It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 376

Aside from occasional anxiety due to poor communication with the outside world, and worry about the few red-rooted vegetables she left behind in the prefectural city that might have been lost forever, Jiang Yan's life at the farm was actually quite pleasant.

Especially after the pig, who had only been listless for two days after her surgery, recovered and grew noticeably within a week, Jiang Yan couldn't resist going over to take a closer look.

The farm manager was also very happy, and these past two days he had been hesitating about whether to cut open the ram that was kept in another pen.

The main reason for his dilemma is that after the surgery, the pig's appetite has increased significantly, and the amount of hay he has stored may not be enough to feed it safely through the winter.

At the end of October, Jiang Yan had just lulled the babbling baby to sleep when Chunying and Nanny Yuan returned to the room.

"Jiang Yan, the manager wants to see you. We're slaughtering a pig today."

"Slaughtering a pig? Wow~" Jiang Yan cheered softly.

The original plan was to slaughter the pig last week and celebrate Jiang Yan's missed 18th birthday. However, seeing that the pig was growing well and could still grow, Jiang Yan, the steward, and the doctor reached an agreement to give it another week's worth of feed to help it gain more fat.

Although Chunying and Tianjiu insisted that it was better to swallow it for safety, their opinions were ruthlessly rejected; out of three, their opinions were not adopted.

Jiang Yan skipped and hopped all the way to the pigpen, where the steward and Tian Jiu were already in place.

"Just the three of us?" She felt that slaughtering a pig was a skillful and challenging task.

The manager smiled, his eyes narrowing into slits: "The butcher is preparing; he'll be here shortly."

Half an hour later, Guard Nineteen followed the pig butcher who was "eagerly awaited" over. He saw someone walking around the village with a long cleaver, and although it was for the purpose of slaughtering pigs, he still couldn't feel at ease.

“This pig…” Nineteen glanced at it, then looked at it more closely.

The manager proudly replied, "Brother Nineteen, my pig is doing a great job raising it, isn't it? It's covered in fat and is not even four months old."

Nineteen was forced to stop his unfinished question, "Who ordered the killing?" and continued to observe the pig. Then he became somewhat suspicious—this pig was only four months old?

He wasn't very familiar with the proper size of pigs at different growth stages, but he had seen the adult pigs in the village a few times during his inspections, and they seemed to be about the same size.

"Is that so..." Nineteen disregarded the previous questions; he only had one thought in his mind: he must ask the steward for the secret to feeding the horses later, as he felt that the horses collected in the manor could grow even taller.

In fact, pigs fed with ordinary feed for less than three weeks will not get very fat. The butcher used a long cleaver to butcher and cut them up rather awkwardly, but the white fat clearly visible on each strip of meat still made people feel happy.

Those who remained were still struggling to clean their internal organs with wood ash when the steward generously announced on the spot, "For the next two days, we will add large pieces of meat to the dishes."

The joy of those present completely drowned out Jiang Yan's enthusiastic applause.

The farm has ordinary old women who cook in large pots, but Granny Hong is in charge of the meals for the nineteen people. Her cooking skills can enhance ordinary ingredients by at least 30 to 40 percent.

Initially, because they were strangers and knew nothing about each other's backgrounds, Chunying's team's blatant wariness directly offended her. It wasn't until they arrived at the farm that the misunderstanding was resolved.

However, based on past experience, Nineteen agreed with Chunying's team's approach and concerns, and arranged for two people to be on guard at the young master's place and in the kitchen.

It was only when Jiang Yan was rotating to help Granny Hong in the kitchen that she discovered that the radishes she had been forced to accept could one day actually win Granny Hong's favor!