Rise of Rurik Chapter 175

The girls writhed left and right on their chosen beds, not caring about their dirty hemp clothes making the bedding dirty.

They are simply enjoying this unparalleled comfort.

"Yeah. It's really more comfortable than my bed."

"You are stupid, this is not our banker. From now on this will be your own bed."

"Huh? Really?"

They were still twittering, and Rurik was still observing silently. By the way, let's take a look at their posture.

The girls are definitely standard Slavs. It must be because the food on weekdays is really bad. All the girls are flat and stretched. Their extremely slender legs fully explain what is thin.

And their feet are dirty one by one, you can imagine what life they used to live.

In fact, in their home in Novgorod, only half of the people in ordinary peasant families, such as the White Tree Manor, lived in houses with wooden floors. People away from the river build wooden houses without even digging the foundation!

Only from the structural point of view, this type of simple house has a greater similarity with the long house of the Russ.

However, all the residents of Novgorod believe that it is wrong to lay the ground floor.

Poor farmers do not need nails. They use handed down woodworking techniques and stone chisels to make various parts, and finally put them together into a wooden bed. Because of the limitations of processing tools, don't expect the wooden bed to be flat.

This is completely different from the Ross people.

Although there is no planer, the Ross people have been using a two-handed iron scraper, and the shipbuilder can very skillfully make a large number of flat planks and blocks.

The girls lay on absolutely flat beds, and there was no fluffy reed grass that smelled of grass under them.

Other girls unfolded the folded quilt, got in naturally, and suddenly came out of small heads mischievously.

They acted like little cats around the bed, and their slightly dirty smiling faces were full of joy.

Camnier, who was ordered to watch, didn't know how good "a place" was.

Seeing the joy of his fellow clan, he also wanted to enjoy it.

Rurik, he is deliberately letting them toss now. Is the bed dirty? It doesn't matter.

Some dirt and dust.

Besides, this group of children's standards for what is clean may be surprisingly low.

Rurik was paying attention to the little faces of the children.

"Yes. It's a bit dirty and unkempt. After all, you all have brownish-yellow-to-blonde hair. Your chins are all very pointed, but your arms and legs are too thin."

Although it was dusty, the old clothes were terrible, and the barefoot and dirty calves.

Nothing can erase the fact that they are beautiful.

Each of them is a potential stock.

Rurik wondered again why a large number of young men from the tribe were willing to go to Novgorod this year to find a wife.

Haha, maybe because the girl over there is a little smaller than the girl of the race.

I have to say that when the men of the Ross tribe grow up, they often have strong muscles. Obviously, this is not entirely the result of a lot of physical labor. Because the women of the tribe also have great strength.

It's just that such a strange girl is not so cute.

It's time to stop playing coquettishly!

Rurik clapped his hands and ordered: "All of you have chosen the bed, and now all of you are standing by the bed."

They got out of bed with unfulfilled intentions, waiting for the master's new order.

Rurik walked over with the hilt in his hand, examining the girls alone.

He turned around, cleared his throat, and decided to announce his major move.

Rurik said loudly as a king: "My servants! You may all have your own names, but as my servants, you will have a brand new name."

The girls opened their eyes wide as soon as the words came out.

A bold girl suddenly said: "Master, I have my own name. My name is Almata."

"You?" Rurik felt a little bit funny, and walked over.

"What's your name?"

"I... My name is Almata."

Rurik didn't understand the exact meaning of this name, in fact it meant "aromatic." It's really appropriate to describe a girl with this vocabulary.

This girl named Almata gave Rurik a good start to his "Name Project".

Because this girl's name begins with "A".

"Well, Almata, forget your past name now. Now, kneel down for me." Rurik said in a commanding tone, and then suddenly he drew his sword.

This move scared the girl to kneel on the spot.

The back of the sword was placed on the girl's thin shoulders. The other girls didn't know what had happened. Their curiosity made them look sideways, and they also had a hint of worry in their hearts.

It was Palla and Lumia who fully understood what would happen next—probably the "canonization of Rurik".

Rurik imitated the impression of the "canonization ceremony of Western European aristocrats", which may have originated in the twelfth century.

He estimated that there is no such thing in the current ninth century.

Since there is not, this set of etiquette should develop naturally. Who is the inventor of etiquette? Great Rurik!

The sharp blade almost stuck to the little girl's neck. The girl didn't know what was going to happen, she just obeyed the king's order.

Rurik leaned over and said solemnly, "You, your name is Almata. From now on, you will have a brand new name. I, Rurik, your master! I name you Anna."

"Anna?" The girl repeated it weakly.

"Yes! Anna, your name is Anna." After speaking, Rurik took the sword and suddenly pulled out the dagger, and roughly carved the words "ANNA" on the wooden pillar of the bedside.

After finishing the chiseling, Rurik turned and ordered the newly named servant Anna, who had turned into a duck to sit, and said: "Remember your name, Anna. From now on, everyone will call you Anna. Stand up now. "

"Yes." The girl nodded weakly, feeling happy in her heart. She didn't know what "Anna" meant, it sounded comfortable, and she said it smoothly.

In this way, Rurik gave ten girls names in turn, and the rituals invented by him were also carried out one by one.

The second girl was named Bella ().

The third is Cicia.

Followed by Diana (Diana), Ekatelinna (Ekatelinna, Eka for short), Fenna, Greta, Hellena, Iria, Juria ).

The ten girls had names in turn.

Rurik's principle of naming is very regular, which is to start with A and go back one by one according to the English alphabet.

Of course, ten girls are exactly in J.

The eleventh letter is K. Coincidentally, the only boy, Kamnier, happens to be this "K".

More coincidentally, the twelfth letter is L. Lumia, the maid appointed by Rurik, is this "L".

Rurik estimated that he won't have more servants for the time being, that is, there are, I am afraid that these children who are the first to "join" will naturally be reused by him in the future.

They are named one after another in alphabetical order, ending with a feminine vowel "a". Even on the specific girl's name, Rurik gave it a beat.

As a result, careful consideration is a name, some of which are owned by the Slavs themselves, some of the Germanic talents, and even female names that existed in ancient Greece.

After all, this is a hodgepodge, but only from the name, Rurik wondered, Europeans in this time and space might even think about the sound of the name. It is not like the East, which not only pursues a comfortable speech, but also requires a person's name to have elegant connotations.

Rurik engraved on their beds one by one, first in Roman letters, then in Rune letters.

The girls who got the name were very happy, and even started calling each other's new names and laughing at each other.

But it is a bit difficult to remember everyone's names at once, and to be able to go one-to-one with their little faces.

The naming is not completely over.

The ancient Slavs did not have a surname. Not only the Slavs, but also the Rus tribe themselves, did not have a clear concept of a surname.

If there is a surname, it would be the name "Ross".

But the native population of the Ross tribe is as high as 4,000. Is it true that all members are surnamed Ross? Maybe it is also possible.

But of course, noble chiefs must have more noble surnames, and servants should also have their own surnames, so as to make a clear distinction from ordinary people.

What surname was given to the servants? Simple!

There is indeed a word for "servant" in the Old Norse language spoken by the Ross people, and it is what Rurik is currently talking about.

In this situation, Rurik faced a maidservant and thought of another word that was more appropriate-sister shaking.

Since it is something of a maid, is there a more appropriate word than "maid"?

"My servants, you now have your own names, and you need a second name, which is your identity name. Now, I give you all the identity name of Maidlova! I, Rurik , I am your master, and my position is like your father. So..."

With that said, Rurik pointed directly at the first named Ana.

"Anna, now you are completely different from ordinary people. Your full name is Anna Rurikovina Medlova. Do you understand?"

Anna, of course, understands, and is even a little touched.

Although this girl is only seven years old, Rurik has been giving orders in the Slavic language that she learned from her sister-in-law. How could she not understand?

Besides, the name is really very logical.

The first word is his own name Anna, the middle one is the woman who belongs to the master Rurik, and the last word is his exact identity. Moreover, these vocabulary are tailor-made for women and are feminine vocabulary.

Living in the world, people are born to find a clear position for themselves.

The name given to Rurik is a new position for the girls. They are young and thin, but they are definitely not stupid. When they were very young, they were forced to help their parents work for their livelihoods, and they learned about the hardships of life prematurely.

And they have also become the first batch of girls with clear and complete Slavic names.

Ah, they are Slavs themselves.

Of course, this naming system also applies to the head maid Lumia.

The remaining questions are still thorny.

Just putting the letters on the wooden pillars of the bed, and expecting that Palla, who will actually take up the position of the "residence manager", instantly recognizes them as unrealistic.

Rurik ordered the girls to still stand by the bed, and he called Palla to his side and said: "You all see the words I carved. This is the girls' names. You must remember them."

"Yes! I know those letters, and some, they seem to be letters?"

Rurik immediately understood, and he said: "You are talking about the Roman alphabet? Our Rune alphabet is put down, and what I engraved is the Roman alphabet, which is the text used by the Romans."

"Ah! Rurik, do you know how to write Roman words?" Parla looked surprised, only Rurik's squinted eyes were exchanged.

"What? Do you doubt my ability?"

"No, it's just that I'm curious. Could it be that God gave you such knowledge?"

"Of course." Rurik said without hesitation: "The high priest has a treasure. It is a Roman book. I can understand the contents. I know many things. Our ancestors got inspiration from the Romans. , Invented our own words. Maybe one day we will have close communication with the Romans, maybe we need to fully understand their words from now on. Let's start with my servant!"

Rurik gave Parla a brief introduction, that is, every rune letter corresponds to a Roman letter. This is not a coincidence, but the original character creator designed it like this.

Rurik didn't actually like the Rune alphabet, and he still used the Roman alphabet by himself. As for the so-called "intimate communication with the Romans" that just seemed to be arrogant, when you think about it, this is not nonsense.

It is impossible for Palla to recognize each girl's name based on their appearance in a short time.

In this regard, Rurik lacks confidence in himself.

So at this time, some auxiliary means are needed, such as the roster.

The technology of papermaking, Rurik feels that he has reproduced it, theoretically, there are not many technical obstacles. For example, after soaking the bark, beating it frantically, and finally beating it so that only pure fiber is left, and then you can use a screen made of fine twine to make paper that can at least make do with.

The ideal is so, for the time being, Rurik doesn't have enough energy to try immediately.

In an era without paper, bamboo and wooden boards were both improvised writing tasks.

Ah, the processing of wood and bamboo into pure fiber is paper. For the time being, Rurik regards a clean wooden board as an excellent writing material.

Of course, not so much writing, it is most appropriate to say chiseling.

All the beds in this long house are arranged neatly and orderly, and the girls also naturally choose to gather together, which makes the positions of the beds that they occupy are highly uniform.

Rurik ordered Palla: "Go to my opponent's wooden house and find a suitable plank. Get another piece of cowhide and some twine."

"Cowhide and hemp rope?!" Palla was highly alert: "It's in the cubicle of my workshop. Taking you is your property? Is it okay?"

"Don't talk nonsense, go get it, I'll wait for you here." Rurik urged impatiently.

Rurik does have a small wooden house for sundries, which is part of the soap workshop. There are not valuable things stored there, they are all equipment and raw materials for making equipment related to soap production.

Parla ran away in a hurry, quickly caught the rolled up thin cowhide, carried a slightly dirty wooden board to the left and right, and returned to the longhouse.

"Rurik, I'm back. This piece of cowhide... Aren't we going to use it to make heat-insulating gloves?"

"The glove will talk about it later, you put down the cowhide first. That is today, you will use this cowhide to make something useful for me."

Parla needed thick cowhide gloves to avoid scalding her hands. She couldn't hold back Rurik's request and could only do so.

As for the plank, she quickly understood the sophistication of Rurik.

The dagger started a new chiseling on the wooden board, and Rurik chiseled out the squares representing the girls' beds and carved out a matrix.

He engraved the initials of the girl's name in the grid where there was clearly a girl's bed. That is the double-labeled initials in Luen and Roman, which happens to match the clear name on the wooden pillar of the bedside.

With this baby, Palal excitedly held up the plank: "Oh, my Rurik, you are so wise. You let me manage them well. With this plank, I will try to do my best."

Although Rurik hadn't made his decision very thorough yet, because he had already passed the anger with Parla before the maid arrived.

Palla understood from the moment they saw these servants that UU reading www.uukanshu.com themselves will take care of and manage their daily lives. At the same time, they must also help themselves with their work. Their current job is to make soap. Although I still have a language gap with them, seeing that Rurik can already speak the language of the Novgorod people and communicate with the girls smoothly, I think I can learn it by myself, and I can learn it quickly.

Yeah, times have changed.

Nowadays, in the huge Roseburg, there are more and more women from Novgorod.

Rurik nodded in satisfaction: "You can distinguish them well. Now you are the only one, Palla. You have to do me a favor."

"What is it?" Palla asked enthusiastically.

"Cowhide." Rurik pointed to the leather circled on the ground: "You can make a pair of simple leather shoes for each of my servants. Well, you can just wrap your feet."

"Are you serious?" Palla looked surprised.

Liu Rick's face didn't change his face: "Of course it is true. You do it quickly, and when you are done, we have to eat. Look at these thin girls who are like little saplings, they must eat early."

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