Chapter 51: Charax Spasinu Merchant, Mosaide (1/2)

“Wang Chong, Wang Chong… You’re finally here! I would be at a loss if you didn’t arrive soon!”

The moment Wang Chong stepped into the Bluebottle Pavilion, Wei Hao immediately rushed out, drenched in sweat.

“What’s wrong?”

Wang Chong frowned. He stared at Wei Hao with a bizarre look.

Wei Hao was a straightforward person, and there was rarely anything he could worry him. This was the first time that he had seen him get so anxious.

“Something happened! Something big has happened! The ones who want to ruin your business came!”

Panicking, Wei Hao stuttered.

“Calm down, speak slowly. Even if the sky falls, I’ll be there to shoulder it! What do you mean by ruin my business?”

Wang Chong said as he did a calming gesture.

Perhaps it was due to Wang Chong’s tranquil attitude, Wei Hao gradually calmed down. Then, he recounted the matter to Wang Chong. It turns out that yesterday evening, when Wei Hao was about to return, a Charax Spasinu merchant named Mosaide suddenly arrived.

That fellow kept speaking inarticulate Chinese. From the very start, he kept speaking all kinds of praises for the swords in the Central Plains, something about how it was unthinkable, and how the swords were like compared to the Western Regions.

Wei Hao was delighted of the thought that he had finally met someone he could leech off. However, in the blink of an eye, the other party suddenly took out a saber and requested to challenge Wang Chong.

Only then did Wei Hao realize that ‘Bastard, that fellow is here to ruin the business!’.

Given Wei Hao’s nature, he immediately demanded the other party to leave. Yet, at that moment, the fellow started to feign that he was unable to understand what Wei Hao was speaking, saying words like ‘My Chinese is not good, I don’t understand what you are saying!’.

All in all, he stubbornly sat in the Bluebottle Pavilion, resolute to face-off against the sword that Wang Chong had hung on the pavilion. Wei Hao had argued with him for a long time, and the ruckus they had caused had attracted the attention of quite a few people. In fact, the business of Bluebottle Pavilion had been impacted as well.

Wei Hao wanted to throw him out, but this fellow seemed to be a weapon trader. In addition to the fact, he was loaded with money. As long as he didn’t break the rules, Wei Hao wasn’t in a good position to evict him.

“Wang Chong, if you were any later, I might have collapsed from the pressure! The fellow kept prattling on how he wanted to hang his weapon on the Bluebottle Pavilion to display it before everyone else, and that since you were able to do so, why can’t he do the same? Then, the argument started to escalate to the relationship between Central Plains and Charax Spasinu! I really can’t deal with him.”

Wei Hao spoke everything which he had bore in his stomach out. He thought that selling Wang Chong’s sword would be simple, and that it would just involve passing over the product and taking the other party’s money. He didn’t expect for it to get so complicated.

“Where’s that Charax Spasinu merchant?”

Wang Chong asked.

“He’s inside. I’ve stalled him for now, saying that we’ll chat after you arrive.”

The moment Wang Chong appeared, Wei Hao seemed to have found his pillar of support and calmed down.

“Let’s go, bring me to him!”

Wang Chong had someone prepare a room for the two Sinhi monks before following behind Wei Hao.

…

In one of the rooms inside the Bluebottle Pavilion, Wang Chong finally met with the Charax Spasinu merchant that Wei Hao spoke of.

“You are Mosaide?”

Wang Chong stared at the bearded man before him.

“You’re the owner of the sword?”

Mosaide stared at Wang Chong in shock. He didn’t expect the owner of the sword to be just a teenager.

However, upon seeing Wang Chong nod his head in response to his question, he dumped all of his thoughts to the back of his head. His passion for swords had allowed him to disregard everything else. Age or whatsoever weren’t in his list of concerns.

“Great! I like your sword a lot. You must be an incredible swordmaster! This is a top-notch saber from Charax Spasinu, as well as a sword that I value greatly. I want to face-off with you!”

Mosaide stood up from his rattan chair with a passionate expression.

“Didn’t I say it already? It’s not allowed!”

Wei Hao lashed out. Why wouldn’t this fellow listen to anything he said? If not for Chamberlain of Dependencies’s order to treat all foreign guests and merchants with respect, and one was strictly forbidden from laying their hands on them, he would have thrown him out long ago.

“Sure!”

Wang Chong replied.

That simple word of his seemed to contain endless magical strength. The entire room suddenly turned completely silent and still.

Wei Hao stared at Wang Chong in shock with his mouth was wide opened, unable to believe his ears.

The reason why he had rushed down to find Wang Chong and stalled for time was so that Wang Chong could reject his offer. Otherwise, he could have just accepted his request yesterday.

However, despite all of the efforts he had put into rejecting the other party, Wang Chong immediately accepted the other party’s request without the slightest bit of hesitation.

Mosaide was also surprised.

He had been to the other weapon shops, and when he first entered, the other party would be extremely passionate. However, when he brought up such a request, they would all reject him and urge him out of their shops.

Before this, the gongzi (Wei Hao) had tried all means to reject his request. Mosaide had also prepared a long speech to convince the swordsmith to cross blows with him. Yet, despite it, the other party accepted his request readily.

This caused Mosaide to be stunned.

“Wang Chong, you’re insane!”

Wei Hao finally recovered from his shock, and disregarding Mosaide’s presence, he grabbed Wang Chong’s arm and dragged him to the room beside.

“That fellow is obviously here to ruin your business. You know that he’s up to no good, so why did you agree to his request?”

Wei Hao said flustered in a suppressed voice.

Wang Chong’s decision caught him off-guard. As the situation was too far off from what he had expected initially, he was unable to accept it all of a sudden.

“Calm down!”