Chapter Summaries

Zhao Danshi and Li Ping had the teenagers help with farm work, then cooked river snails and vegetables for them. Zhao Danshi sent river snails to fans and friends, agreed to take on more helpers, and told Ran Yuanyao that he and Li Ping were still close to acknowledging their feelings.

• Zhao Danshi assigned Blackie and the other teenagers to weed two mu of fields and collect bugs, and they finished the work before noon.
• Zhao Danshi cooked river snails and vegetables while explaining to the teenagers how his university education helped him succeed both as a designer and a farmer.
• After lunch, Zhao Danshi recruited the teenagers to return the following week and allowed Blackie to bring up to eight reliable friends.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping packed and shipped river snails to fans, their parents, and Ran Yuanyao.
• Ran Yuanyao praised Zhao Danshi's cooking and offered to send Dou Dou a recommended formula, while Zhao Danshi said he and Li Ping were nearly ready to take the next step in their relationship.

Zhao Danshi hired Zhao Wende to help with the farm after firmly declining Grandpa’s plan to have him live in the family home. After a successful first day of work, Zhao Danshi asked Li Ping for feedback and blushed when Li Ping teased him about sharing a room.

• Zhao Wende arrived, and Grandpa asked Zhao Danshi to make room for him to stay at the house.
• Zhao Danshi refused to let Zhao Wende move in, explaining that the house was full and that living together could make Zhao Wende uncomfortable.
• Zhao Danshi offered Zhao Wende a job for two thousand a month with lunch included, and Zhao Wende agreed to try it.
• Zhao Wende proved skilled at farm work, and Zhao Danshi felt he had found a valuable worker.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping played with Dou Dou during the midday break, and Dou Dou bit Zhao Danshi’s finger.
• Zhao Danshi asked Li Ping whether he had handled the hiring conversation well, and Li Ping praised him for holding his ground before teasing him about blushing.

Zhao Danshi and Li Ping began harvesting their vegetables and shared a celebratory dinner with Zhao Wende and the old man. After Dou Dou tried spicy sauce and wanted more, Zhao Danshi reflected on their growing farm income and wondered what Li Ping planned to do in the future.

• Zhao Danshi inspected his crops, picked tender vegetables, and cooked a large dinner to celebrate the first harvest.
• Li Ping and Zhao Wende returned from chopping wood for the duck-pond fence and joined Zhao Danshi's family for dinner.
• Zhao Danshi gave Dou Dou a taste of spicy sauce, making him cry at first before he eagerly asked for more.
• The old man recalled that Zhao Danshi had also cried while eating spicy food as a child, embarrassing Zhao Danshi in front of Li Ping.
• Zhao Danshi agreed to start selling vegetables at the next market and realized he needed to ask Li Ping about his plans for the future.

Zhao Danshi and Li Ping became a couple while expanding their strawberry and farm businesses, and Zhao Danshi organized the teenagers to harvest baby corn and build a pond fence. The chapter ended with Zhao Danshi getting ready to film a video as he and the teenagers prepared to catch stream fish.

• Li Ping asked Zhao Danshi to become his husband-and-wife business partner, and Zhao Danshi agreed to be with him.
• Zhao Danshi refused to sell strawberry seedlings to his cousin-in-law, then delivered six boxes of strawberries and discussed future farm and shop plans with Li Ping.
• After fans praised Zhao Danshi's river-snail video, Zhao Danshi worried about earning enough Bio-Energy to pay Watcher for Spirit Spring Water.
• Blackie and four other teenagers helped Zhao Danshi harvest baby corn, husk it, and build a fence around the pond in exchange for meals.
• The teenagers asked Zhao Danshi to cook stream fish, and he agreed to go catch some with them the next morning and film a video.
• Zhao Danshi showered and changed for filming while the teenagers waited to go catch fish.

Zhao Danshi took Dou Dou and Li Ping into the valley to film catching fish, then planned to sell vegetables the next day. The chapter ended when Watcher alerted him that someone had sneaked into his fields, prompting Zhao Danshi and Li Ping to hurry outside.

• Zhao Danshi brought Dou Dou and the boys into the valley, where they caught fish for a video.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping discussed selling their vegetables at the market and picked produce to take home.
• Zhao Danshi reflected that common summer vegetables would earn little and that he should grow more profitable crops in the future.
• Watcher woke Zhao Danshi with an alarm that someone had entered his fields.
• Zhao Danshi left Dou Dou with the old man, told Dahei to guard them, and hurried out with Li Ping.

Zhao Danshi and Li Ping caught thieves damaging their strawberry field, then tried Spirit Spring Water on the injured plants and harvested the remaining ripe fruit. They skipped strawberry deliveries to make preserves and sold vegetables at the town market, where Zhao Danshi promoted them as premium organic produce.

• Watcher alerted Zhao Danshi and Li Ping to three thieves stealing strawberries, and the two chased them off after beating two of them.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping asked Watcher to monitor the family around the clock, then returned home and shared a kiss before sleeping.
• Li Ping called Boss Li and Zhao Chengjia to cancel that day's strawberry deliveries, while Zhao Danshi and Li Ping inspected the field and soaked damaged seedlings in Spirit Spring Water.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping harvested the ripe strawberries and decided to make sun-dried preserves using Watcher's recipe.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping took vegetables to Renfu Supermarket's market stall, where returning customers quickly bought most of their produce.
• Zhao Danshi told Miao Yingzhuo that the vegetables were carefully grown organic produce intended for sale in bigger cities, and Li Ping listened with amusement.

Zhao Danshi bought rice grain from Spoon’s family and made candied strawberries at home while Li Ping filmed. Dou Dou smelled the strawberries and eagerly ate strawberry puree, leaving the family to continue preparing the candied fruit overnight.

• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping visited Spoon’s house to arrange to buy rice grain, and Spoon agreed to have a hundred jin milled for them at the next market.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping washed and sliced strawberries, then laid them out to dry while Zhao Wende fed the chickens and ducks.
• Zhao Danshi cooked batches of strawberries in sugar syrup as Li Ping filmed the process for a possible Weibo video.
• Dou Dou became eager after smelling the strawberries, so Zhao Danshi mashed fresh strawberries into puree and fed him spoonfuls.

Zhao Danshi and Li Ping ended their strawberry arrangement with Boss Li and rented a shop in the county town to sell their produce. They prepared to open a market-day stall selling vegetables and cold dishes, while Zhao Danshi planned recipes and videos for the new venture.

• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping realized Boss Li was trying to reduce his strawberry orders and lower the wholesale price, so Li Ping ended their partnership.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping rented a shop near the county town's central vegetable market and signed a one-year lease under Zhao Danshi's name.
• Zhao Danshi decided to sell cold dishes at market days while waiting for the shop's permits, and he bought supplies to prepare them.
• Zhao Danshi asked the old man to weave vegetable baskets, but the old man offered to weave them himself.
• Zhao Danshi persuaded Watcher to provide cold-dish recipes and promised to make his own seasonings next month.
• Zhao Danshi went up the mountain with Li Ping to pick mushrooms for a meat sauce and planned to film the trip as a video.

Zhao Danshi and Li Ping filmed Zhao Danshi gathering mushrooms and making mushroom sauce and cold vegetable dishes to sell at the market. After sharing the food online and responding to fans, Zhao Danshi worried that their new ideas and work would leave them with little free time.

• Li Ping got up to change Dou Dou's diaper and prepare his formula while Zhao Danshi gradually woke up.
• Zhao Danshi gathered mushrooms, vegetables, and meat for a cooking video, telling Zhao Mingzhi that he planned to sell cold dishes at the market.
• Zhao Danshi made mushroom sauce and noodles, then prepared cold vegetable dishes with help from Zhao Wende as Li Ping filmed.
• The family tasted the food, and Zhao Danshi planned several dozen pounds of cold dishes to sell the next day.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping posted the video, and Zhao Danshi answered fans' questions about the food, his partner, and his future shop.
• After Zhao Danshi complained about being tired and worried they would never have free time, Li Ping reassured him that things might improve next year.

Zhao Danshi and Li Ping brought a large selection of homemade cold dishes to the market, where the food sold out quickly. After customers asked to buy his vegetable seeds, Zhao Danshi explained that they were treated and could not yet be saved for reliable planting, leaving open the possibility of sharing seeds if he stabilized them later.

• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping prepared cucumbers, eggplants, long beans, tofu puffs, eggs, and braised meat, then hired a tricycle to take them to the market.
• Miao Yingzhuo tried Zhao Danshi's cucumber salad, praised it, and took home several dishes for his family.
• Zhao Danshi handed out samples and held firm on his prices as customers began ordering cold dishes.
• The market crowd formed a long line, and Zhao Danshi and Li Ping sold out their food in about an hour.
• Customers asked Zhao Danshi to sell them seeds, but he said the treated seeds could not be saved reliably and that he might share some if he stabilized them in future years.
• Zhao Danshi and Li Ping packed up, put away the cash, and called Zhao Liwei to pick them up.