Chapter 75： Meet the priest

The girl seemed to be wearing a crudely sewn leather coat, and the level of simplicity was astonishing.

She doesn't even have shoes, and her feet are in the stitched pockets of animal skins, which are **** with twine rope.

The Ross tribe is not like this at all. Everyone would have crudely made leather boots. Moreover, with the traditional trade with allies, women within the tribe have not become degraded in their skills due to the migration of the tribe.

What’s even more miraculous is that with the opening of the trade tribute route with the Novgorod people, the Rus tribe discovered long ago that those weak in combat power are better than themselves in some respects. For example, their women are very good at using fine embroidery needles imported from Rome for fine stitching.

If you have something good, of course you have to find ways to get it!

So some women of the Rus tribe have steel needles from Eastern Rome in their hands. It is very laborious to produce and therefore has great value.

But, like Rurik’s mother Niya, the two extremely hard embroidery needles she owns are not produced in East Rome at all!

Because of this era, Eastern Rome only possesses the manufacturing technology of iron needles and copper needles, and only Datang has mastered the steel needle manufacturing technology. The small embroidery needle is the crystallization of ancient technology. With it, even hard cowhide can be pierced efficiently, making it possible to perform more delicate and complex stitching operations.

Everything is so romantic!

Otto’s thick leather boots, and Rurik's small thick leather boots.

It is stitched from cowhide, deerskin and even part of sheepskin, and there are a lot of warm fluff inside it!

can perfectly stitch many hard leathers. Only steel needles can do this in this era.

Datang's steel needle is a strategic export product, and merchants take it through the vast desert and sell it directly to food merchants. Driven by profits, the food merchants either sold them to Eastern Rome first, or went directly northward into Eastern Europe to sell a local Slav.

The residents of Novgorod obtained this small and precious embroidery needle through the traditional north-south trade line, and women's tailoring skills developed rapidly.

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

Most of the Ross people have comfortable boots. They are warm, and the only thing is that they are not waterproof at all.

However, the strange girl who was disturbed was really dressed in a special way. She was dressed all over her body to fully clarify her own uniqueness, which is simply incompatible with other people.

She is an outsider!

But how could the young Rurik take the initiative to pull such an outsider?

What is the relationship between Lurik and this girl? !

Otto quickly sat cross-legged next to Villa. He was about to say something, so Villa took the lead to ask questions.

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

After that, Vilia stared at the mysterious girl with a suspicious look.

Being stared at by many people, the woman was frightened and stood still, letting Liu Likla pull unmoved.

"Ah, I'm about to tell you this." Otto pointed casually: "She is a captive, the deer breeder. Now, let me tell you everything..."

Regarding what the team has encountered during the long expedition, Otto coincided with this opportunity and immediately explained to Vilia.

Otto is reporting, and the most important part is naturally to praise his great achievements, such as getting a large number of deer.

Lurik, of course, also hopes to tell Vilia as soon as possible that the girl pulled by him is a servant. Regarding the future arrangements of this servant, he has a wonderful idea.

Leurik tried hard, and dragged the girl in a daze aside, and the two sat on the animal skin cushions on the ground casually, waiting for the adult to finish the matter.

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

How can she not be nervous? ! If she is a wise person, she should know that she is already in the wooden house at the core of the power of the Ross tribe.

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

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

Most of the boys are doing daily dangerous games, or helping the family to fish in warm times, or even helping to catch seals in winter, or fishing some small shellfish offshore to subsidize the family.

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

Girls, they cannot become heroic spirits, and it is almost impossible to become a new Valkyrie. Even their parents seldom pay attention to their attitude towards life, as long as they can live.

They only need to know how to manage the treasures of their future husbands, they will make some leather clothes and other daily necessities for their husbands, they will store the food they hunted and snatched, and then they will try their best to give birth to sons for their husbands.

The Ross tribe feels that this is what a good woman should do, and it should be natural to become a man's vassal.

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

But this is not a static reason.

Just as his father was talking about Veria, Rurik was also organizing language in his heart.

They said a lot, and Veria fully understood the whole process.

"Okay! Okay! A lot of deer! I was worried that you would be hungry when you went out for too long. I never thought you would eat venison every day. That is, you ate too many deer, and only a small part was brought back safely. I have some regrets." Veria said regrets, but her heart was soothing.

Why?

In Veria's view, deer is the best tribute to worship Odin.

At the wedding of the tribal youth collectively marrying a Novgorod woman, the sacrificed headless reindeer really caused the tribe to bleed heavily.

Deer must be spiritual creatures, so the priests of the past had to wear heavy antler helmets during important sacrifices, whether they were old or hurt.

But deer are really scarce!

This time Otto bluntly explained that more than fifty deer brought back by the tribe still survived.

Otto talked freely: "Even so, the number of deer surviving is enough. We almost walked to the boundary of the human world, as if we could explore the darkness under the tree of the world again, and finally we got the deer herd. It's over. Because people are already panicking at the time, I must make sure that everyone can go home before Hanukkah."

"There are fifty deer. We will have enough sacrifices for the main priests in the future. This includes Hanukkah this year. Haha, I thought I would use some fish as sacrifices this time."

"Only deer is the best. In order to have enough deer for future sacrifices, we need to raise the deer that we bring back. The deer herd will grow gradually. It is not just a matter of sacrifice, but we will also be able to grow more deer because of the deer herd. rich."

Allies in the south have been in conflict for many years to compete with the Danes for pastures where cattle and sheep are grazing!

Villa knows these things, it seems that those conflicts and the Ross tribe are too far away. Raising cattle and sheep solves the problem of dressing and eating meat. This is more efficient than going out hunting. However, the area of ​​Roseburg is too cold. So far, the entire tribe has only a very small number of sheep, and the only sheep are basically the warm season. The allies bought it, and in winter, the sheep owner killed it and let his family have meat to eat.

"But, can we raise these deer?!"

"Of course!" Otto raised his big hand excitedly, UU reading www. He pointed at uukanshu.com, "That girl is the only deer breeder. I believe she will restore the number of deer to more than 300."

"That's her?!" Villa startled, "You told me soon after you walked in that she was a captive, a windfall from your trip. I didn't expect that she was a deer breeder. Can she do it?! It's so amazing. Young, it looks a little older than your Rurik. By the way, why is she so close to Rurik, you..."

Villa suddenly sank, her aging wrinkles wrinkled terribly, fully demonstrating her doubts and anxiety.

"Otto, my child. Tell you, shouldn't I just think of that girl as the future woman of Relic? No! I'm telling you that this won't work! He is too young, not even twelfth Years old, your decisions are not in compliance. Besides, Rurik will be the future leader, and the leader’s wife must be a good woman. Besides, we still don’t know God’s attitude. We have just completed our relationship with Novgorod. The marriage of Germany, is now going to be married to the deer breeder again? No! This won’t work..."

Villa said negative words more than ten times in a row. Otto couldn't intervene at all, so he had to smirk awkwardly.

When Villa’s mood recovered, he hurriedly explained: "Priest of wisdom, I can feel that you really love our Rurik. Don’t worry, as a father, my son must marry him when he grows up. Daughters of other tribe leaders, I will do it myself. Regarding this deer-raiser girl, she is now Rurik’s servant."

"Oh? Really?" Veria was slightly calm, "This is what Odin allowed."