Rise of Rurik

Lu Mia's mind gradually cleared up, and her body felt cold again.

　　 "I...I, cold..."

　　 She was already speaking in a daze, and her face was quite haggard.

　　 "Don't think too much, drink the hot porridge."

　　Lurik digs a spoonful of oatmeal in a wooden bowl, looking at the so-called porridge, it is not cooked at all, but it should be cooked. He let the porridge in the spoon cool down a little, then stuffed it into the girl's mouth.

　　Lurik is indeed stronger than the average child, and he is also more able to withstand the cold. The two children worked **** the roof for a long time. So far, even though Lurik was exhausted, his mental condition was still good.

　　The meaty Mairen was stuffed into her mouth, Lumia's confused mind seemed to be electrocuted, and her instinct to eat drove her to chew quickly.

　　Lurik finished one spoonful and filled one spoonful again, and soon a half bowl was filled in.

　　 Otto and Niya watched the scene in front of them, not knowing what to do for a while.

　　 "Really, I really don't know who is the servant and who is the master." Niya mumbled helplessly, with doubts in her eyes.

　　 "It's like Rurik is her servant. I admit that this girl is very honest in her job, and the care she is getting now has crossed the line." With that said, Otto did not stop his son's actions.

　　 "Oh, the precious wheat is for our son to eat, and it turned out to be cheaper for this girl. Originally, giving her a little shark liver was a good reward. I really didn't think of it..."

　　Lurik fed Lumia, and he heard everything from his parents.

　　 A bowl of oatmeal was poured in. He flattened the girl's body trembling from the cold and handed the empty bowl to her mother: "Mom, let's have another bowl."

　　 "You still want to feed her? Child, she is just a servant."

　　 "Yes! So I can't let her die."

　　 "But..." Niya was very dissatisfied, she muttered and filled the bowl again.

　　 After eating high-calorie food, the skins she was wearing were also heated by the campfire, and Lumia's cold body gradually recovered.

　　 It has been ten years since she was born. In her short life, she has never eaten as much wheat as she does today.

　　 Even for Sami people like her who live in the Arctic Circle, the chance of eating wheat is slim.

　　The wheat is very delicious, even the barely shelled wheat kernels boiled over high heat are very comfortable to chew.

　　 She regained her spirit, and lightly tickled her head to make a campfire.

　　 Until this time, Rurik held up the wooden bowl and gushed the wheat kernels into his mouth.

Niya directly accused the curled up girl with dissatisfaction: "Hey! You poor servant, you should thank your master. You also want to thank me. People like you only deserve to eat some dried fish and moss, and you let you eat it. Arrived at Maizi. Listen, if you dare to disobey the order in the future, I will tear your face!"

　　 Lumia, she heard harsh threatening words from this long North sentence. It's still a commonplace thing. If you violate these people's orders, you will be put to death.

　　 Leurik was also particularly ear-piercing. In his opinion, although his mother was not young, she was always gentler.

　　 How do you face your servant, suddenly he has a fierce face?

　　 The sudden change is really shocking.

　　Lurik put down the half-eaten wooden bowl and looked at his mother in surprise: "Mom, are you threatening her?!"

　　 "Yes! It's a threat. My child, our food is not superfluous. Do you know how precious wheat is?"

　　 "So, it's wrong for me to eat her?"

　　 "It's wrong! Child, you are noble, this girl is a humble servant, how can you..."

　　 Seeing that his wife was quite emotional, Otto quickly stretched out a big callused hand and stroked her back lightly: "Okay, it's Rurik's servant after all, Niya, don't ask too much."

　　Mother’s words are quite realistic. The best food in the family is the tribute collected from the Novgorod people, a large bag of yellow wheat kernels, and a small bag of rye, the total amount is not much.

　　The most important tribute of Novgorod people is wheat, and they are also collected by Otto himself. In recent years, it is true that genuine products such as amber have been exchanged with them to obtain wheat, but the wheat provided by the other party is also limited. It would be unwise to ask for command too much and cause them to resist to the death.

　　The shepherds in the south will not shave their wool in the spring, and they will shave off the sheepskin.

　　Lurik felt that it is obviously unrealistic to talk about human rights and personality equality with his mother now.

　　 In the eyes of others, servants are inferior existences, especially such foreign servants, who are even more inferior.

　　 If this situation is to be changed, the entire society must be reshaped. That is the most difficult task.

Rurik didn't mean to criticize his mother in the slightest. He cropped and said: "Mom, you should treat her well! Lumia is very pitiful, her parents are dead, and you have to blame her. You should know her parents. How did she die. I am good friends with her now, we are studying together, she is like my sister."

　　 "Is this what you are saying?!" Niya demanded.

"Yeah." Rurik raised his head and stared into his mother's eyes: "I had two older brothers, and they died unexpectedly. Originally, there were two members in our family, but now I have only one child. I am a little lonely. I don’t have an older brother, so if I had a sister."

As he said, Rurik deliberately supported Lumia’s arm and made an affectionate look: "She is very obedient, as long as you treat her well, she will fulfill your order very willingly. She is serious about snow removal today. I almost died of freezing without realizing it. Fortunately, I found out in time. Such an obedient servant, it would be too bad if she really froze to death.

　　 I think I still need a sister, mother, maybe you also want a daughter. "

　　Niya wants a daughter? Do not! She actually didn't want to.

　　As the leader's wife, Niya also has a huge burden, that is, giving birth to a son for the leader, and only his son is eligible to participate in the competition for the next leader.

　　 If you give birth to a girl, Niya’s attitude is actually very clear, that is, marry her out early, and the son-in-law will become a supporter of the son of the leader.

　　Niya did not deny or confirm. She understood that her son had to treat the girl from the bottom of his heart. There was obviously the plot of atonement.

　　 Indeed, it was the husband, who was the leader, who easily flattened the deer-raising camp, which also caused the girl to become an orphan.

　　 It seems that Rurik thinks this is a great sin.

　　 Kindness? It is very important to be kind to one's own people and allies. To treat hostile foreigners, kindness is stupid!

　　Niya’s attitude has never changed. As she gets older, her thinking has become so-called pedantic.

　　 She broke a piece of hard rye bread and threw it directly at Lumia, who was silent, and said in a flat tone: "Eat, servant, this is a reward for you."

　　 I can see the brown bread at my feet, Lumia looks at it as if she sees gold. Regardless of whether it is dirty or not, she just picks it up and eats desperately.

　　 After finishing the snow-sweeping job in Lulik, he climbed up to finish it. During the day of this day, most of the residents had already cleaned the snow on the roofs of their houses.

　　 The daytime is getting shorter and shorter, and Hanukkah is not far away.

　　 Only after lying down did Rurik feel the muscle soreness, and he rarely slept in his house this night.

　　 The family slept under the same roof again, and Rurik naturally moved to the parent’s nest.

　　 Lu Mia did not leave either. She was roasting again and ate a lot of wheat bread. After her body temperature rose, she was still very tired.

　　 She slept in a warm corner wrapped in a deerskin.

　　 She didn't say much, just curled up, thinking too many things in her mind.

　　 "I actually slept in a room with my murderer's enemy. What can I do? But the enemy's son is really good to me. Do you want revenge?"

　　 "Maybe I can cut the wicked man's neck by getting up and holding the meat-cutting knife. But in this way, Rurik will lose his father, and he will be very sad."

　　 "The wicked family gave me food, they don't want me to die."

　　 This is Scandinavia, and Roseburg is only a two-day voyage from the Svealand area by water.

　　 Lumia suddenly didn’t think that her father’s murderer was a real evil person. Maybe they were good people on weekdays, but for some reason...

　　 Lu Mia, she had a sudden onset of Stockholm syndrome.

　　 If she sleeps in this long room, she realizes that she always has a lot of opportunities for revenge, and she seems to be able to take revenge easily.

　　 She gave up, because only to give up this idea is best for herself.

　　 At least, Rurik, the son of the wicked man, he is really a good man.

　　 Lumia is very happy to have such a younger brother. If he can be blessed by him in the future, life will not be so bad...

　　 She felt dizzy and her arms and legs were sore. Obviously this was due to overwork during the day.

　　 did not continue to think about it, she fell asleep clutching her stomach that was struggling for the first time in her life.

　　 In this overnight stay, almost all families fell asleep early.

　　 Know that snow on the roof or snow in front of the house is a matter of physical exertion.

　　 People will become weak because of this. Weakness will bring a strong sense of exhaustion, and diseases will come to your door. Strong people can withstand the cold, and the low temperature outdoors eliminates most of the viruses, but the weak are still prone to get sick.

　　Because of the virus, it is impossible to kill without extreme means!

　　 The sky slowly brightened. Before that, many residents had awakened. Due to the cold outdoors, they were more willing to continue to nest in their sleeping nests.

　　 Sleeping bags made of animal skins are extremely comfortable. Although they have no bed or pillow, generations of people like to rest like this.

　　Long life also makes people discover that as long as they sleep for a long time in the long winter, they can’t eat too much every day.

　　 Of course, as long as you sleep, your energy consumption will be extremely low. In contrast, a full day of heavy physical labor consumes three times as much energy as a day of lethargy!

　　 Some families keep hunting dogs to help them catch small animals, especially ferrets. When the hound eats raw meat, the protein in the meat can be quickly consumed, providing the hound with a steady stream of abilities.

　　 People are not good. People can only get energy quickly by eating sugar. It takes time to turn the meat in the stomach into power.

　　 And the energy of wheat is three times that of venison.

　　Lurik was the first to get up, and the outdoors was dazzling. The cold wind blew into the house through the cracks in the wooden door, and the cold forced it back into the sleeping nest.

　　 Hunger still urged him to wake up his mother.

　　 "Huh? It's dawn. Boy, are you hungry?"

　　 "I'm hungry, give me something to eat. Mom, it's dawn."

"Ok."

　　Niya slowly sat up, grabbed the beard of Otto, who was sleeping comfortably, and awakened him.

　　 As the leader, Otto is not doing nothing. He will visit some friends, especially at the houses of the most loyal subordinates, and see the situation of his elder nephew.

　　 The bonfire at home has only embers left, it is already a pile of white charcoal. Niya threw in a few more black charcoal, and soon the charcoal fire started.

　　 Wheat is precious, and baked bread is more refined.

　　 She started to boil a piece of salted wild boar that had been marinated and boiled the salt, and the family ate the piece of meat for breakfast. As for the boiled brine, drink it directly.

　　 She glanced at the girl curled up like a kitten again, sighed a little, and took out the bad shark meat.

　　 is a servant after all, it is the blessing of the master to not die from starvation, so do you have to choose the fat and the thin?

After 　　Lurik regained consciousness, he first looked at the meat boiled in the iron pot, and subconsciously drained water. He didn't notice that his mother also prepared shark meat. Now he just wanted to pull Lu Mia up and share the meat for a while.

　　 "Lu Mia, don't sleep anymore."

　　Lurik called the girl softly, but the other party was indifferent.

　　He stretched his hand over, expecting to pat her body to wake it up. As a result, my little hand touched a hot object.

　　 "What's the matter?! Fever?!"

　　 A terrible thought came to my mind, Rurik touched his armpit to feel the temperature, and then put his hand on the girl's forehead. It was obvious that her head was hotter.

　　 Nakarurik shook her body in astonishment, and finally the girl opened her eyes.

　　 She was very haggard, and when she fixed her eyes, Rurik saw that her lips were white, her eyes were confused, and her whole body was loose.

　　 "Oh! It's a fever!"

　　 How can this be good? In this remote antiquity, a fever was enough to kill people.

　　 In fact, a tablet of amoxicillin, plus some other anti-fever pills, can restore her body temperature in just one or two hours. There are no such medicines in this time and space, only some herbs can slowly cure diseases such as colds and fevers.

　　 Generally speaking, the effect of medicine is quite limited. To survive, almost all depends on the patient's own resistance.

　　 She has a fever, everything must have something to do with yesterday.

　　 Still thinking about eating? Do not!

　　Lurik shook Lumia's body in a panic~www.readwn.com~ and tried to keep her awake.

　　 The strange behavior of his son immediately attracted the attention of Alto and Niya.

　　 "Child, what's the matter? Your servant..." Otto asked.

　　 "Dad, she is sick! Very sick! She will die without treatment."

　　 Otto, he is not cold-blooded enough to sit and watch the death of a servant, not to mention that the servant behaved very obediently yesterday.

　　 He walked over to see the situation, his thick palms pinched the back of the girl's neck, and easily felt the appalling heat.

　　 "Dad! What should I do."

　　 "Child, don't panic. Only one person can save her now."

"Who?"

　　 "Priest. Only the priest, Veria. Don't panic..."

　　 There is no doctor in the tribe, and the priests have assumed the responsibility of the doctor, and this is another major job of the priests who refuse to marry and spend the rest of their lives in the service of the gods. They have indeed mastered a certain amount of medical technology, and they have indeed cured some people’s diseases, which is one of the reasons why they are highly respected.

　　 Otto squatted down, and to be honest, seeing a sick child's haggard appearance, his heart was also strongly touched.

　　 This family should have three children, but he was deeply moved by what his son said from the bottom of his heart yesterday.

　　A daughter? Maybe it would be nice to have a daughter...

　　 Otto comforted his son: "Don't worry, the priest will cure her."