The timeline system has gone awry; they insist that steamed buns are a magic pill.

"Sigh, I really didn't plan to be a team leader, let alone a deputy one. I initially declined, but..." Back home, Li Qingqiu sighed with embarrassment. "But Uncle Fuyuan and Uncle Fuluo reasoned with me and appealed to my emotions... saying it was for the sake of our entire brigade. I thought to myself, I am a successor of socialism, the collective interest is greater than the personal interest, and the great man taught us..."

"Besides, you all know I'm easily embarrassed. After Uncle Fuyuan and Uncle Fulu persuaded me, I, being the soft-hearted person I am, agreed. On the way back, I regretted it. You know, a deputy captain, really, I shouldn't have said that. Sigh, Mom, why don't you talk to Uncle Fuyuan later and let's just let him go for the deputy captain position?" After Li Qingqiu finished speaking, she lowered her head and took a sip of hot water. After a while, she didn't hear Shi Lanhua and the others speak. She looked up at everyone, stunned.

Sure enough, the good news was too amazing. Everyone was stunned by their own shock. "Sigh, this family has no vision," Li Qingqiu shook his head slightly. "You need to improve, Comrade Shi Lanhua, or you'll fall behind your son sooner or later..."

"Third Brother, you haven't been drinking, have you?"

Li Qingmei suddenly reached out and touched Li Qingqiu's forehead. "You don't have a fever, so why are you talking nonsense? Why don't you go to Uncle Medicine Basket's house and see if the wound on your head has reopened?"

"Go away, you're the one who's out of your mind. No, the wound on my head hasn't even reopened."

Li Qingqiu patted Li Qingmei, but then Shi Lanhua slapped him on the shoulder, causing a slight pain. "Mom, what are you doing? Don't you know this is the deputy captain's shoulder? You hit a leader in the team! Mind your place, Comrade Shi Lanhua."

"What nonsense are you spouting again? You think you're the captain? Aren't you afraid people will laugh at you for talking nonsense?" Shi Lanhua patted Li Qingqiu's shoulder again, his nonsense getting more and more out of tune.

"Comrade Shi Lanhua, to be honest, I really didn't want to come at first. A mere team leader, and a deputy one at that, I really didn't think much of him."

Li Qingqiu was prepared to refuse. What a joke! He could have just gone to the trial grounds to sign in and kept everything for himself. As the deputy captain of the treasure hunting team, he would have to brave the blizzard and wade through thick snow. It was cold and tiring. Why would he bother being the captain?

If it weren't for the system offering +2 points, Li Qingqiu wouldn't have even considered it. He's just agreeing now, and if it gets too tiring, he'll just quit. Points are nice, but we're here to enjoy ourselves. We can't afford to exhaust ourselves and freeze ourselves just for points.

When he got home, he wanted to show off, but his whole family looked at him like he was an idiot. Li Qingqiu was a little annoyed. He couldn't be the team leader anymore. Look at him, he's 1.75 meters tall. Apart from Li Dajun and a few others, who in the brigade is taller than him? And with that face, he's definitely a formidable fighter in Lijia'ao.

Besides, I'm still the number one in the Quotations Commune, a true master of both literature and martial arts, a rare talent. So what? In front of my family, I'm just a lump of trash.

Forget it, maybe a lump can be used to make manure. I hope I'm not even as good as a lump.

"Fine, fine, Mom, you have such poor judgment. Just wait, there's going to be a big meeting tonight, then you'll all find out." Li Qingqiu was angry. This family had such bad taste. She was too lazy to talk and went back to sleep.

"She's still angry."

Shilan slapped her leg.

"Mom, do you think Third Brother might be serious?"

Li Qingmei glanced at Li Qingqiu's expression; he seemed rather serious.

Don't listen to his nonsense.

Shi Lanhua's mother knew Li Qingqiu's unreliable personality all too well. "Do you think it's possible? Unless your Uncle Fuyuan is desperate and grabbing a desperate measure to make him the team leader, what do you think he could possibly do? With your third brother's personality, he'd rather lie down than sit, and sit than stand."

"That's true."

"Captain, this is no joke," Li Qingmei thought, realizing she was definitely overthinking things. With Third Brother's personality, having him as captain would likely ruin the team. "I'm overthinking it."

Li Qingqiu returned to his hut and tinkered with the cultivation system. "Two points a day, it's really a tough decision."

"Forget it, as successors of socialism, collective interests should take precedence over individual interests."

"Okay, let's make a fuss. Two points. These points are really tempting." Li Qingqiu thought for a moment, then realized he had to make a condition later and include Yin Yi in the deal. That way, he could get another fixed point. He couldn't afford to lose that.

"Yin Yi, didn't you want to eat winter bamboo shoots?"

Li Qingqiu thought to himself, "It's good to have some beef. Stir-fried beef with chili and bamboo shoots, the taste is not bad. Thinking about this dish, the cow died a worthy death." "It's a pity that we only have dried red chilies at home. Will it be too spicy?"

I slept for a while, then ate a little something for dinner. I couldn't not eat anything, there wasn't even any cornbread. According to Shi Lanhua, I shouldn't work at night and should eat less. The problem is that there's only cornmeal porridge. Can I eat more? If I eat two more bowls, I still have to get up in the middle of the night to water the snow.

As for going to the outhouse, it was too far and too cold. Li Qingqiu felt that he was already being kind by not urinating directly through the window; urinating through the door was the limit of what he could do.

It wasn't that he was too lazy; it was just too cold at night.

"Mom, why don't you go with Dad later? Let you both benefit from my fame."

Li Qingqiu wiped his mouth, stood up, and looked down at the two elderly comrades, saying, "Your son has become the team leader."

"This kid is getting more and more excited as he talks."

"Mom, why don't we go take a look...?"

"Let me pack up and see what kind of trouble this little bastard is up to now." Shi Lanhua said nonchalantly, but in her heart she was really looking forward to her third son becoming the team leader.

Around seven o'clock, the school auditorium was filled with members of the Lijia'ao production brigade.

"What kind of big meeting is being held on a snowy day?"

Big-Foot Sister muttered to herself, her hands still busy sewing the shoe soles.

"Sigh, I'm afraid several oxen have been killed in this accident because of the oxen. Our brigade will probably be in debt next spring."

"Yeah, what were the patrol team doing? Now look what's happened, a few cows, how much money is that? Our whole brigade will be starving next year, sigh."

"What can we do? My husband is such a cheapskate. He said today that during the New Year, we'll only eat two meals a day and one dry meal every three days." Auntie Lao Kou sighed. Her husband had already started making plans.

"Now that you mention it, my family is going to have to eat porridge too."

More and more people are joining the ranks of those eating porridge. There's no way around it; the deficit in the spring is huge, and the summer grain distribution will definitely be much smaller. If we don't plan our schedules carefully, we might not even be able to get porridge, and we might even go hungry. At this moment, the whole classroom is filled with a depressing atmosphere.

"Sigh, even the stone orchid has come."

Aunt Liu glanced at Shi Lanhua's family and curled her lip. "She's so smug. Over a hundred rats, and suddenly she has more than ten yuan more, plus two or three hundred catties of grain. She even made up for the loss caused by the ox being crushed to death."

"Yeah, what can you do when the third brother is so lucky?"

"What good luck? It's like a blind cat catching a dead mouse."

When Li Qingqiu's family came in, many people looked over. The news of the hundreds of rats and two or three hundred catties of grain from yesterday had spread far and wide. If it weren't for the incident of the ox being crushed to death, Li Qingqiu's discovery of hundreds of rats and two or three hundred catties of grain would probably have been the number one trending topic in Lijia'ao.

"You little brat, come to the front."

Li Qingqiu thought to herself, "Uncle Fuluo, don't be so high-profile, I'm not used to it." "Mom, Uncle Fuluo told me to go to the front, you guys sit first, sigh, I really don't want to go." She said she didn't want to, but her face was all smiles.

"Uncle Fu Luo".

Li Qingqiu, Li Fuluo, and the old headhunter Li Fulin greeted each other and sat down on the side. Some people saw this scene and were full of surprise.

"Is that Li Laosan, that kid?"

"That's strange, why did they let him go to the front?"

"Could it be about catching over a hundred rats yesterday?"

Li Qingqiu thought to himself, "A podium is a podium; even sitting on it makes me feel taller."

"Alright, let's begin."

Li Fulu chaired the meeting and briefly discussed the cowshed situation. Li Dajun then offered self-criticism. "The team will discuss this further and organize two temporary teams starting tomorrow. One team will primarily focus on cutting reeds and bamboo to weave reed mats and bamboo furniture, aiming to earn more money next spring."

"This team has Dajun as the captain, Dalong and Dahu as vice-captains, and there is also a treasure hunting team, which mainly goes into the mountains to dig for medicinal herbs and hunt wild things. Fulin will be the captain of this team, and Li Fushou will be the vice-captain..."

"Treasure hunting team, what a name. But I wonder if we can actually catch anything in the wild. There haven't been many wild things in the mountains these past two years."

"With Uncle Headhunter as the team leader, he'll definitely be able to handle it."

"That's right, and there's Uncle Medicine Basket. He knows all the medicinal herbs in the mountains, and Uncle Old Hunter is a master at hunting wild things. With those two around, there's definitely no problem." Li Qingqun and the others nodded in agreement, and even Li Qingchun and Li Qinghua chimed in.

"There's also a vice-captain, whom the captain and I personally invited. Comrade Li Qingqiu is one of the vice-captains of the treasure hunting team," Li Fuluo said with a smile.

Li Qingqiu didn't expect Uncle Fuluo, who was usually a serious person, to make a joke. Of course, to be honest, it was really them who invited him. He didn't really want to go into the mountains to suffer from the cold and hardship, but he reluctantly agreed for the sake of the collective and socialism.

Ah, these words caused an uproar. Everyone looked incredulous. Who was it? Li Qingqiu, the most unreliable person in the whole team, who fought tooth and nail over a meat bun, was rejected by a widow, and even matchmakers dared not accept his money.

It's utterly absurd that this person could be the vice-captain.

"Are Fu Yuan and the others blind? Li Laosan as deputy captain? This is ridiculous!" Aunt Liu couldn't sit still any longer. What a joke! She had originally planned to find fault with Li Qingqiu and mock Shi Lanhua.

Who would have thought that, without anyone noticing, Li Qingqiu would actually become the deputy captain. Although it was only a temporary deputy captain of the treasure-hunting team, it was still on par with the medicine peddler, meaning he controlled the entire brigade's right to see a doctor.

"Uncle Fu Luo, you must have mispronounced the name, right?"

Wang Yulan was incredulous. Her sister-in-law, Big Foot, pricked her hand with a needle and stared wide-eyed at Li Qingqiu. "The treasure hunt team's vice-captain... Li Qingqiu?"

"No, absolutely not! How can a lazy, good-for-nothing bastard like him be the captain?"

Good heavens, Aunt Liu really couldn't hold back anymore. She could tolerate anyone being the deputy captain, but not Li Qingqiu.

At the same time, Shi Lanhua was stunned when she heard that Li Qingqiu had really become the deputy captain. She muttered to herself, "My third son has become the captain. Is this real? Am I dreaming?" She turned to Li Qingmei and asked her. Li Qingmei was stunned for a moment.

"Mom, you heard right. Uncle Fuluo said that Third Brother is the deputy captain of the treasure hunting team, just like Uncle Medicine Basket."

"And then there's Uncle Gangfuluo, the deputy captain, who gets fifteen work points a day."

"What, fifteen work points?"

Shi Lanhua almost stood up. Fifteen work points! Not only was she shocked, but the entire venue was shocked. Everyone thought it was nothing special that Uncle Medicine Basket got fifteen work points, but why did Li Qingqiu get them?