Chapter Summaries

Shi Wen sent Yan Kexing wild blueberries and homemade jam, and Yan Kexing said he liked them and would bring pastries in return. The next day, Fu Meng told Shi Wen about a stray Malinois in the village and asked whether he wanted it for the ranch.

• Shi Wen picked blueberries with Fu Meng, Chang Qingqing, and their family, then brought his harvest home.
• Shi Wen made blueberry jam and sent Yan Kexing a basket of berries and two jars of jam.
• Yan Kexing said he enjoyed the berries and jam and promised to bring Shi Wen blueberry pastries.
• Shi Wen collected wool from the sheep shed and planned to sell it to Zhang Deyuan before shearing the sheep for autumn.
• Fu Meng told Shi Wen that a fierce stray Malinois had appeared in the village and asked if he wanted it for the ranch.

Shi Wen rescued a wary, starving Belgian Malinois from the village and brought it to his ranch, where he quarantined it in the old livestock shed. His three dogs reacted jealously, but he soothed them with food and told them to stay away from the shed for now.

• Fu Meng told Shi Wen that a stray dog in the village needed to be taken away, so Shi Wen went to find it.
• Shi Wen gradually earned the Malinois's trust by feeding it dried meat and gently petting it.
• Shi Wen put a lead on the Malinois, brought it home, and settled it in the old livestock shed with food, water, and bedding.
• Shi Wen's three dogs blocked him after he left the shed and showed their displeasure at the unfamiliar dog.
• Shi Wen comforted the dogs with affection and treats, then told them to avoid the old livestock shed.

Shi Wen tried to keep the new Belgian Malinois isolated, but it escaped twice, raising worries about the danger it posed around the village. After noticing Le Wa acting guilty and realizing the shed door had been opened from outside, Shi Wen suspected one of his dogs had helped the Malinois and asked villagers to check their surveillance footage.

• Shi Wen fed the Malinois less generously than Heiwa, Le Wa, and An Wa while keeping it isolated from them.
• Shi Wen found the Malinois missing from the livestock shed, searched for it, and brought it back when it returned muddy and hungry.
• The Malinois escaped again and a villager reported seeing it wandering in a ditch near the village entrance, so Shi Wen brought it back.
• Shi Wen noticed Le Wa fleeing guiltily and realized the shed door had been opened from outside, leading him to suspect another dog had let the Malinois out.
• Shi Wen called nearby camera owners and asked them to check their surveillance footage for the escape.

Shi Wen discovered that An Wa had deliberately led the Malinois away and abandoned it, but the dog soon bonded with the other animals, including An Wa, and Shi Wen named it Fu Wa. The next morning, Fu Meng and the herders arrived early to help shear sheep, while Shi Wen prepared food and welcomed them with milk tea.

• Shi Wen watched surveillance footage showing An Wa luring the Malinois into a ditch with jerky and leaving it behind.
• Shi Wen confronted An Wa, scolded it, and banned it from meat and milk for three days.
• Shi Wen let the Malinois roam freely while he prepared to find it a reliable adoptive home.
• The Malinois played with Heiwa, Le Wa, and Cong Zai, and even An Wa began playing with it.
• Shi Wen decided the Malinois belonged with the family and named it Fu Wa.
• Fu Meng and several herders, including Old Man Ma, arrived early to shear sheep, and Shi Wen served them milk tea while cooking chicken.

Shi Wen hosted herders for breakfast before they helped shear his 414 sheep, producing far more wool than he expected. Zhang Deyuan arrived to buy it and offered seventy yuan per jin, surprising Shi Wen with the price increase.

• Shi Wen served breakfast and milk tea to Fu Meng, Old Man Ma, Ma Kang, and the other herders, who praised his animals and his milk tea.
• At the sheepfold, Old Man Ma and Fu Meng pointed out that some of Shi Wen’s ewes had come into heat, and Shi Wen discussed breeding plans with the herders.
• Shi Wen and the hired herders sheared all 414 sheep, then weighed 1,738 jin and six liang of wool.
• After shearing, Fu Meng and the others cleaned Shi Wen’s livestock barns and pens instead of leaving when their work was done.
• Shi Wen called Zhang Deyuan to buy the wool, and Zhang offered seventy yuan per jin, prompting Shi Wen to ask why the price had risen.

Shi Wen earned 147,730 yuan selling premium-grade wool and asked Zhang Deyuan to help him find high-quality breeding sheep. After inspecting several flocks, Shi Wen remained unwilling to settle for a ram that did not meet his standards, despite the risk of missing the breeding season.

• Shi Wen learned that his 1,738 jin of wool was premium grade and sold it to Zhang Deyuan for 147,730 yuan.
• Shi Wen declined Zhang Deyuan’s suggestion to focus on wool sheep and said he wanted to breed sheep valued for both meat and wool.
• Shi Wen hired Zhang Deyuan to help him find good local breeding sheep, but rejected the sheep he inspected over several days.
• Shi Wen inspected the flock of a sheep-breeding family with a 300-year history and still found no ram he liked.
• Zhang Deyuan urged Shi Wen to choose a suitable ram before his ewes’ next heat, but Shi Wen insisted on continuing the search.

Shi Wen visited a livestock company with Yan Kexing to find a breeding ram for his ewes. He was captivated by Eight Treasures, an acclaimed ram whose pedigree and offspring made him a promising choice.

• Shi Wen treated his 105 ewes with deworming medicine while Yan Kexing waited at the ranch.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing traveled to another city to inspect purebred fat-tailed sheep at a livestock company.
• Shi Wen found the ordinary breeding rams there unimpressive, so Bai Yan led him to the ram he had reserved.
• Shi Wen was immediately smitten with Eight Treasures, and Bai Yan explained the ram's distinguished lineage and successful offspring.

Shi Wen tried to negotiate for Eight Treasures, an aging but exceptional breeding ram, while Bai Minghui decided to inspect the ewes that would mate with him. After seeing Shi Wen’s ranch and flock, Bai Minghui praised their condition, leaving the ram purchase still unresolved.

• Shi Wen examined Eight Treasures’s record and decided he wanted to buy the ram, though he planned to negotiate over his age and price.
• Bai Minghui arrived, greeted Shi Wen and Yan Kexing, and asked to inspect Shi Wen’s ewes before agreeing to sell Eight Treasures.
• Bai Yan drove Bai Minghui, Yan Kexing, and Shi Wen to Shi Wen’s ranch, where Bai Minghui admired its size and abundant forage.
• Shi Wen led Bai Minghui to the grazing ewes, and Bai Minghui praised their healthy builds and grazing conditions.
• Shi Wen accompanied Bai Minghui as he approached the ewes, which calmly allowed the old professor to examine them.

Shi Wen bought Bai Minghui’s breeding ram, Eight Treasures, and used him to breed his ewes, which all appeared to become pregnant. After arranging for someone to watch the ranch, Shi Wen left with Yan Kexing, who had asked him for help.

• Bai Minghui praised Shi Wen’s well-raised ewes and sold him the breeding ram for thirty-eight thousand.
• Shi Wen disinfected Eight Treasures, settled him into a separate shed, and later marked his chest with paint before bringing him to the ewes.
• Eight Treasures bred every ewe in a week, while Shi Wen marked the ewes and monitored their condition.
• Eight Treasures lost weight and grew listless from breeding, so Shi Wen gave him concentrated feed and time to recover.
• Shi Wen agreed to help Yan Kexing, paid Old Man Ma to watch the ranch, and left with Yan Kexing before daybreak.

Shi Wen learned that Lin Chengqian and his fellow students had found evidence of a tiger poaching case while conducting research in Leni County, and he joined them in recognizing the discovery’s significance. As Yan Kexing drove them onward, Shi Wen’s easy conversation with him left the students marveling at how gently their professor treated him.

• Shi Wen found Lin Chengqian injured in the back seat and learned that he had been hurt while fleeing gangsters.
• Yan Kexing explained that Lin Chengqian and his fellow students had discovered someone trying to sell a dead tiger during their research in Leni County.
• Lin Chengqian revealed that he had contacted the seller to stall him, but the students were discovered and chased before they could get help.
• Shi Wen and the others condemned the poachers and discussed the ecological importance of the suspected local tiger.
• Shi Wen impressed Yan Kexing with his knowledge of tiger genetics, while Lin Chengqian and the others privately compared Yan Kexing’s gentle manner with Shi Wen to how sharply he scolded them.

Shi Wen joined Yan Kexing in searching a mountain for the orphaned cubs of a tigress killed by poachers. Shi Wen found signs of a tiger and identified a trail it had used regularly, but the cubs had not yet been located.

• Lin Chengqian complained in the group chat about the difference in treatment, while Gong Jiang and Ge Yue advised him not to compare himself to Shi Wen.
• Yan Kexing explained that poachers had caused a tigress to fall to her death, leaving at least two cubs too young to survive alone, and invited Shi Wen to help search.
• At the mountain command camp, Shi Wen chose to look for animal trails with Yan Kexing, while Gong Jiang and the others stayed behind to join another search team.
• Shi Wen found tracks showing that a tiger had ambushed a large wild boar and recovered a coarse hair, which Yan Kexing shared in the tiger-search group chat.
• Shi Wen clarified that they had found evidence of a tiger, not the cubs, and continued searching with Yan Kexing until he found a frequently used tiger trail.

Shi Wen and Yan Kexing found the tiger’s den and discovered two hungry tiger cubs inside. After Shi Wen fed and calmed them, the team took the sleeping cubs to staff for examination and care.

• Shi Wen followed the tiger trail with Yan Kexing and found the den after walking about eight kilometers.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing heard breathing inside the cave and discovered two frightened tiger cubs hiding in a small opening.
• Yan Kexing gave Shi Wen goat milk, and Shi Wen fed the cubs until they calmed down and crawled out.
• Shi Wen carried the cubs from the cave as the arriving team urged him to take them for a checkup.
• Staff in protective suits took the sleeping cubs for examination and care.

After finding the tiger cubs, Shi Wen tested his rising abilities and began preparing an application for an advanced ability user subsidy with Yan Kexing's help. A leader then asked Shi Wen to raise the traumatized cubs, who were refusing food and drink at the care center.

• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing returned to the ranch, where Zhu Ji tested Shi Wen and found his Divinity was 827 and his Abilities were 641.
• Zhu Ji encouraged Shi Wen to apply for an advanced ability user subsidy, and Yan Kexing offered to help write the application.
• Shi Wen began preparing the subsidy paperwork while Yan Kexing guided him at the ranch.
• A leader called Shi Wen and explained that the tiger cubs were severely stressed, refusing food and drink, and might not survive.
• The leader asked Shi Wen to raise the cubs for a while, leaving Shi Wen stunned.

After being asked to raise two endangered tiger cubs, Shi Wen weighed the responsibility against his ranch and the safety of its residents. Yan Kexing offered to stay and help, and Shi Wen began negotiating conditions for taking the cubs in.

• An official asked Shi Wen to raise the tiger cubs, and he said he needed time to consider the responsibility.
• Shi Wen admitted he wanted to raise the cubs but worried about his workload and the safety of Cong Zai and the other livestock.
• Yan Kexing offered to stay at the ranch and raise the cubs with Shi Wen, leaving Shi Wen flustered by the prospect of living together.
• Zhu Ji offered a monthly subsidy of fifty thousand per cub, with Shi Wen's pay separate, and explained the cubs' significance.
• Shi Wen required stronger three-meter fencing, three separate ranch areas, and an agreement to care for the cubs only until they were about a year old, or less if they endangered the ranch.

Shi Wen agreed to raise the two tiger cubs and received them from Yan Kexing, who moved in with him. The cubs began recovering in Shi Wen’s care, and the chapter ended with them finally relieving themselves while Gong Jiang and the others recorded the result.

• Shi Wen and Zhu Ji agreed on compensation, permits, medical examinations, and expert support for raising the tiger cubs.
• Yan Kexing brought the two weak, hungry cubs to Shi Wen and moved his belongings into Shi Wen’s room.
• The cubs recognized Shi Wen, drank warm goat’s milk, and grew more settled in his arms.
• Gong Jiang, Lin Chengqian, and Ge Yue teased Shi Wen and Yan Kexing about living together, then helped prepare to monitor the cubs.
• Shi Wen and Yan Kexing massaged the cubs’ bellies in the backyard outhouse until both passed large piles of poop, which Gong Jiang and the others photographed and shared.

Shi Wen arranged for veterinarian Sikewell to examine his 105 pregnant ewes and mark how many lambs each was carrying. Afterward, he moved the ewes to Pasture No. 1, leaving the story with the ranch livestock grazing in separate pastures.

• Shi Wen learned that Yan Kexing had taken on most of the tiger cubs' care while Gong Jiang and the others helped occasionally.
• Shi Wen called Sikewell to examine the ewes, and Sikewell arrived after helping a cow deliver a calf conceived with oversized-bull semen.
• Shi Wen explained how he had divided the ranch into three fenced pastures and prepared colored paint to mark the ewes.
• Sikewell examined all 105 ewes while Shi Wen marked those carrying one, two, or three lambs with red, yellow, or blue paint.
• Sikewell advised Shi Wen to provide the ewes with extra nutrition and avoid tiring them, and Shi Wen took them to Pasture No. 1.

After finding his ewes injured by an unknown animal, Shi Wen treated them and sent Gong Jiang and the others home. He later woke to find Cong Zai and the two tiger cubs missing, and went out to search for them.

• Shi Wen found several ewes exhausted and injured in pasture three, including one with a badly torn ear, and brought them back to the ranch.
• Gong Jiang, Lin Chengqian, and the others helped Shi Wen disinfect and stitch the ewes' wounds while Heiwa paced angrily nearby.
• Shi Wen reassured Gong Jiang and the others that Yan Kexing would not blame them, then invited them to dinner and sent them back to the city.
• Before bed, Shi Wen checked the livestock shed and shut the doors, including the main door.
• Shi Wen woke to find the house door ajar and Cong Zai and the two tiger cubs missing, then checked their trackers and headed out to find them.
• Outside, Shi Wen saw that the livestock shed door was open.

Shi Wen rescued his animals after they fought a family of red foxes, then treated their injuries and called Zhou Hongzhong to take the protected foxes away for care. As the exhausted animals ate and rested, headlights approached the ranch, waking the dogs and tiger cubs.

• Shi Wen rode toward the barking and found Heiwa, Le Wa, Fu Wa, Cong Zai, and An Wa fighting a family of more than twenty red foxes while the tiger cubs cheered them on.
• Shi Wen drove off the foxes with his club and checked the animals, finding that An Wa had the worst injury but none of his animals were seriously hurt.
• Shi Wen brought the animals and two captured foxes home, treated their wounds, and called Zhou Hongzhong to take the protected foxes for treatment.
• Shi Wen cooked mutton for the dogs and Cong Zai and goat milk for the tiger cubs, who kept trying to eat the dogs’ food.
• Headlights approached the ranch, and the dogs and tiger cubs woke and barked toward the vehicle.

Shi Wen discovered that the injured red foxes had only been pretending to be hurt, then found the hole beneath the ranch fence they had used to get in. After returning the tiger cubs home, he met Fu Meng and Ma Chengfeng, who invited him to advise at the upcoming autumn trade fair.

• Shi Wen showed Zhou Hongzhong and his subordinate the red foxes, and the subordinate found that both were healthy and pretending to be injured.
• Zhou Hongzhong offered compensation for ranch damage, but Shi Wen declined, and the group took the foxes away.
• Shi Wen drove the cattle and sheep to graze, then followed Fu Wa to a large hole beneath the wire fence where the foxes had entered.
• Shi Wen left the dogs with the flock and carried the tiger cubs home for milk.
• Fu Meng introduced Ma Chengfeng, the livestock association chairman, who invited Shi Wen to advise at the autumn trade fair.

Shi Wen agreed to assess breeding sheep at the city bazaar after Fu Meng and Ma Chengfeng invited him. Yan Kexing returned home, listened to Shi Wen worry about the tiger cubs copying the dogs, and promised to train them when they were older; the next morning, Shi Wen and Old Man Ma took their animals to separate pastures.

• Shi Wen accepted Ma Chengfeng's invitation to assess breeding sheep at the bazaar on October 12.
• Shi Wen mistook Yan Kexing's arriving car for Zhang Deyuan's, then explained he was expecting dairy goats for the tiger cubs.
• Shi Wen showed Yan Kexing that the tiger cubs imitated the dogs, even answering his command with a doglike growl.
• Yan Kexing promised to take over raising the cubs and train them in the woods when they were older.
• The next morning, Old Man Ma took his pregnant ewes and cows to Pasture No. 1 while Shi Wen drove the rams to Pasture No. 2.
• Shi Wen returned home, showered, and came out wrapped in a bath towel.