Chapter 235： The Birth of a Woodcut Leng

On September 5th of the Julian calendar, with the laying of the last piece of thatched meadow, Rurik’s new home was finally completed.

It was also on this day that Rurik and his family moved into a brand new woodcut with wooden floors.

This wooden house is extraordinary!

According to his own ideas, Rurik tried his best to build a wooden house in Russian style a thousand years later in the ninth century, which is a real woodcut. In fact, there is no purely Russian style, or Slavic style.

The key to woodcut-style architecture is to use wood as the main building material to build residential dwellings suitable for settlement in the extreme cold world.

This house looks so special in a longhouse building in Roseburg!

It looks like a pure wooden house at first glance. A large amount of processed wood is stacked, giving its outer wall a forest texture. I have to say that because of the timber structure, this house is really angular. Especially the square stone chimney erected makes it really a building with chimney besides the blacksmith shop.

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If there are any parts that are similar to the traditional long house of the Ross people, there is nothing more like the thatched meadow with its herringbone roof. Moreover, the reason for adding thatched meadows is entirely because Rurik felt that only relying on wood roofs is not good for water resistance. It also needs the help of traditional longhouse roof waterproof materials, and a large amount of thatch partitions. The water capacity is not bad, so it's okay to make do with it.

Of course, the best thing is to use clay to make tiles. Rurik knew that he would come up with a plan and the potters of the tribe could make it. But the problem here has never been whether it can be manufactured, but that the terracotta tiles are really laid. The waterproof effect of the house is better, and the roof is really too heavy.

The boundary of Roseburg is often snowed in winter. Compared with leaking roofs, people are most worried about the destruction of houses by snow in winter. Being overweight equals the risk of a landslide, and after a landslide, not to mention people being killed or injured, the extreme cold will quickly kill people!

The appearance of the woodcut Leng is unique, and it is more interesting inside.

It is an internal structure of three bedrooms and one hall, consisting of a living room, a master bedroom, two secondary bedrooms, and a storage room. The structure of the room is entirely Rurik's evil taste.

All bedrooms have wooden beds. The bottom of the bed is soft reed grass, and the whole piece of cowhide is laid on it, and a layer of fine linen is laid on top of the leather, once as a mattress.

Although there is no spring, I have to say that this bed is soft and warm.

There is also a quilt on the bed, that is, the whole leather is covered with a layer of linen. It is not surprising, because Rurik has been enjoying it in his old house.

Pillows are also available, and they are even very special.

Most of the oats purchased from Gould are new wheat, and a considerable part of these wheat is not well hulled, which has to make the Roths need to process them before they can enjoy them. Usually oatmeal husk is a useless waste, now Rurik uses it as a pillow filler.

A room must have a wooden bed and a bedside table. Cabinets are nothing but objects made of wooden boards and tenon joints. The Ross people are good at shipbuilding and also good at making woodworking furniture. What can be put on the bedside table and in the drawer? Maybe an oil lamp, a dagger, or even some silver coins and gold coins.

There are also windows in carved wood. Since glass panels have not yet been manufactured, the so-called windows are actually thick wooden boards hung on the window frames. It is supported when light is needed, and the board needs to be thickened until the cold snowy night.

What Rurik talks about most is that he installed a fireplace in his new house.

The fireplace is located in the center of the living room wall, the hearth is made of refractory iron ore, and the chimney is surrounded by ordinary granite.

Although there are low four-corner wooden chairs in the living room, there are also a large number of cut square leather cushions.

It is too difficult for the Ross people to get rid of the tradition of sitting on the ground in an instant, so let's continue sitting on the ground. Rurik also asked the carpenter to make a minimalist style wooden table, which can be placed upright on the wall at ordinary times, and it can be moved out when needed.

There are some iron hooks on the wooden walls in each room. As the family moves in, they are immediately useful.

The master bedroom is naturally the residence of Otto and his wife.

On the hook are Otto's sword, shield, and even chain mail and leather armor. Some thick leather jackets of the husband and wife were hung up. What Lurik prepared for his parents was naturally a huge double bed that was spliced ​​together. There were bedside tables on both sides of the bed, and there were also a pair of bronze lamps that were not infused with grease.

There are two second bedrooms. At the beginning, Rick left a room for his own Lumia. Now the situation has completely changed.

Lumia had to be arranged into Rurik's bedroom, and to make matters worse, for the time being, the two of them had to squeeze into a wooden bed. Of course, Rurik thought that he would grow into a big bearded man in the future. He just made his own bed very big, and now it’s no problem to squeeze two children.

So, what about the room where Lumia was supposed to be housed?

Carlota and Ella, two girls from the Ostra tribe, moved in.

They almost instinctively realized that the large leather-covered table was used for sleeping, and the soft and warm feeling when they lay on it almost immediately caught the sleepy bugs. Had it not been for one more dinner, they would have been asleep in the afternoon.

It's just that the two girls arrived in the Ross tribe with almost nothing. Now they changed into ordinary linen and leather clothes provided by Rurik. The expensive white fox fur cover presented by Gould became a wonderful decoration on the wall. .

As for the storage room, Niya immediately realized its huge role.

In this dark room without windows, the wooden wall hooks are used to hang dried bacon, and another batch of wheat is placed here.

Regarding the kitchen and toilet, they are not inside the woodcut. According to tradition, Rurik sent someone to make an aqua toilet. The kitchen is simply a shed with solid walls and a stove with charcoal blocks inside.

The new house was finally built, and there was no ceremony for the completion of the new house. Otto moved in happily and began the first day of comfortable living experience.

The tribesmen have long been interested in the leader's new house. Before it was completed, many tribesmen still understood its structure. It is generally felt that the new house is a traditional long house placed on the wooden floor, with a large number of compartments inside.

Since the chief family felt that the structure of the new house was very good, everyone followed suit.

In the foreseeable future, even in the current September, more similar woodcuts will be built and form a new traditional residential style of the Rus tribe.

A new day is coming in peace.

The human scent of oatmeal permeates the large living room.

The low table leaning against the wooden wall was placed, and a batch of pottery bowls were placed on the table. Among them were either overcooked oatmeal or cut bacon. This meal was prepared by Nyala early in the morning with Lumia, and when the meal was over, everyone had their own work.

"Ah! It was so comfortable last night. It reminds me of my experience in Novgorod." Sitting cross-legged, Otto suddenly stretched out comfortably and praised.

"Dad? Do you really like it very much?" Rurik asked urgently.

"Of course, the people over there will enjoy it better than us, and now I am also starting to enjoy it. Sleeping in bed is really more comfortable than sleeping on the ground."

Rurik wanted to hear such praise. He even regretted that he couldn't handle the spring, otherwise he would have to make a Simmons mattress.

He asked the two girls: "Carlotta, Ella, what do you think?"

"Very comfortable!" Carlotta's eyes were enthusiastic, "I have never had such a comfortable sleep experience. I really don't want to leave it."

Ella naturally listened to her sister, repeating the above words from the heart.

Everyone has a great affection for the new house, and life is full of infinite beauty.

Otto took the spoon and started to eat thick porridge, eating a piece of bacon from time to time to enhance the taste of the porridge.

Everyone is accustomed to eating with a spoon, and today the tribe’s wheat reserves are unprecedented. The oats that were once needed to be saved can be enjoyed unscrupulously by at least the chief family.

For a period of time in the past, the food that Rurik gave to all his new and old servants was the large batch of oatmeal from Gould. Since the servants are mainly little girls, they are not big stomachers, but a group of children, and they are too serious if they eat half a pound of wheat every day.

There are also more than one hundred and fifty military-trained guys from Rurik, all of whom have similar meals, that is, a mixture of oatmeal and fish. Cooked herring and oats in a huge pottery urn, accompanied by boiled salt from the sea, Rurik also forced his men to use tea made from dried chrysanthemums and dried pine needles.

It's better now. Every day, the children eat foods that are high in carbohydrate, high in protein, and slightly higher in fat and salt. The diet is rich in vitamins and minerals.

It can be said that for children who do not do a lot of physical exertion, the nutritional level of food given to them by Rurik is not much different from that of Swedish children a thousand years later.

In other words, from now on, the nutritional intake of a group of children of the Ross tribe has systematically and completely surpassed other tribes. Eating well means that your physical fitness has reached its peak. Coupled with the widespread use of soap, diseases can no longer erode children's health.

Ordinary people can't think of so much. What they see is that Rurik is a kind and good person. He was very kind to his brothers and servants at a young age. Wouldn't he be better to his people in the future?

Otto finished a bowl of porridge very quickly, and handed his empty pottery bowl to Lumia: "Give me another bowl."

"Yes, big boss."

Rumia respectfully walked into the pottery urn that moved into the house, and picked up the bronze spoon to scoop it. And she was filled with a lot of porridge in her belly, and now there are wheat and meat, and even if she wants to drink some ale, such a life is a dream.

Isn't it a dream?

Lumia slept with her master Rurik last night, where will the master allow a servant to be so close? The conclusion is self-explanatory.

For example, Carlotta and Ella thought that the long house before was too crowded, so Sister Lumia had to get together and rest with Rurik.

Unexpectedly, their relationship has long been very close.

The future high chief and the future high priest maintain an extremely close relationship? Carlotta was very pleased.

Otto, who ate a few spoonfuls of porridge, glanced at his son holding two wooden sticks with bacon, and a thought suddenly came to his head.

"Rurik, I'm surprised, you still like to use wooden sticks? You can't grab meat with your hands?"

Rurik smiled: "I'm used to it. With these two sticks, I can easily pick the meat out of the boiling pot."

"A strange trick, but unfortunately I can't learn it."

This is Otto's chopsticks. His concept of hygiene is thin. If it weren't for soap that could easily make it extremely clean, it could please the gods in theory, and he would not bother to use it. He stuffed the meat into his mouth, then rubbed his greasy hands on the linen clothes casually.

Where's the son? When the child is eating, his hands can hardly touch the food.

Carlotta was in interest. She asked as if facing her own brother: "Ruriek, your weird tableware, let me use it too?"

"Ok."

Rurik handed the chopsticks over. Carlotta tried to manipulate it, but found that a piece of meat couldn't be caught. She frowned and tried hard, and it seemed to have no effect except to cause others to laugh.

Finally, she simply and rudely inserted the chopsticks into the meat as a big toothpick, stuffed the bacon into her mouth without thinking about it, chewed and swallowed it.

"Rurik, your hands are too flexible. Is this also the result of being blessed by God?"

Her words made Rurik a little bit dumbfounded.

Rurik took the chopsticks and handed it to Lumia: "Come on, give Carlotta a show."

Until now, as Rurik’s first student, Lumia’s strange knowledge has been increasing. Rurik feels that the child’s mathematics knowledge level has reached the level of the fifth grade of elementary school, and all calculations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division within a thousand can be used. It is just because of reality that she has a serious lack of logical concepts for numbers with too large orders of magnitude. She needs More time to understand.

Lu Mia has long been instilled in the use of chopsticks by Lurik. After a long time of training, she has basically mastered the use of two wooden sticks as clamps. She is even trying to learn a stunt that Rurik understands-the wooden stick rotates on each finger This is Rurik’s pen-turning trick, and the chopsticks and pen-turning itself are not too big. the difference.

Does it have any significance in the current era? There is one, which is to please others.

Rurik used this trick of turning a wooden stick with his fingers to prove that his fingers are flexible and to please his family by the way.

Rurik's hands are indeed flexible. If it were not for the child's body to restrict himself, he could completely become a craftsman and make some useful instruments by himself.

Now Rurik has some ideas.

The children fiddled with the sticks for a while, and Otto was amused by them. He felt that he was enjoying the joy of family relationships, and it would be great if Svetlana of Novgorod was sitting here.

Otto was in a happy trance. He seemed to see his grown-up son, accompanied by four beautiful girls. They are both the wives of their son, although they are sitting here now, one of them is a little girl.

Otto deliberately coughed twice to interrupt the children's play.