Year after year, compared to the hustle and bustle of the city, the place of the temple should be a sacred and refined place.

Although the temples of the Ross tribe in the past were simple and simple, and the priests' residences and other dwellings were not too special, it was defined as a "sanctuary". The so-called sanctuary, if miscellaneous people stray into it, it is disrespectful and will be punished by the gods. The punishment may not be imposed at the moment of stepping into the forbidden area, even if there is no sudden thunderbolt, the gods will definitely bring disasters in the days to come.

For example, use a blizzard to overthrow the house of the disrespectful. To disorient the disrespectful in hunting, to be attacked by wild herds, and to be devoured by Jormungandr when fishing.

However, Ross is no longer the Ross he once was.

A magnificent temple was born in New Roseburg, and the gilded statues of the seven gods stood tall.

As long as they pay a silver coin, the public can enter the worship room in the temple to worship the statue and tell their prayers, whether it is effective or not...

Women who prayed to God Freya to give birth to a son would claim the correctness of the prayer and the greatness of the **** if their wish came true. If they gave birth to a daughter, they could only say that it was a joke of the evil **** Loki. But the child landed safely, right? The offering of a silver coin is meaningful.

Every day, people visit the largest temple in Ross, and the "incense" here is very strong, especially the women who pray to Goddess Freya to bless the safe birth of their children. They are really a huge prayer group.

Although the praying team is not so big, there are people who come to pray to the gods on ordinary days, and even in the days when the snowfall continues, people come in the snow, praying that the snow that Odin said will not crush their own houses House of.

The current purchasing power of a silver coin is officially stipulated by Rurik as being exchangeable for ten pounds of wheat, but the real purchasing power is not so, at least in the capital city at the center of the kingdom, its purchasing power is the lowest, but in the remote areas of the kingdom, a silver coin can Buy a lot.

Most of the wealthy people in the kingdom, and even some small leaders and family heads from Denmark, are willing to buy a real estate in the capital of Ross as a mansion, buy a small property, and buy some goods here every year to ship back to their hometown.

Ten years is a short period of time, and the era of tribal strife in the Baltic Sea seems to be still yesterday, as if the Danish port of Hedeby is still prosperous.

Ten years is also a long time, so long that people have greatly underestimated the purchasing power of a silver coin, and so long that people think that the Ross people have been a group of people who eat grilled fish and eat bread since ancient times.

The silver coins kept entering the cash box of the Great Temple, and the group of priests was passively amassing wealth. As for who had the final right to control it, it was naturally King Rurik.

This was done on purpose by Rurik. The High Priest Rumia always remembered her identity. Through countless prayers, she firmly believed in her mission.

It was destiny for Rumia to become the high priest of Ross, the people reached a consensus, and the nobles believed it. After all, the most respected woman, the former high priest Vilia who died but turned into a Valkyrie, identified this little slave girl as her sole heir.

At that time, it was a shocking arrangement.

It has been more than ten years, and Rumia has been conscientious in her tenure. She was a deer breeder, and was King Rurik's first slave, and she still is.

No one dared to pick words. Rumia was the high priest, the king's eyeliner, and a symbol of royal power in the capital. There is nothing wrong with the high priest being a black-haired deer breeder. The daughter she gave birth to is the eldest daughter of the king and is destined to be the next generation of high priest.

The Great Temple is no longer mysterious, it has become a bit of a philistine, the aloof gods are worshiped by any mortal, and the influence of the Ross Seven Gods radiates to the whole kingdom. Along with the dissemination of the constantly printed "Ros Saga", this book of the Ross people is sold nationwide with a collection of vivid and interesting stories, and the Nordic belief is further strengthened because of it.

Although the blond-haired Nordics in the kingdom, the black-haired Finns, and the brown-haired Slavs, everyone still upholds the belief in animism, and now they support Odin as the greatest god. Status, even in the Lake Mlaren area of Sweden, everyone believes in Thor more.

As for the only Slavic god, Peron, the **** of fire and light, her image is similar to that of winter.

The towering tower of fire of the High Priest of Hanukkah on Solstice is equated. Because there is no clear **** of fire in the Nordic beliefs, borrowing a **** from the Slavic world in this way makes up for its own shortcomings, and also unites its relationship with the largest Slavs in the kingdom.

After all, no one can refuse a bonfire in the cold winter.

"Today is another normal day."

Rumia, who got up early, put on her clothes and hung the huge gemstone necklace that Rurik made for herself on her chest.

Compared to other Ross or Swedish or Danish women, she is still short at the age of twenty-seventhe height is only equivalent to 150 centimeters.

It is this shortness that attracts a special mystical effect. The so-called Lumia is wearing a deerskin coat and an antler helmet, showing the whole face as if a deer stands on the altar (after wearing the helmet, the total height is exactly like a stag).

It turns out that the antler helmet that has been treasured by the Ross tribe for generations, in the new era, it looks like it has been decorated in a big way, and its essence remains unchanged. In principle, it will have ten-year-old Verika inherit.

After finishing her attire, she assembled all the lesser priests in the spacious longhouse, including her daughter, Rurik's eldest daughter, Verika.

She arranged some work as usual, and the priests began to work step by step for today.

There are only women in the priesthood system of Rose, and in principle, this system does not recruit men to join. Just because priests are God's servants, and God's servants are those Valkyries, and they're all women. Now Rurik is the one who has been blessed by Odin, and the priests are loyal to the king, so there cannot be a man.

Now, most of the people standing in front of Lumia are girls under the age of sixteen, among whom there are more around thirteen or fourteen. Except for Rumia, the adults here are only old women who can be counted on and trusted.

The old priesthood of Rus was purged fourteen years ago, the greedy and usurping under-priests were executed, and the rest of the priests were killed. At that time, it was the leader Otto who carried out this decisive measure, and Arik was the most decisive killer, always declaring that all priests committed suicide to follow the deceased high priest Vilia.

Only one woman survived, that is, the current high priest Rumia.

With Rumia as the core, a new Ross priest system was born under the design of Rurik.

Those wealthy businessmen, military nobles, tribal leaders, and wealthy folks are all willing to consider sending their more beautiful daughters to the temple for further education.

They must be beautiful. After being selected, they can work in the Great Temple until they reach the age of sixteen before retiring. After reaching the age, they can continue to use unless they have outstanding qualifications.

Don't worry about those girls who are brushed down. Every grand festival, the Great Temple will recruit them, so in festivals such as Hanukkah, Spring Sail Festival, and Summer Solstice, there are more than two hundred girls in plain white clothes and jingle bells. A grand spectacle in which priests take part.

The girl's parents regard this as a special training for their daughters. After retiring from the temple, they may have some divinity in them. In addition, the girls who can enter the temple to work must be young and beautiful. After retiring, they are like elves in mythology. Girls are the best marriage tools.

It's just that parents don't care about the girl's meaning when they betroth the girl to noble people or wealthy households.

The daily work in the temple is quite ordinary. It is necessary to keep the temple area clean and tidy. The girls in uniform winter clothes keep it clean and tidy. Their most urgent job is still to clear the snow.

The rest was the daily maintenance of some equipment, such as refilling the oil lamps in the chapel, and polishing all the gods with sackcloth soaked in seal oil.

In the rest of the time, they can't be free, and they learn the importance of strengthening their beliefs in the "Ross Saga", and at the same time continue to learn Latin and Slavic languages, so that such girls are theoretically qualified to be arranged as priests of local temples.

It's just that Rurik can't take care of the full implementation at the moment.

Deputy Priest Verika, today the little girl was so listless that she was sent to look at the cash box, and supervise those people who wanted to pay homage to the gods to stuff the silver coins into the wooden box

. She's not embarrassed, it's just that the job is boring. She had to be dressed in a fancy dress, sitting on a chair to keep herself stable, wearing thick clothes to resist the wind and cold, but her face was flushed from the cold.

But today is no ordinary day - the blue fox is back.

But the priests didn't pay attention to the affairs of the port area for no reason, but Verika, who was sitting quietly, widened her eyes. He saw some noble people walking towards the governor's mansion. And a man with a round face is very familiar, isn't he Uncle Blue Fox? !

On the other hand, Geflo, the actual ruler of Finland who arrived late with his entourage, met Blue Fox just as he was about to leave the pier.

The old comrades-in-arms were very cordial when they met each other. They hugged and greeted each other, and then went to the Governor's Mansion in the capital together to have a chat.

Until this time, Teresia the Blackbird, who had been disguised as a servant, finally attracted the attention of others.

The so-called governor's mansion is the long house that Rurik first built in the capital as a palace, and now it is relinquished in a towering four-story attic.

As for the little girl Blackbird, she was amazed that she seemed to be stepping on absolutely flat ground.

Harvest Plaza is paved with a layer of cement pavement. Even though the cement is relatively primitive, the vast city square is unbelievably flat. Blackbird never thought that a square could be like this. The snow on the cement floor has been cleaned up as much as possible to reveal its dark background, which at first glance looks like a whole flat stone.

It was the first time in Blackbird's life that he saw "leveling under a wide area". I heard from Blue Fox that this is called the Harvest Square. . Look carefully, there is indeed a group of people gathered on one side of the square, it seems that they are people doing open-air transactions.

Entering the Harvest Plaza, there were more things that caught her eyeballs.

The strongly reflective building called the First Temple of Ross seems to have a large spherical dome. The reason it shines is because of a layer of glass. In this regard, the blackbird is hard to come by, because the glass of the Aachen Palace and the cathedral next door is not surprising, but it is too strange to be so extravagant to lay glass for the entire building.

Looking back on everything that she has experienced since entering this city, she and other nobles are on a straight road, which is said to be called Nevsky Avenue. The dwellings on both sides of the road gave her a sense of familiarity, but the bustling people were almost all blond-haired Normans, and she was probably the only Farak here.

The sense of familiarity dissipated instantly after entering the square, followed by strangeness and strangeness.

There are thick wooden buildings and towering attics here. Compared with the city of Aachen, the blackbird also knew that there were some public buildings in sight, and the attic was said to be the palace of King Ross.

Is that considered a palace? A house made mostly of wood?

"Rose people really like wood." She muttered silently.

She has always followed the blue fox carefully, but was stopped by the guards when she was about to enter the governor's mansion. It was at this time that she finally could no longer "invisible".

"It seems that your attendant is not smart enough." Little Cornusson teased the blue fox with a little displeasure.

The blue fox glanced at the blackbird who was still hooking his head, and explained with a flash of inspiration: "It is true that he is not a smart enough attendant. However, I like him very much."

"He? He's obviously a teenager." Yefro was taken aback, "Why are you still unmarried? Could it be that you actually like..." Afraid of offending others, Yefro hurriedly shut up.

"You will all know in the future. It's just that I came back from a long distance, so it's not too much to meet my little request? Brothers, I brought a lot of wine."

Little Cornusson was quick-witted, and he did not want any kind of unhappiness with the king's favorites. "Well, if you like your servant, then bring it in."

"Thank you, my friend. I have to send you a barrel of wine." Blue Fox thanked.

"It doesn't matter, after all, we brothers drink and have fun."

The blackbird didn't dare to speak the whole time. She just followed the blue fox. After entering the governor's mansion, she didn't dare to look left and right. She followed into the lobby with a thick wooden floor, and then entered the reception room of the governor's mansion. In fact, it was Liu Li. Ke arranged the bedroom that year.

They drank and ate meat here, and the blackbird who took off her hat looked like a handsome young man. She was treated as a male servant, and she had to muster up the courage to drink with the great nobles of the Ross Kingdom.

And this was really a crazy experience, she was just a child after all, even drinking the wine known as "Jesus' blood" in Frank from a glass mug made of pure crystal, and soon passed out.

I don't know how long it has been, at least it is getting dark outdoors now.

They sat on the ground, and there were already many plates of cold meat platters removed. The drunken blue fox was talking, and he was still here to introduce the things about Frank to the old guys, especially the looting of the capital Aachen and seeing the coffin of Charlemagne himself. Talk a lot.

So the expeditionary force continued to win big, and even that boy Askad caught a female slave there?

"Slave girl? Is that kid planning to take slaves as his wives?"

"I think it's very possible. Oh, I don't know how many young people captured their own women in this battle. Frank's women became the wives of our Ross people. How did you imagine this before?"

Everyone talked to each other, sometimes clinking glasses with glasses, and sometimes laughing.

The blackbird, who was ignored for the time being, was already lying on its side, and fell asleep on its stomach using the blue fox's left thigh as a pillow.

Little Konusong, the governor who drank like cinnabar on his face, yelled jokingly: "The servant you chose was also taken from Frank. The little boy is very beautiful, but he can't drink well. Since you like this, you may not be able to serve him well. And you?"

"Boy?" Blue Fox almost told the truth, and hurriedly shook his head with the remaining rationality: "Anyway, I chose."

Yevro blushed and shook his head: "You can do whatever you want. Your attendant looks almost as old as my son. I'm not satisfied that the boy didn't capture a few women since he was fighting in Frank. If you go again next year Frank, you have to tell that kid. Tell Kelha, you must catch at least one woman for me. Haha."

Everyone was drunk, especially the old Konusson, who had already been invited away because of his drunken fragments. The three big men who stayed here were still insisting, and there was only grape residue at the bottom of the barrel of wine left here.

According to the agreement with the king in the past, the Gould family from which the blue fox was born could not do business in the capital, but was handed over to the family of Asuragi. It doesn't matter if the blue fox is not here anymore. The elder brother, the white fox, has been guarding the traditional industries in the Lake Mlaren area of his ancestral home. At the same time, as the local governor, he has no energy to think about distant things.

Of course, the Gould family owned real estate in the capital and hired people to clean it regularly.

Blue Fox has legally separated from the Gould family. He has set up his own business, and he temporarily bought a property in the capital last year. Today, this longhouse-style building stands within the walls of the capital and is surrounded by independent small wooden walls. It is his property.

As night fell~www.mtlnovel.com~ the blue fox and blackbird were helped to arrive at his mansion, and the accompanying sailors also entered the mansion to rest on the ground. The poor blue fox just used this place as a dormitory, and naturally there were no furnishings in it. His requirements are not high, as long as he has a decent resting place of his own, it is enough.

The thick fur blanket made a big sleeping bag, and Teresia, who was still drunk, curled up in it to sober up quietly. She is still too young, her body is too weak against alcohol, and people don't mean "children should not drink alcohol". As for the accident, it can only be attributed to God's arrangement.

She breathed quietly and her face was peaceful, staring at her face under the oil lamp, she looked like a boy.

After all, she made a cut with her past self, and her curly long hair was cut into squares, and maybe she could make tattoos on her scalp one step further.

"You...Ghisla. Oh no, it's a blackbird. Blackbird, people say you're a boy. If you were a boy, you wouldn't be left in the palace of Aachen. You should be in Strasbourg, so I will never meet you. You are such a poor woman, but since you have chosen a new life, accept it tomorrow."

Blue Fox sobered up a lot, he talked a lot, it seemed that the girl twisted her body when she heard it.