Chronicles of Primordial Wars

Bölüm 34: Tarz Değişikliği

Çeviren: Sunyancai

Ke suddenly jumped off his stone stool as he rubbed his eyelids. Bacağı olmadığı için ayakta sallanıyordu. His big action of course drew Shao Xuan’s attention.

Shao Xuan dropped his almost-completed stoneware and grinding stone, and looked at old Ke curiously. He was in a pretty good state of mind and felt that he had not made any mistakes. With everything in the process reaching old Ke’s standard, why was he acting like he was in a “what the fuck” kind of mood?

"Ah-Xuan, sen... sen... sen..."

Ke finally said a complete sentence after many you’s, “How do you train yourself normally?”

Ke'nin bunu neden sorduğunu bilmeyen Shao Xuan, son zamanlarda yaptığı eğitim düzenlemelerini elbette sahip olduğu özel güçten bahsetmeden ayrıntılı olarak açıkladı.

To be honest, his training recently was more like preparing for stone crafting than normal training. There were many newly-awakened kids by the training ground, just like Shao Xuan. They were either training their strength, or practicing by throwing stuff. Shao Xuan was the only one focusing on finding stone cores. Some people even secretly mocked him for doing the wrong thing.

After some thinking, Ke did not find any abnormal points based on Shao Xuan’s description. Shao Xuan worked very hard and he showed endless effort when he was doing the stone crafting. That was also the reason why Ke was willing to teach him. However, Ke himself was pretty hard-working when he was learning the skills, why didn’t he achieve such significant progress?

Anyways, Ke could not figure out the reason, so he had to attribute Shao Xuan’s achievements to his talent. On yaşında uyanmasına şaşmamalı.

Old Ke waved his hand to tell Shao Xuan to continue after he calmed himself down. On second thought, he stopped Shao Xuan and took out a big straw curtain and divided the stoneware workshop into two parts. He asked Shao Xuan to go to the inner room to keep crafting.

Although feeling curious, Shao Xuan followed his command. Yaşlı Ke bunu bir nedenden dolayı yapıyor olmalı.

From the other side of the straw curtain, old Ke could still see the small figure of Shao Xuan, crafting and refining a piece of stone flake. Old Ke’s eyebrows relaxed, and he couldn’t help but smile as if he had thought of something.

Shao Xuan came out from his separated workshop when it was almost sunset, covered with sweat. He passed the stoneware he completed to old Ke for examination. He crafted more stone flakes and stone cores than usual, so he got out later than usual.

Ancak yaşlı Ke, Shao Xuan'ın taşlarını her zamanki gibi tek tek incelemedi, bunun yerine bir göz attıktan sonra onları bir kenara koydu, yaşlı Ke daha fazla bakmamayı seçti ama Shao Xuan'a şöyle dedi: "Şimdi gitmelisin. Yarından itibaren taşları kendi kararına göre oyup rafine edebilirsin. Doğru olduğunu düşündüğün şeyi yap."

"Tamam, yapacağım."

In fact, Shao Xuan wanted to make something of his own a long time ago. Ancak o kadar yetenekli değildi, dolayısıyla yarattığı şey aklında olandan tamamen farklıydı ve bazen süreçte başarısız oldu. Now since old Ke had said so, Shao Xuan wanted to do it again properly.

In order to make a satisfying stoneware, he needed to go through the process of carving stone flakes, refining, pressuring, heating and so on. Also a lot of tools were required, such as a hammer, press-roller, plunger, grinding stone, chopping stone and other fixing materials. The tools in Shao Xuan’s cabin were not enough, so Shao Xuan needed to come to old Ke’s place every day if he wanted to craft something.

However, at the very beginning, Shao Xuan did not dare to dream so wildly, so he decided to start with the normally used stoneware in the tribe.

The next day, Shao Xuan took the stone cores he had selected that morning to old Ke’s place, and began to craft.

Shao Xuan intended to craft a double-winged stone arrowhead by himself, one of the most frequently used stone arrowheads. Yalnızca Lang Ga bile bunlardan büyük miktarda tüketiyordu.

Yaşlı Ke, Shao Xuan'a taştan ok ucu yapma tekniklerini öğretmişti ve diğer becerilerin ancak uygulama sürecinde kazanılabileceğini söylemişti. Of course old Ke pointed out some details that were worth paying attention to.
For the next few days, old Ke did not watch Shao Xuan closely from his side as Shao Xuan did the crafting. After all, Shao Xuan could do just as well without his supervision. Yaşlı Ke, tahta bir bastona yaslanarak, içinde farklı boyutlarda her türlü taş eşyanın bulunduğu ahşap bir kutu çıkarıp evinin önüne koydu.

They were the stoneware made by Shao Xuan over the past few days. Most of them were spearheads and arrowheads and had a style a little different from old Ke’s.

Aslında yaşlı Ke son zamanlarda kurallarını değiştirmişti. During the afternoon he no longer allowed people to come inside his house. In the mornings he would come out with some completed stoneware. Taştan biraz eşya almak isteyen kişinin ticareti hızlı yapması gerekiyordu, çünkü yaşlı Ke eşyalarını toplayıp öğlen odaya giriyor, öğleden sonra ise dışarı çıkmıyordu.

So when seeing that old Ke took things out at that hour, people gathered.

“Hey, old Ke, why are you doing business at this time now?”

“Hi, old Ke, these things are not Ah-Xuan’s handcraft, right?”

Many people knew that Shao Xuan was learning stone crafting from old Ke, but people were not optimistic about it. Bazıları özel olarak Shao Xuan'ın öğrenmeye ne kadar süre devam edebileceğini ve yaşlı Ke'nin ayrılan eski çırakları gibi mi olacağını yoksa yaşlı Ke tarafından zorla kovuldu mu olacağını tartışırdı. However, unexpectedly, Shao Xuan was still learning, and it seemed that old Ke was not frustrated or mad as well.

Bu tuhaf değil miydi?

Actually, the one who guessed the stoneware was made by Shao Xuan laughed at himself after he finished his sentence. People coming with him also laughed over it, and none of them took it seriously. Sonuçta onların bakış açısına göre Shao Xuan sadece birkaç gündür öğreniyordu ve onun bu kadar başarılı taş işçiliği yapması imkansızdı. Sadece yaşlı Ke'yle uğraşıyorlardı.

“This is a nice stone arrowhead, and it could be used for setting up ground bows… Hey, the barbs are wonderfully polished! I like that!” one squatted down and began to select his favorite items.

Birinin seçim yapmaya başladığını gören diğerleri oyalanmayı bıraktılar ve sanki tüm iyi şeylerin başkaları tarafından satın alınmasından korkuyormuş gibi aceleyle en sevdikleri eşyaları seçmeye başladılar. After all, the stoneware from old Ke’s place was much better than the other’s.

“Hey, old Ke, have you changed your style? The barbs on your arrowheads used to be shorter.” A warrior said as he touched the wings of a stone arrowhead.

Ke just sat there with his poker face as usual, in silence.

The warriors that came to do the trading were already used to old Ke’s character and did not expect old Ke to explain. After all, it was normal that a stoneware crafter changed his style.

Savaşçılar avlanırken büyük miktarda taş eşya tüketiyorlardı çünkü geri dönüştürülebilen metallerin aksine taş eşya yalnızca bir kez kullanılabiliyordu. This resulted in a rather high scrap rate, which led to warriors preparing a lot of stoneware before every hunting mission.

Almost twenty days had passed since the other hunting team left, normally speaking, hunting teams would return home in twenty days. Even when they met some hardships or other difficulties, the hunting period would not be more than thirty days. Their families were still in the tribe after all, and they would starve if the warriors did not return.

So if someone did some calculations, one would know that the hunting team was about to return. Meaning the other hunting team was preparing to leave. Once the hunting team returned, the other one would set off for hunting after handing over their daily duties. The earlier they prepared their stoneware, the better.

"Birkaç gün sonra dönecekler. Sabah yaralıların geri gönderildiğini gördüm. Bu sefer iki savaşçı ağır yaralanmış ama ölümcül değil. Bu sefer kimsenin ölmediğini duydum." Birisi eşyaları seçerken şunu söyledi.

“So we are about to set off? I have to go back home and take a few more things to trade with old Ke.”

“You said that two were injured? Who were they?”

“…”

People began to discuss but their selection speed did not slow down. Once they had chosen an item, they would grasp it tightly in their hand, and the others would regret not grasping it sooner.
“You do the trading or not, hold your tongue, and get lost if you’re done with trading!” Yaşlı Ke buz gibi bir yüz ifadesiyle kolunu salladı. Tartışmayı başka yerde yapsalar iyi olur. Ah-Xuan was still in the room, crafting, they might disturb him!

In the eyes of the crowd, old Ke was a tough guy and he was not easy to deal with. It seemed that he cared about nothing but stoneware. He was also quite aggressive when yelling. However, in fact, old Ke valued Shao Xuan more than anyone else in his heart. He became unhappy when people started making noise and he began to drive them away.

İnsanlar kızgın değildi. They stopped talking and hurriedly continued their picking.

Taş eşyaların çoğunluğu başkaları tarafından seçildiğinde ve artık kimsenin gelmediğini görünce yaşlı Ke, kalan küçük taş eşyaları ağaçlık kutuya topladı. Kendi kendine konuşurken başını salladı, "Küçük taş eşyalar neden takdir edilmiyor? Doğru kullanıldığında büyük olanlardan daha öldürücü olabilirler."

Shao Xuan bugünkü işini bitirdiğinde bitkin bedeniyle eve döndü ve aynı anda görevdeki av ekibi de geri döndü.