The Opportunity
From Create Your Own Story
Once upon a time, there lived a very poor farmer. He lived on the outskirts of a great and powerful kingdom. At his farm, he sold 2 things: tomatoes and pigs.That's all he had because that's all he could afford. But, since his farm was so insignificantly small, not many people purchased his goods. In fact, only one person bought his products: the Knave. Once a week, the Knave of the great and poweful kingdom would come to the poor farmer and buy 10 tomatoes and 1 pig. The farmer always thought the Knave was just being nice, until one day. That day turned out to be a great turning point for the farmer, and he was offered a great opportunity. The events that day went something like this: the poor farmer was feeding his pigs, hoping someone would buy one of them, when he saw a carriage speeding toward his farm. This greatly surprised the farmer because the Knave only came on friday afternoons. At that time, it was tuesday morning. The carriage abruptly stopped on the road next to the farm. The Knave jumped out of the carriage and rushed to the poor farmer, fantically saying, "Please, Farmer Roland, I simply must have 20 of your best tomatoes!" The poor farmer who's name is Roland nodded and went over to his front porch, where he kept his wicker baskets.He picked one of them up and hurriedly walked to his tomato patch and began picking 20 of his best tomatoes. When poor farmer Roland handed the basket to the Knave, the Knave seemed very uneasy. Then he said, "Also, I'll need you to come with me, back to the castle." Farmer Roland was astonished. The Knave was actually asking him to go to the castle. But, he thought, would his crops and livestock be safe all alone? What should he do?
Does he:
