Chapter 179 The daily life of a falconer

"When we come back, go to the market to buy some mutton. Anzan has passed the test as a pier pilot and will take up his post at the pier tomorrow. Buy some mutton and come back to celebrate." Miss Chao has already changed into the falconer's service and is ready to go out. Karaz, the working husband, said loudly.

"Okay, got it." Karaz responded loudly.

In fact, there is no need for his wife to remind him. When he comes back, he will also buy a piece of mutton and let his wife cook a hometown dish. By the way, he will also go to the blacksmith shop to get back the long sword specially forged to celebrate his son becoming a dock pilot.

Karaz's residence is on the hillside on the west side of Miracle Port. All the houses are built along the hillside. Some are brick and stone houses, some are wooden houses, and have the styles of different regions. Compared with Miracle Port, Looking at the uniform houses and streets in Jigang City, there is something more exotic here.

The people who live here are almost all slaves from the continent of Essos, or to be more correct, former slaves.

A year ago, they were transported by a large number of ships from Slaver's Bay to Miracle Port. At that time, they all thought that they would work in a mine in this foreign country until they died. But what they didn't expect was that after getting off the ship, they would Slave collars were removed from their necks, and they were declared free men while requiring them to repay the money that purchased them with their monthly wages.

After that, all the freed slaves were assigned to different places and had different jobs according to their abilities.

Karaz's wife, Miss, is proficient in cooking and once worked as a cook in a slave owner's house in Meereen. She was assigned to the naval camp as a cook, specializing in preparing food for the naval soldiers.

Karaz is a famous falconer in Meereen. He was assigned to the eagle's nest on the hillside outside Miracle Harbor, and he and other falconers from different places specialized in training messenger eagles for communication.

Compared to his wife, Karaz's salary is very high. He saves all his salary and only spends his wife's salary every month. Although he lives a tight life, he can't even part with his favorite tobacco. But it was all worth it, because after he saved five months' salary, he had paid off all the debts of his family.

He still remembered how excited his family was after repaying their debts. Even now, every time he thinks about that moment, he can feel the blood in his body boiling with excitement. Becoming a free man is something that his family could never imagine before. things.

Therefore, he was extremely grateful to Linde Terra, the Earl of Summer Hall and the Chosen One of the Seven Gods, who had given him all this, and felt that he should spend his whole life repaying Linde's kindness.

Not only did he think this way, but all the slaves who were freed because of Linde thought this way.

Just two months ago, when Mr. Linde came to Miracle Port to inspect the construction of the city and the operation of the port city hall, they saw Mr. Linde from a distance riding on the back of a giant horse, followed by A giant beast with black and white fur, followed by four bronze giant guards stationed in the Temple of Miracles and guard knights in full armor. Everyone gave out heartfelt praises. In the end, all the praises turned into the name of the Chosen One. call.

While recalling the scene of that day in his mind, Karaz passed through the Pisces Arch of Miracle Port and entered the city.

There is no city wall in Miracle Port, because when it was built, the earl said that the city would continue to expand outwards, and building the city wall was troublesome and wasteful. As for the safety issue, the earl did not seem to particularly care. According to his words, the enemies have already attacked. When we reach the edge of the city, it doesn't matter whether there is a city wall or not.

Although Karaz is from Meereen, he is not from Meereen himself. His father is a maritime merchant. Because he owed a large debt, the family became slaves. When he was still young, he followed My father was sold to different owners and visited many cities in Essos.

And now this miracle city is the most organized city among all the cities he has ever seen. All the main roads are built according to the width of six carriages parallel, and are divided into left and right lanes, and a road is built in the middle. The row of isolation belts is called the green belt.

All roads are horizontal and vertical. Standing on any road, you can clearly see the end of the road extension. The entire city is divided into square areas by these horizontal and vertical roads, and the intersections of the roads There is a stone platform set up at the center of each road. Every day, four people called conductors take turns directing carriages and people walking on the road on the stone platform to correct road blockages caused by incorrect driving.

Karaz's youngest son wants to become a traffic controller when he grows up, because traffic controllers have great authority. Even officials from the city hall will be stopped and punished if they violate laws and regulations while driving on the road.

For example, Wise Rowan, the general manager of Miracle Port, has always been punished more than once for riding a horse in the wrong direction. Wise Rowan, the most important person in Miracle Port, has been punished, and other city officials naturally dare not raise objections.

Karaz could feel that Lord Linde had an extremely strong obsession with rules and cleanliness. He not only set detailed rules for how to walk on the road, for example, vehicles must drive in the left and right lanes, and pedestrians must keep close to the edge of the road. When walking on the road, you can only cross the road from the intersection, etc.

Moreover, he dug two sewers on both sides of the road specifically to prevent water accumulation on the road, and set up a special position of hygienist to clean the garbage and feces on the road and in the city. All garbage and feces will be sent to a place called The garbage disposal site will be sorted, and the feces will be turned into compost for farmland, while other garbage will be sent to the forge deep in the Crimson Mountains for incineration.

The people who work at the garbage disposal site are not ordinary people. They are beggars wandering the streets, criminals who have violated the law, homeless people with no skills, and refugees who have just arrived in Miracle Port and cannot find a job. They will all be punished. Except for criminals, everyone who works here can get ten copper coins every day, which is enough to feed them.

Although countless people are complaining about the strict regulations enacted by the Earl, and even the officials of the city hall are complaining about the large amount of work these regulations bring to them, they are also enjoying the benefits brought by the regulations while complaining. The good thing is, after all, no one wants to live in a noisy environment where they can step on garbage and feces at any time.

"Hey! Karaz, I knew it was right to wait for you here at this time." When Karaz passed the intersection of Shenghui Road and Wheel Road, a fat man in gorgeous clothes suddenly ran out of the roadside tavern. He grabbed Karaz's sleeve and greeted him warmly.

Seeing this person, Karaz frowned, pulled his sleeves out of the other person's hands, and said seriously: "Mr. Merrila, I told you that all letters are opened by special personnel, I am just a messenger. , please stop pestering me. Instead of asking for information from me, a person who knows nothing, it is better to stay in the trading hall of the dock, maybe you can get the information you want there. "

After saying that, he hurried across the road and ignored the fat man again.

Seeing Karaz fleeing for his life, Fatty's face became extremely gloomy, and there was a hint of ferocity in his eyes. It felt like he wanted to use other methods to solve the matter.

But before he could figure out how to deal with Karaz, a group of guard warriors wearing blood-red leather armor came to the tavern and took him and his companions away. The whole process was quick and easy. Efficiently, he was gagged before he could even open his mouth to reveal his identity, and everyone else in the tavern stayed away, and no one wanted to have anything to do with them.

At the same time, Karaz did not know what happened in the tavern. The entanglement of the man just now made him realize that this matter was not something he could solve. If he continued like this, he might be dragged into the abyss by this guy. middle.

So he decided to wait until he arrived at the Eagle's Nest, tell his boss about the matter, and ask his boss to contact the Blood Armor Man and let the Blood Armor Man solve this problem, no matter how much he didn't like to contact intelligence agencies like the Blood Armor Man. , it is better than having someone ruin your current peaceful life.

Passed through the Glory Square, entered the Avenue of the Seven Gods, and walked straight to the end of the road. Instead of continuing to climb the steps to worship at the Miracle Temple, he turned and entered the forest path in the northeast direction.

There was a sentry at the entrance of this trail. When Karaz walked over, although the sentry knew him, he still carefully checked his ID, registered his name on the access list, and asked him to sign before signing in. He puts it in.

Although the woods and grasslands on both sides of this trail are not surrounded by fences, no one dares to approach without permission because this is where the naval camp and the city guard barracks are located. Anyone who tries to break in will be treated as an enemy and killed directly. .

Not long ago, a drunken noble broke into this area. Before he could explain, he was shot dead by more than a dozen crossbow arrows. With such a bloody example, there are basically no people in this area. People will come closer.

After passing through the forest path, Karaz came to a fork in the road. The road was divided into three, and the three roads led to the city guard barracks, the naval camp and the Eagle's Nest Hill respectively.

When Karaz was about to walk onto the path to the Eagle's Nest Hill, a group of heroic female cavalrymen wearing uniform armor came over from the path to the city guard barracks.

In Miracle Port, the city garrison is divided into male and female battalions. These female cavalry are the unique female city garrison.

Although some people are extremely disdainful of the female city guard and even slander them, they have to admit that the strength of these female cavalry is no worse than that of men, especially the commander of the female battalion Daisy Mormont and the deputy Commander Obaya Sand, the two of them are even more ridiculously powerful.

Not long ago, a team of twenty mercenaries suddenly attacked a warehouse storing goods while they were patrolling the dock. They also tried to rob a ship docked at the dock. As a result, the two of them cooperated to chop melons and vegetables. Usually it's solved neatly.

"Tilan!" As this group of female cavalry passed by, Karaz suddenly raised his hand and waved towards one of the female cavalry and shouted.

The female cavalry did not turn her head, but glanced sideways at Karaz, as if she was blaming him for greeting him regardless of the occasion. She did not turn her head to look at Karaz again until the team walked over.

Tilan is Karaz's sister and a gladiator in the Meereen Arena. She originally belonged to another slave merchant. However, after a merchant from Pentos bought their family, Tilan was also transferred to him at his request. Bought it.

After arriving at Miracle Port, Tilan immediately joined the garrison. With the combat skills gained from fighting in the arena, she was quickly put to good use. Now she is a squad leader of the garrison, and she is considered a member of the family. The best person.

"Anzan has passed the dock pilot test. Miss is going to celebrate in the evening by making her famous mutton soup. Remember to come back for dinner in the evening!" Karaz shouted loudly at the cavalry team walking past.

Tilan did not respond verbally, but raised her hand to show that she understood.

Being able to meet his sister on the road and not needing to go to the military camp to notify her through additional applications, Karaz felt that he had good luck today, and his steps were much brisker, and he soon arrived at the Eagle's Nest at the top of the hill.

The entire eagle nest is carved out of a huge rock. Each eagle nest is connected by a strong wooden pile hanging ladder. There are a total of more than 40 eagle nests here, trained by thirteen falconers. Responsible for care.

Although in terms of quantity, it cannot be compared with the crow's nest on the other side of the city, in terms of importance, the ravens in the crow's nest are far from comparable to the letter eagle.

In addition to transmitting information to each other for each fleet, these letter eagles are also used to transmit some extremely important information and intelligence within the territory.

After Karaz arrived at the Eagle's Nest, he immediately reported to his superior what he had encountered on the road. After hearing this, his superior carefully recorded what he said, sealed it up, and asked his attendants to send it to The dark room of the Blood Armor Man's headquarters.

Seeing that the matter had been reported, Karaz was slightly relieved. He then went to the nests of the faith eagles that he was responsible for, and took care of the faith eagles with his eagle attendants.

When the time came in the afternoon, when he was about to hand over work to another falconer, the Eagle Nest Manager hurried to the nest he was responsible for and asked directly: "How is the situation of the kestrel? Can you send a message immediately?"

Karaz was stunned when he heard this. The kestrel is the fastest flying messenger eagle in the Eagle's Nest. It is only responsible for delivering messages to Summer Hall Castle. Only extremely important messages will use the kestrel.

"You can fly at any time." Karaz replied quickly without thinking too much.

The warden of the Eagle's Nest immediately took out a wax-sealed copper tube and gave it to Karaz, who asked Karaz to pick out a kestrel, tied the copper tube to the kestrel's talons, watched him release it, and then turned around. leave.

"What do you think happened?" Another falconer who witnessed all this asked curiously.

"I don't know," Karaz shook his head slightly and said, "Maybe it has something to do with the naval fleet. There was a navy fleet mark on the copper pipe just now."

The falconer asked in confusion: "Naval fleet? Is it another news that it has occupied a certain island?"

"The Sea of ​​Dorne is already an inland sea. If there are still islands occupied, it must be because of other things." Karaz shook his head and responded to his colleagues' words, his heart already flying home.