Rise of Rurik

The girl seemed to be wearing a leather coat with a simple sewing, which was surprisingly simple.

She didn't even have shoes, and the only thing she was walking on was a pocket stitched with animal skins, which was tied with hemp rope.

The Ross tribe is not like this at all, and everyone will have rough skills in making leather boots. Also, with traditional trade with allies, women within the clan are not degraded by the movement of the clan.

What's even more amazing is that with the opening of the trade and tribute routes with the Novgorods, the Ross tribe discovered a long time ago that those who were weak in combat were better than themselves in some aspects. Their women, for example, were good at fine stitching with fine embroidery needles imported from Rome.

Of course, if you have good things, you have to find ways to get them!

Therefore, in the hands of some women of the Rus tribe, there are steel needles from Eastern Rome, which are very laborious to produce, so they are of great value.

However, like Rurik's mother Nia, the two extremely hard embroidery needles she owns are not from Eastern Rome at all!

Because in this era, Eastern Rome only possessed the manufacturing technology of iron needles and copper needles, and only the Tang Dynasty mastered the manufacture of steel needles. The small embroidery needle is the crystallization of ancient technology. With it, no matter how hard the cowhide can be pierced efficiently, it is also possible to carry out more delicate and complex sewing operations.

Everything is so romantic!

Thick leather boots for Otto pedals, small thick leather boots for Rurik pedals.

It is made of cowhide, deerskin and even some sheepskin stitched together, and it has a lot of warm fleece inside!

It can stitch many hard leathers perfectly, which only steel needles can do in this era.

Datang's steel needles are used as a strategic export, and merchants take them across the vast desert and sell them directly to Dashi merchants. Driven by interests, Dashi merchants either sold to Eastern Rome first, or went directly north into Eastern Europe to sell a local Slav.

The inhabitants of Novgorod acquired this small but precious embroidery needle through the traditional north-south trade route, and women's tailoring skills developed rapidly.

Then, they were discovered by the Ross tribe who came in a long boat...

Most Ross people have comfy boots that keep you warm, the only bad thing is that they are not waterproof at all.

However, the uneasiness and strange girl's clothes are really special, and her clothes fully show that she is different, and she is simply out of tune with other people.

She is an outsider!

However, how could the young Rurik take the initiative to pull such an outsider.

What is the relationship between Rurik and this girl? !

Otto quickly sat cross-legged beside Villa, and he was about to say something when Villa took the lead in asking questions.

"The girl next to Rurik, she's definitely not ours! Who is she? Where did she come from?!"

Having said that, Villa stared at the mysterious girl with a suspicious look.

Being stared at by many people, the woman was simply stunned and stood still, and was not moved by Rurikat.

"Ah, I was just about to tell you about this." Otto pointed along: "She is a prisoner, those deer keepers. Now, let me tell you all about it..."

As for what happened to the team's long expedition, Otto coincided with this opportunity, and immediately explained to Villa one by one.

Otto is reporting work,

The most important part is of course complimenting one's great deeds, such as getting a lot of deer.

Of course Rurik wanted to tell Willia as soon as possible that the girl he was pulling was a servant, and he had a brilliant idea about the future arrangement of this servant.

Rurik tried his best to drag the dazed girl aside.

He took the girl's trembling hand and could feel her nervousness.

Could she not be nervous? ! If she is smart, she should know that she is in the wooden house at the heart of the Ross tribe's power.

As the servant of the chief's son, that is also an extraordinary servant.

She is indeed extraordinary, because she is mentally young, Rurik is already a middle-aged uncle, and it is not a hassle to clean up such a little girl.

Most of the boys are doing the daily dangerous games, or helping the family go fishing in the warmer months, or even helping to catch seals in the winter, or catching some small shellfish offshore to support the family.

What about the few girls? Almost all day activities in a small area near home.

Girls, they can't become Heroic Spirits, and it's almost impossible to become a new Valkyrie. Even their parents have little thought to pay attention to their attitude towards life, as long as they can live.

They only need to know how to manage the future husband's treasure, make leather clothes and other daily necessities for him, store the food that his husband hunts and rob, and then try their best to give birth to a son for his husband.

The Ross tribe felt that a good woman should be like this, and it should be a matter of course to be a vassal of a man.

In an era of extreme scarcity of materials and extremely backward productivity, such a living state is certainly justified.

But that's not a one-size-fits-all reason.

While his father was talking incessantly in front of Villa, Rurik was also organizing language in his heart.

They talked a lot, and Villa understood the whole process.

"Okay! Okay! A lot of deer! I was worried that you would go hungry for too long, but I never thought that you would eat venison every day. It's just that you ate too many deer, and only a small part was brought back safely. I have some regrets." Villa said regrets, but her heart was dark.

Why?

In Velia's view, deer are the best tribute to Odin.

The headless reindeer sacrificed at the wedding of the tribal youth collectively married a Novgorod woman really caused the tribe to bleed heavily.

Luding is a spiritual being, so priests of all dynasties had to wear heavy antler helmets during important sacrifices, regardless of age or pain.

But deer are becoming more and more scarce!

This time, Otto bluntly explained that there are still more than fifty deer that the tribe brought back.

Otto spoke eloquently: "Even so, the number of deer surviving is enough. We have almost reached the border of the human world, as if we can spy on the dark underworld under the world tree if we explore again, and finally we get the deer herd. It's over. Because people are already panicking, I have to make sure everyone can go home before Hanukkah."

"There are fifty deer, and we will have enough offerings for the main priests for some time to come. Including this year's Hanukkah. Haha, I thought we would use some fish as offerings this time."

"Only deer are the best. In order to have enough deer for future sacrifices, we need to raise the deer that we brought back. The deer herd will grow gradually, not only the problem of sacrifice, but also because of the more deer herd. rich."

The allies in the south have been fighting for years over the pastures of the Danes for their cattle and sheep!

Veria knew these things, and it seemed that those conflicts were too far away from the Roth clan. Raising cattle and sheep solves the problem of wearing clothes and eating meat, which is more efficient than going out for hunting. However, the area of ​​Rosburg is too cold. So far, the entire tribe has only a very small number of sheep, and the only sheep are basically from the warm season. Allies bought it, and in winter, the sheep owner slaughtered it so that his family would have meat to eat.

"However, do we have a way to raise these deer?!"

"Of course!" Otto raised his big hand excitedly, and he pointed, "That girl is the only deer breeder. I believe she will restore the number of deer to more than 300."

"It's her?!" Vilia was startled. "You told me soon after entering the door that she was a prisoner. It was an unexpected gain of your trip. I didn't expect that she was a deer breeder. Can she do it?! Young, looks a little older than your Rurik. By the way, why is she so close to Rurik, you…”

Vilia's face suddenly sank, and the aging wrinkles were terribly folded, fully showing her doubts and anxiety.

"Otto, my boy. Tell you, did I mean to think of that girl as Rurik's future woman? No! I'm telling you it's not possible! He's too young, not even twelve years old. Years old, your decisions are all illegal. Besides, Rurik will be the future leader, and the leader's wife must be a good woman. Besides, we don't know the attitude of God yet, we just finished and Novgorod De's marriage, and now he is going to marry a deer breeder? No! This won't work..."

Villa said more than ten consecutive words representing negation, and Otto couldn't get in at all, so he could only smirk awkwardly on the side.

When Veria's mood recovered, he hurriedly explained: "Priest of wisdom, I can feel that you really love our Rurik. You don't have to worry, as a father, when my son grows up, he must marry him. Daughter of other clan chiefs, I will take care of it myself. As for this deer-keeper girl, she is now Rurik's servant."

"Oh? Is that so?" Villa's attitude was slightly calmer, "This is what Odin allowed."