Chapter 187
Volantis, the first colony of the Old Valyria Freehold, is powerful and has a long history, known as "First Daughter of Valyria", "Queen of Rhoyne", "Mistress of the Summer Sea".
Around 6 o'clock in the afternoon, the blood-red and swollen Sun was half submerged under the sea, sparkling with sparkling reflections, and hundreds of ships in the harbor were stained with blood red.
"See, that pier belongs to the Black Wall nobleman, and the two hundred battleships moored there are all prepared for that woman."
Kadlik from elephant's back Standing up, standing on the old mahjong mats covered with dropped calls, excitedly pointed to the long fleet group that stretched for more than ten miles in front of the dock.
Beige sails, dark red sails, dark green sails, pale-yellow sails...
Every battleship has a flag atop its mast Flying, there is the Maiden flag of the Lys people, the skull crown flag of the Volantis, the Harpy flag of the Ghis people, the jeweled gold crown flag of the Qarth Tourmaline Brotherhood, the green and white elephant flag from the Isle of Elephants in the East, there are.... ..
More than 200 ships, not a single flat-bottomed merchant ship, they are all maneuverable oars longboats and long ramming naval warships, like soldiers ready to go, neat and tidy array On the campus of the sea.
It was daunting, at least in front of Hathay, the driver with the wheel tattoo on his face.
His name is Kadlik, Rhoynar clansman with fair hair and blue eyes. He is in his early twenties, thin and small, less than 1.65 meters, and his long freckled horse face is more prominent.
Only resting in wasteland for an hour, Dany and Barristan continued their eastward journey on a dragon, and within an hour of flying, large tracts of regular manor began to appear in the azure fields.
Flying west for another half an hour, the two landed in a birch forest with tall branches, walked two miles, and encountered a house with a "Mother Kelly Lamb Pie" flag on the side of the Loess Road. Fan's small hotel.
The owner, Aunt Kelly, has silver hair and blue eyes, fair and delicate skin, and a middle-aged woman with a slightly fat body.
I wasn't surprised to see Dany with silver hair and purple eyes. Most of the Maidens from the nearby manor's family were of Old Valyria ancestry. The woman had seen too many such people.
However, Dany's appearance still made Aunt Kelly have a lot of goodwill. When she heard that the two wanted to buy a horse, she warned: "little girl, in the eyes of our local people and even foreign ship owners, Hiking is undignified, and horseback riding is too barbaric. People with status and status often travel in sedan chairs or Hathays.
I think you are not a child of ordinary people, so why not hire a Hathay?
It happens that my cousin is a big businessman in Hathay, and Volantis has his business in the east and west cities.
Of course, I think you two must be a noble person with a long sword on his waist. The Knight, Knight can't live without horses, the horses in my stable..."
Aunt Kelly, blah blah, Dany bought a white, a red and two taming horses from her. Carrot lamb pie wrapped in a carton, four bottles of red wine rumoured to come from the Sunset Lands, and a pack of odds and ends.
And finally hired a Hathay from her old cousin's house.
A total of five Gold Honors were spent.
Aunt Kelly, clapping her basketball-like chest, promised not only a 20% discount for them, but also a fraction of at least two Silver Coins.
Dany didn't ask any questions, silently handed over six Gold Honors, and in Aunt Kelly's stunned eyes, he said, "Be honest and honest, I'll give you a gold coin as a tip."
The aunt held the six gold coins tightly, and she didn't have the full smile on her face when she expected to get five gold coins before. Her blue eyes were full of remorse and self-blame: I was too honest, I let go of one in vain. Big water fish... From now on, the price of my mutton pie will increase, and I will slaughter every unknown traveler!
Volantis is rich in elephants, or the city-states in the south near the Summer Sea have elephants, as well as Slaver's Bay, but Volantis has a lot of dwarf gray elephants.
Cultivating land with elephants wasn't Dany's original idea, Volantene had already done it.
Not only ploughing the land, but also pulling carts, transporting goods, riding, fighting... almost everything a horse can do, elephants are doing.
What was tamed by Volantene is a small dwarf elephant, the skin is mostly gray or white, dirty white, so they are also called gray dwarf elephant.
The "dwarf" here is only relative to the mammoth that is three or four meters high. In fact, an adult dwarf elephant can grow to 2.2-2.5 meters.
For example, the elephant who pulls the cart for Dany is 2.4 meters long. The white skin is like trampled snow, and it looks a little dirty.
Hathay's style is similar to that of other city-states' bullock carts. The enlarged version of the bullock cart has higher wheels than Dany's.
The huge wooden wheels are inlaid with rusted iron sheets. The passengers sit on the cushioned brown mahjong seats between the wheels, the driver rides on the elephant's back, and there is also a mahjong mat underneath.
Valyria has a hot climate.
From the loess flying dirt road into the Valyrian road where the brown livestock manure has solidified, the flow of people has become more and more dense along the way, and almost all Free Folks take sedan chairs or Hathay.
Well, the people who walk have slave tattoos on their faces, and their clothes are very rudimentary.
The coachman driving Hathay, for example, has a wheel tattoo on one cheek and wears nothing but a loincloth and sandals.
The bare back was tanned with black hair, like a layer of oiled old cowhide.
After walking for four or five miles, he left the manor outside the city and entered the eastern end of the West City Pier. Hathay stopped at a second-level post. The driver climbed down the elephant's back and pointed to Dany's pair. A silver-haired middle-aged man in a silk robe said a few words.
Then, the Volantis middle age person shouted loudly: "Kadlik, go to the elephant lan and bring a high-level white elephant over and put it on a yellow Gold Jade."
Then came to Dany When he got out of the car, he explained with a smile: "My dear Olier, 'Valyrian' Hathay is stationed in Seneschal, the dock area.
Did you see the guest? There is a license plate behind Hathay, which can tell Hathay's destination. Outside the city, Hathay is not allowed to enter. It is in the inner city, so the two guests must change a car.
Please rest assured that there will be no extra charge, and I will arrange for you the best elephant driver, the most gorgeous Hathay, to transfer the two I will be delivered to Merchant's House in Xicheng."
Dany is nodded, what else can she say?
Don't think I can't hear you if you are far away, the driver's voice is so loud...
——The rich guest gave Kelly Lady a gold coin as a reward.
But Kadlik is indeed very skilled, and his ability to control elephants has 30% of Dany's ability to control dragons.
The former coachman also needed whips and reins to command the elephant, and Kadlik sits cross-legged on the back of a white elephant, chatting with Dany in the local dialect—Valyria with a grand accent. ——Command the elephant to turn left and right, move forward, and slow down.
If it wasn't for the intense mental fluctuations, Dany would have thought he was a Skinchanger, Ulfaldi.
“Where did the guests come from?” Kadlik asked.
"Braavos, this is my distant relative in Westeros, who came to our family because of the war." Dany said with a smile.
There is no doubt that she speaks Valyria with a distinct Braavos accent.
"Ai, I saw you coming from the east and thought..."
The horse faced youth who had been talking all the time suddenly became a little depressed.
Dany rolled his eyes and said, "I'm from Braavos, but I did just come back from the East this time."
"Really?" The voice said: "Have you seen that woman?"
"Which woman?"
In the evening, as the sun sets, the streets near the port are crowded with people like Satin fish, strange The stench made Dany pull out a handkerchief and cover his nose.
Kadlik patted the elephant's back to slow it down, he pointed to the western dock fleet, blushed and said, "The woman they're going to deal with."
"I don't know who they're going to deal with, just say the name." Dany asked pretending to be puzzled.
"Hey, that's someone who can't even mention his name," the lad crawled behind the elephant's ass, his voice barely audible, "Slaver's Bay, Dragon Queen."
" Oh, it's her," Dany suddenly realized, "but why can't I mention her name?"
Barristan touched his nose, turned his head, and left the stage to his Queen.
"It's not that I can't mention it, but..." Kadlik pointed to the wheel tattoo on oneself's right cheek, the mark that represents the driver's slave status, and said: "I can't say, we Can't say, our host was afraid to hear that name from our mouth.
So we had to replace her with 'that woman'.
Even so, not in front of The local noble said...hey, you won't tell my master, will you?"
The young man's long horse's face is a little distorted, and there is a little more fear in his grass-green eyes.
"won't, naturally won't, I'm from Braavos, you forgot?" Dany winked.
Braavos has no slaves, and has always held high the banner against slave system.
"That's right." The freckled man sighed in relief.
Dany said curiously: "It's nearly 3,000 kilometers away from Slaver's Bay, why is it so... harsh?"
"Ai, at the beginning, Astapor news It just came, and everyone can talk about her freely, but since she swept the Ghis coalition four months ago..."
He turned on the elephant's back deftly, turning his back and forth, left and right. After reading it again, I found that there were people everywhere on the street, with a hesitant look on his face.
"There's a lot of Hathay around, and no one pays attention to us," Dany said.
"Ai, I can't say more." He sighed bitterly.
But in the end, he climbed onto the white elephant's ass and whispered, "Two months ago, Haishang brought that woman's amazing record of defeating the Ghis coalition in Slaver's Bay, and the whole Volantis was boiling over it. A few days later, one night, inside the Black Wall... Mr. Qhaedar woke up in the middle of the night and accidentally found the butcher sharpening his knife under the eaves...
I don't know the real situation, But early in the morning on the second day, the butcher Gyle and his family were beheaded, painted with tar, and hung on the lance by the Black Wall, and pedestrians passing by the street below could see it. So, you understand?”
Whether Dany knew it or not, the blond slave stood tall on the elephant's back, pointed to the deep ocean in the south, and shouted: "Guest, don't believe me. We Volantene know that, Even if all of your Braavos more than 100 islands are sunk into the port, large ships can enter and leave freely. This is the widest and deepest seaport in the world!"
"Yes, we Volantis have the world's first port. One port."
The nearby pedestrians echoed, and Volantene, who had been staring at him and Dany in confusion before, also showed a sudden look.
He's a smart guy who needs this kind of guy for a name change!
Dany thought with a smile.