Chapter 93 Punishment Square
When she saw Euron again, Dany was shocked to find that the burns on his face had scabbed over.
She studied medicine and knew how difficult it was to heal severe burns, suppuration, infection, fever, inflammation.
If she saw a weak patient with white gauze wrapped around his head, and the gauze was soaked with reddish-brown pus and blood, she would think it was normal.
But Euron was walking over with a heavy chain in a casual manner .
"Why did your injury heal so quickly?" she asked in confusion.
Euron's bright blue right eye looked at Dany's fair and smooth cheek, and smiled: "Aren't you faster than me? Don't say these useless things. Now the ship has docked. When will you let me go?"
"I was going to release you as soon as you recovered from your injuries." Waving at the centaur who was escorting Euron, Dany ordered: "Untie Ser Euron's chains. He is no longer a prisoner."
The centaur looked at Jorah, Whitebeard, Belwas, Aggo and others behind her, and felt that Khaleesi's safety would not be threatened, so he stepped forward without saying a word and deftly untied the chains on Euron's wrists and ankles.
"Jhiqui, bring the new clothes you bought today for Ser Euron to change into." Dany ordered the centaur maid.
Euron tilted his neck, moved his hands and feet, looked at Dany in confusion and asked, "What do you want me to do?"
She touched her nose, waved her hand and asked Doreah to bring a small stool to Euron. After Euron sat down with a suspicious look in his eyes, he said, "It's not a big deal. I plan to buy a batch of Unsullied in Aposta, but I don't have enough money-"
"What?" Euron was furious, "You actually sold me? The slave trade is strictly prohibited in the Seven Kingdoms."
If you have valuable dragon eggs, I will really sell you.
"Calm down, calm down," Dany pressed down with her right hand and comforted him, "Don't worry, you are not worth much-"
This sentence seemed to hurt the weak heart of Crow Eye again. He interrupted her for the second time and said angrily, "More than a dozen countries in the Jade Sea have launched a high reward for me. You say I am not worth much?"
Dany shrugged, "At most, it's tens of thousands of gold dragons, a drizzle. Or, for you, tens of thousands of gold dragons are already a huge sum of money?"
"Haha, yes, it's nothing to you, after all, you robbed a ship of treasure from me!" Euron sneered again and again.
"To be honest, your ship of treasure is only over 500,000 gold royals, which is really not much. Robert Baratheon's foreign debt exceeds 6 million gold royals. I, the legitimate queen, should be more ostentatious than him, right?" Dany said lightly. "What kind of ostentation does a king who has lost his kingdom have? I have heard that people in the Free Cities call your brother the 'Beggar King', and you..." Euron said with a tut-tut sound, but did not say the rest of the words.
"Barefoot Princess" is Daenerys's nickname on the road.
Because of poverty and the hot climate in Tyrosh and Myr, Viserys had no money to buy shoes for his sister, so little Daenerys often walked barefoot in the streets and alleys of the trading cities.
"Your Highness, the Kingsguard has the responsibility to maintain your majesty. Even if you pardon the Crow's Eye for the crime of regicide, please let me duel with him!" Jorah said, holding the sword with his right hand, staring at Euron with cold eyes like lightning.
"Give me back my armor and I'll give you a hand." Euron rolled his eyes and said sarcastically.
"Ah, I could have explained it in a few simple sentences, but you interrupted me and made a scene instead." Dany rubbed her forehead and said directly: "I will sell the dragon egg you found in the ruins of Valyria, as well as the sea chart that leads through the Sea of Smoke.
Tomorrow morning, you will go with me to the slave owner and tell him about the exploration of Valyria again. After the transaction is completed the day after tomorrow, I will let you go immediately, and your group of pirate brothers will leave with you."
"Is there a problem?" she asked.
"Yes." Euron nodded and asked in confusion: "The dragon eggs were not found in Valyria. I robbed them from the Jade Sea."
"So you lied to me?" Dany lowered her eyes, chewing a big tomato, and said vaguely: "The Jade Sea dragon eggs are not unique, but the dragon eggs of the Valyrian Dragon King are the only one in the world. There is no doubt that the latter is more valuable.
You clearly said last time that the armor and dragon eggs were found in Governor Trier's castle at the same time. Now you want to go back on your word?
If you lied to me last time, our agreement can't continue. Don't blame me for breaking my promise. You broke your promise first."
"I remembered it wrongly." Euron immediately followed the "good" and nodded to admit: "The dragon eggs were found in Trier, maybe more than one. I went there in a hurry and was short of manpower, so I didn't dig the castle at all. If the good masters were well prepared, maybe they could find the dragon's nest and the Valyrian steel arsenal!"
"Well, so I'm at a big loss!" Dany wiped the juice from the corner of her mouth and sighed.
"Yes, the good masters are making a fortune!" Euron also sighed, as if he felt sorry for his queen.
"Here," Dany handed over a big persimmon, "very sweet."
Whitebeard and Jorah looked at the two people chewing persimmons with wooden faces.
The third meeting with the good masters was held in the Punishment Square. Pride Square is the place to view the goods, and the Punishment Square is the slave training ground.
It is located behind the main gate of Astapor, equivalent to the "Wu Men" Square in the Forbidden City. Rebellious and disobedient slaves will be punished or executed there.
The dock area where the fleet is located is located in the northwest corner of Astapor. To get to the Punishment Square, you have to go around a quarter of the city. Along the way, Dany saw the truer appearance of this slave city.
More than a dozen tall and magnificent pyramids occupy a small half of the city's land. The rest of the buildings are so low and dilapidated, and the narrow alleys are full of sewage. When the convoy passes by, it startles a buzzing green-headed fly.
A little girl with a sunburned back squatted naked beside the overflowing red brick gutter to defecate. The sound of horse hooves and wheels rolling over the uneven road surface startled her. The girl stared with big brown eyes, staring blankly at Dany and her group passing by, then lowered her head and continued.
Passing through the alley with low eaves, she walked another section of red brick street near the ancient wall around the city.
When passing the ancient wall around the city, Dany saw a dangerous wall full of cracks and was very worried that it would collapse towards her.
There was no bronze harpy statue in the Punishment Square. A huge wooden platform was placed in the center.
Just like the gallows in the Western world and the guillotine in the Eastern world, rebellious slaves were tortured, skinned, strangled, and finally displayed on the wooden platform.
The first thing new slaves saw when they entered the city was this platform.
Obviously, the good masters were very proficient in how to train obedient slaves.
The ox cart stopped at the front avenue of the square. When Dany got off the car, she saw a little black girl in a gray linen dress waiting there.
The little black girl with a flat round face trotted over, bowed deeply, and said, "Greetings, Your Majesty. The good master asked me to serve you in the next trip. If the transaction is completed, I will be given to Your Majesty as a gift to help Your Majesty teach the Unsullied the language of Westeros."
"Get up, little girl." Dany walked over and helped her up, and asked with a smile, "What's your name and how old are you?"
"My name is Missandei, and I'm ten years old this year." The little black girl said softly.
Dany was stunned. Missandei is a very important and outstanding supporting role in "Game of Thrones", almost equivalent to Daenerys's "Shangguan Wan'er". But although Missandei is also a black girl, she is obviously an adult.
At first, she was a little disappointed, thinking that the time was wrong and she missed the black girl's clerk, but she didn't expect that the plot changed so much, Missandei is actually a child? !
Dany touched Missandei's watermelon-shaped head and smiled: "I am Daenerys Targaryen, do you know?"
"I know."
Approaching the wooden platform, at first glance, Dany thought that the slave on it was a special race, with skin like zebras, but when she got closer and took a closer look, she found that what kind of skin was that?
The slave had no skin at all.
Just like peeling an apple, the skin of the disobedient slave was peeled off strip by strip, like the curled apple skin, thus forming a "zebra" skin with different colors.
The slave is not dead yet.
"What did he do?" Dany's face turned pale, pointing at the skinner.
"He was whipped for resisting, and when the good master asked him if he realized his lowly nature, the slave tied to the cross spat a mouthful of bloody phlegm at the good master."
Dany pointed to another slave, one of whose arms was crawling with black flies from fingers to elbows, and the rest of his body remained intact, but he was no longer breathing.
"What did this man do?"
"He was a new slave, and when the master whipped him with a whip, he raised that hand to resist. The master smeared that hand with thick honey, and then poured a box of long-horned ants on him."
At this point, Missandei's little black face also turned a little pale, "The slave howled for three days and three nights before he died, and there was no second new slave who dared to resist."
"Beast!" Whitebeard's eyes were blazing, and the crutch in his hand kept stomping on the brick floor.
"Let's go, take me to see the good masters."
The pyramid behind the Punishment Square is 100 meters high, the tallest and largest building in Astapor.
While climbing the stairs, Missandei introduced to Dany that this pyramid belongs to Grazdan Mo Urho, with a total of 33 floors. The bottom floor has a prison, a slave lounge, a warehouse, a servant's living room, and the good master's warehouse, study, and reception room.
This time, there are a total of eight good masters who want to see Dany. They are big figures at the top of Astapor's power. Among them, Grazdan is the leader. Kraznys, who had previously discussed business with Dany, is far inferior to him.
At the same time, Missandei also reminded Dany that five of the eight good masters waiting for her in the top-floor conference room are called Grazdan and two are called Kraznys. When she calls them, it is better to add their surnames.
Dany suddenly became a muggle. In her eyes, the Gis people with black and red upright hair and amber skin are almost the same, just like the black uncles in the eyes of the Chinese, and they can't be distinguished at all. Now that they even have the same name, what should she do?
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