kingnovel Chapter 151 Twin Families
Chapter 151 Twin Families
"This isn't the place to talk. Come inside with me and we'll talk." Heng invited Jiang Luoluo and Ge into the house while sending the two brothers away.
"You two go outside and play. Don't come back and cause trouble again."
The two brothers exchanged a glance, then suddenly covered their mouths in perfect unison and said at the same time, "Mom, we're not making a fuss anymore. We want to go inside too."
Jiang Luoluo could tell that the two children were actually a little unwilling to give up because they hadn't scared her earlier, so they wanted to follow her in and think of some opportunities to scare her again.
However, Jiang Luoluo was not afraid of this at all. She might be fooled by their little tricks when she didn't know, but when it came to twins, Jiang Luoluo had seen countless of them.
Jiang Luoluo has even seen quite a few triplets.
Heng knew that the two children wouldn't behave, so rather than letting them sneak into the cabin and cause trouble by some unknown means, he decided to let them come in with him and keep an eye on them so they wouldn't go too far.
He repeated all the threatening words, and the two children nodded like chickens pecking at rice, their attitude very sincere, but whether they actually listened was unknown.
Heng then led Jiang Luoluo and Ge into the house.
As soon as they entered the wooden house, Heng got straight to the point, "So, what do you want me to do for you? How do I do it? How long will it take? How much will I need?"
Jiang Luoluo looked up, somewhat incredulous. The man who was rumored to have gone mad in his pursuit of stone tools was actually so straightforward and frank, getting straight to the point without a single wasted word.
Jiang Luoluo said shyly, "It will probably take a lot... probably a long time..."
Then Jiang Luoluo took out the finished telescope and the two transparent lenses that had not yet been installed as a telescope.
First, let Heng use a telescope to look outside through the window of the wooden house, then direct Heng to look in those very, very far directions.
Heng's originally calm gaze vanished the moment he took the binoculars down, his eyes burning as he stared intently at Jiang Luoluo. "This is the transparent lens that everyone in the tribe has been talking about lately. Is this what was made with it?"
Jiang Luoluo nodded, pointed to the transparent lens in her hand, and gestured to the telescope on her phone to demonstrate the assembly process.
"Like this...like this...it's done."
Heng suddenly realized what was happening and pointed at the lens in Jiang Luoluo's hand and the telescope tube in his own hand, saying, "Isn't this already finished?"
Jiang Luoluo immediately shook her head, "Not enough..."
"Isn't this enough?" Heng asked doubtfully. Normally, one or two of these would be enough, right? Why do we need so many?
Jiang Luoluo nodded and handed the two lenses to Heng, demonstrating various effects to her—for example, the different distances between the two lenses would create different magnification effects, and different sizes of lenses would also produce different magnification effects, as would different thicknesses…
Jiang Luoluo looked at Heng with bright eyes, her voice firm and resolute, "We! Will do more!"
Jiang Luoluo raised her finger and pointed in the direction of the river.
"Then! Look further... until you see the other side of the river."
Now, Jiang Luoluo is very familiar with this set of lines and can say that she can use them fluently.
Sure enough, even someone as calm as Heng's eyes lit up with excitement upon hearing those words.
The two brothers on the side were indeed well-behaved and obedient at first, without interrupting or causing any trouble.
Only after seeing Jiang Luoluo and Heng, who seemed to have temporarily finished their discussion, did they eagerly speak up, pointing at the binoculars.
"I'd like to see this too, may I?"
After the younger brother Chengcai finished speaking, the older brother Sheng pushed him, saying, "Let me see first, let me see first!"
Before Jiang Luoluo and Heng could even nod, the two started arguing about who should speak first and who should see first.
Jiang Luoluo couldn't help but look at Heng, only to see a tired expression on his face that seemed to come with a sense of normalcy.
Jiang Luoluo suddenly understood that Heng's calm and composed attitude towards everything was probably, possibly, or should be the result of training from her two children.
Parents who can balance having two children, especially twins.
They must be able to calmly face the world and remain unmoved by anything.
Because apart from their children, there is probably nothing else in the world that can shake their hearts.
Hmm... Jiang Luoluo looked down at the two free transparent lenses in her hand, thinking that it seemed a bit too late to turn them into a telescope now.
Meanwhile, the two brothers were already engaged in a fierce battle.
Seeing her lying there taking a deep breath, as if preparing to unleash a powerful attack, Jiang Luoluo quickly said, "I understand!"
The two little boys stopped what they were doing and turned to look at Jiang Luoluo with a puzzled expression.
“Okay, I’ll teach you a game… You play the game… to determine who goes first and who goes last…” Jiang Luoluo stepped forward and grabbed the arms of the two brothers, one on each side.
"This game is called... Stone, Stone Knife, Linen!"
It's just a renamed version of "Rock, Paper, Scissors".
But there were no scissors in the tribe, and Jiang Luoluo was afraid they wouldn't understand, so she replaced them with stone knives and linen cloth.
"The stone knife is sharp enough to easily cut through linen, but it cannot cut through stone."
“Stone is hard and can withstand the cutting of a stone knife, but it cannot withstand being wrapped in hemp cloth.”
“Linen is fragile and can be cut by a stone knife, but it can hold stones.”
"Therefore, stone can suppress stone knife, stone knife can suppress linen, and linen can suppress stone."
“A clenched fist represents a stone, an extended finger represents a stone knife, and all five fingers spread out represent linen.”
"You two will both make a move at the same time to choose what to do... Whoever's move suppresses the other's can look through the binoculars first, is that okay?"
Jiang Luoluo slowly finished speaking her long string of words, then tilted her head to look at the two little boys.
The two brothers exchanged a glance. It wasn't that they thought fighting to decide the outcome was bad, but rather that they felt the game Jiang Luoluo had mentioned seemed very interesting, so they both nodded in agreement.
Of course, for Jiang Luoluo, replacing "rock, paper, scissors" with "rock, stone, knife, linen" is a bit awkward.
But for the two brothers who had never played this game before, it was very easy for them to memorize it.
The two tried playing a few rounds and quickly grasped the techniques.
The only problem was that the twin brothers were a bit too in sync; they played more than 10 rounds in a row, and every round was the same.
Fortunately, the two brothers, perhaps somewhat defiant of bad luck, finally made two different hand gestures, thus determining the winner.
"Okay, brother wins!"
Jiang Luoluo observed for a moment and quickly determined the winner.
The older brother, Sheng, cheered and was the first to get the right to look through the telescope, while the younger brother, Cheng, although unwilling, accepted the result.
Jiang Luoluo thought it was over, but Heng stopped the two brothers and took out a stone from the side.
Jiang Luoluo and Ge were stunned. They exchanged a glance, wondering what Heng was going to do. Then they heard Heng say, "Now I'm going to start making a stone knife. Sheng, after I finish, you have to give this telescope to your brother. No delays, and no cheating. Understand?"
The older brother nodded reluctantly, "I understand."
Jiang Luoluo then realized that experience truly matters; it must have taken countless experiences of the two children denying each other's actions to make such a prediction in advance.
Rather, these two children are just too naughty!
Not only did the older brother Seung actually intend to do it, but the younger brother Sung also seemed to take it for granted, as if he often did it himself.
Heng... You've really worked hard.
Jiang Luoluo thought it would take Heng a long time to finish, but she didn't expect that Heng would just tap and hammer and make the basic shape of a stone knife in a few minutes. Except for not grinding it carefully, the speed was almost the same as a machine.
He truly deserves the title of a master craftsman who single-handedly created half of the tribe's stone tools.
After finishing, Heng then asked his older brother Sheng to hand the binoculars to his younger brother Cheng.
Meanwhile, after her younger brother Cheng got the telescope, she took out a stone and started tapping it—yes, she had to make sure that the two stone knives took about the same amount of time to tap, so that neither of them would get to see it for an extra second or a second less.
Jiang Lele watched in stunned silence.
However, when Jiang Luoluo retrieved the binoculars and left, she realized just how easy-going Heng really was; most of the things she had prepared were actually unnecessary.
Heng simply asked about the details of the incident and then accepted it.
However, Heng also told Jiang Luoluo that if she wanted to make transparent lenses, then Jiang Luoluo would have to be responsible for providing enough transparent stones.
Because Heng himself doesn't have many transparent stones to find, nor does he have the energy to search for them.
Since Jiang Luoluo has entrusted these matters to them, she naturally has to take on the tedious and miscellaneous tasks herself.
Jiang Luoluo agreed with this point. She couldn't just hand things over to others and then abandon everything else.
Although she had achieved her initial goal, what she did afterward was more of a larger goal stemming from her own objectives.
But Jiang Luoluo is not such an irresponsible person. Unless she really finds another suitable person in charge, Jiang Luoluo will take on this responsibility properly until it is completed.
Thinking of this, Jiang Luoluo looked at the binoculars on Ge's body and then at the sky.
I had originally planned to spend the whole morning communicating with Heng, but because Heng is so easy to talk to, I actually have a lot of time left over.
"Ge, let's go to the top of the mountain!" Jiang Luoluo said.
Ge has been following her around these past two days, but she still doesn't quite understand what Ge is doing it for. Jiang Luoluo also wants Ge to see, to see her goals, to see her hopes.
"Okay," Ge agreed with a smile, and the two of them changed direction and headed towards the top of the mountain.
……
The wooden platform remains in its original position, and no one has moved it.
Some curious members of the tribe would climb up to take a look at the wooden platform when they passed by on their way to the top of the mountain.
However, the scenery was all familiar, with nothing special, so most of them got bored and came down again. Only when discussing with others did they learn that it was the cub Luo who had done it.
Perhaps the entertainment options in the tribe were really too boring, so no one felt that Jiang Luoluo was wasting resources and manpower, or making things difficult for everyone for no reason.
Instead, everyone was really looking forward to what new and interesting things Jiang Luoluo could come up with this time.
When Jiang Luoluo and Ge arrived at the mountaintop, they were surprised to find that Chief Jing was also there.
Chief Jing didn't suddenly appear here. Rather, after returning from the hunt, he had spent almost all his time with the shaman these past two days, except when he was sleeping.
The reason is... so much time has passed since the Great Beast Season, and it's very important to know how much food the tribe has stored up during this period, how many people it can feed for how long, and whether it's enough to cope with the upcoming snow season.
If food supplies are insufficient, should the frequency of hunting be increased, and how many more animals need to be hunted to ensure the tribe's safe passage through the snow season and into the next small animal season?
If these arrangements hadn't been made in advance, the tribe wouldn't have been able to survive to this day.
Jiang Luoluo and Ge had originally planned to go and say hello to Wu, but after seeing this scene, they didn't dare to go over at all.
The two climbed onto the wooden platform. Jiang Luoluo took a deep breath, picked up her binoculars, and aimed them at the distant gray-dead plain, examining it carefully.
If you can only see a gray, hazy expanse of land with the naked eye, then what you see with a telescope isn't much different; it's just that the "gray" becomes a little clearer.
Empty... void...
Jiang Luoluo inexplicably had this feeling, as if nothing existed on that vast land, as if there was nothing at all.
After looking for a long time, Jiang Luoluo found no other items on that gray, lifeless plain.
It really was like... "dead".
"Death" means that nothing else exists.
"Luo, are you alright?" Ge took the binoculars from Jiang Luoluo's hands, looked at the cub's pale face, and asked with concern.
Jiang Luoluo snapped out of her daze and realized that she seemed to be too immersed in the negative emotions brought about by the Gray Dead Soil Plain.
After calming down a bit, Jiang Luoluo smiled and said, "I'm fine, Ge."
After observing the cub for a while and confirming that it was really alright, Ge nodded and asked, "Did Luo see something bad?"
Jiang Luoluo shook her head, "It's just too empty...it makes me a little uncomfortable."
"It's like... there's nothing left..."
Jiang Luoluo then patted herself on the shoulder, mustered her spirits, and shoved the binoculars into Ge's hands, saying, "Alright, that's enough. Ge, take a look too! This binocular is really powerful."
However, Jiang Luoluo gave Ge another push, making him turn around and face the opposite direction of the Gray Dead Soil Plain. "Ge, don't look there. Look at other places instead."