Chapter 116： 9th century glass bottle

Lurik didn't hate wine at all. He really knew that the people brewed ale with very low reading. It had a mellow taste and was quite bitter. If hops are added, the ale is upgraded to beer. In an era when beverages are extremely scarce, ale has become a very important beverage compared to pure water without taste.

He is still less than eight years old and still enjoys the so-called mead this winter.

There are two kinds of meads made by the Ross people. One is that the honey is diluted and fermented. It tastes like a quick syrup.

The other is a blend of bitter ale with honey. Ale is obviously higher in strength than fermented mead, but the bitterness is not everyone's favorite. After adding honey, it is very different.

Including the group wedding of Novgorod women, the new couples quoted a cup of wine, in fact, the blend of ale and honey.

There is even a saying in this, the so-called life always coexists with bitterness and sweetness.

Of course, people in the southern European world can still get a lot of this delicious taste of wine, even some wine addicted to wealthy people and nobles, did not drink alcohol liver, but drank diabetes in advance!

Rurik took his father's hand to Gould's seaside wooden house. He also took his servant Lumia with him, to show that he was on the stage, and also to show her who will bear the burden in the future. .

The day is still short. When the soft light of the setting sun shines on the ice on the entire beach, Rurik saw the dark shadows shaking on the sea. Needless to say, those guys are still catching seals.

The destruction of nature by humans is still limited. The Russ have caught all the wild reindeer in this area, and seals are still easy to catch.

The population of Arctic seals is very large. In the Baltic Sea alone, the population of seals in this area is still close to 500,000. After all, they are a kind of mammal. Their special fur prevents salt water erosion. They look like fresh water and sea water. Therefore, there are still traces of Baltic sea seals in some rivers in Lake Ladoga and even more inland.

Lurik knows that after purifying seal oil, it is a slightly yellowish transparent oily substance, and it is almost pure white after solidification. The soaps at this stage are all made with it, and seal oil does not have a serious peculiar smell. If it weren't for the brown-yellow solution of plant ash, the soap that I made would have been translucent white!

Just now in the soap warehouse, Rurik learned that Gould’s excitement about soap came to a certain extent from the color of the soap. In this time and space, all consumer goods of people are extremely scarce. Anything with bright colors can move people. Businessmen naturally see business opportunities with their keen eyes.

After a while, Rurik stood in front of Gould's so-called mansion.

said it is a luxury house, but its appearance is not outstanding. Unlike other houses, Gould had ordered his entourage to clear all the snow on the roof, revealing its row upon row of wooden structure. The herringbone formed by this board does indeed show different architectural features from the Rus tribe.

"Let's go, great boss, I made the mansion renovated last year, I hope you won't mind its mess."

Messy? Gould was already very humble. Liulikra carried Lumia's slender arms and followed his father Otto into the room.

This is a huge warm long house. It still has no floor, but the sand and gravel on the ground have obviously been treated, that is, it is quite flat by heavy objects.

Gould’s so-called mess doesn’t exist at all. It’s clearly decorated here, and the overall layout looks neat.

In fact, it is still a monolithic long house, with wooden boards dividing the living room, the servant’s living room, and the master’s bedroom.

On the wooden wall hang some shields and axe inlaid with gold pattern that coexist with decoration and practicality. There are also some raised wooden supports holding bronze oil lamps.

Compared with other houses, Gould’s long house has better waterproof performance because its roof is made of multi-layer wood. Although there are no ceramic rain-blocking tiles here, Gould used staggered hard oak boards to achieve the effect of tiles.

Standing in the middle of the hall of the house, Rurik looked up and could only see the largest wooden beam in the long house.

The wooden beam is the key to the structure of the entire longhouse. It is conceivable that if this wooden beam is used as the keel of a ship, it is not a problem to build a 30-meter-long transport ship.

A large bronze chandelier was hung down by three iron cables. The chandelier held up to thirty-two oil lamps. They were arranged in a mathematically beautiful radial arrangement. Thanks to the matrix of large oil lamps, the whole house does not need a bonfire, and it looks quite For bright.

The oil lamps on the walls are all lit, and with the largest chandelier, the whole house is baked very warm.

After a while, Gould clapped his hands and called his entourage to the meeting room.

There were four warriors, two young maids, and a man in linen robes.

Seeing the samurai, Otto almost instinctively held the hilt of his saber.

Seeing this, Gould hurriedly waved, and the fat on his face trembled: "My leader, don't be nervous. Look, these are my people, and some live in another longhouse."

Otto relaxed a little, and joked: "Gould, it seems that your life is very moist. You still need young women to serve you, but does this disgust some of your other women?"

"You mean my maid? Hey, they are just humble slaves. Have you noticed their reddish hair? These are two Britons. My leader, maybe you don’t know well, those Danes recently In the past few years, some slaves have been captured from the island called Britain in the west. Even we can spend some money to buy some."

"This...I have heard of it, but we don't need those servants."

"But you have also changed." Gould's eyes glanced at Lumia next to Rurik and pointed out: "You also chose a maid for your son. You are indeed different, and I think you are I intend to let this humble deer breeder be your son's wife. I have found out the truth, you are a bit strange, you treat the servants too high!"

"Don't mention this." Otto waved his hand. "You have brought the blanket, and I want to rest. And put your good wine and meat on the table, I want to see what you say. What is wine."

"Okay!" Gould patted his thigh and asked the skinny man to bring food. It turns out that this person is just a cook.

He greeted the chef to present the prepared food, followed by leather blankets and low wooden tables.

Many people of the tribes don’t have a table for dinner, just because there is no urgent need. Otto usually sits cross-legged when he eats, picking up meat in a pottery pot to eat, or holding a bowl to drink soup with a spoon.

Gould’s life was so particular that Otto felt a little uncomfortable facing the cold barbecue on the table.

The grilled meat is cold, but the meat is actually beef, with a thin layer of butter attached to it. Rurik received exactly the same care as his father, but because of the status of a servant, poor Lumia could only sit and watch obediently.

Dinner is cold beef and some rye bread. The side dish also has a little dried cranberry fruit, the sweet taste is precious.

Rich as Gould, he didn't think this hospitality would be anything wrong with the Ruth chief, because he also eats these foods on weekdays.

The most important thing for this dinner is wine!

"Great boss, please wait a moment, I will bring my baby for you."

Gould stood up and walked into his bedroom. After a while, he walked out with three transparent bottles and poo.

He actually holds a transparent bottle!

Liuric was bored with a knife for cutting meat, trying to cut the cold roast beef into pieces. He felt that he couldn't eliminate such a huge pile of things anyway, and the Lu Mia that he could not finish eating was given to him, and the two children would always be able to kill it.

He saw the three glass bottles that Gould was only holding. The almost transparent appearance was really shocking.

It seems that these bottles do not come from the ninth century at all. It seems that a traveler deliberately left them in the cracks of this history. In the end, the bottles, which are extremely cheap to a dime, become Gould treasures.

But that is not the bottle that really came from a thousand years later.

Gould proudly placed the three pancakes on his low table. The liquids of different colors swayed, and Rurik saw the bubbles in them.

The height of the pancakes is different, the shape details are also different, and there are crooked textures in some places.

Looking intently, Rurik relieved her mood and made sure that she was not from the future, but from this era, created by some magical craftsman.

Lurik has already made an estimate of the origin of the bottles, maybe they come from Eastern Rome, or Persia. As for glass, the name of "glass" is given to the East because the place of origin is in Persia.

Gould proudly faced the astonished leader Otto, boasting: "Great leader, maybe compared to wine, these three bottles of mine are big treasures."

"It's...I...I know. This is a crystal bottle. You still have such a baby."

Lurik heard his father's words, and the hairs all over his body stood up in an instant. The two words of crystal and bottle were spoken in Gnostic and turned into a combination word. The co-author father knew the concept of crystal bottle and was also precious to know it.

Gould shook his head: "No. It is not a crystal bottle, nor is it as precious as a crystal bottle. It may come from Rome, or it may come from a place further east. In short, I spent a lot of money to get these three bottles. The price. I think about it, I spent twenty gold coins for each bottle."

"So expensive? Only someone like you can sell a bottle for the price of a boat." Otto praised with envy.

"Now you can do it too!" Gould praised the situation, "Your son earned a huge fortune for you. I know this very well. You see, those soaps have made the lovely Rurik very rich now. ."

"My son is still too young."

"No! I can see that he must be a business genius. Great leader, and future leader, I am eager to cooperate with you further."

Taking advantage of this dinner, Gould madly released his kindness. Rurik could hear this person's flattery. Youdao is not profitable. The reason for a senior businessman to say a series of flattery must be that the businessman feels that in-depth cooperation means huge business opportunities.

Since the other party showed strong goodwill, Rurik, who remained silent, directly expressed his decision.

"Gould, I like your bottles very much. You don't have any new ones? I have a lot of money now. If I can, I hope I can buy them from you. I will offer you a price you are satisfied with."

"Really?" Gould, who smelled the business opportunity, replied madly, and he immediately responded respectfully, "I'm sorry, my little master, I am here with these three, I can't bear them. But I will try it in the south. Fortunately, if I can buy it at the market, I will offer it when I return in the fall."

"Well, you'd better find out if they are from Rome or the more eastern world." Rurik was very interested in this, and for a moment he began to think about the possibility of making it by himself. New 81 Chinese network update the fastest computer terminal: https://

To carve a piece of natural crystal into a cup, many peoples in the world know the craftsmanship. During the Spring and Autumn Period in China, monarchs such as Chu had their own World Cup. Datang referred to such cups as "luminous cups", and the poem of grape wine luminous cups has been circulating.

More ancient pharaohs, such as ancient Egypt, there are not only crystal cups in the tombs of the temple, but also weapons made of meteorite iron.

Rurik felt that these glass bottles were all from Persia, and they were trafficked to Eastern Rome by food merchants, and then sold to Gould. Every time a scalping merchant had to make money, the so-called twenty silver coins were One-fifth of a Roman pound of gold! It's a huge sum of money!

He knows very well that the main component of glass is silica, so the most important raw material for making glass is quartz sand. For example, crushing a large piece of beautiful crystal crystal column, and then melting and re-plasticizing, will it create energy? Did you make do with the glass?

Lurik thinks of the high-temperature colloidal **** flowing out of the furnace of a blacksmith's shop. When the **** cools naturally, it has a glass-like texture.

Perhaps the Persians discovered ore and clay with a lot of quartz sand when they were smelting iron or pottery. They will become special after heating. This was the creative direct burning of quartz sand, and some coincidences created almost transparent cooling objects.

Add some lead soil, a by-product of smelting silver, also known as lead dioxide, together with calcium oxide available everywhere in the mountainous area, to create practical glass. But it is not pure, and the impurities that are difficult to remove cannot guarantee absolute transparency. It is more appropriate to call it colored glaze.

After combing through the knowledge in his mind, Rurik felt that in the remote Roseburg, using the sand from the coast and the lead of the blacksmith to make glass containers by the blacksmith, there seemed to be no problem with the craftsmanship.

Look at these three glass bottles. They are obviously blown out bottles It can be seen that their producers already have very mature "bottle blowing" technology.

Cheap glass bottles can be produced efficiently in the era of industrial development in the 20th century. Even in the 19th century, all the bottles were blown out by artisans. Even so, in the 21st century, there is still a huge market for professional craftsmen who blow bottles.

The reason for the magical physical properties of glass still has no very reasonable scientific explanation, and it still troubles people in the 21st century. This mass of silicon-oxygen-calcium-lead materials has strong plasticity after heating, and craftsmen since ancient times can make it into various shapes.

In addition to becoming a daily necessities, it is even transformed into a weapon, such as using glass as an arrow or something.

Look at the three bottles of wine presented by Gould. If there is a bottle of pure "water of life", that is, a spirit that is refined to 97%, it is no longer a wine. In this way, the glass bottle can be used as a fragile container for incendiary weapons.

liqueur? Pure wine?

Lurik had already figured out how to make glass in his mind, and even had a great money-making plan to talk to the blacksmith Kravassen about it and put it into practice.

His attention suddenly shifted to the three bottles of wine on Gould's table.

These three glass bottles, the left bottle is dark red, when it is wine. The middle bottle is yellowish in color, or honey fermented wine, or ale. And the one in the right bottle, it can't always be white water!ァ新ヤ~⑧~1~中文网ωωω.χ~⒏~1zщ.còм

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