Chapter 168： Build a new house and make a new quilt

That night, Harozossen visited the leader's house, and he was only there to talk with Rurik.

"Haha? Are you telling me about building a house? Okay." Rurik welcomed Harozosen to come.

Before that, Rurik had told his mother that even his daughter-in-law had not returned to his cousin Arik, who was temporarily staying in his own home, about the fact that he was going to build a brand-new leader's house. Niya and Arik don't quite understand, are the wooden floors and the so-called beds really so wonderful? Maybe it's wonderful.

Lurik made an introduction. He couldn't guarantee that his mother was really looking forward to sleeping on the wooden bed.

Now that Harrodsson is visiting, let's talk about it.

After listening to Rurik's introduction for a long time, Haro Zossen shook his head: "I'm sorry, I don't quite understand it. But since you say that the new house is very comfortable, it must be comfortable."

"At least much better than it is now." Rurik emphasized with some regret, "Uncle, I think our days of sleeping on the ground should be over forever. Although those Novgorods are stupid, they are a bit particular about houses. My current house is imitating them. I think this is very suitable for imitating. Uncle, I think you will also build a new house. You know, our tribe still has idlers who are not young but have craftsmanship."

"New house? This... Maybe I really need to think about it."

The sun has completely set, but in fact, the time is now very over. Everyone counted the days, getting closer and closer to the "longest day", so the night time was very short.

After returning from the leader's house, Haro Zuosen began to receive the service of his two recent concubines, but his wife kept putting on a bad face.

It was Kanuf. He was a real little kid, and he played with his two little maids who were almost the same age. After all, they are each other's children, and now the three children are all sleeping together in a shack.

In this scene, Haro Zuosen didn't feel any discomfort at all, because the man wanted these three children to grow up quickly, so he could carry his grandson before the end of his life.

Look at this big family, now the house is too small!

Do you want to continue?

Although Harozossen thought it was weird that Rurik imitated the Novgorod people's move to build a house, he didn't think that wooden floors were any clever facilities.

Lurik was asking people to build a new house, and Haro Zossen was also inspired.

After all, I became wealthy because of the spoils. I should renovate my old house or demolish it and build a new one.

After much deliberation, Haro Zuosen thinks it is more reliable to build a new house.

Rossberg’s boundary is becoming more and more constrained, and constrained refers to those ordinary people. Can one's own status and status be the same? There are also people living in this area, who are obviously more senior. Everyone is a noble person of the tribe who lives near the leader's house!

So there are many flat wastelands in this area. They are completely unsuitable for growing onions. Only the warmth period grows weeds every year. Is it feasible to spend money to invite idlers to develop wasteland and build larger and more spacious long houses?

of course can.

As a result, on the second day, Harrodsson also started to act. He himself recruited a group of idlers with construction experience, including himself, more than 20 people actually went into the hills to cut trees, just to make building materials for the new house.

Lurik was indeed the first to open the scoring, and Haro Zuosen was the first to follow suit. The power of role models is infinite, and more people began to follow them. Those who returned home with money in their pockets were the last time they renovated their homes, and some wastelands were forcibly developed to build new longhouses.

No one has imitated Rurik.

"Maybe, only if they really feel that sleeping in bed is more comfortable than sleeping on the ground, the entire tribe will gradually tear down the old house and live in a long house with wooden floors." Rurik thought so, he still needs to be busy with a lot of things. .

For example, the new long house is completed, and the rest still needs to add living utensils, especially important bedding supplies. Those servants will be their own right-hand men, and naturally they cannot treat them badly in terms of sleep and accommodation. It is the most basic requirement to have mattresses and quilts made of animal skins to prevent the servants from freezing to death in possible hunger and cold.

He has already decided that he must make a batch of quilts that he looks pleasing to the eye. For example, animal skins are used as mattresses and linen cloth is used for bed sheets. In this case, it is better to use linen cloth as a quilt cover with animal skins inside.

He has sketched out the face of the quilt in his mind, and the cordial memory from another beautiful world floats in his mind.

Deerskin is simply tanned and processed, and now it is no longer so expensive. Those ethnic groups who became wealthy took the money, and more people bought daily necessities on a large scale more rationally.

The existence of demand not only promotes the increase in the price of fish, but also the price of fur.

Some merchants who still stock up on fur goods in Roseburg can no longer commit to pulling fur goods to the south to make 100% or more profits, not to mention the huge risks of long-distance transportation.

Last year, leathersmiths bought deerskin for one silver coin. After processing, merchants often bought two for three silver coins. Merchants can transport high-quality deerskins to the Grand Bazaar of the Merlaren tribe and sell them at high prices.

Now, facing the real demand, they set the price at three silver coins and sold them back to the Ross people.

Until now, at this apparently deceptive price, those families who are still poor feel regretful and can't do anything about it.

The young man with money in his pocket doesn't mind paying a high amount of silver to buy more animal skins to make more clothes. The times are indeed different. In the past, my leather clothing may have to be worn for more than ten years, but now that I make one or two spare parts, my luxury dream can be fully realized.

If you can make high profits on the spot, why travel all the way to the south?

Moreover, Rurik never thought that he himself had become one of the driving forces behind the price increase.

There are currently as many as 80 beds in the two long houses with wooden floors. In the foreseeable future, the construction of new long houses will continue. The purpose of the long house with a distant Slavic style is to serve as a servant’s dormitory. Considering that I have a big dream, as the dream is gradually realized, at least I must ensure that my right-hand man has reliable beds to keep out the cold. Clothes and bedding.

Rossberg is a land boundary, in winter often encounters dangerous extreme cold, so cold and still sleeping on the ground, Rurik doesn't think the tribe is deliberately doing it to strengthen the body. The possible reason is very simple, they have not had the opportunity to feel the comfort of the real bed.

There are a large number of women over forty years old in the tribe, and they usually worry about their future. They lack the physical strength to go fishing, let alone engage in combat. They need to rely on their husbands and sons, and make some handmade products and weavings to subsidize their families.

The only value of their existence, seems to be to rectify the housework for the husband and raise the children in the family.

The men of the tribe don’t think these women have much ability, but they generally know how to weave and tailor. These skills are what Rurik desperately needs.

Lurik bought it for a deerskin three silver coin, even if he knew that he had suffered a loss in this respect, he knew that the deerskin in his hand was probably the tribe’s seizure last year.

Some cowhide is also mixed in here, and its price is even higher.

All kinds of large-scale livestock are well-processed, and can be directly made into leather goods for clothing. Rurik bought as many as 200 pieces! Two hundred sheets, one is to make a whole, and the other is to process more, which has been needed from time to time. This move even his mother Niya wondered whether his son had a whim and planned to try to become a fur merchant.

However, Niya learned that his son had bought a large amount of linen, and through those women who specialize in cooking fish, recruited more laid-back female tribes and gave them the task of tailoring.

Her son's behavior made her a little confused, and the next thing was even more confused.

Because, my son still feels dissatisfied with the well-processed animal skins.

A group of tribal women were hired by their sons and started to cut leather with a knife very extravagantly. After that, there was obviously more work to do.

All the leather is cut into a wide rectangle, and its area can generally completely envelop an adult man lying down. Whether it's cowhide or deerskin, they will be wrapped in a linen cloth. The women used their own iron needles or bronze needles to complete complicated stitching with twine. It’s no different, bad needles have to go through thick leather, which really tests women’s strength and perseverance.

However, when they thought that they could get the benefit of a silver coin as long as they finished one piece of processing, when they thought that Rurik was such a generous child, and even with sweat on their foreheads, they would also make a fortune.

Lurik found forty women to do this, and it is estimated that each person can earn five silver coins on this job.

But this money is definitely not easy to make.

Lurik is making "quilts" with existing materials. Those imported linens are made into comfortable quilts, and the inside is a whole piece of leather containing fluff. It is bound to be heavy, and it is really warm when covered, and its shape is indeed exactly like a quilt.

The work of those women disappointed Rurik. A "leather quilt" actually took two days to process.

He waited for two days. By the afternoon of June 6th in the Julian calendar, the first batch of quilts finally began to be delivered.

"New-style bedding? Is there something more comfortable than my bearskin?" Arik, who was idling for a while, was enjoying a pleasant afternoon, but he was surprised that Liurik reached out his hand and tried to pull it outdoors.

"Brother, don't ask too much. Call a few more brothers and help me move things."

"What's your whim? Do you call those things a quilt?"

Liuric pulled on his cousin’s powerful arm, while Arik was motionless like an iron mound.

In this scene, Lumia, who came back after herding, looked at her and wanted to laugh, but also a little bit wanted to cry. In the past few days, she has started to learn the priest’s etiquette, and began to learn those prayers. Four months ago, she started to be replenished with the Luen alphabet and the so-called Roman alphabet. Lumia can actually spell those carved on the wooden board. Prayer on the top.

High Priest Veria didn't feel that this girl's learning ability was amazing, she felt that Lumia must have this level.

It turns out that Rurik didn't look away, and he was the same. At the end, Veria sighed with Odin's wisdom.

Lumia will return to the long house of the priest after dinner, read the prayers in front of Veria, and finally achieve the result of recitation.

For the time being, she must follow the master Rurik's side to listen to the dispatch.

At least Arik was giggling by his brother's seemingly mischievous behavior, and said affectionately: "Before you grow up, you can't pull me. Rurik, is your thing good? Give me. One, I will help you."

"You...you bullied me when I was young? Okay. You help me move, I'll give you a baby."

"Oh, this is right."

Arik got up and easily recruited ten peers who were also idle for the time being.

Lurik walked in front of them, and Lumia followed closely.

A small team is formed, and it seems that the leader is the leader of the team, Rurik.

The team abducted into the place where the ordinary people lived. In a sense, this is the "Downtown" of Roseburg, a place where people who lack power and status live together. They are the poorest people in the tribe, and now things have changed. Because of the end of the plundering war, some people suddenly became wealthy, causing many to regret that they missed the opportunity to make a fortune.

I knew that a sneak attack on the Gotland could be very smooth, and I followed it!

Arik watched his younger brother approach some simple houses, and unexpectedly began to chat with wrinkled women.

The woman said a few words and then entered her house with a smile on her face, and came out carrying a lot of burlap-like things. Seeing how they struggled, Arik guessed that there must be something in the gray cloth bag.

Just as Arik hesitated, Rurik enthusiastically called: "Brother, you come over and take the baby, I will give it to you."

"Baby? In the cloth bag?"

When Arik took the so-called cloth bag, he knew that it was not a so-called bag at all.

Arik's hands stretched it subconsciously, and he didn't need any explanation at all. He also understood that this thing was an existence that resembled a blanket. Feeling the texture, he estimated that the inside of the linen cloth was a whole piece of leather.

He keenly noticed that the blanket was wrapped in a gray-white linen cloth, on which there were quite meticulous stitches. This thing is really not an ordinary leather blanket, it is really made too square, and a strong desire to possess it floods Arik's heart. He can't wait to use this thing as a bedding tonight.

"Arik, you lift it up a little bit!" Rurik said loudly, "Don't hesitate, you see this quilt has fallen to the ground."

"Oh! I'll raise it right away."

Arik raised his arms and drove the stretched quilt off the ground, and Rurik had a complete picture of it.

The tall and strong Arik did lift it up, and Rurik could see the uncovered half of his cousin's calf.

"Liurik, this thing is quite heavy." Arik muttered behind the quilt.

"Shen is right, the deerskin itself is not light. What do you think of using it as a bedding?"

"Maybe very comfortable. Oh, thank you for the present."

Lurik personally touched it, and he also had to sigh with the tailoring level of a tribal woman. That being the case, they should be able to perform more complicated tailoring tasks in the future. Even the Ross tribe can develop a tailoring industry as a result.

Making clothes has been a labor-intensive industry since ancient times. In an era without sewing machines, organizing older women to make clothes together is an operation that pursues maximum efficiency.

As for the sewing machine, the old-fashioned human foot-operated sewing machine, Rurik didn't think it was too complicated. Because it is a combination of some special-shaped gears, it makes it possible to thread the needle without interruption. In addition, with the power of the foot, the thick cowhide makes the needle easy to penetrate.

For the time being, making sewing machines is still a long way off. Perhaps only when the tribes have a large-scale clothing demand, it is truly meaningful to bring out related machines.

According to Rurik’s request, his brother Arik folded the quilt several times to make it fit in his hand.

"Liurik? Where do you go next?"

"Go to the next house and get another one." After that, Rurik took out a silver coin from the cloth bag hanging around his waist and put it into the woman's hand full of folds and calluses.

Poor laborers are such palms.

Looking at the hands of a pair of poor people so carefully, a kind of compassion came to his heart again.

Think about my mother. My mother doesn’t have to run for life. The hardest thing she does is just to cut some dried meat and cook some food. Can this be considered hard work? Do not.

So my mother’s little finger deliberately left a fingernail, UU reading 's purpose is not to reflect that I am different from ordinary women.

Liu Rick continued to urge: "I am very satisfied. The materials are all with you, continue to make it for me, we will deliver the goods at the price of one hand."

I saw the woman bowed with gratitude, and a few tears squeezed from the corners of her eyes full of crow's feet.

The woman promised: "Oh, Odin’s child, thank you. I will do the rest, and I will do well if I am needed."

Lurik could hear the woman talking about "Odin's child". It seems that a silver coin is really important to her.

But for myself, there are already too many silver coins.

Look at this huge Roseburg! Look at this shabby house, it is indeed very different from your own home and nearby houses, in short, it is more rudimentary.

The gap between the rich and the poor in Roseburg is so big, so do you give money to some poor people?

That's not good, teaching people how to fish is the right answer. Through this incident, Rurik fully understands that the poverty of many ethnic groups may simply be because they have lost their physical strength when they were young, unable to fish and fight on a large scale, leading to a sharp decline in their living standards when they were older.

Whether it is a man or a woman, when they are old, if they can be provided with some work opportunities that did not exist before, they will pay for their work and buy food and clothing to live as much as possible. Ah, this is very harmonious.

And the productivity of the tribe will also increase.