Recaps

Li Long repaired herder families’ homes and wells, earned recognition for his ethnic-unity work, and brought home a harvester from Kuytun. As villagers hired him to cut their wheat, his success attracted Wei Tianxing’s attention and prompted him to seek a machine of his own.

• Li Long recruited a crew to repair Harimu’s and Jade Mountain River’s homes, built hand-pump wells for both families, and was interviewed by Ye Laya and Zhang Xinhua about his work.
• After the cooperative’s leaders recognized Li Long’s contribution and the Xinjiang Autonomous Region Daily reported his story, he received an ethnic-unity commendation and met Aiyidaxi in Wu City.
• Li Long visited Li Anguo and the others in Kuytun, helped with their paperwork, and bought a harvester from Du Tongzhou before returning home.
• Harimu thanked Li Long for helping his family, and Li Long supplied him and the other herders with ammunition, radios, medicine, and sheep as they exchanged gifts and support.
• After Li Anguo and Yang Yongqiang returned as permanent workers, Li Long began harvesting wheat for villagers at two yuan per mu and quickly filled his schedule with jobs.
• Li Long refused to sell the harvester to Wei Tianxing, who then tried to pressure Li Jianguo to persuade him to sell it.
• Li Long continued harvesting fields for cash and wheat, while Wei Tianxing watched his work and decided to travel to Kuytun to buy a harvester himself.

Li Long’s work for the herders and his broom contract brought him wider recognition, while the Li family turned a watermelon harvest into a new source of income. The arc left several families making fresh plans, with Chen Xingbang reunited with Li Xia after confronting Wang Jinguang.

• Li Long harvested thousands of mu, then bought a county-seat courtyard and helped Gu Xiaoxia open an agricultural supplies shop.
• Li Long used his tractor to cut hay for Harimu and the herders, who repaid his help with game and other gifts as Ma Xiaoyan reported on his work.
• Li Long organized villagers to make brooms for the county order, rejected Zhang Qiang’s attempt to force up the price, and earned 6,920 yuan from the contract.
• Li Long and Li Jianguo caught Ma Long and Lu Tietou damaging seed watermelons, and their families disciplined the boys.
• Li Long showed the Li family how to extract and flatten watermelon seeds, and Yuan Guomin bought 1,054 kilograms at 2.80 yuan per kilogram.
• Li Jianguo used the proceeds to buy a tractor, while villagers bought the remaining seed after hearing about the profitable harvest.
• Jiang Zhiyu interviewed Li Long about Professor Wu’s advice on watermelon growing, and Li Long planned to visit Bayi Agricultural College with his family.
• Chen Xingbang returned to Chen Village, reunited with Li Xia and Hongqin, and struck Wang Jinguang after learning of his family’s troubles.

Li Long handled the Fourth Team’s reed-bundle order, supplied the herders through the winter, and planned water pipes for their camps. He then expanded into wheat harvesting by securing harvester dealership rights, selling a machine to Wei Tianxing, and joining a hunt for Mongolian gazelles.

• Chen Xingbang sold his courtyard and land, then secretly took Li Qingxia, Li Xia, and Hongqin north to join Li Long’s family.
• Li Long managed the Fourth Team’s reed-bundle order, rejected poor bundles, and bought extra bundles from Wang Delong after Xu Jianjun tried to burn the Li family’s reeds.
• Li Long repaired Harimu’s frozen hand pump, delivered supplies to the winter camps, and found a tiger pelt among the herders’ hides.
• Li Long and Harimu hauled the tiger from a snow pit, and Li Long later arranged a spring water-pipe project with Director Wei.
• Li Long planned to expand into wheat harvesting, recruit drivers, and lease Little Haizi and Reed Lake, then offered Liang Wenyu money to buy harvesting equipment.
• Li Long arranged harvesting work for Liang Dacheng and Xie Yundong, visited Li Anguo in Kuytun, and negotiated harvester agency rights with Factory Director Du.
• Li Long brought five harvesters back, reunited with Li Xia and Hongqin, and sold Wei Tianxing a harvester for 550 yuan.
• Li Long reported seeing Mongolian gazelles to Li Xiangqian, who summoned him to join Director Qian’s hunting trip.

Li Long traded a tiger pelt for a Jeep, led hunts, and built up winter ventures selling fish and harvesters. After supplying more than a tonne of fish, he went to Harimu's Winter Camp to arrange fifty sheep for the Sugar Factory.

• Director Qian invited Li Long and Li Xiangqian to hunt, then traded Li Long a Jeep for his tiger pelt and head and helped arrange his driver's license.
• Li Long received the Jeep, passed his driving test, and took Li Jianguo and Li Qingxia hunting for gazelles before selling the hides and wolf pelt to Chen Hongjun.
• Li Long set up winter vegetables in his glass room, then joined Xu Chengjun and the militia on hunts for gazelles and saiga antelopes.
• Li Long agreed to procure a tonne of fish for the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, bought fish from villagers at Little Haizi, and kept a large carp for his family's New Year dinner.
• Li Long sold his last harvester to Abulaiti and Abudusaimaiti, then continued buying fish and helped Sister Yang sell fried crucian carp.
• Li Long exposed a fish seller's catch as coming from a sewage pit, and Xu Chengjun had the seller jailed and his horse and cart confiscated.
• Li Long sold fish to the cooperative and arranged to supply fifty sheep to the Sugar Factory after Section Chief Hu requested them.
• Li Long delivered sugar residue, settled payment for more than a tonne of fish, and went to Harimu's Winter Camp, where Harimu set out to find enough fattened sheep.