To be fair, businessman Fordegen is a bit more kind than many of his peers.
Within his own capabilities, he rescued more than a hundred Ostara refugees, young and old. For the entire refugee group, these people were lucky.
Fordegen has changed his mind. He has lost patience with the people of Ostara. The pile of "hot potatoes" in his hands must be taken over by a "great benefactor".
He hired a fleet to evacuate, and the Gran and their cattle and sheep also found a new destination.
In fact, as many Ostara refugees estimated, they bought the merchant's beef at a high price and arrived in the territory of the Hjelmalen people at the cost of nearly starving to death.
Many refugees who were completely free died of starvation and exhaustion on the way. Those who survived by chance were finally taken in by the relatively wealthy Yermalon people as they wished. As for the price, the women and children immediately became family members of the hosts, or in other words, they were
Working labor force.
On the surface, the Hjermalen people are really kind-hearted. But in reality? Their style is quite pragmatic.
They took in the poor woman with the child, but could not tolerate the "armed immigrant" group of all the people of Granville occupying their living space.
On the night when Carlotta and Ella fled, the leader of the Gran people, Oak, and the leader of the Hjelmalen, Wenderson, reached a consensus on the future development of both parties.
Of course the people of Gran hope to live closer to their old friends, and why don't the people of Hjelmalen think so.
The number of cattle and sheep of the Gran people far exceeds their population. They are a large group of monsters that can eat grass desperately! In the eyes of cattle and sheep, wheat seedlings, onion seedlings, and even all green things are grass, and they are all OK
eat.
Wenderson gave the Granns a good idea.
"You and your people move to the northeast of the lake. The river is full of rocks. It is surrounded by rocky beaches covered with grass. That may be a very suitable place for you."
The leader, the Orcs, felt offended, but Winderson had no intention of offending his allies.
"That rocky beach is not suitable for farming at all. I can responsibly say that it is indeed a good place for grazing. Besides, those stones are excellent building materials. You can even find iron ore in the stones."
Stone? Iron ore? The current situation is that the Gran people have migrated to the territory of the Yermalen people. Naturally, they have to listen to the advice of the locals when they first arrive.
The Yermalen people are also sincere. The leader told him that he was worried that the cattle and sheep of the Gran people would destroy the crops. The western and northern shores of the lake are endless swamps, which cannot be grazed and are even more difficult to cultivate. Therefore, the only place for the Gran people to live in this area is
The place is the river mouth area in the northeast.
At least there is plenty of grass there and the ground is hard.
As for stone, using it to build a stone house may be warmer than the wooden house I used to have.
It is said that there is also iron ore? If iron is processed to make iron tools, can the Gran people who settle in the new area start a business of selling iron tools to their allies?
The Gran people made a decision - to continue migrating.
On the third day after the departure of the Vodgen fleet, the Gran people, who had recovered a bit, drove their cattle and sheep to start a new journey.
In three days, they basically restrained their own sheep. However, some families' cattle and sheep ate the wheat fields of their allies. Regarding this matter, the Yermalon people had bad words in front of them, so the Gran people had to hand over some cattle.
Sheep apologize.
Cattle and sheep are raised for meat, milk and fur.
The use of oxen to pull the plow is a sign of intensive farming. The so-called Hjermalon people who are good at agriculture just install the original wooden plow with an iron blade. When cultivating the land, farmers drag the plow forward. They don't even plow with horses.
exist.
In other words, in current Scandinavia, horses are still rare livestock.
Even the Danes had just come into contact with horses at this time. Young Ragnar also saw the Frankish cavalry a few years ago. For the time being, he could not predict the potential of the cavalry. He only knew that there was nothing more powerful than his own longship.
There is war efficiency.
The Golan people used cattle, sheep, and dairy products to trade a number of living utensils and even surplus grain with the Yelmalun people.
The leader of Yermalen also received a generous gift of ten cows from the opponent's leader.
That's ten cows! Among them, the cows can almost guarantee that the leader's family has milk to drink every day.
In general, the cooperation between the two parties will be a win-win situation. For the two tribes temporarily living in Lake Yermalen, one is producing food and vegetables on a large scale, and the other is developing animal husbandry on a large scale. This is good for maintaining human survival.
of carbohydrates, vitamins and protein.
The Glens came, and they built a new settlement at the outlet of the Stone River. This would be the future city of "Eskilstona", a commercial and trading point, and the future steel smelting center of central and southern Sweden.
As the Yelmalen tribe explained, there are many open iron ore deposits on the rocky beach at the mouth of the river, and there is indeed an iron ore vein nearby.
However, this vein is incredible, it extends from the Götaland Highlands to the Arctic Circle!
The Russians in the north found the remaining veins of mineral veins exposed on the surface without much digging.
Only when the Glen people arrived at the recommended place, the leader Oak keenly realized that there were indeed many black stones that were shiny in the sun. This was definitely iron ore, and there was indeed ore in the rocky beach mountain.
, but no one came to discover it.
"If we make use of the iron ore here, we may be more profitable than raising cattle and sheep!"
A great idea sprouted in the head of the leader Oak - to smelt iron and become rich.
When they decided to take root here and planned large-scale iron smelting and put it into practice, the actual "Eskilstona" was born.
It is located at the strategic point of land transportation between the residents of Lake Malaren and the residents of the south. By holding on to this place and taking advantage of the existing shipping, the local area can form a trading town.
The Hjärmalen people never thought that their suggestions would bring disaster to themselves. Once the new town of the Glan people was built, why would the merchants stay with the Hjälmälen people again?
Eskilstona originally meant "the town of Missionary Eskils", and it was only changed its name during the "Northern Crusade Conquest". Before that, the town had been born long ago.
She can have various names, but her city's economic attributes will not change.
In this plane, the Gran people replaced the Hjelmalen people and became permanent settlers in this geographical location. They were also smart enough to immediately exploit the iron ore resources in the area.
No one thought that a group of tribes escaping from war would have the opportunity to become steel tycoons in a new region.
Just like the last survivors of the Ostara tribal leader's family, the two children do not know their future destiny.
Two lonely children, they ran away in a hurry, and now they are penniless.
They wanted to sneak into the merchant ships bound for Lake Mälaren, but during this period, only one fleet left, but multiple fleets entered the port of Hälmälän in a long snake formation. For a time, the lakeside port
The piled boats looked like stranded whales.
The legendary Yermalen is becoming more and more lively.
Since it is lively, there are opportunities for poor people to fish in troubled waters.
Managing law and order? No, the chief family has not invented the profession of "police" yet.
The intricate streets of Hjälmalen give thieves some room to move around.
Like Carlotta and Ella, two homeless children, they can also take advantage of the opportunity to hide like mice, looking for leftovers to survive.
They hid in an empty cowshed, hiding in the gaps between a lot of withered yellow haystacks.
It was precisely here that the two children knew that they could obtain some special and precious food.
When it comes to raising cattle, the people of Ostara are better than the people of Gran!
Even if they are the granddaughters of the leader, the milking skills of the two girls are no worse than that of a group of old women. Or because of their unique physique, the Ostara people, like many tribes, drink raw milk directly, and the possibility of diarrhea is very low
.
They can go out during the day and search for useful things in the dirty streets. They have to be wary of bad guys and also get information.
During this time, they received important news.
It turned out that the leader of the Yelmalon people asked the priests to do a divination, and the priests determined that this year's onion harvest season would be on June 15th in the Julian calendar.
This was also the case on the days when harvesting onions in previous years. Before the sacrifice, the tribesmen were already polishing their own hoes and shovels.
In the era when onion-digging machinery did not exist, even if people had to dig with their bare hands, only highly skilled people would not dig up the onions.
Digging onions on June 15th? After that, a large number of onions will be transported by merchants to the port market in Mälaren for sale?
The two children wandered around for a day, and they dragged their exhausted bodies back to the cowshed where they were hiding and got into the haystacks.
This family, which makes a living by selling milk, didn't notice two uninvited guests living in their cowshed, just like they didn't care about the rats scurrying around.
Late at night, the two hungry children began to act like mice, their target was the cow.
The cow woke up, and my sister fed it with dry grass and comforted the cow.
The younger sister took the opportunity to lie down and started slurping milk like a calf.
After Ella drank enough, she changed her role to her sister Carlotta, and the little Ella took over the real traditional skill of training cattle.
If given the chance, the two would be willing to talk about their cattle-raising experiences with others, such as Rumia from Rose, the reindeer-raising expert?
Now, they don't know their fate.
They are still waiting for the opportunity to leave Hjärmalen.
The Melalen tribe is a happy place? It must be there! It was there that supported the sisters and gave them the motivation to persist in their escape.
In Yermalen, the two of them were like invisible people. According to their status, they could of course ask for the blessing of the leader's family. But they didn't because they didn't have any token to prove their noble status!
The two children were not only penniless, but also in rags. At first glance, they looked like orphans and beggars.
They seemed not to exist, quietly waiting for the onion harvest season to arrive.
Late at night, Carlotta, who was already haggard, became even worse.
My sister Ella saw that at night, during the day, her sister's walking became limp again.
"Sister, are you okay?"
"I should be fine." As she said that, with the help of the moonlight, Carlotta lifted up her clothes and saw clearly the wound that she didn't even want to see.
The moonlight illuminated her haggard face, revealing her sadness.
In any case, the act of "welding" the wound with a soldering iron has the effect of killing putrefactive bacteria. After all, it is only a temporary extreme operation. If Carlotta can continue to eat highly nutritious food after this treatment, her body's self-
The repair ability will completely defeat the bacterial counterattack.
And this is what Fordgen said before. The old guy really planned to give Carlotta careful treatment and good food and treatment.
But the price is the permanent loss of freedom and ideals.
Carlotta would rather die than do that, so now, she can only accept this "pain of freedom".
"Oops, the wound has become serious."
Seeing her sister's wound, Ella panicked, and suddenly a bad premonition came to her mind: "Sister, you are really okay. I'm scared."
"I'm afraid, my dear, I can still persevere. I'll be fine when I get to Mellaren."
"Are you serious?" My sister put her little head close to her.
"Of course." Carlotta put her little hands on her shoulders and looked at the moon: "Dear, do you know? It is a miracle that we can survive until now. The Valkyrie promised us that if we continue to live, we will not die.
Everything will be fine when we get to Mälaren."
Ella heard it very clearly, and she snuggled up to her sister and fell asleep sweetly. Carlotta had to hold her sister in her arms and endure the pain of her right leg, which had become purulent for the second time, and managed to sleep.
In their dreams, they dreamed of happiness and their dead family members.
But the noise outside woke them up.
The owner of the cow took the cow away, and the cow now plays a guest role in pulling the cart. Today, the entire tribe is mobilized and the onion digging operation begins!
The merchants who had been stranded for a long time were also in a state of revelry. They wished they could spend the money they had prepared for goods today and set sail to the north with the gentle southerly wind tomorrow.
This is the opportunity the two girls have been waiting for for a long time!
During the day, they left the cowshed where they had been hiding for more than ten days and ran to the lake dock.
They had no intention of striking up a conversation with the dazed sailors here, and a smart person had better hide himself at this time.
Carlotta knew she was risking her life and that of her sister.
But now, I am penniless and even my clothes are in tatters. Is there anything else that I cannot lose?
There is only one, that is each other!
Carlotta has made extreme preparations. If the smuggling fails, she and her sister will die. If death is inevitable, the two sisters will drown themselves.
They hid in a quiet corner of the dock and waited quietly. Finally in the evening, amid the laughter and laughter of the crowd, a large number of onions began to pour into the port.
On the first day of harvest, the best quality onions are produced!
The onion feast started throughout Yermalen, and many farmers also made a lot of money comfortably.
The happiest people are undoubtedly the businessmen. They have been living here for a long time, and their hard work has finally paid off.
The highly vigilant Carlotta pulled her sister to lie down in the grass and observe secretly. She steeled herself to endure the pain in her legs, and her eyes were fixed on a target.
"My dear, that's the ship. We went to it at night. We got into the big box and got into the onions."
Ella was a little worried: "Is it okay? We will suffocate to death."
"Don't worry, we can't hold it back to death, just be careful and don't let anyone see you."
"Okay, I'll listen to you." Ella nodded. At the age of seven, she really didn't have any high opinions.
Carlotta knew she was taking a risk, and it was worth it.
It was late at night, and except for the sailors guarding the onions at night, who were napping around the campfire, no one was walking around.
Two sneaky figures appeared quietly. In order to survive, Carlotta bit a stick in the grass and squeezed the thick water from her knees with her bare hands, which made her feel better. If she didn't do this,
She was afraid that her plan would be ruined and her sister would be killed.
Now that the shoes were completely broken, the two simply abandoned their leather boots and walked barefoot like two cats, silently approaching the large cargo ship carrying onions.
Even for cargo ships, the Vikings did not set up a deck. They did have large wooden boxes for loading goods. They were placed in the open air and at most they were covered with a layer of canvas during transportation.
No one noticed the two girls, and without any trouble, they got into the pile of purple onions and disappeared without a trace.
The gap between the onion balls gave the two of them room to breathe, but the smell of onions inside was really strong, but they didn't dare to poke their heads out.
At dawn, no one noticed the two children mixed in with the onions. The merchants were all thinking about making money by selling the onions. At most, they just looked at the current situation of the onions and then a huge linen cloth was covered on the open wooden box.
The ship suddenly started to move. The girl, who was so dizzy from the smell, finally poked her head out and looked at the dimly lit world above her head. She couldn't help but be surprised.
"Sister, they are setting off, probably to Mälaren."
"It must be. Ella, I've thought about it." Carlotta whispered.
"what should we do?"
"When we get to Melalen, we'll go find the leader of the Melalen people. It's best for us to go in person. If that doesn't work, we can explain our identity to these merchants and let them guide us."
"Okay. Sister, I'm a little hungry."
"Are you hungry?" Carlotta smiled slightly, "You are overwhelmed by onions. There is food here. Eat..."
But onions, their calories are too low, and their spicy taste is unbearable for two children.