Chapter 4: Lannister has his own family tradition here
as a distant relative of the queen, and the queen is a person who went to the battlefield and won the battle at the age of fifteen and can be written into poetry. Naturally, Lann's father became a huge fan of the Queen. Not only did he try his best to join the Queen's bodyguards and follow her in her wars, but he also pursued the other party's title of the same title.
Ha, the queen is a "female lion" and you want to be a "male lion". What do you think? Even if Her Majesty the Queen has the final say in this country, do you still think too little of the King?
Lan En's father had been pursuing the title of "Lion" until he was almost thirty years old. Finally, he was forced by other elders to get married, and Lan En was born. Even after marriage, they can treat each other with respect and be considered kind to Lan En.
The Lannister knight finally blocked an arrow for the queen in a foreign war, killed three enemies one against three, and led the queen out of the siege, and died of exhaustion. After the victory of the war, he was also written into poems by bards as "lion's guard" and "lion-like brave knight", which can be regarded as getting his wish.
The Lion Knight died protecting his queen.
Her Majesty the Queen later made Lannister a hereditary Earl, allowing his family to form their own house with his name as their surname.
As a "lion fan", Lannister had already prepared lion emblems and other things without the knowledge of others, originally just for his own collection. As a result, it was just right, with clan emblems and all, the Lannister became a veritable "Lion Family".
What is sad is that Lann's mother, the Countess Lannister, truly loves her husband.
Lannister was brave and handsome when he was young. In his private life, he was also clean for well-known reasons. He has always been the dream lover of the girl in Cintra.
Mrs. Lannister, who has always listened to the legend of the Lannister knights, has always regarded being able to marry the lover of her dreams as the greatest luck in her life. Shortly after her husband died, she also died of melancholy, leaving her son Lann alone.
Lann also suffered a serious illness due to this, which caused the new "Lion Family" to almost be exterminated, and as a result, there was a loophole for the souls from the earth.
"You will definitely be better than the master." The old butler looked at the handsome young man in the mirror and had mixed feelings for a moment. Many years ago, he personally dressed an equally handsome young man in fine clothes and conferred the title of knight.
"You will definitely be better than Master." The old housekeeper emphasized again, "Master and Madam both firmly believe this."
Lann stepped forward and gently hugged the old man, and he waved his hand and pressed it down. The butler again began to arrange his clothes and hair, which had been neatly arranged by Hardy.
The door to the castle hall was opened, and banquet tables were spaciously and neatly placed along both sides of the wall. They were already full of people.
Seeing Lan's arrival, the originally noisy crowd suddenly dropped its tone. The acquaintances of the nobles greeted Lan politely and exchanged greetings; the knights who had friendships embraced Lan enthusiastically; the noble ladies turned half of their bodies with blushing faces and stared straight at Lan after he passed by. he.
The queen and king sat on two thrones at the end, with extraordinarily sumptuous dishes in front of them. The runner-up in the martial arts competition was standing aside in armor. When he saw Lan En's smiling face, he gave a big eye roll in return.
He is the Queen's bodyguard, and he may not be able to eat at all and will have to stand all the way through the banquet.
Of course, as the protagonist, Lann may not be able to enjoy the banquet.
There is a smaller throne of the same style next to the queen. A little gray-haired girl is sitting on it, turning her head and eyes restlessly. When she sees Lan coming, she is about to stand up to say hello excitedly, but is immediately stopped by The grandma behind him pressed him down.
Lann saluted the queen and king at the foot of the throne. The nobles below also became quiet when they saw this, knowing that the main show was about to begin.
Queen Calanthe stood up with a smile, holding a wine glass in her left hand to signal to the nobles sitting down:
"Everyone, the person standing below now is the son of Lannister, my nephew, the champion of this tourney, I believe you all are Got it!"
"Lan!" Someone cheered in the audience.
Lan nodded politely around him, smiling, modestly and politely.
"Originally, I planned to make the champion of this tournament a knight and give him the honor of joining my bodyguard." Calanthe said with a smile, "But now it is obviously inappropriate." The knights and nobles below laughed in cooperation
. stand up.
"So, I decided to give Lan an extra territory!" Calanthe shouted, causing a wave of exclamations. "At the same time, I also completed something that should have been done long ago - officially canonized my nephew to inherit my brother's Earlship, Lannister!"
Deafening cheers and applause suddenly erupted in the banquet hall. Queen Calanthe slowly walked down the steps, Lann took a step back and knelt down on one knee, holding out his sword.
The Queen drew her sword and tapped Lann's shoulder solemnly. The gray-haired girl stared at the blond boy intently. No one cared about her standing up involuntarily. Even the grandmother behind her was attracted by the blond boy.
The two people in the canonization ceremony were the only focus of the audience. Two rows of ceremony officers came out from the side and presented the earl's cloak and other ritual utensils on a plate covered with red velvet.
"Lannister!"
The solemn ceremony ended. I don't know who took the lead in shouting, and cheers rang out in the banquet hall again.
"Lan! Lann!" The gray-haired girl jumped and shouted excitedly.
Queen Calanthe opened her arms to ask everyone to be quiet, helped Lann up and asked him to step aside. Facing almost all the civil and military officials of Cintra who had gathered here, she said loudly:
"In addition to the canonization ceremony of my nephew, I have another news to announce today." "
In recent years, the Nilfgaardians have continued to Harassing us. Although we drove them away forcefully again and again, they were like fleas on the wild boar and couldn't be driven away!" "Yes!"
One of the generals below drank too much and shouted indignantly. , "But we are not afraid of the Nilfgaardians, and we are not afraid of war!"
"Yes, yes." Queen Calanthe nodded and signaled the general's family to take care of him, "But now, we don't have to worry about Nilfgaard anymore. Gad, because we have found a new ally - the Kingdom of Verden." "
My granddaughter Ciri has reached the age where she can choose a husband, and I decided to betroth her to Prince Christine of Verden. As a bride price, Victoria Verden will give us a considerable army, and Verden will be even more inseparable from us from now on!" The
banquet hall suddenly fell silent.
Everyone looked at each other, not knowing who started it, but they burst out into cheers.
The queen nodded with satisfaction and slowly sat back on the throne to enjoy the wine.
The gray-haired Xili was stunned in her small seat, and was pushed back to her seat by her grandma before the eyes of the audience gathered.
While drinking and drinking, Lan heard someone whispering: "Isn't Verdon our vassal? Why should our princess get married?"
(End of Chapter)