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

Dig and dig! All the idle people in the brigade went into the mountains to dig for winter bamboo shoots. Li Qingqiu's treasure hunting team was digging non-stop. They didn't even have time to eat lunch. There were so many winter bamboo shoots that everyone was excited and couldn't stop.

"Third Brother, how much have we dug up?"

"It weighs about two or three hundred jin."

Li Qingqiu estimated that he had at least 40 to 50 jin of bamboo shoots on his storage shelf, which shows how many winter bamboo shoots he had dug up that morning. The treasure hunting team of about ten people did not rest all morning. Except for Li Qingqiu, who made an excuse to rest for a while, the others were digging and digging.

This huge pile of winter bamboo shoots was the result of the morning's harvest. Li Qingqiu was overwhelmed by their excitement, digging non-stop, and shook his head helplessly. "Let's bake the cornbread and steamed buns first, and heat up the vegetables. We can eat them directly later."

"Okay."

They were all so excited about digging for winter bamboo shoots that Li Qingqiu was speechless. He hadn't even reached his target time for the Lazy Eater Technique all morning, and he had only been practicing for a little over seventy minutes, which was still far from enough.

"Another litter."

Li Qinglei excitedly pumped his fist. The kid didn't seem tired at all. As he put it, "This is all money! A litter weighing over ten kilograms is worth several yuan. I've never seen money so easy to earn."

"What's that compared to mine? Look at me, this one is huge, it probably weighs almost a pound."

Li Qingzhu proudly held up a large winter bamboo shoot in his hand.

"If I had to pick one, the one I just dug up would be bigger, definitely over a pound."

Li Qingfu went into the mountains with a treasure hunting team for the first time, and unexpectedly encountered a nest of treasures. He was overjoyed to have just dug up an exceptionally large winter bamboo shoot.

"Brother Qingfu, yours is bigger, but when it comes to digging more, we're the ones to watch."

Li Qingbing and Li Qinglian were veterans, digging the fastest, best, and most. The two were quite proud of themselves, thinking, "Hey newbies, take a look at our pile."

All Li Qingqiu could only say that they were doing a good job digging more and he could extract more. Even if he didn't have a hundred or so kilograms of it, he could still have some savings when he sold it. Right now, he was so poor that he didn't even have a single penny on him.

It's embarrassing for cultivators to admit, Li Qingqiu was speechless about the system. The regular sign-in was too cheap, with items usually costing less than 1 yuan or basic skills. Occasionally, gold items would appear, but they were usually one-time limited-time magic items like the Heaven-Piercing Earth-Measuring Magic Treasure.

The beginner-level lottery is better, as the skill level is at least beginner, which is one level higher than entry-level. The item value is about 5 to 10 yuan, according to Li Qingqiu.

Li Qingqiu can't access the intermediate and advanced lottery levels right now because he doesn't have enough points, but his skills will probably be upgraded to a higher level, and the value of the items might be about 10 times that of the beginner level.

"Li Qingqiu, the steamed buns and cornbread are ready."

"You like it crispy, so I baked it especially for you."

"Thanks."

Li Qingqiu took it. The multigrain steamed bun was alright, especially with the addition of some cooked butter seasoning; one bite and the aroma was irresistible. "Did anyone else add seasoning?"

"without."

Yin Yi said softly, "I only brought a small piece."

"You gave me them all?"

"Um."

Yin Yi nodded. She had almost used up all the seasonings she brought from home to make a pot of beef tallow hot pot base for Li Qingqiu. Normally, she wouldn't use it, but would only bring some back from the mountains for Li Qingqiu to spread on steamed buns or cornbread.

Has this girl become a bit dependent on me lately, treating me like a good older brother? Oh well, Li Qingqiu broke off a piece of multigrain steamed bun and stuffed it into Yin Yi's hand. "The flavor is too strong. Give me half a piece of unseasoned cornbread."

"oh."

Yin Yi quickly broke off a large piece of her cornbread and handed it to Li Qingqiu, who took it without a word and put it in his mouth. "Hmm, the soft cornbread tastes pretty good. You can keep the multigrain steamed buns later, I'll eat the cornbread."

Yin Yi shook her head vigorously. She wasn't stupid; Li Qingqiu wanted to give her the steamed bun. "I'll eat the cornbread, you eat the steamed bun. You're the team leader."

"You know I'm the captain, so you'd better behave yourself. What, you dare disobey me?"

Li Qingqiu wanted to tease the girl to relax a bit.

"I'll listen to the captain."

Yin Yi pouted and muttered softly, "I...I'd even dare to bake you steamed buns..."

"What are you muttering about?"

"No, Li Qingqiu, you're a good person."

"Good grief, another one's giving me a hard time," Li Qingqiu snorted. "Fine, how about we split the cornbread and steamed bun in half, so we can try a different flavor?"

"Um."

"Li Qingqiu, you really are a great person."

Li Qingqiu couldn't hold back any longer. "Little girl, who are you talking to? You've given me so many 'good guy' cards lately, what's wrong with you? Are you trying to kill me?" "Don't fall for it, I'm a bad person, a really, really bad one."

"I don't believe it, Li Qingqiu, you're a good person."

Well, looking at Yin Yi's determined expression, Li Qingqiu knew he couldn't get rid of her "good guy" label. Fine, he decided not to bother arguing with the little girl. "Hurry up and eat, Qingfu-ge, stop digging and have some food."

"Wait until I finish digging up this nest."

"Third Brother, you eat first."

"Qingqiu, I'm not hungry."

Well, you guys, fine, if you don't eat, I will. You're all so eager to work, making yourselves look like good leaders. I'll just slack off a little longer. If the team members are too lazy, the leader has to learn to rest.

Otherwise, they'd all be exhausted. How could they go back and still have to show off, boast, and claim credit? All of that would require the team leader to step in. Sigh, Li Qingqiu sighed. Actually, he was a low-key person.

The world has forced me into this mess, Sixth Aunt and Big-Foot Sister-in-law, you've made me suffer!

Digging and digging, Li Qingqiu watched with satisfaction as his team members dug for winter bamboo shoots, while also practicing their lazy eating techniques. Meanwhile, three or four miles away at Niutoushi on the ridge, the villagers were busy clearing snow and digging for winter bamboo shoots.

"Qinghua, hurry, I have several more here."

Second sister-in-law Lin Xiu is quick-witted. She remembered a few relatively densely distributed winter bamboo shoot spots. In just a few hours, she dug up more than ten catties of winter bamboo shoots, which made her extremely excited. She found another dense spot with probably three or four catties of winter bamboo shoots, which made her extremely excited. She called Li Qinghua over to help.

"Wow, Xiao Xiu, you've dug up quite a lot."

"Sister-in-law, I'm lucky."

Lin Xiu wouldn't admit that she had seen the winter bamboo shoot distribution map drawn by the third brother. "Sister-in-law Wei Hong, you dug quite a lot too, probably four or five pounds."

"We dug up a nest of several."

"They dug up quite a lot from Qingfeng's family as well."

"That's good."

My aunt and Shilan came late and didn't dig much. But my sixth aunt, I don't know if she was lucky or what, dug up more than two clusters of bamboo shoots, goodness, about ten pounds each. She was so proud of herself. When she saw Shilan come over, she kept showing off how good, tender and big her winter bamboo shoots were.

"This Korean cabbage flower makes her so proud."

Auntie shook her head. Shi Lanhua didn't bother talking to her. The more smug she was, the better. Shi Lanhua thought that Xiao Mei and the others had probably dug up dozens of kilograms by now. Compared to them, this place was dispensable. She just didn't know how much the third brother had dug up.

Don't dig too little, or Aunt Liu and the others might get too big for their britches.

Little did she know, Li Qingqiu was going a little crazy, digging and digging, digging way too much.

"We're doomed."

They tried to stop them from digging, but everyone acted like they were on stimulants, and even Yin Yi went crazy with them. Li Qingqiu had secretly put at least seventy or eighty pounds of winter bamboo shoots into the storage shelf when no one was looking, but they still couldn't stop the winter bamboo shoots from multiplying.

Each basket can hold at most fifty or sixty pounds. There are twelve baskets in total, including Li Qingqiu, which is only twelve men. We can't let Yin Yi carry them all, can we? That means the more winter bamboo shoots we dig, the greater the probability that Li Qingqiu will have to carry a basket of winter bamboo shoots back.

No, I must stop this terrible bamboo shoot disaster! But the storage shelves are already crammed with bamboo shoots. If I add any more, I'll have over a hundred pounds of bamboo shoots today. If I add any more, they'll probably find out. This is so hard!

There seem to be more bamboo shoots than expected, and they're also bigger. I initially estimated it would be at most five or six hundred catties, but now it looks like it'll easily reach seven or eight hundred catties. What a mess! It's supposed to be a cultivation system, but it can't even provide a distribution map.

This system is a piece of cake. It keeps doing the splits, and it doesn't even know how to cut corners. Can't you at least do a smaller split? And it's so honest. It doesn't understand the treachery and deceit of the Xianxia world at all. It's a fake system.

"Cough cough cough."

"What's wrong?"

Li Qingqiu looked up at Yin Yi, whose face was flushed red. "Li Qingqiu, why did you bury the bamboo shoots I dug back in the ground?"

"No, I'm just keeping them warm."

"oh."

Yin Yi moved closer and lowered her voice. "Then I'll bury some more for you. We can dig it up again later when it's warm enough."

"Pfft."

Good heavens! Li Qingqiu's eyes widened. No, you're an honest kid, do you know what you're saying? This is undermining socialism, you know that's not a good thing.

"Do you know that's doing something wrong?"

"It's quite fun teasing the little girl," Yin Yi said softly, her face flushed and head bowed. "I...I won't tell, I'll help you..."

"What are you muttering about?"

Li Qingqiu subconsciously reached out and ruffled Yin Yi's hair, then paused for a moment before acting as if nothing had happened. "I was just kidding with you. I was just taking a break."

"be lazy?"

Yin Yi's eyes lit up, and she whispered, "I'm lazy at home too. When my mom calls me to get up for breakfast, I pretend to be asleep until the sun is high in the sky before I get up."

"Haha, really? Then you're a lazybones too."

"Um."

Yin Yi nodded vigorously to prove that she really was a lazybones.

"So, if you're going to make multigrain pancakes lately, won't you have to get up very late...?"

"No, no, I went to the countryside. My mother said I have to be more diligent, otherwise people will look down on me. Now I'm used to getting up early." Yin Yi's words made Li Qingqiu pause. Habits are not formed easily; they require great willpower and the ability to endure hardship.

"Actually, you don't need to try to please anyone. It's just a little bit... unnecessary..."

"I...I'm not trying to please you, I just wanted to make you multigrain pancakes."

Yin Yi was afraid that Li Qingqiu would think she had ulterior motives, but Li Qingqiu just smiled. "Then thank you. I'll leave breakfast to you from now on. I'm such a lazybones."

"Okay, I'll make you breakfast, hehe, I'm such a lazybones."

Li Qingqiu was amused; chatting with this girl was actually quite interesting. "Let's dig for winter bamboo shoots," Li Qingqiu said helplessly. He had been genuinely bored, and the cultivation system had reminded him that he couldn't collect any more single spiritual materials once he had exceeded one hundred jin.

The storage racks couldn't hold any more bamboo shoots, but a dozen or so people kept digging and digging, and the bamboo shoots had long exceeded the target of 500 jin. There were more and more, and Li Qingqiu was getting closer and closer to carrying bamboo shoots back to the brigade.

So, as a prank, he buried two of the bamboo shoots that Yin Yi had dug up for fun. Sigh, it's tough. Li Qingqiu simply gave up and decided to keep digging. He thought to himself, "Let them dig. Dig as much as they can, then I'll go back to the brigade and call for help." Li Qingqiu muttered to himself, "These bamboo shoot fanatics."

"Bang"

"Who fired the gun?"

"Is that Uncle Headhunter and his team?"

"Uncle Headhunter."

Li Qingqiu shouted loudly, and soon the old hunter Li Fulin, along with Li Qingli and Li Qingyi from Uncle Fugui's family, and Li Dabiao from Li Dalong's family, came out of the forest carrying two pheasants.

"It's so good to see you all."

Li Qingqiu felt like he was seeing family. Li Dabiao looked like he was cut out to carry bamboo baskets, and the two young men, Li Qingli and Li Qingyi, were sure to love hard work. It was perfect timing; they had found people to carry winter bamboo shoots.

"These are all...?"

"These are all winter bamboo shoots that were just dug up today."

"So many?"

"That's a bit too much."

Li Qingqiu thought to himself, "That's alright. This is nothing. These bamboo shoot digging fanatics are still digging. They can at least dig up another hundred or so pounds."

The old hunter didn't know what to say. His hunting team had a pretty good harvest of two pheasants, five or six quails, and three squirrels in a day.

But when you compare them, it's like comparing heaven and earth. The other person has several hundred kilograms of winter bamboo shoots, worth at least three hundred yuan, while their combined income isn't even a fraction of what the other person earns. That's why Li Dabiao and the others were fighting over who could carry the winter bamboo shoots.

"How can I let you carry it?"

Li Qingqiu insisted on carrying him, but Li Dabiao finally gave in. As the team leader, he also had to lead the way, so Li Qingqiu reluctantly put down the basket and handed it to Li Dabiao. "Dabiao, tell me if you're tired."

"I'm not tired, not tired at all, Third Brother, you should go now, don't worry about me."

Well, see, since they're willing to do it, Li Qingqiu has no choice but to accept it. Oh well, he'll just sign in while the old headhunter is around.

[Sign-in successful. Sign-in location: Zhenwu Hall Temporary Base. Received: One Demon-Slaying Fire Gun (Beginner Level), 100 Spirit Bullets (Beginner Level), Monster Tracking Method (Beginner Level), Points +2]

Li Qingqiu was overjoyed when he heard the system notification. Not only did he obtain an offensive magic weapon, but he also got the magic beast tracking method. The tracking method was simply amazing. It could determine the species, weaknesses, health status, and tracks of a magic beast by its footprints and residual aura.