Recaps

Li Long expanded his hunting and trading, secured a rifle, and helped Gu Xiaoxia reach her goal of becoming a teacher. After the team prepared to divide its land and assets, he bought the Stable and returned to Winter Camp with medicine for Harimu.

• Li Long sold his roe deer antlers and hide, stocked up on supplies, and let villagers try his new bicycle.
• Li Long hunted with Harimu and Jade Mountain River, selling wild game and later guiding Li Xiangqian’s party to Mongolian gazelles in exchange for a small-caliber rifle.
• Li Long helped Tao Jianshe with money for treatment, then hunted a fox with Li Qiang and set rabbit snares.
• Li Long and Tao Daqiang took fish to market while Gu Xiaoxia traveled with them to the County Seat and completed her teacher recruitment exams.
• Gu Xiaoxia passed the county exam, and Li Jianguo told the family that the team would become a village and divide land among its members.
• Li Long, Li Jianguo, and Tao Daqiang collected dead fish from Big Haizi to dry as pig feed, while the Li and Gu families shared a meal to celebrate Gu Xiaoxia’s success.
• Li Long bought the Stable for 350 and told Li Jianguo he planned to use it to raise animals.
• Li Long brought medicine to Harimu at Winter Camp, where Harimu chose a large sheep for him.

Li Long expanded his fishing and trading, secured work for the Production Team, and supplied Harimu’s herders while they built him a house. The arc left him at Small White Poplar Gully, where the Sideline Team was preparing to weave carrying frames.

• Li Jianguo drew land beside the Alkali Flat, bought Red Horse Number 76, and Li Long secured extra field width and helped arrange canal work to protect Little Haizi.
• Li Long and Tao Daqiang began fishing at Little Haizi, bringing home large catches that Li Long sold at the County Seat and Stone City markets.
• Li Long arranged for Lao Luo to raise animals, bought piglets, and secured a Supply and Marketing Cooperative order for the Production Team to weave three hundred carrying frames.
• Li Long bought radios for Harimu’s family and Jade Mountain River’s household, joined their bonfire gathering, and accepted the herders’ plan to build him a wooden house.
• Li Long sold jade and antlers, bought supplies and grain for the herders, caught a fugitive thief at his courtyard, and returned to the village with four piglets.
• Li Long prepared the Sideline Team for its weaving work, then carried more than 150 kilograms of grain to Harimu’s Winter Camp and offered to trade goods for the herders’ products.
• Li Long thanked the men building his two-room house, then rode to Small White Poplar Gully and found the villagers unloading carts and repairing earth-cellar pits.

Li Long built up his mountain camp, traded game and jade for supplies, and looked after the workers and herders while enforcing rules against unauthorized gathering. After defending himself from two would-be robbers, he found the herders had moved on and returned to town with plans for a well at home.

• Li Long trapped wild boar, brought five piglets home, and arranged for Lao Luo to raise them before preparing a housewarming gathering for his mountain friends.
• Li Long sold Ma River jade and bought radios and supplies, then was detained over a false accusation until his credentials cleared him and Gu Ermao was fired.
• Li Long delivered goods to the completed Winter Camp, hosted a feast for the herders, and later shot a wolf and a roe deer, sharing meat and velvet antlers with his friends and their families.
• Li Long brought Gu Xiaoxia to visit Gu Boyuan and explore the mountains, where she found Ma River Jade and Li Long spared a fox at her request.
• Li Long rescued Xu Jianjun after the Forestry Team caught him digging Fritillaria, then warned the workers to follow the rules and negotiated purchases of gathered bulbs.
• Li Long caught a boar and piglets in his pitfall, distributed the animals and meat, and continued bringing supplies to Harimu as the herders prepared to move.
• Li Long shot and wounded two men who attacked his cabin, escorted them to the Police Station, and was cleared after officers learned they were murderers planning to rob him.
• Li Long brought antlers and Fritillaria to Guo Tiebing, paid for another sack of bulbs, sold hides, and planned to install a hand-pump well at home.

Li Long built up his work selling fish, Fritillaria, and game while strengthening his ties with Gu Xiaoxia and Tao Daqiang. After repairing the Stable and arranging to bring his parents home, he continued gathering supplies and caring for his siblings.

• Li Long helped Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming dig a shared hand-pump well, then bought Fritillaria from a migrant digger and arranged for Taibazi makers to supply the Cooperative.
• Li Long delivered 307 Taibazi for inspection and payment, visited Gu Xiaoxia, and promised to marry her while asking her to wait as her career advanced.
• Li Long and Tao Daqiang caught and sold fish from Little Haizi, but after thieves ruined Tao Daqiang’s fish, Li Long confronted their gang at Ma River Bridge and handed five men to public security officers.
• Li Long and Tao Daqiang trapped water rats, sold pelts and musk, and began clearing and repairing rooms at the Stable while Li Long declined a permanent post and sought temporary-worker benefits.
• Li Long and Tao Daqiang hunted in the mountains, collecting codonopsis, boar, a live roe deer, a wolf, and a red deer before Li Long delivered game and Fritillaria to Li Xiangqian.
• Li Long recruited young men to repair the Stable, reused adobe blocks from the Old Brigade Headquarters, and fed the workers venison as they finished the pens, walls, and roof.
• Li Long and Li Jianguo arranged for their parents to come, while Li Long sent them money, set nets and trapped water rats, and made Li Juan a skipping rope and Li Qiang a slingshot.