These days, you should never mean others harm, but you could never let your guard down, either. As a chef, Heath knew very well what good ingredients were like. In fact, this man's milk would have had no trouble selling at all, yet he had come here to personally pitch it to Heath. That was a little suspicious. Heath had seen scammers before, such as someone selling a huge bucket of oil when there was actually a plastic bag at the opening filled with fine rapeseed oil, while everything beneath it was water.
"Can I ask why you're going door to door selling this milk when its quality is so good?" Heath asked the man. This was a crucial question. He had no desire to be taken for a sucker. Things like this had happened in Viridian City, too. The cases the Officer Jennys there handled most often were all kinds of fraud. That wasn't because Viridian City was home to a telecom fraud ring, but because there were so few other crimes there that petty offenses like these were practically all the Officer Jennys could make arrests for.
When nine out of the ten people arrested in Viridian City over six months were scammers, its fraud rate would naturally seem very high.
"Well... my farm is just below the mining area, and the river that runs past my front door used to be severely polluted, so..." The man looked a little embarrassed, but he still honestly explained the reason. Heath raised an eyebrow. If that was the case, it wasn't hard to understand. After all, that would easily make people worry about the safety and quality of his milk.
"But please rest assured, our milk has all been certified safe!" the man said anxiously. He took a testing report