In a Year of Famine, the Adorable Baby Speaks to Beasts and Feeds the Whole Village Meat Every Day

[Slice of Life] [Adorable Kids] [Farming] [Animal Speech and Mind Reading] [Surviving Famine] [Building Wealth] [Face-Slapping] [Spoiled Darling] [Farming and Infrastructure]

After years of severe drought, Peach Blossom Valley is littered with starving corpses. Just as six-year-old Xiao Man is about to starve to death, she suddenly discovers that all the animals in the forest can talk!

While other blessed children rely on mysticism to get food for free, Jiang Xiao Man believes in fair exchange. She turns her ability to understand animals into a monopoly on trade during the famine!

A little squirrel wants to protect the food stored in its tree hollow? It has to hand over two heaping handfuls of glistening pine nuts.

A dying sparrow wants water to save its life? It must reveal the route to a cave in the back mountain, where an underground river hidden for ten thousand years flows.

Even Lord Tusk, the one-eyed wild boar king infamous throughout the back mountain for goring several grown men to death, gets cornered by her on the mountain path and made to negotiate a share of the profits. He can drink his fill of the sweet spring water at the foot of the mountain, and after the autumn harvest, the sweet potatoes will be divided by furrow, on the condition that his herd guards the mountain pass behind Peach Blossom Valley!

When local thugs come to steal water, a flock of birds pecks them until they're covered in blood.

When outsiders try to steal food, wild beasts from the depths of the mountains break their bones before they can even reach the mountain pass.

In a chaotic age when famine victims sell their own children to survive, Peach Blossom Valley, under Xiao Man's leadership, taps springs, digs canals, builds high walls, and stockpiles ten thousand loads of grain. Everyone in the village, young and old, spoils this cunning yet adorable little girl to the skies!