Farming Together Chapter 246: Don’t offend too many people in one breath

Chapter 246: Don’t offend too many people in one breath

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: GaeaTiamat

“Impossible, what I brought over was clearly a golden and an ordinary duck, who are you to say that the number I brought is incorrect?!” Petty Thief was a young man aged around twenty-five, still a little handsome, but at this time, he was arguing with the NPC duck farm boss because of the number of ducks and the points of the event.

The village duck farm boss was a sturdy middle-aged man, taller than Petty Thief by a head, with glaring eyes which made people unable to help but feel scared inside. In his opinion, the words of Petty Thief were clearly sophistry. A black duck plus a green duck, was obviously only one, but he actually had the nerve to say that there were seven. Nowadays, young people don’t even learn arithmetic well!

“If I say it’s not right, it’s not right. Am I the owner of the duck farm or are you the owner of the duck farm?” The boss’s eyes glared and he stretched out his big bushy hand to wave people aside, “Nothing to see here. Don’t block the front, can’t you see there are others in line behind you?”

Without the blockage of Petty Thief,  the players went forward one by one, handing over the ducks and getting points. It was obviously a negotiation process, but the owner of the duck farm was like the most precise instrument, and in just a dozen seconds, all the players who came to hand in their ducks were taken care of.

Bai QingNing mixed in among the players, and got the bonus points for this round.

Petty Thief, who was waved to the side with his ducks, for a moment, looked towards the ducks that were running around, and then looked up at the duck farm owner in disbelief, as he tried to see a little bit of weakness on the other person’s face. However, no, there was none at all. Still, in any case he doesn’t believe that the number of ducks he caught was wrong. So, there was only one possibility. It was their own hard work to catch the ducks, but this boss to black!

Good grief, this black-hearted boss! He obviously ignored his ducks, but also said that he caught the wrong number. The wrong duck was confiscated and wouldn’t be returned to him, so he wanted to find someone to judge without evidence.

This moment, a brutal person met more “brutal and unreasonable” people, and so Petty Thief felt suffocated for the first time since the game started.

However, what could he do? He had no recourse. All he could do was to continue to honestly catch ducks, and submit the number the duck farm bosses set down.

It wasn’t easy for Petty Thief to finish resolving his emotions and let the depression in his heart dissipate, but what happened in the following rounds challenged his bottom line again and again.

Three ducks. Successfully gained points.

Seven ducks. Wrong number, no points.

Nine ducks. Wrong number, no points.

Four ducks. Successful in gaining points.

Eight ducks. Wrong number, no points.

Some things, ah, not to be chosen once that could be tolerated, but after the fourth time he received a wrong notice about the number of ducks submitted, Petty Thief finally broke down. He yelled and pulled at the duck farm boss as he demanded that he give him a reasonable explanation.

“What do you mean? All the ducks below five passed normally, but all the ones above five are stuck saying I have the wrong number, so you can’t see the small ones and eat the big ones in one go? You don’t think you are the owner of the duck farm. I don’t dare say anything about you, I tell you, I will also go to put in a complaint. If you don’t give me an account today, I will go to LiLi to judge you, believe it or not!”

The owner of the duck farm didn’t know who “LiLi” was. He was just a mediocre active NPC.

Petty Thief was aggrieved, and now he felt more aggrieved! It was clear that he was working seriously, but several times the same person accused him of backstabbing. To have such dirty water thrown on anyone wasn’t pleasant.

It just so happened that all the rounds of that game had ended and the players could choose to exit the event map or stay for ten minutes and be automatically transported out. Since a player was tugging at his sleeve and insisted that he give a reason, he would have a good argument with someone!

“You want a reason, right? Then I’ll tell you.” The owner of the duck farm reached out and brushed off Petty Thief’s hand, pulled at his clothes and said in a deep voice, “I don’t know exactly how you operate when you catch ducks, but I will never count wrong. The first time I failed you, you gave me minus one for six ducks; the second time, you gave me zero for seven ducks; the third time, you gave me two for nine ducks; and the last time, you gave me only one for a total of eight ducks. I still want to ask you what’s going on. If you don’t want to help me catch ducks, don’t make trouble for me either!”

“How is that possible, when did I give you what you said!” More and more, he felt that this boss was lying to him. He followed his example and counted with his fingers, “The first time, I brought you a normal and a golden duck; the second time, I brought you a black and a golden duck; the third time, I brought you two blacks and a golden duck; the last time, I brought you three normal and one golden duck for you. Did you make any mistake in the number you quoted? It’s obvious that you made a mistake and you won’t admit it!”

Sophistry, this was clearly sophistry! The owner of the duck farm was furious and said loudly, “When did you bring a golden duck? Clearly there was a green duck every time you brought it over, okay? What are you trying to imply? Let me tell you, my daughter-in-law and I are in love with this business. Others can not interfere with a half a foot kind of behavior! Or do you say that you cannot distinguish between the color gold and green? Are you color blind?”

Petty Thief, “…”

The players, who were watching with great interest, “…”

The duck farm owner knows a lot.

Although the owner of the duck farm confiscated all the ducks handed over, not only was this explanation considered reasonable, it also gave a more reasonable explanation in his opinion. Plus just by looking at his expression, his face was natural, his eyes didn’t have any flicker, and there was also a faint aggression, it wasn’t like a lying look.

The scales in the hearts of the other players present, except for Petty Thief, were all biased toward the duck farm owner, as they cast sympathetic glances toward him.

The boss was miserable, the boss cried!

Petty Thief was confused, completely confused. How could he expect that what he waited for would actually have such an answer? This made him involuntarily suspicious. Could it really be that he was blind or was he suddenly suffering from gold/green color blindness?

But this shouldn’t be…

He purposely took out a gold coin, looked at it in his hand, and Petty Thief fell into deep thought. The green color as gold, whoever heard of this would say “outrageous,” right? The surrounding players exchanged passionate words in a voice they thought Petty Thief couldn’t hear.

“This guy is too miserable, right? He actually didn’t get points four times? There are only a few rounds in a game…”

“But this is also really a bit strange, ah. There were two times when I was not far behind this buddy in line, and I also saw him holding a golden duck, so why did the boss say the duck is green? In the end, who is really color blind?”

“Who is color-blind? You still need to ask? If it’s the boss, how come there’s no mistake on the other side? I think the problem is with this guy. He’s not being shaded, is he?”

“Well…Is it that likely that someone among us disguised the green ducks as golden ducks, and made him catch those disguised ducks, just to achieve the purpose of making him not get the points? But it’s only four times that he didn’t get points. It’s only a few dozen compared to more than a hundred points, and doesn’t seem to make that much difference with a total number of three activity days?”

“Hey? I was just thinking how this dude looks a little familiar, so it’s him! You don’t know, but the last time when I submitted eight ducks, I saw with my own eyes that he grabbed a golden duck butt that was showing a few green feathers! Green, green, green, green. I absolutely cannot be wrong. In contrast to the golden color on its body, I now prefer to believe that the green color is its own color, it seems that this big brother is really being shady, ah! Tsk, tsk! Who is so naughty ah…”

Was it a question of being naughty? The person who shaded him behind his back was simply too vicious! Petty Thief only felt that at this time he was on the edge of an explosive barrel of gunpowder. If there was a fuse, then with a few sparks he would probably explode.

However, then he thought about it. In the past month, he seemed to have offended a lot of people in the village, so if he wanted to find his “killer” to kill among these people it would be quite difficult. And…If this was really revenge, he actually had no reason to accuse people. As it turned out, it was really important not to offend too many people in one breath, because in that case it became impossible to find out who actually returned the favor to you.

As he watched Petty Thief wilt down at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his face also become a miserable green, Bai QingNing only felt a calm feeling inside. The backlog of days of depression were completely dissipated. He was careful when he “sent” the ducks to Petty Thief. Each time he had to give himself a new set of clothes, and the means of “sending” the ducks to the door were different. Even if Petty Thief found suspicious-looking people around him, he would never would never have thought that those four people would actually be the same person, haha!

A player asked if this was a good idea, and Bai QingNing said, “Of course it is!” Although only a hundred points were lost, at least he was angry. From now on Bai QingNing wouldn’t have to gnash his teeth when he thought of the dishes that were stolen. Although he didn’t get revenge on the spot, the ability to remember revenge was still comforting. After today’s incident, the grudge between him and that neighbor was also considered eliminated…

As for the other player who mentioned a few green feathers on the duck’s butt…Bai QingNing quietly shrank his neck. It was also his fault. He didn’t think that the gold dye would actually not be enough. For the last duck, when he got to the bottom, it was almost coated but there wasn’t enough for the whole body.

Fortunately, fortunately, there were only a few feathers not coated. The empty hand was also lame, so obvious flaws were not noticed. In the end, Petty Thief also had himself to blame for not getting points, hum!

At the end, the curtain came down with the incident being relayed to the forum by the player who had watched it. Although other village players would have liked to participate in the discussion in the forum, the most important thing at the moment was to experience the single player versions of the duck catching game.

Whether they entered the Cosmic Wander version of the duck catching map or the Victorious Sound Wave version of the duck catching map, all the players received the first prompt from the system asking if they would like their game play to be randomly captured by the exclusive live broadcast of Carefree Farmstead.