Recaps

Li Long helped the herders fight a wolf pack, traded their livestock and furs, and brought supplies and furniture to their winter camp. After helping Yang Xiulan learn of Han Bin’s death and return home, he celebrated the New Year with family and began planning larger equipment sales, before hearing that a massive bear might be driving wolves from the Inner Mountain.

• Li Long joined Harimu and the herders in hunting wolves, then helped sell their sheep, wolf meat, and pelts while arranging furniture orders and supplying ammunition.
• Li Long and his relatives sold fish and meat in the Fourth Team and Stone City, while Li Long defended his fish business against a false contamination accusation and an unfounded report about his Jeep.
• Li Long drove Yang Xiulan and Han Fang to Red Flag Farm, where they learned Han Bin had died, visited his grave, and received the farm’s offer of support before returning to Ma County.
• Li Long processed deer placenta and tiger bones, celebrated New Year with Gu Xiaoxia and his family, and confronted Li Anguo and Chen Xingbang by challenging them to drink.
• Li Long returned to the County Seat, welcomed Yang Xiulan and Han Fang at the Big Courtyard, checked on furniture orders, and recognized growing demand for harvesters from Agricultural Eighth Division companies.
• Li Long delivered furniture to Harimu’s winter camp, where Harimu told him that a massive brown bear had appeared and might have driven wolves out of the Inner Mountain.

Li Long expanded his farming-equipment business, helped build water lines for the herders, and organized a large taibazi order across several villages. While hauling the finished work, he also established a mountain trading cabin for fritillaria and began relying on Sun Jiaqiang to manage it.

• Li Long sold harvesters and helped villagers buy tractors, then worked with Harimu and the herders to bring spring water to their winter camps.
• Li Long recruited Xu Haijun and Liang Wenyu to lead taibazi-weaving teams after the Supply and Marketing Cooperative ordered four thousand pieces.
• Li Long inspected the teams’ work, rejected flawed taibazi, and arranged trucks to haul accepted batches from the mountain camps and Qingshui River Village.
• Li Long caught a herb gatherer who had robbed his Wooden Cabin, recovered his supplies, and traded provisions for fritillaria as more gatherers began relying on the cabin.
• Li Long delivered the accepted taibazi to the cooperative, which inspected the load and paid him more than five thousand yuan.
• Li Long began trading with herb gatherers near the cabin and hired Sun Jiaqiang to buy and process fritillaria while he was away.
• Li Long hunted a red deer, processed its meat and hide, and left venison at the cabin for Sun Jiaqiang to trade while he delivered meat to friends and family.

Li Long expanded his mountain trading and gathering work, dealt with dangerous robbers, and earned enough from fritillaria and Taibazi to buy harvesters. As Gu Xiaoxia prepared to give birth to twins, Li Long took her to Stone City Hospital, where her labor began.

• Li Long collected fritillaria, traded supplies at the Wooden Cabin, and discovered that three men were hiding stolen herbs in a cave before returning the recovered money to Bolati.
• Li Long expanded his trading and hunting, selling fritillaria and meat while inspecting Taibazi and arranging for hundreds of accepted baskets to be delivered.
• Li Long explored the mountains, found ancient ruins and gold objects, and survived a knife attack by a woman before learning that a herb gatherer had been killed by wolves.
• Li Long kept trading knives and fritillaria as robberies threatened the gatherers, then captured two robbers and found seven sacks of stolen goods.
• Bolati told Li Long that the robbers had attacked him and both had died, and Li Long gave Bolati money while the fritillaria season ended.
• Li Long calculated his earnings, supported Sun Jiaqiang and the Pastoral Team families, and prepared for Gu Xiaoxia’s birth after learning she was carrying twins.
• Li Long bought twenty harvesters in Kuytun and sold them from the Big Courtyard before taking Gu Xiaoxia to Stone City Hospital for delivery.
• Li Long discussed names for the twins as family members brought gifts and prepared to help, then hurried Gu Xiaoxia back to her ward when she felt a contraction.

Li Long cared for Gu Xiaoxia and their twin sons while building business with the mountain herders and expanding mechanized hay cutting. After visiting his contacts and the herders’ families, he helped Li Qingxia plan a revised genealogy that would include women and girls.

• Li Long used wild ginseng to help Gu Xiaoxia deliver twin boys, named Mingming and Haohao, then cared for her during her recovery.
• A masked young woman who resembled Gu Xiaoxia searched for Gu Boyuan, leading him and Li Long to suspect his missing daughter was alive, but they kept the news from Gu Xiaoxia.
• Li Long returned to the mountains, gathered valuable mushrooms and game, and earned substantial income from his harvests and machinery work.
• Li Long brought a tractor and harvester to the Winter Camp, taught Jade Mountain River, Harimu, and Talihaal to operate them, and improved the herders’ haymaking.
• Li Long negotiated paid mowing work with Tursun and organized Li Jianguo, Xie Yundong, and Liang Dacheng to cut pastures in exchange for goods and cash.
• Li Long's crew finished mowing nine families’ pastures, and he paid each worker 1,215 yuan before returning home with Li Jianguo and venison.
• Li Long visited Director Qian, Xiao Si, Engineer Liu, and Professor Wu, delivered gifts, confirmed the value of chicken-blood stone, and promised to bring watermelon seeds to the college after harvest.
• Li Qingxia agreed to fund additions to the family genealogy so it would include women and girls, while Li Jianguo prepared a list for the family to review.