Chapter 13

Translator: Zayn_

[ Han Dynasty dragon-shaped jade pendant, incomplete mid-grade magical artifact. Repairable. Requires 50 repair points. Do you wish to repair it?]

[ Repair points: 10 points. Not enough, unable to repair!]

Another line of text appeared after the first line, which indicated that Su Xiaofan’s repair points were not enough to repair the so-called broken artifact.

“An item from the Han Dynasty? It’s indeed an ancient jade. But what the hell is this broken magical artifact?” Looking at the dragon-shaped jade pendant in his hand, Su Xiaofan was a little dumbfounded. The repair system in his mind could actually identify artifacts, and the text that appeared indicated that it was a magical artifact, and it was broken, and could be repaired with repair points.

Su Xiaofan no longer doubted the function of the repair points after experiencing it himself. However, he didn’t expect that the points could repair not only the body but also objects.

Unfortunately, Su Xiaofan only had 30 repair points before. Even if he didn’t recover his bodily functions, all his repair points added together were not enough to repair this incomplete magical artifact.

“Is this dharma artifact the same as those that Brother Gang fiddled with?”

Su Xiaofan was no stranger to the term “dharma artifact” because there were all kinds of artifacts in the antique market. The string of Buddha beads was a Dharma artifact, the golden sword strung together by copper coins was also a dharma artifact, the compass used by Daoist priests was a dharma artifact, and there were also eight-trigram mirrors, wooden fish, bells, drums, gongs, and cloud boards. As long as it was related to the two professions of monks and Daoist priests, many of them could be called dharma artifacts.

Zheng Dagang’s main business in the antique market was to sell these “dharma artifacts”. In the words of Zheng Dagang’s customers, the things in his stall had been blessed by an eminent monk. If he invited them home, he could turn misfortune into good fortune.

However, Su Xiaofan knew that Zheng Dagang’s so-called “Dharma artifacts” were basically imported from the wholesale market of crafts. Su Xiaofan had followed him there several times.

An item that cost 30 to 50 yuan would immediately be worth a lot after being called a ‘dharma artifact’. It would be cheap to sell it for 300 to 500 Yuan.

Su Xiaofan had seen Zheng Dagang sell a prayer wheel that cost 50 to 60 Yuan for 800 US dollars, which was 5000 to 6000 Yuan.

Su Xiaofan also helped in the process. The two of them echoed each other and said that the modern handicraft was a magical weapon of a Tibetan Holy monk, which fell into Zheng Dagang’s hands after being turned around. If it weren’t for the man’s fate, he wouldn’t have sold it even for 8000 dollars, let alone 800 dollars. Su Xiaofan’s English was very good, and in the end, he duped the foreign man and sold it for 800 dollars.

This was the case in the antique market. As long as the story was well told, there was nothing that couldn’t be sold. Many customers liked this. Zheng Dagang had advised Su Xiaofan to make more bronze weapons such as the vajra so that he could sell them as Dharma artifacts. The two brothers could work together to make his Dharma artifact business bigger and stronger.

“Hey, why are you in a daze, kid?” Seeing his son holding the jade pendant in silence for a long time, Su Weixuan patted Su Xiaofan on the shoulder and said, “You have an injury on your back, so don’t wear it around your neck. I’ll find a rope for you to tie it around. You can play with it as a pendant.”

“Alright, Dad. This thing of yours looks a little like a magical artifact.” Su Xiaofan blurted out as he was thinking about the Dharma artifact.

“A magic artifact? What the hell is that?” Su Weixuan was baffled. He waved his hand and said, “Who cares if it’s a magic artifact or not? Just take it with you as a protective talisman. You can rest for a while. I’ll go and settle the discharge procedures for you.”

“Alright,” he said. Su Xiaofan nodded. He was going to go back to the market to see if Zheng Dagang’s items would show the word “magic artifact” in his mind.

..

The hospital was definitely one of the most profitable businesses at the moment. It was difficult to be hospitalized and discharged, and Su Weixuan took more than two hours to complete the discharge procedures.

After the procedures were completed, the three of them left the hospital empty-handed. Su Weixuan had thrown away the thermos and other things that Su Xiaoxiao had taken from home.

In Su Weixuan’s words, he had to cross the brazier when he came out of the hospital and went home. However, Su Xiaofan had the amulet he gave him to ward off bad luck, so he didn’t have to cross the brazier.

Su Xiaofan returned to his neighborhood and went to the supermarket to thank Uncle Niu. He then bought some groceries. If Uncle Niu hadn’t discovered that he had been electrocuted, Su Xiaofan would have been dead by now.

When they got home, Su Weixuan went to the kitchen and prepared a table full of dishes for Su Xiaofan and his sister. The middle-aged man’s cooking was excellent, and the food looked, smelled, and tasted good. Su Xiaofan’s appetite was greatly whetted, and if his sister hadn’t stopped him, he would have eaten at least three bowls of rice.

“Dad, is little sister’s school reliable?”

After dinner, Su Xiaofan and his father sat on the sofa in the living room and drank tea. The tea leaves were brought by Su Weixuan, and they had a refreshing taste, different from the tea Su Xiaofan had ever drunk.

“Yanjing University is the top university in the country. Ask Xiaoxiao to go.” Su Weixuan said, “If you’re happy, then so be it. If you’re not, then drop out and come home. I can still afford to support you two.”

“Dad, just give me more living expenses. I heard there’s a lot of good food in Yanjing.” Hearing his father’s words, Su Xiaoxiao, who had just finished washing the dishes in the kitchen, had her eyes lit up.

“Dad, did you make a fortune this time?”

Su Xiaofan tilted his head to look at his father and said, “In the past, you were always so stingy when you came home. When I asked you to buy a phone, you would even buy me a second-hand phone. Why are you so generous to us this time?”

“In the past, you and Xiaoxiao had yet to establish your values. Being rich might not be a good thing. Take off your shirt and I’ll apply some burn medicine for you.”

Su Weixuan patted his son’s shoulder and said, “Now that you and Xiaoxiao are both grown up, you have your own values when it comes to money. As long as you two don’t eat, drink, gamble, prostitute and indulge in debauchery, dad’s money is enough to support you.”

“Dad, what’s a prostitute? Is it very expensive?” Su Xiaoxiao blinked her big eyes and looked at Su Weixuan in confusion.

“Go, go, go. Stop nagging me. Take your brother’s clothes.” Su Weixuan glared at his daughter. He knew that his daughter looked carefree, but she was actually very black-bellied, while Su Xiaofan was much more honest.

“So I’ve really become a rich second generation?”

Su Xiaofan chuckled, took off his shirt, and turned around. “Dad, take it easy. Don’t try to fool me with some fake medicine. My life is in your hands.”

“What do you know? You can’t even buy my medicine with money.”

Su Weixuan took out a box of ointment from his suitcase. When he opened it, a sweet scent filled the room. Su Xiaofan stuck his head out to take a look. The ointment was green in color and looked good.

“Eh? This medicine is really good, it’s very comfortable.”

When Su Weixuan applied the ointment on his back, Su Xiaofan immediately felt a cool sensation seeping into his skin from his back. The burning wound seemed to have cooled down, and the cool feeling was very comfortable.

“Nonsense, when have I ever lied to you?” Su Weixuan carefully applied the ointment evenly and gestured for Su Xiaofan, who was lying on the sofa, to sit up.

“Don’t wear any clothes and don’t apply it. Let the ointment absorb naturally. The skin will grow new tomorrow. Use it again three days later. It will be cured in a week at most. If the effect is good, there may not be any scars.”

Su Weixuan could clearly see that the bleeding on his son’s back had stopped, and his skin was shrinking. He was obviously satisfied with the effect of the ointment.

“The effect is so obvious?”

Su Xiaofan was taken aback, and then focused on the burn wound on his back. A line of words appeared in his mind.

[ repair points: 10 points ]

[ Back burn, recoverable. Requires 2 repair points. Do you want to recover? ]

“It requires two repair points? Wasn’t it supposed to be at eight?” Su Xiaofan suspected that he had seen wrong, and when he looked again, there were indeed two points.

“Dad’s medicine is a little magical.”

Before Su Xiaofan was discharged from the hospital, he had looked at the repair points required to heal the injury on his back. It had been eight points, but as soon as the ointment was applied, the repair points became two points, which meant that the effect of the ointment was equivalent to six repair points.

“Dad, why don’t you just give up on being a captain? I think selling this medicine is a good idea.”

Su Xiaofan looked at his father seriously. He knew the grade of his burns. Third-degree burns would disfigure him if they happened to his face. The value of the ointment was immeasurable since it could almost cure him.

“This medicine can’t be bought with money.”

Su Weixuan shook his head and didn’t say much. He looked around the room and said, “This house is a little small. I’ll sleep in the living room tonight, and you sleep in the bedroom, Xiaofan. We’ll go buy a house tomorrow, and we won’t be living here anymore.”

“Buy a house?”

Su Xiaofan and Su Xiaoxiao looked at their father at the same time.

Before Su Xiaofan’s accident, the siblings were still worried about the 100,000 Yuan for school fees. They didn’t expect that they would become a family with a house once their father returned. This didn’t seem real.

Also, Su Xiaofan and Su Xiaoxiao were used to being thrifty, and they were both young people who hadn’t reached the stage of buying a house and starting a family. Renting a house felt quite good. They felt that their father was a little arrogant today.

“Why are you looking at me? I told you, dad is rich.”

Su Weixuan was exasperated when he saw how his son and daughter looked at him as if he was a prodigal. He had no status in the family at all.

After a while, Su Xiaofan was driven back to his room by his father to rest. The next morning, the family of three went to look for a house. As the captain, Su Weixuan could only stay at home for a week, and he had to go back immediately after buying a house.

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[ Back burn, repairable. Requires 2 repair points. Do you want to repair?]

“Two repair points, should we try again?”

Lying on the bed, Su Xiaofan felt like a cat was scratching his heart. He still didn’t know how to get repair points. It could be said that the more he used, the less he would get. If it still required eight repair points, Su Xiaofan might choose not to repair it, but it only required two, and it seemed like he could afford it.

moreover, the effect of his father’s ointment was not bad. If the repair effect of the repair points was too exaggerated, he could just push it to the effect of the ointment and he would not need to sleep on his stomach anymore.