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

"Stop talking, let's hurry into the mountains and dig them up before it gets too late," Li Fuluo interrupted Li Qingbing. "Don't just look at them, you're delaying our business."

"Uncle Fu Luo, Li Laosan, he..."

Li Qingbing was about to say something when Li Fulu waved his hand to interrupt him. "He's lucky, your dad and I both know that. Hurry up, it's good that you're all here, it saves trouble, we don't need to gather any more people."

"I was just thinking of waiting for your Uncle Dajun to come back before I went over, but I didn't expect that you would come back so soon."

"I've brought you the shovel and hoe."

"The carrying pole and rope are in the basket, don't forget them."

Li Qingbing was dumbfounded. What was going on? But Li Fuluo didn't give him a chance to speak at all.

"What are you standing there for? Hurry up!"

"Qingbing, you light the gas lamp later, and Qingqiu, you're in charge of carrying it."

"Alright."

Although carrying the lantern was tiring, Li Qingqiu was, after all, the deputy captain, so he should take on more responsibility. He glanced at the indignant Li Qingbing. "Qingbing, you're strong, you carry the basket."

"Qinglian, hurry up and grab the shovels. Let's get into the mountains as soon as possible. Hopefully, we can still make it in time."

"That female educated youth?"

"Uncle Fu Luo, you mean Yin Yi? She sprained her ankle. Let her rest first."

"Alright, then hurry up."

The sixth aunt and the others who came to watch the commotion were all dumbfounded. What was going on? Was Li Fuluo under Li Qingqiu's spell? Why was he listening to everything he said?

"What are you all looking at? If you have nothing to do, hurry home and start cooking."

Li Fuluo glanced at the group. "Stop all you do all day long, gossiping about this and that."

Sixth Aunt, Big Foot Sister-in-law, Wang Yulan and the others were not afraid of Old Headhunter Uncle, or even Medicine Basket Uncle, but they were still intimidated by Li Fuluo. This old accountant was not polite to you, and Captain Li Fuyuan usually valued his opinions very much.

"Li Laosan got a good deal."

Aunt Liu snorted and spat. "I don't believe it. That kid can't possibly be that capable of digging up treasure."

"Sixth Aunt, judging from what Uncle Fuluo just said, he found something good."

"What good things could there be around our brigade? We haven't heard of ginseng in years. We probably have to go to Yeren Gou to find wild ginseng." Aunt Liu pouted. Yeren Gou was at least fifty or sixty miles away from their brigade.

That's a deep, remote forest. I heard that a few years ago someone dug up wild ginseng that was thirty to fifty years old there and sold it for a couple hundred yuan.

"That's right, there aren't even many pheasants on our mountain, let alone ginseng."

"So you're saying Li Laosan lied?"

"Who knows? We'll find out when they get back."

On the other side, Li Qingbing carried a bamboo basket, feeling indignant, but he couldn't show it. Li Qingqiu was the deputy captain, and he couldn't vent his anger unless it could be proven that Li Qingqiu was lying.

"Third brother, what did you dig up?"

"Kudzu root".

"Kudzu root?"

The medicine seller was both amused and exasperated. "I thought it was something good. Kudzu root, huh? If I had known, I would have told Fu Luo to come over tomorrow."

Kudzu root isn't exactly a good thing, and Baba made another trip, only to find it was getting dark.

"Kudzu root, Uncle Medicine Basket, is this a medicinal herb?"

"Not really."

Uncle Medicine Basket. "Kudzu root powder has some effect on reducing internal heat, but the effect is not significant." If you really want to reduce internal heat, plantain is much better. It's kind of useless. Uncle Medicine Basket never expected that what Li Qingqiu dug up was this stuff.

"Then why are we even digging it up?"

"It's too late to say all this now. We've already come all this way, we can't go back empty-handed."

"It's all Li Qingqiu's fault. He doesn't know anything and dug up a kudzu root as if it were a treasure. This matter is not over. When we get back, I will have a good talk with Uncle Fuluo and my dad. Li Qingqiu is not suitable to be the deputy captain."

Uncle Medicine Basket felt that although Li Qingbing had some personal feelings, he was generally right. Li Qingqiu was lazy and slacking off on the first day, and that female educated youth was not an honest person either. The two of them conspired to deceive him.

"Let's talk about it later, let's hurry up and dig it back."

"Hmm, I really don't know how big it is. We've been digging for ages and haven't found anything. Who would believe that?"

The group arrived at their destination while they were talking. Li Qingqiu paused, and hesitated for a moment when he thought about eating the pheasant.

"What's wrong? Can't find the place?"

"Don't tell us you've forgotten where the place is; do you think we'd believe that?"

Li Qingqiu glanced at Li Qingbing, thinking, "So what if I stole your vice-captain? So stingy." "Come on, it's just ahead. I left a mark."

"snort."

Reaching the fire, Li Qingqiu held the gas lamp outwards, making sure not to shine it on the chicken feathers. To his surprise, after scanning the area, he couldn't find a single feather, the chicken bones were gone, and even the internal organs and blood were nowhere to be seen. "This…?"

Li Qingqiu muttered to himself, "Could this have been handled by Yin Yi? Isn't she a little too skilled at it? Did I learn my petty thievery skills from her?"

"Why are you standing there blankly again?"

"What about kudzu root?"

"I covered it with snow so that others wouldn't find it."

When they arrived at the place where the kudzu root was, they cleared away the snow, and the kudzu root was revealed.

"I thought it was much older, but it's not that big."

"It weighs at least several dozen kilograms."

"If it's three cents a pound, then one or two dollars is not bad."

"Let's dig it out first, don't waste time."

Uncle Medicine Basket took a look; it was indeed quite large. Li Qingqiu was somewhat stunned by Uncle Medicine Basket. How much per pound? Three cents? Wasn't that a bit too cheap? Was he mistaken?

"Dig!"

"it is good."

"Slow down, don't damage it. I think what's showing is only a small part; there might be something bigger underneath..."

"You've got some nerve! It's already pretty good that you have this many."

Uncle Medicine Basket smiled; this Li Laosan was dreaming.

"Alright, let's dig," Li Qingqiu muttered. "You don't believe me? Just wait and see. Don't blush later." With each shovelful of digging, more and more kudzu roots were exposed, and the pit became larger and deeper.

One hour, two hours, three hours passed. Li Qingbing and the others were sweating profusely, their eyes wide open, digging endlessly. Just how big was this kudzu root? It must weigh at least two or three hundred pounds now.

"Don't break it, or the price will be even higher."

Li Qingqiu asked with a smile, "Uncle, don't you think so?"

"That's true, it's easier to sell them if they're intact."

Uncle Medicine Basket wiped the sweat from his forehead. What did he dig up? Kudzu root spirit, huh? He was actually a little flustered. The kudzu root he dug up was shaped somewhat like a human figure, and he had just dug out about the head and half of the upper body.

"Uncle Medicine Basket, shall we keep digging?"

Li Qinglian was panting heavily, truly exhausted. He hadn't had a moment's rest all day, traversing a mountain path covered in snow more than a foot deep, a journey of thirty or forty miles round trip, and was already completely worn out. Now, after digging for kudzu roots for more than three hours, he was utterly exhausted.

"Yeah, Uncle, how long are we going to keep digging here?"

When Uncle Medicine Basket saw that everyone was too tired to dig anymore, even the stubborn Li Qingbing fell silent. He had just been saying that they hadn't been digging for very long, but now he didn't dare to speak up. He said that Li Qingqiu was thinking too much, what hundreds or thousands of pounds? Who do you think you are, to have such good luck?

Now, the dug-out portion probably weighs two or three hundred pounds, but the kudzu root seems to have no end in sight. I don't know when we'll finish digging it out. It's really exhausting.

"Why don't we cover it with snow first, and then continue digging tomorrow?"

Li Qingqiu sighed. "I talked to Uncle Fuluo before I came. It's too late, I'll come again tomorrow."

"Who knew this kudzu root would be so big and grow so deep?"

Li Qinglei muttered to himself, then thought of what Li Qingqiu had said at the beginning of the digging. Could this guy know about this?

"Alright, let's not talk about it anymore. Let's pack up and go home quickly. We're exhausted after a long day. Let's get some rest and come back tomorrow."

Looking at the kudzu root, the medicine basket shrugged. "It's so big, even if we dig it out now, we probably couldn't lift it."

"Call more people tomorrow."

"This is the only way."

The group returned to Lijia'ao looking disheveled, arriving in the middle of the night. They had been walking and stopping frequently along the way and were too exhausted to walk any further.

"Why are you only getting back now?"

Even Li Qingqiu was somewhat impressed by the sound; it was the middle of the night, and Aunt Liu was still awake. "Hey, what happened? Did you run into a wild boar? You're covered in mud! Did you find what you were looking for, Li Laosan?"

No, I don't think so.

He looked around, but didn't see anything. "I knew Li Laosan was a complete liar. Qingbing, you should talk to your dad and get Li Laosan removed from his position as team leader."

"Sixth Aunt, what brings you here? Running around in the middle of the night just to see if we've dug anything up. You're really bored."

Uncle Medicine Basket was already exhausted, and he had a lot of pent-up anger with nowhere to vent it.

"Hey, you medicine gullible guy, what's wrong with me? Can't I even tell the truth?"

"Honestly, what do you know?"

"I don't know, but I'm not blind. Did you bring anything back?"

"without."

"That's it."

"Sixth Aunt, you're right, we came back empty-handed. Do you know why? We didn't bring anything back."

"Why? It's not like you can't lift it!"

Sixth Aunt thought to herself, "I'm not sleeping at night, I'm just waiting for you guys, especially to see Li Laosan make a fool of himself."

The thought of being teased by Shilan Hua in the evening kept her awake, so she got up in the middle of the night to wait for the treasure hunting team.

As expected, he didn't disappoint her; he came back empty-handed. Aunt Liu was overjoyed; it was worth the wait.

"I'm back."

Li Fuluo also rushed over and looked the group over. "Didn't find anything?"

"We found it, but didn't dig it out."

"Oh, you didn't find anything. You've been digging for ages, what did you find?"

"Fu Luo, we've been digging for kudzu roots for ages, but the more we dig, the bigger and deeper it gets. We've already dug over a meter, but it's only just the top showing. I'm afraid we still have to dig several more meters deep," Li Qinglei said with a bitter face.

"What? It's that big?"

"That must weigh over a hundred pounds?"

"Not only that, but now that it's exposed, it's probably two or three hundred pounds, and it's probably at least eight hundred if it's not a thousand."

"Good heavens!" Li Fuluo laughed and patted Li Qingqiu on the shoulder. "Good lad, with your luck, being a vice captain is beneath you."

"It's alright."

Li Qingqiu thought to himself, "If I become the captain, how am I supposed to cultivate my Lazy Eater Technique? How am I supposed to slack off and cheat? You're kidding me. I'm sure I wouldn't want to be the captain myself."

"What did you say?"

Aunt Liu was dumbfounded. She had dug it up! The more she dug, the bigger it got, weighing hundreds or even thousands of kilograms. What kind of medicinal herb was this? How could it be so big? Li Laosan wasn't lying. He really had dug up a treasure. This was impossible. Heaven was blind. How could it have such good luck for him?