Chapter 127 On the Road

The two days after the wedding were relatively uneventful, except for the fact that the mark on Renly's left hand broke out when he went to the toilet, causing the belt to crawl away on its own.

What is also strange is that Grand Maester Pycelle was attacked by an unknown animal. His face was covered in blood and he was lying on the ground crying with his face covered, which caused a lot of discussion.

The servant claimed that it was a dog that attacked him because someone saw a dog near the scene of the crime, but the client denied this and said that it was his new dog and not his attacker.

But when asked to tell him what specifically attacked him, the old man hesitated and couldn't tell.

In the end, the matter was dropped, and Renly didn't pay much attention to it.

After the wedding, the only thing that needed to be busy was the "moving" away from King's Landing, but with the presence of servants, Renly himself didn't need to do this.

Instead, he began some leisurely bird-raising activities.

It was a beautiful canary. Its orange and green feathers and small size made it look very cute. Unfortunately, Renly teased the little bird squatting in the cage after the servant brought it to him that day. She didn't pay much attention to him, just combing her feathers and chirping occasionally, as if she had no intention of "spiritually communicating" with him.

Renly thought that this might require cultivating a relationship first, so he didn't take it seriously.

But when he woke up the next day, he found that the canary that had been kept in the cage was missing. There was nothing but a pile of messy bird feathers in its place!

Renly is wary of this, but he has no time to look for the murderer because it is already time to set out.

The king's wedding is a temporary end to all previous events. Although there will be a tournament to celebrate the wedding, not everyone is interested in it.

So except for the knights who were preparing to participate in the competition, everyone else left the noisy city of King's Landing and returned to their respective territories. Stark in the North and the lords under his command, Lannister in the West, Tully in the Riverlands, and Tyrell in the Reach...

Hundreds of lords spread out from King's Landing and rushed towards Westeros in all directions. Among them, as one of the top nobles of the Seven Kingdoms, the team of the Tyrell family was very eye-catching.

Compared with the simplicity when they arrived, the team now numbered no less than a hundred people, including grooms, cooks, servants, personal knights, crossbowmen...

More than twenty carriages were loaded with armor, tents and supplies. A large carriage embroidered with bright golden roses was the core of the team. The capable knights guarded the sides, while the soldiers guarded the periphery. At the edge, there was a clear division of labor. The servants are constantly busy, and all of them are just to serve the two people in the carriage.

Two people, one large and one small.

"Don't believe the rumors, Renly. Although there are several orchards, the territory of House Red Apple Fosoway is not actually rich in apples. The name mainly comes from Foso, the archer in the Age of Heroes, who is the son of Garth Greenhand. , it is said that whichever girl he likes, he will shoot the apple off her head..."

The tall Duke Tyrell explained with a smile the origin of the coat of arms of his vassal family. Opposite him, a boy with short charcoal black hair sat there and listened quietly, his stunning blue eyes blinking, occasionally. With a hint of sudden revelation.

However, in fact, he already knew what the other party said...

This is a large carriage. The inner wall is wrapped in golden silk. The interior of the silk is made of smooth oak and metal. The space is spacious. There are six horses pulling the carriage outside the carriage. The coachman's shouting sound reaches his ears through the carriage. For dullness.

The journey was long, and children could not ride horses, so Duke Tyrell specially prepared this carriage for riding. Of course, the Duke himself also enjoyed it. After all, riding a horse for a long time is very tiring.

As the team moved forward, various trivial sounds continued. The huge khaki-colored city became increasingly hazy as the carriage rolled forward, and was eventually submerged in the mist of the green field behind.

Surrounded by patches of uneven grassland, gray roads shrouded in mist extend in all directions across the plains. A large number of figures can be faintly seen walking through these roads - free riders, horse-drawn carriages, ox-carts, traders, missionaries, Hiking Farmer…

King's Landing is the central capital of the entire Westeros continent, and the roads around it naturally extend in all directions. From here, you can reach any castle territory in the Seven Kingdoms.

"As we all know, the earliest knights came from the Reach, and the earliest bachelors also came from the Reach. Of course, there were also the earliest singers, gardeners, and stonemasons... So you don't need to worry about your studies in Highgarden, Lan. Literary. If you have studied the history of the North, you should know that the ancestors of the Stark family are also descendants of our Green Hand Garth, which is enough to prove the long heritage and rich heritage of the Reach..."

When he was bored on the road, the young duke with curly brown hair began to introduce Renly to the various historical legends and vassal lords in the Reach. Although Renly knew some things already, but even more He actually doesn't understand many of them.

However, he did not listen to everything. There were many false and boastful words in the words of the Duke of Mace. For example, Brandon the Builder, the ancestor of the Stark family, was descended from Garth the Greenhand, the common ancestor of the nobles in the River Bend. Apart from this, There is basically no tangible evidence beyond some folklore.

And in some legends, even the founder of the Lannister family in the West and the founder of the Baratheon family in the ancient Stormlands are descendants of Garth.

It is said that the common ancestor of the Riverlands in the Age of Heroes can make infertile women, including menopausal old women, fertile with just a touch of his hand... It can be seen how exaggerated these legends are.

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Leaving King's Landing was not a big deal for Renly, because he didn't know many people there, mainly his two brothers.

However, as the king, the former was busy with affairs, and as the Minister of the Navy, the latter was also busy all day long. Whether Renly left or not did not affect the relationship between the brothers, because there was not much to begin with.

In addition, the only people Renly knew well were Davos, the Onion Knight under Stannis, and Barristan of the Kingsguard. However, after the wedding, Davos himself headed towards the rainforest of the Stormlands, preparing to inspect and make arrangements in the territory given to him by Stannis. The latter came to see him off, but the question he asked made the black-haired boy unsure how to answer.

Where is the black cat named Balerion?

Renly thought, who should I ask if you ask me? The explanation he gave was that the cat ran away wildly and he didn't know where it went.

So the Kingsguard, who was a little sad, felt quite disappointed about this.

"Don't doubt it, Renly. We will meet many castles on the way, but you have to believe that only Highgarden is the most beautiful one in the entire River Reach, no, in the entire Seven Kingdoms."

The words from the other side interrupted the boy's thoughts. As far as he could see, Lord Tyrell with brown curly hair was looking at a small castle far away outside the carriage with a proud tone.

The duke was a very vain man, and he kept praising his territory and family, but Renly was not bored with these words.

Apart from figuring out his own golden finger, his greatest wish was to be a traveler, and he was naturally very curious about the legends and customs of various places.

"Is Oldtown as smelly as King's Landing?" He asked a rather sharp question.

"Smelly?"

Lord Tyrell shook his head and said, "I have to say that King's Landing is the smelliest city I have ever seen, after all, there are too many people there. Oldtown doesn't smell very good either, but I rarely go to inspect it, and I don't know if it has improved in the past two years."

"Is the water of the Red Lake red?"

"Of course, otherwise why would it be called the Red Lake."

"Is the Oak Throne really a living oak tree?"

"We all say so, but those damn Dornish people didn't give us the chance to see it..."

During the conversation, Renly had certain expectations for his life in the near future, mainly because he felt that he had become much freer after being freed from his brother's control.

It's just...

The boy in the carriage frowned unconsciously, and his left hand hanging by his side quietly covered a sudden appearance.

It was a tender green branch stretching out from the corner of the carriage seat. It looked like an ordinary grass, but it was not normal for it to grow on a fur cushion, and the reason for its appearance was just that Renly accidentally touched it.

If this special situation is not taken into account, the future life is still very exciting.

He thought secretly.

The mark on his left hand had occurred three times in the past few days. Once it turned his buttons into stone, once it made the dagger in his hand become limp, and the last time it turned the wooden water cup in his hand into a pile of sand, and the water in it spilled all over his crotch.

It can only be said that the only lucky thing was that he was in his own tent at the time and was not seen by others, but some childish rumors brought about by it made him quite distressed.

It looked wonderful and interesting, but Renly only felt troubled by this uncontrollable ability.

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The team kept moving forward, and the people in it had their own thoughts, while outside the team, the discussion about this group of people never stopped.

The news that the king's younger brother Renly was sent to Highgarden as an adopted son had spread in the River Reach due to some people's intentional or unintentional propaganda, and there was a lot of discussion.