Recaps

Qing Mengzhu expanded his farming operation, used Growth Liquid to multiply his bamboo, and founded Zhuxi Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. with Ming Chunxi and Zhao Hexi. The company began developing pest-control products and health-food gift boxes as its research team isolated insect-killing bacteria.

• Qing Mengzhu harvested and sold lotus seeds, and Cen Zhiming, Ji Qinglin, and Wu Tianqing arranged to study his unusually fine lotuses and buy planting stock.
• Qing Mengzhu bought the Interstellar Mall’s Growth Liquid, transformed his bamboo into thriving groves, and began harvesting abundant bamboo shoots.
• When Tan Wenlei’s vegetable fields suffered repeated pest outbreaks, Qing Mengzhu tried integrated controls, but a later infestation stripped the crops and prompted him to consider agricultural research.
• Qing Mengzhu, Ming Chunxi, and Zhao Hexi founded Zhuxi Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd., registered it in Shuiqing Town, and hired Gu Benshu and graduate students to search for Livingston Bacillus.
• Zhuxi expanded to 450 mu of leased farmland and ponds, hired Tan Wenlei and Deng Linjia, and began clearing a hill to plant bamboo.
• After Qing Guozhi praised fresh bamboo sap and suggested health products, Qing Mengzhu and Ming Chunxi planned gift boxes, while Zhao Hexi proposed an online store and marketing department.
• Qing Mengzhu and Ming Chunxi approved Zhao Hexi’s snow fungus and lotus seed soup, and Qing Xun ordered five hundred gift boxes.
• Gu Benshu reported that his team had isolated three insect-killing bacilli but could not patent the strains, then explained that bamboo vinegar could improve pesticide penetration as Qing Mengzhu considered producing it.

Qing Mengzhu and his companions developed bamboo vinegar, discovered a new insect-killing Bacillus, and turned their bamboo harvest into a successful dried-shoot product. As they improved the farm and planted Solomon’s seal, interest in Zhuxi’s tomatoes prompted plans for a seed department, and Qing Mengzhu ended the arc gathering pond snails with Zhao Hexi and Little Otter.

• Qing Mengzhu and Zhao Hexi made bamboo vinegar, tested it with pesticides, and saw it wilt weeds, and Qing Mengzhu later realized that collecting insect carcasses could help find unfamiliar insect-killing bacteria.
• Gu Benshu’s researchers found a parasporal crystal in a corn borer that suggested a new Bacillus species, and Qing Mengzhu and Gu Benshu decided to assess the strain and pursue a paper and patent.
• Qing Mengzhu, Zhao Hexi, and Ming Chunxi followed the red fox to gather wild lily bulbs and fruit, then hosted Ming Lexin for dinner, where she welcomed their renewed family closeness.
• Qing Mengzhu and Ming Chunxi collected bamboo grubs with Zhao Hexi and Zhou Yan, shared a meal of fried grubs, and later moved the surviving hazel grouse into the bamboo grove while monitoring a collared scops owl.
• Qing Mengzhu and Ming Chunxi harvested, dried, and sold bamboo shoots, and the company’s first 400 packs sold out on their first day as friends and family praised the product.
• After soil tests revealed depleted nutrients and poor structure, Qing Mengzhu proposed planting Chinese milk vetch and adding amendments gradually, while he and Ming Chunxi also began cultivating Solomon’s seal.
• Qing Mengzhu bought Fine Grade+ Solomon’s seal seeds from the Interstellar Mall, planted 15,000 seeds, and transplanted the rapidly growing seedlings into the bamboo grove.
• After Zhuxi’s tomato products sold out and customers asked for more, Qing Mengzhu, Ming Chunxi, and Zhao Hexi planned a seed production department, then Qing Mengzhu and Zhao Hexi gathered pond snails with Little Otter.

Qing Mengzhu won the funds to buy Sichuan pepper seeds, expanded his fields, and built new ties through his farm’s crops and research. After accidentally absorbing a soil science skill book, he planned improvements for the terraced fields and took his proposal to Zhao Hexi.

• Qing Mengzhu entered the Morning Glory Flower breeding contest, used bamboo vinegar to make the seed sprout, and won second place, earning enough to buy Sichuan pepper seeds.
• Qing Mengzhu rented nearby terraced fields, arranged for workers to clear them, and reserved two mountain-raised pigs after tasting Tan Wenlei’s ribs.
• Qing Mengzhu and Ming Chunxi prepared spirit beef for Ming Lexin and Zhao Hexi, then dealt with the red fox after the dogs and otter ate its hidden stew.
• Nian Xinfei and his students examined Qing Mengzhu’s unusually productive pepper plants and bought five for research, while Qing Mengzhu continued supplying chilies and bamboo sap until he stopped sap production.
• Qing Mengzhu took Ming Chunxi, Zhao Hexi, and the four animals into the mountains to gather Japanese raisins, wild chestnuts, tea cuttings, and kiwifruit.
• Qing Mengzhu sent vegetables to Fan Donghua after videos distorted his comments about Zhuxi’s tomatoes, and later watched Fan feature the produce in a cooking livestream.
• Qing Mengzhu agreed to collaborate with the Northern Research Institute of the Huaxia Academy of Sciences on Biological Missile research and signed a contract with the institute.
• After Qing Mengzhu accidentally spent all his Star Coins on Elementary Soil Science (0.5), he absorbed the book, wrote a terraced-field soil improvement plan, and took it to Zhao Hexi.

Qing Mengzhu improved his fields, expanded the company’s vegetable program, and turned bamboo sheaths into a successful incense business. He ended the stretch with a newly planted mulberry orchard and growing crops and lotus ponds to manage.

• Qing Mengzhu improved the terraces and bamboo grove with soil treatments, raised seedlings, and harvested radishes and winter bamboo shoots, earning Star Coins through the Interstellar Mall.
• Qing Mengzhu and Zhao Hexi made incense from fragrant bamboo sheaths, and the product sold out quickly as customers praised it.
• Qing Mengzhu and his helpers harvested lotus roots, shared them with friends and family, and sold 4,000 jin to the Interstellar Mall.
• Qing Mengzhu became an intermediate member, applied soil science to the company fields, and helped Zhao Hexi recruit tens of thousands of members for weekly vegetable boxes.
• Qing Mengzhu and Zhao Hexi hosted a farm visit, planted lotus roots across eight ponds, and protected the winter crops from birds.
• Qing Mengzhu and Ming Chunxi inspected mulberry orchards in Jingnan, then leased an orchard of more than eighty mu and planted six thousand Purple Phoenix saplings.
• Qing Mengzhu and Zhao Hexi checked the growing vegetables and lotus ponds, planned supports for peas and tomatoes, and arranged to clear weeds from the fields.