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Meiduo, how long are you going to look at it?

I've already poked three ant nests.

Be quiet. I'm counting its tree rings.

What are tree rings?

Are they edible?

It means every year a tree grows,

it draws a circle in its belly.

My father said this tree is a thousand years old.

I'm wondering if there are

a thousand circles inside its belly.

Can you see them?

No.

Then from what you say,

I guess you don't understand.

Zhaxi, look at that beautiful mushroom.

Where is it?

It's so pretty.

I want to pick it.

No, you can't pick it.

Why can't I pick it?

My dad said mushrooms are meant to be eaten.

This is not an ordinary mushroom.

It is Lingzhi, a medicinal herb.

Medicinal herbs are meant to be eaten too.

Zhaxi.

Meiduo, look, it looks delicious.

If you pick it,

it will die.

I'll share half of this with you.

I don't want it.

Meiduo, wait for me.

I'll give you all of this.

Meiduo, wait for me.

Meiduo, you haven't been back in three years.

You must be homesick.

Yes.

I dreamed of coming back.

The village roads are really nice now.

Yeah.

Our village is a key focus now.

I heard they're building an ecological demonstration zone.

I brought this project back with me this time.

The villagers talk about it every day,

saying the golden phoenix of our village is coming back.

Coming back with technology

and leading everyone to wealth.

Don't say that, Uncle Suolang.

I'm just doing

what I should do.

Come.

Hold the Hada higher.

Look sharp.

This is a Ph.D. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences who flew out of our village.

We must have a grand reception, alright?

Alright.

Secretary,

your waist injury hasn't healed yet.

I'll pick her up.

My back is fine. It's just a minor injury.

Meiduo is the pride of our village.

I had to come.

Okay.

Why isn't she here yet?

Here she comes.

Stand straight.

Where is the doctor?

That girl insisted on stopping by the road.

She said she needed to check some data,

and went into the forest with her backpack.

She told me to bring the instruments back.

Look, Professor.

This is the one I personally planted three years ago,

that mother plant.

This density is perfect.

You can't cultivate such wildness in a greenhouse.

If we can collect this batch of spores,

we can mass-produce the strongest

first-generation seedlings.

Okay, I'll start collecting.

Bye.

Be good.

Don't drop a single bit.

This is the village's hope for next year.

You can't just pick things here.

This is our protected forest.

Don't speak.

You're messing up the airflow.

I have a collecting permit. It's perfectly legal.

Who is it?

You.

Zhaxi.

You recognize me.

Long time no see, Dr. Meiduo.

Give it back to me.

Three minutes away from the parent body,

they will be contaminated by bacteria.

Then I can't do sterile cultivation.

The rule of the mountain is,

finders keepers.

Do you know

that this isn't an ordinary one?

Jimei's stone pot chicken

is just missing this ingredient.

Otherwise, it tastes like dishwater.

What did you say?

You're going to use it to stew chicken?

This is called making the best use of things.

It's a pity for such a good thing to grow in the wild.

I'm running late. I'm going back first.

Zhaxi.

Pack up your things.

I'll share a bowl of soup with you.

Zhaxi.

Zhaxi.

Zhaxi! Zhaxi!

Zhaxi, wait for me.

Hurry up, Meiduo.

The chicken soup won't taste good if it stews too long.

Zhaxi.

Those are seedlings, not seasoning.

Zhaxi! Zhaxi!

Meiduo, wait for me.

I don't want it, Meiduo.

I said I'd give you half of this.

Tashi.

Meiduo, Meiduo.

Tashi.

Don't run, Tashi.

Hurry up, Meiduo.

Jimei.

Jimei.

Jimei.

Hurry, hurry, hurry.

Look, look at this.

Okay.

How is it?

Neither sweet nor salty.

It just looks a bit sad when cooked.

Look at this, Brother Jimei.

The flesh is firm.

Zhaxi, where did you find it?

It must have grown in the mountains for at least three years.

Yeah, hurry up and stew it.

Wait.

Judging by the pattern, it's not wild.

It's artificially cultivated.

This is strange.

I saw it with my own eyes in the forest...

Why do you care if it's wild

or cultivated?

Isn't it just a mushroom?

Come on.

Let's stew it first.

Zhaxi.

Uncle Jimei.

Miss Meiduo, take a seat.

Meiduo, the soup will be ready soon.

Have a taste.

That lingzhi mushroom from just now...

Is it in this soup?

Yes.

I just put it in. It smells great.

Do you know what that was?

A lingzhi mushroom.

That was a highly resistant mother plant

that I domesticated in the wild for years.

A seed source capable of natural propagation.

They were the seedlings I brought back

for the village's 300-mu forest base.

Seedlings?

The spores I collected

could mass-produce the strongest first-generation seedlings.

With it,

the village could build the forest base.

We could apply for a national ecological demonstration zone.

And we'd have a chance to get support funds.

Support funds?

Now look.

The mother plant is cooked,

the spores are dead,

and the funds are gone.

I didn't know it was a seedling.

I thought it just grew in the wild.

You grew in the wild!

You pick it just because it grew in the wild?

You stew it just because it grew in the wild?

Meiduo.

Here's the thing.

I told Zhaxi to find mushrooms on the mountain.

As for this lingzhi,

I cut it and stewed it.

If you must blame someone, blame me.

Uncle Jimei, I'm not blaming you.

I...

What's your name?

Zhaxi. You know it.

I meant your full name.

I have to put it in the accident report.

The direct loss of 18,000,

and the indirect loss of support funds,

someone has to be responsible.

Eighteen thousand?

This pot of soup costs 18,000?

Eighteen thousand?

Gene sequencing fees,

depreciation of field monitoring equipment,

and artificial cultivation costs.

Not counting my intellectual cost,

it's conservatively estimated around 18,000.

Right,

the support funds are the village's money.

Go explain to the Party Secretary yourself.

I...

Uncle Jimei, I'll be going now.

Come over and hang out when you have time.

Right.

You'd better drink every last drop

of this soup.

It is quite expensive, after all.

Meiduo.

Brother.

I think this pot of soup

is quite interesting.

What's in it?

Come on, drink more.

18,000, it's a bit expensive.

How can I bear to drink something so expensive?

Drink it while it's hot.

Do you still feel frustrated?

I feel even more frustrated.

Well,

what are you cooking? It smells so good.

Smells good, right?

It's poison.

Poison smells this good?

Zhaxi,

let me taste it for you.

I am a Level 8 member

on Dianping.

My tongue is very sharp.

This...

This is too delicious.

This 18,000 soup is really different.