Recaps

Li Long used his snow-clearing machines to reopen roads and helped pastoralists sell livestock before the snow disaster wiped out their herds. After a dangerous winter hunt and a profitable holiday season, he reunited with family and was interviewed about his agricultural machinery.

• Li Long captured two highway robbers and took them to the police station, then learned they had targeted him.
• Li Long led villagers in clearing roads to the mountain camps and promised supplies as Harimu and Jade Mountain River described their shortages.
• Li Long arranged to buy livestock from snow-struck herders, built up a huge inventory, and turned down Sun Benchuan’s offer for his jade.
• Li Long supplied the cooperative with its urgent meat order and sold further stocks to factories, traders, and local residents.
• Li Long recruited Harimu and Jade Mountain River’s men to slaughter livestock, earning about a hundred and ten thousand yuan from the sales and hides.
• Li Long hunted wolves and wild boars with Harimu, then wounded the Northern Xinjiang Tiger King when it charged his cabin.
• Li Long bought and collected hides, supplied Wang Mingjun and Zhao Zongming with snow-clearing machines, and received a bonus after the cooperative’s strong year-end result.
• Li Long celebrated the New Year with Gu Xiaoxia and their relatives, then answered Jiang Zhiyu’s questions about how he had designed the snow-clearing machine.

Li Long turned dried meat into a growing business, invested in Chen Hongjun’s purchasing station, and helped protect Little Haizi and repair mountain roads as spring arrived. The arc left him running a fritillaria exchange at the Wooden Cabin, where he helped the injured Mo Linsheng and prepared to care for Mingming and Haohao.

• Li Long developed seasoned dried meat, sold it to Zhao Hui and Huang Lei, and began arranging regular supplies of beef and mutton with Ke Youmu.
• Li Long advised Chen Hongjun on opening a purchasing station, then invested twenty thousand yuan for a thirty-five-percent share in the Red Army Purchasing Station.
• Li Long warned Xu Chengjun about flood risks at Little Haizi, and the Fourth Team cleared canals and reinforced the dam before floodwater arrived and receded without breaking it.
• Li Long bought a courtyard for dried-meat production, organized villagers and cooperative workers to repair mountain roads, and found jade and agate along the river.
• Li Long caught wild boar piglets after a herd was startled into the river, then brought Mingming and Haohao home safely.
• Li Long bought hides and medicinal goods from the Forestry Team, reopened the Wooden Cabin as a fritillaria exchange, and traded supplies with Wu Bensheng and Wu Donghai.
• Bolati advised Li Long to enjoy life rather than focus only on earning money, and Li Long later gave the injured Mo Linsheng food and tools after robbers stole his supplies.
• Li Long took Mingming and Haohao back to the Wooden Cabin, where Mo Linsheng arrived wounded with fritillaria and asked for food on credit as Bolati came back.

Li Long expanded his mountain purchasing business, protected the gatherers around his cabin, and invested in processing and local improvements. As the fritillaria season ended and road work began, he discovered a man panning for gold and confronted him about its legality.

• Li Long built up his fritillaria stock, sold it to Jia Tianlong for large sums, and expanded his dried-meat operation with a new drying machine.
• Li Long resisted Qin Liguo’s adulterated fritillaria and stopped two armed men who tried to rob him, while Tang Ling was freed and the men were handed to the authorities.
• Li Long bought medicinal goods and old objects from Abulaiti, then continued purchasing from mountain gatherers as Mo Linsheng struggled with hunger, injuries, wolves, and repeated attacks.
• Bolati helped protect the Wooden Cabin and its gatherers, while Li Long compensated those affected by Ablikim’s confiscations and kept buying fritillaria with food and cash.
• Li Long amassed twelve or thirteen tons of fritillaria before the season ended, paid bonuses, and shared business lessons with Chen Hongjun.
• Li Long planned a floodgate for Little Haizi and agreed with Xu Chengjun that Li Long would pay while the team supplied labor.
• Li Long brought money and food to Meng Hai’s road crew, then followed tracks to a river tributary and confronted a man panning for gold.

Li Long recovered Lü Youcai’s remains, developed a tractor-pulled cotton sprayer, and pushed forward plans for roads and irrigation while expanding his dealings in jade and mountain goods. The stretch ended with him arranging a large sugar export deal with Liu Shanmin’s trading network as Li Juan began boarding school.

• Li Long found Lü Youcai’s remains and gold, reunited the remains with Lü Youcai’s family, and helped them bury him.
• Li Long organized villagers to haul a huge jade boulder from the mountains to his courtyard and kept the recovery secret.
• Li Long designed a tractor-pulled cotton sprayer, tested it in Wang Mingjun’s fields, and persuaded the factory to begin production.
• Li Long welcomed relatives who came to Xinjiang for work and helped Li Junfeng settle into steady farm labor with Li Jianguo.
• Li Long worked with Yang Bo on plans for a Little Haizi floodgate and a bridge across the mountain river, then entrusted the floodgate project to Meng Hai.
• Li Long expanded trade in medicinal herbs, hides, dried meat, jade, and antelope horns through Liu Shanmin and Liu Gaolou.
• Li Long and Li Jianguo took Li Juan to County No. 1 Middle School after she ranked highly in her exams, and Li Juan began boarding there.
• Li Long secured a twelve-ton sugar deal and agreed to load the sugar after Liu Gaolou confirmed Liu Shanmin’s US-dollar payment terms.