Maria thought for a moment. It seemed like they had eaten quite a bit of wild boar meat before, and Maria had assumed that Simon was the one who hunted it all.

"Why don’t you castrate them? Once the boars are castrated, their temper won't be so bad. Plus, it makes the meat taste better, and they fatten up more easily."

She said it so nonchalantly, but the men returning from the hunt all felt a sudden chill below as if a knife was pressing against them, contemplating how to cut.

Even Simon thought his wife could be frightening sometimes, just too scary.

Maria was meanwhile inspecting the rabbits tied...