Chapter 99 – The Shaman Volumes (2/2)

She assumed that Shao Xuan was like her, and that he would not understand a thing from the animal skin roll either. When she entered the medicine house for the first time, she had seen similar animal skin rolls. However, it was said that these kinds of animal skin roll belonged to the Shaman, and the Shaman only. They were totally different from the normal ones.

“They are called the Shaman Volumes. So only the Shaman could understand their content. You won’t understand it, just change to another animal skin roll.” When Gui Ze finished explaining, she went back to the big stone table to process different plants. There were still a few stone plates full of herbs that required to be processed soon. Moreover, the other hunting team was about to come back, so she needed to accelerate her process. She did not have much time to talk with Shao Xuan.

When Gui Ze went back to her work, Shao Xuan looked down at the animal skin roll he had at hand, and whispered, “The Shaman Volumes?”

He did not try to explain his situation when Gui Ze misunderstood him. Nor would he ever argue with Gui Ze that he could indeed read and understand the content of this animal skin roll, and beg her pardon…

The Shaman Volumes? And only the Shaman could read them? Who said that?

Shao Xuan shook his head, and grabbed a wooden chair. He sat on the chair and opened the animal skin roll carefully on the stone desk, so that he could continue reading all those paintings on it. Earlier, he roughly went through a few pictures and there were still a lot of other ones. Even when the notes weren’t in detail, he could have some understanding of the pictures if he read them for some time. Perhaps he would encounter one or two of them when he went out for hunting missions later?

It must be because of the Shaman that the animal skin roll got the name of Shaman Volume.

The paintings made by the Shaman were completely different from the ones made by the others. When doing the paintings, it was highly likely that the Shaman used some special power to combine his consciousness with the ink. So even simple strokes had many secrets contained inside.

If any regular person could see the meaning of these symbolic paintings, then why would Ta and the others have animal skin roll with regular paintings? Of course, the paintings given to the hunting group leaders were made especially for normal people, so that they could understand the content.

When it was late in the afternoon, Shao Xuan left the medicine house, for he would not be spending the night in here.

Not long after Shao Xuan had left, the Shaman came to the medicine house.

Gui Ze reported the results of her work in the afternoon in a respectful way, and the Shaman smiled, “Good. You’ve done a lot lately.”

One old man and one young lady in the room, sharing the same facial expression. It was just that Gui Ze seemed more delightful because of the Shaman’s compliment.

After asking things about the herbs, the Shaman asked, “How was Shao Xuan behaving today?”

“I taught him the basic picking and processing of the plants, and then he spent the afternoon reading animal skin rolls by the stone desk.” Gui Ze briefed today’s things to the Shaman and pointed at the stone desk in the corner, “He also read your animal skin roll. Just like me in old times, he could not understand, so he was confused.”

The Shaman’s face slightly changed for a moment. However, the change was too fast for Gui Ze to capture.

“How long had he been reading that animal skin roll?” asked the Shaman.

“Almost half a day.” And he even yawned. Gui Ze kept the latter part of the sentence to herself, for she feared the Shaman might be angry about it.

The Shaman was in silence for some time, and then said slowly, “Just leave him be. You go on with your tasks. The hunting team is about to come back. Pack three packs of herbs first.”

“Yes.”

The next day, when Shao Xuan went to the medicine house again, Gui Ze was still very busy at the big stone table. Shao Xuan stood by her side and watched for some time. He helped with the moving, and watched some of the primary processing methods of some new plants. After watching Gui Ze work for some time, he turned to look at other things. He looked around the room, and his eyesight stopped when he noticed that there was another new animal skin roll on the stone desk around the corner. It looked quite similar to the one that he read yesterday, regarding the material and look.

Shao Xuan picked up the new animal skin roll, and opened it. All he saw were indeed simple symbols just like the ones he saw yesterday. However, in this new animal skin roll, there were series of images instead of individual images.

In this new Shaman Volume, there were the whole processing methods of eight different medicinal plants recorded. From the selection of treatment, to cooking, from drying to storage, there were detailed descriptions on them all. Seeing those images, Shao Xuan felt that he saw a pair of weathered hands processing and demonstrating all the procedures in front of him.

After a series of symbolic pictures, there were also comments in words.