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 keys of the "new mother" open the bronze locks in turn.
"Open it!" Clavarson 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 snap in the house.
The eyes of the three people suddenly looked at Lilia. Now, the girl lowered her head in horror, witnessing the glass that fell from her hand and broke into three pieces on the ground.
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, Klavasen could clearly see Lilia’s little face turning pale due to fear and guilt.
Kawei was also shocked, and 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 vast 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. 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 away 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 as to 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 kindness.
The beach looked very busy, and Clavason was not worried that those people would ignore his son's share.
"Dad, do you still want to forge iron?" Kawei asked to appease his wife.
"No." Klavason looked at Lilia with her head raised and said realistically: "It seems that you can't appease her very well. I'm making new cups now, and I'm preparing some materials now. , you two wait in the house. Kawei, I will open your eyes.”
For the time being, Kawei couldn’t care less about what his father was doing.
He took the glass shard on the ground and looked at it carefully, even touching its sharp edges with his fingers.
Lilia wiped away her tears cautiously 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.
Kawei’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 Novgorod people's textile technology is better, and their 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-grey, which is the result of moss printing and dyeing. The robe also has many stripes of different colors. The stripes are made up of individually printed and dyed hemp threads. When these dyed hemp threads are added during weaving, the clothes will 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 flesh of her calves.
"Kawei, change her into this clothes." Kawei's mother held up a folded leather coat. It was just a ball of furry white baby, just like a big pile of laundry. Like clean wool.
“Ah!” Kawei was shocked: “Mom, have you prepared a ferret fur coat for her?”
“It’s a ferret. This is what I gave to Lilia. "Ah, her name is Lilia, I made this dress myself." "Ah? Mom, you are so willing," Kawei said in surprise.
"What are you reluctant to give 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 this important identity."
The old woman simply opened the entire leather jacket with both hands. I have to say that it was really wide.
Lilia raised her head suddenly, and stared at the coat as pure as white snow displayed by the "new mother" with wide eyes. Its preciousness really speaks for itself.
"Lilia, stand up." After saying that, Kawei directly picked up his wife and took the mink coat handed by 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 the mother consume for one coat? How much did the coat cost in the end? Kawei feels that the most expensive clothes that can be bought in the entire Siiya Tribe Alliance are leather coats made entirely of ferret skin. Can one be sold for 200 silver coins? Very likely.
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 saw and heard when he returned home was a dream??
He put the ferret coat on Lilia himself.
As for Lilia, she kept looking up at her husband, letting him dress 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, it is her husband, a man who is taller, stronger and younger than his eldest 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-golden braids were hanging down, adding a touch of unique color to the pure white coat.
Lilia had never worn such comfortable clothes, and she could not imagine that her husband’s family, which had a large amount 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 her coat. These hands really didn’t belong to a worker. Looking at her delicate appearance, Kawei’s mother concluded, My daughter-in-law's status in her hometown is definitely not low.
A noble person always pays great attention to his own cleanliness. He knows how to clean his body and clothes, and he won't do menial tasks.
So, is the blacksmith’s job considered menial?
In a sense, yes. If everyone thinks that when you are a warrior and pray for Odin's blessing, after you die in battle, your soul enters Valhalla and becomes a heroic spirit.
Everyone generally believes that if you become a blacksmith, you will forever lose the possibility of becoming a heroic spirit. Even if the warriors all know that they need a blacksmith, few are willing to become one.
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, try my handiwork."
Although she didn't understand, Lilia guessed that the "new mother" wanted to taste it. She composed herself and boldly opened her mouth. At this moment, Lilia's neat and white teeth were displayed to their fullest.
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 frequently, they even rarely take a bath. As girls, they always maintain a dirty little face. Only at important moments in life such as engagement or marriage, they will participate in a holy manner.
Lilia’s teeth are white and even, and her palms are 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 work as a tailor, how to cook, and how to cook.Know 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 that deeply stimulated her mind gave her a completely extraordinary experience.
Salt is very precious. Even the head of the White Tree Manor and his family try to save as much as possible when it comes to eating salt. Throughout the Novgorod region, the diet of residents is passive and light.
So much so that when the fishermen caught a batch of fish, they were completely able to accept grilled fish without salt, or even boiled fish in plain water. The fish had no taste, only a mixture of aroma and fishy smell. The fishermen said Don't miss it.
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 food.
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 would inevitably suffer from seasickness. She vomited three times during the trip. In addition to embarrassing herself, her overall spirit was not very good.
After going to the ground this time, her spirit recovered a lot, but her stomach was still semi-hungry.
She was sitting on the leather cushion like a bird again, and the salty taste could unscrupulously stimulate her taste buds. 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 the chance to eat meat. More! In Novgorod, the locals eat wheat, and only fish is eaten occasionally."
"They rarely eat meat. 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 it into a pottery jar. She said while fiddling with it: "Don't worry, I'll make you some more wheat porridge. I hope Lilia will like it."
The wheat kernels were tumbling up and down in the boiling water. It will take some time to get 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 mumbled and took off her ferret coat herself. She thought her "new father" was going to demonstrate how to make a weapon, but to her surprise, he actually had to cauterize a large amount of sticky substance.
Not only Lilia, Kawei looked at it in novelty. These two people have no idea how to make glass or even the raw materials required.
Klavason 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 to smelt bronze water at home, and "boiled it" Boil" a pot of sticky, glowing unknownobject.
What happened next, the two of them were even more shocked!
A strange thing appeared in the blacksmith shop. It looked like a tool.
Today, Kawei saw the glass suppression 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 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. In the process, the cup quickly became liquid.
The cup gradually cools down enough to be removed by wearing leather gloves.
So, what Klavason took out from the urn was an almost completely transparent object.
After some processing, the cup ears were formed, and the shape of the cup became more imaginative. Completely because of the strong plasticity of glass, Klavasen used the prepared materials to make five cups one after another. On the wall of each cup, he used the tip of a knife to carve some words of praise spelled out in rune script.
During this process, Klavasen 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 extremely easy-to-shape glass." shaped transparent cup”
Sounds really simple! After hearing this, Kawei was already gearing up to try it himself.
In the end, he pressed the only cup and personally felt its plasticity.
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 make such a wonderful creation? But the husband and the new father are obviously mortals, which shows that they must have obtained wisdom from some great being.
The five cups were 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 Russians?
She is wrong! Big mistake.
Klavasen, who returned to the house, was eager to hear about his son's experience in the East, while Kawei was eager to know 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 is not a leader. Based on his profession, he is more concerned about how Novgorod people live. Klavasen was surprised to learn that the local people's lives were seriously lacking in metal tools.
Are your son’s words biased? Perhaps, only the daughter-in-law has fully learned Norse,Only then could he ask clearly from her mouth.
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 repeating 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 familiar to Lilia among the visitors. Apparently, for a short time, Lilia felt that Kamni had adapted to her new life as Rurik's servant.