Chapter 64 Visitors from "Hometown"
Grolai's captain's cabin was more spacious than Dany had expected, covering 30 square meters. She asked the sailors to move away the tables, chairs, couches, boxes and other sundries, leaving only a double bed and an open space.
"My dragon will live with me," she said to Blackbeard.
"But the place here is too small to accommodate three huge iron cages!" Pentos Blackbeard asked in confusion.
"You also prepared cages? There's no need." Dany looked around the cabin and said, "After leaving Qarth, I will remove the chains from their necks."
"What if there is a fire?" Blackbeard said hesitantly with a bitter face, "The Temple of Dust is still a stone wall, but it was burned to a white ground by your dragon. Wooden ships and cloth sails are more likely to be ignited."
Dany frowned and walked around a pool of dried vomit, and asked casually, "Have you heard of the "Dragon Worship Map"?
"What "Dragon Worship Map"?" Blackbeard asked puzzled.
Whitebeard behind him was startled and shouted, "There are rumors at the dock that Her Royal Highness's Black Dragon painted a picture for a merchant from the Summer Islands, depicting the scene of him paying homage to you and your dragon. The merchant called it the 'Dragon Worship Picture', and I thought he was just bragging when he was drunk."
"Oh, I've heard about it too." Blackbeard was suddenly aware, then said disapprovingly, "I've also heard that the Black Dragon sang and recited poems for visitors. It's all nonsense. Anyone who believes it is a fool."
"Alas, the dragon's larynx cannot make human sounds. It is true that it recites poems, but no one can understand it except me. This rumor is false." Dany shook her head.
Blackbeard and Whitebeard were both shocked when she heard this. Was she admitting the rumor of the 'Dragon Worship Picture' in disguise?
"This is true. Many people were present at the time, and I have seen the Black Dragon paint many times." Jorah raised his chin slightly, saying with a proud expression.
Dany concluded: "I can let the dragons paint, and I can also restrain their behavior. At least they won't burn your ship."
"Okay."
It took more than an hour for Dany to look from the deck to the cargo yard at the bottom. It was dirty and messy, rats and cockroaches were rampant, rotten clothes were thrown away randomly, and a layer of mud crusted on the ship's planks.
Returning to the bridge, she said: "The crew's rest room is too dirty. It must be cleaned regularly, otherwise it will be infected with diseases."
"We will do a big cleaning before leaving the port." Blackbeard nodded.
"Buy a batch of rye and put it in the bottom of the cabin. I have 80 horses." She said again.
"Isn't that necessary?" Blackbeard counted on his fingers and calculated for her. "A good horse is worth two gold dragons at most, but it and the food it feeds take up a lot of space. If it is used to store spices and gems, it can at least make a profit of 30 gold dragons.
Besides, the sea route is long and the animals are very likely to die. It is better to sell them all in Qarth and buy as many horses as you want when you return to Pentos."
If she really went to Pentos, then what he said was absolutely correct. Not to mention the issue of profit margin, after traveling tens of thousands of miles by sea, if 40 out of 80 horses survived, it would be a blessing from God.
"My group of horses is very special. They are not afraid of the dragon's power. Their endurance and impact force are twice that of ordinary horses." Dany only explained.
Whitebeard exclaimed: "You feed your horses with dragon dung?"
Dany looked at him in surprise, "You know that too?"
The old man nodded, his expression complicated, "It is said that when dragons were not extinct, the Targaryen family built a horse farm on the plains on the south bank of the Blackwater River to raise dragon horses.
The dragon horses bred from childhood are ferocious. There is a legend that they have bitten shadow mountain cats to death. Only powerful knights with superb riding skills can tame them, but every generation of the Kingsguard has their own dragon horses."
"Boasting!" Sir Jorah disagreed, "You southerners probably rarely encounter shadow mountain cats. They are the overlords of the forests. They have the claws of leopards, the dexterity of cats, the domineering power of tigers, the strength of bears, and are bigger than horses."
"Since there is such a legend, there must be a reason." Whitebeard said lightly.
"Hehe." Jorah smiled without saying anything.
Dany glanced at the two of them and asked Blackbeard Grolai, "Do you carry any fruits? For the sailors to eat."
"There are lemons and oranges. If you don't eat fruits at sea, you will be cursed by the devil." Blackbeard said as a matter of course.
It seems that although this world is primitive, thousands of years of maritime history have also allowed people to sum up a set of mature wisdom for survival at sea.
At noon, as the news of the arrival of the Mother of Dragons spread, merchants and captains on the ships near the dock came to the vicinity of the Cedurian to watch, until Ago went down and shouted to them, "The Mother of Dragons didn't bring out the dragons today, don't disturb her", and the crowd of onlookers temporarily dispersed.
It was only temporary. The next morning, after Dany brought a large group of centaurs to settle in the Cedurian, dragon seekers came to see her in an endless stream.
Today is the last day, and the ship will leave the port with the tide in the evening.
Well, Dany is leaving Qarth.
When she left Zha Luo's mansion, she also gave him a set of clothes, a large-size Zhongshan suit, woven with gold silk and black jade as buttons.
Long before Zha Luo showed his scumbag attributes, when he asked the Qarth tailor to sew a cheongsam, Dany prepared this gift for him.
According to the guest relationship in Westeros, guests will give gifts to the host before leaving to show their gratitude.
At first, Dany was really grateful to Zha Luo. At that time, he kept sending gifts to her room!
Zha Luo was a scumbag. He accepted Dany's gifts but didn't come out to see her off. He only asked the butler to bring a message: The great wizard Bai Ya will not let you leave peacefully.
Dany asked the butler to convey her gratitude to Zha Luo, but she didn't care about it in her heart.
On the sea, she had almost no rivals with a dragon.
At most, Bai Ya disguised as a pirate to hunt her, but the ship was made of wood and the sail was made of cloth, both of which were flammable.
"Khaleesi, the captain of the Almond-Eyed Maiden only brought you a silver statue as thick as an arm. Do you want to let him in? The Ginkgo Maiden is just a small boat, and its captain may not have much money." Jhogo came to report to Dany.
A tall wooden chair was placed on the sea side of the deck. Dany sat on it, and the black dragon lay at her feet, waiting for the nearby crew and sea merchants to line up to visit.
Well, they came to see the dragon.
According to the rules set by Jarrow, every visitor to the dragon must bring a gift, and the order of the audience is arranged according to the amount of the gift.
Until Dany went to visit the wizard's Immortal Palace, there was still a long list of names on the visitor list that had not been crossed out.
Now moved to the sea ship, leaving tonight, Dany's "Dragon Zoo" is open for business again for a short time!
The main reason is that the visitors are too enthusiastic, and most of them are from the western continent of Essos. Dany doesn't want to be known as "unsociable, difficult to approach" or "arrogant, cold and ruthless" in the western continent.
She had to smile, be amiable, dress beautifully, and let everyone see her perfect control over the dragon. Then, many seafarers would help to paste the label of Daenerys Targaryen, "beautiful, kind, noble and elegant, and powerful", all over the free cities.
Well, to invite fame.
Although the main purpose was to invite fame, she didn't want to miss the opportunity to make money by the way, and each guest still had to present a gift.
"What statue?" she asked.
"A young woman." Ago said.
"Girl!" Whitebeard, who was standing aside as a guard, asked, "Is the Ginkgo Girl from the Sunset Sea?"
"I don't know, but his accent is a bit like yours." Ago said.
"Your Highness, you should receive him. He is a citizen from your homeland." Whitebeard advised.
Dany nodded, "Let him come up."
Dany had seen merchant ships from Lys, Braavos, Pentos, and Midsummer Land, but she had never met a pure Westeros merchant.
The silver statue was small and not worth a few Hui coins, but the identity of the guest was of great significance.
The visitor was a thin middle-aged man with a missing front tooth. His half-long hair had grown a few strands of white hair. His narrow horse face showed fresh stubble. It was obvious that he had groomed himself before coming.
"The great mother of dragons, the guardian of the seven kingdoms, the true queen of Andal, Noyna and the First Men!" The horse-faced man had standard common language and knightly etiquette.
"I am the captain of the Ginkgo Maiden, Jordan Snow. Your appearance is like the bright moon in a quiet lake, holy and beautiful. Mortals can see it but cannot touch it. You are the incarnation of the 'girl' in the world."
As he spoke, he knelt on one knee and held a small statue of the 'girl' in his hands.
The mainstream belief of the Seven Kingdoms is the Church of the Seven Gods. The seven gods they worship are seven different forms of a god, representing seven different virtues, but the lower-class people with low cultural level will think that the seven gods are seven different gods.
The Father represents judgment, the Virgin represents maternal love and nurturing, the warrior represents strength in battle, the blacksmith represents craftsmanship and labor, the old woman represents wisdom, and the stranger represents death and the unknown.
The girl represents innocence and purity. People often pray to her to protect the girl's chastity. You can also use "girl" to praise the girl's appearance and temperament like this horse-faced Jordan.
"Thank you for your gift. I will pray to the Seven Gods and ask the blacksmith to bless you to return to King's Landing safely." At this point, Dany stopped and asked tentatively:
"Captain Snow, are you from the North?" According to the tradition of the Seven Kingdoms, illegitimate children use the most common things in the local area as their surnames, meaning the lowest people. For example, "Snow" in the North means that there is a lot of snow in the North; "Flower" in the River Bay means that the climate in the River Bay is warm and there are many plants; "Sand" in Dorne means that there are large deserts in Dorne with the most sand; "Stone" in the Valley means that there are many stones in the Valley.
Generally, you can judge where the illegitimate child comes from by his surname.
If it is a bastard of a noble family, his coat of arms is usually related to his father's family, or the color is opposite, or there is an extra horizontal bar, or if both parents are nobles, the new coat of arms is composed of the patterns of the coats of arms of the two families.
Many experienced people can often infer whose family the other person is a "bastard" with just a glance or a word.
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