With the items laid out on the table, all resplendent and shining brightly, it gave Ai Ren a huge shock. He reached out his hands and picked up the first piece a short sword the length of an arm.
"This… this is… 'Xue Jian, the blood blade of grieving widows'. This blade was used by Yue Qing, a famous female general in the past, it was said that her husband was viciously killed in war prompting her to step forward to take over her husband's role. It is said that her blade contains the souls of her enemies that are used to appease the grieving widows who lost their husband.
It was last seen in a horrible condition almost reaching a breaking point, but after that, it vanished off the face of this earth, how did it end up in your hands? Did you restore it? Are you a master-level blacksmith too?"
"Err… Nope, this was passed to me by my master, I didn't realize it was a big deal… He was the one that restored this…"
Ai Ren nodded his head as he reached out to the second item on the table. He stopped himself before he touched the item, the first item already had given him a shock so he decided to carefully wear his gloves before he went ahead to touch the next item.
"This is... 'Xiao Xin, the incarnation of filial piety'. It's another named item… A long time ago Zhang Gong was a war hero, he was known for his bravery and immense power. After a long, he fathered a son and that son grew up not seeing his dad often. He hated the military and had refused to go into the military line.
His relationship with his father was strained and he kept to himself focusing instead on becoming a blacksmith. In the war with the south, his father aged 50 was called into battle yet again, Zhang Gong's son wouldn't see his father off and was busy in the smithy.
Two months passed and the skirmish lasted forever, Zhang Gong had lost a majority of his troops and his body was battered, but he insisted on fighting the long battle. Amidst the warzone a young man arrived limping as he dragged a huge case on his back, he looked like he hadn't eaten in days, his body was wounded from walking through a hail of arrows and he looked like he wasn't going to make it.
The fire in his eyes burned strongly as he finally arrived in front of Zhang Gong. Zhang Gong, cried while gripping onto his son whom he thought had already forsaken him, his last words to his father were that he had always loved him and he wanted to see him survive, so he crafted this armor.
Wearing the armor, he rode forward with sadness in his heart, on that day he won the battle almost single-handedly, the armor that Zhang Gong's son made was of a legendary quality it had protected his father through the battle and after which the armor was known as 'Xiao Xin the incarnation of filial piety. It was also lost, but to see it in this condition, I'm really shocked."
At this time Zhu Jiao was in shock, the items that he repaired were actually legendary items. He just read the TL;DR of the items with his
Before Zhu Jiao had time to recover Ai Ren had already reached out to the next time.
"This is… just an ordinary weapon, but it has great craftsmanship though."
Zhu jiao sighed a breath of relief, he didn't want to go through another long story about how the weapon came to be.
After inspecting the rest of the weapons Ai Ren looked at Zhu Jiao seriously.
"I'll give you an offer, 1 million school credits… and an additional 10 million gold outside of that. Also, we will give you a diamond card as proof of VIP status in the Equipment Hall."
"Whut!?" Zhu Jiao gave an exclamation followed by a shocked pikachu face.
"Is the amount not to your liking? We can have it tweaked further…" Ai Ren replied he was determined not to let such an opportunity go.
"I'm okay with the amount, it's just... Are your calculations even correct?"
"Master Lin, to be frank, just the first two named items alone already hold a significant value, plus the high-quality items, the amount we provided is definitely reasonable."
Zhu jiao nodded his head, he was excited that his trip to the storage and his week-long repair work became profitable. After they shook hands on the deal they signed the contract and Zhu Jiao had his school credits recorded into his token.
He waited for the money to show up eagerly.
"Master Lin, I just need to ask, would you like a bank transfer or would you like me to write a cheque?"
"You don't have modern toilets in this world, but you have a bank, bank transfers, and cheques? If they didn't have investments & insurance tied together with it, I'll be really surprised. No wait, if they don't have investments & insurance I guess I could make that my core business as well."
Zhu Jiao started drooling as the thought of making even more money made him really happy.
"Why don't you open a turnip stock market? I heard it's a thing now. HAHAHHAHAHA."
His thoughts got disrupted by Jimmy who was cracking a joke.
"If I invest in the turnip stock market I won't have any money to pay off my housing loan. You thought I didn't catch the reference huh!" Zhu Jiao replied with a smile.
Zhu Jiao snapped out of his thoughts as he turned over to Ai Ren who was awaiting the answer.
"Cheque please, I don't have a bank account yet."