He has a spatial ability and saves three children on his escape route.

Chapter 84 The Racecourse is Completed

The two half-grown wild boars were easily dealt with by Bei San and Bei Si. On the way back, Wen Yuxia carried one boar by herself, while Bei San and Bei Si took turns carrying the other.

They used light-footed skills to come, and they used light-footed skills to go back.

Back at the foot of the hill in Nanping Village, Wen Yuxia took out apples and pears from her bag and gave one to each of the children guarding the mule carts.

As they drove the mule cart to the entrance of Nanping Village, the aunties who had been chatting under the big tree had already left. In the entire village, only the children gathering firewood on the hillside knew that Wen Yuxia had hunted a wild boar.

Children have a strong ability to spread information; no sooner had Wen Yuxia returned to the horse farm than villagers from Nanping Village came to see the wild boars.

Wen Yuxia had the wild boar slaughtered, and then handed over two pig heads, two sets of pork offal, a basin of pig blood, fifty catties of pork, and the bones of a whole pig to Village Chief Li.

"Village Chief Li, there's not much food, please don't mind. Add some vegetables when we get back, and it should be enough for the whole village to have a meal."

Village Chief Li was taken aback: "Miss Wen, these are all for our village!"

Wen Yuxia nodded with a smile: "Yes, please ask the village chief to go back and make arrangements so that everyone can have a pig-slaughtering feast tonight."

The portions allocated to Village Chief Li were for the villagers to eat; the villagers who worked for her naturally ate there.

Wen Yuxia repeatedly instructed Village Chief Li to return to Nanping Village, arrange the pig-slaughtering feast, and then return to his village. They would dine together at the horse farm that evening.

When the villagers who had come to watch the spectacle heard Wen Yuxia say that they would get a share of the pig-slaughtering feast, they swarmed forward to help Village Chief Li carry the pork, offal, blood, and bones back to Nanping Village.

Yang San Niang laughed heartily, "Village Chief, Miss Wen asked you to work here and paid you wages. It wouldn't be good for you to leave early. Why don't you let me cook the pig slaughtering meal?"

Yang San Niang works as a cook at the Huang family's house. The couple went back to her parents' home last night. It's a little embarrassing for a married woman to bring her husband to her parents' village for a meal from the communal pot, but fortunately, both she and her husband are skilled cooks, so she plans to earn her living through her own efforts.

Village Chief Li was struggling to find someone to cook the communal meals. There were many women in the village who could cook, but very few who could make truly delicious food. Yang San Niang's self-recommendation was exactly what he needed.

"Okay, okay, okay, you're in charge of dinner tonight. Go back and ask your Aunt Zhu to help out. If you need anything, have her tell everyone to help out. By the way, has your husband come back yet?"

Yang Sanniang is the head chef for the pig-slaughtering feast in Nanping Village, but Village Chief Li is worried that Wen Yuxia's side doesn't have a head chef yet.

Yang San Niang's husband's surname was Fan. The Fan family's cooking skills were passed down from generation to generation. After marrying into the Fan family, Yang San Niang learned cooking from her husband, Fan Da Hu, for several years before finally getting a job as a cook at the Huang family's residence.

If Fan Dahu were here, he could be the head chef, and all this pork could be put to good use.

Yang Sanniang smiled and said, "You're back."

"Hehe, Third Sister, go back to the village and have him come to the horse farm to help your Sister-in-law Yu'e. The pig-slaughtering feast here still needs him to cook," Village Chief Li said kindly.

Yu'e is the eldest daughter-in-law of Village Chief Li. When Wen Yuxia asked Village Chief Li to be in charge of recruiting workers, he recruited his eldest son and his wife.

The three cooks at the horse farm were all relatives of Village Chief Li. Besides his eldest daughter-in-law, Yu'e, the other two were Village Chief Li's sister-in-law, Qian, and his sister-in-law, Zhu Cuiping.

The three women's cooking skills were so-so, and Village Chief Li was worried they would ruin the pig-slaughtering feast that evening, so he kindly asked Fan Dahu to come and save the day.

"Okay, I'll have him come over as soon as I get back," Yang San Niang said with a smile on her face, but in her heart she cursed, "That old bastard who abuses his power for personal gain. He only hired people with connections when he was recruiting cooks. Now that he can't make a good impression, he's panicking. Serves him right."

At night, the horse ranch was brightly lit with bonfires. There were no tables or chairs, so everyone sat on the ground in two rows, with bonfires burning behind them to keep them warm.

Braised pork belly, stewed pork, stir-fried shredded pork, twice-cooked pork, steamed pork belly, sweet and sour pork ribs, pork bone soup... dozens of meat dishes were served one after another, and finally four cold vegetable dishes were served.

Because of the separation between men and women, the cooks set up a separate table for Wen Yuxia in the newly built house. Wen Yuxia felt it was too cold to eat alone, so she asked her two maids, Bei San and Bei Si, to accompany her.

The meal lasted until late at night before the villagers who had been working gradually left. Each villager who left carried two large steamed buns in their hands, which Wen Yuxia had specially instructed the cook to steam extra for them.

The bluestone slabs of the racecourse have been laid, and the brick and tile houses next to the wall have also been built. On the other side of the wall, the staff dormitories and horse pens of the horse farm are also completed.

Master He left with his construction team, and the villagers of Nanping Village received new assignments from Wen Yuxia.

Wen Yuxia wanted to use bamboo to build a fence, located three zhang (approximately 10 meters) inside the horse farm. The same bamboo was to be planted around the horse pen, staff quarters, and even the cliffside area. A three-zhang (approximately 10 meters) gap was to be left before planting bamboo.

A three-zhang-wide open space was paved with stone slabs, forming a racetrack where dozens of horses could gallop side by side. This racetrack was prepared by Wen Yuxia for the horses to frolic.

Wen Yuxia also planned out the land enclosed by bamboo fences, dividing it into ten plots. Five plots were used to grow alfalfa, two plots were used to grow sweet potatoes, and one plot each was used for soybeans, apples, pears, and sunflowers.

The first task the villagers of Nanping Village received from Wen Yuxia was to transplant bamboo and build bamboo fences.

Half a year passed in the blink of an eye. Bei San and Bei Si returned to Lingyuan Manor for training, while Bei Yi and Bei Er are now serving Wen Yuxia.

After lunch, Wen Yuxia prepared to return to Xinchuan County. Half a month ago, Xia Yichen had sent her a message saying that the veterans had already set off from Pingyuan Pass with their warhorses and grass seeds.

Judging by the time, she should be able to pick up the man and the horse at the agreed meeting point by tomorrow night at the latest.

On the night of the pig-slaughtering feast, the meat pies made by Fan Dahu reminded Wen Yuxia of the guokui (a type of flatbread) from her previous life. Thinking of the snack stall run by the three sisters-in-law of the Yang family, Wen Yuxia decided to make a detour to Xinghua Village to tell the Yang family how to make guokui.

When Wen Dashan woke up in the morning, he heard magpies chirping on the branches outside the courtyard. He joked, "The magpies are calling guests."

Old Master Wen picked up his hoe and joked, "Second son, you're allowed a day off today. Stay home and wait for our guests."

These past few days, living with Wen Dashan, Old Master Wen felt that life was getting more and more comfortable. Apart from occasionally thinking about his eldest son, Wen Zhihua, he spent all his time thinking about Wen Dashan and his school-aged children.

Wen Dashan was used to interacting with his grandfather, and he calmly said, "Dad, don't disbelieve me. Da Ya hasn't been home for a long time. She might be back today."

Wen Dashan knew about the horse farm being built next to Nanping Village, but he didn't know that the owner of the horse farm was Wen Yuxia.

During the New Year, Wen Yunhong told him that Wen Yuxia was working for the Crown Prince, but he didn't explain in detail what she was doing or where she was working.

The thought of not seeing Wen Yuxia for several months made Wen Dashan feel uneasy.