Chapter 217: Drinking Together

After hearing Daenerys' decision, Jon wanted to refuse again, but then he thought of Ygritte who was secretly following him.

In addition, the army of the White Walkers was destroyed and the Night King was dead. He had fulfilled part of the Night's Watch's oath. It seemed meaningless to stay at the Wall, so he didn't say anything against it and nodded slightly.

"Don't tell anyone else about this except your family!"

Seeing Jon nod, Daenerys spoke solemnly to the two of them.

After determining the solution to Jon's identity, Daenerys was in a good mood. She asked him about the current situation of the Night's Watch and whether there were any difficulties. She said that since he came to King's Landing this time, Daenerys would try her best to satisfy any problems she could.

The Night's Watch has always been short of supplies, which has a lot to do with the environment in the North. In addition, after the rampage of the White Walker army, supplies have become a big problem. Jon took the opportunity to quickly tell them the difficulties.

Knowing the difficulties the Night's Watch is facing now, Daenerys agreed to Jon's request on the spot and allocated some supplies from the army that was about to go out to the battle to the Wall for him to take back.

Although an army of 80,000 was about to set out and supplies were not abundant, it would be no problem to squeeze out some to support the Night's Watch, who numbered less than a thousand people.

The two chatted for a while, and before parting, Daenerys decided to hold a dinner party, inviting only the lords and ministers of the Seven Kingdoms to attend, as a secret celebration of her and Jon's recognition as aunt and nephew.

After Jon left, Daenerys called Missandei and asked her to notify the nobles and ministers, and ask people to prepare for the dinner.

The lords and ministers of the Seven Kingdoms were a little surprised when they suddenly received the notice that Daenerys was going to hold a dinner party. They didn't understand why a banquet would be held when they were about to go to war.

However, despite being a little surprised, they were all very enthusiastic about attending the new queen's banquet. They dressed up early and prepared for the dinner.

Daenerys also asked Missandei to prepare a dress for Jon, which made Jon, who had always been wearing black clothes, very uncomfortable with the new clothes.

At night, the Red Castle Banquet Hall was brightly lit with candles, and the long tables were filled with fine wine and delicious food. People attending the banquet walked into the banquet hall one after another in gorgeous dresses.

Daenerys sat in the main seat and nodded frequently to the people who had just come in.

Jon pushed Bran and followed behind Robb, shrugging occasionally, always feeling that the clothes were a little tight and not as comfortable as the loose black clothes.

When Daenerys saw Jon, her eyes lit up. He was indeed her brother Rhaegar's son. He looked completely different in the formal suit and looked much more handsome.

After all the guests were seated, Daenerys raised her glass and said, "Welcome everyone to tonight's dinner. I wish us a successful trip to the Free Trade City!"

"A great start!" Everyone stood up and raised their glasses to echo.

After finishing the wine in the glass and sitting back in the seat, everyone was waiting for Daenerys' next words, but they found that after sitting down, she picked up a fiery red fruit in front of her and stuffed it into her mouth, with no intention of speaking again.

Only then did they realize that Daenerys was simply holding a dinner party and had no other intentions, so they picked up the food on the table and slowly began to eat.

After eating a few bites of food, Daenerys stood up from her chair and went to the table where the Northerners were, and clinked glasses with Jon and Robb.

Everyone was a little surprised to see Daenerys's actions. They didn't understand why Daenerys bypassed the King's Chamberlain who was closest to her and clinked glasses with Jon first.

Looking at Jon, whose image changed drastically after he took off his black clothes and put on a dress, and then thinking of Daenerys who has always been single, some people even speculated whether Daenerys had taken a fancy to Jon.

Looking more closely at the two of them, they are really a perfect match. As for Jon's identity as a Night's Watchman, isn't that just a matter of a word from Queen Daenerys?

Of course, some people also think that Daenerys clinked glasses with Jon first in order to highlight the achievements of the Night's Watch in the battle against the White Walkers.

After having a drink with Jon, Daenerys walked over to the other guests and chatted with them while drinking.

Drogon did not accompany Daenerys. Instead, he ate by himself for a while and then flew to the table where Tyrion and others were sitting and started drinking with them.

Those who had never seen Drogon drink looked curiously at the table where Tyrion was. They didn't expect that Daenerys's black dragon Drogon actually liked to drink.

After drinking a few glasses with Tyrion and Jorah, Drogon flew to Jon's table and clinked glasses with him twice under Jon's surprised gaze.

Then he went to the table of Oberyn and Olenna, the Queen of Thorns, and even invited Margaery, the Little Rose who came with Olenna, to drink a few cups together.

Unlike Daenerys who took small sips, Drogon would drink a full glass of wine in one gulp. He would then drink liquor after finishing the red wine. He has a huge alcohol tolerance.

The lords who were talking in the banquet hall even put down their glasses and stopped talking to look at Drogon, whose level of activity was second only to Daenerys.

Daenerys, who was talking with the guests, also noticed something unusual. She turned around and saw that Drogon was trying to get people to drink again. She couldn't help but smile and continued chatting with them.

After watching Drogon for a while, careful people noticed that he did not clink glasses with everyone present like Daenerys did.

Instead, he was choosing people to drink with, like when he flew to the table where Jon and the others were, he only had two drinks with Jon, and didn't clink glasses with Robb and Bran.

At the Dornish table, he only drank with Oberyn, leaving Prince Doran aside.

After drinking with Olenna and her granddaughter, when Olenna's son Mace raised his glass to clink with Drogon, Drogon ignored him, leaving those who were observing Drogon completely confused.

Drogon flew around and returned to the two tables of the royal ministers, clinking glasses with them in turn until he got almost all of the royal ministers, including Tyrion, Jorah and even Yara, drunk.

Seeing that only Marwyn and Missandei were still sitting at her table, and the others including Varys and Grey Worm were also lying on the table, Daenerys could only hold her forehead in silence, hoping in her heart that they could continue to handle government affairs tomorrow morning.

At the end of the dinner, both the guests and the hosts had a great time. Daenerys benefited a lot from the communication with the lords of the Seven Kingdoms, and she was glad that she suddenly came up with the idea of ​​holding a dinner party.

Three days later, an army of 80,000 gathered at Blackwater Bay outside King's Landing. At Daenerys's command, the army marched towards the nine free trade cities.

All nine free trade cities participated in the battle outside Dragonstone to some extent. The reason why they all joined the Nine-City Alliance was because they had their own gods in their cities, and even if they did not participate in the war, they would let their believers join in.

Even Pentos, the weakest of the nine cities with no more than twenty warships in total, joined the coalition of the nine cities.

The reason why Pentos is so weak is that it fought six wars with Braavos, the capital of assassins, and lost four times and won once. The last time it asked for peace, Braavos only allowed Pentos to have a maximum of twenty warships and could not hire mercenaries.

This rendered the tall walls of Pentos useless, and facing the threat of the Dothraki khals, it was also the city that gave the most gifts.