Chapter 181 Lilia looks like it all seems like a miracle
Lilia knew that this old woman was her "new mother", and she also understood that as a Varyag woman, she belonged to her husband, and she had the obligation to help her husband manage his property.
Her eyes began to stare at the seemingly heavy box, thinking that there must be more treasures inside.
The bronze key of the "new mother" opens the bronze lock in turn.
"Open it!" Klavason ordered proudly.
The lids of the two boxes were opened one after another, and they contained a lot of silver coins!
"Ah! So much money?!" Kawei suddenly stood up and came over.
Suddenly, there was a snapping sound in the house.
The eyes of the three people suddenly glanced at Lilia. Now, the girl lowered her head in horror, witnessing her hand falling to the ground and the glass breaking into three pieces.
Lilia was so shocked when she saw the huge wealth of her husband's family that she threw away her hands. Now, looking at the remains of the cup, her mind went blank.
"Oops! What can we do?" Lilia knew she had done something wrong. It was a tragedy that the day she first arrived at her husband's house had such a start.
Even in the dim light, Klavason could clearly see Lilia's little face turning pale due to fear and guilt.
Kawei was also shocked. He quickly tried to smooth things over for his wife: "Dad, she didn't break the cup on purpose. It must be because... because of these..."
"Did our family's huge wealth scare her? Well, I guess you were scared too. Did you break a cup? It doesn't matter. Rurik taught me how to make it, and I'll just make a few more.
Son, comfort your wife and let her not feel guilty."
Kawei really thought that his father would be furious, but he never expected that his father would say such incredible things.
He tried his best to comfort his guilty wife. Although he couldn't understand the language, Kawei tried his best to comfort her with a gentle tone and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with his hands.
Klavasen shook himself and stood up, told his wife to prepare some food, and then check the so-called trophies that his son had brought in.
Klavason no longer has the same expectations as he did three months ago about how much tribute his son will get from his long journey.
It is because of this period of time that my family has become very wealthy due to Rurik's favor.
The beach looked very busy, and Klavason was not worried that those people would ignore his son's share.
"Dad, do you still want to forge?" Kawei asked, comforting his wife.
"No." Klavason looked at Lilia with her head raised realistically and said, "It seems you can't appease her very well. I'm going to make some new cups now and I'm going to prepare some materials. You two are in the house.
Wait. Kawei, I will open your eyes."
For the time being, Kawei couldn't care less about what his father was doing.
He took the shard of glass on the ground and looked at it carefully, even touching its sharp edges with his fingers.
Lilia timidly wiped away her tears and squinted her eyes to observe the behavior of the people in the room.
They didn't mean to accuse her, but she still felt uncomfortable.
Kavy’s mother found many pieces of cloth with beautiful patterns in the huge linen bag carried back by her son. Undoubtedly, these were the dowry brought back by her daughter-in-law. Compared with the cloth made by the Russians, the textiles of the Novgorod people
The technology is better, and its printing and dyeing technology is obviously more sophisticated.
Including the clothes Lilia is wearing now.
She wore a Novgorod-style linen robe lined with warm linen.
After all, Lilia is different from ordinary girls in the manor. She is the eldest daughter of the manor and enjoys the best material resources in the entire manor.
The main color of this robe is blue-gray, which is the result of moss printing and dyeing. The robe also has many stripes of different colors. The stripes are made of individually printed and dyed linen threads. These dyed linen threads are added during weaving.
Clothes naturally become gorgeous.
Her beautiful robe was burned black by the hot iron sword, and after some rubbing, it became a terrible hollow.
Through this hole, you can just see the skin and flesh of her calves.
"Kawei, change her into these clothes." Kawei's mother held out a folded leather coat. It was just a ball of fluffy white treasure, just like a big pile of washed wool.
"Ah!" Kawei was shocked: "Mom, have you prepared a ferret fur coat for her?"
"It's a ferret. This is my gift to Lilia. Oh, her name is Lilia, I sewed this dress myself."
"Ah? Mom, you are so willing." Kawei said in surprise.
"Why don't you give it up? The gift for your wife is just like a gift for my daughter. God has not given me a daughter. It seems that this girl can have such an important identity."
The old woman simply opened the entire leather jacket with both hands. I have to say that it was really wide.
Lilia suddenly raised her head, and stared at the coat as pure as white snow displayed by the "new mother" with wide eyes. Its preciousness is really self-evident.
"Lilia, stand up." After saying that, Kawei directly picked up his wife and took the mink coat from his mother.
Each processed high-quality ferret skin may be sold for a high price of six silver coins, but the usable area of each ferret skin is not much.
How many ferrets did my mother consume for one coat? How much did the coat cost in the end? Kawei felt that the most expensive clothes that could be bought in the entire Siiya Tribe Alliance were made entirely of ferret skins.
Leather coat. Can one be sold for 200 silver coins? It's very possible.
The money box at home is filled with silver coins, ordinary glasses, and this ferret coat that must be valuable.
Why doesn’t Kawei feel that what he sees and hears when he returns home is a dream?
He put the ferret coat on Lilia himself.
As for Lilia, she kept looking up at her husband, who was taking care of her, and she felt like she was being taken care of by her brother. She thought a lot about how she was taken care of by her eldest brother Medved when she was a child.
Now, I have a husband, a man who is taller, stronger and younger than my elder brother.
Lilia is indeed a little shorter than the girls of the same age in the Ross tribe, so that her ferret coat looks obviously roomy.
The furry belt sewn with multiple ferret tails was tightened, and Lilia's whole body became a pure white furry ball.
Only her brownish-blonde braids were hanging down, adding a touch of unique color to the pure white coat.
Lilia had never worn such comfortable clothes, and she couldn't imagine that her husband's family, which had a lot of money and a collection of treasures, would still insist on living in such a simple wooden house?
Kawei's mother cut some pickled whale meat and put it on a ceramic plate and handed it to Lilia.
The girl's small hands stretched out shyly from the sleeves of the coat. These hands really didn't look like those of a worker. Looking at her delicate appearance, Kawei's mother concluded that her daughter-in-law's identity in her hometown was
Definitely not low.
A noble person will always pay great attention to his own cleanliness. He will clean his body and clothes, and will not do some menial work.
So, is the job of a blacksmith considered humble?
In a sense, yes. If everyone thinks that when you are a warrior and pray to Odin for grace, after you die in battle, your soul enters Valhalla and becomes a heroic spirit.
Everyone generally believes this. If you become a blacksmith, you will forever lose the possibility of becoming a heroic spirit. Even if the warriors know that they need a blacksmith, almost no one is willing to become a blacksmith.
Lilia cautiously picked up the dark meat. She thought it was meat, but it seemed to be coated with a layer of carbon-like color, which made her think of Alexander.
"Eat, child, and try my handiwork."
Although she didn't understand, Lilia guessed that the "new mother" wanted to taste it. She calmed down and opened her mouth boldly. It was at this moment that Lilia's neat and white teeth were displayed to their fullest.
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For girls in most tribes, their teeth are not very straight and all of them are yellow. Not only do they not clean their mouths often, they even rarely take a bath. As girls, they always look dirty.
With their pretty little faces, they will only participate in the important moments of their lives, such as engagement or marriage, with a holy attitude.
Lilia's teeth were white and neat, and her palms were callous-free. Kawei's mother felt that this was the first time she had seen such a clean girl in her life.
Then, here comes the problem.
Can this obviously pampered girl be a good wife and mother? As a Russian wife and mother, you need to know how to make a tailor, know how to cook, how to chop wood, etc.
No matter how noble she is, she still has to be exposed to the things that ordinary girls have to do when she gets married.
Lilia gnawed on the dried meat, and the salty taste deeply stimulated her mind, giving her a completely extraordinary experience.
Salt is very precious, and even the family of the manor of White Tree Manor try to save as much as possible when it comes to eating salt. In the entire Novgorod region, the diet of residents is passive and light.
So much so that when fishermen catch a batch of fish, they are completely able to accept grilled fish without adding salt, or even fish boiled in plain water. The fish has no taste and only has a mixture of aroma and fishy smell. The fishermen eat it without mistake.
Lilia was so moved that she almost cried. Only at this moment did she think of Peravina, a member of her own race, who highly praised the Varyag people's diet.
It sounds strange to live a life of eating meat every day, but isn't it even stranger to live in a good life where you can eat salt as much as you want?
On the boat, Lilia inevitably suffered from seasickness. She vomited three times during the trip. In addition to embarrassing herself, her overall spirit was not very good.
This time on the ground, her spirit recovered a lot, but her stomach was still semi-hungry.
She sat on the leather cushion in the bird-sitting position again, and the salty taste stimulated her taste buds unbridled. She kept reaching for the pieces of meat and stuffing them into her mouth.
Kawei's mother couldn't help laughing at her daughter-in-law's appearance.
"My son, didn't you give her anything to eat along the way? She is so hungry."
Kawei shrugged: "Maybe she doesn't have many opportunities to eat meat! In Novgorod, the locals eat wheat and only occasionally eat fish. Even a leader's daughter like Lilia is like this."
"They seldom eat meat but eat bread every day? Oh, we are completely the other way around."
The son mentioned wheat, and the old woman hurriedly grabbed three handfuls from the bag of loot and threw them into a pottery urn. As she fiddled with it, she said: "Don't worry, I'll make you some more wheat porridge. But
I hope Lilia will like it."
The wheat kernels are tumbling up and down in the boiling water, but it still needs some time to be fully cooked.
Suddenly, the leather curtain of the residence was opened, and Klavasen stepped in happily, greeting his son and daughter-in-law.
"Come out, Kawei! Now, I'll show you how to make a glass."
Lilia grunted and took off her ferret coat herself. She thought her "new father" was going to show how to make weapons, but to her surprise, he actually burned a lot of sticky substances.
Not only Lilia, but also Kawei looked surprised. These two people had no idea how to make glass or even the raw materials required.
Klavasen obtained knowledge from Rurik, and the two parties also signed a contract to maintain the monopoly of technology. In Kawei's view, his father used the crucible for smelting bronze water at home to "cook" a pot of sticky and glowing water.
of unknown objects.
What happened next shocked the two of them even more!
A strange thing appeared in the blacksmith shop, it looked like a tool.
Today, Kawei also saw the glass pressing technique for the first time. After all, Kawei is a craftsman. With his professional ethics, he quickly understood many essentials of glassware making based on his father's processing behavior.
But to Lilia, everything seemed like a miracle!
It was obviously a lump of substance that was as viscous as dehydrated honey, and the whole thing was hot and shiny. It was poured into an urn. The "new father" moved a wooden pole hard, and a strange thing poked into the urn, and the cup was there.
This process quickly becomes a success.
The cup gradually cools enough that you can put on leather gloves and remove it.
Therefore, what Klavason took out from the urn was an almost completely transparent object.
After some processing, the cup lugs were formed, and the shape of the cup became more imaginative. It was entirely because of the strong plasticity of glass that Klavasen made five cups in succession using the prepared materials. The walls of each cup were
, he used the tip of his knife to carve some words of praise spelled out in rune script.
In the process, Klavason confessed to telling his son all the materials needed to make the cup.
He particularly emphasized: "If you want the best glass, try to find pure crystal. We add some lime, the essence of plant ash, and black lead to get this transparent cup that is easy to shape."
It sounds really simple! After hearing this, Kawei was already eager to try it himself.
In the end, he pressed the only cup and felt its plasticity personally.
Lilia was a close audience during all the processing. Is it a miracle? She simply felt that it must be some kind of miracle. How could a mortal create such a wonderful creation? But her husband and new father were obviously mortals.
, this shows that they must have obtained wisdom from some great being.
The five cups were finished off the production line. Lilia felt much better when she saw them.
Since it is not very tiring for my "new father" to make a brand new "crystal cup", maybe this thing itself is not priceless to the Russian people?
She was wrong! How wrong.
Klavasen, who returned to the house, was eager to hear about his son's experience in the East, while Kawei was eager to understand what kind of favor his family had received from Rurik to become so rich.
Judging from the weight of the two wooden boxes alone, Kawei estimated that his silver coins already exceeded one hundred pounds!
What a huge fortune.
Klavasen was not a leader. Based on his profession, he was more concerned about how the Novgorod people lived. Klavasen was quite surprised to learn that the local people's lives were seriously lacking in metal tools.
Is what my son said biased? Perhaps, only if my daughter-in-law fully learns Norse, can I ask her questions clearly.
As for when he was asked about the origin of the money, Klavason was as excited as a child. He kept mumbling "Rurik's favor", which made Lilia keep looking up.
Klavasen kept chanting Rurik's name, and it was already quite late. The family never thought that Rurik would come to visit with his servants!
There was even a figure that Lilia was familiar with among the visitors. The poor orphan Kamne from the manor. Apparently, in a short period of time, Lilia felt that Kamne had adapted to her new life as a servant of Rurik.