Chapter 249

Chapter 249

"What did you steal?" Dany asked in disbelief.

"Waffles."

"Why did he steal the waffles?"

"It's not the first time Zoan has been in the kitchen Stealing and eating." The tall and thin Maester said with a shrug.

Then he looked at Dany again and asked, "Are you Knight Rhaella? My name is Parker, Economics Maester, and I'm going to find you at Quill and Tankard."

"Hello, Maester Parker, I'm Rhaella, why is it so urgent?"

"It's urgent, after your reminder, Archmaester Perestan checked the customs trade files for nearly 20 years overnight, and the deficit is far greater than ours. It's more terrifying to imagine."

"To be honest, I didn't even know we had so many Golden Dragons in Westeros." The taller Maester laughed bitterly at himself.

After a few people stood in front of the stairs and said a few words, the two strong Acolytes dragged Zoan, who was stealing his mouth, out of the door.

There's a wooden hut the size of a phone booth at the door, and Acolyte is trying to stuff Zoan inside.

Zoan seemed to be extremely frightened of the small wood house, put his fingers on the crack of the door, struggled desperately, and screamed loudly: "I'm hungry, my family is poor, and I don't have money to go out to restaurants, so I'm so hungry that I go. Steal Archmaester biscuits, bypass me!"

"pēng pēng pēng..." The other two Acolytes ignored him at all, just continuously kicked the middle-aged apprentice. I had to scream, I had to let go of my hands, and the wooden door "sprayed" and immediately closed tightly.

After Acolyte locked the thick oak door, the foul-mouthed departure left Zoan frantically banging on the door and howling.

Very miserable.

“What’s the matter? Are the Citadel apprentices still hungry?” Dany asked.

"Not normally, you can get a commission for helping Archmaester, but Zoan is too old to get a link, Archmaester doesn't seem to like him, and neither does he Handyman's job, so..." The tall and thin Parker shrugged and stopped.

Dany couldn't help but think of the old apprentice who set up a stall at the gate of Citadel and sold books and wrote letters for the people of Oldtown. It seems that Pate is not a special case, and the life of a Citadel apprentice is not a good one.

Compared with ordinary people, apprentices are already considered superior. So how hard must life be for a rural farmer?

Inside the Seneschal's Court door is a spacious hall of more than 500 square meters, with marble floors and high arched windows on four walls, which are very bright.

Dany and Barristan's iron boots clattered on the floor, their armor too conspicuous compared to the many gray robe Maesters.

However, the title of "Rhaella Wu Zhuangyuan" has begun to ferment, and the coming and going Maesters have guessed her identity, and they have also cast curious and inquiring eyes.

Dany ignored the strange looks from Maester, and asked the taller Economics Maester who led the way: "How long will that Zoan be kept in the small dark room?"

"One day, two days, Not sure."

There is a high platform at the end of the hall, on which is a thin-faced gray robe old Maester, who sees Dany coming, writing on a booklet with a quill, while Asked: "Rhaella Waters? So, Knight squire, what's your name?"

"Arstan, my name is Arstan Storm," White Cloak said.

"Storm? Another illegal child..." The old man wrote down the name given by Knight, and handed over two small wooden tokens and a bronze key, "The two are Citadel The invited guests can take the wooden token to the Book Collection Building to borrow books."

Dany took the wooden token and the key, and after looking through the wooden token, he found that "Rhaella Waters" and "high level guest" were written on the wooden token. , the authority is equivalent to ordinary Maester's handwriting, and the content of White Cloak's wooden token is similar to hers.

"What's the key for?" she asked, holding up the bronze key.

"You'll understand when you go to the library." The old man waved his hand and began to ask the next visitor.

Climbing the stairs, Maester Parker explained, "In addition to books written by Maesters over the years, we've also long-term acquired books of any city-state, any nation, and any language brought by anyone.

After thousands of years, Citadel has the largest collection of books in the world today.

There are so many books that one room can't fit, so Maester needs to take the key to open the door of the book room."

Archmaester is waiting for Dany in a spacious Conference Hall on the second floor, two small bronze statues of Sphinx stand by the door, a room decorated with warm colors of 100 square meters, and a ten-meter-long, two The meter-wide redwood table has no other furnishings except wooden tables and high backed chairs.

When she arrived, seventeen or eight old Archmaesters were arguing with each other with stacks of parchments, and the golden sunlight was shining on them through the arched glass windows, and Dany could see the old man in the beam of light The spittle they spewed out when they quarreled.

"Ah, Miss Rhaella, you're here," Archmaester Perestan hurriedly stood up to greet him, "Just happened to run into Maester Parker? He just went down."

"Well, in I met you at the entrance of the hall."

"Everyone," the red-nosed old man clapped his hands, and after attracting the attention of the Archmaesters, pointed to Dany introduced: "This is a man with profound knowledge and superb martial skill. Miss Rhaella Waters."

"Hello, Miss Rhaella, my name is Gallard." The Archmaester closest to Dany got up immediately, gave a salute, and introduced himself.

Perestan also said at the right time: "Gallard, like me, is proficient in history. He has traveled to Summer Isles, translated the Talking Tree hymn from ancient times to the present, and wrote the famous book "Children of Summer". ."

"Archmaester Gallard, look forward to it for a long time!" Dany's eyes lit up, smiled and complimented: "I also saw your masterpiece in Free City!"

This is To be honest, just like Citadel madly collects books from all over the world, Dany also wants to build a super library in Slaver's Bay. Maritime merchants often come to Astapor full of books, and then take away a lot of gold, sugar, liquor and other goods.

"Children of Summer" is also very famous in Summer Isles. Similar to the ancient Chinese records on the bronze tripod, Summer Isles has a tree with a long lifespan and a huge size, the Talking Tree.

A single tree canopy can cover an entire town.

The local priestess will burn the local major events that happened or heard in the tree trunk in the form of songs and legends in the form of songs and legends every year - Talking Tree has a feature that as long as the tree is alive , the skin scratches will remain permanently.

Thousands of years ago, their history has been preserved through the huge Talking Tree.

In addition, because of this feature of Talking Tree, the craftsmen of Slaver's Bay once proposed to use Talking Tree leather makes "Queen Dany paper"...

While Perestan introduced the Archmaesters one by one, the others were whispering about the strange female Knight in front of them.

"She is so young."

"She is indeed young, no more than 18 years old, but the concept of trade deficit was first proposed by people, and based on this, at least one Economics section can be created. Chain link."

"I just don't know if she has a way to solve the deficit. During the 14 years of King Robert's administration, Seven Kingdoms has lost 16 million Golden Dragons, which is terrifying!"

"Actually, the 'noble collective renege on a debt method' proposed by her last night, you can try it."

"That will make the whole Westeros nailed to the pillar of shame and scolded by foreigners for ten thousand Years."

...

Eighteen Archmaesters, except for Seneschal himself, almost all have two or more copper (historical) and gold (Economics) chain link, with cane and ring in copper or gold-silver alloy.

Well, Citadel apprentices have bare necks, and apprentices who make metal links are eligible to become Maester assistants; when they have enough links (ten knots), they will be promoted to Maester when they form chains; In-depth research, or when there are more than three links of a certain metal chain, qualify as an Archmaester, who wears metal-responsive masks, canes, rings according to their research projects.

For example, Archmaester Perestan, he has chain links of various metals such as silver, gold, lead, iron, black iron, platinum, etc., but his main research project is history, with a full five sections of red copper. chain link.

Therefore, his ring, scepter, and mask are bronze.

If you meet a gray robe person in Citadel, as long as you look at his clothes, you can hardly judge his identity and occupation.

It wasn't until after seeing all the Archmaesters that Archmaester Perestan led Dany to the old man at the chief, "Lord Seneschal, this is Miss Rhaella."

"Snoring—snoring— ' The old man tilted his neck and purred slightly.

The warm afternoon sun shone on the old man, who slept soundly in the quarrelsome room. You can see his face is extremely old, his hair has almost fallen out, revealing a baby-pink scalp, his cheek muscles are shriveled, and his pale chicken skin is covered with age spots the size of soybeans and broad beans.

"Archmaester Walgrave," Perestan had no choice but to step forward and nudge the old man, "Archmaester, Lord Seneschal, Miss Rhaella is here, the meeting can officially begin! "

"Oh, oh, the meeting has started?" The old man rubbed his nose, sat up slowly, only glanced at Dany, suddenly stunned, and immediately struggled to stand up, while shouting: "His Royal Highness atonement, old fogey didn't know you were here, Cressen, Cressen, help me get up to pay homage to Your Highness."

Dany was completely confused and looked stunned. Archmaester Perestan looked embarrassed and blushed. shouted: "Archmaester, you are mistaken, this is Miss Rhaella, and Cressen then went Storm's End half a century ago."

"deng deng deng..." Just then, A small door on the left wall opened, and a young apprentice trotted over from the next room, supported Archmaester Walgrave and asked, "Archmaester, what are you doing?"

"Pate?" Dany was surprised to find the apprentice coming over. It turned out to be Pate, whom he hadn't seen for a long time. His face was no longer as rosy as before, as pale as a patient who had lost too much blood, but a pair of cross-eyeds looked more radiant than before.

"Hello, Miss Rhaella." Pate smiled awkwardly and explained in a low voice, "I'm Archmaester Walgrave's assistant, helping him with his work, but Archmaester often can't remember my name, so he I took him as his assistant when he was young, Maester Cressen."

Gradually, Dany frowned, and she realized that the sympathetic temperament that once made her feel pity in Pate was gone, but more It's a bit exaggerated to say... disgusting, but that kind of smell is always unpleasant.

However, there are so many people here, and she doesn't have time to study the changes of the elementary school apprentices. The old Archmaester is still making a fuss!

"What are you talking about, see you soon..." After Archmaester Walgrave said a sentence, he froze again and murmured, "Hey, this is Rhaelle. Princess, or Princess Rhaella, I didn't catch it."

"It's time for Archmaester Theobald to preside over the meeting." Some Archmaester sighed.

"Ai, don't blame his old man. Archmaester Walgrave is 94 years old this year. He was fine in the Seneschal election last year, but he developed Alzheimer's disease in the past month." Archmaester next to him shook his head and sighed.

The crowd discussed spiritedly, Dany was embarrassed and shocked, not realizing that there were two old Archmaesters in their fifties looking at her strangely...