After saying that, he put the leather coat with him and asked Rurik to spread out the deerskin. He put the girl on the deerskin, then rolled it up and wrapped the girl tightly.
Rumia, she remained confused throughout the whole process. When she saw the big villain, she couldn't help but wrap herself up and hug her, while still saying some incomprehensible words.
"Am I going to die? It's very uncomfortable..." Rumia half-opened her eyes and saw the face of the little boy Rurik again from the corner of her eyes.
"Rumia, don't be afraid. Grandma the priest will save you, let's go now. My father will take you there, he won't hurt you..."
Rurik spoke very slowly, almost word by word. Although Rumia was confused, she still understood it completely.
Save me? Really save me?
A ridiculous feeling floated in her heart.
This evil man who killed his parents was actually being held by him and wanted to be saved by him.
She slowly closed her eyes and planned not to think about anything, but she was squeezed by Rurik's little hand again, refusing to let herself rest.
"Lumia, don't sleep. You must not sleep with your eyes open. If you sleep, you will die..."
The actions of the father and son made Niya very embarrassed. She shouted loudly: "You two, at least leave after dinner. The servant will not die because of you tonight."
"No mother!" Rurik replied casually, "saving people is more important."
The wooden door closed, and a tall figure ran towards the priest's longhouse, holding something wrapped in deerskin. Behind him was another small figure, following closely the footsteps of the person in front of him.
Roseburg has woken up, but few people are willing to stay in the cold outdoors.
The priests also woke up, and they were engaged in their daily work. Early in the morning, they were boiling a mixture of seal oil and deer oil as usual. Only the high priest Vilia wanted to rest for a while and wait for the studious Liuli.
Ke came with his servants, and she got up again.
As a result, a panicked Bona woke her up.
"What's going on? It's still early."
"Priest, they are coming."
"Is it Rurik?"
"And chief. Something happened. Rurik's servants are sick. They are very sick. Please help them quickly."
"Is it Rumia?!"
Rumia, although she is a foreigner, she is quite studious and behaves very obediently on weekdays. After ten days of contact, Vilia fell in love with such a girl more and more, and educated her to be wise and loyal to Ruri.
Well, this is very necessary.
That is a very good seedling. It was fine when we left it yesterday morning. Why is it so sick today?
After a while, Villa walked out of her curtain on crutches and asked in an old voice: "What's going on."
From the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of the girl Rumia lying flat beside a bonfire. Vilia's aging eyes made it clear that the girl was very haggard. Just as Bona who reported the news said, the child was sick.
, very seriously ill.
Vilia walked over quickly and kept Otto muttering. She knelt down with a sullen face and touched the girl's forehead with her old hands. She suddenly understood.
"Oops, she has a fever, it's very dangerous."
"Is it very serious?!" Otto asked casually.
"Of course! And..."
Vilia considers herself a loyal servant of Odin, and in countless dreams she dreams of being promoted to Valkyrie after her death.
The dreams seemed to be real, and she often couldn't tell what was reality and what was illusion.
She subconsciously felt that Rumia was not simply sick. After a simple examination, Vilia concluded that the girl was in a dangerous stage of being emitted all over her body, and that her illness was really strange.
Later generations of medicine concluded that the mechanism behind any fever or cold is that the body is weak and the immune system is unable to resist viruses that attack the human body at any time.
But now, the so-called medicine and witchcraft are almost the same. Roman medicine inherited from Greece, and there are many metaphysical elements here.
When it comes to the Baltic Sea region in the north, it is really witchcraft. In order to prepare potions, the priests also have a lot of time to chant incantations or pray.
Villa looked at Otto with wide eyes: "I understand, this is actually part of the test."
"Huh?" Not only Otto was shocked, but Rurik was also shocked.
"Odin is testing her. Because this wooden house has sacred meaning, she has lived in this wooden house for ten days. She worked outside for a day yesterday and was tested by Odin. My leader, ice and snow are Odin's weapons.
, we are blessed by Odin, so we are not afraid of ice and snow. But this girl is an outsider. Odin is testing her, so he sends a hot disease. If she survives, it means that Odin recognizes her as one of ours."
Otto thought it was very reasonable, but Rurik of course took it as a joke.
Although it is a ridiculous explanation, there is logic in it, right?
Moreover, Rurik keenly discovered that Vilya’s words were really saying good things to him!
Fever becomes "the final test of joining the gang". If Rumia survives this test, who will dare to question her as an outsider? At least her mother's natural rejection of her will end!
Villa continued to squat next to the girl, thinking about how to cure her illness.
Do you really expect girls to win "Odin's Trial" on their own?
That would be ridiculous.
If people attribute all results to God's will, life will not be able to continue. People can just sit still and meditate on so-called persistence.
Just like what Rumia was encountering, Vilia believed that Odin would let the girl's life go. The girl was lying like this without any care, and the result would be death.
She must be treated. The most important thing now is to bring down the fever.
Odin's face showed a trace of embarrassment. He knew that if this servant died of illness, his son would be very sad.
He also squatted down and asked Vilia who was undergoing examination: "High Priest, is her condition... okay?"
"very dangerous."
"Can she be cured then?"
"I will try my best, hoping that she will be favored. My leader..."
"exist."
"You avoid it now, and you can come visit again when I say I can. This may be a long process. Maybe you can go back home and sit quietly, or talk to other people. Especially the parents of many children, and warn them
Don’t let your children roam around outdoors.”
"Okay." Otto nodded and didn't ask any more questions.
The priest would carry out treatment, such as giving the girl some herbal soup. In the past, sick people in the tribe would either rely on their bodies to recover, or go to the priest to take medicine.
The medicine is always very bitter, and patients don’t know much about how effective it really is.
Because many people died in the end even after drinking the medicinal soup.
No one will blame the priest for the medicine. Everyone simply thinks that this is a person's fate. When a tragic fate has arrived, no matter how effective the medicine is, it cannot save this fate.
Otto left, but Rurik was still sitting nervously cross-legged next to Rumia.
Rurik was by no means a bystander like an outsider. Soon Vilya assigned jobs to a group of people, including him.
"Rurik, my child..."
"I am here."
"Do you like your servant?"
"Of course! She's my friend."
"Okay! My child, your words reminded me a lot. A long time ago, your parents were also very good friends. However, I think you are still more willing to treat her as a lifelong friend. Now you go outside the house
.”
"Huh?" Rurik raised his head in surprise, "Should I avoid it too?"
"You still have to go inside. You go outside and knead some snowballs and come in. Listen, your friend is hot all over. She can get hot everywhere except her head."
Rurik instantly understood what Vilia meant.
The so-called physical measures to reduce fever can be summarized by all ethnic groups in their long-term lives. Excessive fever and excessive heat will cause irreversible damage to brain cells. Long-term high fever will burn out the brain, especially in this poor ancient times.
, it is too common for high fever to cause brain damage and lead to death.
He carried a wooden box to the door and began to make huge balls of snow.
When he came back, he saw Rumia taking off all her leather clothes to keep out the cold, leaving only the linen lining on her body.
The girl was lying next to the bonfire with her eyes closed. Vilia acted like a kind grandmother and wiped her arms and entire face with a linen cloth dipped in water, including her neck. The purpose was obvious, which was to cool down with water.
At the same time, a strange smell began to fill the air in the room, and a familiar and strange feeling immediately occupied Rurik's head.
What's going on? Why does it feel like a Chinese medicine shop?
No! They are boiling herbal medicine, and those priestesses are boiling herbal medicine.
Looking back on his experiences over the past few years, Rurik did not remember that he had ever taken medicine. In fact, he did not. Thanks to this young but strong body, he had no serious illness or minor illness in seven years. It seemed like
This body is invulnerable to all poisons.
However, what he didn't know was that in just seven years, nearly 30 boys under the age of three died from various diseases.
As for the girls of the tribe, many of them were abandoned by their parents in the woods at the foot of the mountains when they were born, just because they could not become sea warriors.
Rurik came with a snowball in his arms, and Vilia grabbed one and put it in her hand. She squeezed the shape again, and then rubbed it against the girl's forehead.
Rumia's braid has been unstretched, and this is the first time Rurik sees her long hair hanging over her shoulders.
Not to mention, despite her young age, she has a really pleasant appearance. Her eyes are actually not as dark as hers, her face is flatter than other people in the tribe, her chin is relatively flat, and her cheeks are plump. In addition, her hair
It's more orange, and its appearance is obviously different from other people in the tribe.
With such a face, her face will definitely be lovely when she grows up. Even after encountering this disaster, her whole person looked extremely haggard.
The melted snow wet her hair, and as her mind cooled down, Rumia regained her consciousness.
Basically, only the priests in the tribe take the initiative to collect herbs, and only these women are best at identifying which ones are weeds and which ones are useful. Some herbs collected in the warm season are dried in the sun, and they are stored to prepare for the current situation.
use.
The dried herbs have been boiled, and the liquid in the wooden bowl is brown.
Vilia, who was holding a wooden bowl, ordered: "Rurik, help her up and don't let her swing around."
"OK."
With Rurik's support, Rumia sat up in a daze, and then a wooden spoon was stuffed into her mouth. The bitter feeling immediately gave her a different feeling, and her groggy head became clearer.
She was not stupid, she knew that she was suffering from a serious illness, and the priest in front of her was trying to use herbs to save her life.
There is nothing wrong with drinking herbal soup to cure diseases. Even if it is a deer-raising clan, the clan elders know how to make some medicines.
The medicinal soup couldn't help but feel bitter and spicy. Even so, Rumia suppressed her stomach discomfort and drank it forcefully.
She was laid flat again and covered with a layer of animal skin. A ball of linen was pressed on her forehead, with a ball of snow inside, and cold blood was overflowing from the gap.
Due to the psychological effect, Rumia lay down flat on her back and felt much more comfortable, so she closed her eyes and continued to rest.
Are the herbs really effective? Since Rumia continued to rest, Rurik ran to the iron pot and guessed the names of the herbs. He suddenly saw some very familiar floating things, which were onions!
There are also some unknown grass leaves, which arouse great curiosity.
He wandered over to the priest and asked, "Grandma, those herbs you gave her? It's really effective."
"It should be effective." Then, Villa listed many strange terms.
So, what is cooked in the iron pot?
In addition to the chopped onions that Rurik saw, there were also sage, long-leaf plantain, and even thyme and rosemary.
These plants are widely distributed in Europe. Even in Northern Europe where winters are long, they can suddenly appear during the warm period. They are originally used as medicinal materials, and some have special smells. In a world like Europe that has long been lacking in spices, such plants
Herbs with peculiar fragrance are simply used as food additives.
But they are indeed medicinal and can treat some diseases, such as colds and fevers.
But Vilia didn't know the specific use of these herbs. She also learned from her predecessors that those herbs could be used as medicines.
Vilia tried her best to appear calm, but she was actually a little panicked inside. A variety of herbs stored in the long priest's house were mixed together, and at least one or two of them were effective in treating fevers all over the body.
Looking at Rumia's haggard appearance, her current predicament can actually be easily alleviated with just one injection of cephalosporin.
This was a time more than a thousand years ago! Rurik couldn't understand the strange names given to herbs in Norse.
When talking about common plants to treat colds and fevers, Rurik first thought of chrysanthemums and dandelions. According to the ancient Eastern medical theory, fever is a manifestation of fever, and eating some bitter and cold herbs can eliminate the harm of fever. Chrysanthemums
And dandelions, the new warm season really need to be on the lookout and pick.
Next to Rumia, who was sleeping peacefully with a ball of snow above her head, Rurik danced and described two kinds of small flowers to the priest Vilia.
At first, Rurik didn't understand how to say chrysanthemum and dandelion in Norse. After some laborious verbal description, Vilia successfully made Vilia react.
"I know those two flowers, what's their use? Maybe you plan to make a garland headdress for your servant?" Villa asked kindly.
"No! Maybe they are good medicinal herbs."
"Really? Are you sure?"
"I..." Rurik hesitated for a moment, but then insisted: "I'm sure that is a very good medicinal material. If we collect more in the summer and dry it in the sun, and use them to make potions, we can cure the disease quickly.