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Qi Fruit
Mr. Qi has challenged you to ship 500 of these strange melons.
All Qi Fruit and Qi Beans despawn when the quest is over (i.e., the day after the player ships them or the quest timer ends), including growing crops, all players' inventories, chests, Preserves Jars, Kegs, and Marlon's item recovery service list.
Mr. Qi requests the player to ship 500 Qi Fruit in 28 days in the "Qi's Crop" quest. The reward is data-sort-value="100"> 100.
Tailoring
Qi Fruit is used in the spool of Sewing Machine with Cloth in the feed to create a Qi Mask. It can be placed in the blue dye pot at Emily's and Haley's house for use in dyeing.
Notes
Finishing the Qi's Crop quest does not remove Qi Fruit in Pierre's General Store stock. Extra Qi Fruit can be sold to the General Store before completing the quest and bought back the next day for data-sort-value="1">1g each. This makes future Qi's Crop quests significantly easier. It is possible that Villagers may purchase some of the Qi fruit, resulting in fewer fruit to buy back.