Chapter 68: The Broken-Engagement Men in the World of Ice and Fire
New Ghis is built on a narrow island two kilometers wide and eight kilometers long. Because the large island of Jinn at the southern end is like a crab, stretching out two large claws to protect the small island of New Ghis in the center, the sea near the harbor is very calm.
On the blue mirror-like sea, hundreds of large ships are hovering, including bright red wooden hulls, white-painted rowing speedboats, and black big-bellied ships. Many of them are waiting for the arrival of the sea breeze like Dany and her friends.
You ask why it is not like the earth, accurately estimating the arrival of the monsoon every year, and then sailing along the monsoon?
Haha, in this fantasy world, even the seasons are not fixed, where does the monsoon come from?
Dany has been here for almost half a year, but there are only temperature changes caused by the latitude - the closer to the north, the colder, the further south you go, the hotter - you don't feel the slightest change of seasons.
In the afternoon, the blue sea and sky merged into one, and the green canvas on the mast was as soft and weak as a grandmother's nipple. In the shade of the bow, several people were watching the scenery and chatting.
When talking about the change of seasons, Whitebeard told Dany that summer was not over yet, and there would be at least one more year of "ghost summer".
Dany was very interested in the term "ghost summer" and asked the old man to explain.
But before Whitebeard could talk, Jorah said first: "Northerners understand the change of seasons better than Southerners.
Summer can bring many harvests, providing people with a lot of food, and the poor can have enough food and clothing, so everyone is looking forward to the arrival of "eternal summer".
However, the summer has long sunshine hours and the weather is often too hot, which often causes drought.
Especially at the end of the long summer that lasts for several years, the weather is too hot, and a lot of water evaporates into the sky, making the sky gray, gloomy, and filled with water vapor everywhere. This season is called "ghost summer".
There is no doubt that this summer lasted for 11 years, which is definitely a long summer, but after the long summer, the last year must be the 'ghost summer', and after the ghost summer there is an autumn, and after the autumn." Speaking of this, Jorah's face became solemn and sighed, "After the long summer, there must be a long winter that lasts for several years. Winter is coming!
The princes of Westeros are fighting, and the peasants have been recruited as soldiers by the feudal lords. They will definitely not be able to store food in the past two years. When winter comes in two years, I don't know how many people will die. The south may not be afraid of the long winter, but the north."
"Lord Mormont is right." Rarely, Whitebeard agreed with Jorah's words. "Before I left the Seven Kingdoms, the Council of Governors had already dispatched white ravens to various places."
Dany raised her eyebrows. "White ravens?"
"You knew there was a Citadel in Oldtown, right?"
Seeing Dany nod, Whitebeard continued, "The change of seasons is closely related to the lives of the people of the Seven Kingdoms, but neither the commoners nor the nobles understand the climate and celestial phenomena, so they can only rely on the scholars in the Citadel. The
Citadel has set up a special astronomical observation committee to measure the length of daylight each day, observe the changes in the constellations in the sky, and other observation objects that I don't know about.
The people on the observation committee will summarize the collected data and send it to the Council of Governors in the Citadel - the management group of the Citadel.
You must know that only doctors are qualified to attend the meetings of the Council of Governors.
A group of the most knowledgeable and experienced doctors can accurately calculate the changes of the seasons through the data collected. Then, they will use white ravens to send the information to the fiefs of the major lords."
It seems quite advanced!
Dany nodded and asked, "Have the Magi ever made a mistake?"
Whitebeard suddenly became dazed when he heard this, as if her words reminded him of a painful memory.
"The wrong spring!" Jorah Mormont said sullenly.
Whitebeard closed his eyes for a long time, then suddenly opened them again. The pain in his eyes had disappeared. He whispered, "After summer comes autumn, and after a long winter comes a warm spring. Whenever spring comes, everyone knows that the cruel winter has passed and the beautiful summer is about to come.
When the white doves in the Citadel bring everyone the message of spring, people all over the country will take out the last grain reserves and celebrate the spring."
Dany nodded. It was probably the Spring Festival for the people of Westeros. After a few summers, an autumn, and a few winters, finally a spring came.
Well, the people of Westeros are so miserable. On average, they can only celebrate the Spring Festival once every ten years.
Whitebeard continued, "But the climate may be abnormal at the end of winter. The weather will turn warmer, as if spring has arrived, but the cold winter will continue. People cannot grow crops and cannot resume production.
The last wrong spring occurred in the early stage of the War of the Usurper, about 18 years ago.
The white crows of the cardinal came to King's Landing. In order to show his status and celebrate the upcoming long summer, Lord Harrenhal invited all the warriors of the Seven Kingdoms to a tournament.
Your brother, Prince Rhaegar, was very brave and defeated all powerful enemies to win the championship of the tournament.
But he placed the winter snow rose crown representing the 'Queen of Love and Beauty' on the knees of Robert Baratheon's fiancée, Lyanna of the Stark family, instead of his wife, Princess Elia Martell of Dorne.
The scene at that time... Well, I don't need to say what comes next, you may have understood it?"
Brain-dead? Sperm on the brain? Met true love?
Dany couldn't be sure of what that cheap big brother was thinking.
In the Qidian novels, the woman often breaks the engagement because she despises the man. This kind of plot is commonly known as the "broken engagement trend". There have been three famous broken engagement incidents in this world, but it was the man who broke the engagement with the woman.
The woman didn't shout "Thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west" and "Don't bully a poor girl", but the woman's parents were all tough guys, making the scum pay a greater price.
About 60 years ago, Daenerys's great-uncle, Duncan Targaryen, known as "Shorty Duncan", broke off the engagement with the daughter of Lord Baratheon for the commoner "Jeyne of Stone City".
Well, Prince Duncan is not short. The reason why he is called Short Duncan is because there was a legendary knight in the Kingsguard at that time, "Tall Duncan". Well, that Sir Duncan was very tall. Tall Duncan was a great knight, and the king served as a knight squire for him. Obviously, Prince Duncan's name came from Knight Duncan.
Crown Prince Duncan paid the price of a throne and a sister, and also laid the groundwork for the future demise of the Targaryen family.
The first generation of the man who broke off the engagement had a good ending. His legendary story of loving beauty instead of the country was sung by countless bards, and he finally got the beautiful name of "Prince Dragonfly".
How many girls in the boudoir have become crazy about Prince Dragonfly because of this story, and are madly envious of Jeyne of Stonehenge.
The second generation of the man who broke off the engagement was Dany's eldest brother Rhaegar. He did not break off the engagement, because he was already married when he met his true love, and he had two children.
Rhaegar paid an even heavier price: his wife was raped and killed, his son and daughter died tragically, his father the king died tragically, his family was destroyed, and the Targaryen dynasty ended.
Well, he died too.
Capitalize the word "miserable".
From this point on, about a year later, the third generation of male generals who broke off the engagement will be born. Robb Stark will fall in love with the daughter of a small noble family and break off the engagement with the daughter of Lord Frey.
By the way, the woman who made King Robb break off the engagement is also called Jeyne.
The name "Jeanne" is poisonous.
The price Robb paid was also great: his own life, the dream of the King in the North, his mother died tragically (resurrected as a soul-seeker), countless northern nobles died tragically, and the Stark family was on the verge of destruction.
"Wrong season, wrong choice, that was the most wrong spring!" Whitebeard concluded.
"Attention, crew members of the Cedurian, this is the New Ghis Customs Patrol! Attention, crew members of the Cedurian, this is the New Ghis Customs Patrol."
A voice came from the sea outside the ship. The other party shouted five times in a row in Valyrian with an accent. The voice was loud and clear. Even Dany and her companions at the bow could hear it from a distance of dozens of meters.
Ser Jorah walked to the side of the ship, lowered his head and looked down for a while, then came back and said, "The New Ghis Customs boat is docked next to our merchant ship, and it seems to be checking our cargo in the cabin."
"Why is that? We didn't enter the dock area." Dany asked in confusion.
"Last time we went from Pentos to Qarth, we were also checked when we stopped here. According to Grolai, the New Ghis people are trying to prevent pirate ships from disguising themselves and sneaking into the harbor." Whitebeard said.
Dany became interested after hearing this, and took the lead to walk to the entrance of the warehouse, and several people immediately followed.
Two Gith warriors in leather armor and a middle-aged official in dark robes. They are stout, with amber skin, broad noses and black eyes.
The most unforgettable thing is that the three Gith people, whether soldiers or officials, have upright red and black hair.
It is not dyed, but natural black and red, and they have a hairstyle like Sendo in "Slam Dunk".
It's a pity that they don't have Sendo's appearance, and they feel a little ugly.
They said they were going to check the cargo, but in fact they just went down to take a look and confirmed that there were really cargoes inside instead of armed personnel, and then the Gith people came up.
The whole process took no more than three minutes.
"So fast, what are you checking?" Dany asked the official who was climbing up the deck from the cabin.
"Ah, you" The man was stunned at first, and suddenly said excitedly: "You are the mother of dragons, the queen of the setting sun, Daenerys Targaryen!? I heard that you bought camels and planned to travel by land. The people of Meereen are still looking forward to seeing dragons day and night!"
They will let them see enough.
Dany nodded, "I am Daenerys."
"Oh, I'm the New Ghis Customs Commissioner, Zanack zo Loraq." He quickly saluted and introduced himself.
"Hello, Mr. Loraq." After greeting, Dany asked in confusion, "How did you know the route I originally planned?"
The Ghis man proudly waved his hand and pointed to the thousands of large ships floating on the sea, saying, "New Ghis is the gateway to the western world, and the news of the birth of a true dragon is spreading among the sailors at the dock."
After the two New Ghis soldiers and several sailors below also climbed onto the deck, the middle-aged customs official explained, "Mother of Dragons, you may not know that the Summer Sea has been very uneasy in the past six months, and there have been many incidents of pirates looting merchant ships.
Especially in the area of the Sea of Sorrow near Valyria, some people have seen red devil ships appearing in the fog."
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