Take domestic pigs, for example. They were omnivores, could be free-ranged, and were very easy to keep alive.
Of course, the costs were high too.
Piglets were quite expensive, their growth cycle was long, they could not get much nutritious food, and there were issues with the domesticated breeds. At most, they grew to a little over a hundred jin, nowhere near the wild Thousand Jin Demon Pigs.
Only people from well-off households, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, stewards, and guards, would specifically keep various livestock, slaughtering them for food once they matured. That counted as improving their quality of life.
Ordinary farmers did not raise pigs to slaughter and eat them.
After all, they had no extra income.
Yet people had all kinds of needs just to stay alive.
What could they do when farming was their only source of income?
They could only raise the livestock and sell them to local stewards or traveling merchants in exchange for various daily necessities.
Livestock was not only an extremely valuable asset to them, but also a measure of social status.
For instance, a family that could afford to keep pigs and sheep could not be doing too poorly. They had greater resistance to risk; if something happened, selling their pigs and sheep could keep them going for a long while.
Mol worked quite efficiently.
He informed everyone on the spot to bring their livestock to Origin Manor today.
That took Romain by surprise—he had thought Mol would go door to door to purchase them.
Once the word was out, it would be hard to take it back, and he certainly could not make them lead all their livestock home again.
Thus, throughout the afternoon, the threshold of Origin Manor's gates was nearly trampled to pieces—though, to be precise, there was no