The Overpowered Village Farmer 3
(2026)(The third book in the Crooked Acre series)
A novel by Clay Whitlock
[Farmer. Level 68.] Eleven acres of oats stand ripe in the field, and it will not stop raining.
Aldred Coverley dug the king’s ditches for fourteen years with a class the army never bothered to promote. The system counted every spadeful anyway. The first radishes he grew on forty acres of sour, dead ground paid all of it back in one evening, and now he can pull a plough without an ox. He lays his palm on a field and reads its soil as a number from nothing to a hundred. Above twenty, the pale creep that strangles crops at night can’t get in. Past forty, the ground holds for good. Start with Book 1: The Overpowered Village Farmer.
Hilde the miller will marry him the week after harvest. She won’t name the day until the last sheaf is under his roof, and Bridey at the alehouse has asked three times this week.
Cut oats wet and they heat in the sheaf. So Aldred waits for the sky and starts on the orchard: four acres of dead grey trees in eleven rows, every one to come out whole, roots and all. When a whole tree comes up out of the ground on his shoulder, the boys watching from the wall run to tell the village.
Hilde’s aunt Cicely, an orchard woman from beyond Fallowby, is bringing young trees at leaf-fall as her wedding gift. She says old orchard ground gets tired of apples. She’ll believe his numbers when the trees grow.
Under the ivy on the orchard wall, Madge finds three stone nooks built to hold straw beehives. A hill man up the top road means to kill his bees with sulphur for the honey. Madge knows how to drum them out alive into empty hives. Bees want slow hands in the dark, and Aldred has new skills to earn.
Nettle the one-horned goat has learned that dead apple trees have bark. Aldred has noticed that young ones do too.
Dilly, who scares his crows for eggs, has done the sum for her own quarter-acre strip on her fingers. Past forty by the first snow, she says.
Then it rains for a week on the hills upstream.
Aldred’s [Weatherwise] skill reads tomorrow’s sky over the valley. It has nothing to say about water coming down from somewhere else. The ferryman’s widow reads the river by the old stepping stones outside her door, and this September she lights her lamp at noon.
Hilde’s loft holds more of the valley’s grain than her mill has ever seen, next spring’s seed corn with it. The mill stands on the river. The wedding is four days off.
Aldred means to be married on a dry day. He’d settle for one dry field.
For fans of Legends & Lattes, Beware of Chicken, and The Tired Mercenary Just Wants to Farm in Peace.
Cozy Fantasy • Slice of Life • Farming LitRPG • OP MC • Found Family • Village Life • Gentle Romance • Low Stakes • Male Lead
A complete autumn story with no cliffhanger. Warm and funny, with one clean romance, no explicit content, and no harem.
Start with Book 1: The Overpowered Village Farmer. Read free in Kindle Unlimited.
Genre: GameLit
Aldred Coverley dug the king’s ditches for fourteen years with a class the army never bothered to promote. The system counted every spadeful anyway. The first radishes he grew on forty acres of sour, dead ground paid all of it back in one evening, and now he can pull a plough without an ox. He lays his palm on a field and reads its soil as a number from nothing to a hundred. Above twenty, the pale creep that strangles crops at night can’t get in. Past forty, the ground holds for good. Start with Book 1: The Overpowered Village Farmer.
Hilde the miller will marry him the week after harvest. She won’t name the day until the last sheaf is under his roof, and Bridey at the alehouse has asked three times this week.
Cut oats wet and they heat in the sheaf. So Aldred waits for the sky and starts on the orchard: four acres of dead grey trees in eleven rows, every one to come out whole, roots and all. When a whole tree comes up out of the ground on his shoulder, the boys watching from the wall run to tell the village.
Hilde’s aunt Cicely, an orchard woman from beyond Fallowby, is bringing young trees at leaf-fall as her wedding gift. She says old orchard ground gets tired of apples. She’ll believe his numbers when the trees grow.
Under the ivy on the orchard wall, Madge finds three stone nooks built to hold straw beehives. A hill man up the top road means to kill his bees with sulphur for the honey. Madge knows how to drum them out alive into empty hives. Bees want slow hands in the dark, and Aldred has new skills to earn.
Nettle the one-horned goat has learned that dead apple trees have bark. Aldred has noticed that young ones do too.
Dilly, who scares his crows for eggs, has done the sum for her own quarter-acre strip on her fingers. Past forty by the first snow, she says.
Then it rains for a week on the hills upstream.
Aldred’s [Weatherwise] skill reads tomorrow’s sky over the valley. It has nothing to say about water coming down from somewhere else. The ferryman’s widow reads the river by the old stepping stones outside her door, and this September she lights her lamp at noon.
Hilde’s loft holds more of the valley’s grain than her mill has ever seen, next spring’s seed corn with it. The mill stands on the river. The wedding is four days off.
Aldred means to be married on a dry day. He’d settle for one dry field.
For fans of Legends & Lattes, Beware of Chicken, and The Tired Mercenary Just Wants to Farm in Peace.
Cozy Fantasy • Slice of Life • Farming LitRPG • OP MC • Found Family • Village Life • Gentle Romance • Low Stakes • Male Lead
A complete autumn story with no cliffhanger. Warm and funny, with one clean romance, no explicit content, and no harem.
Start with Book 1: The Overpowered Village Farmer. Read free in Kindle Unlimited.
Genre: GameLit