People's lives are stuck on both sides of the Neva River due to the snow disaster, and thanks to this frozen river, the traffic lines are still unobstructed.

People have opened up multiple passages on both sides of the strait, that is, pushing the snow to both sides of the road in place, creating a single-person high snow slope.

No one finds this snow fun at all. It is a life-threatening disaster, and the hunters who have been terrified by this disaster do not want to hunt far away. No one wants to move in the exaggerated thickness of the snow, and it is estimated that those small animals either freeze to death or hibernate and will not come out resolutely. Now there is nothing safer than hiding at home. Thanks to sufficient food and money at home.

Will the snowfall continue? At present, the blue sky is cloudless, and only the weak north wind sweeps the snow-covered red pine forest.

The snow disaster seems to have passed, and the follow-up disaster relief work still needs to be carried out.

Shilla Fort is a huge city in today's Nordic concept. According to Eastern standards, it is just a small city. People are trying their best to clean the snow on their roofs, and a large number of reindeer sleighs continue to export snow outside the city. Everyone was sweeping the snow before their doors. When someone transported the snow out of the city, the situation in the city quickly improved.

Some big trees were felled, the branches were stripped off, and cables were tied up. They were dragged on the snow to the frozen shore.

The trunks were further sawn off, stacked on top of each other to form towers, and then covered with branches and carbon blocks.

Not only the people who died tragically due to the collapse of the house will be burned to ashes, but also people who died suddenly in the severe cold. The corpses were also brought in to participate in the cremation that the prince personally participated in.

Three wooden towers were built, more than two hundred corpses were wrapped tightly in cloth, and the corpses were covered with fuelwood, waiting for Rurik himself to throw a burning torch.

The short day is over, and the setting sun leaves the last touch of afterglow.

As many as four thousand people gathered outside the city. They relied on a pair of feet to step on the snow that has not been shoveled in the area. Everyone was wrapped in fur and stood on the chest. They covered their faces with linen scarves, revealing a pair of eyes one after another, ignoring the frost attached to their eyelashes.

The outdoor temperature was less than ten degrees below zero. People gathered around the fire tower and listened to the condolences sung by priestesses in white bear skins.

Lu Mia wears a huge antler helmet on her head. She is short in stature. With her arms outstretched, the antlers accompany her figure, making her look like a deer in the shadow of the setting sun.

is like the incarnation of the forest god.

They sang sad eulogy, and the onlookers shed tears when they saw the dead who were about to turn to ashes...

However, not everyone is sad.

"This is the punishment of the gods. A man overstepped power and stole the throne of Sweden."

"Do you know why they died? Since Prince Ross has betrayed Sweden, he actually betrayed the gods. This is God's punishment."

"The heavy snow is a warning. If Rurik stubbornly insists on the Swedish throne, there will be new disasters."

Such complaints are covered by people's crying, but they are still heard by many people with clever ears. It seemed that this was just a murmur during the funeral ceremony, at least Rurik, who was holding the torch in public and looking solemn, didn't know it.

Norren took the band she trained to play tragic songs with skin drums and bone flutes, and coordinated with the mourning of the priests, bringing the sadness of the ceremony to the climax.

The mixture of fire and grease can be easily ignited. Rurik felt that the time was ripe, so he held the torch and lit the wooden tower one by one.

A huge fire tower was supposed to be built during Hanukkah to worship the gods, and the funeral was performed before the festival.

The flames exploded, and the faces of the Swedish businessmen who secretly talked about conversations were blanched. They opened their eyes and saw the fireball ignite. They thought that because Rurik occupied the Swedish throne, they would continue to find divine punishment. The so-called flame fundamentals Can't burn. On the contrary, the flame was explosive, and the three wooden towers quickly ignited a fire.

When the flame ignited, people were reluctant to leave for a long time.

Things are getting weird. Onlookers personally add wood and carbon to the fire tower, and then continue to lean by the fire tower. They were clearly not pinning their sorrows, but just to warm the fire.

The fire tower burned to the sunset of the next day, the embers were still burning slowly, and some clearly visible burnt bones were mixed in it.

The strong man rammed the ground with a big axe, and then continued to ram with a steel shovel. In the selected public cemetery in the southern part of the city, the frozen soil was cut abruptly and a large hole was dug. The reindeer sleigh transported all the remaining warm bones, together with some unburned charcoal blocks, directly unloaded into the pit, and finally covered with soil to seal the mound.

Until now, a unified funeral has truly ended.

Five days have passed since the snow disaster, and people have to adapt to the huge amount of snow this winter is far better than other years.

A large number of hunters came back early to celebrate Hanukkah, and they happened to avoid the severe cold and snow disaster. They stayed at their homes in the city, and when they were free, they walked around the city, and then stayed at home and kept their families asleep.

Will hunters die outdoors?

Lurik can't manage much anymore, just as he can't know the situation of other settlements now, so he just asks them to have their own good looks.

Even so, some workshops can still carry on winter life. The shipyards and blacksmith shops in Shilla Fort can still work with wood, ore and other materials prepared in advance. Aslaqi's mill has always done indoor work. It has never ignored wind and snow. It only needs to get a continuous supply of food materials to keep running.

"Since my people are in a disaster, they must be in a panic? I have to check the granary first and open it whenever necessary."

Speaking of speaking, the core purpose of setting up a national granary is to deal with disasters. I do not know that it is to deal with the lack of harvest in the disaster year, and just like the snow disaster at the end of this year, food can be distributed to the people.

Lurik personally inspected the granary. In the area enclosed by the wall at the highest point in the city, the huge barrel-shaped granary building had obviously not suffered any loss. The snow on the top cover has been cleaned up, and the inside of the granary is still kept dry and constant temperature. Because of the traditional woodcut corrugated structure of the granary wall, the middle layer is filled with compacted hay and moss, so the soil method is to shape the winter insulation layer. The grain silos arranged in a matrix are all higher up, and although the sun is short, they can still shine on them perfectly.

Food is absolutely safe!

The news was printed as a notice by Rurik, which was posted on several bulletin boards in Fengshou Square and in other public areas of the city.

Although there will be Swedish businessmen who directly pull the grain they raise to sell in Shilla Fort, the so-called use of grain as currency to buy materials here. After all, the food they delivered was not much. If the people in the city were short of food at home, they would prepare money and hope that the king would release the food in the warehouse.

Every month, the three major cities such as Fort Roseburg, Shilla Fort and Novgorod openly sell food every month. This is a national behavior. People have long been used to it. Seeing that Hanukkah is not far away, the prince should carry out the food delivery behavior this month.

The public notice foretells that the prince is about to release grain, and then the people in the Principality of Russ, according to the old rules, send out a household head to buy restricted-price grain.

The prince made it clear that the granary was safe, and the content of the notice really gave the people great confidence.

However, some people see that the people are happy and that the granary of the Ross people is intact. It is more painful than they have lost a lot of money in business!

Some rumors that appeared at the funeral have spread further, because the disappeared market in Harvest Square has been restored, and people continue their winter trade, but rumors that are extremely unfavorable to Rurik began to spread.

Finally, the people of Prince Ross are the majority. Although those who have no loyalty to the Principality of Ross, they also know that they are people who have developed through the rise of Ross dividends. They are in their own interests and do not want to hear these rumors.

It was the most vicious rumor that angered those loyal ministers the most-Rurik usurped the throne of King Bjorn, so the gods cast snow disasters.

Many people have informed the soldiers on patrol to maintain law and order. The soldiers thought this was ridiculous at first. When there were more and more high-risk people, the news not only reached the ears of the governor, but also reached the ears of Rurik.

Rurik, who had started to prepare for the big ritual of the winter solstice this year, heard the report from the Governor-General Conuson, and he was really furious.

"Who is spreading the news? Is it Bjorn? Damn it. I thought he was willing, but he seems to be really dissatisfied. Bjorn! If I can't defeat me, just use conspiracy? Like? You stab Carl back against the Swedish throne..." Rurik thought without hesitation in the rage, taking it for granted that Bjorn, who is currently a guest, did it deliberately.

Old Cornu Song denies: "I can assure you, it's definitely not that man."

"Why? How can I see it?"

"I have been patting the spies to observe secretly. Those nobles and noble messengers are being observed. You know this better than me. If there is a problem, you will know it."

Leurik patted his head: "Well, I'm arbitrarily. Then, who said the rumors spread?"

"A few businessmen."

"Businessman? Has anyone caught it?"

"Caught it." As he said, Old Cornuzon smiled.

"Caught it?! Great!" Rurik showed his fangs as he spoke. Old Cornuson looked at him and knew what his little master wanted to do.

Old Cornusson continued: "I sent my son to investigate this matter. The problem is actually very simple. When our people went to get people in person, the Swedish businessmen were still spreading the so-called theory of divine punishment everywhere, and they captured them with conclusive evidence. "

"God's punishment? Absurd. Do you believe it?" Rurik smiled wryly, waiting for Old Cornusson's eyes.

The old guy also hesitated: "How is this possible? You are blessed by Odin. This is true. In my opinion, it is the jealousy of those businessmen, or... there are other conspiracies."

"I'm afraid that these rumors have spread all over the city! How can I continue to stay in the palace with my concubine, if I don't show up and do something publicly, let this kind of remarks spread, this is not boring? "

"Only idiots will believe this." Old Cornuson hurriedly emphasized.

"But there are not many wise men in this city, and there are still a large number of immigrants here. Besides, this year's snow disaster is really real, and everyone is in a bad mood. Listen, most of the people who died in the snow disaster were Finns. If they believe this But it's bad. You controlled all those people?"

"Together with them, their wives, concubines, and servants, they were all imprisoned by me. It is true that these villains cannot be left alone, so..."

Coming to Cornusson to make a decapitating action, Rurik nodded and signaled: "Don't panic. It's easy to cut off the head with one axe. Now I want to know if there is a mastermind in this matter. Also, Jiapai People are paying attention to King Bjorn of Sweden, listening to them quietly, and reporting what is not conducive to us immediately."

"Yes."

"Now take me to see the situation."

The old Cornusson family is from the old Rus. They are tied to the interests of Rurik, and they are more closely related to each other. The so-called protecting the interests of the prince's family is also defending their own interests. The city guards recruited by the Conusson fathers and sons certainly have a large number of men from other Viking tribes. Those who take the initiative to join Ross need a backer and are directly tied to the interests of the Governor of Shilla Fort.

This is the ruling group of the Rus Principality, so as many as ten Swedish businessmen were arrested, and it was the interests and prestige of the entire ruling group that were detained.

Because the evidence was conclusive enough, when Rurik personally came to the cabin where the prisoners were being held, he saw ten poor people who had their mouths tight with hemp rope and bloodstained by the whip.

The prisoners are in a pitiful situation, and Rurik doesn't bother to look at them straight.

Little Cornuson is here, and some thin boys in the past have been viking brawny for a few years.

He reported to Rurik: "These ten people are all great evil men, so they dare to slander your Majesty the Prince. You can give me the task now, and I will kill them now."

"Don't worry about it," Rurik asked again, "Businessmen always drag their families with their mouths, how about their families?"

"The wives, children, and slaves of these people are all captured. I didn't kill them. It's up to you to deal with them."

"Continue being held for the time being. I... I want to hear what these people say."

Little Conusson said a fact, but it is not entirely true. He really didn't kill anyone, but the merchant's wives, concubines and slave girls have been treated as playthings by the soldiers, and even humiliated them in front of the arrested merchants. The soldiers did not feel guilty. After all, they were not humiliated by the people of the Duchy of Ross. Moreover, the relatives of these sinners should be punished by sitting down. Not being stabbed to death by a sword has shown kindness.

A businessman was poured with a bucket of cold water. He seemed to be still languid, but when he saw that he was grabbing a bit of coarse salt with a whip, he stuck it on his wound.

In this way, the businessman screamed in pain, and it also aroused the fear of others.

Lurik stepped forward and ordered the shouter: "Do you think I am a fool? Or think you are a wise man! Say! Who made you spread the word?"

"You are Rurik! The thief, you want to be the king of Sweden too?! You are not worthy."

"I know you would say that. We Ross is also from Sweden, how can we not be the king of Sweden? You are really stupid to allow you to come to my territory to do business and to oppose me."

"You just don't deserve to be the King of Sweden!" After speaking, the man spit sharply.

Leurik wiped his face vigorously, then suddenly drew his sword and pierced it directly into the person's waist and abdomen, and then twisted it vigorously before pulling it out.

Just as this person was vomiting blood, Rurik, who was still dying, said: "You are stupid. It is King Bjorn who renounced the kingship himself, and all the princes of Sweden respect me. You follow the snow disaster. Slander me, this is a dead end. Say! Whether it was Bjorn who instructed you."

How dare the other nine people admit that they have claimed that there is absolutely nothing like this, and that the matter is just what they call it personally, and has nothing to do with Bjorn.

"Even if there is such a thing, you will not admit it. I thought you were peaceful businessmen and did such a dirty thing secretly!"

Lurik did not go on, he had no extreme thoughts about punishment, execution of prisoners or hanging or beheading ~ www.mtlnovel.com ~ other corporal punishment is unnecessary.

But this time I have to use some wrists.

The penalty for skin cramps is unnecessary. Since little Conuson is willing to whip, he is given to continue beating the prisoner.

He walked out of the house and gave Little Cornuzon a task: "These people will die. I will hold a public execution meeting, and I will make announcements in advance to explain the cause of the incident to the people. These guys are arrogant, you continue to whip, remember Can't be killed for the time being."

"Yes. And their wives and children..."

"Let's save your life first, you can do it yourself. Whether you will die in the end, wait for my order afterwards." Lirik paused: "You and yours are strong men, you should understand what I mean. But those Except for the slaves, the slaves are identified and handed over to me."

"Special treatment? It's just some slaves, do you really value these labors?" Little Konuzon asked more.

"So." Rurik continued with a grim face: "I will go and talk to Bjorn personally. I don't know if that guy is the mastermind, but the slaves have no position. They may tell me the important situation."

"A good plan!"

"Go and work. Pull me all the slaves."

"Yes..." Little Conusson learned that he would execute it immediately, with some embarrassment on his face.

His attitude is keenly aware of Rurik, and he added: "You have made your subordinates happy? No problem, I don't blame it. Now hand over the people."

"Yes."