Chapter 104 – The twins (1/2)

Translated by Sunyancai

In the afternoon, when Shao Xuan left the medicine house to go back home, it was not dark yet. The herbs were almost done, and recently, there was not that much work to do. So, Shao Xuan planned to go back home earlier to practice drawing.

However, not long after Shao Xuan left the medicine house, he stopped and listened carefully, as some noise entered his ears. Without hesitation, he took a turn and walked towards the source of the noise.

Somewhere between the mountain side and the mountaintop, there was a special place. It was a training place especially built by the warriors. However, it was not a place for the warriors to train themselves, instead, it was designed for the non-awakened kids living at or above the mountain side district.

Kids living up in the mountain would start training real early, and here was their main training place. However, due to limited space, when someone was practicing tossing, the others must be cleared out of the place, so they don’t get hurt by the tossed wooden or stone tools. All the kids here hadn’t awakened their totem power yet, so they’re strength was limited.

Most of the children that could train here were from the “powerful families” that lived up in the mountain, with their parents or grandparents holding essential positions in the tribe. They should be at least families of the group leaders of the small hunting groups, or else he or she could not find a place in here, and would probably be excluded sooner or later.

The class inequality existed in every society.

Shao Xuan had never trained himself in that place as a kid. Later on, when his totem power awakened, he had watched the other kids train in there for some time when he was coming up the mountain once.

Now it was winter and snowing heavily. Under such conditions, the training place was still very crowded and noisy. It seemed that there were a lot of people over there.

As Shao Xuan walked nearer, the noise became clearer.

Compared with the mountain foot area, the roads and paths in the upper half of the mountain were all cleared up, even with the heavy snow in the winter. Some non-awakened kids would come outside with thick clothes made from animal skin. Most of them did not lack food back at home, and the animal skins they wore were all of good quality. Even if it was freezing cold outside, the coldness would not threaten their lives.

Along the cleared-out path, Shao Xuan came to this training ground for kids. There were almost a hundred people in this place, and they varied from 5-6 year olds to teens.

Since none of them could fight against the coldness as totem warriors, the kids in the training place were wrapped like chinese rice dumplings.

Right then, there were three kids in the middle of the crowd, and Shao Xuan knew two of them.

Yangguang meant sunshine in the local language, however, it was separated in two words to name the twins. Mai and Qiao were their parents. Ah-Yang was the boy, and he was born one step ahead of his sister Ah-Guang.

Twins rarely existed in the tribe. For now, Yang and Guang were the only twins in the tribe. The Shaman personally checked in on them when they were born.

Yang and Guang were one year younger than Shao Xuan, and they had not awakened their totem power. However, they were quite talented and had good physiques. By the end of this winter, Mai planned to send his twins into the pre-selection group to present them in front of the Shaman.

Ah-Guang was noted for her strength by many people in the tribe ever since she was born. Everyone thinks that she will be awakened for sure once she reaches the age. She was just not going to be easy to deal with. Compared with Ah-Guang, Ah-Yang as the brother, was not that extraordinary. However, he was much gentler and would not argue with anyone. When Ah-Guang was in a fight with the others, he would even come forward and separate her away. They had quite opposite characters.

[Don’t you dare pick up those pink-glasses, it’s not a flag.]

Of course, that was only the story that went around.

Being one of the close friends with Mai and Qiao, naturally, Shao Xuan knew that the real situation was not like that.

It was true that Ah-Guang was born with strength, and she could fight against two kids of her age. However, when it comes to her impulsive temper, irritability and her love towards fighting…they were all not true.

People in the tribe had different attitudes towards boys and girls. If a boy got punched by a girl, people would say, “Well, it’s not like you are going to lose anything by being punched once.”