Chapter 171: The Rus’s summer solstice and Kawi’s work in Novgorod...
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The weather was quite warm, the sun returned quickly after the rain, and the south wind blew on Palla's wrinkled face, she was full of hope for the future.
After all, she is a poor woman. Her husband went to sea mysteriously and disappeared. She did not choose to betray her feelings, and even more accidentally committed suicide but died. Instead, she chose to be Odin's servant. Palla did not reject the new servants of Rurik who might be coming soon, and maybe she could find the feeling of being a mother by getting along with them.
Parla took away the tools for making soap in the longhouse of the priest, especially the forty wooden molds in batches.
With these actions, Bona, who was still so drunk, didn't care anymore.
Bona’s spirit is still dazed, she really enjoys the feeling of drunkenness, as if her soul is infinitely close to the other Valhalla.
Because Bona bought more than one jar of craft ale. She bought five altars and deliberately used them to reward other priests who were loyal to her, even if the price of each altar was as high as twenty silver coins.
What's bad is that Bona doesn't think her behavior is very extravagant, or she doesn't think it's crazy to pay a hundred silver coins for wine. She just found a southern merchant who specializes in transporting wine and asked to enjoy the best wine. The merchant naturally took out the ale with the highest degree. Seeing that the other party was very generous, the merchant also took the opportunity to sit on the ground and raise the price.
In a sense, Bona drank the so-called "strong dark beer." At a time when hop craftsmanship has not yet become popular, this wine is a premium ale brewed in depth from rye.
The priests were almost in a semi-paralyzed state, and the elderly Veria looked worried and could only slap himself on the slap with his old hand. Veria even complained that Harrodsson and Arik had robbed too much money. If it were not that much money, Bona and the other priests would not have been corrupted like this.
She really saw a lot, knowing that money has the magic power to corrupt people's hearts.
"Liurik, I hope you won't be corrupted." Veria prayed secretly.
Perhaps only the triumph of the big boss can make Bona sober.
Now Palla can no longer control her former counterparts, and it is the right way to please the new "master" Rürik.
On the first day, Parla took the necessary equipment, such as large pottery urns and molds, to the "servant's quarters." Without a suitable workshop, she started working outdoors.
The next day, thick smoke came out of the "servant's quarters" and a woman started cooking oil. Some tribesmen of good deeds gradually realized that they could watch how the priest made soap, and many people gathered around Parla.
By the third day, Parla had already started pouring the mixed soap into the mold. The situation also exceeded her own imagination. She cast four molds at a time, and the molds filled with viscous soap were put directly into the "servant quarters" only because the men in charge of guarding claimed that Rurik had prohibited them. Idlers will not be put in.
As production has gradually stabilized, Parla's production efficiency has also improved.
In any case, it is impossible for Parla in June to produce sixty bars of soap alone, but it is perfectly possible to make 30 bars. She also understood that as long as she made thirty yuan, Rurik would give herself the so-called salary of two silver coins and fifty copper coins.
Seeing that Palla’s work is on track, it has become urgent to build a real soap workshop that can shelter from the wind and rain. Rurik hired a group of old men who had a hard life at a very low price and asked them to build a small traditional wooden long house. This long house can even only need a thin layer of wooden walls, with no middle. It needs a warm interlayer of soil and meadows, not to mention wooden floors.
The wooden house has only one function: a soap workshop.
As the simple wooden house was quickly built, Parla placed all kinds of equipment in the wooden house so that she didn't have to worry about rain disrupting her work! What's more touching is that it was Rurik who paid for himself to build a workshop for himself.
Accommodation, food and even workshops!
grace! Great favor!
Time is approaching the summer solstice on the 28th of June in the Julian calendar.
Rurik became more and more worried about his father, sister-in-law, and a large number of people under his command. They will never encounter any troubles, right?
As a result, the summer solstice had arrived, and there was no news about his father and those people.
Life still has to go on!
Rurik didn't want so much for the time being, because her servant Lumia, amid the surprise of many left-behind tribesmen, appeared in front of everyone as a priest girl.
On the summer solstice, there is no night at all.
There is no night in Roseburg! When the sun fell into the horizon, it did not fall again.
For the people of the tribe, they felt that this was the favor that Odin gave to everyone.
There are also many foreign merchants who come here purely because of a legend that is also circulating among the merchants, that is, Odin may really be a favor to the Ross people.
Sure enough, the sun did not set, it stayed on the horizon, soft and dim light shining on the earth.
Many people think of Ragnarok!
However, the world is still bright.
Rurik and his more than one hundred guys, and even thousands of people from the tribe, participated in the sacrifice, and they witnessed the whole process as spectators.
Rurik's bad image of Bona before has been aggravated.
It was not only Bona who was greedy for the cup. The lower priest had lived a long life of drunkenness and dreams, but when it came to the sacrifice, it was still a dangling situation.
But many people don’t know the inside story!
Some priests would eat some weird mushrooms, and the result would be dangling. They entered a trance state, as if they were close to the gods.
Of course, you can also feel ecstatic when you drink a high-strength ale that is crafted.
As the incoming high priest, Veria interrogated her recitation of prayers when she set out.
How can Bona forget the words, it's just that she stumbles when she recites it out of confusion.
Veria has been recuperating since her body ill, and by the summer solstice, her physical functions have finally recovered.
Bona became unreliable, and Veria had to put on the sacred antler helmet again. And beside her, Lu Mia had already put on a gray-white plain robe with a hood, and in a very pious posture, she supported the slowly walking Vilia and walked towards the sacred stone ship altar.
Bona, who has the smell of alcohol in hiccups, is deeply surprised. How can a little girl who raises a deer become a noble priest?
That was Veria's decision!
Bona was a little upset that she shouldn't have had a drink yesterday, although that was a good thing.
Since Veria intends to preside over the sacrifices.
An evil thought emerged in Bona's heart.
She began to fantasize that the reason why Veria was ill and seemed to be dying was because the spring festival consumed too much energy.
Fortunately, if Veria gets tired again on the summer solstice, I'm afraid he will die!
The sacrifice was carried out under the auspices of Veria. This time, Lumia, who had learned a lot of etiquette, helped Veria a lot in the stone ship altar.
All this, Rurik saw in his eyes, and the people of those tribes also saw in his eyes.
"Very well, you are really training me a high priest of an obedient future."
Turning his head and leaving Rick to look at Bona, who was wearing an ordinary plain robe, he was shocked and cursed: "You drunks, isn't sacrifice a national ceremony for you? You pride yourself on being noble, but you do blasphemous things. You like alcoholism." , Okay! When I have the ability to make pure water of life, you can drink it to death. In this way, I will train a group of priests who listen to me from the beginning."
Rurik believes in a great existence, as for Odin...
"Oh! I really need Odin, I really need the noble status of Odin's blesser, so that the people can listen to me more easily. Give some silver rewards, hehe!"
The priesthood was over, and as expected, Veria had to take a good rest for this. She seems to be sick, but in fact it has not yet reached the time to die suddenly.
As for Bona and the rest of their normal lives, they forgot their embarrassment and began to live a happy life of drinking every day!
Bona is indulging in enjoyment, and she really doesn't know that she is wasting money in a daze.
What's the matter? All the priests felt that this kind of life was very good.
Villa simply no longer cares about Bona, and of course her physical condition does not tolerate her nonsense.
The deer breeder Lumia's performance on the altar satisfied Villa, and perhaps this time she really didn't look at her.
She told Lumia to study in the evening and then take care of her daily life. Veria intends to impart everything she knows to this little girl. She feels that this child, who is different from the Rus by blood, is more promising than her own tribe.
Ah, Odin had forgiven her fate of freezing to death after all.
After the priests of the summer solstice, Lumia was more convinced of her unique destiny.
Life seems to have returned to normal, and the people of the tribe are increasingly worried about the fate of Otto and other tribesmen.
Even though Veria lied about Valhalla's will during the Great Sacrifice, the so-called big leader’s fleet was delayed because of many great things, just like last year’s victory expedition, and it’s still on the way back.
Everyone believed it for a while.
But many days have passed, what about the news?
Does not exist.
But Otto was on his way back. Otto did experience many major events in the past two months.
For Otto, it can be described as the greatest thing he has ever experienced in his life!
Otto and his party did encounter some troubles in Novgorod. After crusades against the Pine Needle Manor, which revealed their unwillingness to surrender, they no longer encountered any difficulties.
It was entirely because Otto led his people to madly accumulate money, coupled with the arduous task of building Silla Fort, caused Otto himself to worry about not being able to take the people who had to go back and arrive before the summer solstice.
This is indeed the case, and for practical reasons, everyone inevitably misses the priest of the summer solstice.
Everyone was relieved. People are floating overseas, there are too many uncertain facts, and there are dangers everywhere, and people must always be vigilant.
The construction of Fort Shilla was very fast. When Otto and others returned to the mouth of the Neva River for the first time, a village had already been built.
By this time, it was already June 10th in the Julian calendar.
He put some tributes in Shilla Fort, as a way to fully support the construction of new settlements. After only one day's stay, he took the people and turned to Novgorod hurriedly, pulling away the stranded personnel and another pile of tributes waiting to be transported.
It will take time for Otto to return home.
Before that, the Ross people really gave some favors to the villagers of White Tree Manor who were like loyal dogs.
Blacksmith Kawei helped his parents-in-law, the Rigus family, to do some farm work, and even lived with them as a member of the family for many days.
"Maybe, it's good for me to live here for a few months each year." He told his wife Lilia this idea, and Lilia changed hands to inform Rigus of the good news.
The entire White Tree Manor had been on the ship of the Russ, and it seemed that only with the long-term blessing of the Russ, could he be stable for a long time.
Perhaps the daughter would believe in love, and the manager of the manor, Rigus, would be more rational.
He welcomes the idea of his son-in-law, Kawei, to move in for a period of time each year.
But he gave his eldest daughter Lilia a task that only she could do-give birth to a boy and train him to be a blacksmith willing to work for White Tree Manor.
Indeed, only oneself can do this!
Lilia didn't dare to tell her newlyweds what was in her heart, so she could only take Kawei as her family immediately.
As for Kawei, he has received full praise during this period.
Not only him, but all the young people stranded in the White Tree Manor, they have won the beauty, and it is not natural to help their parents-in-law do some farm work. These young people who have just grown up to about 20 years old are very willing to show the courage of men in front of their women.
The huge pine trees were efficiently cut down by the traditional and very skillful Viking felling technique.
The clerk of White Tree Manor immediately took his various stone axes and chisels to handle the trunk. Because of the Ross people, the huge pine or birch trees that the residents of White Tree Manor used to be unable to cut down have become excellent building materials!
Many young people, they are now strong, accepting the worship of the residents of White Tree Manor.
Especially Kawei, he used the mud from the lakeside to build a small disposable stove. As for charcoal as a fuel, the people of Novgorod fully understand the methods of making it.
The few iron tools in the entire White Tree Manor, such as some extremely worn axes, and even bronze axes, were sent to Kawi here.
People who hadn't seen the work of a blacksmith watched the flames soaring to the sky, and many bold children climbed directly to the thatched roof and watched curiously at the Ross man repairing the iron.
The rusty axe went to the wooden handle and threw it in the fire and burned it vigorously. And a stone mill was removed and used as a blacksmith's stand.
The red-hot axe began to be finely forged by Kawei. After all, it was only repaired. The iron oxide on the surface completely disappeared. Because it was burned in the charcoal block for a while, the shallow iron had been carburized.
The soft iron block was smashed into a sharper blade. When Kawei felt it was suitable, the red iron block was thrown directly into the prepared wooden bucket filled with lake water.
Suddenly, forcing steam erupted from the wooden barrel. The daring Kawei waited for a while, then stretched out his hand to take out the iron piece.
It has been beaten into the appearance of a standard Nordic forest axe~www.novelhall.com~ and the carburizing and quenching process during its restoration has made this wrought iron axe a treasure.
Kawei repaired a total of ten axes and three iron knives. Not to mention the carburizing effect, they at least have undergone the quenching process, and the strength has far exceeded that of before.
What surprised him was that the entire White Tree Manor had a population of up to two thousand people, and there was only a little iron in this area.
The shabby status quo shocked him.
After all, in Roseburg, metalware is not expensive, and ordinary people can use it. Nowadays, only specially processed steel, whose sole purpose is to be used as a weapon, is expensive.
A small hand axe, which Kawei gave to his in-laws, was actually given to his eldest brother-in-law Medwit, the man named after the bear.
Kawei's idea is very simple, so-called even a blacksmith has an axe as a self-defense, how can a strong man not have a handy self-defense tool?
His gift made his wife very happy.
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The weather was quite warm, the sun returned quickly after the rain, and the south wind blew on Palla's wrinkled face, she was full of hope for the future.
After all, she is a poor woman. Her husband went to sea mysteriously and disappeared. She did not choose to betray her feelings, and even more accidentally committed suicide but died. Instead, she chose to be Odin's servant. Palla did not reject the new servants of Rurik who might be coming soon, and maybe she could find the feeling of being a mother by getting along with them.
Parla took away the tools for making soap in the longhouse of the priest, especially the forty wooden molds in batches.
With these actions, Bona, who was still so drunk, didn't care anymore.
Bona’s spirit is still dazed, she really enjoys the feeling of drunkenness, as if her soul is infinitely close to the other Valhalla.
Because Bona bought more than one jar of craft ale. She bought five altars and deliberately used them to reward other priests who were loyal to her, even if the price of each altar was as high as twenty silver coins.
What's bad is that Bona doesn't think her behavior is very extravagant, or she doesn't think it's crazy to pay a hundred silver coins for wine. She just found a southern merchant who specializes in transporting wine and asked to enjoy the best wine. The merchant naturally took out the ale with the highest degree. Seeing that the other party was very generous, the merchant also took the opportunity to sit on the ground and raise the price.
In a sense, Bona drank the so-called "strong dark beer." At a time when hop craftsmanship has not yet become popular, this wine is a premium ale brewed in depth from rye.
The priests were almost in a semi-paralyzed state, and the elderly Veria looked worried and could only slap himself on the slap with his old hand. Veria even complained that Harrodsson and Arik had robbed too much money. If it were not that much money, Bona and the other priests would not have been corrupted like this.
She really saw a lot, knowing that money has the magic power to corrupt people's hearts.
"Liurik, I hope you won't be corrupted." Veria prayed secretly.
Perhaps only the triumph of the big boss can make Bona sober.
Now Palla can no longer control her former counterparts, and it is the right way to please the new "master" Rürik.
On the first day, Parla took the necessary equipment, such as large pottery urns and molds, to the "servant's quarters." Without a suitable workshop, she started working outdoors.
The next day, thick smoke came out of the "servant's quarters" and a woman started cooking oil. Some tribesmen of good deeds gradually realized that they could watch how the priest made soap, and many people gathered around Parla.
By the third day, Parla had already started pouring the mixed soap into the mold. The situation also exceeded her own imagination. She cast four molds at a time, and the molds filled with viscous soap were put directly into the "servant quarters" only because the men in charge of guarding claimed that Rurik had prohibited them. Idlers will not be put in.
As production has gradually stabilized, Parla's production efficiency has also improved.
In any case, it is impossible for Parla in June to produce sixty bars of soap alone, but it is perfectly possible to make 30 bars. She also understood that as long as she made thirty yuan, Rurik would give herself the so-called salary of two silver coins and fifty copper coins.
Seeing that Palla’s work is on track, it has become urgent to build a real soap workshop that can shelter from the wind and rain. Rurik hired a group of old men who had a hard life at a very low price and asked them to build a small traditional wooden long house. This long house can even only need a thin layer of wooden walls, with no middle. It needs a warm interlayer of soil and meadows, not to mention wooden floors.
The wooden house has only one function: a soap workshop.
As the simple wooden house was quickly built, Parla placed all kinds of equipment in the wooden house so that she didn't have to worry about rain disrupting her work! What's more touching is that it was Rurik who paid for himself to build a workshop for himself.
Accommodation, food and even workshops!
grace! Great favor!
Time is approaching the summer solstice on the 28th of June in the Julian calendar.
Rurik became more and more worried about his father, sister-in-law, and a large number of people under his command. They will never encounter any troubles, right?
As a result, the summer solstice had arrived, and there was no news about his father and those people.
Life still has to go on!
Rurik didn't want so much for the time being, because her servant Lumia, amid the surprise of many left-behind tribesmen, appeared in front of everyone as a priest girl.
On the summer solstice, there is no night at all.
There is no night in Roseburg! When the sun fell into the horizon, it did not fall again.
For the people of the tribe, they felt that this was the favor that Odin gave to everyone.
There are also many foreign merchants who come here purely because of a legend that is also circulating among the merchants, that is, Odin may really be a favor to the Ross people.
Sure enough, the sun did not set, it stayed on the horizon, soft and dim light shining on the earth.
Many people think of Ragnarok!
However, the world is still bright.
Rurik and his more than one hundred guys, and even thousands of people from the tribe, participated in the sacrifice, and they witnessed the whole process as spectators.
Rurik's bad image of Bona before has been aggravated.
It was not only Bona who was greedy for the cup. The lower priest had lived a long life of drunkenness and dreams, but when it came to the sacrifice, it was still a dangling situation.
But many people don’t know the inside story!
Some priests would eat some weird mushrooms, and the result would be dangling. They entered a trance state, as if they were close to the gods.
Of course, you can also feel ecstatic when you drink a high-strength ale that is crafted.
As the incoming high priest, Veria interrogated her recitation of prayers when she set out.
How can Bona forget the words, it's just that she stumbles when she recites it out of confusion.
Veria has been recuperating since her body ill, and by the summer solstice, her physical functions have finally recovered.
Bona became unreliable, and Veria had to put on the sacred antler helmet again. And beside her, Lu Mia had already put on a gray-white plain robe with a hood, and in a very pious posture, she supported the slowly walking Vilia and walked towards the sacred stone ship altar.
Bona, who has the smell of alcohol in hiccups, is deeply surprised. How can a little girl who raises a deer become a noble priest?
That was Veria's decision!
Bona was a little upset that she shouldn't have had a drink yesterday, although that was a good thing.
Since Veria intends to preside over the sacrifices.
An evil thought emerged in Bona's heart.
She began to fantasize that the reason why Veria was ill and seemed to be dying was because the spring festival consumed too much energy.
Fortunately, if Veria gets tired again on the summer solstice, I'm afraid he will die!
The sacrifice was carried out under the auspices of Veria. This time, Lumia, who had learned a lot of etiquette, helped Veria a lot in the stone ship altar.
All this, Rurik saw in his eyes, and the people of those tribes also saw in his eyes.
"Very well, you are really training me a high priest of an obedient future."
Turning his head and leaving Rick to look at Bona, who was wearing an ordinary plain robe, he was shocked and cursed: "You drunks, isn't sacrifice a national ceremony for you? You pride yourself on being noble, but you do blasphemous things. You like alcoholism." , Okay! When I have the ability to make pure water of life, you can drink it to death. In this way, I will train a group of priests who listen to me from the beginning."
Rurik believes in a great existence, as for Odin...
"Oh! I really need Odin, I really need the noble status of Odin's blesser, so that the people can listen to me more easily. Give some silver rewards, hehe!"
The priesthood was over, and as expected, Veria had to take a good rest for this. She seems to be sick, but in fact it has not yet reached the time to die suddenly.
As for Bona and the rest of their normal lives, they forgot their embarrassment and began to live a happy life of drinking every day!
Bona is indulging in enjoyment, and she really doesn't know that she is wasting money in a daze.
What's the matter? All the priests felt that this kind of life was very good.
Villa simply no longer cares about Bona, and of course her physical condition does not tolerate her nonsense.
The deer breeder Lumia's performance on the altar satisfied Villa, and perhaps this time she really didn't look at her.
She told Lumia to study in the evening and then take care of her daily life. Veria intends to impart everything she knows to this little girl. She feels that this child, who is different from the Rus by blood, is more promising than her own tribe.
Ah, Odin had forgiven her fate of freezing to death after all.
After the priests of the summer solstice, Lumia was more convinced of her unique destiny.
Life seems to have returned to normal, and the people of the tribe are increasingly worried about the fate of Otto and other tribesmen.
Even though Veria lied about Valhalla's will during the Great Sacrifice, the so-called big leader’s fleet was delayed because of many great things, just like last year’s victory expedition, and it’s still on the way back.
Everyone believed it for a while.
But many days have passed, what about the news?
Does not exist.
But Otto was on his way back. Otto did experience many major events in the past two months.
For Otto, it can be described as the greatest thing he has ever experienced in his life!
Otto and his party did encounter some troubles in Novgorod. After crusades against the Pine Needle Manor, which revealed their unwillingness to surrender, they no longer encountered any difficulties.
It was entirely because Otto led his people to madly accumulate money, coupled with the arduous task of building Silla Fort, caused Otto himself to worry about not being able to take the people who had to go back and arrive before the summer solstice.
This is indeed the case, and for practical reasons, everyone inevitably misses the priest of the summer solstice.
Everyone was relieved. People are floating overseas, there are too many uncertain facts, and there are dangers everywhere, and people must always be vigilant.
The construction of Fort Shilla was very fast. When Otto and others returned to the mouth of the Neva River for the first time, a village had already been built.
By this time, it was already June 10th in the Julian calendar.
He put some tributes in Shilla Fort, as a way to fully support the construction of new settlements. After only one day's stay, he took the people and turned to Novgorod hurriedly, pulling away the stranded personnel and another pile of tributes waiting to be transported.
It will take time for Otto to return home.
Before that, the Ross people really gave some favors to the villagers of White Tree Manor who were like loyal dogs.
Blacksmith Kawei helped his parents-in-law, the Rigus family, to do some farm work, and even lived with them as a member of the family for many days.
"Maybe, it's good for me to live here for a few months each year." He told his wife Lilia this idea, and Lilia changed hands to inform Rigus of the good news.
The entire White Tree Manor had been on the ship of the Russ, and it seemed that only with the long-term blessing of the Russ, could he be stable for a long time.
Perhaps the daughter would believe in love, and the manager of the manor, Rigus, would be more rational.
He welcomes the idea of his son-in-law, Kawei, to move in for a period of time each year.
But he gave his eldest daughter Lilia a task that only she could do-give birth to a boy and train him to be a blacksmith willing to work for White Tree Manor.
Indeed, only oneself can do this!
Lilia didn't dare to tell her newlyweds what was in her heart, so she could only take Kawei as her family immediately.
As for Kawei, he has received full praise during this period.
Not only him, but all the young people stranded in the White Tree Manor, they have won the beauty, and it is not natural to help their parents-in-law do some farm work. These young people who have just grown up to about 20 years old are very willing to show the courage of men in front of their women.
The huge pine trees were efficiently cut down by the traditional and very skillful Viking felling technique.
The clerk of White Tree Manor immediately took his various stone axes and chisels to handle the trunk. Because of the Ross people, the huge pine or birch trees that the residents of White Tree Manor used to be unable to cut down have become excellent building materials!
Many young people, they are now strong, accepting the worship of the residents of White Tree Manor.
Especially Kawei, he used the mud from the lakeside to build a small disposable stove. As for charcoal as a fuel, the people of Novgorod fully understand the methods of making it.
The few iron tools in the entire White Tree Manor, such as some extremely worn axes, and even bronze axes, were sent to Kawi here.
People who hadn't seen the work of a blacksmith watched the flames soaring to the sky, and many bold children climbed directly to the thatched roof and watched curiously at the Ross man repairing the iron.
The rusty axe went to the wooden handle and threw it in the fire and burned it vigorously. And a stone mill was removed and used as a blacksmith's stand.
The red-hot axe began to be finely forged by Kawei. After all, it was only repaired. The iron oxide on the surface completely disappeared. Because it was burned in the charcoal block for a while, the shallow iron had been carburized.
The soft iron block was smashed into a sharper blade. When Kawei felt it was suitable, the red iron block was thrown directly into the prepared wooden bucket filled with lake water.
Suddenly, forcing steam erupted from the wooden barrel. The daring Kawei waited for a while, then stretched out his hand to take out the iron piece.
It has been beaten into the appearance of a standard Nordic forest axe~www.novelhall.com~ and the carburizing and quenching process during its restoration has made this wrought iron axe a treasure.
Kawei repaired a total of ten axes and three iron knives. Not to mention the carburizing effect, they at least have undergone the quenching process, and the strength has far exceeded that of before.
What surprised him was that the entire White Tree Manor had a population of up to two thousand people, and there was only a little iron in this area.
The shabby status quo shocked him.
After all, in Roseburg, metalware is not expensive, and ordinary people can use it. Nowadays, only specially processed steel, whose sole purpose is to be used as a weapon, is expensive.
A small hand axe, which Kawei gave to his in-laws, was actually given to his eldest brother-in-law Medwit, the man named after the bear.
Kawei's idea is very simple, so-called even a blacksmith has an axe as a self-defense, how can a strong man not have a handy self-defense tool?
His gift made his wife very happy.
The weather was quite warm, the sun returned quickly after the rain, and the south wind blew on Palla's wrinkled face, she was full of hope for the future.After all, she is a poor woman. Her husband went to sea mysteriously and disappeared. She did not choose to betray her feelings, and even more accidentally committed suicide but died. Instead, she chose to be Odin's servant. Palla did not reject the new servants of Rurik who might be coming soon, and maybe she could find the feeling of being a mother by getting along with them.Parla took away the tools for making soap in the longhouse of the priest, especially the forty wooden molds in batches.With these actions, Bona, who was still so drunk, didn't care anymore.Bona's spirit is still dazed, she really enjoys the feeling of drunkenness, as if her soul is infinitely close to the other Valhalla.Because Bona bought more than one jar of craft ale. She bought five altars and deliberately used them to reward other priests who were loyal to her, even if the price of each altar was as high as twenty silver coins.What's bad is that Bona doesn't think her behavior is very extravagant, or she doesn't think it's crazy to pay a hundred silver coins for wine. She just found a southern merchant who specializes in transporting wine and asked to enjoy the best wine. The merchant naturally took out the ale with the highest degree. Seeing that the other party was very generous, the merchant also took the opportunity to sit on the ground and raise the price.In a sense, Bona drank the so-called "strong dark beer." At a time when hop craftsmanship has not yet become popular, this wine is a premium ale brewed in depth from rye.The priests were almost in a semi-paralyzed state, and the elderly Veria looked worried and could only slap himself on the slap with his old hand. Veria even complained that Harrodsson and Arik had robbed too much money. If it were not that much money, Bona and the other priests would not have been corrupted like this.She really saw a lot, knowing that money has the magic power to corrupt people's hearts."Liurik, I hope you won't be corrupted." Veria prayed secretly.Perhaps only the triumph of the big boss can make Bona sober.Now Palla can no longer control her former counterparts, and it is the right way to please the new "master" Rrik.On the first day, Parla took the necessary equipment, such as large pottery urns and molds, to the "servant's quarters." Without a suitable workshop, she started working outdoors.The next day, thick smoke came out of the "servant's quarters" and a woman started cooking oil. Some tribesmen of good deeds gradually realized that they could watch how the priest made soap, and many people gathered around Parla.By the third day, Parla had already started pouring the mixed soap into the mold. The situation also exceeded her own imagination. She cast four molds at a time, and the molds filled with viscous soap were put directly into the "servant quarters" only because the men in charge of guarding claimed that Rurik had prohibited them. Idlers will not be put in.As production has gradually stabilized, Parla's production efficiency has also improved.In any case, it is impossible for Parla in June to produce sixty bars of soap alone, but it is perfectly possible to make 30 bars. She also understood that as long as she made thirty yuan, Rurik would give herself the so-called salary of two silver coins and fifty copper coins.Seeing that Palla's work is on track, it has become urgent to build a real soap workshop that can shelter from the wind and rain. Rurik hired a group of old men who had a hard life at a very low price and asked them to build a small traditional wooden long house. This long house can even only need a thin layer of wooden walls, with no middle. It needs a warm interlayer of soil and meadows, not to mention wooden floors.The wooden house has only one function: a soap workshop.As the simple wooden house was quickly built, Parla placed all kinds of equipment in the wooden house so that she didn't have to worry about rain disrupting her work! What's more touching is that it was Rurik who paid for himself to build a workshop for himself.Accommodation, food and even workshops!grace! Great favor!Time is approaching the summer solstice on the 28th of June in the Julian calendar.Rurik became more and more worried about his father, sister-in-law, and a large number of people under his command. They will never encounter any troubles, right?As a result, the summer solstice had arrived, and there was no news about his father and those people.Life still has to go on!Rurik didn't want so much for the time being, because her servant Lumia, amid the surprise of many left-behind tribesmen, appeared in front of everyone as a priest girl.On the summer solstice, there is no night at all.There is no night in Roseburg! When the sun fell into the horizon, it did not fall again.For the people of the tribe, they felt that this was the favor that Odin gave to everyone.There are also many foreign merchants who come here purely because of a legend that is also circulating among the merchants, that is, Odin may really be a favor to the Ross people.Sure enough, the sun did not set, it stayed on the horizon, soft and dim light shining on the earth.Many people think of Ragnarok!However, the world is still bright.Rurik and his more than one hundred guys, and even thousands of people from the tribe, participated in the sacrifice, and they witnessed the whole process as spectators.Rurik's bad image of Bona before has been aggravated.It was not only Bona who was greedy for the cup. The lower priest had lived a long life of drunkenness and dreams, but when it came to the sacrifice, it was still a dangling situation.But many people don't know the inside story!Some priests would eat some weird mushrooms, and the result would be dangling. They entered a trance state, as if they were close to the gods.Of course, you can also feel ecstatic when you drink a high-strength ale that is crafted.As the incoming high priest, Veria interrogated her recitation of prayers when she set out.How can Bona forget the words, it's just that she stumbles when she recites it out of confusion.Veria has been recuperating since her body ill, and by the summer solstice, her physical functions have finally recovered.Bona became unreliable, and Veria had to put on the sacred antler helmet again. And beside her, Lu Mia had already put on a gray-white plain robe with a hood, and in a very pious posture, she supported the slowly walking Vilia and walked towards the sacred stone ship altar.Bona, who has the smell of alcohol in hiccups, is deeply surprised. How can a little girl who raises a deer become a noble priest?That was Veria's decision!Bona was a little upset that she shouldn't have had a drink yesterday, although that was a good thing.Since Veria intends to preside over the sacrifices.An evil thought emerged in Bona's heart.She began to fantasize that the reason why Veria was ill and seemed to be dying was because the spring festival consumed too much energy.Fortunately, if Veria gets tired again on the summer solstice, I'm afraid he will die!The sacrifice was carried out under the auspices of Veria. This time, Lumia, who had learned a lot of etiquette, helped Veria a lot in the stone ship altar.All this, Rurik saw in his eyes, and the people of those tribes also saw in his eyes."Very well, you are really training me a high priest of an obedient future."Turning his head and leaving Rick to look at Bona, who was wearing an ordinary plain robe, he was shocked and cursed: "You drunks, isn't sacrifice a national ceremony for you? You pride yourself on being noble, but you do blasphemous things. You like alcoholism." , Okay! When I have the ability to make pure water of life, you can drink it to death. In this way, I will train a group of priests who listen to me from the beginning."Rurik believes in a great existence, as for Odin..."Oh! I really need Odin, I really need the noble status of Odin's blesser, so that the people can listen to me more easily. Give some silver rewards, hehe!"The priesthood was over, and as expected, Veria had to take a good rest for this. She seems to be sick, but in fact it has not yet reached the time to die suddenly.As for Bona and the rest of their normal lives, they forgot their embarrassment and began to live a happy life of drinking every day!Bona is indulging in enjoyment, and she really doesn't know that she is wasting money in a daze.What's the matter? All the priests felt that this kind of life was very good.Villa simply no longer cares about Bona, and of course her physical condition does not tolerate her nonsense.The deer breeder Lumia's performance on the altar satisfied Villa, and perhaps this time she really didn't look at her.She told Lumia to study in the evening and then take care of her daily life. Veria intends to impart everything she knows to this little girl. She feels that this child, who is different from the Rus by blood, is more promising than her own tribe.Ah, Odin had forgiven her fate of freezing to death after all.After the priests of the summer solstice, Lumia was more convinced of her unique destiny.Life seems to have returned to normal, and the people of the tribe are increasingly worried about the fate of Otto and other tribesmen.Even though Veria lied about Valhalla's will during the Great Sacrifice, the so-called big leader's fleet was delayed because of many great things, just like last year's victory expedition, and it's still on the way back.Everyone believed it for a while.But many days have passed, what about the news?Does not exist.But Otto was on his way back. Otto did experience many major events in the past two months.For Otto, it can be described as the greatest thing he has ever experienced in his life!Otto and his party did encounter some troubles in Novgorod. After crusades against the Pine Needle Manor, which revealed their unwillingness to surrender, they no longer encountered any difficulties.It was entirely because Otto led his people to madly accumulate money, coupled with the arduous task of building Silla Fort, caused Otto himself to worry about not being able to take the people who had to go back and arrive before the summer solstice.This is indeed the case, and for practical reasons, everyone inevitably misses the priest of the summer solstice.Everyone was relieved. People are floating overseas, there are too many uncertain facts, and there are dangers everywhere, and people must always be vigilant.The construction of Fort Shilla was very fast. When Otto and others returned to the mouth of the Neva River for the first time, a village had already been built.By this time, it was already June 10th in the Julian calendar.He put some tributes in Shilla Fort, as a way to fully support the construction of new settlements. After only one day's stay, he took the people and turned to Novgorod hurriedly, pulling away the stranded personnel and another pile of tributes waiting to be transported.It will take time for Otto to return home.Before that, the Ross people really gave some favors to the villagers of White Tree Manor who were like loyal dogs.Blacksmith Kawei helped his parents-in-law, the Rigus family, to do some farm work, and even lived with them as a member of the family for many days."Maybe, it's good for me to live here for a few months each year." He told his wife Lilia this idea, and Lilia changed hands to inform Rigus of the good news.The entire White Tree Manor had been on the ship of the Russ, and it seemed that only with the long-term blessing of the Russ, could he be stable for a long time.Perhaps the daughter would believe in love, and the manager of the manor, Rigus, would be more rational.He welcomes the idea of his son-in-law, Kawei, to move in for a period of time each year.But he gave his eldest daughter Lilia a task that only she could do-give birth to a boy and train him to be a blacksmith willing to work for White Tree Manor.Indeed, only oneself can do this!Lilia didn't dare to tell her newlyweds what was in her heart, so she could only take Kawei as her family immediately.As for Kawei, he has received full praise during this period.Not only him, but all the young people stranded in the White Tree Manor, they have won the beauty, and it is not natural to help their parents-in-law do some farm work. These young people who have just grown up to about 20 years old are very willing to show the courage of men in front of their women.The huge pine trees were efficiently cut down by the traditional and very skillful Viking felling technique.The clerk of White Tree Manor immediately took his various stone axes and chisels to handle the trunk. Because of the Ross people, the huge pine or birch trees that the residents of White Tree Manor used to be unable to cut down have become excellent building materials!Many young people, they are now strong, accepting the worship of the residents of White Tree Manor.Especially Kawei, he used the mud from the lakeside to build a small disposable stove. As for charcoal as a fuel, the people of Novgorod fully understand the methods of making it.The few iron tools in the entire White Tree Manor, such as some extremely worn axes, and even bronze axes, were sent to Kawi here.People who hadn't seen the work of a blacksmith watched the flames soaring to the sky, and many bold children climbed directly to the thatched roof and watched curiously at the Ross man repairing the iron.The rusty axe went to the wooden handle and threw it in the fire and burned it vigorously. And a stone mill was removed and used as a blacksmith's stand.The red-hot axe began to be finely forged by Kawei. After all, it was only repaired. The iron oxide on the surface completely disappeared. Because it was burned in the charcoal block for a while, the shallow iron had been carburized.The soft iron block was smashed into a sharper blade. When Kawei felt it was suitable, the red iron block was thrown directly into the prepared wooden bucket filled with lake water.Suddenly, forcing steam erupted from the wooden barrel. The daring Kawei waited for a while, then stretched out his hand to take out the iron piece.It has been beaten into the appearance of a standard Nordic forest axe~www.novelhall.com~ and the carburizing and quenching process during its restoration has made this wrought iron axe a treasure.Kawei repaired a total of ten axes and three iron knives. Not to mention the carburizing effect, they at least have undergone the quenching process, and the strength has far exceeded that of before.What surprised him was that the entire White Tree Manor had a population of up to two thousand people, and there was only a little iron in this area.The shabby status quo shocked him.After all, in Roseburg, metalware is not expensive, and ordinary people can use it. Nowadays, only specially processed steel, whose sole purpose is to be used as a weapon, is expensive.A small hand axe, which Kawei gave to his in-laws, was actually given to his eldest brother-in-law Medwit, the man named after the bear.Kawei's idea is very simple, so-called even a blacksmith has an axe as a self-defense, how can a strong man not have a handy self-defense tool?His gift made his wife very happy.
