Chapter 30 – Ke’s Gif (1/2)

Translated by Sunyancai

Early the next morning, Lang Ga and the others came to the orphan cave for Shao Xuan.

The timber was already prepared, and all Shao Xuan needed to do was to name the place that he had in mind. Once the place was chosen, they would begin the building.

Shao Xuan was familiar with the mountain foot area, and based on his current condition, it would not be possible for him to build a house at mountain hill district. He would only bring trouble for himself.

As for the place to build the house, Shao Xuan had some place chosen in his mind long before he was awakened. Although the place was a little remote, it had a perfect view. One could see the situation up in the mountain as well as a view of mountain foot district. You could even see the orphan cave from there.

Lang Ga and his friends were quite familiar with building wooden cabins, so only after half a day, the cabin was built. After finishing some details, one could live in it directly.

Since it was Shao Xuan’s first cabin of his own, it was just a small one which took up about forty square meters. It looked just fine, and Shao Xuan could totally do the expanding later by himself. But for now, at least he had his own place. In general, Shao Xuan was pretty satisfied with the cabin.

Lang Ga originally planned to chop up the leftover timber into firewood, but he was stopped by Shao Xuan. Instead, Shao Xuan asked him to help build a simple wooden bed. Some people in the tribe preferred sleeping on stone beds, and some liked sleeping on haystacks. There were also some people that chose to build a bed with wood, and Shao Xuan certainly was one of them.

After covering it with clean and dry animal furs, it looked much more comfortable than Shao Xuan’s former haystack back in the cave.

“Ah-Xuan!”

Shao Xuan looked up at that voice and he saw the middle-aged woman called Yi. Yi had not awakened her totemic powers, so she lived in the mountain foot district. Normally she would do some sewing for people to earn a living. She was kind so Shao Xuan often approached her to make animal skin bags. Yesterday Shao Xuan had asked Yi to sew an animal skin bag at the cost of one fish. He explained the style of the animal skin bag in detail, and supposed that it could take more than one day to finish the sewing. However, unexpectedly, Yi had come so soon.

“Aunt Ah-Yi, is the work done?” Shao Xuan asked with a smile.

“Yes. It was not that hard.”

Yi passed him the bag. She did not stay, for she had other work to do.

“Why do you need this animal skin bag?” Lang Ga asked as he kept chopping the wood.

“For training, of course.” Shao Xuan did not explain much, but he took the animal skin bag and placed it inside the room. He had not tried it yet, so he did not know if it could be of use or not.

When it was almost done, Shao Xuan asked Lang Ga and the others to stay for lunch.

Aside from fish, there were some tubers and fruits, and some plants provided by Lang Ga and the others.

The two young warriors living in the mountain side district were pretty interested in the fish. However, they did not have much time for fishing, since they needed to prepare the stoneware, do the training, and get things ready for the next hunting missions. Also they were in no lack of food, so neither of them had gone fishing.

“You should each take a fish with you when you leave. I have plenty of them anyway.” Shao Xuan was not bragging, for yesterday afternoon he returned to the cave and went out with the other kids to fish by the riverside. Usually, as long as he had the time and there were no abnormal signs by the river, he would go fishing. Capturing fish was quite simple, since all the piranhas were so stupid and simple-minded. What’s more, to hunt, Shao Xuan would need his teammates’ help after he joined the hunting team. Compared to the future help, a few fish were absolutely no big deal.

The young warriors were a little embarrassed, but seeing that Shao Xuan really didn’t care, they accepted his offer, and thought about chopping down more timber to reinforce Shao Xuan’s cabin later.

As they were eating, Ge came with a big stone crock on his shoulder.

“Old Ke asked me to deliver this to you as a gift, in celebration of having your own place. You can store food or water inside.” Ge put down the stone crock and looked around the nearly-completed cabin, “Not bad! I planned to help here, but it seems that I can save the strength now.”

Shao Xuan curled his lips at his words. ‘Why would you come at this late hour if you really planned to help?’

Lang Ga and the others also figured that Ge was just saying things, but out of the respect for the old warrior, none of them had said a word about it.