Rated F for Farming, Now Every Guild Bids on My Vegetables novel · Chapter 22 of 32

Chapter 22: Read It Aloud

Yook turned his head and looked at them.

Forty-one of his raiders stood on the bench, shaking, and none of them sat down.

"Sit," he said.

Nobody sat.

The bottle hung in his fist over the lot stone, and the whole hall watched it.

"Master Yook," said the crier. "The next lot waits."

Gyu-ho sat forward in the stone seat with his hands locked on its arms.

He knew exactly what that bottle would say, and so did one other man in the hall.

Yook looked up at the stone seat.

"You think I don't know what it'll say?" he said to the hood, quietly. "I brewed it."

Then he smashed the bottle on the lot stone.

The glass burst, and the gray cordial ran across the flat top and soaked into the rock.

A line of light came up on its face, in letters big enough for the top bench to read.

[Hanbat cordial. Causes the fade it eases.]

Yook stood with his wet fist on the stone and his mouth shut.

He wasn't going to read it.

Gyu-ho had not thought of that.

He had built the whole term on a man who would rather be humiliated than barred, and Yook would rather be neither.

The words were on the stone for everyone, and the one mouth the term named was shut.

The uncured hammer twin came down off the bench.

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