Daenerys no longer needed to rely on socializing to maintain her relationship with nobles and merchants, so before the dinner, she instructed Daeron not to invite too many people.
The reason why she allowed outsiders to attend the banquet was to allow Daeron and Hizdahr to better develop Slave Bay. Otherwise, there would be no need to lower her status to entertain them.
At the banquet, all the guests were proud to be able to drink with Daenerys. At most, they would say hello and leave on their own accord. They felt that their status was too different from Daenerys and they did not dare to chat with her casually.
One can only secretly admire Daenerys' noble appearance from a close distance and observe the extraordinary black dragon on her shoulder.
After the banquet, the next day Daenerys took a walk around Meereen, showed her face, and then went to Yunkai and Astapor to conscientiously carry out her task of patrolling the Slave's Bay.
After staying in Slaver's Bay for three days, they set off to continue their journey eastward.
It flew over the old city of Ghis, showing its presence, crossed the dry red wasteland, and arrived at Qarth, the largest port city in the Summer Sea, in the afternoon.
Here Daenerys almost shed tears of humiliation, here Drogon officially became a god, and this was also the first step in Daenerys's rise to fame, owning five large ships.
Visiting the old place again, Daenerys was filled with emotion. She asked Drogon to find the Zaro Manor where they lived in Qarth and land there.
As soon as Drogon flew over Qarth, he caused great panic. His wingspan of nearly 200 meters covered a small area of the sky.
The people of Qartheen had never seen such a huge creature before, and they thought it was going to pounce on them and devour them, so they fled in panic.
After flying over most of Qarth, Drogon finally found the manor where he used to live. Apart from the gate and wall that had been burned down by Drogon, the rest of the manor had not changed much.
There was no space in the small manor for the huge Drogon to land, so he could only fly over the road outside the manor to start the transformation.
The moment Daenerys lost weight and fell, he handed her his hind paw, allowing her to hold it and slowly land on the ground.
Watching the huge Drogon shrinking and Daenerys's strange way of landing, the Qarth shepherds couldn't help but widen their eyes and forgot to run away. Perhaps they subconsciously thought that the shrunken black dragon was no longer so scary.
Some of them even felt familiar with the shrunken Drogon, and then they remembered the incident of dragon flame burning people that happened here a few years ago.
A newly born black dragon, along with two other little dragons, burned all the Qartheen warriors who invaded the manor into charcoal.
Thinking of this, they looked at Drogon, then looked up at the green dragon still flying in the sky, and became more certain of their thoughts. The three little dragons back then had grown up!
Ignoring the curious eyes around her, Daenerys landed on the ground and walked to the gate of the courtyard and knocked on the bolt.
The people in the courtyard had already seen Drogon in the sky. They had come to watch the fun and never expected that the black dragon and the woman on its back would come looking for them.
He opened the door tremblingly, looked at the beautiful and noble Daenerys and Drogon on her shoulder, and the white-faced, beardless middle-aged man in his forties stammered, "Respected...respected lady, how can I...how can I help you?"
"I want to buy this place. How many Hui coins?"
The middle-aged man didn't expect that Daenerys knocked on the door in order to buy the courtyard.
"This courtyard belongs to my master, and I have no right to make the decision. I can only give you an answer after asking him." The middle-aged man said after hesitating.
"Which great lord is it?" Daenerys asked, recalling her experience in Qarth.
"It's Hal Ruda Grosso."
"It's him!" Daenerys said to herself.
Hal was the fat spice magnate who had kept Daenerys and her little Khalasar out of Qarth.
After Zaro's death, other magnates and royal families divided up his property, and this manor has now become his property.
"Tell him as soon as possible that I want to buy this manor."
Upon learning that he was Hal's subordinate, Daenerys spoke bluntly.
Hearing something wrong in Daenerys' tone, the middle-aged man was startled. Just as he was about to agree, he suddenly saw a fat man outside the door walking towards him in a panic. Who else could it be but Hal?
Seeing the man's strange look, Daenerys turned around and looked back, just in time to meet Hal's horrified gaze.
"Lord Hal, long time no see!" Daenerys said with a smile at Hal.
"You...you are Daenerys?" After seeing Daenerys and looking at Drogon on his shoulder, Hal asked with the fat on his face trembling.
"That's me."
"Your Majesty... Queen, Qarth welcomes you." Hal bowed deeply.
As the spice magnate of Qarth, he naturally had no shortage of news from Westeros.
Daenerys broke through the Slaver's Bay, ordered the black dragon to burn New and Old Ghis, conquered Westeros, and recovered the nine free trade cities, forming an empire that was even more vast than the territory of the original Free Fortress of Valyria.
And now that Daenerys has come with her dragon, Hal dare not treat her with disrespect.
"I want to buy this manor. How much do you want?" Without saying too much nonsense to Hal, Daenerys directly stated her purpose.
"Do you want this manor?" Hal was a little confused. As soon as he asked, he remembered that Daenerys once lived here.
He couldn't help but curse himself in his heart for being unlucky. Zaro had so many properties but chose this manor. Now that Daenerys came to him, he could only give it up.
He knew very well how Daenerys left Qarth, although the royal family and their remaining great men did not take action against Daenerys due to the threat from Drogon.
But she was not allowed to take away the wealth of Dozalor, and was only allowed to take five large ships. It was equivalent to Daenerys leaving Qarth under the coercion of the royal family and the magnates.
Now she just wants a small estate, how dare Hal take the money?
"Your Majesty, since you like this manor, I will give it to you as a gift for your return. You don't need to pay a penny."
Daenerys was greatly pleased with Hal's words. Although Hal had shut her out, he did not plot against her like Zarrow and the wizard did.
Although Daenerys hated him very much, she did not hold much resentment towards him.
Of course Daenerys would not accept Hal's generosity. She was not short of money now, so she naturally would not owe Hal a favor for such a small amount of money.
"I won't take this manor for nothing, just name a price!"
Hal's heart tightened when he heard that Daenerys was unwilling to accept his gift.
Seeing Daenerys's expression, it would probably be useless if he tried to give it to her, so he thought for a moment and said, "You only need to pay one hundred brilliant coins or gold dragons and it will be yours immediately."
One hundred gold dragons were not even enough to build the manor, let alone go through several rounds of renovation and maintenance. It was almost the same as giving it away for free.