Chapter 303 Visitors From the Upper Reaches of the River Who Also Speak Norse

Niya's visit continued, and Rurik took his mother to visit his own oat processing workshop because he had to prepare a batch of mashed oats for porridge in the evening.

The hammer head hits the stone mortar, and the dried oat grains are gradually being smashed into powder, which is actually not fundamentally different from the tools used for pounding rice in the East. It's just a powerful hammer that can smash the grains into pieces, forming semolina that requires a lot of energy in this era.

"This...this is..."

Niya was stunned, she didn't understand the relationship between the wooden shaft driven by the waterwheel and the hammer that kept beating.

"It's a miracle! It's a miracle!"

Nia's body began to tremble, and then she looked solemnly at her innocent-looking son, and she could not help but tremble and said, "Son, did Odin bestow you divine power? I see that your hammer has been beating."

"Divine power?" Rurik was a little confused.

"It's divine power! I can't see anyone pounding wheat kernels. Only, it's a hammer. It moves on its own!"

Listen, Rurik really wanted to laugh out loud. He pointed at the rotating wooden shaft: "Mom, the source of strength is this wood, but the fundamental source is the river outside. I told you, Austrian Ding put most of his wisdom in the world we see, he just gave me inspiration to look for. Now I can say, I have found some more. Now, I am already using the river water to do something useful for us something happened."

Nia's surprised face was still wrinkled, and she was still muttering, "A miracle! What a miracle."

"Hey..." Rurik's little hand patted his forehead, afraid that he could not convince his mother, but fortunately, the young men who followed him, both men and women, were generally aware of the so-called miracle of the waterwheel, which was essentially The Rus harnessed the power of the river.

Of course, according to the meaning of the Kewen people, the ability to understand is even more amazing. The so-called powerful Varyag people began to extract power from the river god.

So are these ridiculous rhetoric any good? Of course, there are advantages to Rurik, that is, he has become a greater existence in the eyes of his subordinates. After all, since pounding oats with a waterwheel, the oats in the wooden bowls are not only easy to cook, but also sticky and delicious. I really fell in love with it once I experienced it.

As nobles, Rurik and his mother naturally wanted better food.

The pounded oat crumbs are sifted through a gauze made of fine twine to obtain coarse oat flour. If you are sieving with a gauze with a higher mesh,

That's fine flour.

It is still the way of making wheat pancakes in the past, only using finely processed flour, Rurik can be regarded as eating the "stone pan pancakes" in his concept. Eating this kind of cake naturally does not require much effort to chew. Niya feels an unprecedented freshness. Of course, she knows how to make fine flour cakes.

Niya finally got her wish, she can happily hold her son in her arms, just like those years.

The son is growing rapidly, and the settlement he was ordered to build and dedicated to is proceeding at an astonishing speed. Niya knows that behind this must be strong financial resources to mobilize everyone's enthusiasm, but the son is sitting on a huge wealth.

In the days that followed, Nia had been living a pampered life.

After carefully observing the operation of the waterwheel, and even watching the construction of the No. 3 waterwheel workshop, she didn't realize until this time that this was not a "miracle", to be precise, "mortals have obtained the wisdom of God", no doubt It was Rurik who spread wisdom.

Niya is the most honored guest at Fort Elon Orava. She eats soft, fine-flour wheat cakes every day, and she eats fresh fish, or bear meat and venison that she has hunted. A sauna room and a barrel bath room built for her were quickly built, and she became a frequent visitor to the bathroom, and she completely fell in love with the life here.

Just how good is Roseburg? As far as enjoyment is concerned, I am afraid it is not as good as here.

Looking at the towering and sturdy wooden walls and the huge "village" wrapped in the walls, a strong sense of security reassured an old woman like her. And seeing her son who is dedicated to construction and laughing with his future wives and concubines every day, a feeling called happiness makes it even more difficult for her to extricate herself, and even her husband Otto is no longer important.

Ten Novgorod maids, as well as the Carlota sisters, the Kovin girl Seporava...

A noble person can marry as many wives as he wishes, according to tradition. Look at the current battle. First of all, Nia has full confidence in his son. He prayed to Goddess Freya to let him live longer, so that when his son grows up, he can have up to 20 grandchildren. She thinks This is the most wonderful miracle I can see in the last stage of my life, and I have no regrets in this life.

Nia was enjoying a life experience she had never had before, and it was nothing to Rurik.

Eat quality food every day, live in a warm and tidy house, sleep in a large and comfortable double bunk, and keep your bathroom clean every day.

This should be the most normal thing, and one should try to satisfy it in any situation.

It is the cost issue here that Rurik has really calculated for himself. To meet the most basic life guarantees of these thousand-year-old people, and to realize it in the current era, it really needs a family with sufficient financial resources. It was originally only the wealthy businessmen and giants to complete.

Life is good now, and Roseburg is the real home.

Nia understood that she was a guest, and her son Rurik was even more of a guest.

The real settlers were only a small group, the Kovins who surrendered. When winter comes, the Kewen people will continue to stick to the settlement protected by the wooden wall. Perhaps some Rus will live here at that time, and the purpose is naturally to hunt for fur. Most Rus do not venture out of their native land unless the fur economy from hunting animals is strong enough to drive a very large number of people on the adventure.

New year's winter hunts can start as early as four months later.

Nia is not a woman who only indulges in pleasure, she is a master of tailoring leather herself, she really understands what it means when a lot of furs enter Roseburg.

In the past winter hunting, because the hunters lacked a strong foundation, everyone gathered together and ran to the north, and usually returned home after a short hunt. Without a greater purpose, everyone will not stay in the cold wilderness for long. Now that there is the stronghold of Elrond Castle, presumably in the future winter hunting north, the situation will be more favorable for the clansmen.

Niya and Rurik made an agreement. Because of the relationship between the priests of the summer solstice, if the conditions are allowed, Rurik, as a child loved by the gods, needs to kneel at the altar and tell the gods of his loyalty. with admiration.

Participating in a summer festival? Of course!

Rurik had his own ideas.

The summer solstice sacrifice is on June 28 of the Julian calendar, which is the so-called "nightless night". There is still some time before that time, and before the day of returning, he feels that he still has a lot of things to do.

Even though the Elronborg settlement has added waterwheel forging machinery, because of the trained men of the Iron Squirrel tribe, their fine-smithing skills are very poor. It's not that they can't make practical chrome iron tools. is too slow.

Yes, Rurik thinks it's still too slow to produce 100 axes per day!

His great plan is the Ross tribe. Men of all ages first have their own axe, and after they are satisfied, they will try their best to satisfy every Ross woman who has an ax of their own.

In the final analysis, blacksmithing needs real skilled workers to do it. Therefore, the biggest task of the blacksmith Kawei is to take advantage of the days when he is still in Elrond, and try his best to spread his blacksmithing skills to the Kewen people.

Kawhi will definitely return to Roseburg, because of the success of the "Great Furnace", Rurik felt that he should try to implement his greater "Blast Furnace Plan" in his hometown.

The hometown of Roseburg has the most professional blacksmiths, and Rurik also thought of directly transporting ore by cargo sailboats.

However, some unexpected things always happen suddenly when people are unprepared.

Some of the fishing boats carrying fresh catch to Fort Elronorava decided to try Rurik's suggestion, and they also went to the upper reaches of the river to cast their nets to test the freshwater catch.

Not to mention, they caught some Nordic bass and barracuda, and the numbers were gratifying.

After the Kovins of the Iron Squirrel Tribe learned of this situation, the leader Mechasta immediately explained his experience to Rurik: river fish would not gather at the mouth of the sea, and if there was a lake upstream, it would be a good fishing ground.

So there is a big lake upstream?

Rurik dared not jump to conclusions, and now he has no energy to send a new expedition to investigate. Even Mechasta, who was very devoted to investigating the outside world and finding a new development point for his tribe, all his excellent expedition team members died in the mines. Due to the absolute lack of young men, he temporarily lost his desire to take risks. .

At least one expedition has been sent out, and they haven't heard from them for a month!

They are Russ, and there is a group of mercenaries equipped with excellent weapons! They will never become food in the mouth of a bear, they will only become ruthless men who desperately hunt bears.

Just when Rurik put his mind on other important matters, they finally returned after a long absence from the fishermen's expedition for more than a month.

Their comeback is extraordinary! When I went there, there were only five small fishing boats, and they set up their sails and sailed upstream under the south wind.

Now that they have returned, they are drifting calmly, and the boats are no longer five, but seven!

How can there be two more small fishing boats? !

Ross fishermen, who started catching freshwater fish on the river, were the first to meet their expedition counterparts, and then they understood where the two extra boats and the ten people on board came from.

The ten men in leather coats had strong statures, and their long beards felt a strong sense of majesty.

They only wore warm leather hats, but they also carried round shields and helmets with iron plates on them.

With that gear alone, they should be fighters from any point of view.

They are not Ross warriors, but they are better than Ross warriors.

Could it be that there is another unknown powerful tribe in the northern land?

When they opened their mouths and reported their identities when dealing with newly encountered fishermen, they were self-reported as Balmers.

A name that no one knows!

But the language they speak, as long as they are Russ people, they can understand, and everyone speaks the same language. The common language suddenly gave everyone a strong sense of intimacy, as if these so-called "Balmerks" were part of the Svia tribal alliance, just like the Rus, they would be regarded as one by the Melalen tribe. Look at it as a "lost ally".

It's just that the Rus people have always had frequent business exchanges with their brothers in the south, and it's just that the ruler of the tribe has hardly visited Melalen's territory for more than ten years.

What about the Balmer clan? Have they forgotten the Mellarens? Fortunately, they have some anecdotal knowledge about the Rus people.

Ten Balmerk explorers were escorted down the river by fishermen. The leader called himself Mordgen. He learned that the leader of the Rus was in the fort named Elon Olava at the mouth of the river. Ten of them were here. The purpose of the trip has changed completely!

Strange visitors sat in their modest boats, guided by the people on the shore, and docked at the pier.

The hemp rope was tied to the protruding wooden post at the bow (actually part of the keel), and it was firmly fixed to the trestle.

Mordegen led his nine followers to stand on the solid boardwalk, and then what came into sight was a town with tall wooden walls and wooden towers!

They were stunned on the spot for a while, completely forgetting that they still had a lot of goods for exchange that had not been brought ashore.

At this moment, Rurik had just learned about the existence of these magical visitors. He did not know who the Balmoc tribe was. Out of instinctive self-preservation, Rurik wanted to meet them, but he was also in his residence within the city walls. Lay out the spectrum.

Youdao is the first side of the perception is extremely important, in this matter, Rurik immediately made some preparations.

Several mercenaries waited at the dock for a long time, and seeing the visitors standing still, some mercenaries deliberately asked in a rude tone: "What's the matter with you? My master has received news from you and is planning to meet you. If my master Enraged, you will be expelled."

The mercenary glanced at the cloth bag they were still in the boat, "Let's go quickly, or you won't even think about doing business."

"Oh! It's my sin." The explorer Mordgen hurriedly greeted his men to pick up his very important commodity - two fine linen woven pockets of white flowered sea salt.

The attitude of the mercenaries was indeed rude, firstly because of the arrogance of the mercenaries, and secondly because Rurik asked them to do so.

The Law of the Dark Forest? Rurik does not think this is the only truth, but it does have this very important practical significance.

People's self-protection is a fundamental principle. When contacting foreigners who have never dealt with each other, it is best to have a happy settlement, and everyone can do business peacefully. But the survival logic of the Nordic world, Rurik has personally experienced the war can be regarded as a formal understanding.

What is the logic of survival? When the two ethnic groups meet, they can fight directly to complete the looting and making a fortune. If you can't beat it, then you should do your business as much as you can, and everyone will maintain a peaceful relationship on the surface, and secretly make some tricks to benefit yourself.

Rurik needs to convey a very critical attitude to the outsiders who also speak Norse, that we Rus are very strong and don't make any bad ideas.

Rurik was of course planning to show off his wealth, but it was more important to show force now!

Because since the development tone of the Russ to compete with the Melarens has been set, Rurik, as the future leader, definitely does not want a potential enemy to suddenly appear behind him.