Recaps

Li Long expanded his fishing trade, helped his family earn money, and took on orders for festival goods and brooms. After leading his family into the mountains to cut poles, he caught a wounded gazelle and confronted thieves who had broken into his cabin, then returned to work in the mountains.

• Li Long brought Li Qingxia and Du Chunfang to stay with Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei, where his parents saw his fishing skills and met Gu Xiaoxia.
• Li Long began selling fish in Stone City and County Town, fought off three hooligans with Li Qingxia, and reassured Tao Daqiang when villagers entered the fishing trade and drove down prices.
• Li Jianguo received a bicycle and certificate as a model of prosperity, while Li Long lent Qin Family Jiajie money in exchange for reed leaves and arranged Dragon Boat Festival supply orders.
• Li Long sold fish and reed leaves during the festival, paid down Qin Family Jiajie's debt for shovel handles, and accepted Li Xiangqian's order for three thousand jiji grass brooms.
• Li Long, Li Qingxia, Li Jianguo, and Tao Daqiang traveled to the mountain cabin to cut poles, found it had been burgled, and Li Long shot a wounded Mongolian gazelle.
• Li Long tracked the cabin thief to the Earth Cellars, shot and beat two men, and took antlers and medicinal herbs as compensation for the stolen goods.
• Li Long and Li Qingxia encountered Forestry Team escorts transporting the injured thieves, explained the theft and the blood on their machetes, then sold the antlers and herbs for nearly three hundred yuan.
• Li Long delivered six hundred poles to Xu Chengjun, then returned to the mountains with Li Qingxia, Li Jianguo, and Tao Daqiang and cut nearly a thousand more poles.

Li Long expanded his work and hunting, sold brooms and fish, and formally became engaged to Gu Xiaoxia, who moved to the County Seat for a temporary Education Bureau post. He continued hunting and gathering in the mountains, ending with a pack of wolves attacking wild mountain goats near the hot springs.

• Li Long and Tao Daqiang hunted boars, processed the meat at the Wooden Cabin, and Li Long delivered shares to Gu Xiaoxia and Tao Jianshe.
• Li Long sold Harimu’s snow leopard pelt, bought supplies and batteries for the herders, and Harimu returned to the mountains with the goods.
• A lynx clawed Li Long while he tried to take its fox prey, but he treated his wound and later delivered nearly a thousand broom poles with Tao Daqiang.
• Li Long and the villagers completed and sold thousands of brooms, distributed the earnings, and Li Long bought an iron roller and commissioned furniture.
• Li Long proposed to Gu Xiaoxia, and Li Jianguo and Gu Boyuan formally arranged their engagement while agreeing to delay the marriage for her career.
• Li Long hunted boars, caught fish, and gathered gifts for the engagement, then the Li Family and Gu Family formalized the match.
• Deputy Director Wang arranged a temporary Education Bureau post for Gu Xiaoxia, and Li Long helped her move into his County Seat courtyard and bought her a bicycle and radio.
• Li Long hunted roe deer and boars near the hot springs, shared meat with both families, and continued gathering mushrooms and seeking game.
• Li Long nearly struck a hungry girl on the road, then gave her and her mother vegetables before returning to the mountains.
• Li Long saw a lynx with two cubs but failed to catch them, then spotted three wolves attacking four wild mountain goats at the hot spring pools.

Li Long expanded his trading and hunting while helping his family, mountain herders, and a struggling mother and daughter. After Du Qiuping arrived claiming to be his girlfriend, Li Long sent her home and reassured Gu Xiaoxia that he remained committed to her.

• Li Long harvested and sold Black Tiger's Paw Mushrooms, bought a courtyard with Li Xiangqian's help, and purchased watches with Gu Xiaoxia.
• Li Long bought river jade from Yusufu and at the Jade Factory, gave jade gifts to his family and Gu Xiaoxia, and sold fish with Li Qingxia.
• Li Long rejected Huang Xuejun's breeding-farm proposal, sold him two deer, and began buying Cynomorium from local diggers for the Medicinal Materials Company.
• Li Long helped Liang Dongting sell watermelons and supplied Harimu and the mountain herders with provisions in exchange for hides, antlers, and other goods.
• Li Long hunted game in the mountains and gave meat to Gu Xiaoxia, Gu Boyuan, Uncle Lao Luo, and others, while Gu Xiaoxia helped Li Qiang test into Class A at Brigade Primary School.
• Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia helped Yang Xiulan and Xiao Ni'er start a noodle-soup business at the Free Market after Xiaoni fell ill.
• Du Qiuping arrived at Li Long's home claiming to be his match, but Li Long and his family explained that he was engaged to Gu Xiaoxia and arranged for Du Qiuping to return home.
• Li Long accompanied Du Qiuping's escorts to the bus station, then told Gu Xiaoxia what had happened and heard her say Du Qiuping had handled her desperation wrongly.

Li Long harvested crops and hauled in profitable fish while making plans to settle near his family, then hunted deer and badgers and helped expose Gu Ermao’s trafficking ring. The arc ended with Li Long defending himself against three robbers and the Forestry Team taking them away.

• Li Long and Tao Daqiang hauled in huge catches from Big Haizi and sold the fish in Stone City.
• Li Long celebrated the harvest and Mid-Autumn Festival with his family, then told Gu Boyuan he planned to stay in the village and apply for a homestead.
• Li Long hunted a doe and wild boars, rescued a fawn, and brought meat home for his family and the Liang family.
• Li Jianguo led villagers in confronting the Ma brothers over a field boundary, and later told Li Long about his past work in the Corps and the village.
• Xu Chengjun granted Li Long a homestead plot of more than three mu, while Li Long and his companions hunted badgers and shared the meat and fat.
• Li Long sold badger hides, supplied salt to Harimu’s camp, and recognized Gu Ermao while selling fish in Stone City.
• Li Long helped Officer Guo raid the trafficking den, stopped Gu Ermao from escaping, and learned that the operation seized counterfeit goods worth nearly ten thousand yuan.
• Li Long dug codonopsis in the mountains, then disarmed three men who tried to rob him before the Forestry Team took them away.