Recaps

Li Long hunted and sold game, pursued seed-watermelon farming, and reunited with relatives who moved to Northern Xinjiang. He bought a tractor, built a home, and helped his family find work as spring approached.

• Li Long hunted a bear, roe deer, and wild boars, then sold the game through Li Xiangqian and Zhong Guoqiang.
• Li Long bought seed watermelon seeds in Wu City, but Yang Yongqiang and Tao Daqiang’s families refused to risk planting them.
• Li Long rescued Liang Second Son after he fell through the ice, then learned that his parents and relatives would move to Northern Xinjiang.
• Li Long brought his family a color television for New Year and arranged carts to meet the relatives arriving at the county bus station.
• Li Long welcomed Li Anguo’s family and gave jade gifts to Xueping, Xueqin, and Chen Lirong.
• Li Long gathered timber with his relatives and friends, then bought a twelve-horsepower tractor for 4,500 yuan to haul materials for his house.
• Li Long used the tractor to clear the homestead and build a house, but Yang Yongqiang crashed it into the East Room wall while practicing.
• Li Anguo and Li Junshan accepted temporary construction jobs in Kuytun, while Chen Xingbang stayed in the village and Tao Daqiang declined the opportunity.

Li Long helped his relatives settle into construction work in Kuytun, then returned to arrange his wedding to Gu Xiaoxia and begin their life together. He expanded his mountain trading and hunting, gathered fritillaria and deer, and ended the stretch running a supply shop from the Wooden Cabin.

• Li Long drove Li Anguo, Li Junshan, and Yang Yongqiang to Kuytun, where they began construction work and he arranged hauling jobs and helped secure skilled positions for his relatives.
• Li Long arranged for a tractor-mounted harvester with Farm Machinery Factory director Du Tongzhou, then returned home with fruit saplings and agreed to marry Gu Xiaoxia the following week.
• Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia married, celebrated with their families and neighbors, and began married life in their new courtyard.
• Li Long learned from Gu Boyuan that Gu Xiaoxia had a missing twin sister, then planted seed watermelons and helped pastoral families with supplies and school necessities.
• Li Long rented a courtyard in Stone City, helped Chen Xingbang buy sheep from Harimu, and brought home several young deer while supplying mountain households.
• Li Long hunted wild boars and searched for a two-headed red deer, then began exchanging food and medicine for fritillaria with gatherers including Bolati, Li Zhengtang, and Li Zhengting.
• Li Long found a newborn fawn and trapped its mother, then took them to the County Seat and arranged a place for them in Uncle Lao Luo’s stable.
• Li Long passed his tractor tests and returned to the mountains, where he set up a shop in the Wooden Cabin and traded supplies with fritillaria gatherers and Sun Jiaqiang.

Li Long expanded his mountain trade in fritillaria, game, and supplies while organizing a taibazi-weaving camp and dealing with dangers in the mountains. The arc ended with a wounded stranger collapsing at his cabin after returning with a dead wolf.

• Li Long trapped wild boars, traded game and supplies, and built up his cabin while trading with gatherers and pastoral herders.
• Li Long hunted wolves, a lynx, a fawn, and a mountain goat, and sold valuable pelts and fritillaria in County Town.
• Li Long recruited relatives and workers to weave a thousand taibazi in Small White Poplar Gully, then supplied and inspected their work.
• Li Zhengting and Li Zhengtang struggled to sell fritillaria in County Town before Li Long arranged for Sister Yang to buy their remaining stock.
• Li Long traded for old metal plates and a bronze mirror while Bolati and the Forestry Team warned him that a wanted criminal was in the mountains.
• Li Long caught and punished thieves who broke into his cabin, while drifters and gatherers traded fritillaria for his dwindling supplies during the rain.
• Li Long brought more than a hundred kilograms of fritillaria to Gu Xiaoxia, then restocked his cabin and sheltered a well-dressed stranger.
• The stranger returned in the night covered in wounds with a dead wolf and collapsed at Li Long’s doorway after asking for treatment.

Li Long finished the Taibazi contract, traded for and sold large quantities of fritillaria, and survived a series of threats and mountain hunts. After returning home with substantial earnings, he shared his savings with Gu Xiaoxia, bought televisions, and began spending more time with his family.

• Li Long treated Liu Shanmin, bought fritillaria from mountain diggers, and fended off robbers and arsonists before moving the Taibazi to Small White Poplar Gully.
• Li Long completed the Taibazi order, collected 8,416 yuan, and paid the workers for their work.
• Li Long hunted a brown bear that threatened a wounded red deer and later killed the stag after a wolf attacked it.
• Li Long finished buying fritillaria and gathering morels, then left the mountains with his final haul.
• Li Long counted his earnings and planned how to divide his savings with Gu Xiaoxia, who showed him her own savings.
• Li Long sold fritillaria and bear parts, then bought two color televisions and a radio in Stone City and gave the radio to Chen Xingbang.
• Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia watched television together, and Li Long gave Gu Boyuan a color television.
• Li Long visited Li Qingxia’s family with food and suggested moving their television into his parents’ room so the family could watch it.