Recaps

Li Long expanded his food, livestock, and trading businesses while helping prove the value of drip irrigation and celebrating Li Juan’s university admission. The stretch ends with Li Long receiving a large shipment of Soviet vehicles and equipment as Li Juan reunites with her classmates before the New Year.

• Li Long’s group hauled and sold fish, then shifted to supplying fish and canned goods after a failed market trip and grew Sister Yang’s mixed lamb offal business.
• Li Long hosted winter slaughter feasts, welcomed Li Andong’s family into the Fourth Team, and helped Sister Yang acquire and install a canning production line.
• Li Long developed a drip-irrigation trial with Professor Yang, expanded factory production and livestock trade, and caught robbers while trading supplies in the mountains.
• Li Long’s experimental cotton plot outgrew the conventional field, and Professor Yang reported a final yield of 384 kilograms per mu as the cooperative completed its harvest and distributed dividends.
• Li Juan earned admission to Renmin University, celebrated with a village feast, and left for Yanjing while Li Long continued managing the cooperative and his businesses.
• Li Long hosted winter slaughter gatherings and employee celebrations, advised Liu Shanmin on trade, and collected profits from the Construction Engineering Company.
• Liu Shanmin sent Li Long a convoy of Soviet trucks, vehicle parts, hides, horns, and oil-refining equipment, and Li Anguo offered to find a buyer.
• Li Juan reunited with former classmates during New Year visits, and Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia hosted them for dinner before they parted.

Li Long turned his drip-irrigation project into a working factory and expanded the Cooperative’s fields while organizing village health examinations. The arc left him leasing experimental fields, arranging oil expertise and supplies through Liu Shanmin, and investing in oil and cotton-processing equipment.

• Li Long reported a gambling scam, sold his KamAZ trucks, and discovered a buried weapons cache while building Hot Spring Villa.
• Li Long handed over most of the weapons, received merit awards, and presented the Experimental Field project to agricultural officials and experts.
• Li Long secured a 300,000-yuan grant, built and equipped the Drip Irrigation Tape Factory, and began production before Zhao Shijie arrived to supervise the project.
• Li Long and Zhao Shijie expanded the Cooperative’s irrigation and roadwork, while Li Long discovered Ma River Jade Mountain and Liu Shanmin traveled to Kazakhstan to settle a dispute.
• Li Long arranged medical examinations for villagers and workers, then reviewed the results and helped people with serious conditions seek treatment.
• Li Long signed a five-year lease for the school’s experimental fields and inspected the completed irrigation infrastructure.
• Liu Shanmin offered Li Long a stake in an oilfield and arranged crude oil, while Li Long ordered cotton-picking and processing equipment and asked Li Anguo to arrange a Party branch for an oil expert.

Li Long expanded his trade, strengthened the refinery and Cooperative, and led a shift to drip-irrigated cotton while handling family, safety, and community concerns. The arc ended with the school agreeing to send about 240 senior students to help pick cotton.

• Tian Junjie’s crab catch drew crowds to Little Haizi, where Li Qiang and Mingming were attacked by rival crab catchers before Xu Haijun and Xu Chengjun intervened, and Li Long later arranged a fee for outsiders who wanted to fish.
• Li Long recruited Daman and Kolpova to help develop agricultural machinery, traded goods with Liu Shanmin and Liu Gaolou, and helped Li Anguo improve the refinery with Ajinbek’s guidance.
• Li Juan and Li Qiang turned crab-catching into a profitable business, while Li Long began work on the Dry Canal and later caught Wei Shuanghua, who confessed to multiple killings.
• Li Long met Secretary Zhang and an ailing elder in Yanjing, then returned home and helped resolve Li Qiang’s stamp-collecting dispute and press Li Anguo to improve refinery safety.
• Li Long organized cotton-field leveling and livestock support as the Cooperative paid dividends, while traders prepared to sell goods across the border and some pastoralists chose to emigrate to Kazakhstan.
• Li Long installed drip irrigation and planted cotton with the Cooperative, then demonstrated the system at a township meeting that brought wider attention to their fields.
• Li Long helped Li Anguo respond to road robberies, faced down knife sellers at a railway station, and prepared the Purchasing Station for inspection after Qi Zhengyang threatened him.
• Li Long rejected a business partnership but sold a Mercedes-Benz through the short-haired girl, then secured County No. 1 Middle School’s agreement to send about 240 senior students to pick cotton.

Li Long expanded the Cooperative’s farming and trade, dredged Little Haizi, and helped Li Qiang secure admission to a military academy. The story left Li Long organizing another student cotton-picking season and planning a family outing for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

• Li Long prepared lodging and meals for County No. 1 Middle School students, who picked cotton at the Cooperative and later caught crabs and shrimp at Little Haizi.
• The Cooperative distributed its profits, arranged a loan for farming costs, renewed its reclaimed-land lease, and began pursuing additional land to cultivate.
• Li Long and Meng Hai dredged Little Haizi in sections, shared its fish with villagers and their supporters, and restored water to the reservoir.
• Li Long traded with Liu Gaolou, advised Harimu and the Construction Crew, visited Secretary Zhang in Yanjing, and returned with Li Juan and Gu Xiaoyu.
• The Cooperative leased more than a thousand mu of wasteland, recruited workers, and prepared the land for cotton cultivation.
• Li Long finished dredging Little Haizi and persuaded the Cooperative to sow cotton early, while most fields survived a late-spring storm.
• Li Qiang chose a military academy and passed its examination and interview, then Li Long helped investigate the minister who had withheld his Admission Notice, leading to the minister’s removal and disciplinary action.
• Li Long arranged another student cotton-picking season, helped shift workers toward collecting medicinal plants, advised on trade with Kazakhstan, and celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival with the students and hired workers.