Recaps

After losing his job, Qing Mengzhu returned to his hometown, used the Interstellar Mall to fund his farming, and built up his lotus ponds and vegetable fields. As his crops thrived and Ming Chunxi drew close again, Qing Mengzhu finished fermenting his first batch of fertilizer and scanned it with the Mall Assistant.

• Qing Mengzhu discovered the Interstellar Mall, sold gathered wild vegetables, and won premium Sacrificial Lord lotus seeds in a prize draw.
• Qing Mengzhu decided to keep his family’s land, prepared two ponds, and planted his sprouted lotus seeds while planning his crops and raising ducks.
• Qing Mengzhu gathered sour plums to earn enough Star Coins to activate the Mall Assistant, then found and planted premium Tengjin 01 pepper seeds sent through Ming Chunxi’s connections.
• Qing Mengzhu tended his lotus ponds and chili fields, treated tobacco cutworms, caught fish and shrimp, and advised Cen Zhiming after identifying diseases in his lotus field.
• Ming Chunxi helped Qing Mengzhu win fertilizer fermentation powder, and Qing Mengzhu combined it with mixed fish, grass, straw, and plant ash to make compost.
• Ming Chunxi visited Qing Mengzhu, toured his fields, gathered lotus shoots with him, and shared meals and time at the farm.
• Qing Mengzhu harvested vegetables for the Interstellar Mall, fed older produce to his ducks, and scanned his finished fermented fertilizer.

Qing Mengzhu expanded his farm, formed ties with local buyers and Ming Chunxi, and protected his crops and livestock from animals, thieves, and a storm. After raising shrimp and harvesting a valuable pepper crop, he decided not to sell the peppers until Tengcheng Agricultural University set a price for the variety.

• Qing Mengzhu tested his fermented fertilizer, saw it improve his water spinach, and began fertilizing his peppers and lotus ponds.
• Di Caiyong agreed to buy Qing Mengzhu’s vegetables at a premium, while Qing Guozhi became a customer and helped arrange permits and breeding stock for hazel grouse.
• Qing Mengzhu and Ming Chunxi installed cameras and repaired the backyard fence after footage showed a red fox and an otter digging beneath it and fighting.
• Qing Mengzhu hosted friends for seafood soup, planned an autumn tomato crop, and raised seedlings while trying to earn enough for Savage Marsh Shrimp eggs.
• When lotus flowers went missing, Qing Mengzhu helped expose the theft, befriended the fox and otter, and acquired two wolfdog puppies named Dharma Protector and Guard.
• A rainstorm flooded Qing Mengzhu’s fields, but he salvaged produce and helped Gong Quantiao investigate why his tomatoes had split.
• Qing Mengzhu completed the Dragon Rosy Cloud Fruit task, received shrimp eggs, and set up a hatching tank with Chen Yi’s help.
• After Di Caiyong offered ten yuan per jin for his peppers, Qing Mengzhu chose to give him some instead of selling them until Tengcheng Agricultural University set a price for the variety.

Qing Mengzhu turned his thriving crops into profitable pepper contracts while expanding into lotus ponds and river shrimp, with help from friends and the Interstellar Mall. After acquiring 172 goslings to guard the ponds, he returned at dusk to find the geese missing.

• Qing Mengzhu sold fresh peppers to Zhou Yan’s restaurant group for 120 yuan per jin and signed an exclusive dried-pepper deal with Di Xing for 1,000 yuan per jin.
• Qing Mengzhu took Zhao Hexi into the mountains to gather wild mushrooms, and they cooked and shared a meal from their haul.
• As disease damaged local chili crops, Qing Mengzhu’s plants stayed healthy, and he sold five to Nian Xinfei while treating his own crops with matrine.
• Qing Mengzhu raised river shrimp using lotus seed slurry after early larval losses, then improved his ponds with Spirit Pearl Dregs and released the surviving shrimp among the lotus plants.
• Ming Chunxi and Zhao Hexi stayed with Qing Mengzhu, helping with farmwork and ponds, where they saw the otter and red fox kill and eat a water snake.
• Qing Mengzhu bought 172 Fine Grade+ Chuanhui 99 goslings from Longhao’s hatchery and built separate pens for the geese and ducks.
• The geese adapted to the ponds and helped protect the shrimp, but after Ming Chunxi left and Qing Mengzhu received advice about his aging tomato plants, he found the flock missing at dusk.

Qing Mengzhu restores his farm after a storm, raises money for Cloud Mirror Bamboo, and builds closer ties with Ming Chunxi while caring for his animals and crops. The stretch leaves him sharing Fine Grade+ grouse soup with relatives and hearing mixed reports about its effects.

• Qing Mengzhu salvaged crops after a torrential downpour, repaired his fields and pond care, and bought fish and hay to make Fine Grade+ fertilizer.
• Qing Mengzhu sold fertilizer to afford Cloud Mirror Bamboo, planted it, and agreed to raise asparagus seedlings with Tan Wenlei.
• Qing Mengzhu and Zhou Yan gathered mushrooms, found a patch of protected wild gastrodia, and Qing Mengzhu planted black gastrodia seeds on his family’s mountain.
• Qing Mengzhu and Ming Chunxi found river mussels in the lotus pond, collected nine pearls, and shared a mussel-and-duck meal with Zhou Yan and Zhao Hexi.
• After Qing Mengzhu rescued a drowning boy, Ming Chunxi confessed his feelings, and they agreed to date slowly and later live together.
• Qing Mengzhu and his animals fought off three intruding otters that threatened his otter friend, red fox, and shrimp pond.
• Qing Mengzhu cooked hazel grouse and lotus seed soup with Zhao Hexi and Ming Chunxi, then fed portions to the dogs, otter, and red fox.
• Qing Mengzhu found the soup was Fine Grade+ and sent some to Qing Guozhi, who praised its taste, while Ming Lexin later reported that it improved her complexion.