Chapter 588 of the text

Who will get those five hundred Suomi women? Is it someone who is willing to pay a sum of money?

According to tradition, Rurik can set up a bargain for a public auction. It's just that this kind of behavior is repulsive in his heart, and if he does so, it also violates the agreement made with Suomi.

They were all very young. They had just grown up to be a mother, and they were still in the hometown of the lake. The Ross people told them that they would be the wife of the Ross man.

They will all be allocated, but the method of allocation is very particular.

When Rurik explained his determination, the elites at the meeting also agreed.

In this overnight, a large number of newly built warehouses became the best place to house these young women. Jeflo instructed them to go and announce Duke Ross's resolve before they went to bed.

The restless girls are still wondering if the Ross people are actually good people? They provided a batch of leather clothing and food, and everyone gathered together and whispered, feeling that this was just a means of pulling.

When Jeflo suddenly visited with someone, a group of girls who had fallen asleep got up one after another, and then leaned on each other in search of a sense of security.

The familiar local accent came, and under the light of the torch, it was the typical Finnish-looking face of Jevlo.

"Girls, don't be nervous! The Roths have arranged a safe future for you. All of you are about to get married, and your husbands are all Roths."

"Don't worry, your husbands are young people, they are all the same age as you or older! Even, you are older."

These words hit the hearts of many girls, who were afraid that they would be an old man with their husbands. In fact, that kind of thing is not uncommon in the hometown, because the financial debts are used to pay off the debts of the daughter's marriage. This is simply a matter of course, and it is understandable for a person with financial resources to marry multiple wives.

But who wants to be an old man with her husband? The Evlo in front of me married the youngest daughter of the leader Uko. Everyone felt that the sister was going to suffer. After all, the Evlo, who was nominally of the same race, looked like a strong and energetic stag.

It would be great if your husband is not more than ten years old, and if the Ross people will really fulfill such a promise.

They experienced the first night in Roseburg. No one felt cold during the night. They could rely on each other to encourage each other when they lived together, and gradually ignored the anxiety. If there is some kind of inconvenience here, it is forced to go to the toilet in the wooden house that has been ordered. The smelly smell there is pungent, and you have to wash it off with clean water afterwards, but you have to wash your hands with a pungent smell (sulfur soap) before it is over.

Could it be that this is the way of life of the Ross people, are they even so particular about going to the toilet? They must have even stranger customs.

On a new day, five hundred young girls are only required to stay in the current warehouse, and they are restricted from walking around, just like deer in a group of pens. Everyone was taken care of, and another girl was whispering that the so-called Rus's rhetoric was coaxing, and in the end everyone would still be slaves and be sold. They were frightened by themselves, and the warehouse fell into noise, and the bearded Ross soldier was depressed.

"A bunch of girls, why are they so troublesome? Do you still want to be our women?" Some soldiers complained and broke into the warehouse, yelled at the gate a few times, and yelled some of them. They still don't understand. If you do, stop everyone on the spot.

It was noisy again, when several wooden barrels containing cooked wheat were brought in, the girls whirled over again.

After a while, they saw a young woman with antlers on her head holding a jeweled cane, standing resolutely under the "guards" of more than 20 sturdy women wearing coarse cloth turbans.

They are not stupid, this woman dresses too much like those priestesses in her hometown, presumably this is also the priest of the Rus, but...

It was Lumia who came here. Although she still had to feed her daughter herself, the work of the high priest cannot stop now.

Rurik expected that all the Suomi girls would be full of worries about their future, so he asked Lumia to take advantage of the time when the food was distributed, and read out Rose's policies to them.

The stick was inserted into the soft sand by Lumia, and she slowly took off her antler helmet again, revealing her black hair and a complete face with a slightly grayish oval. This face was familiar to all the girls.

"Sisters! I am the High Priest of the Principality of Ross! I come from the same place as you, and we have the same ancestors! You will marry the boy of Ross. They are both strong and trustworthy people. And I will be All of you have a wedding. Eat now. In Rose, you can get such wonderful food every day. You can live in a warm house with your husband and wear comfortable clothes. Listen, the wedding is tomorrow! Today! , You must be full!"

wedding? So suddenly?

Lumia had a strange accent, and they still fully understood. When she left, the girls were whispering again, but everyone's thoughts were all on the wedding. It seems that today is the last day before the wedding.

At the same time, Rurik also issued a decree to Jeollasburg in the name of the duke.

The men began to gather on the beach. Many people were going to go fishing early in the morning, and they were all waiting for Lord Rurik's orders.

Standing on a long boat deliberately stranded, Rurik yelled as hardly as he could when facing the gathering crowd. Of course, business couldn't overwhelm everyone's noise.

After all, the order is still passed on, it can be said that some people are happy and some people regret.

The whole Roseburg is still boiling, Lord Duke wants to send wives to all young people of the right age? Winners of this honor only need to pay a symbolic silver coin to pay for the shipping and food costs of transporting the woman back from the East.

Today the Rosses are in a state of separation, but Roseburg is still inhabited by the main body of the blonde Rosses, and a large number of young people are still here.

All Ross men between the ages of 15 and 25 will enjoy this gift, regardless of whether they have a concubine or not. Getting a Suomi wife is not as simple as getting a gift from the Duke. They all have a task on their backs.

Just like the general ancient society, the characteristic of the population structure is that there are many young people and few old people. Today, Ross has changed a lot, that is, the number of infants and young children is extremely alarming, and the number of elderly people has also increased due to the improvement of sanitary conditions and food supply.

Only due to the continuity of the past era, there are still not many young and middle-aged populations in the Ross society.

If you want to collect five hundred pure blonde Rose men between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five, Rurik can't do it at all! Simply, this range was opened to the lower limit, and it suddenly fell to the so-called twelve-year-old, the so-called lower age limit at which a man is obliged to fight on the battlefield.

In this way, five hundred Ross men were invited to gather in the cement-paved square in the courtyard of Rurik's palace.

He himself stood on the third floor of the palace, opened the window, and, accompanied by Otto, Harrodsson, and several other famous old men, formally declared his decision.

The life in the audience was full, everyone knew the reward of Lord Duke, and they wanted to get a woman home immediately.

In this case, does the Duke need to nag a little more?

Yes, Rurik must tell them the shame.

The scene gradually became quiet, and his eyes fixed on Liu Rick's handsome face standing high.

"Brothers!" he said, "I will reward you a group of women! Everyone present will get a Finnish wife, and I will hold a collective wedding for you! The day is tomorrow!"

Having said that, the audience cheered.

Rurik opened his hands to signal everyone to calm down, saying: "I want to make an agreement with you! I want to tell you that the land of the east is Finland. I have conquered the whole of Finland, but the people there are not slaves. Our servants! It's just like the relationship between the Kovin and the Rapp and us now! The Kovin and the Rapp are also a part of the Finns, so I want you to be kind to your Finnish wives!"

He paused again: "I know that many of you have captured women in the victory against the Tavastians. They will arrive in Covenstad soon and will be sent to you soon. In front of you. These don't get in the way, and don't affect my reward to you at all."

"I! Duke Ross! Odin gave me and us a request!" Rurik's right hand pointed to the sky again, "Odin asked us Ross to conquer Finland and asked us to marry their women to become our women. When the marriage relationship is concluded , All Finnish women, whether they are from Tavastia or Suomi, they are Ross women and will be protected by me. Remember, once a marriage is concluded, they are our people, and the children they give birth are also Ross. Any act of rejection, abuse or insult is against the will of God! Maybe Odin will not punish the wrongdoer immediately, then I will impose punishment on God's behalf! Treat your Finnish wives kindly, if I hear bad news, the abuser When he was exiled to Fort Elon, he worked to his death as a lumberjack slave."

Rurik spoke very hard, and everyone was nervous when they heard it.

No one will treat his own woman wrongly. After all, it is very difficult for a man to say that his wives and concubines are in groups. It is extremely difficult for a man to have a wife. The simple morality of everyone is that he does not treat his wife badly. Treating his wife slowly is considered a cowardly performance.

Rurik prided himself on explaining things to them, and the rest depends on their performance.

The crowd began to disperse, and a pair of big hands were also held on Ric's body.

Otto took a breath of strength and asked, "If a man beats his Suomi...Finnish wife, what would you do? As you said?"

"Of course! But as far as the matter is concerned, once I learn the news, I will interrogate myself, whether exile or other punishment, according to our most traditional rules."

Otto released his hand and nodded in satisfaction.

Until now, the Principality of Rus did not have its own statutory code, or in terms of the current population size, all kinds of things would be resolved through consultation with the people, and it would not be guilty to engrave the rules and regulations now.

However, when Ross and other Viking ethnic groups judge whether a person is guilty and how to punish a person, it is generally necessary to invite a group of elites to quell their rebellion. This is also part of the "thing" job. It was just that Rurik realized that his current prestige was at its peak, and one victory after another had further strengthened his myth of "son of god". Why doubt? Is it necessary to question? It was a handsome boy, an invincible young leader, a hero who went from one victory to another, and everyone was enjoying the great benefits of victory.

Rurik knew that he could be a dictator, an Eastern monarch with divine power, military power, financial power, and administrative power.

However, it is said that an unprecedented mass wedding is not too grand. The fact is that because of many factors, Rrik had to end the matter sooner.

It seems that a hero who is constantly being pulled forward by the wheels of the times, Rurik feels that he should not stop, but hastened to expand his power while he is full of energy, just like the extremely young Alexander directly attacked Persia and let the empire The edge of the big man's sphere of influence reached by the border.

Besides, he saw Ross and Slavic women in the scattered roads of Roseburg, none of them was holding a baby, and many of them were obviously full of stomachs.

With such a large population, if you can't find a lot of wheat from Britain, you won't be able to eat wheat this winter and next year.

How did Rurik didn't know that proactively launching a war was accompanied by great risks, but he had no choice. Just like the death of livestock in the snowstorm, countless nomads facing starvation attacked the Central Plains to survive.

In the morning of the next day, five hundred Suomi girls queuing out of the walls of Roseburg and into the west after eating a soup of morning wheat and vegetable surimi, with tension, surprise or excitement. In one of the woods, enter the stone ship altar of the Rus.

Before long, the young men who were selected also showed up.

This was the largest collective wedding ceremony for the Russ. A total of 1,000 men and women participated in the ceremony, which attracted the crowds of Rosesburg to watch the meeting on the spot.

People are making fun, the children in the women's arms often cry, and a group of young children are frolicking in the crowd.

A rare gathering of people, the small merchants of Mellaren who are determined to stay in Ross all year long, took the opportunity to put out carpets, peddled wood carvings, small pottery and other small commodities, and even some people peddled roasted dried herring as snacks for a profit. A small amount of money.

Of course, the highlight was the men and women gathered in two groups, and between them was Rose's stone boat altar.

Lumia wearing antler helmets and the ten Slav concubines of Rurik now act as priests, and the object of worship in this stone ship altar is indeed Freya.

Freya is in charge of love, fertility and marriage.

She is a model of the perfect woman in the legend, for this reason, there must not be any blood to wet the sand in the altar.

A large number of petals were sprinkled in the altar in advance, an ordinary steel sword was inserted on the ground, and two barrels of ale were placed.

With the singing of the prayer carols finished, Lumia announced the official start of the wedding ceremony.

The so-called ritual, it must be simple and must have a minimum sense of ritual.

Rose's boys accepted the order, and walked through the stone ship altar one by one, went to the opposite side to grab the arm of a sweet girl, and the two entered the altar again.

Lumia asked Suomi girl to hold her steel sword high in words that she absolutely understood. When it was, Lumia blessed her again in Norse: "May your child be a warrior."

No matter, the man took a small cup of sweet ale, drank it by himself, and fed the rest to the woman. At this point, the ceremony ended, and the marriage relationship between the two was established under the attention of almost all the residents of Roseburg.

The ceremony can of course be more complicated, but today we are going to hold a ceremony for 500 couples that is meaningful to any one pair, so the content of the ceremony must be symbolic.

The ceremony began at noon. When the last couple completed the ceremony, the sun was down and they had to complete the final wedding in a bonfire.

But the joy will not end there.

In this era of lack of entertainment, both men and women are very happy to watch other people's weddings. Blessings to the new couple are secondary. The lively atmosphere is what everyone loves to hear.

At the wedding of five hundred couples at once, all the serious young Ross men in Roseburg had a new love, most of the small families were welcoming new family members, and joy came from the intricate streets of Roseburg. Whispered.

I saw that there were lots of bonfires on the streets, and there were people dancing around the flames...

Rurik was standing on the third floor of the palace, looking into the distance with the wooden windows open to admire the joyous scene.

Lumia, who had just fed her daughter, endured her painful calf and approached her man.

"In this way, you are satisfied. Five hundred girls, they will soon become mothers."

"Yes." Rurikla took her hand and said casually: "Or, let's have another one?"

"This...this is not appropriate. Velika is still so young." Lumia was immediately ashamed, but she was also very much looking forward to it in her heart.

Rurik glanced back, then turned his head to look into the distance. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com now only the Gurdot ran to Lake Mlaren, Aphrola, Duke of Ostara, Speroville and Balmerk, under the dim light they The towering mast and large hull are still obvious.

"Soon, I'm going to expedition again." He said.

Lu Mia was taken aback, and subconsciously saved Rurik from behind, "Isn't the expedition just over? Are you leaving again?"

"Yes. This time it's an attack on Britain. The plan has been set. I want to act quickly."

Of course, a woman does not want her man to take frequent risks, but as a high priest, she is unable to be her young heroic husband.

Lumia let go of her hands, sighed and murmured: "You go to fight, don't worry about this."

"Then come with me." Rurik took Lumia's hand and led him back to his room...

After all, she was her first woman, and she was also the one she cherished the most, even if Lu Mia was not amazingly beautiful, she could not speak of noble birth. To like is to like, even if his father appointed Svetlana of Novgorod as his wife from political considerations, this Lumia is the most important woman in Rurik's heart.

This night, they...

The next morning, the sun came out. Rurik couldn't say anything about what happened at night, and she didn't ask much when she saw that Lumia didn't complain.

"I should go to look after Velika." She dressed and left with a smile.

Rurik noticed the unconscious movement of her left hand covering her belly, and she couldn't help showing a hint of joy, but she became a little serious again.

Because the time for the expedition to plunder Britain is a bit tight.

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