Chapter 163

Shi Wen watched their car drive away, he suddenly wondered, "Aren't meerkats also felines?"

Yan Kexing: "Broadly speaking, it belongs to the order Carnivora, family Meerkats, and is closely related to felines, but they are not the same thing."

Shi Wen mentally reviewed the felines in this land and couldn't help but exclaim, "It's truly amazing."

Zhu Ji, standing to the side, couldn't help but exclaim, "Shouldn't I be the one who's amazed? You guys came out to play in the snow and managed to spot a meerkat?"

Shi Wen, "We didn't find it; the snow leopard cubs and the others found it."

"So it was your little ones who discovered it?" Zhu Ji said with a hint of melancholy. "The environment here is getting better and better. I wonder if it's because of you Variant Beasts? I'll have to write a report later and request a team to come down and investigate."

Yan Kexing patted him on the shoulder. "Write it down. With so many Variant Beasts and Abilities here, do you think the Abnormal Affairs Bureau wouldn't track and observe us?"

Zhu Ji: "That's true, but if you hadn't discovered the meerkats, we wouldn't have had to work overtime during the Lunar New Year."

Shi Wen patted his other shoulder and laughed, "Then next time we discover something new, we won't tell you yet."

Zhu Ji immediately cowered, clasping his hands in a fist and saying, "No, you'd better tell me sooner rather than later. The sooner you die, the sooner you'll be reincarnated."

Their discovery of a new species has caused a sensation throughout the country and even the world.

Before the year was even over, many scientists and research teams rushed here to investigate the meerkats.

It's not that meerkats are that important, but their appearance signifies a new change in the local ecosystem, offering much to study. If we act early, we can publish many articles.

Although this area is located in the heart of the mainland, a transportation hub, an important economic region, and holds a significant political position, its environment, broadly speaking, is not ideal.

Most of the time, the environment here is harsh and the population is sparse, so much so that people have to be relocated from other places.

If there is a significant improvement in this area, its impact and its radiating effect on the surrounding region will be substantial.

Many people have keenly recognized this and are trying to seize the opportunity.

Shi Wen doesn't feel there are any special opportunities to seize right now.

They discovered that the meerkats were merely a facade; the things that could potentially change had already changed, and even if they weren't out in the open today, some people were able to recognize them and make preparations in advance.

Shi Wen complained to Zhu Ji, "Didn't you already have relevant arrangements here? Yan Kexing brought his students here to conduct research a long time ago, and there have always been many experts here. If there weren't so many places worth exploring, what would they be doing here?"

Zhu Ji: "You realized that?"

Shi Wen, "Yeah, I'm not stupid. Is that why you sent me here?"

Zhu Ji smiled and said, "No, really. I just felt it was safer here, and it would be better to protect you."

Shi Wen, "It sounds like that's only one reason, not the whole story. I always felt that your planning started much earlier and was much more thorough than I knew."

Zhu Ji: "This involves classified information and I can't tell you. However, we have absolutely no ill intentions, and you can trust us about that."

"I know, I can feel it," Shi Wen exclaimed. "I just think humans are truly amazing, 'strategizing within the tent and winning battles a thousand miles away'!"

Chapter 163

Two days later, I saw Shi Wen reports about the discovery of meerkats in J Province.

The TV station came specifically to film the meerkats standing guard on the grass.

The way this little guy stands guard on the withered grass looks both funny and cute.

Shi Wen said to Yan Kexing, "It looks pretty fun."

Yan Kexing: "Want to go out and take a look?"

Shi Wen shook his head. "No need. If we're meant to meet, we might meet again sometime. There's no need to go out of our way to see each other."

After the New Year, the weather gradually warmed up.

Soon, daytime temperatures rose to nearly ten degrees Celsius, while nighttime temperatures remained below zero.

The weather is perfect for planting vegetables.

Shi Wen specially bought plastic film and planted various vegetables in the backyard. She then covered them with the plastic film to keep them warm, and rolled it up after the sun came out during the day so that they could fully enjoy the sunshine.

In addition to planting vegetables, Shi Wen also took the time to fertilize.

With so many little ones at home, Cong Zai even awakening the White Tiger Bloodline, their family's fertilizer is incredibly fertile, which is very beneficial to the ranch.

Logically speaking, with such frequent grazing by their family, the soil on the pasture should be quite depleted.

They now fertilize every quarter, and they also fertilize again before and after the Lunar New Year.

The land on the pasture is incredibly well-maintained; you can easily uncover dark, fertile soil by simply turning over the sod, and you can usually find all sorts of earthworms when you dig with a hoe.

It's only because they have enough Bress chickens and geese that their fertile pastures would be plagued by pests and wild birds.

Their ranch is much larger, covering more than 13,000 acres in total, including the area at the foot of the mountain and the area on the mountain itself. Shi Wen alone simply cannot manage it all.

After the New Year, Shi Wen simply hired many day laborers to help.

Fertilizing, watering, repairing the pasture, and managing the forests are much faster tasks to be done by hiring someone than by him alone.

With so many people coming to help, he found managing the ranch relatively easy.

That day, Shi Wen had just come down from the mountain when he received a call from the courier saying that a large package had been delivered.

Shi Wen hadn't shopped much lately, so she was a little surprised to hear this. "What big-ticket items? Could you help me check what's written on the tags?"

The deliveryman said, "Clothes, it seems to be all clothes. It was sent by a company called something like Z. I don't recognize the letters on it, you'll know when you get back."