen nodded: "Stag mercy, I think the meaning of the three wolves traveling south has been fulfilled, Will, swear in the name of the old gods, are you an alien?"

It is said that out of 10,000 people (in the original book, there are 1,000 people, so there are aliens all over the street) there will be one alien. Aliens can attach themselves to animals to observe the world, and advanced aliens can also see some fragments of the future. Even more powerful than the aliens is the Prophet. In the Seven Kingdoms, King's Landing and the Night's Watch camp have both appeared in the Aliens and Prophets.

"I'm not an alien, my lord. Will bowed his head slightly, full of knightly demeanor, "I just follow the instructions of the oracle in my dreams, and I am not an alien myself. As he said this, Will saw the gray-brown eyes in the eyes of the heart tree, which were very quiet, reminiscent of the ancient mountains.

"And what you said about the strange ghost is also true?" Catelyn's voice was strange.

Ed and Caitlyn's hands shook each other, and he felt Caitlyn's hands tremble slightly.