Danny walked around the Red Castle.
Most of the buildings at the top of Aegon Hill had collapsed, leaving behind a huge crater. Only a few towers remained on the cliff by the sea.
Almost two months had passed. The collapsed towers and craters were mostly cleaned up. The bricks from the collapsed buildings were used to strengthen and raise the walls of the Red Castle.
The crater was changed into a stair-shaped training ground. It seemed to be modeled after the gladiator arenas of the Free Cities.
Erlu and Aunt May lived in the collapsed Queen Dowager Tower. They shared a room and a bed. The lights were off. Danny guessed that they were asleep.
The White Sword Tower, where the White Knights lived, became the Queen Dowager's palace. In the warm study on the second floor, the burly Queen Dowager was dozing off. Beside her, an old scholar was holding the Annals of the Four Kings. He was telling her the history of the Dragon King's conquest of Dorne.
Erlu's wife, Celis Floren was also in the White Sword Tower. However, the Queen lived on the top floor, the seventh floor.
Howls and curses drifted into the wind through the window. They sounded like ghosts crying in the wind.
"Shireen, my daughter, you have the bloodline of the True Dragon. Even Danny's Black Dragon likes you … Great King of Light, revive the Mystic Dragon. My daughter has the bloodline of the True Dragon. She rode a Black Dragon and can become a Dragon Knight. Hahaha … Bitch, I took you in and made you the King's confidant. Yet, you want to burn my daughter. I'll kill you.
Shireen … "This devout believer of the King of Light and worshipper of Melisandre had gone mad.
Danny only sympathized with Shireen's experience. However, she did not like this crazy woman. This was because she was the one who found Aunt May and recommended her to Erlu.
Other people believed in the Red God for political reasons. Even Erlu was not that devout to the Red God. He was more concerned about his mission to save the world.
However, Celis was a true fanatic of Lahlo.
How fanatic was she?
When Aunt May suggested sacrificing her uncle to Lahlo, she did not stop her. Instead, she supported it.
She would actively participate in Aunt May's sacrificial ceremonies.
Then, the last sacrificial ceremony she attended was that of her daughter.
In the beginning, when they wanted to sacrifice Shireen, Erlu, who had lost his integrity, struggled in pain even though he had died once. It was Celis who persuaded him: We believers should sacrifice everything for Lahlo. Shireen returning to the Red God's embrace is the best ending.
When Shireen cried for her mother under the lick of the flames, her motherly nature finally prevailed over her faith.
Celis regretted her decision and struggled like a madwoman. She screamed her daughter's name and rushed towards the fire.
But Shireen's shrill cries had disappeared in a shadow that rose from the red flames.
Therefore, faith was really not a good thing. Crazy faith would make people lose themselves.
If you needed faith to numb the most difficult moments of your life, you had to believe in a God whose teachings were based on people. Even if you believed in the Seven Wood Gods, you shouldn't believe in an Evil God that could respond.
Leaving a sigh in the White Sword Tower Queen's residence, Three-Eyed Danny left the King's Landing.
In an instant, she went to Casterly Rock City and saw the emaciated Jaime.
Like a ghost, he wandered around the Hall of Heroes in the middle of the night with an oil lamp. His eyes stared into the darkness in front of him and he muttered the names of Cersei, her father, her uncle, and her aunt.
Even stranger was that he even called out "Tyrion" a few times.
This strange scene made Danny's scalp tingle.
Casterly Rock City was a city carved out of a mine. At the lowest level near the sea, the Lannister family's tomb was built. It was called the "Hall of Heroes".
Once, it was filled with coffins. Now, the ten-thousand-year-old weirwood coffins were burned together and replaced by the "ancestral tablets" promoted by the Dragon Queen.
When Westeros remembered their ancestors, they would go to the tomb and pray in front of their coffins. Now that the coffins were burned, there was no place to commemorate their ancestors. So, the Dragon Queen taught them to set up ancestral tablets and build an ancestral hall.
For example, Jaime was staring straight ahead because there was a row of stairs in front of him. Each step represented a generation, and there was a row of ancestral tablets.
Because the ancestors could be traced back more than five hundred generations, one wall was not enough. They could only build one wall every five hundred years. There were a total of twenty-two walls.
Compared to placing coffins, ancestral tablets were indeed more space-saving and expensive.
In the past, only the great nobles were qualified to build a tomb for their ancestors. Commoners and low-level nobles could not afford to build one. Now, the situation had changed. Even commoners could set up ancestral tablets for their ancestors.
Of course, the ancestral hall could also show the family's heritage, and it was even more obvious.
At this time, almost every family in Westeros could see ancestral tablets. If it were not for the fact that Westeros did not have yellow skin and black hair, and that the ancestral tablets were written in alphabetical language, people would think that they had transmigrated to ancient times.
Not only were there ancestral tablets, but there was also a change in the way people worshipped their ancestors.
Jaime went to the outermost stone wall and climbed up the stairs until he was half the height of the wall. There were Tywin, Joanna, Kevon, Zina, Jillian, Decarte, Cersei, William, Tyrek, Joffrey, Tommen, and so on. They were all direct relatives of Jaime within three generations.
He placed the oil lamp beside Cersei's ancestral tablet, and with one hand, he untied a cloth bag from his waist. Inside, there was a strange cork stick that was as thick as a chopstick. It was an incense stick.
Jaime rubbed out three incense sticks and put the tip of the incense stick into the mouth of the lantern. After he lit it, the sparks flickered and a wisp of white smoke rose. The fragrance of the smoke drifted in the empty cave.
Then, Jaime placed the three smoking incense sticks in the small incense burner in front of Cersei's ancestral tablet and bowed a few times.
Uh, this is offering incense.
Seeing the blonde Jaime offering incense in an unusually respectful and sacred manner, Danny felt that it was very strange.
"Sigh, Cersei, I regret it. I shouldn't have killed you back then. It's better to live than to die. With you by my side, at least I won't be alone like this. "
Jaime rambled on for a while. When the incense sticks were half burnt, he took out three more incense sticks from the cloth bag, lit them, and placed them in the small copper burner in front of Tywin's ancestral tablet.
"Father, you can rest assured. Casterly Rock has been restored … Oh, I've already told you about this."
Jaime stood there in a daze for a while. He felt that he had nothing to say to his father, so he moved on to the next one.
After lighting an incense stick for his mother, Jaime stood there in a daze for a while. He had nothing to say.
After that, he silently lit incense for his uncle and aunt. When he was lighting incense for Aunt Jaina, something unexpected happened.
Or rather, it was the Holy Mother's bad taste.
Jaime didn't have much to say to Aunt Jaina, so he prepared to continue lighting incense for his cousins.
Suddenly, the smoke in front of Jaina's ancestral tablet formed an oval, and a human head popped out of the round frame.
It was a squarish, fat woman with blonde hair and blue eyes. Her face was wide and flat, her neck was like a pink pillar, and her chest was tall and majestic.
"Jaime?" The fat woman called out tentatively.
"Clang ~ ~ ~" Jaime turned his head to look, and he was so shocked that he kicked Emperor Qiao's ancestral tablet and incense burner over.
"Seven levels of hell, Aunt Zina, tell me, am I dreaming, or am I seeing things?" Jaime's face was distorted as he said with a trembling voice.
The fat woman's body was too fat. She squeezed the smoke with all her might, and with a pop, it sounded like a champagne cork popping out of a bottle.
"Aiyo, can't you be more filial? The incense is too thin," Fat Zina complained as she rubbed her oily arms that were torn from the squeezing.
"This, this, this …" Jaime retreated in shock. "Am I seeing an undead?"
"What are you afraid of? I'm an undead, and I'm also your aunt!" Zina said in annoyance.
"Uh …" Jaime thought about it. She was right, his aunt. What was there to be afraid of?
He was brave to begin with, and when he came back to his senses, he walked forward and touched his aunt's cheek gently with his left hand. There was no warmth, but there was a faint texture, like a ball of fluffy cotton.
"Aunt Zina, why did you stay in the human world and not go to heaven? Didn't you have an atonement scroll with you when you died? "Jaime asked curiously.
"Sigh, I just came up from hell and was about to ascend to heaven, but I heard your call halfway, so I came here for some reason."
"What? You went to hell? Where's the atonement scroll? "Jaime was shocked.
"Don't mention it. The atonement scroll is not a scroll of forgiveness. It can only redeem 50 points of sins. I committed too many sins, so I have 52 points. I still haven't redeemed 2 points, so I have to serve 200 years in hell!" Fat Zina lamented.
"Ah, I thought I could go to heaven with the atonement scroll." Jaime's expression changed. "Even an easy-going person like you has 52 points of sin, then Cersei …"
Fat Zina's chopping face showed a hint of hesitation. "Cersei is indeed in hell, and I've met her a few times.
However, the atonement scroll is not useless. It can always give people a chance. As long as they redeem themselves, they can go to heaven.
Without the atonement scroll, they can only stay in the first level of hell, waiting for the stranger to arrange their reincarnation. "
"Is hell bitter?" Jaime quickly asked.
Fat Zina seemed to have thought of something. She shuddered, and the fat on her body rippled.
"Bitter, too bitter. If the Holy Mother gave me another chance to live, I would definitely be a good person who is not greedy, not lustful, and not cruel." She said sincerely.
"You've always been a good person! Why did you go to hell with the atonement scroll? "Jaime did not understand.
"Of course I've been good to you brothers, good to Lannister and good to Casterly Rock, but I've been unfaithful to my husband and heartless to the common folk. I've sinned!" Fat Zina said in remorse.
"What do you mean?" Jaime still did not understand.
"I gave birth to four sons, but none of them are your uncle's."
Jaime immediately believed her, because the matter of Zina's aunt stealing men was not a secret from Casterly Rock City to River Delta City. Even his uncle, Amon, knew about it.
Many people also privately discussed that none of the four children were like Amon, and that they might all be bastards.
However, no one dared to question the identity of Zina's sons, including Old Wade.
Because Zina was Tywin's sister.
"That can't be. Cousin Cleo has obvious Freyr characteristics." He forced a smile.
"Sigh, that's Old Wade's seed."
"What???" Jaime jumped in shock.
"If not for this sin, why would I go to hell? That's 30 points of sin. That's more than half of my sins. "Gina sighed.
"Why? I also heard that you like to look for handsome and strong cousins in Lannister Harbor, but Old Wade is ugly, old, and bad-tempered. How could you like him? "Jaime cried out, unable to accept it.
Zina was not fat in her early years, and her looks were not as good as Cersei's. However, her shrewdness and noble temperament were far superior.
"Old Wade loved his face the most. Tywin always looked down on him, so he wanted to get back at him by humiliating his sister. That old man was still very strong in his early years. I also hated his son for being too weak, too useless, too stupid and useless. I wanted to take revenge on him, but it was quite exciting. After being teased a few times, I half-pushed and half-pushed … "
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