Bai Yu, the young master of the Duke of An’s household, is thrown into a remote mountain village by his stepmother, who claims he is cursed and brings misfortune to his family. She leaves him to fend for himself.
Everyone expects him to starve to death.
Instead, he thrives in the village:
His vegetables grow greener than anyone else’s, his chickens grow fatter than anyone else’s, and a hole he digs on a whim turns out to lead to three wild boar dens.
Even more absurdly, Cang Huai, the village’s fearsome hunter whom no one dares provoke, shows up at Bai Yu’s door every day with game slung over his shoulder, bragging to everyone, “My wife says we’re having braised pork tonight.”
Bai Yu thinks he’s clumsy, but whenever Cang Huai gets chased and cursed at by a shrew, Bai Yu is the first to rush over and protect him.
Cang Huai thinks he’s delicate and frail, until he sees him knock a wild boar flying with one swing of a hoe.
“Yu-ge, you’re that strong???”
Bai Yu tosses aside the hoe. “Enough talk. Braised pork or pork ribs for dinner?”
Later, people come from the capital.
The Duchess of An sees the hulking hunter holding a child beside thousands of acres of farmland and is so furious she vomits blood on the spot.
Bai Yu sneers. “You thought I brought bad luck and threw me out. Now, if you want a single bite of the rice I grow, you’ll have to beg me for it.”
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