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As soon as Li Ling thought about it, it was indeed possible. After all, the first main line was to ask him to join a faction.Judging from the current plot, it won't be long before the Rebellion of the Five Kings will unfold. If he joins the forces at that time, there will definitely be a main line about the war.

Just when Li Ling was thinking about things, the carriage stopped, and the young man who was driving turned his head and said, "We have to stop here when we have guests."

As soon as Li Ling looked up, he was still about a thousand meters away from Winterfell, but it was obvious that this had already reached the territory of the Stark family. The young man didn't want to take the initiative to offend, after all, he was not from here.

"Okay, let's go."

After getting out of the carriage, Li Ling walked forward. He wasn't worried about being stopped or something. After all, warm hospitality prevailed in Westeros, and even King's Landing would not refuse mercenaries to enter the city, let alone The Stark family, which is known for its straightforwardness and eclecticism.

When I came to the gate of the city and looked up, as the capital of the northern border, Winterfell was also built magnificently. The huge castle was wrapped in a thick double-layer city wall. The flag of the Stark family was hung on it, and the family emblem of the direwolf appeared. On top of it, it is very imposing.And outside the castle is a small village, many people are setting up stalls to buy and sell, and it is also very lively.

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Chapter 405 The Coming of the King

"Hi~ beautiful boy, do you need some fine velvet for such a distinguished status?"

As soon as Li Ling walked to the village in front of the castle, a woman greeted him holding some silk cloth. A smile spread across her somewhat gloomy face, and she looked at him expectantly.

"Okay." Li Ling nodded, stretched out his hand to touch the silk cloth, it was quite soft and smooth, and it could be used to make something like a pillow cloth.After all, the material life of ordinary people in this world is still relatively scarce, and even some freelance mercenaries don't even have a place to live, and sleep in the mountains and forests every day.

"Really?" He smiled even happier when he heard that he wanted to buy a woman. He nodded, asked the price, and gave three silver deer to the woman. On the bag, hand it over to Li Lingyi.

"May the old gods bless you, pretty boy." The woman took the silver deer and smiled and left, while the other businessmen were all eyeing Li Lingyi, after all, the latter was dressed in aristocratic attire and looked very rich .It's just that most of the customers in the village are weapon dealers, and when they saw the sword and spear on Li Lingyi's body, they all shook their heads, knowing that the young man would definitely not like what he was selling.

Walking along the village, Li Lingyi was also very curious. He also found a lot of interesting things, and even bought some local specialty snacks to eat, although they were not very delicious.But it was a novel experience. After all, he had never been to this kind of western medieval world, and he was very unfamiliar with everything.

Walking to the end of the village is the gate of Winterfell Castle. At this time, the gate is open, and there is an endless stream of people coming and going. There is a statue of the direwolf at the gate, which is exactly the same as the family emblem of the Stark family.

It can be seen that the people entering and leaving the city gate are all in a hurry, obviously preparing for the king's arrival, and at a glance, Li Lingyi also saw a small direwolf squatting on the ground, it was Bran that summer.

At this time, the hostess Caitlin Tully was passing through the door with Grand Maester Luwin. When she saw Li Lingyi who was standing there, she was surprised and stopped walking.

"Excuse me." Caitlin asked with a smile, "May I ask what family you are from?"

"Hi Duchess." Li Lingyi said politely, "I am a freelance mercenary."

Free mercenaries?

Catherine was slightly surprised when she heard this, and so was Grand Maester Luwin. After all, Li Lingyi looked like a young master from a big family with his temperament and the weapons he was wearing. Even Catherine had doubted whether this young man was a king just now. Robert's illegitimate son came with him. After all, it is quite rare for a boy with black hair and black eyes to have such a bearing.

At this time, Li Lingyi was also observing the forty-year-old Catherine, who was still radiant. The latter could be said to be the most politically minded person in the entire Stark family, although she was not as good as Littlefinger, the little devil, the octopus spider, etc. She is fine, but she is not so taller than the patriarch Ed. It can be said that without her, the Stark family would not be able to survive for so long.

"Is that so? I wonder what this young mercenary is called and where did he come from?" Catherine seemed very interested in Li Lingyi, otherwise she wouldn't have talked for so long with a free mercenary.

"My name is Avi Crane, from White Harbor."

Li Lingyi said casually that as a port city, Baigang has a lot of people, and its area is very large, so it is very difficult to investigate a single person.

"Really, then please feel free to visit." Catherine nodded and walked away without further words.

The two walked away a few steps, and Catherine suddenly whispered to Luwin: "Master, do you think he is lying?"

"I can't tell, ma'am." Luwin's dry and wrinkled face showed a trace of melancholy, "I have been observing him just now, and when I spoke, I didn't look away, and I didn't make any small movements. It was very natural. If it was a lie, then It can show that he is a seasoned liar."

"But looking at him, he really looks like a free mercenary." Catherine said, after all, the children of nobles pay more attention to appearance and etiquette, so it is impossible to carry so many weapons with them.And generally speaking, nobles use swords the most, instead of carrying a long spear behind their backs. After all, most long spears are weapons that only low-status soldiers will use.

"Forget it, the king's convoy is coming soon, and we should be ready to meet it." Catherine said, looking at Bran who was climbing down from the wall, and immediately reprimanded: "Brandon! How many times have I told you not to climb the wall!"

"I see the king! There are hundreds of people with him!" Little Brandon said as he crawled down. "They will be there soon, on the main road!"

Catherine stepped forward and stared at Little Brandon, "You have to promise me that you will never climb the wall again."

Little Brandon was a little reluctant, looked down at his feet, and said in a low voice, I promise.Catherine felt a little helpless, "You know, you always look down at your feet when you lie."

Not far away, Li Lingyi watched quietly, thinking that the next climb would be the last time in poor little Brandon's life, and Catherine would not know how sad it would be.After all, Brandon inherited her hair color and eye color. It can be said that her favorite among these children is Little Brandon.

At this time, there was the sound of horseshoes in the distance, and the king's motorcade was approaching. Li Ling stepped aside as soon as he saw it. It's a big trouble. Although he is not afraid, it doesn't mean he wants to single out hundreds of powerful guards here.

The team got closer, like a bright river made of gold, silver and steel, pouring mightily into the gate of the castle.A total of 300 people are composed of vassals, knights, sworn knights and free riders.The icy north wind flapped a dozen golden banners above their heads, embroidered with the crowned stag symbolizing House Baratheon.

There are many familiar faces in the team, anyone who has watched the show can recognize them at a glance.The blond and handsome Ser Jaime Lannister, with half of his face burned is Sandor Clegane, the Hound that the audience loves to hate.The tall boy next to him is the hated Joffrey, and the deformed dwarf behind them is undoubtedly

The question is "little devil" Tyrion Lannister.

Except for King Robert, who was at the forefront of the team, and received a lunch box within a few episodes, the others are characters who run through most of the plots. Even Li Lingyi, who was standing aside watching the crowd, was thinking, Now that they are violently attacking, at least two or three can be killed before those knights react, and the plot will definitely go violently.It's just that he doesn't want to do that.

Chapter 406 Little Devil

At this time, with the arrival of the king's motorcade, members of the Stark family and many vassal knights lined up neatly, waiting to welcome them.As a free mercenary, Li Lingyi is naturally not qualified to stand in the crowd. On the one hand, he is not loyal to the Stark family, and on the other hand, mercenaries are not very popular in Westeros. After all, most of them ended up as bandits who robbed houses.

On this continent, the best prospect for a freelance mercenary is naturally to become the Kingsguard. They are the elite among the knights, with top-notch character and strength. Highly qualified combat commander.As for the treatment, there is no need to mention it. With the king, can the treatment be worse?

The worse ones are knights, among which there are several types of knights, the best ones are naturally fief knights, generally speaking, they will have the title of viscount, have their own people and a small army, and be loyal to themselves the lord.

The second is the sworn knights. They have no titles, fiefdoms, and troops. They usually serve other knights with titles. As for the lord?It's not their turn to pledge allegiance.But once the lord and the enemy fight, they must naturally participate unconditionally.

As for the lowest level of hedge knights, as the name suggests, the object of allegiance is the golden dragon.They have no master or territory, and most of them wander around the kingdom, participating in various tournaments in order to find someone to hire them, and thus become sworn knights.

As for mercenaries, their status is even lower, almost no different from prostitutes.Even to a certain extent, they are not as good as prostitutes. After all, prostitutes can be regarded as your love and my willingness to pay, but many mercenaries are basically equivalent to robbers. They work when they have work, and work when they have no work. They only rob and do evil in groups of three or four, so their reputation is extremely bad.

That's why Catherine and Grand Maester Dorn were surprised when Li Lingyi said that he was a mercenary. Among other things, at least few mercenaries could wash their faces and hair clean.

Of course, all mercenaries also want to become knights, but it is difficult in terms of combat strength and knowledge, and the other way is to join the army, find a family to become a member of its army, and then slowly rely on military merit to become a knight. climb up.

But the mercenaries are used to being free and unrestrained, and they live a life of drinking and getting drunk every day. You ask them to serve as soldiers and be disciplined?There were really few willing to go there, so it was caught in an endless loop. The mercenaries were poor so they had no money to give their children a good education, so the children became new mercenaries when they grew up, and the cycle continued. .

Afterwards, King Robert chatted with Ed and hugged each other. They used to be comrades in arms fighting side by side, and Ed's sister was still Robert's favorite woman, so the relationship between the two was naturally deep and incomparable.According to his own words, the most trusted person nowadays is Ed Stark.

Li Lingyi was not interested in this kind of scene. He found a hotel in the village outside the castle and settled down first, and then had a meal. Because he was tired from traveling all morning, he took a nap.

It has to be said that compared to other worlds, he has relaxed a lot in this world. On the one hand, it is because the difficulty is relatively low. With his strength, it is almost impossible for him not to use hundreds of people.On the other hand, the time limit for the main line is also very long, so he is not in a hurry to do it.

After waking up, Li Lingyi went out again, but before going out, he sorted out his equipment. Carrying too many weapons with him was too conspicuous and would cause a lot of unnecessary trouble.Of course, it doesn't work in a hotel. The most indispensable thing in this world is a thief. He doesn't want to wait until he comes back to find that the weapon he bought with a lot of energy has been stolen by a thief.

So taking off his clothes, Li Lingyi put two broken thorns into a pair of boots respectively, sewed a sleeve bag with the silk cloth he bought, and put a handful of broken thorns inside, so that Laiming saw that he only had a short sword hanging from his waist and a long spear on his back, which was quite simple.But in fact, there are still five or six eight weapons all over his body that can be drawn out to hurt people at any time, which makes him look more like an assassin.

However, when it comes to assassins, they are also well-known in the Game of Thrones world. For example, the Faceless Man who believes in the God of Thousand Faces is proficient in various poisons and changing faces, making it easy to kill people.The little wolf girl Arya later practiced in the House of Black and White, the old den of the Faceless, and after she developed her skills, she began to avenge those who persecuted the Stark family.

For Li Lingyi, he is quite afraid of this organization. After all, his frontal combat power is strong, but his resistance to poison is very average. If one day his name appears on the list of the faceless people, it is also possible. A very troublesome thing.

After leaving the inn, many people from the northern border came to visit because of the arrival of the king and others. As a result, the business in the villages outside Winterfell became very hot. Li Lingyi walked aimlessly, and soon Then he saw a deformed dwarf walking staggeringly, followed by a seductive woman.

There is no doubt that this dwarf is Tyrion of the Lannister family, of course, his other name is more well-known, that is, the little devil of the Lannister family.Because I was discriminated against since I was a child, I can only rely on reading books to improve my knowledge to resist the maliciousness around me, so in this world, IQ and wrist are first-class. If the old father Tywin treats him a little better, then there is a little devil who is wholehearted. With the help of the Lannister family, the Lannister family will definitely develop better.

Like his famous height, the little devil's lustful reputation is well known in the Seven Kingdoms, so it is completely common for everyone to see him walking with prostitutes, and even the people in the northern border do not care too much. What they want to see It is the handsome crown prince Joffrey and the noble and elegant queen Cersei, not the deformed and ugly little devil.

And the little devil didn't care. He was used to being discriminated against since he was a child. He said, "Young boy, I don't know which family's knight he is."