Recaps

Shi Wen accompanied Sikewell and the others through remote mountain settlements, helping treat livestock and deliver medicine to local families. After nine days, the group returned sooner than expected, and Shi Wen wondered whether the other veterinary teams had brought enough medicine too.

• Shi Wen worried that Sikewell might face trouble for giving away medicine, but the guide and Tang Duohai reassured him that the community would support the doctor.
• At a mountain settlement, Shi Wen identified livestock with stomatitis and enterotoxemia, while Sikewell, Tang Duohai, and Ban Lei treated them.
• After a long day examining animals, Shi Wen rested and called Yan Kexing, telling him he missed him and describing the residents' health problems.
• Shi Wen and the others completed their trip in nine days, and the guide said their efficiency had brought them back ahead of the other teams.
• Shi Wen learned that six teams were traveling and that the others had brought about as much medicine as his group, leaving him thoughtful.

After returning from the free clinic, Shi Wen recovered at the ranch and enjoyed spending time with its animals. Yan Kexing brought home mud crabs and oysters, and they began preparing seafood for the household.

• Shi Wen donated fifty thousand to Sikewell to support future free clinics, and Sikewell wrote him a receipt before riding home.
• Yan Kexing met Shi Wen at the ranch gate, embraced him, and kissed him as Sikewell rode away.
• Shi Wen slept for several days, then spent his days grazing the livestock and cuddling the ranch animals.
• Shi Wen rounded up the animals as they returned to the ranch, including the geese and Bresse chickens.
• Yan Kexing returned carrying mud crabs and oysters, and he and Shi Wen began cooking as the little ones gathered at the kitchen door.

Shi Wen heard that Zhake’s herd of thirty-two horses had disappeared and agreed to help search for them. He began arranging for someone to watch the ranch before going with Zhake to investigate.

• A herder told Shi Wen that a herd of horses was missing, and Shi Wen agreed to keep an eye out.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing prepared a seafood feast, fed Cong Zai and the other animals, and later saw in the village group chat that the horses were still missing.
• A few days later, Zhake asked Shi Wen to help find his thirty-two horses and offered him five thousand yuan.
• Zhake explained that the horses had disappeared while grazing in a valley, and that searches and a police report had turned up nothing.
• Shi Wen agreed to look for the herd, then went to arrange care for the ranch before leaving with Zhake.

Shi Wen searched the valley where Zhake’s herd had disappeared but found no tracks, then brought a saddle home to see if his animals could follow its scent. The dogs and tiger cubs found no useful clues, so Shi Wen decided he would need another way to help Zhake find the horses.

• Zhang Deyuan warned Shi Wen that searching for the missing horses could be dangerous and offered to help if he ran into trouble.
• Shi Wen inspected the valley with Zhake and the old herder but found no trace of the herd because summer grass had covered the tracks.
• Shi Wen went to Zhake’s home, took a saddle, and failed to find a clear horse scent among the household’s many odors.
• Yan Kexing suggested that unfamiliar horses might not have distinct enough scents for the dogs to track.
• Shi Wen let Heiwa, the Wolf King, and the other dogs smell the saddle, but none found a clue, while the tiger cubs gnawed on it.
• Shi Wen decided to use his own connections to continue looking for a way to help Zhake.

Shi Wen struggled to find any clues about Zhake’s missing horses, but Yan Kexing suggested searching together that night. As they followed the river valley on Shi Suo, Shi Wen caught a faint scent of the herd.

• Shi Wen asked Zhou Hongzhong about the missing horses, and Zhou said surveillance footage had revealed no trace of them.
• Shi Wen worried about Zhake’s family and could not sleep, believing he might have overlooked a clue.
• Yan Kexing suggested that Shi Wen use his abilities more fully and offered to search with him that night.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing rode Shi Suo to the valley where Zhake had grazed the herd.
• Shi Wen guessed the horses had followed the river and caught a faint whiff of their scent.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing tracked the missing herd from the grasslands across a river and into the woods, following horsehair, droppings, and hoofprints. After searching until they were exhausted near a town, Shi Wen heard a horse neigh and looked around for its source.

• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing found horsehair and fresh droppings that showed the herd had traveled downstream along the river.
• Yan Kexing led Shi Suo across the river, and Shi Wen swam after them when he saw hoofprints on the opposite bank.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing followed the herd’s trail through the woods and across a mountain toward a town near the border.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing rested after hours of searching, and Shi Wen raised his head when he heard a horse neigh.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing found all thirty-two of Zhake’s missing horses in L City and brought them back to Zhake’s ranch. After Zhake and his family celebrated and thanked them, Shi Wen woke in his own bed, clean and refreshed, with only a hazy memory of the night before.

• Yan Kexing and Shi Wen found Zhake’s herd of thirty-two horses grazing in L City and confirmed them by the phone numbers painted on their rumps.
• Shi Wen called Zhake, who identified the horses from a photo, and Yan Kexing arranged trucks to transport them back to N City.
• Shi Wen fell asleep from exhaustion during the journey as the horses, including Shi Suo, were loaded and driven to Zhake’s ranch.
• Zhake welcomed the recovered horses, thanked Shi Wen and Yan Kexing, and persuaded them to stay for a celebratory meal.
• Shi Wen woke in his own bed with a thin blanket over his waist, feeling clean and refreshed but remembering little beyond the celebration.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing planned wilderness training for the two little tigers to assess whether they could eventually be released. After Zhou Hongzhong helped secure approval, they drove the tigers to the chosen mountain forest for training.

• Shi Wen decided the two little tigers should have wilderness training, and Yan Kexing agreed to help him take them out.
• Shi Wen called Zhou Hongzhong, who offered to prepare and submit the application for approval.
• Shi Wen sent Zhou Hongzhong details about the training plan, location, and risk management.
• The authorities approved the application three days later and required Zhou Hongzhong and his colleagues to accompany them.
• After resting for two days, Shi Wen and Yan Kexing drove the two little tigers to the mountain forest for wilderness training.

Shi Wen released two young tigers into the mountains for wilderness training and watched as they struggled to find enough food. After a day of failed burrow hunts, they spotted a herd of wild goats at night and chased them uphill.

• Shi Wen fitted the young tigers with miniature cameras and trackers, then sent them into the woods while he and Yan Kexing watched their feeds.
• The young tigers played freely, returned to Shi Wen’s vehicle for food, and went back into the woods when he shooed them away.
• The young tigers dug out a mountain rat and shared it, but their later attempts to find prey in other burrows failed.
• The hungry young tigers remained under observation near the mountain, and Shi Wen planned to bring them back if they could not hunt during the three-day training.
• After night fell, the young tigers found wild goats and chased them uphill through the woods.

After repeated failed hunts left the tiger cubs hungry, they worked together to kill a wild goat and carried some of the meat back to Shi Wen and Yan Kexing. Their return left Shi Wen wondering whether the cubs regarded the vehicle as their den, as plans for their eventual release remained undecided.

• The tiger cubs tracked a herd of wild goats and worked together to kill one after the first cub’s pounce was dodged.
• Shi Wen watched the cubs eat and felt that their time together would soon end; Yan Kexing said one might return to its birthplace and the other might go to the Agouna Mountains, pending an expert assessment.
• After eating, the cubs carried the remaining meat down the mountain toward the vehicle.
• The cubs scratched at the vehicle door, and Shi Wen got out to greet them as Yan Kexing turned on the lights.
• Shi Wen saw that the cubs had brought back wild goat meat, mostly offal.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing said goodbye to the tiger cubs as officials arranged their release into the wild. After hearing that the cubs had adapted well, Shi Wen still missed them and considered visiting.

• The tiger cubs brought Shi Wen meat and offal after completing their wilderness training, and Zhou Hongzhong prepared to report their results and arrange their release.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing returned home, where Cong Zai, Heiwa, and the other animals eagerly welcomed them.
• Shi Wen gave the cubs extra meals and reassured them that releasing them did not mean he no longer cared for them.
• The officials chose the male cub's birthplace and the Agouna Mountains as the female cub's release sites, then transported the cubs away after medical examinations.
• Shi Wen learned from Zhou Hongzhong's updates and camera footage that the cubs were hunting and adapting well, but he admitted he missed them.
• Yan Kexing suggested they could visit the cubs, and Shi Wen wondered whether they were allowed to go.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing visited the two young tigers in the wild, delighted to find both still affectionate with them. The female tiger led them to her raspberry patch and shared the fruit before they headed back.

• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing visited the male tiger, who ran to greet them, and Shi Wen played with him for several hours before leaving.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing found the female tiger in the Agouna Mountains, where she greeted them affectionately and showed them her belly.
• The female tiger led Shi Wen and Yan Kexing to a raspberry patch and urged them to pick and taste the fruit.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing picked raspberries and fed some to the female tiger, who caught a bird that tried to eat from the bushes.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing filled the pouch made from Shi Wen's shirt with raspberries and returned without picking too many.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing said goodbye to the young tigers, then Shi Wen welcomed Baoye A Sai and his companion to visit Shi Suo and Yan Shi. They admired the horses and shared lunch at Shi Wen’s home, where Baoye A Sai remarked on the delicious food and the growing flock of geese.

• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing returned home after saying goodbye to the tigress, and Shi Wen shared raspberries with the little ones before clearing the freezer of meat for the dogs.
• Baoye A Sai and a companion arrived to see Shi Suo and Yan Shi, and Shi Wen took them to Pasture No. 2.
• Shi Suo galloped over to Shi Wen and the visitors, while Yan Shi crowded in for attention and let them pet him.
• Baoye A Sai and his companion stayed to admire and photograph the horses, then returned to Shi Wen’s home for lunch.
• Baoye A Sai praised Yan Kexing’s mushroom-steamed chicken and asked about the more than five hundred geese grazing around the ditches.

Shi Wen lent Baoye A Sai his geese and Bresse chickens to help control a locust outbreak, then learned more about how locusts change when they swarm. Curious about the insects and wanting to check on his poultry, Shi Wen planned to visit Baoye A Sai's pasture with Yan Kexing.

• Baoye A Sai told Shi Wen that a small group of locusts was damaging his pasture, and Shi Wen agreed to lend him his geese and Bresse chickens.
• Baoye A Sai sent a truck to collect the poultry after they returned to the poultry house that evening.
• Yan Kexing explained that swarming locusts produce phenylacetonitrile, while solitary locusts do not, and gave Shi Wen papers about locusts to read.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing arranged to visit Baoye A Sai's pasture on Saturday to see the locusts and check on their poultry.
• Baoye A Sai invited Shi Wen to try fried locusts, and Shi Wen asked whether locusts could be eaten.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing visited Baoye A Sai’s ranch, where they saw fine horses, their geese feeding on locusts, and rosy starlings that preyed on the pests. Baoye A Sai explained the locust plague and treated them to fried locusts before the story left them dining at his ranch.

• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing drove for over three hours to Baoye A Sai’s ranch, where Baoye A Sai welcomed them and explained that pesticides could harm his horses.
• Baoye A Sai showed Shi Wen and Yan Kexing the ranch’s prized horses, and Shi Wen spotted his geese eating locusts in the pasture.
• Baoye A Sai showed Shi Wen a solitary locust and explained how it differed from the swarming kind.
• Yan Kexing identified a flock of rosy starlings as locust predators, and Baoye A Sai discussed how a healthy food chain could prevent outbreaks.
• Baoye A Sai ordered fried locusts for lunch, and Shi Wen tried them alongside the ranch’s horse-meat dishes.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing went with forest police to help a pregnant moose in difficult labor. After Yan Kexing and the police tranquilized the rest of the herd, Shi Wen calmed and restrained the mother and began treating her, but the birth had not yet been resolved.

• Jiang Yanhan found Shi Wen and asked him to help a moose carrying twins that could not be delivered.
• Shi Wen, Yan Kexing, and Baoye A Sai traveled with Jiang Yanhan to the wheat field where the moose herd was gathered.
• Shi Wen noticed that a bull moose had broken half his antlers after falling into a drainage ditch.
• Yan Kexing and Jiang Yanhan tranquilized every moose except the one in labor, clearing the way for Shi Wen to approach her.
• Shi Wen soothed and restrained the mother moose, then asked the veterinarian to help provide fluids as they prepared to deliver the calves.

Shi Wen and the veterinarian worked to deliver two calves from a moose whose calves were tangled and blocking the birth canal. They successfully delivered both calves, and Shi Wen discovered that the second one had white fur.

• Shi Wen examined the moose and found that her two calves were tangled together, making a cesarean impractical and a natural delivery difficult.
• Shi Wen worked to reposition the calves and asked Baoye A Sai to bring honey water to strengthen the moose.
• Shi Wen tied a sterilized rope to the first calf's front legs and directed the others to pull in rhythm with the moose's contractions.
• After drinking the honey water, the moose regained strength, and Shi Wen and the others pulled the first calf out alive.
• Shi Wen delivered the second calf more easily and discovered that it was covered in white fur.

Shi Wen and the others helped a mother moose deliver two healthy calves, including a rare albino, then Baoye A Sai tried Shi Wen’s honey and recognized its exceptional aroma. Shi Wen decided to promote the honey for its fragrance while continuing to focus on his growing livestock operation.

• The veterinarian praised the healthy albino calf, and the mother moose stood to clean both newborns as they learned to stand and nurse.
• Shi Wen said the rescue work was done, and Jiang Yanhan thanked the group before noticing Shi Wen’s swollen hands.
• Baoye A Sai asked whether Shi Wen’s honey was truly that good, and Shi Wen planned to give him a jar.
• Baoye A Sai made honey water and praised the honey’s distinctive grassland-like aroma, leading Shi Wen to decide to advertise its fragrance.
• Shi Wen continued tracking his livestock’s weekly weights, adjusting feed and culling animals that failed to meet his standards.

Shi Wen investigated the strange taste in Fu Meng and Chang Qingqing's dairy cows' milk but could not identify its cause. The milk remained unusable, leaving them worried about the cost of keeping or selling the cows.

• Fu Meng told Shi Wen that his cows' milk had developed a strange taste, and Shi Wen agreed to investigate.
• Shi Wen examined Fu Meng's healthy cows and their feed but found nothing unusual.
• Chang Qingqing milked a cow, and Shi Wen noticed the milk smelled fermented and tasted badly spoiled.
• Fu Meng explained that lab tests found no bacteria or toxins, and that the milk's taste had started changing after rain a few weeks earlier.
• Shi Wen could not determine what was wrong, while Fu Meng and Chang Qingqing considered stopping milking or selling the cows.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing could not identify why Fu Meng’s milk had turned foul, so Shi Wen suggested changing the cows’ feed to forage from his ranch. Fu Meng and Chang Qingqing began testing the new forage, and the chapter left them milking the cows before dawn to see whether the milk had improved.

• Shi Wen took a bottle of Fu Meng’s foul-smelling milk to Yan Kexing, but they could not determine its cause.
• Shi Wen proposed feeding Fu Meng’s cows forage from his ranch, and Fu Meng agreed to try it for a week.
• Fu Meng visited Shi Wen’s ranch each afternoon, cut enough forage for his cows, and hauled it home in two truckloads.
• Fu Meng and Chang Qingqing woke before dawn and went to milk the cows to check whether the new feed had helped.

Fu Meng and Chang Qingqing found that Shi Wen’s forage made their cows’ milk taste less strange, but it did not fix the problem. Shi Wen and Yan Kexing concluded that the cows’ rumen microbes were likely out of balance, and began considering the cause.

• Fu Meng and Chang Qingqing milked a cow and found that the milk tasted mostly normal after the cows ate Shi Wen’s forage.
• Fu Meng told Shi Wen that the forage seemed to help, and Shi Wen urged him to keep feeding it to the cows.
• Shi Wen tasted the milk at Fu Meng’s ranch and found that the strange flavor remained despite growing weaker.
• Shi Wen took a bottle of milk to Yan Kexing, who agreed that its flavor was still off and ruled out the forage as the main cause.
• Yan Kexing showed Shi Wen a paper explaining how rumen microbes could affect milk flavor, and they suspected the cows’ microbial balance had been disrupted.

Shi Wen, Yan Kexing, and Sikewell found that the cows’ milk problem came from their rumen flora and cured them with medicine. After Fu Meng thanked them with a sheep and offered help, Shi Wen began cutting and drying the ranch’s forage grass.

• Shi Wen showed Fu Meng, Chang Qingqing, and Sikewell the findings, and Sikewell treated two cows with rumen-flora medicine.
• Fu Meng’s cows recovered, and their milk returned to normal the next day.
• Fu Meng brought Shi Wen a slaughtered sheep to celebrate and offered to help round up the sheep for deworming.
• Shi Wen arranged to cut the forage grass first and handle the sheep the following week.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing inspected and repaired the mower, then Shi Wen spent several days cutting forage grass while the livestock gathered to sniff it.

Shi Wen welcomed the geese and chickens back from Baoye A Sai’s ranch, where they had grown fat eating locusts and good feed. After arranging for them to readjust at home, Shi Wen discussed their diet with Yan Kexing and agreed to consider Baoye A Sai’s invitation to a horse race another time.

• Shi Wen asked Baoye A Sai to bring the geese and chickens back after the locusts on his ranch had mostly been controlled.
• Baoye A Sai returned the birds along with horsemeat products, and Shi Wen traded him cheese and let him pick vegetables.
• Shi Wen checked the plump geese and chickens, collected their eggs, and agreed to sell Baoye A Sai goslings next year if they hatched a batch.
• Baoye A Sai invited Shi Wen to an upcoming horse race, but Shi Wen said he would learn more and go another time.
• Shi Wen kept the returning birds in the poultry house for two days, and Yan Kexing advised adjusting their feed proportions rather than cutting out grain.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing learned that a wildfire had broken out at Mount Tannan in the Agouna Mountains and drove to the fire site, worried about the little tiger. Shi Wen checked the tiger’s tracker and learned he was still on Mount Kuyang, far from the blaze.

• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing consulted a J University professor about raising their geese and Bresse chickens, then spent the day in the city.
• On their drive home, Shi Wen saw news of a wildfire in the Agouna Mountains and learned from a group chat that it had started at Mount Tannan.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing arranged for Gong Jiang and the others to watch the ranch and drove toward the fire to see whether help was needed.
• They saw flames across two mountain ranges and many animals fleeing onto the grassland, but the little tiger was not among them.
• Shi Wen called Zhou Hongzhong, who checked the tracker and confirmed that the little tiger was still on Mount Kuyang and likely safe.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing helped fight a wildfire until it was mostly extinguished, then rested at the command base. After sharing a brief kiss, they left the celebration banquet early and drove home, with Shi Wen taking the wheel because he worried Yan Kexing had not slept enough.

• Shi Wen insisted on joining Yan Kexing on the front line, and the person in charge supplied them with protective suits.
• Shi Wen carried equipment and helped the firefighting team until Yan Kexing and the person in charge changed plans and organized a firebreak.
• The wildfire was mostly extinguished by midnight, and Shi Wen rested at the base after drinking soup and eating watermelon.
• Yan Kexing found the sleeping Shi Wen, kissed him briefly, and told him the fire was out and they could go home.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing declined the celebration banquet, left the command base, and Shi Wen volunteered to drive because he suspected Yan Kexing had not slept.