74 Your Death Will Lead To My Miserable Life (1/2)
Besides… the spear was for his future father-in-law.
This act perfectly described: “fertile soil never went to the fields of strangers” [1].
Ye Xiao felt happy about it.
“Well… If you really like it…” The shopkeeper thought for a while and said, “750 thousand taels of silver. What do you think?”
The shopkeeper was obviously raising the price.
Ye Xiao knew it as well. The spear might not be ordinary, but for the weapons in the market, the prices of the best ones were no higher than 50 thousand.
Although that spear was far better than those weapons, the price should not be above 500 thousand!
The difference of ten times had reached the limit!
It should be stated that spending 500 thousand for just a spear… would be simply squandering money. A weapon with its spirit broken wasn’t worthy of that.
In Ye Xiao’s estimation, the spear was only worth about 250 thousand. That was already an exaggerated price.
The shopkeeper knew that Ye Xiao had sharp eyes, yet he still stated a price like that. He had felt uncomfortable because Ye Xiao would have the needles and knives for free, so he intended to earn some money from the spear!
He looked at Ye Xiao with a smile. Apparently, he was waiting for Ye Xiao to bargain.
[The price must have scared the guy. He will either be angry or talk a lot to bargain. If he really wants it, it will surely take me a long time to finish the deal. However, he spent nothing and took two weapons from me…
Even though the needles and knives are defective and nobody ever wants them, they are still the last creations of the great master. He wouldn’t dare to bargain drastically for the spear, would he?
No matter what price you make, I will gain some profits at least. That will fix my loss.]
“A fair price.” Contrary to the shopkeeper’s expectation, Ye Xiao agreed without hesitation, “750 thousand, right? That’s it then. I will take it!”
The shopkeeper was shocked and skeptical, because he couldn’t truly believe what he had just heard.
He would have never thought that there was a fool like this guy in the world. Not even in his dreams.
A spear, which was slightly better than average quality, was priced for 750 thousand taels of silver! The guy didn’t even bargain, he just agreed without any hesitation!
However, he didn’t know that from the moment he spoke out the price of 750 thousand, he had already lost the opportunity for the Divine Arms Mill to truly rise in the Land of Han-Yang!
Ye Xiao always discriminated between love and hate. He paid debts with gratitude to friends, and with savagery to his enemies.
The reason why he hesitated when they were talking about the needles and knives was because he was thinking about whether or not to accept them. And, he finally chose to accept the needles and knives. That meant that he owed a favor to Shen Lianzi and also agreed to his request.
He had decided to keep an eye on the Divine Arms Mill. If they behaved themselves, he wouldn’t mind helping them truly rise or taking them under his protection once he became strong enough.
However, he wouldn’t mind it if he was to return the favor with money. That would reduce a lot of extra efforts on his side.
A favor was the debt that was the most difficult to pay!
If it was possible to return a favor with money, it was the best bargain!
For Ye Xiao, money was the cheapest thing after all.
To end the connection with 750 thousand taels of silver, that was really the best bargain!
He discriminated between love and hate indeed, yet he was not a stubborn man.
Even so, if the Divine Arms Mill had troubles in the future, Ye Xiao would offer his help.
However, it would only be similar to that of the departed master’s last words… only a “favor”!
Then he could comfort his heart by having paid the debt.
He took out some notes and counted 750 thousand taels of silver worth of money. He gave the notes to the shopkeeper with pleasure and relief, and then he reached his hand to pick up the spear. He said, “I hope we can see each other again.” Then he turned and left.
The shopkeeper held the stack of notes and watched Ye Xiao’s back. He didn’t feel happy about earning a lot. Instead, he felt like he had done something terribly wrong…
However, that feeling just flashed away. After that, what he could feel was only the great pleasure of gaining so much money!
[Yah, hah, hah. Wealth!
I gained over 650 thousand by selling only a single spear… With that material and quality, counting in all the extra cost, the spear costed me no more than 100 thousand…]
Ye Xiao walked out the shop with the spear in hand. He casually swung the spear and split it into three parts. One part was the spearhead, while the others were only metal sticks.
There were two sets of circular joints to reconnect the three parts. The spear could easily be rejoined with a sound of “ka”. It was tightly joined and was able to bear all kind of strikes. As long as the strikes were below the strike-resistance threshold of the spear, the joints could handle them well…
There were some light patterns on the spear emitting a sense of coolness. Ye Xiao knew that there must be some Wind Copper mixed into the spear during the tempering. It allowed the spear to absorb the sweat in the hands during the fight.
This design prevented the spear from slipping off from the user’s hands and causing mistakes. Besides, it made the spear extremely comfortable to hold. That was really an original and convenient idea.
Two small words were engraved on the sphere.
“Hundred Fights!”
It weighed 78 kilograms!