A Farm Girl Reclaims the Wilderness: Feast on Meat Every Day in the Frontier

Also known as: In a Famine-Stricken Ancient Era, I Rely on My Animal Army to Dominate

[Homesteading + food + hearing animals' thoughts + married first, pampered later]

Su Li is an undercover agent. After someone betrays her, she is thrown off a cliff.

When she opens her eyes again, she is in ancient times.

A mother who sells her daughter for money, an older brother addicted to gambling, and the original owner, a lovesick fool with men on the brain: from the start, things couldn't have gone worse.

There are only two bits of good news: she's married to a broad-shouldered, narrow-waisted, taciturn husband who seems pretty capable.

And she's gained a golden finger: she can understand animals.

Since she's here, she might as well make the best of it. Su Li doesn't fuss.

She eats when she's hungry and sleeps when she's tired.

She wins over the mice in the house, who occasionally bring back intelligence and swipe a few coins from her enemies.

She doesn't deprive herself, either. Every few days, she cooks pork intestines in an iron pot or makes three dishes from one rabbit… Somehow, she brings the warmth of everyday life to a dirt-poor farmhouse.

Then one day, she stumbles across sweet potatoes in the hills behind the house.

Su Li keeps quiet and secretly clears the land, plants the vines, and waters them.

Food is what people need most in a drought, and this patch of sweet potatoes is the first ace she has secured in these troubled times.

But before she can enjoy her secret for long, the mouse captain comes rushing over with a report:

“Squeak, someone called your husband… Master.”