Recaps

The Riverside Tribe prepared to build toilets and drainage channels, with neighboring tribes supplying materials and workers in exchange for learning and trading for lime and cement. The construction began with Jian Mo directing the large workforce and outlining a preliminary septic tank design.

• The Riverside Tribe hired the Tianning Tribe to make pottery pipes, bricks, and tiles, and agreed on payment and a deadline.
• The chiefs of the True Scarlet Tribe, Xiongying Tribe, Red Zheng Tribe, Dianxin Tribe, and Yigu Tribe offered materials and labor, agreeing to trade for lime and cement.
• Qing Kuo urged Wu Jiong to build more pottery kilns, while Jian Mo suggested eventually using water power to hammer metal.
• After the lime and cement were ready and the pottery fixtures arrived, the neighboring tribes sent workers, but De Jiang limited each tribe to thirty people.
• Jian Mo sent some workers to dig drainage channels and explained the tribe's planned septic tanks while the chiefs stayed to help build facilities around his courtyard.

The Riverside Tribe completed its renovation in three days, leaving its people proud of the clean roads, drainage ditches, and whitewashed homes. Jian Mo returned home and told the cubs that Jiujiu and Ying'ao were back and ready to play.

• Jian Mo organized the construction helpers, who finished most of the Riverside Tribe's renovations in three days.
• Yun Long, Huo Meng, Li Qing, and Jian Mo admired the renovated tribe and discussed boiling water, planting flowers, and raising Honey Sparrows.
• Riverside Tribe members praised their cleaner homes and said they hoped to build houses like Jian Mo's.
• Jian Mo brought vegetables home, and the cubs asked if Jiujiu and Ying'ao had returned.
• Jian Mo said Jiujiu and Ying'ao were playing in the side courtyard and let the cubs go join them.

Jian Mo welcomed Wu Jiong home with morning sun fruit from the Mengshui Tribe, and the Riverside Tribe finished helping with the tribe’s renovations. When Yun Long visited to thank them, he watched Jian Mo and Jiu Yin teach the cubs how to treat injuries in the wild.

• Jian Mo walked home with the cubs and praised Jiang Xing for picking up litter around the tribe.
• Wu Jiong returned from the Mengshui Tribe carrying a basket of morning sun fruit for Jian Mo, then bathed while Jian Mo prepared dinner.
• Jian Mo noticed Wu Jiong’s sunburned neck and offered to make sunscreen mud, but Wu Jiong said the construction work would soon be finished.
• Yun Long brought gifts to the Riverside Tribe and thanked Wu Jiong, Jian Mo, and the others for helping renovate the Mengshui Tribe.
• Jiu Yin and Jian Mo taught the cubs local and practical ways to treat injuries, while Yun Long listened closely.

Yun Long asked to bring the Mengshui Tribe’s little ones to the Riverside Tribe for lessons, and Jian Mo agreed. The first joint class began with Ye Luo and Jian Mo teaching the children about distinctive wild plants, including poisonous ones.

• Yun Long praised the Riverside Tribe’s classes and asked Wu Jiong to let the Mengshui Tribe’s little ones attend.
• Wu Jiong agreed to let the little ones try a class, and Jian Mo said he was happy to teach them.
• The next evening, Yun Long and another beastman carried the Mengshui Tribe’s little ones across the river to the Riverside Tribe.
• Jian Mo welcomed the visitors and explained that he and Ye Luo would teach the little ones about wild plants, including poisonous ones.
• Ye Luo and Jian Mo used lessons and games to engage the initially distracted Mengshui Tribe’s little ones, while Yun Long and the other beastman listened closely.

Jian Mo agreed to let cubs from the surrounding tribes attend classes in the Riverside Tribe, provided the tribes helped teach. Wu Jiong and the chiefs settled on a little over 130 students, while the youngest cubs stayed home and celebrated postponing their lessons.

• Yun Long asked Jian Mo to let Mengshui Tribe cubs attend his classes, and Jian Mo told him to discuss it with Wu Jiong and offer teachers in return.
• The Red Zheng, True Scarlet, Ice River, Xiongying, and other tribes arrived with cubs and pleaded with Jian Mo to accept them into class.
• Jian Mo agreed in principle, and the chiefs negotiated with Wu Jiong to have each tribe provide teachers and select age-appropriate students.
• The tribes reduced the enrollment from more than 200 cubs to a little over 130, and Banjiu and the other youngest cubs were excused for two years.
• Banjiu and the other cubs celebrated the delay by running around the tribe and hugging Jian Mo's legs.

The cubs from the Ice River Tribe and Mengshui Tribe asked to travel to class on their own, but their adults initially refused. After the Ice River Tribe's cubs secretly left for home together, they failed to arrive, and Jian Mo asked whether they might have run away from home.

• The Ice River Tribe's cubs failed to persuade their adults to stop escorting them, while Yun Long promised to clear the road before letting the Mengshui Tribe's cubs travel alone.
• The Ice River Tribe's cubs decided to prove they were grown by leaving class and heading home without their adults.
• Jiang Xing told the Ice River Tribe's adults that the cubs had gone toward the other side of the river after class, and the adults transformed into bears to chase after them.
• When the cubs still had not returned by dusk, the Ice River Tribe's people went back to the Riverside Tribe and asked for help finding them.
• Jian Mo asked whether the cubs had argued with their adults or might have run away from home.

Jian Mo and the Riverside Tribe joined the Ice River Tribe in searching for the missing little ones, who had wandered far from the main road and deliberately concealed their scent. The searchers found signs that the children were hiding safely, and Kang Ying became less angry and grateful for the lessons they had learned.

• Jian Mo organized a search along the road and sent himself and Ye Luo on Ying'ao while Qing Kuo and Min Dang rode Jiujiu.
• The missing little ones gathered in the forest, feared punishment, and admitted they had masked their scent with wild beast droppings to avoid being found.
• The searchers discovered signs that the little ones had deliberately hidden their tracks, and Kang Ying concluded they were probably not in danger.
• Wu Jiong reassured Kang Ying that the children’s mischief showed how much they had learned, and Kang Ying planned to bring gifts to the Riverside Tribe the next day.

The little ones hid from the adults, but their attempt to catch scaleless fish as an offering turned into a chaotic rescue. Once the adults joined the hunt, Jian Mo arrived and overcame his fear enough to watch Wu Jiong catch a fish.

• The little ones crept to the river, where the bear cubs decided to catch scaleless fish so the adults would be less angry with them.
• The slippery fish escaped the cubs and chased them through the water, drawing the adults to the river when they heard the commotion.
• The giant bears rescued the cubs, checked that all the little ones were safe, and then joined the Ice River and Riverside Tribes in catching fish.
• Jian Mo and Ye Luo arrived on Ying'ao, and Ye Luo told Jian Mo that scaleless fish were delicious despite their frightening size.
• Wu Jiong nudged Jian Mo away from the muddy water, then pinned down a scaleless fish while Ban Ming offered to pick it up in his mouth.

After the cubs were found, the tribes returned to the Riverside Tribe and caught scaleless fish for a feast. The adults fried and grilled the fish while the Ice River Tribe cubs held horse stances as punishment and watched everyone else eat.

• The adults took the cubs back to the Riverside Tribe and ordered them to hold horse stances instead of beating them.
• Jian Mo and the others fried five pots of scaleless fish in animal fat.
• The adults grilled the fish with Jian Mo’s barbecue sauce, pepper-stamen powder, and garlic powder.
• The Riverside Tribe cubs ate grilled fish and cool leaf drink while the Ice River Tribe cubs remained in their stances.
• The adults ate and drank in front of the hungry Ice River Tribe cubs without sharing.

Jian Mo examined Gong Wei, a sickly cub from the Under the Clouds Tribe, and found a growing hard object in his stomach that might be a gastrolith. He arranged for the family to stay at the clinic and began reviewing stomach case records while considering how to treat him.

• After drinking and eating heavily, Jian Mo woke when Wu Jiong told him that a family from the Under the Clouds Tribe was seeking treatment for their cub.
• Gong Wei’s two fathers told Jian Mo that the cub had a poor appetite, frequent stomachaches, vomiting, and pain when changing into human form.
• Jian Mo examined Gong Wei and felt a large, hard object in his abdomen; his fathers said it had gradually grown since late autumn.
• When Jian Mo said surgery might be needed to remove the object, Gong Wei cried and refused, so Jian Mo reassured him that they would not operate right away.
• Jian Mo sent Gong Wei and his fathers to stay at the clinic, then wrote down relevant case records and considered a gastrolith as a possible cause.

Jian Mo suspected a foreign object in Gong Wei’s stomach and initially agreed to try medicine and recuperation because surgery was risky. After Gong Wei vomited blood and later asked for surgery so he could recover and play with the cubs, his fathers agreed to proceed, and Jian Mo explained the risks and obtained their paw prints.

• Jian Mo told Gong Wei’s two fathers that a tumor or bezoar might be causing his illness and explained that surgery was necessary but risky.
• Gong Wei’s fathers chose to try medicine and build up his strength first, and the family stayed in the Riverside Tribe.
• Gong Wei’s appetite improved as he played with the cubs, but he later vomited blood and collapsed after eating roast meat.
• Jian Mo examined Gong Wei and said he probably needed surgery, while Riverside Tribe members urged his fathers not to delay.
• Gong Wei woke and told his fathers he wanted surgery so he could get better and play with Zhou Dao and the other cubs.
• Gong Wei’s fathers agreed to surgery, and Jian Mo explained the risks to them and the gathered tribe members before collecting their paw prints.

Jian Mo successfully removed a large hair bezoar from Gong Wei’s stomach, and the cub began recovering in the Riverside Tribe. He urged the tribe to feed its cubs wild vegetables, leaving Banjiu protesting the new meals while Jian Mo followed his own advice.

• Jian Mo prepared carefully and operated on Gong Wei, removing a fist-sized bezoar made mostly of hair.
• Jian Mo told Gong Wei’s fathers the operation had succeeded, and Gong Wei woke around noon with some of his strength restored.
• Jian Mo kept Gong Wei in the Riverside Tribe for observation and advised his fathers to feed him meat porridge with chopped wild vegetables.
• Jian Mo urged the tribe’s families to give their cubs wild vegetables, and Qing Kuo warned Banjiu about hairballs while Ban Ming teased him about constipation.
• Banjiu protested eating wild vegetables, but Jian Mo also ate them for several days to avoid developing a bezoar himself.

Jian Mo confirmed that Gong Wei had recovered enough to return home, then discovered that the clothes Gong Wei’s family had traded for were made from plant fibers. Intrigued by the unusual fabric, Jian Mo went to find Wu Jiong while the tribe’s young people trained for the summer harvest festival.

• Jian Mo examined Gong Wei in human form and told his fathers that he was recovering well enough to go home, though he needed better nutrition.
• Jian Mo noticed that Gong Wei’s clothes felt different and asked to inspect them.
• Jian Mo burned loose threads from his own clothes and Gong Wei’s, discovering that Gong Wei’s fabric did not smell like burning animal hair.
• Gong Wei’s dad explained that their family had traded two bolts of ordinary cloth for one bolt of the Long Years Tribe’s fabric.
• Jian Mo went to find Wu Jiong, who was training Ban Ming and the other young people for the summer harvest festival.
• Ban Ming spotted Jian Mo and called out to Wu Jiong that he had arrived.

Jian Mo discovered that the Long Years Tribe made the breathable fabric he wanted and persuaded Wu Jiong to travel there with him to trade. They reached the tribe after an overnight journey, where Min Yan welcomed them and began telling them about the tribe.

• Jian Mo showed Wu Jiong threads from Gong Wei’s clothes and recognized them as fabric from the Long Years Tribe.
• Jian Mo packed goods for a trade, and Wu Jiong arranged for them to leave the next day.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong rode Jiujiu to the Long Years Tribe while Ying'ao carried their supplies, spending a night in the wilderness on the way.
• Min Yan recognized Jian Mo and Wu Jiong, led them into the tribe, and explained that the tribe could weave more cloth if they wanted a large amount.
• Min Yan introduced himself and told Jian Mo and Wu Jiong that he wanted to travel as a merchant, but his dads would not let him go alone.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong visited the Long Years Tribe to trade for cloth and learned about the tribe’s tea and weaving. After agreeing to stay and help harvest cloth fibers, they headed into the mountains with Xin Jun’s people the next morning.

• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong met Xin Jun, chief of the Long Years Tribe, who welcomed them and served them crescent moon tea.
• Xin Jun showed them the tribe’s cloth, and Jian Mo offered supplies to trade for all the kinds he had brought out.
• Xin Jun said the tribe had little cloth left after trading with the Cypress Branch Tribe, so Jian Mo and Wu Jiong agreed to stay until new cloth could be woven.
• Xin Jun found them a house and invited them to dinner, where Jian Mo tried several dishes, including crisp little crabs fried with tea leaves.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong discussed the Long Years Tribe’s fertile rainforest territory and hoped to find chili peppers during the next day’s gathering.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong went into the mountains early the next morning with the Long Years Tribe to harvest cloth fibers.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong visited the Long Years Tribe’s cloth fiber trees and learned how its members processed the fibers into usable thread. The chapter left Jian Mo considering how his own claws might help with the work.

• Xin Jun showed Jian Mo and Wu Jiong how the Long Years Tribe harvested cloth fiber by stripping veins from the trees’ leaves.
• Jian Mo observed that the fibers varied in length and thickness and learned that making cloth required extensive work.
• The Long Years Tribe members boiled the fibers and fed them through wooden frames fitted with metal blades to even out their thickness.
• Xin Jun explained that the frames improved the thread and that sub-beastmen used their claws to handle the fibers quickly.
• Jian Mo turned his hand into a claw and compared it with Wu Jiong’s, noting that his own claws were long and slender rather than sharply developed.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong helped the Long Years Tribe weave and cook, then learned that Jiujiu and Ying'ao may have visited the Cypress Branch Tribe. They planned to visit the tribe the next day, and Xin Jun asked them to trade for white milk fruit so the Long Years Tribe could print patterns on cloth.

• Jian Mo learned to weave with Wu Jiong and the Long Years Tribe, then borrowed a pot and stove to cook for Jiujiu and Ying'ao.
• Wu Jiong recognized fur-sticking grass in the birds' feathers and guessed they had flown to the Cypress Branch Tribe.
• Jian Mo suggested visiting the Cypress Branch Tribe the next day to thank them for their past help, and Wu Jiong agreed to tell Xin Jun.
• Xin Jun asked Jian Mo and Wu Jiong to trade two rolls of cloth for white milk fruit, which the Long Years Tribe used to resist dye and make patterns.
• Xin Jun showed Jian Mo dyed cloth and ornaments, and Jian Mo was especially drawn to the blue-and-orange cloth earrings.

Jian Mo identified a wild fruit with soft white fluff as a possible source of cotton and arranged to gather it with Wu Jiong and Xin Jun. The group headed into the mountains to collect cotton bolls, leaving their planned trip to the Cypress Branch Tribe for later.

• Yi Chuan showed Jian Mo a split wild fruit containing white fluff, and Jian Mo recognized it as a possible cotton source.
• Jian Mo showed the fruit to Wu Jiong, and they decided to gather more and test whether its fluff could be woven into cloth.
• Jian Mo told Xin Jun about the plan, and Xin Jun agreed to lead the next day's trip into the mountains with Yi Chuan.
• Jian Mo, Wu Jiong, Xin Jun, and Yi Chuan climbed through hot, overgrown terrain, using medicinal oil to guard against insects as they searched for scattered cotton trees.
• Jian Mo asked Xin Jun about the Long Years Tribe's ornaments, and Xin Jun explained that their fragile crafts rarely attracted traders.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong introduced the Long Years Tribe to soap and arranged for Xin Jun’s people to spin and weave their cotton into cloth. The next morning, Jian Mo and Wu Jiong flew deeper into the mountains to gather more cotton.

• Jian Mo described glass jewelry and invited Xin Jun and the others to visit his tribe during the Summer Harvest Festival.
• Wu Jiong lifted Jian Mo so he could reach high cotton bolls, and the group gathered five baskets of cotton.
• Jian Mo shared soap with the Long Years Tribe, whose members traded for more and arranged to pay him with cloth, dried fruit, and meat.
• Jian Mo and the others processed the cotton, and Xin Jun agreed to spin it finely and weave cloth by the following evening.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong left for the mountains on Jiujiu and Ying'ao to gather more cotton.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong searched the forest for cotton bolls, but their gathering was interrupted when the chubby chirpers arrived and offered to help. With the chirpers’ flying search, they filled their baskets, then shared food and stories by the river before the visitors left promising to return the next day.

• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong went into the forest to gather cotton bolls, collecting berries, nuts, and other food along the way.
• Jiujiu’s calls interrupted Jian Mo and Wu Jiong as they kissed, and the chubby chirpers arrived to visit and bring white milk fruit to the Long Years Tribe.
• Jian Mo showed the chubby chirpers a cotton boll, and they spread out to search for more.
• The chubby chirpers found cotton boll trees and helped Jian Mo and Wu Jiong fill their baskets.
• Jian Mo shared dried meat and berries with the chubby chirpers by the river, where they chatted with him and Wu Jiong until sunset.
• The chubby chirpers left and said they would return to help the next day.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong prepared to return to their tribe after helping the Long Years Tribe weave cotton cloth, and Jian Mo advised Xin Jun to plant cotton seeds. They left with some of the cloth, while the rest was promised for delivery at the Summer Harvest Festival.

• Jian Mo invited the Long Years Tribe boys to the Summer Harvest Festival and agreed with Wu Jiong to leave the next evening.
• Xin Jun and the others showed Jian Mo their first piece of soft cotton cloth, and Jian Mo agreed to trade supplies for half of the fabric.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong helped separate cotton fiber as the Long Years Tribe hurried to weave the cloth for the trade.
• Xin Jun agreed to deliver the remaining cotton cloth and cloth-silk fabric during the Summer Harvest Festival.
• Jian Mo told Xin Jun how to plant the cotton seeds, then he and Wu Jiong left for their tribe.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong returned to the Riverside Tribe with cotton cloth from the Long Years Tribe and rested after their journey. The next day, Jian Mo began planning leaf-print patterns for the cloth with Qing Kuo and the others.

• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong flew back to the Riverside Tribe with Jiujiu and Ying'ao, bringing tree cloth and cotton cloth from the Long Years Tribe.
• Qing Kuo and the others inspected the cloth, and Jian Mo explained how the cotton cloth had been woven and why it was undyed.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong went home, spent the night together, and slept late the next morning.
• Jian Mo found Jiujiu hungry and promised to make her a berry cake that evening.
• Qing Kuo and the others arrived with dyes, and Jian Mo proposed keeping the cloth white and printing patterns on it with leaves.

Jian Mo taught the tribe how to make cloth shoes while they worked on bedding sets, prompting Qing Kuo and the others to organize a trip to trade for cloth at the Long Years Tribe. After they left, visitors from the Long Years Tribe and Cypress Branch Tribe arrived with trade goods and news, and Jian Mo prepared to host them.

• Jian Mo taught the gathered sub-beastmen to make layered cloth soles, and they finished three bedding sets and six comfortable pairs of shoes.
• Qing Kuo, Ye Luo, Min Dang, and other representatives decided to travel to the Long Years Tribe to trade for cloth, while Wu Jiong assured them the tribe had enough supplies.
• Jian Mo later found people from the Long Years Tribe and Cypress Branch Tribe, including exhausted fat chirpers who had carried Min Yan and others to Riverside Tribe.
• Jian Mo cautioned the Cypress Branch youths not to carry loads that might affect their development, then took them home, where they played with the sleeping Jiujiu.
• Jian Mo went to the river to gather Pearl Algae so he could prepare food for the visitors.

Jian Mo treated a beastman who had choked on roast meat, with Wu Jiong helping dislodge the blockage. The man survived, and Jian Mo explained the Heimlich maneuver to the onlookers.

• The Fat Chirps and Jiujiu brought an unconscious, choking beastman to Jian Mo for help.
• Jian Mo tried to clear the blockage with abdominal thrusts and sent the Fat Chirps to fetch Wu Jiong.
• Wu Jiong took over and thrust until a large piece of meat shot from the beastman's mouth.
• Jian Mo examined the beastman and confirmed he was safe to recover at the small clinic.
• Jian Mo explained that the Heimlich maneuver used diagonal thrusts to the upper abdomen to help someone who was choking.

Jian Mo taught others how to treat choking after the fat chirps helped save Tu Shao, who later thanked them with insect wax. The Summer Harvest Festival began at the Riverside Tribe, where eight tribes gathered for three days of trading and a contest to collect the most valuable supplies.

• The fat chirps told Jian Mo that Tu Shao of the Yangyao Tribe had choked on meat, and that they had carried him to safety with Jiujiu's help.
• Jian Mo gave the exhausted fat chirps a honey-and-jam leaf drink, while De Jiang later disciplined Ban Ming and the others for getting into trouble.
• Jian Mo taught his choking first-aid method to cubs, adults, and visitors from other tribes.
• Tu Shao recovered, thanked Jian Mo and the fat chirps, and traded insect wax for fish bladder glue.
• The tribes chose the Riverside Tribe to host the Summer Harvest Festival, where Jian Mo traded goods and sold ointment.
• Teams from each of the eight tribes began a three-day contest to gather the supplies with the highest total value.