Ed's heart sank suddenly.
Two unexpected letters?
In this sensitive moment?
He took the wooden box and his hand sank slightly.
He used his fingers hard to open the lid of the box.
Inside is not the expected document or jewelry, but a small and delicate Mill lens.
"Is it a lens?"
Ed picked up the exquisite artifact suspiciously, and the cold touch spread along his fingertips.
Caitlin was now out of bed wrapped in a thick fur robe.
She snatched the lens, her fingertips trembling slightly: "The purpose of the lens is to see the truth clearly." "
Scholar Lu Wen nodded heavily: "Madam is right, because this lens is not the only information, I found this in the mezzanine at the bottom of the box." "
He carefully took out another neatly folded letter from his sleeve and handed it over.
The seal of the letter was a deep blue with the crescent falcon crest of the Erin family clearly embossed on it.
Caitlyn's eyes touched the familiar blue crescent moon and falcon, and her pupils contracted suddenly.
She immediately thought of her sister Ryza, who had fled back to Eagle's Nest City with her children for refuge.
Without any hesitation, she almost snatched the letter, her fingernails scratching the wax and eagerly tearing open the envelope.
Her eyes quickly swept over the handwriting on the letter, her face instantly turned pale, and the hand holding the letter trembled violently.
"The gods are above—"
She cried out in a low voice, her voice filled with incredible horror: "This is the secret word that Ryza left me - only we sisters can understand it."
She raised her head sharply and looked at Ed and Lewin, her eyes full of fear and anger: "She was warning me, she said—she said that Jon Arryn was murdered, and the murderer was the current queen, Cersei Lannister. "
Ed's hands clenched violently as if struck by lightning, and his knuckles clenched violently, and he couldn't believe his ears.
Scholar Lu Wen also gasped, shocked to the point of speechlessness.
Caitlin ignored the shock of the two, she quickly walked to the burning fire next to the niche, and without hesitation, threw the letter full of secret words into the jumping flames.
The paper quickly curled and charred, turning into a wisp of blue smoke and ash.
Scholar Lu Wen pointed to another letter he brought: "Sir, here is another one, without any signature, without any family emblem, the letter paper is rough, and there are only a few lines of monotonous but completely confusing words in it. "
He handed the crumpled letter to Ed.
Ed frowned, his heart full of doubts.
What else can confuse the well-informed scholar to this extent?
He took the letter, unfolded the crumpled paper, his eyes fell on the text, first squinted his eyes in confusion, and then, his body shook violently.
He trembled and said:
"No——— people—hands—maybe there are others.
He raised his head sharply, his voice distorted with shock and anger: "This letter tells me that the murderer of the Prime Minister is the king's brother, Langley Baratheon. "
Ed's words fell, and the flames jumping in the fireplace in the room seemed to dim a little.
Caitlin's eyes widened in shock, and she looked at her husband as if she didn't know him.
She snatched the letter from Ed's hand and scanned the "monotonous" words eagerly:
"I told the Prime Minister about my brother, who went to warn my brother, but was murdered by him—Lord Ed, don't forget the conversation that night—"
Caitlin read these lines repeatedly, her brows furrowed, full of confusion: "Whose brother? What night of conversation? "
She and Lu Wenxuetu, who also looked dazed, cast their eyes on the pale Ed.
Ed took a deep breath.
He did not hesitate, and on the last night of Telossi, Stannis Baratheon secretly visited and revealed to him that Lan Li intended to unite the Tyrell family to abolish Cersei and replace Miss Tyrell as queen.
After hearing this, Caitlin was shocked beyond words, and her voice changed tone: "You mean this letter is from Lord Stannis?!" Then the murderer accused in his letter - is Duke Lanley?! "
This sudden turn of events confused her brain, and the murderer she had just identified was instantly overthrown.
Scholar Lu Wen frowned tightly, and his cloudy old eyes flashed with prudence: "Sir, can you determine the source of this letter?" With this obscure text alone——"
Ed nodded categorically: "There will never be a third person in this world who knows the details of that night's conversation except me and Stannis, and the wording of this letter is extremely obscure, even without the cover of secret words, it seems to you like a heavenly book, and only I—can see at a glance what it means to Ren Li. "
He clearly remembered Stannis' meaningful and tacit one when he parted in the port of Tellosi.
"Stannis must not be willing to risk contacting me in a public capacity, this matter is too involved, and leaking information is likely to be dangerous."
Caitlin still clutched the letter accusing Lan Li, and asked confusedly: "But Lysa's letter? Why did she accuse the queen? "
Ed pondered for a moment, his brain racing, weighing the two completely different accusation letters in his mind.
From the perspective of motivation.
Ren Li's intention to push for a change of queen, Robert's dislike of the Lannisters may make him half-hearted, but as the prime minister and the cornerstone of the kingdom's stability, Jon Arryn will do his best to stop it.
Getting rid of Jon Allin is equivalent to removing the most stubborn and weighty stumbling block in Lan Li's post-change plan.
"You can't believe your sister's words!"
Ed said bluntly to Caitlyn: "She is just the legacy of the Prime Minister, and she is not really involved in the court affairs of King's Landing, King's Landing is the largest conspiracy cave of the Seven Kingdoms, and her source of information is likely to be manipulated and used by people with ulterior motives, and Stannis personally revealed to me the ambition of Renley's successor to me long before Jon's death, if Lord Jon notices Renley's plot and tries to stop it, then he will encounter an accident, and Lord Renley is the one with the most motivation and the most likely to attack." "
The balance in Ed's heart was completely tilted, and Stannis' accusations were closely aligned with his own logical deduction.
Lan Li, the superficially charming younger brother of the king, actually harbors a huge conspiracy behind it.
Scholar Luwin's cloudy eyes flashed: "If Master Stannis's accusations are conclusive - then, such a major crime, there will definitely be clues, sir, it seems that this trip to King's Landing, you are already imperative, the head of the emperor holds great power and controls legal affairs, and you also have the ability to find out the true cause of Lord Arryn's death and bring the murderer to justice." "
What was churning in Caitlyn's heart at the moment was still Sansa's glorious future.
For the sake of his daughter's crown and the unprecedented glory of the Stark family, this risk must be taken.
She walked up to Ed, grabbed his arm with both hands, and said earnestly: "Ned, you said that you love Robert more than your own brother, can you bear to watch him surround by a group of ambitious conspirators and be in danger without realizing it?" Whether it's Lan Li or Queen – the truth is in King's Landing, you have to go. "
"You two should be caught by the ghosts!"
He turned to walk to the window, overlooking the cold and lonely northern lonely city, the corners of his eyes were slightly moist, as if he was saying his final goodbye to his beloved home.