To be fair, businessman Fordegen is a little more kind than many of his peers.
He saved more than a hundred Ostara refugees, old and young, within his own capabilities. For the entire refugee group, these people were lucky.
Fordgen has changed his mind. He has lost patience with the people of Ostara. The pile of "hot potatoes" in his hand must be taken over by a "great benefactor".
He hired a fleet to withdraw, and the Gran people and their cattle and sheep also had 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 Yermalen 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 were lucky enough to survive were finally taken in by the relatively wealthy Hjelmalen people as they wished. As for the price, women and children immediately become family members of the adopters, or in other words, labor force.
On the surface, the Hjärmalen people are really kind. What about reality? Their approach is quite pragmatic.
They took in the poor woman with the child, but they could not tolerate the "armed immigrant" group of all the Gran people occupying their living space.
On the night of Carlotta and Ella's escape, Oak, the leader of the Gran people, and Wenderson, the leader of the Yelmalen people, 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 Yelmalen 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 can be eaten.
Wenderson gave the Gran people a good idea.
"You and your tribe move to the northeast of the lake. The river is full of rocks. It is surrounded by rocky beaches covered with grass. It may be very suitable for you. ”
The leader Oak 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 build them on Iron ore was found in ”
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 Yelmalen people are also sincere. The leader told him that he was worried that the Glen people's cattle and sheep would destroy the crops. The western and northern shores of the lake are endless swamps that cannot be grazed and are difficult to cultivate. Therefore, the only place in this area for the Gran people to live is the river mouth area in the northeast.
At least there is a lot 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 once had.
It is said that there is also iron ore? If you process it to make iron tools, you will be able to settle in a new area.Lanren, can you start a business selling iron tools to your allies?
The Gran people made a choice - to continue migrating.
On the third day after the departure of the Vodgen fleet, the Gran people started a new journey with their cattle and sheep after some self-cultivation.
In three days, they basically restrained their own sheep, but some families' cattle and sheep ate the wheat fields of their allies. The Yermalen people were the first to make scandals about this matter, so the Gran people had no choice but to hand over some cattle and sheep to make amends.
Cattle and sheep are raised for meat, milk and fur.
The use of oxen to pull plows is a sign of intensive farming. The so-called Hjermalen people who are good at agriculture just install the original wooden plow with an iron blade, and the farmers pull the plow forward when cultivating the land. They don't even have horse plowing.
In other words, in current Scandinavia, horses are still rare livestock.
Even the Danes had just come into contact with horses during this period. The 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 nothing was more efficient in war than his own longship.
The Golan people used cattle, sheep and dairy products to trade a number of living utensils and even surplus grain with the Yermalen people.
The leader of Yelmalen also received a generous gift of ten cows from the opponent's leader.
That’s ten cows! The cows among them can almost guarantee that the leader's family will have 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 will produce grain and vegetables on a large scale, and the other will develop animal husbandry on a large scale. This is good, as the carbohydrates, vitamins and proteins needed to maintain human survival are all available.
The Glens came, and they built a new settlement at the outlet of the Stone River. This will be the future city of "Eskilstona", a commercial and trading point, and the future of Sweden. The steel smelting center of south-central China.
As the Yelmalen tribe explained, there are a lot of open-air iron ore on the rocky beach in the river mouth area, and there is indeed an iron ore vein nearby.
However, this mineral 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 Gran people arrived at the recommended place, the leader Oak was keenly aware that there were indeed many black stones that were shiny in the sun. This thing is undoubtedly iron ore. There is indeed ore in the rocky beach mountain, but no one has come 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 - Ye Iron makes you 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 locatedDue to its strategic position in land transportation between the residents of Lake Malaren and the residents of the south, it is possible to hold on to this place and make use of the existing shipping, so that the local area can form a trading town.
The Hjelmalen people had no idea that their suggestions would bring disaster to themselves. Once the new towns of the Grans were built, why would the merchants stay with the Hjärmalens again?
Eskilstona originally meant "the town of Missionary Eskils", and its name was changed during the "Northern Crusade Conquest". Towns were born long before that.
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 the permanent residents of this geographical location. Sexual settlers were also smart enough to immediately exploit the iron ore resources in the area.
No one thought that a group of tribes escaping from the war would have the opportunity to become steel tycoons in a new region.
Just like the last survivors of the Ostara tribe’s chief 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 Malaren. However, during this period, only one fleet left, but multiple fleets entered the lake in a long snake formation. port. For a time, the lakeside port was filled with boats, like a pod of beached whales.
The legendary Hjelmalen is becoming more and more lively.
Since it is lively, there are opportunities for poor people to fish in troubled waters.
Manage law and order? No, the Chief Family hasn’t invented the profession of “policeman” yet.
The intricate streets of Hjälmalen give thieves some room to move.
Like Carlotta and Ella, two homeless children, they can also take the opportunity to hide like mice, looking for leftovers to survive.
They hid in an empty cowshed, hiding in the cracks of 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 those 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 collect some useful things in the dirty streets. They have to be wary of bad guys and also ask for news.
During this period, they received important news.
It turns out that the leader of the Yelmalen people asked 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.
The same was true for the onion harvesting days 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 manual digging was required, only high-levelPeople don't dig out 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. They dragged their exhausted bodies and fled back to the hiding cowshed and got into the haystack.
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.
It was late at night, and 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 opportunity, the two would be willing to talk about their cattle-raising experience with others, such as Rumia from Ross, 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 the sisters gained the motivation to persist in their escape.
In Hjälmalen, the two of them were like invisible people. According to their status, they can certainly ask for the blessing of the chief family. But they didn't, because they didn't have any tokens to prove their noble status!
Not only were the two children penniless, they were also in rags and rags. At first glance, they looked like orphans and beggars.
They seemed not to exist, quietly waiting for the arrival of the onion harvest season.
It was late at night, and Carlotta, who was already haggard, became even worse.
My sister Ella saw that at night, during the day, her sister's walking became limping again.
"Sister, are you okay?"
"I should be okay." As she said that, with the help of the moonlight, Carlotta lifted up her clothes and saw clearly that she was Wounds I don’t 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 germs and bacteria. After all, it is only a temporary extreme operation. If Carlotta can continue to eat nutritious food after this treatment, her body's self-healing 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 drink.
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 It's really okay. I'm scared."
"Being afraid, my dear, I can still persist. I'll be fine when I get to Mälaren. "
"Are you serious? "My sister put her little head closer.
"Of course. Carlotta put her little hands on her shoulders and looked at the moon: "Dear, do you know?" It's a miracle that we're alive to this day. Valkyrie promises us that if we continue to live, we will not die. Everything will be fine when we get to Mälaren. ”
Ella heard this very clearly, and she snuggled up to her sister and fell asleep sweetly. Carlotta had no choice but to hug her sister and endure the pain of her second suppurative right leg 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. Now, the cows are playing a cameo role in pulling the cart. Today, the entire tribe is mobilized and the onion digging operation begins!
The merchants who have been stranded for a long time are also in a carnival. They can’t wait to spend the money they prepared today! , tomorrow we will sail to the north along with the gentle south wind.
This is the opportunity that the two girls have been waiting for for a long time!
During the day, they left and hid for more than ten years. Tian's cowshed and ran to the lake dock.
They had no intention of striking up a conversation with the dazed sailors here. A smart person had better hide himself at this time.
Carlotta knew that she was. You're risking your own life and that of your sister.
But now that I'm penniless and even my clothes are in tatters, is there anything I can't lose?
< p>There is only one, and that is each other!Carlotta has made extreme preparations. If the smuggling fails, it will be the death of herself and her sister. If it is inevitable, the two sisters will surrender. The water drowned them.
They hid in a quiet corner of the dock and waited quietly. Finally, in the evening, amid the laughter of the crowd, a large number of onions began to pour into the port.
The harvest season began. On the first day, the best quality onions were produced!
The whole onion feast started in Yelmalen, and many farmers were happy to make a fortune.
The happiest one was undoubtedly the one. Businessmen, they have been living together for a long time, and their hard work paid off after all.
The highly vigilant Carlotala pulled her sister to lie down in the grass and observed secretly. She mustered up the energy to endure the pain in her legs. His eyes were fixed on a target.
“Dear, that’s the ship, let’s touch it at night. We got into the big box and got into the onions. "
Ella was a little worried: "Is it okay? We'll suffocate it to death. "
"Don't worry, we can't hold it in until we die, just be careful and don't let anyone see you. "
"Okay, I listen to you. "Ella nodded. At seven years old, she really didn't have any high ideas.
Carlotta knew that she was taking a risk, and this risk was really worth it.
It was late at night, except for the night guard. Onions surrounded by sailorsExcept for napping by the campfire, no one was walking around.
Two sneaky figures appeared quietly. In order to survive, Carlotta chewed a wooden 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. There were 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-red onions and disappeared without a trace.
The gap between the onion balls gave the two people room to breathe. The onion smell inside was really strong, but they did not dare to poke their heads out.
At dawn, no one noticed that two children were mixed in the onion pile. The merchants were all thinking about making money by selling onions. At most, they just looked at the current situation of the onions. A huge linen cloth was covered on the onions. On a wooden box in the open air.
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 set off, probably to Mälaren."
"It must be so. Ella, I've thought about it." Carlotta whispered.
"What should we do?"
"When we get to Melalen, we will go find the leader of the Melalen people. We'd better go in person. If not, explain to these merchants Identity, let them guide us."
"Okay. Sister, I am a little hungry."
"Hungry?" Carlotta smiled slightly. It’s drowned, it’s all food here. Eat..."
But onions have too few calories, and their spicy taste is unbearable for the two children.
In order to survive, you can only eat.