Vikings: Journey of the Juggernaut

Chapter 3 From wife to parent
My brother's funeral was extremely simple, and he was burned into ashes and thrown into the sea on the same day.After all, he is not a fleet commander-level big shot, and he has not yet reached the level to use advanced fire ship funerals.

On the coast, Rayleigh helped his sister repair the screamer crow with an iron pin tied to a wheat stalk. The technique was comparable to a butterfly threading through a flower, and was very artistic and beautiful.

This couldn't help but make Itiya, who was walking over, take a few more glances.

The Screech Crow was quickly mended and became alive again.My sister was extremely happy to get her toy back and ran to the sea to pick up shells to eat.

When the woman saw Mellie leaving, she asked the doubts that had been in her heart for a long time: "You seem to know that the heretic will fight to the death?"

Normally, at Rayleigh's age, facing such a sudden attack, he would look at least a little panicked.But during the process, the boy didn't, unless he was prepared for it.

"I didn't know at first, but later I found out." Reilly replied casually.

"When?"

The woman seemed to suddenly think of something and said somewhat uncertainly, "Is it because of Mellie?"

"That's right." Riley nodded, "This is her crow language."

Under normal circumstances, my sister would not make that weird sound at the screaming crow, unless she was extremely angry, extremely excited, or aware of danger.

Due to cruel experiences since childhood, or perhaps due to her natural instinct, my sister has an unusually keen sense of danger.Under the circumstances at that time, my sister was obviously very happy just a moment ago, so it was impossible for her to be angry for no reason, and she was also not happy to the point of being excited.

All that remains is: a strong danger is detected!

As the only family left in the world, his danger was no different than hers.Of course, after half a year of careful care, perhaps the woman in front of her can now be regarded as half of her sister's family.

"Crow language!"

Idiya fell into thinking for a while and murmured, "I understand, but I also had that screamer crow..."

In the six months since they had been together, she had naturally heard the indescribable strange sounds made by the Screech Crow. Driven by curiosity, she had also twisted the Screech Crow's neck, and even pulled its wings and feet.

Apparently the sound isn't quite the same.

Realizing that she had made a mistake, Itia quickly reacted and did not continue.As an adult woman, it was very embarrassing for her to do something as childish as picking on a screaming crow.

"It's different from the sound that Mellie made, right?" Reilly didn't know what the sister-in-law was thinking at this time, so he continued, "I have tried it many times, and then I got the answer, I can't make it. That sound is normal."

Itia glanced at the young man's face with her peripheral vision. It seemed that the young man didn't realize that this was an embarrassing thing, so he felt relieved.

But he was a little confused: "Is it normal that you can't make such a sound?"

"Ah."

Reilly paused and said, "Because we are all normal people."

Hearing these words, the woman was stunned for a moment.

The surrounding air gradually became quiet, leaving only the sound of crashing waves.

Looking at the little figure happily picking up shells on the beach, a touch of pity flashed across their eyes at the same time.

They were normal people, but she wasn't.

She is mute,
I haven't been able to speak since I was a child.

……

After a long silence, the woman's plain voice came out again amid the sound of the wind and waves: "I always feel that you are hiding something from me, and there are many things that I don't know."

As the new head of the Bastian family, Itia found that her understanding of these two families seemed far from enough.Now that you have become a parent, you must take responsibility.

This was also a very novel thing for her.

In the past, she obviously just married to find a shoulder and support for herself. At that time, she heard that Thor of the Mist Crow Tribe was a young man with great ability and courage, sitting on a huge amount of wealth, and famous in the north.

Such a man who is praised by everyone must be worthy of being entrusted with him for the rest of his life.

only……

When she actually got married and came to this home, she discovered that everything was different from what she had imagined.Instead of seeing a huge amount of wealth, I only saw a group of people coming to the house to eat and drink every day, and the long house was in a mess.

Soon the family was completely devastated!
Even the meager dowry she brought with her was spent by her husband. She had only been married for just two months and she had to worry about having enough food to eat.

She thought this was the fate arranged by the gods for her.

She accepts her fate!
All she can do is try her best to fulfill her duties as a wife for this family.

Unexpectedly, the gods played another joke on her.

After two months together, her husband went to sea to rob, and when he returned, he had already returned to the Hall of Valor.Before she has fully entered the role of a wife, her identity has become that of a parent. She cannot rely on her shoulders, but has become the backbone of the family.

The world is impermanent! !
Itiya's peripheral vision glanced at the boy beside her and the little girl on the beach. A motherly light flashed in her eyes, so she fulfilled her duties as a parent.

This brother and sister need a shoulder to shoulder.

She had never assumed the role of a parent before, but thinking about it, she should first have a detailed understanding of her family.Itia's eyes softened when she looked at Rayleigh, and she waited expectantly for the boy to reveal the little secrets that she didn't know well.

She pricked up her ears, and the boy's voice came from her ears.

"Isn't it normal to hide it from you?" Riley looked back at his sister-in-law, who seemed to have suddenly undergone some changes, "We are not familiar with each other at all, why should we tell you?"

Since I never liked having too many bonds, and I spent every day training combat skills on the coast, I really didn’t have much contact with this sister-in-law whom I had only married less than half a year ago.Even if the sister-in-law sometimes wanted to come over for a chat during meals, he never showed much enthusiasm and always responded coldly.After all, with the extent of his brother's prodigality, it might be a matter of time before the two of them divorce.This sister-in-law will also leave the tribe at that time and have no relationship with their family.

I just didn't expect that the ending would be that the brother would 'leave' and the sister-in-law would become the head of the family.

'Not familiar at all. '

After hearing Rayleigh's answer, Itia thought for a while, and it seemed that this was indeed the case.

So what to do now?
If you are a father who is a parent...

A few fragments flashed through Itiya's mind, then she straightened her face and said seriously to the young man in front of her: "For the future of this family, you shouldn't hide anything from a parent."

"..."

Riley looked at the serious-looking woman and felt a little funny inside.

He remembered that this sister-in-law was only 15 years old this year, and his age in the two lifetimes combined was more than enough to be her father.

Itia maintained her serious facial expression: "Is there something wrong with what I said?"

"There is no future." Reilly paused. "In three years, we will no longer be a family."

Three years later, at the age of 14, he was an adult and could only leave the family to start his own farm.

'No longer a family? 'Yitiya frowned slightly, feeling dissatisfied suddenly in her heart, and asked: "Do you want to leave this home?"

At these words, a strange look flashed across Rayleigh's face, and he asked, "You want me to stay in this home?"

According to the tribe's rules, if he stayed in this family, there could only be two situations.

The first one: She will no longer marry and choose herself as the heir of the family.

It is conceivable that if you have a new husband...

How could a new husband allow his wife's ex-husband's brother to remain in the family? This would cause many problems and even disputes over future heirs.

The second type:…

Although in Viking society, it was normal for another brother to marry his wife after the death of a brother.

"Huh?" The woman suddenly reacted, with a blush on her serious face. She tried to keep her tone as calm as possible, "Don't think too much. What I'm saying is that I can stop getting married and fulfill my obligations." It’s a parent’s duty.”

"Come on, how old are you?"

Riley shook his head, and then walked towards his sister on the beach, "Merlie, go home."

How old am I?

How old am I! ! !

Looking at the back of the young man who was minding his own business in front of him, Itiya's heart kept rising and falling, she closed her eyes slightly and took a deep breath.

Feeling that being a parent is really difficult!
……

The next day, heavy fog enveloped the entire port in the early morning.

Rayleigh arrived early. This is the place where tribal warriors train daily, whether they are teenagers or adult Viking raiders.

Fighting is the most important skill for tribal warriors to make a living, and training has long become a daily activity in their lives.

Training does not necessarily have to be in the port, but there are many people here.At least Raleigh needed this place, so he could find someone to mentor him and observe and learn the fighting skills of adult raiders.If you practice blindly on the farm, the progress bar will not grow as fast as here.

Before time travel, he was an ordinary person. In terms of martial arts skills, there was no way he could compare with these Viking raiders who lived by fighting.

Everything needs to be learned.

Now that he has come to this world, he also has his own dream:
That is to become a sword master like Isshin Ashina, to use his own name to frighten the enemy's forces for decades, and to stand at the apex of military force in the world of cold weapons.

With a golden finger like the Eye of the Heroic Spirit, Rayleigh believed that he had some hope.As for building a technology tree, inventing glass, inventing soap, inventing gunpowder firearms...

Really not at all!

He didn't think he had the slightest chance of making something that spanned more than ten centuries and hundreds of thousands of years without knowing the principles and specific materials, and without the corresponding tools and techniques.

Instead of pondering these unrealistic ideas, it is better to use your time to hone your strength.

At least in such a troubled world with cold weapons, force is a visible ability to survive and protect one's life.Not to mention that for the Vikings, the way out in this era was to plunder by force.

From ancient times to the present, plundering by force has always been one of the quickest ways to accumulate wealth, including plundering families and exterminating clans internally, and launching aggressive wars externally.

The prerequisite is to be able to win.

In this current era, the Vikings have an overwhelming combat advantage over the soldiers of Western European countries.

This is not China. Reilly doesn't care whether the European people are hot-blooded or not.

He was never a kind man.

(End of this chapter)