Recaps

Shi Wen expanded the ranch’s livestock operations, rescued and housed several eagles, and discovered cistanche that became a popular new product. He turned down large-scale expansion while promoting local mutton and managing the breeding season.

• Shi Wen rented horses eight and eleven to Zhan Chongyun, watched them place second and third at the races, then sold him all eleven stallions and agreed to supply feed.
• Shi Wen planted corn, helped Zhao Yongqiang’s dog deliver seven puppies, and hired villagers to clear the clogged ditch.
• Shi Wen bought fourteen hundred lambs from Red Blossom Ranch, vaccinated and tagged them, and faced a surge of inquiries from people seeking his sheep.
• Shi Wen and villagers gathered scattered goose eggs before hail struck, then cured the eggs and went to find more after the storm.
• Shi Wen and Zhu Ji found eastern imperial eagles and a steppe eagle near the ranch, and with Zhou Hongzhong’s help they captured four while one escaped.
• Shi Wen pursued the escaped white-shouldered eagle, rescued Changfeng when it was seized, and later welcomed Xiong Cen and her steppe eagle Chasing Clouds to the ranch.
• An Wa led Shi Wen and Yan Kexing to cistanche beneath a saxaul tree, and Shi Wen later sold cistanche honey as customers rushed to buy it.
• Shi Wen rejected plans to expand the ranch, discussed promoting mutton with Zhu Ji and Ma Chengfeng, then bred the ewes with eight rams and arranged for the exhausted rams to rest.

Shi Wen cared for the ranch animals, rescued wildlife, and expanded the ranch’s crops and products. The arc ended with green juice milk attracting attention while Shi Wen continued planting and tending the ranch.

• Shi Wen treated Yalikun’s poisoned horses and helped Sikewell identify and remove drunken horse grass from their pasture.
• Shi Wen discovered all sixty Simmental cows were pregnant, kept the high-Ability tomatoes for the ranch, and helped Yan Kexing rescue an injured wolverine from the tigress’s cave.
• Shi Wen guided Gong Jiang’s team to film a wild wolverine, and their video became hugely popular before the group shared a meal of pigeons and pigeon soup.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing joined Ge Yue and the others to dig wild yams, and Chasing Clouds found the heaviest one.
• Shi Wen moved bee colonies to the mountain, welcomed ten calves, and boarded Zhu Ji’s friend’s Samoyed, Glutinous Rice Ball, until its owner came to collect it.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing fed corn leaves to the cows and mares, then made green juice milk from the resulting blue-green milk and sent it to members as a gift.
• Shi Wen learned the milk and green juice had strong Ability values, promised Zhan Chongyun corn leaves for his stallions, and planted watermelon and strawberry seedlings with Zhu Ji.

Shi Wen helped with flood relief, sold his prized mutton, and gathered rare mushrooms with his friends. After tests raised questions about the ranch’s potent ingredients, he paused sales until research confirmed their safety, while planning new livestock breeding work.

• Shi Wen helped Ma Chengfeng’s relief convoy by donating sheep, serving mutton soup, and laboring alongside Yan Kexing in the flooded city.
• Pu Yiping and other relief workers praised Shi Wen’s mutton, leading visitors to buy it, and Shi Wen later sold hundreds of sheep and arranged overseas distribution through Zhu Ji.
• Shi Wen advised Qile Moge against buying lambs before the ranch could reliably breed them, then planned to improve ewe nutrition and grow wheat and barley.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing visited Zhake’s fig orchard, where Chasing Clouds and the other animals helped them find termite mushrooms and charcoal horn fungus sclerotia.
• After eating soup made with the sclerotia, Shi Wen, Yan Kexing, their guests, and the animals slept unusually deeply, and Shi Wen sent ingredients to Xing Mingyue’s friend for testing.
• When tests showed the ranch’s ingredients had high ability values, Shi Wen paused sales, funded member health checks, and waited for further research to confirm their safety.
• Xing Mingyue delivered a report finding no hidden risks, and Shi Wen and Yan Kexing explained the sales pause to members, who supported his caution.
• Shi Wen studied possible livestock for the ranch, then joined Sikewell and Tang Duohai as they collected boar semen and inseminated a sow.

Shi Wen expanded the ranch, harvested high-value honey, led a veterinary outreach trip, and returned to share acorn tofu with Yan Kexing. After a rampaging steer and a search for hornet nests, Shi Wen and Yan Kexing removed a huge nest, leaving Zhu Ji eager to try the pupae.

• Shi Wen rescued Changfeng and the boar from a ditch, then Sikewell completed artificial insemination for the black sows.
• Shi Wen received two hundred Hebei black goats, trained them with the Wolf King and Heiwa, and harvested apricots and honey with Yan Kexing and their friends.
• Duan Kuo’s test showed Shi Wen’s honey had an Ability value of 313, and Shi Wen agreed to let Zhu Ji bring Ability users to test the ranch’s energy field.
• After Sikewell broke his leg, Shi Wen took over as captain of a veterinary clinic team and diagnosed a horse’s colonic obstruction before advising a herder to seek testing for brucellosis.
• Shi Wen collected acorns on the way home, reunited with Yan Kexing, and made acorn tofu with him as they affirmed that they were each other’s only family.
• A steer escaped and charged toward a road, so Shi Wen stopped it with a brick and kept its meat at the ranch, where Zhu Ji later measured its Abilities value at 357.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing led the group to a huge hornet nest, then climbed the tree, dismantled it, and packed the hornets and pupae into bags.