Chapter 228
"Hightower is one of the Nine Wonders Made By Man."
Dany turned his head and saw that the speaker was an eighteen-nineteen-year-old gray robe young man with an ordinary cowardly face and an ordinary height.
Only two things caught her attention, the young man's brown eyes were a little cross-eyed, and his gray robe had a white mark of opening a book on his chest.
This cross-eyed is a Citadel apprentice!
It's still the kind of apprentice with inflexible brains and poor grades.
By the style of the gray robe, and the Citadel mark on his chest, Dany knew he was a Maester apprentice, but he was so old and called himself "our Oldtown" - he didn't spend much time in Oldtown. Short, stating that he has been studying at Citadel for several years.
A few years have passed, and there is no Maester chain around my neck. What is it?
“Maester apprentice? How many years have you been studying at Citadel?” Dany asked with a smile.
"Five years." At Dany's smiling face, the young man's face turned red, and his eyes were not consciously turned away.
Sure enough, for five years, he still failed to forge any link from his master - the link represents the graduation certificate of a certain discipline.
Maester chain means that Maesters are servants of Westeros, even when they are sleeping, they do not take the chain of oneself.
chain is a chain of links made of different metals, one metal representing knowledge in a certain field.
Duplicate metal is allowed on the chainrings, which means Maester has done a great job in the field.
For example, black iron represents raven science, and steel essence represents military science.
If the enemy Maester's chain has two or more steel essence chains in battle, you should be careful.
At a minimum, he is also a Zhao Kuo who can talk on paper.
"What's your name?" Dany asked again.
"Pate."
"Pate, I can tell you for sure that Hightower is definitely not enough for the Nine Wonders. You can read Lomos Longstrider's book as a travel journal, the above The architectural rankings are completely untrue.”
This world does not have printing, and if you rely on handwriting, the spread of books is often very narrow. Just take a book from the bookshelf and throw it in the stove to burn, there will be five Cheng may represent the complete loss of a classic.
But Lomos is an exception. If divided according to the starting writer level, he is the top traffic god.
The guy has been to almost every corner of the known world except Sothoryos, and wrote the two best-selling travel journals Wonders (Seven Natural Landscapes) and Wonders Made By Man (Nine Artificial architecture).
Because he has traveled too many places, he also got the bandit number of Longstrider.
Nine Wonders Made By Man is the most famous: Valyrian road, The Wall, Titan of Braavos (stone carving), Qarth's 3rd-layer city wall, Norvos' three big clocks, Long Bridge of Volantis, Sarnath Palace With A Thousand Rooms, Ghis Great Pyramid (Old Ghis in ruins, 210 meters high), Oldtown Hightower.
Obviously, he was born before the destruction of the Old Valyria civilization, otherwise the nine Wonders would not be listed.
Dany, who has traveled through Valyria through the tributary of time, can say responsibly: Except for North Wall, Valyrian road, Old Ghis Great Pyramid, the others are just making up the numbers.
"Have you been to those places, miss?" Pate asked enviously.
Dany nods art, saying: "I have been to some places, the reliefs on the surface of the Qarth 3rd-layer wall have some value, but can't be considered how exquisite, Volantis' Long Bridge and your Hightower, In terms of engineering volume and technical difficulty, it is not as good as the Valyrian road.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, you will understand that Valyrian can build long bridges, build the Great Way, build 3rd-layer walls, and build three bells , how grand should they live in oneself?"
"This..." Pate seemed to have never thought about this question before, stunned, and suddenly said: "That's right, the Ninth University Wonders is mostly related to Valyria, but only Valyria's outbuildings."
"That's it, my lord," at a fork in the river, the old Knight pointed to an island in the river, "where the strong cider is famous. You can try it."
"Are you going to Quill and Tankard? Yes, except that the price is a bit expensive, the accommodation there is very good, clean and tidy, spacious and comfortable, next to Honeywine, beautiful scenery, It's convenient to travel." Pate was surprised and stunned.
"You've been there too?" White Cloak said curiously.
The cross-eyed youth looked inexplicably nodded and said, "Quill and Tankard are very close to Citadel, we often go there for drinks, and I'm preparing to go there now."
Conversation for a few minutes Sentence, found the same road with Pate, Dany and the old Knight are sadly riding on the horse again, they turned over and led the horse while walking and chatting.
Dany explained oneself's life experience to him: the father is a noble in Westeros, but the mother's ancestral home is in Essos continent, and she died in childbirth when she was still giving birth. She has never even seen her father in her life.
Well, her name is Rhaella Waters, she's a wealthy and leisurely female Knight who travels around with Knight squire.
Pate is both sympathetic and envious of this poor bastard, sympathizing with her background, and enviing that she can travel around freely.
Apart from her name, Dany didn't lie a word, but it was natural that the elementary school apprentice regarded her as the illegitimate daughter of a noble family in Crownlands.
"My biggest wish is to save money to buy a donkey and ride around Westeros with Rosey in turn." The young man couldn't help but confided his ideal of oneself to the beautiful young Knight beside him.
"You're not a Maester anymore?" White Cloak said curiously.
"Oh, didn't you hear that? They have a lover, Rosey." Dany said with a smile.
Maester, White Cloak, Night's Watch, Septon are the four major eunuch occupations of Westeros.
Cannot marry, have no right of inheritance, give up everything in the world, dedicate his life to the service object: Maester - Lord, White Cloak - King, Night's Watch - Wall, Septon - The Seven.
"Not yet... no, not a lover." Pate stammered, blushing.
Rosey is a waitress at Quill and Tankard, and when the hotel waiter came to help them lead the horse, Pate said goodbye and took the girl with the sweet dimples to a corner of the hotel.
The vestibule of Quill and Tankard is a three-layer wooden building slightly slanted to the south. On the open platform at the top, there is a torch that guides the river boats in the channel, and the boats will also pass by the island. Parking, or sending passengers, or transporting supplies such as wheat, turnip, and bacon.
There is a green grass in the backyard of the wooden building, and several two-story small courtyards are distributed among the grasses. They belong to the single courtyard upper house.
Because he was not sure how long he would stay in Oldtown, Dany paid a big price, ten Silver Stags, and included a small courtyard next to the river, half a month.
The yard of less than 30 square meters is planted with roses. It is a very clean two-story wooden building. The first floor is a large living room with a fireplace. It is almost 50 square meters. It looks a little empty. Second floor Two bedrooms.
Put down the salute, and the two came to the front hall restaurant, two dining rooms the size of a basketball court, with arm-thick tallow candles on the walls, and kerosene lamps hanging from the roof. There were forty rectangular wooden tables with people sitting on the sides, half of which were Maester and apprentices in gray robes.
He found a table with only one person and sat down. When the waiter served the food, Dany looked around and asked curiously, "This house is a little crooked, why don't you rebuild it?"
>"Anyway, there is no sign of collapse." The old Knight shrugged and said uncertainly: "It is said that this wood house has a history of 600 years, and it has lasted for hundreds of years, and it may continue to last for a hundred or two hundred years. "
"Bragging, don't wooden houses rot?" Dany scoffed.
"From out of town?" The grey-haired old Maester sneered with a chain around his neck on the opposite side, "You must not know what kind of wood the beams and columns are."
Dany lifts his head and bears the weight beside him The column, the tragic white leaked from the mottled green paint, his heart moved, and he lost his voice: "Weirwood?!"
"Oh, a little knowledgeable." The old Maester was surprised.
"My God, how much Weirwood should I use!"
If the dragon is the most Wonders animal, the Weirwood in this world is the most Wonders plant, not to mention it and the Old Gods relationship, solely on the properties of this material.
First of all, any tree has a lifespan, but Weirwood can Eternal and Undying without external interference.
Secondly, Weirwood in wood, Valyria steel in steel, they all have immortality.
Valyria steel will not rust or wear and Weirwood will not rot.
So even Valyrian uses Weirwood to build the black tower gate, the immortal black tower, the immortal wooden door, the real inheritance Bandai.
grey hair Maester took a sip of azure cider, and the high concentration of alcohol made his nose glow like a light bulb, red light.
He breathed a sigh of relief, and he explained with hazy eyes: "In the early years, the Westeros continent was full of Weirwood. After the Andals invasion, The Seven Septon believed that Weirwood was a symbol of the Old Gods, so they moved the area south of The Neck. Weirwood is all chopped down, or burned, or collected to make wood."
Dany was speechless, The Seven, a "false religion" without Spiritual God, successfully expelled True God.
This is almost Spiritual God's version of "Lysbin Incident", a wild mercenary without any transcendent power, stabbed to death the "Youth Number One Person" of the western transcendent world with a knife.
Dinner was capon stuffed with chives and mushrooms, crispy pork ribs dipped in plum sauce, and crab shark soup.
It's very rich, Dany's appetite is full, and he eats a round belly.
Leaving the old Knight to listen to Seven Kingdoms news while drinking, she went back to take a shower, changed clothes, sat cross-legged on the mat, took out the glass candle from the wooden box, and started activating the right "Beacons" on the wrist.
Well, no response at all.
The gray light that filled the bedroom seemed to have life. It first contracted into a fist-sized ball, the room dimmed, and without any warning, it suddenly exploded and scattered, the strange gray light like soft silk. Bouncing back and forth against the wall.
Her mental strength is unable to contact Quaithe through the gray light.
"Blocked me?" Dany looked odd.
Quaithe leaves a Soul mark on her wrist, the mark is part of Quaithe Soul, so by sensing the mark, Dany can be found at any moment.
The whereabouts of unpredictable and mysterious, ambiguous prophecy, make Quaithe full of coolness every time he appears, until Dany cracks her "mark" sorcery.
Same principle, Dany can also reversely locate Quaithe through the imprint. Last night, she encountered a problem with spell. She planned to find an old friend for remote teaching tonight, but found that oneself was blocked. list.
Well, like she blocked Quaithe.
"Huh, who's the signal?"
Just as Dany was about to push Shadowbinder again, he was shocked to find that oneself unfathomable mystery found a new "communication channel".