Rise of Rurik - Chapter 779

[Chapter 780]

The prince’s palace is brightly lit, and the main hall has become a banquet hall.

Rurik didn’t mean to waste time, but the dinner party needed some time to prepare.

A small reindeer that was slaughtered and grilled was the finale of the dinner. It took a long time to cook this dish, so that when Kagan and everyone were busy taking a bath, the venison with a lot of salt had already Skewered with iron bars and placed in a baking pit.

In the end, it was the son of Pecheneg Khan who came, and he was the envoy who sent a hundred fine horses.

Rurik wanted to welcome this unexpected distinguished guest with extremely high food and treatment, so the dinner must be rich and reflect the characteristics of the Principality.

Flour and noodles are formed into dough, high-gluten wheat from Britain is rolled into dough, folded and cut, boiled and placed in ice water for later use.

Boil venison, venison fat, diced mushrooms, diced carrots, onion pieces, chopped thyme, and a lot of salt in a pottery urn, and add a small amount of flour directly to make it thicker.

If you can add some oyster sauce, chicken essence, and pepper, it will naturally make the marinade more flavorful, but high-end spices are really not available.

Even so, this kind of stewed noodles is already the limit of Rurik’s recovery.

From this braised noodles, there is naturally a Slavic-style thick soup cooked with similar materials.

Just after the autumn harvest, people around Ilmen Lake went into the forests one after another, taking advantage of the short autumn rain to dig mushrooms.

The most common Pleurotus eryngii, Agaricus bisporus, and Pleurotus ostreatus are produced in good numbers every year, and these are eaten by the public.

After the rare matsutake is excavated, it is sliced and dried. The prince is a big buyer of it, and the mushroom picker is very happy to exchange it for a batch of wheat to subsidize the family.

After all, mushrooms can’t be eaten as a meal. They are a good source of protein, but that’s all.

The living standards of the people in the area around the lake have indeed improved, but they have not yet reached the level of prosperity.

Their perpetual hunger for starch, fat, and salt makes mushrooms a healthy side dish and marginal food in bad years.

But here in Rurik it becomes a delicacy of extremes.

Butter-fried matsutake is so fresh and mellow that it has become a Ross specialty.

There are also minced yellow root carrots and stir-fried chicken, pounded sea bass meat balls and then stir-fried with onions, stir-fried chicken gizzards with onions seasoned with ale, and simple fried eggs.

Rurik even prepared a dessert, which was a crispy egg tart.

The royal family of the princess must pay attention to food, so as to introduce some new ways to satisfy the appetite of all the people, so as to increase the adjustment of life.

Perhaps visitors would find it awkward to eat stewed noodles from a silver fork. Rurik also prepared sesame seed cakes, white bread and black bread, and guests can take whatever they need.

Rurik firmly believes that these children of the steppe always have big appetites, their lifestyle determines their unrestrainedness, and the chance to get a drink must be “bottle blowing”.

If the visitor is drunk after a short time, things are not good.

There are three kinds of dinner drinks, ale, mead and kvass. These three wines indeed have both Viking and Slavic characteristics, which will definitely be an unprecedented experience for grassland people.

Naturally flammable vodka is also to be prepared, swigging burning spirits is already a specialty of the principality feast, it has been entertained.

Kagan’s stomach growled, he was full of anticipation for the prince’s feast, and imagined that when he arrived at the venue, he would hold a large piece of roast meat and bite like a wolf.

Because the colleague and the invited Ma Ke Sa Keyi claimed to be a person who had come here, he enthusiastically introduced the “king’s dinner” he knew to the son of the prairie.

Barbecue is of course the finale, and the various side dishes are like small gifts that are constantly offered, making diners always full of expectations.

The venue has been set up, and the top elites of the Principality of Ross are all present.

It’s just that this banquet is not a pure state banquet, and it is its political attribute to continue to discuss the major facts of the country while taking advantage of the banquet.

None of Rurik’s female relatives came, and only the maid cook was allowed to enter the banquet hall to pass the dishes.

This is a feast for men, and it is also the site of negotiations between the top aristocrats of the two political entities in Eastern Europe, the North and the South.

Rurik needs to use the banquet to continue to implement the cavalry matter, which Kagan can probably guess, and even made some plans for possible situations.

Although he was prepared in his heart, Kagan was deeply shocked by the dazzling array of delicious meals when he really entered the prince’s banquet hall!

He took off his hat, revealing his black hair, just after taking a shower, his braids were completely untied and there was no time to tie them up again, so he simply tied them into a huge black ponytail with a rope.

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Seeing Kagan’s true face, Rurik almost sprayed the whole table with a sip of honey water. Who would have thought that this guy would imitate his own hairstyle?

“You’re finally here! How is it? At least I saw you changed into a suit, which is very decent!” Rurik said politely in Slavic.

Is Kagan’s eyes still staring at the delicious meals on the meal-sharing table, the glutton is aroused, and the saliva in his mouth seems to be endlessly flowing from an open faucet.

With Turkic etiquette, he covered his heart with his right hand and gave a gentle respect: “Thank you for the gift, I learned that my subordinates have a warm place to live and rich meals. They are all my servants and soldiers, I can’t think of you He treated them very well.”

Those Pecheneg soldiers were servants?

Although this surprised Rurik, it made sense after careful consideration.

Any prairie nation has something in common. The leader’s family must have a group of fans. Among them, the domestic slaves are the most loyal because of survival reasons, unlike free herdsmen who drive their cattle and sheep to better leaders when they are not doing well.

Rurik didn’t answer for the time being, and pointed to the empty seat on his left, “Kagan, you sit in this category. The fattest deer leg is yours, don’t be polite, I believe you can eat it in one sitting. ”

“Oh?! Then I will obey.”

Kagan strode forward with great momentum, and he was also very happy that the Rus people understood the principle of “left is respected”.

He lightly lifted his robe and sat cross-legged, looking at the delicious food in front of him, if it wasn’t for his willpower controlling his hands, he would really have gnawed on the deer leg.

“What a delicious meal! This is a feast that cannot be enjoyed on the grassland.” He did not forget to swallow the hala while complimenting him.

“How?” Rurik asked knowingly with a side face.

“A perfect feast. There are many delicious meals that I have never seen, just the smell and taste.”

Rurik nodded: “You are the most noble guest to visit our country, so the feast is ordered by me. Just for you!”

In the last sentence, Rurik accentuated his tone, which made Kagan startled suddenly.

Kagan wasn’t sure if the young Prince Ross really understood the etiquette of the grassland, but Prince Rurik’s attitude, isn’t it…

Kagan hurriedly tried: “Your Majesty, I am just a visiting envoy who sold a horse, but you think so much of me?”

“I admire you!” While speaking, Rurik picked up the glass filled with honey water.

Seeing this, Kagan also held up a noble cup in return.

“You have come to the north through forests, swamps, ice and snow. You are the sons of the eastern grasslands, and we are the conquerors of the northern seas. Although separated by distant paths, we must unite and at least let trade flourish. So I think Now, we should build mutual trust. I know some oriental etiquette.”

“Ah! You want to make an alliance with blood?!”

“Exactly!”

Rurik affirmed that the whole banquet hall was indeed shocked by the fact that the blood for an alliance was made.

Otto didn’t even have a good appetite when he was old, but he loved to drink.

As for the son’s alliance with other tribes, as long as the alliance is the result, it doesn’t matter what the process is.

Cutting his finger, dripping blood into the wine to drink together, his son has done this kind of thing before, and the result is a close connection with the group of people in Narvik Port, and now he legally controls that northern port.

When everyone was surprised, only old Otto smiled innocently. He knew that time was running out, and probably guessed the wonderful distant future—one day Ross would be able to annex the grasslands in the far east.

Although Otto had never seen the boundless grassland in his life.

No one objected to Rurik’s intentions, not even his real cousin Arik.

What surprised everyone was that it happened so suddenly. The guests arrived at noon, and the horse transaction completed in the afternoon, how could they be called brothers now that it was dark?

Rurik has his own opinion, the so-called opportunity is fleeting, and the opportunity to unite is right in front of us, so we should strike while the iron is hot.

As long as the two sides make an alliance with blood, Rurik is not afraid that Kagan will not submit to the rest of the matter.

There are delicious wines and delicacies, Kagan opened his eyes wide and felt that he was so valued by Prince Ross!

He just thought about it for a while, and after slapping his thigh, he grabbed the table knife on the table, cut his left index finger with the tip of the knife without hesitation, and blood dripped into the wine glass.

Seeing that he was so decisive, as a de facto ruthless man who killed the enemy, Rurik also cut his finger with a knife, and also dripped blood into the wine glass.

The transparent cup clearly showed the dissolution of blood droplets. Rurik stood up holding the wine glass: “Let’s exchange wine glasses, go outdoors and swear to the moon that we are all brothers. What do you think?”

“it is good!”

The banquet has not yet begun, and first there is a big drama of blood for alliance.

The so-called “Alliance” is to perform blood sacrifices to the sun and the moon.

Rurik pretended to be mysterious, knelt on one knee in the snow and held up the blood-soaked glass, and suddenly asked Kagan, “In your language, is the god called Tengger?”

Kagan was not only taken aback by these things, but immediately felt a stronger affection for them.

“You Ross people actually worship Tengger?”

“Yes! No. You call it Tengger, and it is Odin in the language of our Ross people.”

“In the greatest existence?”

“Really!”

“It seems that I should do as the Romans do.” After that, Kagan was raised higher, and said bluntly: “Odin in the sky, you will witness our oath…”

Hearing this, Rurik laughed secretly, thinking that this person is really good at judging the situation, which just proves that this person is not obsessed with believing in a certain god, and his interests are above everything else.

Then, it was their respective vows, and the two of them drank the sacrificial wine.

Kagan felt extremely happy to be trusted and sworn brother by the powerful Khan (prince) of the Rus without any warning.

He is not only happy about this, but also lies in his optimistic outlook on Pecheneg’s prospects.

The Pecheneg Khanate is not the overlord of the grassland. There are the Kasa Khanate and the Kingdom of Bulgaria in the south, the Magyar (Hungary) Khanate in the east, the Bulgar Khanate in the north, and a group of Oguz relatives in the east.

The South Russian Grassland and the Kazakh Grassland are geographically connected, and the Pecheneg Khanate is still in the expansion stage, so it would be best to get help from a distant power.

It just so happened that Kagan’s trip meant an alliance.

What makes him ecstatic now is that he, the son of the Khan, has become the blood-blooded brother of Prince Ross.

With an intimate relationship, the rest is easy to talk about.

The delicious food in the Principality of Ross opened his eyes. Whether it is stewed noodles, a large number of side dishes, or the most wonderful roast venison with hard vegetables, one of the characteristics of Ross’s dining is that he is willing to put salt, which is impossible to enjoy on the grassland. Ultimate experience.

Indeed, the salt content of the blood flowing in Kagan’s veins was very low. He was a top nobleman, so he had to save salt.

People are not going to die if they don’t eat crystallized salt. People can get the key salt content from a variety of foods, but the body’s salt content can only maintain a lower limit. Such a person will easily become tired and paralyzed after doing heavy physical work.

The overall lack of salt seriously affected the combat effectiveness of the Pecheneg fighters, so this meal shocked Kagan too much.

Just as Rurik estimated, Kagan really had to finish eating a deer leg.

It wasn’t over yet, he finished another small pot of braised noodles, which wasn’t enough, so he asked for another pot.

All the side dishes under the meal-sharing system were wiped out by him like a storm, and he was still not satisfied, and he gnawed on a sesame seed cake with one hand.

As for the baked egg tarts, he simply took one bite at a time.

Of course, wine is indispensable, and mead is a rare and fine wine, so it is natural to drink it.

Kvass has a unique taste. I have experienced this fine wine in Kyiv, and now I can drink it in Novgorod. I can’t miss the opportunity.

Kagan has a big appetite, but he is not a ball of suet, because he is a practical man, eats a lot and does a lot of things. He is not tall and his body is lean and fleshy, and he is indeed very strong. Otherwise, he would not have the energy to play The “expedition” took three months.

His stomach was hard, and he had to go to the kidney four times.

Of course, the prince even prepared a special toilet, although it surprised him.

After thinking about it, the pavement of this big city has no traces of feces and urine, which is obviously a beneficial thing for the Ross people.

He was slightly drunk, and although the night was deep, the banquet could still continue.

Ale with hops is beer, and Rurik prepared a large amount of ale for the feast.

He ordered the cook below to continue cooking, but the delicious meal mainly became charcoal kebabs.

The banquet has turned into a literal midnight food stall, Rurik is no longer pretending, and the sixty-year-old soul in his young body appears as an old man, because the room has been burned enough by the lights and the fireplace It was hot, so he simply took off his coat and only wore a light shirt.

He no longer sat obediently, and then sat casually with slightly drunk energy, with his right hand resting on the knee of his standing right leg, holding a bunch of roasted chicken gizzards in his injured hand, and Kaka, who was completely let go and bare-chested, Gan talked and laughed happily.

Only seven people continued to stay at the banquet hall. Rurik and Kagan were the protagonists, and there were Medved, Arik, Spyut, Evlo, and the Kyiv Maksakyi who had already thought they were lucky enough to participate.

They all drank ale with open stomachs, and shouted at each other about their personal exploits.

Kagan didn’t understand Norse at all, but he still learned a lot of “boasting” from the Rus.

It turns out that the northern world is not peaceful, and the Ross people were just a small tribe in the past, relying on the leadership of a wise and young prince to build a large territory and become rich.

He was even surprised that Novgorod was indeed not a royal city, and this palace was just a palace.

The real royal city of Ross is in the coastal area in the northwest, and there are still a large number of people in the farther north, until Murmansk, the city of trappers facing the “sea at the end of the world”.

The possibility of danger was beyond Kagan’s mind.

He only thought that these Rus people were great heroes, and sworn brothers with the prince, Pecheneg successfully got an ally.

Rurik was half drunk, and suddenly mentioned: “Kagan, since your people are all your servants, why don’t you share some with me.”

Kagan was also excited: “Very good! In principle, I should sell the slaves. They are well-trained fighters, but you are my younger brother, so I will send you ten of them! What do you think?”

“Okay!” Rurik was Xiaole on the surface, but the right hand holding the wine glass was too honest, and the delicate goblet fell and shattered on the ground.

“Ah! The baby is actually cracked?!” Kagan was slightly surprised in a daze.

Rurik curled his lips and smiled: “It’s okay, just take another one.”

“Ah, you are indeed very rich.”

“Naturally. Of course I’m very happy about your stay in Rose. Brother, I have one more request.”

“Say it.”

“Now I bought a batch of good horses from you, and I want to build a cavalry to defend our homeland. But we don’t have good coaches, and you won’t be able to go back to your hometown this winter, so just be my coaches, what do you want?”

What Kagan eats, uses, and enjoys is all provided by sworn brothers. He feels indebted, so he decisively blocked the opportunity to perform this way: “I completely agree. You just need to be a man, I can train you a man in one winter.” A troop of cavalry.”

“It’s really great.” Rurik was very happy to get such an answer and everything was under control.

He snapped his fingers again, ordered the cook to bring another barrel of ale to uncork, and signaled to Kagan: “Let’s continue to drink! Until the sun rises tomorrow!”

[End of this Chapter]