Recaps

Li Long turned the family’s strong cotton harvest and growing trade business into new opportunities, while helping villagers and expanding his vehicle sales. The arc ended with him preparing a five-household cotton cooperative and warning Harimu about the hunting crackdown.

• Li Long helped villagers catch and sell fish after floodwater breached the East Big Ditch reservoirs, then organized the family’s wheat earnings and supported workers and herders.
• Li Long completed the broom order, supervised cotton picking, and sold the family’s first 5.1 tonnes of grade-one cotton for more than eleven thousand yuan.
• Li Long bought leather goods and shoes for cross-border trade, expanded his business into the Soaring Flood Dragon Trading Company, and arranged further sales with Liu Gaolou.
• Li Long helped expose Wang Erwa’s counterfeit fertilizer operation, which led to arrests and prison sentences, then donated vehicles to local offices and bought excavators and other equipment.
• Li Long advertised his cars and sold vehicles, trucks, tractors, and winter clothing to customers, while Jia Tianlong bought a ton of antelope horns from him.
• Li Long and local farmers developed a plan for a five-household cotton cooperative, with land and machinery counted as shares and workers paid wages.
• Li Long paid the seasonal workers and took his family’s employees to the railway station for New Year before discussing cooperative rules with Xie Yundong, Tao Daqiang, and Liang Dacheng.
• Li Long warned Harimu about the hunting crackdown, learned Xu Haijun wanted to join the cooperative, and told Li Qingxia the arrangement would be a private partnership rather than a commune.

Li Long established the Cotton Planting Cooperative, answered a school extortion case and rumors, and traveled to Yanjing to present proposals on rural development and education. After returning, he supported his community’s businesses and families, taught cotton cultivation, and prepared for the cooperative’s work as the New Year approached.

• Li Long organized the cooperative, secured approval from Li Jianguo, and helped its members agree on shares, roles, and Xu Haijun’s participation.
• Li Long stopped two armed robbers from extorting Li Juan and helped expose a gang that had targeted students, then wrote an article condemning rumors that distorted the arrests.
• Li Long’s article gained official support, while inspectors who had challenged his business records left without finding violations and faced discipline.
• Li Long sold a high-horsepower tractor to Qi Wusheng, helped herding families arrange homes near the County Seat, and set up a company yard with Meng Hai.
• Li Long traveled to Yanjing, met with a leader about cooperatives and rural development, and encouraged Meng Yuchao to sell raisins by the portion.
• After returning home, Li Long declined to charge the team for Little Haizi’s water, helped Chen Hongjun establish a farm supply store, and advanced a proposal against scripture lessons for minors.
• Li Long hunted with Tao Daqiang and Xie Yundong, taught cotton cultivation at the Agricultural Technical Extension School, and continued preparations for the Cotton Planting Cooperative.
• Li Long’s Purchasing Station sold a high-horsepower tractor and most of its remaining cars as the New Year approached.

Li Long expanded his road, mountain-trading, and agricultural ventures while helping Gu Boyuan and Teacher Song marry. The arc left Li Long developing drip-irrigation machinery and arranging canned-food supplies for Liu Gaolou’s convoy.

• Gu Boyuan gave Li Long the business ledger and 150,000 yuan in profits, and he and Gu Xiaoxia began planning a summer wedding.
• Li Long funded road construction, expanded his mountain trading, and helped repair storm-damaged cotton fields as the Fourth Team’s asphalt road opened.
• Li Long arranged for Bolati to trade fritillaria at the cabin and worked with Meng Hai’s crew on mountain roads and a new repair contract.
• Li Long and Professor Yang studied the Cooperative’s cotton fields, while Jade Mountain River began building a livestock business supplying county institutions.
• Li Long brought Gu Xiaoyu to visit, tested stones with her Geiger counter, and took the Gu family to Ili for Gu Boyuan and Teacher Song’s wedding.
• Li Long bought a courtyard in Ili, and Gu Boyuan and Teacher Song married there before returning with Li Long’s family to hold a second banquet in the Fourth Team.
• Li Long presented Factory Director Du and Engineer Deng with plans for drip-irrigation equipment, and the factory offered him first inventor credit and twenty-five percent of profits after testing.
• Li Long agreed to supply canned fruit and meat to Liu Gaolou’s convoy, then asked Director Qian to arrange county and city stock and future factory orders.

Li Long expanded his businesses while the Cooperative completed a profitable cotton harvest and distributed its first dividends. He helped develop domestic drip-irrigation equipment and prepare a school experiment, then expanded into mutton, packaged offal, and wholesale fish sales.

• Li Long advertised his imported cars on television, sold several vehicles, and helped Zheng Jun film a program about his work and the roads he had supported.
• Li Long imported drip-irrigation equipment for the Farm Machinery Factory to study and received a thirty-five percent dividend share under a revised agreement.
• Li Long discovered an illegal gold-panning camp, killed Boss Yang in self-defense, and helped police investigate murders and raid unauthorized mountain operations.
• Li Long supervised cotton picking, completed a forty-thousand-broom order, and joined the Cooperative in approving a 100,000-yuan dividend distribution after the harvest.
• Li Long accepted a school appointment to lead a drip-irrigation experiment, while Factory Director Du rejected Inoue Corporation’s technology offers and pursued patents with him.
• Li Long invested 50,000 yuan in Jade Mountain River’s livestock venture and bought domestically produced irrigation tape for the school’s twenty-mu experimental field.
• Li Long and Jade Mountain River fulfilled a fifty-tonne mutton order, sold the sheepskins and other by-products, and worked with Sister Yang to launch vacuum-packed mixed lamb offal.
• Li Long took the Cooperative’s fish to Wu City, caught Ji Xiaobo stealing a wallet, and planned another fishing trip after the group earned 12,227 yuan.