Recaps

Li Long built a profitable seed business, helped Sun Jiaqiang and Tie Lanhua marry, and supplied Harimu with a tractor before leading several hunts. As winter arrived, he devised a way to set nets beneath the ice, and the first catches proved it worked.

• Li Long bought and processed watermelon seeds, selling large batches to Dong Zhichao, Bai Xiuming, and Qiao Xing for a net profit of about 230,000 yuan.
• Li Long arranged hunting trips and divided the game among his companions, while Lu Yingming and other villagers bought shotguns to join future hunts.
• Sun Jiaqiang married Tie Lanhua, and Li Long later brought Harimu a tractor and supplies for the winter camp.
• Li Long and Zhao Hui inspected more than a thousand hides and agreed on a payment of 97,060 yuan.
• Li Long drove the bride and her brother to Wang Qiyuan’s wedding, where Gu Xiaoxia became angry at Wang Qiyuan’s treatment of them and Director Wang apologized.
• Li Long built rubber-powered devices to tow nets beneath the ice, tested one at the Ma River, and hauled up a large bighead carp.
• Li Long took Gu Boyuan and others to Little Haizi, where they set four nets through the ice with his devices.
• Gu Boyuan pulled several fish from his net, and Li Qingxia nearly landed a large common carp before it broke free above the ice.

Li Long took his family to Yanjing, where they bought courtyard houses and paintings while Gu Xiaoyu reconnected with Gu Xiaoxia and Gu Boyuan. Back home, Li Long won tribal support for building mountain roads and began organizing the project alongside plans to improve pastoral life.

• Li Long helped Li Qingxia catch a huge carp, then reunited Gu Xiaoyu with Gu Boyuan and brought her to meet Gu Xiaoxia and the family.
• Li Long planned a family trip to Yanjing, arranged supplies and livestock sales, and took Li Jianguo, Li Juan, and Li Qiang on the journey.
• Li Long and his family toured Yanjing, bought two courtyard houses, and purchased 1,107 paintings and calligraphy works from the Antique Shop.
• Gu Xiaoxia said seeing their mother had felt like seeing a stranger, and Gu Xiaoyu later bought a nearby courtyard and grew content living on her own.
• After returning home, Li Long proposed building roads between the winter camps and pastures, and the tribe approved the plan and offered labor and goods.
• Li Long presented a pastoral development proposal to Li Xiangqian, who offered the Supply and Marketing Cooperative’s support for assessing routes and building roads.
• Li Long accepted the tribe’s contributions, surveyed the mountain routes with Harimu and Jade Mountain River, and planned to use another tractor to build a road to the winter camps.
• Li Long registered for telephones at his home, the purchasing station, and his eldest older brother’s countryside home.

Li Long built roads through the mountain pastures, earned national recognition, and expanded the Purchasing Station’s business while surviving floods and dangers in the mountains. He uncovered a massive jade deposit, dealt with a cabin intruder, and returned to growing medicinal-herb trade.

• Li Long organized the mountain road project with local herders and cooperative workers, and crews connected the winter camps before the herders migrated.
• Li Long received a national commendation, traveled to Yanjing, and arranged renovations for his courtyards with help from the Ethnic Affairs Commission.
• During Li Long’s speaking tour, the Purchasing Station’s medicinal-herb and mushroom trade surged, and he sold large stocks to Jia Tianlong and Huang Lei.
• Li Long resumed mountain roadwork, hunted wild animals for the workers, and rescued Su Qiangqiang when a flash flood swept him away.
• Li Long blasted a boulder from the route, found a huge piece of green jade beneath river rocks, and told Meng Hai to preserve the large willow beside it.
• When another flood swept a red deer toward the road, Meng Hai stopped Zhang Xingwang from entering the water, and Li Long fired him from the crew.
• Li Long caught an intruder in his cabin and handed him over to a Forestry Team rider before preparing to be away for several days.
• Jia Tianlong returned to buy another truckload of Fritillaria after Li Long learned that the Purchasing Station had accumulated more than two tonnes.

Li Long expanded his Northern Xinjiang businesses, completed a large broom order, sold his watermelon seeds, and continued developing roads and agricultural work. After finding hidden valuables and expanding his herds, he ended the stretch by contracting with a farm machinery factory to produce his snow-clearing machine designs for a share of the profits.

• Li Long checked his mushroom stock after Huang Lei was investigated over a poisoning, then sold inspected mushrooms to Huang Ying and later to Huang Lei.
• Li Long arranged broom production across several villages and companies, collected the accepted brooms, and fulfilled a forty-thousand-broom order with Director Qian’s support.
• After Bai Xiuming and Dong Zhichao tried to force down his price, Li Long sold more than fifty tonnes of watermelon seeds to Qiao Xing for 152,670 yuan.
• Li Long chased a wild boar into a cave and found Yuan Shikai dollars and Gold Pages in a concealed box, then celebrated National Day with his family and Gu Boyuan.
• Li Long surveyed and extended the Pastoral Road, discussed agricultural mechanization and a pesticide sprayer with Jiang Zhiyu, and bought thirty cattle and more than three hundred sheep.
• Li Long hired Liang Shuangcheng to replace Sun Jiaqiang during his leave, and Sun Jiaqiang cared for Tie Lanhua after she gave birth to a daughter.
• After heavy snow buried the roads, Li Long designed two snow-clearing machines and signed a contract with Factory Director Du for fifteen percent of each machine’s profits.