Saving Face (first update, please vote for monthly tickets)
Xia Chujian looked reluctantly at her Antique Modao and shook her head. "This isn't for sale. The materials of this weapon may be ordinary, but it's my first cold weapon. I want to keep it for myself."
Huo Yushen said, "Wasn't your first cold weapon one of those daggers made from Crocodile Dragon Teeth?"
Xia Chujian was so rebuked that she became a little furious with embarrassment. Suppressing her temper as best she could, she said, "That's different. Forget it, stop talking nonsense. Do you want it or not? If not, I'll sell it to someone else."
Only then did Huo Yushen say, "Of course I want it. Anything Chujian produces is bound to be top quality."
Xia Chujian had not expected Huo Yushen to think so highly of her. The anger in her heart instantly vanished, and she said happily, "I just like how Marshal Huo knows quality when he sees it!"
"We won't haggle either! Fifty gold bars! Pure gold! The same pure-gold quality as last time will do!"
Last time, she had asked for five gold bars, which was fifty taels of gold, and Huo Yushen had produced them without even blinking.
She had felt that she had definitely priced it too low.
This time, she simply multiplied the price by ten. Fifty gold bars meant five hundred taels of gold.
Converted into Beichen Coin, that was 250 million Beichen Coin.
That counted as a huge sum of money anywhere! And this was gold, the universal equivalent.
Beichen Coin could depreciate, but gold would not!
Xia Chujian's mental abacus clicked so loudly that its beads were practically flying into Huo Yushen's face.
Yet Huo Yushen's temper was visibly good. He smiled faintly and said, "All right. I'm getting