Recaps

Shi Wen inherited his grandfather’s ranch, built up a small herd, and began settling into life in J Province. He befriended Yan Kexing and his students, while expanding his livestock and learning how to manage the ranch.

• Shi Wen learned he had inherited his grandfather Shi Jingbo’s ranch and discovered he had awakened the Qilin Bloodline.
• Shi Wen moved to the ranch, repaired the livestock shed, and bought thirty-seven lambs at the market.
• Shi Wen cleared a clogged ditch, rescued Gong Jiang and his horse, and met Yan Kexing.
• Shi Wen chose the frail puppy Heiwa, then worked with Gong Jiang and his students to survey fish in the ranch’s ditches.
• Shi Wen bought thirty goslings, trained Heiwa to leave them alone, and began clearing backyard land for vegetables.
• Shi Wen bought a bad-tempered heifer and an injured dairy cow at the bazaar, naming them Good Temper and Big One.
• Shi Wen helped calm an injured goitered gazelle, then joined Yan Kexing and the students to gather Bachu mushrooms by following mouse markers.
• Shi Wen and Fu Meng sheared the sheep, packed seventy-three jin and six liang of wool, and rode to visit a wool buyer.

Shi Wen expanded his ranch by buying sheep and sick cattle, caring for the animals, and planning silage crops, while Yan Kexing and local contacts helped him secure advice and financing. The stretch ended with Shi Wen joining Fu Meng’s family to gather wild chive blossoms and learn to make Chang Qingqing’s sauce.

• Shi Wen sold wool to Zhang Deyuan and warned him that some sheep might have a contagious illness, which Sikewell later confirmed was bluetongue disease.
• Zhang Deyuan thanked Shi Wen and offered him young ewes, and Shi Wen bought seventy-eight sheep before adopting two puppies as sheepdogs.
• Shi Wen helped Yan Kexing and rescuers free a trapped Tibetan wild ass, then learned his eyesight was healthy and asked Yan Kexing about his nonhuman bloodline.
• Zhu Ji classified Shi Wen as an intermediate Ability user, and Shi Wen received part of a subsidy while pursuing a plan to buy sick cattle cheaply.
• Shi Wen bought three cows with mucosal disease and nursed two back to health, then had Sikewell inseminate them and began planning silage corn.
• Shi Wen bought Yucheng Silage No. 9 seeds and hosted Yan Kexing, who helped him obtain a 700,000-yuan bank loan as guarantor.
• Shi Wen bought five more sick, pregnant cows, isolated and treated them in his warehouse, and kept the healthy herd out grazing with help from his dogs.
• Shi Wen found wild chive blossoms covering his ranch, shared lamb with Fu Meng’s family, and gathered blossoms with them so Chang Qingqing could teach him to make sauce.

Shi Wen expanded his ranch, adopted new animals, harvested hay and wool, and found a prized breeding ram. After helping Yan Kexing rescue two orphaned tiger cubs, Shi Wen agreed to raise them at the ranch with Yan Kexing’s help and official support.

• Shi Wen bought 304 wethers, adopted Cong Zai to protect his corn, and watched the cat catch field mice while tending his growing flock.
• Shi Wen cut and baled hay, then helped forest police relocate protected Ephedra rhytidosperma from his pasture.
• Shi Wen adopted the stray Malinois as Fu Wa, sheared his 414 sheep, sold their premium wool, and bought the breeding ram Eight Treasures.
• Shi Wen traveled with Yan Kexing to investigate poachers and joined the search for tiger cubs whose mother had been killed.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing found two cubs in a mountain den, fed them, and brought them to the rescue team for care.
• When the cubs refused food and grew dangerously weak, Shi Wen agreed to raise them temporarily at his ranch with Yan Kexing, permits, expert support, and a monthly subsidy.
• Yan Kexing brought the cubs to the ranch and moved into Shi Wen’s room, while their friends helped monitor the cubs and photographed their first successful bowel movements.

Shi Wen expanded his ranch with woolly pigs, silage, pigeon eggs, and beehives while helping with a feral pig hunt and grading sheep. The arc ended with Reheman delivering six beehives to the pasture as Shi Wen planned where to place them.

• Shi Wen treated injured ewes after finding them in pasture three, then discovered Cong Zai and the tiger cubs missing and an open livestock shed.
• Shi Wen found Heiwa, Le Wa, Fu Wa, Cong Zai, and An Wa fighting a family of red foxes, drove the foxes away, and called Zhou Hongzhong to collect the protected animals.
• Shi Wen appraised sheep at the trade fair, identified Abudu’s Mangalitsas, and bought all thirty-one after inspecting them.
• Shi Wen arranged to plant Xinjiang fritillaria, then joined Zhou Hongzhong and Yan Kexing on a feral pig hunt that yielded 236 wild boars.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing gathered chestnuts, shared meals with the ranch hands, and found pigeon eggs in crow nests that Yan Kexing put in an incubator.
• Shi Wen harvested and packed silage corn with the workers, then agreed to help Zhang Deyuan grade his sheep for sale.
• Shi Wen graded Zhang Deyuan’s flock, found only three special-grade sheep among more than two hundred, and considered how to market his own ranch’s flock.
• Shi Wen returned to managing the ranch, and Reheman delivered six beehives while explaining how to care for the bees in freezing weather.