Recaps

Qing Mengzhu oversaw the rice harvest, earned a gold medal, and expanded Zhuxi Farm’s research and business plans while welcoming Chu Yanhuan to Ming Chunxi’s new company. As the weather turned colder, he prepared the farm for winter and discovered unusually sweet water inside bamboo.

• Qing Mengzhu helped the cats and big wolfdogs coexist, then spent the season gathering mushrooms, tending the orchard, and sharing Zhou Yan’s mushroom and orange dishes with friends and farm guests.
• Qing Mengzhu harvested 6,150 jin of Fine Grade+ rice, and Zhao Hexi entered it in the International Rice Competition, where it won a gold medal.
• Qing Mengzhu hosted agricultural experts at Zhuxi Farm, answered their questions about his methods, and agreed to arrange member visits while Gu Benshu sought support for the earthworm research.
• Ming Chunxi told Qing Mengzhu he planned to resign and start a company focused on quantum computing and artificial intelligence, then persuaded Chu Yanhuan to visit Zhuxi Farm, where Chu agreed to stay and work with them.
• Qing Mengzhu and Ming Chunxi fermented rice wine, studied cow-dung fertilizer, and harvested soybeans as autumn vegetables and strawberries came into season.
• Qing Mengzhu supported Gu Benshu’s earthworm pest-control research, approved Li Ba’s seed-selection work, and backed Ke Shuwen’s Tuan Brassica research and a proposed trial at Bi Luping’s rhodium mine.
• Qing Mengzhu used fermented cow-manure fertilizer on the coffee trees, brought ryegrass home for the pregnant cows, and dug winter bamboo shoots with Ming Chunxi.
• Qing Mengzhu and Ming Chunxi found water-filled bamboo segments whose sweet water soothed Zhao Hexi’s sore throat, then brought the stalks home to collect and sample more of it.

Qing Mengzhu expanded his farming enterprise with new frontier farms, improved crops, and research into ryegrass while the restaurant earned international recognition. He and Ming Chunxi became engaged, and the stretch ended with their businesses growing as spring produce reached customers.

• Qing Mengzhu and Ming Chunxi used Seed Gene Agent and bamboo water to improve their bamboo, tomato, and chili seeds, then sowed tens of thousands of seedlings.
• Qing Mengzhu and Zhao Hexi leased two frontier farms, and Qing Mengzhu planned crops including ryegrass, onions, carrots, tomatoes, and strawberries.
• Zhou Yan helped Zhuxi Farm gain a place on the Global Top 100 Restaurants list, ranking ninety-seventh worldwide and sixth nationally.
• After a chili cultivation meeting, Qing Mengzhu reached a breakthrough that let him sense people’s professional skills and used the ability to promote promising employees.
• Qing Mengzhu and Ming Chunxi helped Ming Lexin sleep with gastrodia soup, then celebrated New Year together before Ming Chunxi proposed underwater and Qing Mengzhu accepted.
• Qing Mengzhu’s ryegrass improved the soil, prompting him to hire Xu Qilin to study it and test mycorrhizal inoculation.
• Qing Mengzhu took his friends to Zhaiqian Village, where they gathered bamboo shoots and wild vegetables and shared a meal with villagers.
• From February through May, Qing Mengzhu’s company sold more produce online and supplied the restaurant, while Zhou Yan studied customer reviews and Qing Mengzhu’s richer tomatoes impressed him.

Qing Mengzhu expanded Zhuxi’s crops and products, helping orchards recover from a typhoon while overseeing harvests of rice, durians, and coffee. The stretch left him preparing coffee at home for Zhao Hexi, Zhou Yan, and Chu Yanhuan to taste.

• Qing Mengzhu expanded bamboo sales to Duan Yu'ang and discovered the transplanted mother bamboo’s leaves made fragrant tea.
• Qing Mengzhu and Ming Chunxi weathered Typhoon Noel, then helped Mi Yao treat storm-damaged durian trees and joined him on a fishing trip.
• Qing Mengzhu bought an oilseed sunflower crop and farm, arranged bee pollination, and started tomato-product production from Ye'erqingele vegetables.
• Qing Mengzhu helped deliver twenty-eight calves, and Zhou Yan turned the cows’ rich milk into popular dairy foods and desserts.
• Bai Wenru and Cheng Yizheng praised Qing Mengzhu’s rice, and Qing Mengzhu arranged research partnerships and harvested the company’s crop.
• Qing Mengzhu and his guests sampled tree-ripened durians, then sold the harvest as customers and restaurant diners praised the fruit and its dishes.
• After the durian harvest, Qing Mengzhu sent bees to the flowering coffee grove and oversaw coffee-cherry processing in Qiongwei City.
• Qing Mengzhu brought coffee beans home and began grinding honey-processed beans for Zhao Hexi, Zhou Yan, and Chu Yanhuan.