Chapter 61 Dragon Eggs from the Shadow Land
"Your Majesty, is it okay for you to dress like this?"
Dany's centaur girl costume made Whitebeard's old face wrinkled, like a conservative old father who saw his beloved daughter wearing a killer Matt style.
"I think the cheongsam you invented is very beautiful and completely in line with the royal style." He hesitated to make a suggestion.
Ever since meeting Dany that day, Whitebeard and Belwas have not left.
The two claimed that it was their responsibility to protect Dany's safety, and they would follow her wherever she went in the future.
Dany believed that neither of them was a treacherous and cunning character, and even if they might have other purposes, they would not hurt her, so she agreed to their request.
Ser Jorah was very dissatisfied with this. He kept telling Dany that Arstan had problems and did not look like a squire at all.
Although Dany agreed with him, she also retorted that sooner or later they would cross the sea on the same ship, and they would have more time to spend together in the future, and it was impossible to separate the two forever.
So, Ser Jorah also began to fulfill the obligations of the Queen's Guard: becoming one of Dany's bodyguards.
"Since we are in the stable, we must ride horses. My cheongsam is not suitable for this occasion." Dany led out her little silver horse, put on the saddle, and saddled it with a nimble movement.
"Bewas likes the little queen's dress very much. She looks like a warrior." The eunuch did not ride a horse. He protected Dany by her side and strode forward.
"Ahem, you two, and Ser Jorah, don't call me 'Queen' in the future. You can use the title of Queen to scare people in front of outsiders. We are all familiar with each other. There is no need to deceive ourselves!"
The horse stepped briskly, crossed the threshold, and stepped onto the street.
"You are the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, the real Queen." Whitebeard said solemnly.
He and Jorah rode on horses, and four centaurs including Rakharo protected Dany on all sides.
"My brother Viserys has always claimed to be the Protector of the Seven Kingdoms and the King of Westeros, but everyone mocked him as the 'Beggar King'."
Dany told them, "From now on, you can call me Khaleesi, or the Princess of Dragonstone, or just 'Daenerys'."
When Daenerys was born, the Targaryen dynasty still had some embers left and had not been completely destroyed. The identity of the Princess of Dragonstone was a fact that no one could deny. At most, she was an exiled princess.
Qarth was built on the north bank of the strait, and the dock area was in the south of the city.
Zha Luo's mansion was in the wealthy area in the east of the city. They walked through eight streets before they arrived at the slums of the south city.
There were no colorful marble palaces and fragrant gardens here, only old brick houses, and there were few windows on the side facing the street.
The dirty streets were filled with naked children, beggars with dirt on their faces, skinny sandy dogs, and fair-skinned residents of Qarth.
Not everyone can wear the gorgeous clothes that represent the tradition of Qarth like Zha Luo every day. These civilians only wear a gray and dirty linen skirt.
When Dany passed by, everyone stopped their work, turned around and sent her away with numb eyes.
They all knew her, and they all knew the Mother of Dragons.
Without the enthusiasm of the crowds when she first entered the city, now they ignored her with a little fear.
The Undying Temple collapsed in huge smoke and flames, and almost all the people of Qarth saw it.
At first, many people were deceived by Dany's lies, thinking that the Undying burned the old temple themselves. After all, the Undying Temple really became a temple of dust, and it should be demolished and rebuilt. Everyone knows the madness of wizards, and setting fire to houses is too normal for them.
There are even house builders who approached the great wizard Baiya, hoping to contract the construction task of the new Undying Temple, without money, just give him the street-facing storefront.
The merchant ran out of the Black Forest naked, shouting "Where is my tail? I want my tail". It was so weird.
The other merchants who thought they had missed the opportunity were terrified, and the residents of Qarth no longer dared to discuss the wizard's crazy burning of the house in public.
Everyone began to wonder if the mother of dragons lied to the wizard's violent reaction.
Overnight, the people of Qarth remembered the danger of dragons, and the scene of visiting each other disappeared, and Dany's mansion became deserted.
But Dany didn't care. She was about to leave, so what did the people of Qarth think of her?
Passing through the slums of Qarth and entering the dock area, the flow of people on the street gradually became dense, with carriages, sedan chairs, camel caravans, merchants and sailors of all skin colors, and street vendors shouting.
The fragrance of the powder and roasted meat on the merchant's lady mixed with leather, feces, sweat, and fish to form a strong and strange smell. The strange smell was mixed with noisy shouting and the fishy and salty sea breeze, giving people a sense of vitality in the world.
Dany found that she liked Qarth a little bit. She shouldn't have stayed in the garden palace of Zalor so much that she almost missed the real beauty of this east-west trade capital.
"Make way, make way for the Mother of Dragons!" The strong man Belwas shouted loudly, driving away a mule that was blocking the way.
"I smell the smell of poisonous water." The centaur maid Jhiqui shouted to Dany.
The Dothraki people don't trust the ocean and everything related to the sea. In their eyes, as long as the water that horses can't drink is unclean.
"What poisonous water? Aggo and others have been soaking in the sea water every day these days. Have they been poisoned to death?" Dany asked Aggo beside her: "Tell her, is the sea water poisonous?"
"It's poisonous, Khaleesi," the centaur nodded seriously, "I drank a few sips of water and almost got poisoned to death. Everyone has tried it. The sea water is really not drinkable. Of course, the water that can't be drunk is poisonous."
This logic Qarth is one of the largest ports in the world. Taverns, warehouses and casinos are lined up along the streets. Cheap brothels are closely connected with temples worshiping various strange gods.
Under the huge canopy of the dock, it was crowded with vendors and guests from all over the world, and thieves, hooligans, swindlers and other low-class people also roamed among them.
Whitebeard Arstan introduced Dany: "The dock area itself is a big shopping mall. There are goods coming in and out from the East and West continents at all times of the day and night. Almost everything in the world can be found here."
After a moment of silence, he sighed: "At the same time, this is also a forbidden area of law and morality. Slaves can be bought and sold freely, and illegal goods can be sold. If you don't ask about the source of the goods, the same things here only cost a fraction of the market price. Princess, do you understand why?"
Several thoughts flashed through Dany's mind, and she was surprised: "Pirates and robbers sell stolen goods here openly?"
A trace of admiration flashed across the melancholy blue eyes of the white beard, "This is the world's trade capital, and it is also a place of sin."
"Mother of Dragons, Mother of Dragons"
Dany turned around and saw a skinny man with a white linen hat on his head, jumping and waving at her across Jorah.
The middle-aged man had shiny black skin, a thin and shriveled figure, and his pupils and whites of the eyes were particularly large, which became more vivid against the black face.
"Mother of Dragons, Mother of Dragons, I have dragon eggs, I have dragon eggs, do you want to buy some?" He shouted in Valyrian with a dialect accent.
Hearing about dragon eggs, Dany couldn't help but stop the little silver horse under her, asked Jorah to let the vendor in, and asked, "Are you sure you didn't cheat me?"
"How dare I cheat the Mother of Dragons? You will know when you come and see." The thin black man assured righteously while pulling the little silver horse to his stall without saying anything.
There were many bottles and jars placed on the dark red blanket. In the center, a ball of soft Yidi silk wrapped two colorful stone eggs.
The size of a pineapple, the surface was covered with fine scales, and the texture of colored glaze, the fine sunlight that passed through the hollow ceiling sprinkled on it, reflecting a red copper halo.
Dany let out a light "eh", dismounted, walked quickly to the stall, bent down and picked up a stone egg from the silk-covered nest, and looked at it carefully from left to right.
"Mother of Dragons, don't be fooled by old Khan." There was no chair next to the black and thin stall, but a white-skinned old woman stood there, with a string of beer bottle-shaped pottery jars hanging on each shoulder. Through the gaps in the corks, a rich smell of goat milk could be faintly smelled.
Facing Dany's gaze, the old woman from Qartheen, whose back was hunched over, showed her dry mouth with missing front teeth and said with a smile: "If they really are dragon eggs, this barbarian from Asshai would have presented them to the royal family long ago!"
"You..." The thin black man called 'Baohan', wishing he could poke his fingers into the woman's eyes, jumped and cursed: "Bastard, bastard, old woman Qiluo, I have never offended you. I often buy goat milk from you every morning. Why are you slandering me?"
The old woman rolled her eyes and said unhappily: "I don't want to lose a repeat customer."
"What did you say?"
"I don't want you to be chopped in half by the centaurs under her command because you deceived the great Khaleesi." The old woman sneered: "Don't you think about who this person is in front of you? She is the Mother of Dragons.
You fool, you should stay away from her when you meet her. If there is anyone in the world who can tell the real dragon eggs, it must be her."
The old woman is very wise!
The thin dark man was speechless, his dark face turned a little waxy, and the people around him nodded.
"This is indeed a dragon egg." Dany said something that made the old woman dumbfounded.
"What, it's really a dragon egg?" Even Baohan himself was not calm.
"Dragon egg, the Mother of Dragons said it was a dragon egg! Baohan's dragon egg is real!" The vendors at the nearby stalls were in an uproar.
"Your Highness, are you sure?" Whitebeard came over and picked up another dragon egg, looking it over from left to right, but it was difficult to tell whether it was real or fake.
He was also an expert. When he was young, he had come into contact with real dragon eggs, the dragon eggs of the Targaryen family.
"Haha, this is a dragon egg, I'm not lying," Baohan, the Asshai man, jumped and jumped as if he had won the jackpot, and laughed and greeted the people around him, "You all saw it, this is the famous Mother of Dragons, the mother of dragons who gave birth to three dragons. She identified it, and this is a dragon egg."
"It is indeed a dragon egg," Dany asked him with a smile, "If I buy it, how much is it?"
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