Bonna's hands were perfectly cleaned, the water on her hands was dried by the charcoal fire, and her hands quickly became dry again.
What about grease? They are gone!
Bona had never experienced anything like this in her life. She started jumping up and down and yelling.
"Rurik, what's going on? Haha? Where's the oil? It's all gone. Where did they go?"
Rurik originally wanted to say that all the grease was soaped up The hydrophilic group was taken away. I think they would not be able to understand it.
He pointed at the turbid water in the tub: "The grease is in the water, it just becomes different. Bona, now your hands are clean, maybe you can use it to wash your face." Or wash the clothes and they will become very clean."
"Oh! That's for sure. My dear Rurik, you did such a good job." Pona stretched out subconsciously. Her soapy hand pinched Rurik's cheek affectionately: "My dear, you have helped us a lot. Now we don't have to worry about being stained with oil when we cook."
Rurik also came from I have never heard Bona use any nickname for herself, but today I experienced it for the first time.
As expected, the person who inherited the position of high priest is an ambitious person, but today she was as excited as a child.
Other priests did even more funny things. They put their hands into the oil urns one after another, hoping that the baby named soapa could magically take away the oil in an instant.
They did this, and Rurik watched them like children playing with toys, playing with a large square brick of earthen soap.
A large amount of snow water was melted. Soon, the basins of snow water became extremely turbid, and the oily hands of the priests became clean again.
Rurik had been completely left alone, and the priestesses suddenly became chattering. They not only washed their hands but also their faces. Some people accidentally got soap suds into their eyes, and the stinging pain drove the sufferer Wash your eyes immediately. More people try washing their face with soap for the first time and the experience is wonderful.
This is the first time since birth that all of them have washed their faces extremely clean. As for the turbid water, they suddenly had a special understanding.
The clear water becomes turbid, and my face changes from unclean to clean.
Rurik's soupa has a magical power, and the thing that causes the water to be turbid must be the dirt on his face.
They chattered about these things. Rurik listened very funny and didn't want to say anything.
The lively performance of the priestesses successfully attracted the high priest Vilia.
She walked out of her cubicle on crutches. It was extremely rare to see her subordinates so active, and many of them were still laughing.
"What's going on!? What did you eat last night? Why do you look like crazy people when you wake up in the morning?" Vilia said harshly.
"It's Rurik's baby. He succeeded." After saying that, Pona picked up the wet soap and approached Vilia to express her joy.display.
"Is this it?" Vilia was a little suspicious. She turned away from the young figure of Rurik who was standing confidently. "You used a lot of grease to make this? Is it a hand-washing "Yes! Grandma, no matter how much I say, it's useless. You can just apply grease on your hands like they do. The grease will disappear quickly, including in the gaps between your nails." Dust will disappear."
"Really? Then I'll give it a try."
Villa seems to have experienced a miracle today.
When it comes to hand washing, Pona has obviously become an expert. She washes her hands for the increasingly weak Vilia, and the result is just as Rurik said.
"Oh! What a miracle! My child, you..." For a moment, Vilia was so excited that she couldn't speak.
"Grandma, don't be excited. Now tell me how you feel, okay or not. I want an evaluation."
"You?" Vilia said with her aging eyes. Staring at her hands carefully, the dry skin seemed to be refreshed. She paid special attention to the gaps between her nails. She never thought that the most difficult place to clean was difficult to wash off with water. As a result, she applied it with soap and washed it off with water. Fine dust is also washed away.
If you have cleaned your fingernails, wouldn’t it be the best choice to use it to wash clothes?
Vilia, she instinctively thought of using her to clean clothes and even clean all dirty things.
Villa hesitated for a while and finally made a comment: "My child, you are doing a good job. Maybe you can continue to do it so that everyone can wash their hands well."< /p>
Rurik nodded. He didn't really want to hear rave reviews such as "You're so kind" and "Soap is very useful."
Villa’s explanation was exactly what he wanted.
"I just plan to continue doing it, because you are priests and you must try your best to keep it clean."
Speaking of this, Rurik deliberately lied: "Actually...actually It was the Valkyrie who told me in my dream that I should use materials that mortals can obtain to make clean treasures. I did this according to the Valkyrie's request. Obviously, all of this is part of Odin's wisdom."
They were the only ones who believed the nonsense. Rurik witnessed the sudden changes in the expressions of the priests. They were shocked that this was also part of "Odin's wisdom". No one immediately questioned it, everyone was lamenting how lucky they were to receive Odin's favor.
Of course, the biggest contribution here belongs to Rurik.
Vilia's eyes trembled with joy: "Rurik, my child. You have once again been blessed by Odin. You are really a happy child and our happiness. I really want to thank you. , and thanks to our patron saint.”
I came up with the idea and did the initial operations myself, but the help of others cannot be ignored.
"And Rumia, my servant. Making soap ingredientsThe ingredients are all in this room, but the process requires energy and can make people very tired. "As he said this, Rurik thought that Rumia hadn't gotten up yet. Could she be sick again?
Rurik turned around and ran to Rumia's bed, placing his little hands against her The stone in my heart fell to the ground after I felt nothing strange on my forehead.
“I worked for you for a long time yesterday, and her illness didn’t relapse? "Vilia asked with some worry.
"Maybe this is also part of Odin's blessing. Rurik said casually, "Rumia is just too tired, but she shouldn't continue to sleep." ”
Rumia was indeed too tired. Although the day was short, it actually lasted only four hours. During the day, she drove herd of deer to graze outdoors in the cold. The deer’s fur could withstand the cold. Humans, with today's makeshift tailoring skills, it is difficult to keep warm animal skins extremely warm.
Rumia lost a lot of energy and drove the deer back to the deer enclosure to take care of it further before dragging it away. She still wanted to work for Rurik with her tired body.
She never wanted to speak out about her fatigue and wanted to continue to be satisfied with Rurik, because she felt that her good future could only be pinned on Rurik.
Rumia’s confused body was dragged in front of many priests
After learning that the soap was completed, the attempts of more than a dozen people had achieved great results. Good effect, her confusion disappeared a lot. Everyone claimed that the soap was very useful, and it was not in vain that they frantically stirred a pile of paste in the vat last night.
"Rumia's contribution was very great. , now except for me, I think she has learned all the ways to make it. "Rurik made no secret of his praise for her.
Vilia nodded: "She is your servant. It is her responsibility for a servant to do her job seriously. ”
“So I should entrust her with more things. I thought I should reward her as well, so her grazing was skipped today. The deer were grazed by other priests, and in exchange, I kept two bars of soap to use as washing tools for the priests. I will continue to provide you with this in the future. ”
Vilia could hear Rurik talking about the conditions, which were about whether the priest group could always use soap.
Soap was a novelty for everyone, so the grazing It turned out to be a trivial matter.
Villa didn't refute, nor did she think much about it.
A few junior priests went to the deer pen, and they drove the deer to graze on their own. /p>
Rumia was so tired that she continued to nest in the animal skin bag, and soon fell asleep again.
Only the priests continued to occupy the fire where the soap had been baked. The necessary work of boiling oil began again, and the alluring smell of burnt fat began to fill the long room again.
Rurik sat cross-legged on the leather mat. He took out all the soap bars and kneaded them with his bare hands. He tried his best to knead the soap bar into a standard brick shape.
He ate some meat and drank some wheat porridge. He looked at the soap bar in his hand and imagined eating wheat every meal in the future. scene.
People in ancient times were really luxurious when it came to delicious food.
What is the basis of good food? It is nothing more than the mixture of starch (sugar), fat and salt. Therefore, the porridge cooked with wheat meat and salt in the longhouse of the priest is the most fattening and delicious.
But this life is short-lived. You either have to spend a lot of money to buy food from the south, or go to Novgorod to ask for it.
Grains and grains are precious to everyone, how about exchanging them for more precious amber?
Theoretically, it is possible, because people always like more wealth. The problem is that there are people who are richer. Because they don’t have to worry about food and drink, they are willing to spend more silver coins on luxury goods.
Those ordinary residents don’t have much food in their hands, but they have a larger population and the total amount of surplus food they hold is also greater.
If you want to get precious grains from them, you must either use battle axes or swords to rob them, or exchange them for more useful daily necessities.
For example, soap is an excellent choice for daily necessities, and of course there will be more in the future.
Rurik was never a businessman, but he knew the purest business knowledge.
So there are two bars of soap to give to the priest, and there are still seventeen bars left.
Soap can easily make more than a dozen priests jump with excitement. The high priest, who has always been calm, is also shocked. If it were ordinary people, they would be even more excited from time to time.
"Why don't you just keep some and sell them? How much is one? Fifty copper coins?" Look at Rumia's sleeping appearance. "Well, at least one silver coin, otherwise I will be sorry for this girl's hard work. A piece of soap can be bought for the same price as a deerskin. Am I a bit of a profiteer? Bah, at least it is much more merciful than being a pirate."
Just as Rurik lamented the birth of his "soul of a profiteer", Otto walked through the snow to find his beloved son, and to see if his beloved son's career that had been busy all day without returning home had paid off as promised.
"Did you succeed?" Otto rudely opened the leather curtain and asked directly.
Rurik was startled by Otto's sudden arrival.
"Ah, Dad!"
"Where is the thing you made?"
"It's right here." Rurik pointed and looked at his father With questioning eyes, he introduced happily.
This was the first time Otto saw a brown-yellow "huge stone" with a transparent texture. He thought for a moment that this thing was oil, and washed his hands with stones?
Otto's loud noise scared the lower priests to suspend their work, and also woke up Viglia who was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed to relax.
"My leader! This is a sacred place, don't be rude."
"It's the high priest, I just came to see my son." Otto changed his calm After saying that, he nodded slightly and apologized to Vilia.
Villa stood up slowly and approached Otto with a cane.
"You came to see those soapas. Rurik succeeded. We can make soapa, which can clean all dirt."
"Is this true?" Otto looked down at Aiko, and his eyes focused on those so-called soap bars.
Seeing is worse than trying it yourself.
Another trick of oiling his hands, Otto deeply experienced the magic of soap.
He always had dirty hands. After being washed with soap, the white and red skin on the back of his hands was revealed, which made the hairs on the back of his hands even more dazzling.
"It's amazing! Since it can wash hands, maybe I can wash my hair properly?"
"And your big beard." Vilia joked happily instantly .
Rürik actually disliked Otto’s beard very much. It’s not that as a Nordic man in his life, he particularly disliked beards. What Rürik hated was the slovenliness.
It is true that only after being fed and clothed can a person be qualified to dress appropriately.
I think my family is the leader's family, and the family has the largest wealth in the tribe. How come the leader still looks slovenly after living for fifty years? Especially the beard. My father has the leisure to pierce the huge beard. Braids, once reduced beard becomes an obstacle to eating and drinking.
Since they are obstacles, we can just scrape them all off. However, considering that many men in their prime are continuing to grow their beards, this is probably an unwritten tradition.
Beard and hair that are too long will inevitably attract a lot of dust and can easily breed parasites.
"Dad, you can wash your hair here. It doesn't matter. Soupa will wash away the most difficult dirt on your hair." Rurik encouraged, holding up the soap.
Otto was very happy. The good thing invented by his son, he immediately thought of using it for his old father. The two dead sons never thought so when they were alive.
"Okay! My child."
The men of the Ross tribe, including some madmen, are called Bosaka, and the dialect of the Ross tribe is called Ba Lesac is actually a berserker.
Everyone can become a berserker, but the standard must be strong muscles all over the body and a crazy image.
Otto is already very old. Fortunately, he likes to chew meat very much. He does a lot of exercise on weekdays and has the ability to walk hundreds of kilometers.
He took off his leather coat and linen shirt. The muscles on his back and the muscles on his arms really made Rurik envious.
With muscles like this, just exposing them will scare off enemies, not to mention there are many horrific scars on his back.
Rurik wanted to help his father wash his hair, but Otto had to do it himself.
His hair and beard were soaked, and the soap bar formed a huge amount of bubbles when rubbed. He subconsciously rubbed the deep parts of his scalp, and a large amount of dandruff was peeled off by the action of soap.
With several basins of water rinsing, Otto finally recalled the feeling of his childhood - the exciting refreshing feeling.
This was a refreshing feeling that ordinary bathing could not achieve. He felt that the dirt on his head had completely disappeared and turned into gray and white turbid water in the wooden basin..
There was no need to say anything more. Otto did not say a word. He suddenly picked up his son, lifted him high and put him down again to show his satisfaction.
Rurik remained calm and asked: "Dad, are you satisfied?"
"Very good, I don't know how you turn grease into it, you You must have received the magic power given to you by Odin, my child. You will give soupa to others, such as those uncles."
It sounds like Otto really cares about those of him. "Close comrades", they are Otto's solid supporters.
Rurik agreed without thinking: "Of course, I made a lot of them for everyone to use. But I did a lot of things to make him, and I must receive payment. After all, it is not a spoil of war and cannot be distributed, but can only be purchased."
Otto's son's words were unexpected. He didn't know when his son had a business acumen.
What my son said is also very correct. You should sell the things you make and turn them into a lot of coins, and then use the money to buy other things.
In life, you should accumulate wealth, let yourself and your family live a good life first, and then bring happiness with your friends.