I Can Understand Animals, So I Stocked a Barn Full of Food During the Famine

[Understand animal speech + Farming + Business and prosperity + Taking down rotten relatives + Remarriage with her mother + Clear-headed heroine + Male lead]

Ye Qiutong is born into an ancient world, and has been able to understand animal speech since she was little.

When she is five, she catches her scumbag father fooling around with a village widow. He beats her into becoming an idiot. Her father abandons his wife and daughter, remarries, and has two more children.

Ten years later, she regains her wits. Her father wants to sell Ye Qiutong to a rich old landlord in the city to raise money for his younger son's education.

Two sparrows on the wall gossip about the drama, revealing that her father has been cuckolding her mother.

Ye Qiutong decides to go all out, make a scene, tear away the cover-up, reclaim the money and land, and sever ties with him!

It's a famine year, and the crops have failed.

Ye Qiutong thumps her chest and reassures her mother: "Don't panic, Mom. I understand animal speech, so we'll never go hungry!"

A crow says: [There's a spring in the mountains that never runs dry.]

A wild boar says: [As long as you have yams, you could survive even three more years of drought!]

A fox says: [I can help you find the best century-old ginseng in the mountains!]

Ye Qiutong and her mother fill their granary with food and gather herbs to sell, helping the villagers get enough to eat.

With help from the birds, they gather rare toon shoots and sell them at a high price to a restaurant. Demand quickly outstrips supply, and their small business flourishes.

They hire birds as informants to keep track of the latest developments in and around the city, ask a wolf pack to guard important medicinal herbs on their way to a neighboring city to support disaster victims, and strike a deal with a swarm of bees to produce premium wildflower honey...

The little farm girl thrives, and after unexpectedly saving a young general in distress, Ye Qiutong rubs her chin and thinks seriously:

I've got money, you've got power. Aren't we a match made in heaven?