The farmer who hired me is quite a sadist, he loved to make me work 12 hours a day, plus turned me into a living scarecrow for 4 hours. For the remaining time I spent 4 hours sleeping, 1 hour eating and the 3 hours talking with other people and trying to use magic(I won't tell about it, hehe, watch the chapters ahead to know). This was my routine for my life as a labourer.
One of the days, I went to a grocery store and asked the old shop owner about the food rates.
"Hey bro, how much are you selling this bread for?", I added the "bro" part to butter the old man up about his age.
"Oh, this is for 2 minths.", the shop keeper said flustered from me calling him "bro"
"Do you mean the whole loaf?"
"Nope, a slice of it"(for those of you wondering a loaf of bread costs around 2.5$ and a slice costs around 0.1$ at the very most)
"Is this the most expensive bread shop in the market?"
"No, this is one of the most cheapest if I have to say so, the average price of bread is around 2.5 minths."
"Can you tell me what are the labour rates around here?"
"The rates for unskilled labour is around 100 minths a day, and for skilled labour around 150- 500 minths. If they use magic, they get around 500- 10,000 minths"
Ladies and gentleman, This is the moment when I realised I was scammed by the two faced farmer, even the message system was holding back from laughing.
"Hey, did you know that he was scamming me?"
"Yes I did."
"Aren't you supposed to help me?"
"Why would I? Don't get the wrong idea, I am not here to help you, I am here to entertain myself. By the way what are you going to do, you can't leave the job because you signed a contract with the farmer. You insolent fool.", it said with a devilish smile.
He made me remember the contract I signed with that farmer. It had a clause saying that I can't leave the job for 2 months unless he agrees to leave me.
"Damn that sadistic farmer, he has violated my human rights, he is exploiting me, and after all the hard work I did without taking a single leave. Even the payment day was 15 days from now. I am going to revolt against that guy and ask for compensation of around 10 times from the current salary, who does he think he's scamming? I used to be the person feared in UN for my devious strategies. ", I said as I scratched my hairs( also I just realised my hairs are black and also long).
I had came up with a strategy to make the contract backfire on the farmer. I walked into the farmer's house and I said nothing about being scammed. I just put up a small warm smile.
"What happened, you look a little different today?", replied the farmer with a warm smile(How can he still keep that warm smile after scamming me like this).
"Nothing, I just feel grateful to you.", I said with a warm smile, although a nerve or two must be busting out of my forehead right now.
"Oh really, it was my duty to save a fellow human being in trouble who was less blessed than me.", he said with a warmer smile. "Less blessed", as if, does he know I conquered around two continents, each being a million times more bigger in area than his village.(Of course he will not know)
"No, sir you are the noblest of all humans to save me from my times of trouble.", I said with an even bigger smile.
"No, no, I am just a human who did the righteous and essential duty of every human being", he said with an even warmer and bigger smile.
"DROP THAT WARM SMILE ACT ALREADY AND CONTINUE WITH YOUR STRATEGY, YOU INSOLENT FOOL.", the message system urged(rather ordered ) me to continue with my plan.
The villager went away after that.
I did some jobs and then I did nothing. Yes literally, I did nothing, I just laid in the chamber allotted to me
The farmer came to check on me in my room.
"What are you doing laying around all day without doing any work, you lazy bum?", asked the farmer.
"Sir, if I remember correctly, the contract has no part that says about how much time I should work for."
"Yes it does not, but it does contain a list of daily jobs you must do."
"Sir please check, I have done all my daily jobs"
The farmer would probably be wondering right now how I managed to do all those jobs so quickly. The farmer went out of the chamber to check if I had done the jobs or not.
The list of daily jobs were - laundry, watering crops, taking care of animals, repairing house and machines, and making food.
The farmer came back with his head red from anger.
"Is this the way you do those jobs?"
"Well the contract said nothing about the way I had to do the jobs", I said while laying on the mat and digging my nose.
"WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT, WHY DID YOU LAUNDER THE CLOTHES WITH ASH AND COOKING OIL, THEY WERE SOILED BEYOND RECOVERY, YOU RETARD?"
"Well technically I was told to launder the clothes and it did not mention the way of doing it, and also ash and cooking oil can be mixed to make soap.", I said with a smug smirk and while still digging my nose.
"NOOO THAT'S NOT THE WAY YOU DO IT, ALSO WHY DID YOU USE THE LAUNDRY WATER TO WATER THE PLANTS?", he asked with an even redder face than before with some nerves popping around his face.
It was no surprise he was angry with that part, if I used that laundry water, the plants would not be able to survive. It would be poison to them
"Well have you heard of a term known as 'water harvesting'? It is a method from where I come from to save water.", I said with an even more smug face and now I was digging my ear.
"WATER HARVESTING MY ASS,ALSO WHERE DID YOU HIDE THE HIGH QUALITY CROPS?"
"I used it as fodder for the animals.", I said it trying hard to control my emotions(laughter).
"WHY WOULD YOU USE IT AS FODDER? IT WAS TOP QUALITY HARVEST."
"Have you heard of the phrase, 'the better quality of seeds you use, the better harvest you get' or 'the better you feed your pig, the more delicious your pig will be'."
"YOU-, IT DOES NOT END HERE, WHY DID YOU MADE A WEIRD DRAWING ON THE UNPAINTED WALL THAT HAD AN UGLY WEIRDO WITH A BIG SMILE WINKING HIS EYE AND SHOWING HIS THUMB UP SAYING 'Dump your garbage here' , THE NEIGHBOURS HAVE STARTED DUMPING THEIR GARBAGE IN FRONT OF THAT WALL."
Although I made the farmer's face, he thinks it's a weird ugly face, I guess people view themselves much more handsome than they actually are.
"It's called as pop art."
"YOU SONUVA-, AND WHY DID YOU POUR MILK OVER THE BREAD AND FRICKING TOSS IT IN OIL AND TOLD YOU WERE MAKING A DELICACY?"
"I was trying to make milk bread, but I guess I messed up the recipe." I said with a warm smile. Saying I "messed up" was far from the truth, in fact it does not even come close to the recipe of milk bread. I just wanted to ruin the kitchen and I was successful in my mission.
"YOU RETARD, MY SON GOT DIARRHEA FROM EATING THAT."
"You should have taught your son to not pick up anything and put it.", I said it with a devilish smile. Although I was the one who fed his son the so called "milk bread".
"YOU DEVIL, I GAVE YOU A HOUSE TO LIVE IN AND YOU ARE BITING ME BACK?"
"More like a 'you get: food, shelter, and the least wages possible and I get: free labour 24 by 7 ' trade offer even if I put it in good words, you cheapskate."
"LEAVE RIGHT NOW, THIS IS AN ORDER!"
"But~ according to the contract I have to work for 2 months at least, the contract can't be broken."
"You shrewd, fine I agree to break it."
"You are forgetting something, contract should be broken by both sides."
"YOU-, Ok how much do you want to break the contract?", he said in a pleading tone
"100 minths"
"That's too mu-"
"I raised the prices, it's two hundred now"
"ugh, you are trying to rip m-"
"500 now"
"Wait, I can tell you to do the jobs again.", he said with a smirk.
He figured that out.
Although I was expecting him to find that out as at the end it does not matter, the tables are in my favour.
"You could, but would you like to have your clothes washed from grass, grease or even ink next time? And do you want me to use salt water next while watering plants? And make some water croquettes nex-"
"Fine, just take 500 minths and leave", he said exhausted.
"The price just raised to 1000 minths."
"Is this some kind of highway robbery? Fine, I am done for."
And that is how you get more than what you are supposed to get(just do more than you are asked to do), I got 100 times more than we agreed for.
Although it was not for the money, it was more to see his expressions after torturing him.
"You slick- That even embarrassed me, how can you express such devilishness with no shame at all.", the message system(now onwards I will call it alexa) interrupted my happy time by appearing after a long time.
"Hehe, it's not about about scamming, it is more about seeing their expressions."
"What are you doing after this?"
"I am going to try to learn about magic, and also wait till I can use my summon power."
"Maybe become an -"
"No", I cut it off before it could speak.
"Why would you cut me off before I said it?"
"Because I knew you were going to say me to become an adventurer."
"Fine. Whatever suites you."
"Hehe", I let out a giggle.