The Lucky Farmgirl
Chapter 582 - 571: Betting (Nine More Rewards Added for the Crowdfunding Leader’s Readers)

Chapter 582: Chapter 571: Betting (Nine More Rewards Added for the Crowdfunding Leader’s Readers)

Bai Shanbao and the others: ...

As soon as the boys heard that, they burst into laughter, and the leader immediately waved his hand, calling out, "Quick, quick, quick, everyone scatter and search, we must find our kite before they do."

Manbao pumped herself up and asked Keke, "Where could it be? Forget it, don’t tell me, we’ll find it ourselves. I don’t believe we can’t out-search them!"

So the three of them also left Daji in the tree and each ran off to search nearby.

Daji in the tree: ...

He sighed sadly, resigned himself to untangling and taking down the ensnared kite, which was a mess of kite strings entangled with branches and leaves, and naturally, he couldn’t untangle all the strings.

He decisively pulled out a short knife and cut all the strings, then carefully descended with only the kite in hand.

But before he touched the ground, he heard a boy shout, "I found it, I found it, up this tree..."

"Where is it, where is it? Wow, it’s so high, how do we get it down?"

"Where are those three’s servants? He knows how to climb trees."

Daji: ...

Daji slowed down his descent and leisurely slid down to the ground, then looked at the kite he had just taken down and frowned.

Manbao and the others rushed over to look, and when they raised their heads, they saw the kite hanging in the tree, now certain it was theirs.

Because Bai Erlang’s insect head was facing downwards, they could see it very clearly.

They had actually found it before the others...

The trio glared at the group of boys, but then remembered something and cheered up, grinning, "Can you guys climb trees?"

"We can’t, but can you?" The boys originally intended to have Bai Shanbao’s servant go up and retrieve it, but seeing their reaction, they toughened up and challenged, "We can’t climb trees, but we can fight!"

"Right, we’ll just knock it down with sticks."

This tree, where the two kites had fallen, wasn’t as tall as the previous one, so it was possible to reach them with a longer bamboo pole.

Manbao disdainfully said, "Even the best kite would be ruined if you beat it like that. Are you kite-finding or kite-killing?"

"All said and done, you just want your servant to climb up and claim the credit."

Manbao just huffed, "Even if we don’t let Daji climb, we can still get up there and take it down."

Bai Shanbao and Bai Erlang said in unison, "Exactly!"

"We don’t believe you!"

Manbao: "Then how about we make a bet? If we can climb up and get it down, then you lose. If we can’t get it down, no matter if you can or can’t, then we lose."

"What’s the bet?"

Manbao: "If we can get it down, you have to hold your own kite and say ’ugly kite’ three times and then say ’beautiful kite’ three times to our Junior Brother’s tiger kite. How about it, dare to bet?"

The boys discussed it briefly, sizing up Bai Shanbao and the others, realizing they were about the same size and possibly even a couple of years younger, so they were not afraid and said, "Let’s bet, who’s afraid? But first off, no help from your servants."

The trio from Manbao’s group declared in unison, "No problem."

Then the three of them huddled together to discuss, "Who’s going up?"

Bai Shanbao said, "Let’s do rock-paper-scissors."

Manbao: "Winner goes up, or loser goes up?"

Bai Erlang: "Of course, the winner goes up, it’s a rare chance to climb a tree rightfully."

So, they put their hands behind their backs, chanted "rock-paper-scissors," and displayed their hands simultaneously, completing three rounds quickly without any breaks in between.

In the end, the usually lucky Manbao triumphed.

She giggled and ran to Daji to get the short knife, tucking it into her waistband, then gathered her skirt and secured it at her waist before hugging the tree and swiftly scaling upward.

The seven boys gaped in amazement, speechless for a long moment.

Manbao quickly climbed up, then perched on a branch and decisively cut the tangled lines with the knife, strapped the two kites to her back, and then slid back down the tree.

The seven boys slowly closed their mouths.

Because of the wager, Manbao didn’t pretend to accidentally step on their beauty kite. Instead, she jumped down with both kites, handed back the beauty kite to them, and then tilted her chin at the seven boys, "Speak."

The seven boys: ...

Bai Erlang took over his tiger kite and stood right in front of the boys, even bringing the insect head close to them.

The seven boys turned their heads away, unable to bear looking at it. It wasn’t difficult for them to call their own beauty kite ’ugly kite’, but to call such an ugly tiger kite ’beautiful kite’ was truly against their conscience.

But under the pressure of the trio, the seven boys had to abandon their sense of shame and reluctantly muttered, against their conscience, to the tiger kite, "Beautiful kite, beautiful kite, beautiful kite..."

Manbao rubbed her ears and said, "Didn’t hear clearly."

Bai Shanbao and Bai Erlang nodded together, "That’s right, didn’t hear clearly."

The leading boy’s face flushed with anger as he yelled, "Beautiful kite, beautiful kite... Are you happy now?"

"That’s more like it," Bai Shanbao took Bai Erlang’s tiger kite, examined it carefully, and then said, "It clearly looks like a tiger. Why do you say it’s ugly?"

"Where does it look like one? Shouldn’t a tiger be a tiger?"

Bai Shanbao: "My kite is the tiger, this one is a caterpillar."

"Caterpillar kites aren’t like this either," the boy said, then suddenly pointed towards a kite in the sky, "See that one? That’s what a caterpillar kite looks like."

All three looked up for a moment, and Manbao was the first to express scorn, "Give me a break, since when does a caterpillar have a red mouth? And just a little bit red, and so prettily red at that."

"Exactly, exactly, caterpillar mouths are clearly black," Bai Erlang declared with certainty: "I’ve caught so many caterpillars, no one understands them better than I do."

"And to think that the body of the bug is so shiny! Bai Er coloring the green body yellow was already too much for me, but this caterpillar kite is even more over the top."

The boys were stunned, "Who says caterpillar kites have to look like real caterpillars? Besides, yours doesn’t look real either. Didn’t you add all those colors?"

"Mine is a caterpillar that has just rolled out of a flower bed, so it got a bit of different colors on it."

The exasperated lead boy asked, "Why are we still here talking such pointless nonsense with you?"

The trio from Manbao’s group looked at him as if he were an idiot, "Who knows you?"

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