In the afternoon, when Shao Xuan left the medicine house, it was still early in the morning. There were not many herbs to be processed, and there was not much work to be done recently, so Shao Xuan planned to go down the mountain early, and practice his Wu Roll drawing when he got back.
However, after walking for a short while, Shao Xuan stopped and listened carefully. He lifted his foot and turned towards the direction of the sound.
Between the mountainside and the top of the mountain, there was a special place. It was a training ground specially opened by the warriors. However, this training ground was not for the warriors, but for the children on the mountainside and the top of the mountain who had not awakened their totem power.
The children on the mountain began to receive training very early, and this was their main training ground. However, the space was limited, and sometimes they had to clear the place for throwing. If there were too many people, they would be easily hurt by the wooden or stone tools thrown out. The children here were all children who had not awakened their totem power, and their abilities were limited.
Most of the people who could train here were from the "noble" families on the mountain. Their elders held important positions in the tribe, and were at least the leaders of the hunting teams. Otherwise, they would not be able to find a place to move around, and would be excluded.
Everywhere, there was a competition of fathers.
Shao Xuan had never been there for training before. Later, when he awakened his totem power, he passed by the training ground once when he went down the mountain, and just watched from a short distance.
It was winter, and snow was falling heavily. In such weather, there were many noises coming from the training ground, and it sounded like there were quite a lot of people there.
As he walked towards the training ground, the noises became clearer and clearer.
Compared to the foot of the mountain, the main roads were cleared every day in winter, no matter how heavy the snow was. Some of the children who had not awakened their totem power would come out wrapped in thick animal skins. Most of them did not lack food, and the animal skins they wore were of good quality. Even if it was cold, it would not be life-threatening.
Following the cleared path, Shao Xuan came to the "Kid Training Ground". There were nearly a hundred people in the training ground, from five or six years old to new warriors who had awakened their totem power for one or two years.
Because they could not withstand the cold like totem warriors, the children in the training ground, who had not awakened their totem power, were all wrapped up like rice dumplings.
At this moment, there were three children in the middle of the crowd. Shao Xuan recognized two of them.
That was Yang Guang from Qiaomai's family.
Yang Guang was the name of these two people. Qiao and Mai were twins. Yang was a boy and was born earlier than his sister, Guang.
There were very few twins in the tribe. At present, Yang Guang was the only twin in the tribe. It was said that when Yang Guang was born, the Shaman went to see him in person.
Yang Guang was one year younger than Shao Xuan, and he hadn't awakened his totem power yet. However, both of them had good potential. After the end of this winter, Mai planned to let them join the preliminary team and send them to the Shaman.
Many people in the tribe knew that Guang from Qiaomai's family was born with great strength. She would definitely awaken her totem power in the future, but she was not easy to get along with. Compared to Guang, as the elder brother, Yang was not so outstanding. However, he had a good temper and did not quarrel with others. Every time when Guang fought with others, he would go up and stop them. The two siblings had very different personalities.
Of course, this was only the version that was heard.
As a person who had a good relationship with Qiaomai's family, Shao Xuan naturally knew that the real situation was very different from the rumors in the tribe.
As the younger sister, Guang was born with great strength. She could fight against two people at once before awakening her totem power. This was a fact. However, it was not true that she was impulsive, irritable, and liked to fight.
The tribe treated girls differently from boys. If a boy was punched by a girl, people would say, "Ah, being punched by a girl won't make you lose a piece of meat."
But what if it was the other way around?
What a bastard! How dare he! Needless to say, the boy's parents would teach him a lesson in person.
It was not that there was any gentlemanly behavior here. That was all bullshit. Here, it was because the successive Shamans attached great importance to the protection of girls. After all, it was related to the tribe's reproduction and future. The ratio of men to women in the tribe was not equal. Every year, there were fewer girls than boys. For this reason, the successive Shamans were worried to death.
If there were other tribes nearby, they could just kidnap a girl from outside to be their wife. However, the tribe was almost isolated now. Excluding those who were close to them by blood, there were even fewer people who could be found. Now there were many old bachelors in the tribe. If Old Ke had not been injured in the past, he might have already had grandchildren.
This was also why every time they walked on the Path of Glory, the returning young warriors were like peacocks spreading their tails, showing off themselves and their prey.
It was precisely because of this difference in treatment in the tribe that every time there was a problem that needed to be solved by force, or if there was someone who was extremely unpleasant to the eye, the one who would charge forward was Guang. As the elder brother, Yang would pull his sister from behind and shout, "Stop fighting", "Sorry, Guang is too impulsive" and so on.
For example, Ah-Guang and Ah-Guang were having a dispute with another party. Ah-Guang was using both her hands and legs to fight the people in front of her, but her brother Ah-Yang was holding her back, so she couldn't kick him several times.
However, she also succeeded a few times. Otherwise, how did the footprints on the other side come about?
Yang pulled his sister and seemed to be dissuading her. However, when someone from the other side stood up to speak, Guang kicked him. She did not kick him, but she scraped his animal skin clothes. The person who just stood up retreated.
Yang really couldn't hold her back?
Who was he kidding!
These two people's strength was actually about the same. If they really wanted to dissuade her, it was impossible that they couldn't hold her back.
Yang Guang was not old, and did not have the honest character of Qiaomai and his wife. Instead, he was mischievous. The day before, he learned some simple rope traps from Shao Xuan, and the next day, he could go out and trap people.
Seeing that there were people on the other side who had awakened their totemic power and were about to stand up, Shao Xuan spoke first, "Guang Guang!"
The people on the other side all looked over.
After seeing Shao Xuan, Guang's originally angry face suddenly turned into a smile. She "broke free" from her brother's pull and ran towards Shao Xuan. Because she was wearing too much, and even covered with a cloak, she looked like a moving dumpling when she ran over.
When Guang saw Shao Xuan, it was as if she had found a backer. She pulled Shao Xuan's arm and said, "Brother Xuan, they hit me!"
The few people who had been kicked by Ah Guang wanted to spit out blood. Bullshit! Bullshit! Anyone with eyes could see who was the victim!
When the people on the scene saw Shao Xuan, they all had different expressions.
The younger ones were not sensible, and did not care much about Shao Xuan. But the older ones were different, especially those who had awakened their totemic power in the same batch as Shao Xuan. Not to mention that Shao Xuan had made great contributions in the past year, and had joined the advance group. Even now, Shao Xuan was still learning things from the Shaman. In their eyes, this was a shining halo.
Therefore, even if Shao Xuan could not come over and compete with his father, and was born in the cave, no one dared to ask him to leave.
Ku, who was standing behind the crowd, felt even more complicated. He was also from the cave, and at this time last year, he was the most envied person in the cave. But now, when they talked about Shao Xuan, how did it feel?
In just one year, he had changed so much.
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