A wonderful family banquet finally came to an end. The leader Magnute could only drink a small amount of ale on weekdays, but now he consciously drank the fine wine from Asgard, and finally became extremely drunk.
The chief family, who received a large number of gifts, did not hesitate to offer their return gifts.
The entire Balmok tribe fell silent, except for some light spots on the fjord in the distance.
Those were people who fished for eels at night. I don’t know when they discovered that they could catch moray eels in large quantities by lighting torches on fishing boats and then lowering their fishing nets. Eels are more delicious than herrings, and Rurik praised the grilled eels for today’s dinner.
In the longhouse of the leader's house, in a room separated by wooden boards, Rurik, who had eaten and drank enough, just wanted to lie quietly on the soft leather mattress.
And Nolen, as a gift from the family, lay beside him.
Under the flickering flame of the oil lamp, she could clearly see Rurik slowly taking off his coat. She suppressed her nervousness and even worried that she would become a woman tonight. But if this is really the case, I have nothing to complain about.
Her destiny has been arranged. Even if she is not yet twelve years old, she can be sure that her drunken father will immediately go to the priests to communicate with him after he wakes up, and then organize a wedding as a matter of course. The wedding was just a formality, and now Rurik was standing in this boudoir.
"What are you looking at me for? Are you nervous?" As he spoke, Rurik threw the leather jacket aside.
Nolen sat curled up, her blond hair still hanging loose, wearing only a plain robe, and her feet were inserted into a soft and warm leather blanket.
The girl murmured: "My parents have already decided. You... are my man."
"Indeed. Originally, your eldest brother was the first to propose this matter. "
The girl nodded and asked weakly: "Do you... like me?"
What should I say? Rurik was not busy talking, but took off his strange trousers, revealing even stranger shorts.
Rurik will not treat himself badly when it comes to dressing. He will always wear comfortable shirts and shorts, just like the norm for people more than a thousand years later. Because of his preference, those tribal boys and girls who received military training were also ordered to dress like this. It was this outfit that made Nolen unimaginably strange.
Rurik walked forward casually and sat down again. He stared at Nolen's face and asked: "Do you... like me?"
"I...I like it. You are a miracle man, and you also know music."
< p>"Yes. I like you too. I like you playing the flute and singing.""That's great."
The girl smiled like a blooming flower, She is careless. Rurik supports his great career of playing the flute and arranging new songs. He is the most perfect good man in the world.
Rurik lay down peacefully, having once slept inThe leather-covered berth on the ground was the most commonplace, but now, this feeling was so novel.
He wanted to rest and enjoy the first peaceful sleep on stable land after twenty days of sailing, but how could Nolen let go of this dreamy man from the sea?
Rurik lived with his two traveling brothers for a whole year. What did they experience? How amazing are the Russians? Is there really a connection between Rose and the legendary Asgard?
Nolen seemed not tired at all, she kept asking all kinds of questions.
Beset by so many questions, Rurik, who was bored, had no choice but to suppress his temper and listen to the girl's endless talk.
Until Nolen asked a very pointed question.
"You...you are a great person. Besides me, how many women do you have."
"Many." Rurik said calmly.
"How many are many? It doesn't matter. The priest said that the gods have many wives, and it is natural for the heroes on earth to have many wives. Tell me." Nolen kept holding Rurik's arm. Hanging, listening to this tone, it's as if this girl doesn't care at all.
It really doesn’t matter? Wouldn't she be jealous?
Rurik really couldn't care less. Considering that he was a king, without a queen and a bunch of concubines, people would question the power of the king and the strength of a man. In Northern Europe today, this kind of doubt is the most deadly.
"At least ten."
"Ah! So many!" Although Nolen was mentally prepared, she simply sat up when she heard this number. Under the dim light of the oil lamp, she looked at the smiling boy in surprise, "Then, what status will I have among your many women?"
"Of course a noble status. My woman They all come from powerful tribes. But you are the most unique. You are good at playing the flute and know how to compose songs. You are smarter than ordinary women."
Originally, Nolen did not expect such greatness. Men will indulge in pampering themselves, and Rurik's words warmed her heart. She slowly lay down and continued to murmur: "Maybe a woman shouldn't pursue playing the flute too much. I should also do a good job as a woman like an ordinary woman."
"No. That's right. Because you are good at playing the flute, I like it very much, and I want to learn.”
“You want to learn?”
Noren. She was really careless, and her hobbies were constantly affirmed. She immediately got up and turned out the bone flute made of the eagle leg bone. She sat obediently like a bird and played a melodious, elegant and soul-purifying tune in front of Rurik.
Her performance is really amazing!
Rurik sat up and felt that the person sitting in front of him was clearly a legendary female elf. The beautiful flute sound seemed to tell the distance of the sea and the tranquility of winter snow, just like the sound of her oil lamp. The peaceful face is so lettingPeople are comfortable.
A typical Nordic melodious tune ended.
"What a perfect song. Maybe we should find a suitable place. I am willing to continue listening. Your parents, two brothers, and your slaves all live in this huge longhouse "It really won't affect them?"
"It doesn't matter." Nolen shook his head gracefully: "They have long been used to it, especially my father. He doesn't feel my flute at all. It was noisy. Besides, it was the flute he gave me to encourage me to play."
Rurik was awakened by the sound of the flute. It seems that Nolen's playing ability is self-taught.
She is a purely natural literary girl. Over the years, Rurik asked himself, among the women he was used to seeing who were as brave as men, suddenly a "female elf" who loved literature and art suddenly appeared. It was really It's amazing.
Furthermore, Rurik is really eager to learn to play the flute and play the harp (if he can get it.) It is not that Rurik is suffering from a literary disease, he feels that music is powerful , the Russians need music to make barbarism noble. I have to say that Nolen is really a musical genius. This music is full of fantasy, ethereal and melodious, making people feel at ease.
Compared to this girl who loves to play the flute, if you ask yourself, the Ross tribe does not have such a talent. There are not even people who like music, and those who have flutes can only play half-hearted tunes. The harp that the tribe had snatched from unknown sources was so old that it became firewood.
The music of Western Europe in the Middle Ages all had this melodious and ethereal tone. In essence, this tone is a strong Nordic style. The reason is actually inseparable from the expansion of the Viking tribes.
On the contrary, it is the most orthodox Roman music. They learned ancient Greek music, and ancient Greek music learned from Phoenician music. As for Phoenician music, its roots are in the Mesopotamia. So much so that Roman music also has a wonderful Middle Eastern flavor.
As for ancient Egyptian music, because they used five tones, although they are 10,000 kilometers away from the East, their music resonates beyond time and space! The music of the Pharaoh's court is very similar to the grand, elegant and soothing music of the East.
Do the various tribes of the Vikings have to be bound to brutal killing? Rurik asked himself, in the past four years, the Rus' people living in the fjords had indeed begun to exert their full strength under his own instigation. Rapid expansion was accompanied by conquest, and Rus' conquest was indeed accompanied by cruel killings. This is Rurik didn't deny it, but he didn't feel it was wrong at all.
Did this killing cause "too much resentment"? Will the future of the Russians be forever bound to barbarism?
No!
If the Principality of Rus is destined to evolve into a huge Rus country, it is destined to rule most of Northern Europe and the entire Eastern Europe. Simple barbarism cannot achieve stable rule. Perhaps the Duke of Zhou founded Zhou Li in those days, and Zhou Li paid great attention to the power of music.Just consider the ability of music to turn barbarism into elegance.
But Lucia (the unified Russian country) in Rurik’s impression has extremely dreamy artistic qualities, so as her predecessor, the current Russian people are not good at music! I can't bear it!
This Nolen beside me, maybe all this is fate. This girl who loves music will give the Russian people an eternal artistic soul and make the Russian people forever different from those barbarians.
Even though the future of a tribe is mainly determined by the will of all tribesmen, Rurik now believes that the geniuses emerging from the tribe, or the talents introduced from other tribes, will give the tribe a great leap forward. develop.
Rurik wanted to test whether Nolen was really a genius at controlling the flute.
"Nolen, if I hum a piece of music, can you immediately play it on the flute?"
"Of course." Nolen raised his head and his confident smile made people laugh. Rurik could not doubt it.
"Well, listen to my singing."
Rurik hummed softly, and this song was the "Grenadier March". He hummed the song rhythmically, which had a strong sense of rhythm. He saw Nolen in front of him. Her small body also followed his humming, as if she was under the magic of the music, and she spontaneously trembled rhythmically. stand up.
Why are you humming this song? Rurik's intention is obvious, but Nolen's limited knowledge cannot yet detect it. Rurik's intention is to build a military band for the Russian army!
He had already had this idea, but the so-called music lovers in the Ross tribe were really bad at it.
Rurik only hummed it twice, and Nolen clutched the flute to show that he had completely learned it.
Then, a talented performer began her perfect playing.
The sound of the flute was refreshing and rhythmic. During the music, Rurik squinted his eyes and saw neat infantry phalanxes one after another, walking past him in neat steps.
Because "Grenadier March" is tailor-made for marching in order! It is essentially played with only two musical instruments, the flute and the waist drum.
Its core tune has only four sections, a military band that coordinates the march of the entire army. As long as these four sections are repeated infinitely, every soldier can adjust his or her own pace according to the rhythm of the tune. On the battlefield, the army is in a square formation, assisted by music to ensure that the formation is not chaotic, and presses against the enemy like a wall. This terrifying sense of pressure must greatly overwhelm the enemy in terms of momentum.
Rurik's eyes widened and he couldn't help but applaud: "You are a real genius."
"Thank you for your compliment. You too, you hummed The music is so wonderful that it makes me want to shake my body."
"Hey, you will know my purpose. Now lend me the flute and teach me how to play it."
"Okay."
She is aA sentimental and talented musician, she will definitely give the Russians literature and art.
Rurik knows the power of actions and actions. If the tribesmen see that one of the Duke's wives is fond of music, they will definitely try to imitate him.
Yes, you need to form a professional palace band. When entertaining guests, let the musicians play to entertain them.
Of course Rurik cannot learn how to play the flute all at once. Even though she is a talented Nolen, she does have a strong sense of music. As for using the flute skillfully, it also depends on her daily life. Really laid back.
She is the daughter of the leader. Like the young girls of the Balmok family, she does not need to learn anything else except learning some simple "lessons that women must know". Daughters from ordinary families often have to work for the family like their other brothers and sisters starting at the age of five.
The Balmoks are a "huge" tribe with a population approaching 20,000. Magnut has many brothers and relatively distant relatives. Those who control the dominant position have enough wealth, and their marriages are intricate. In this way, everyone's relationship becomes very close, even if there are some conflicts between them, for the sake of blood and marriage, everyone is in the forum. After some discussion, there were no more conflicts.
A huge tribe must have a figure who represents everyone's rights, so Magnut was elected as the leader. The leader's beautiful little daughter lives a life of having nothing to eat. She lives like a homebody. In her boring life, learning musical instruments and rehearsing songs are the best ways to kill the boredom.
Now, she has welcomed the destined man. For the big family who learned about this on the dock, they are completely relieved.
While Magnute was sound asleep, her wife Yingbjorg was so unaccustomed to her husband’s snoring that the sound of a flute came to her ears.
Any mother hopes that her daughter will have a good man. Through the description of her eldest son Biyongni, this noble Rurik is already a real man at a young age, and he already has someone around him. A group of women with the same status are relatively noble. She was nervous at first, but as Biyoni briefly and casually described it, Rurik was said to be extremely friendly to all his women, even to those slaves, and it was such a friendly person who led the Russian army. Won many dangerous battles.
Yingbjorg, how much she hopes that something will happen between her daughter and Rurik this night. If there is a result, then the priests will be completely speechless for several days. Afterwards, a ceremony was held and the daughter was successfully married. She firmly believed that Rurik would take into account the strong strength of the Balmoks and allow Nolen to have a high enough status in the new family among the many women of Rurik, Duke of Ross.
After this night, something wonderful happened to the two of them.
Magnut was still sleeping soundly. In the early morning, Yingbjorg walked into his daughter's boudoir with good intentions and followed the sound of the flute. OnlyIn the room, why did my daughter Nolen become two?
No! One of the people wearing strange clothes (white linen shirt) was Rurik. He had blond hair and played the flute, which looked exactly like his daughter.
The old woman coughed twice, attracting their attention.
"Dear Rurik, Nolen. It seems that your relationship is already very good."
"Yes." Rurik nodded: "I like her . And her ability to play the flute."
"That's great. You have come a long way, but you need to have a good rest for a few days. Rurik, the elders of the tribe are going to kill you in a few days. Please come to our meeting room, these are your men's business, I won't ask any more questions. Get dressed and have something to eat." As he said this, Yingbjorg's face was slightly sullen. , ordered to Nolen: "He is already your man. Nolen, take your man around our home for a while and see our fjords and great snow-capped mountains."
Noren stuck out his tongue playfully, turned his head and smiled at Rurik...
Yingbjorg sighed slightly, turned around and left the girl's boudoir. . His two sons, especially Floki, listened to his eldest brother's lies and insisted on kicking the blond hair off their heads and getting tattoos on them. Is it necessary for a true warrior to do this? On the other hand, Rurik, in the eyes of Yingbjorg, this young hero from the Rus is really more and more pleasing to the eye. She wished she could keep this boy by her side, but unfortunately this was just an unrealistic fantasy.
At a glance in the morning, she saw Rurik actually busy learning to play the flute. It was a good thing that her daughter had a confidant, but as a member of the chief family, Yingbjorg knew too well the meaning and meaning of political association. importance.