Episode 83 – Farming the Family…

Farming the Family: The Real Business at Faurel Hill…

Welcome to another episode of Under the Will, Over the Drama, where inheritance is a sport, and the family farm is the prize.

Let’s set the scene.

Bully, our ever-present, ever-strategic protagonist, pops up at Faurel Hill every day to tend the cattle. Seems wholesome enough on the surface, doesn’t it? A man working the land his father worked before him. Salt of the earth.

Except… there’s a catch.

Bully already has a farm. A big, fully functioning operation in a whole other town. Not some rough patch of ground either, a proper, gifted spread from our late father. Legacy secured. Life sorted. Kids raised. Name safe.

And yet… somehow it’s still not enough.

The Real Game…

Bully needs Faurel Hill, not because he’s nostalgic, sentimental, or particularly sociable, but because it’s the missing cog in his well-oiled cattle machine.

Here’s how it works:

• Main Farm (gifted): Where the calves are born and bred.
• Faurel Hill (conveniently appropriated): Where they’re sent to fatten up.
• Up-the-Road Land (mysteriously rerouted via will): Leased off Fanny, where he splits the stock, females up there, males at Faurel Hill.

It’s efficient. It’s clever. And it’s completely self-serving.

A cattle empire in three neat parcels, only two of which he actually owns.

So, What Drives a Man Like That?

It’s not love of land. It’s not duty. It’s not even greed in the traditional sense.

It’s control.
It’s legacy without the effort of earning it twice.
It’s the quiet satisfaction of having his name woven into every acre without having to put it on the deed.

Because make no mistake, it’s not farming.

It’s farming the family.

Lesson of the Day:

True legacy isn’t about owning land or titles, it’s about how you treat the people who walk that land with you. Power without respect is just an empty field.