Chapter 98
Chapter 98 – The pictures in the animal skin rolls
Translated by Sunyancai
Shao Xuan placed the animal skin curtain down and greeted her: “Hi, my name is Ah-Xuan, and I’m here to learn from the Shaman.”
The person dealing with the herbs on that stone plate looked up at Shao Xuan and then smiled: “My name is Gui Ze.”
Although she was smiling, Shao Xuan didn’t feel much kindness or welcoming from the smile, but she didn’t seem to have any malice either. Just like the Shaman, she smiled at everyone in a gentle way, but only for appearances.
Well, the Shaman had an excellent apprentice. They had the exact type of smile.
Compared with other warriors whose totem power had awakened, Gui Ze was relatively slender. After all, no matter boys or girls, anyone who had awakened their totem power would have a stronger physique. Therefore they would look stronger in terms of appearance.
It was warmer inside, just like everyone in the tribe said that this medicine house was connected with the fire pit. Shao Xuan didn’t know how the heat got transported to here, for there was nothing spectacular or suspicious in the room.
After all, the plants and herbs were precious things brought back by the advance group, so they could not be processed by someone as novice as Shao Xuan, even if the processing procedures were simple, only if the Shaman gave his agreement. Gui Ze could not decide for the Shaman, so Shao Xuan could not lend her a hand even if he wanted to.
Gui Ze thought about it, and she agreed with Shao Xuan’s idea. Back when she started learning, she learnt from the pictures and records on the animal skin rolls to know the basic knowledge of plants. Only after that, did she learn directly from the Shaman. However, she did have a better environment of learning, for someone walked her through all the animal skin rolls. Indeed, she would like to help Shao Xuan with the reading, but unfortunately, she still had a lot of plants that required immediate process.
Gui Ze said as she pointed at the animal skin rolls laid on a small stone desk in the corner, “They are all over there, and you can read them first.”
“Then I’ll get started. You should go back to your work. I’ll ask you for help if there’s something difficult to understand.”
Shao Xuan came in front of the stone desk, and he found that most of the animal skin rolls seemed to be very old, while at the end there were some relatively new. they should have been made in this year.
Shao Xuan took an old animal skin roll and opened it.
There were plants with their pictures and simple demonstrations. The note was not very detailed, so were the pictures.
How to identify different kinds?
In the views of outsiders, when you looked at those paintings, you would feel that four out of ten kinds looked similar! They were nothing but leaves, roots, grass and seeds! All the same!
The pictures were in one color, and they were painted quite roughly. And the notes were not detailed either. Without the real fruit to look at, and no one to explain, one could only have limited understanding of those plants on the animal skin roll.
Shao Xuan read a few old animal skin rolls continuously, and knew that they were in the same style. After confirming that, Shao Xuan looked at a relatively new one. That animal skin roll was in much better quality than the others.
However, Shao Xuan became totally stunned when he opened the animal skin roll and had a look at its content.
If you said that the earlier pictures on the animal skin rolls were painted roughly, then the pictures on this one should be called crude doodles. Just like the symbols that the Shaman was painting, no one could ever understand what these pictures were about.
Staring at one of the ink masses on the animal skin roll, Shao Xuan suspected, perhaps, it was a drop of pigment dropped by the Shaman while he was doing the painting.
However, unexpectedly, in the next second, Shao Xuan felt like that he was seeing some round brown fruit gradually revealing itself from the picture.