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

"It looks like this snow will continue to fall."

The snow on the road was quite deep. Li Qingqiu picked up Xiaohua and carried her in his arms. After all, he was not a person of this era and could not bear to see the child with cracked frostbite on her hands and feet, wearing thin shoes with her toes exposed, struggling to move forward in the snow.

"Don't move. You're walking too slowly. I don't have time to walk with you at your leisure. If you move again, don't blame me for hitting you." Xiao Hua wanted to get down and walk by herself, but Li Qingqiu glared at her fiercely. This little girl wouldn't listen unless she was taught a lesson.

The little girl was timid but a bit stubborn, so Li Qingqiu, finding it troublesome, pretended to be fierce and domineering, and sure enough, she became obedient and arrived at the educated youth settlement in no time.

"Third Uncle."

"Li Qingqiu, you've arrived."

Yin Yi was very happy to see Li Qingqiu, but she was a little puzzled as to why Li Qingqiu was holding a dirty little girl in his arms.

"Let's go inside and talk."

Li Qingqiu casually tossed Xiaohua on the ground. This girl was covered in mud and needed a good wash.

"What are you doing?"

"Boil snow to bathe the piglets."

Guo Zhaonan's cheeks were flushed. "The little piglet is so much fun. It got dirty playing and then rolled around in the snow to take a bath. I was worried it would get cold, so I'm planning to collect some snow, heat it up, and give it a bath."

"Give it a bath?"

Li Qingqiu was speechless. Not to mention him, even Xiao Hua, who was secretly wiping her nose, was attracted by Guo Zhaonan's words and started giving the pig a bath.

"That's perfect. Boil some more snow and give this girl a bath while you're at it."

Li Qingqiu sighed. "Be careful, this girl broke her arm. Sigh, she's a pitiful person." After briefly explaining Xiaohua's background, Guo Zhaonan and Yin Yi, being girls, burst into tears.

"How pitiful."

"Little Flower, you can stay with me. I'll cook you delicious food."

Yin Yi hugged Xiao Hua. This girl was actually quite lonely inside. She had gone to work in the countryside thousands of miles away by herself. Now, hugging Xiao Hua gave her a sense of self-comfort.

"By the way, this is a special blend of 'Waiwai Oil' that I had someone make. It's much better than the ones from the supply and marketing cooperative. I'll wash this girl's feet, wipe her hands, and apply some more." Li Qingqiu took out two jade-cased moisturizing oils. "You two should apply some more too."

"I know, Third Uncle."

"Li Qingqiu, I haven't finished using what you gave me yet."

"If you don't finish using it, just leave it and use it slowly."

Li Qingqiu took the gloves Yin Yi handed him. "I'll go clear the snow in front of the door for you, so you won't be unable to leave tomorrow."

"I'll go with you."

"Could you please take care of this girl for me? Her grandmother just passed away. Although the girl seems fine, who knows what might happen?"

Li Qingqiu carried the wooden bundle out of the courtyard and went to the intersection to begin clearing snow. "I wonder if the system's storage rack can hold snow?"

"Give it a try."

"That actually works!"

Unfortunately, 100 jin isn't much. Fortunately, it only requires a few more trips. With the system as a cheat, cleaning it up is much easier. It's about the equivalent of four or five people's work. You can grab 100 jin at a time, move to another location, and pour it out. Luckily, the educated youth settlement is remote, and no one saw it, otherwise it would definitely scare people.

"Wow, Li Qingqiu, you're amazing!"

When Yin Yi came out, she found that all the snow around the educated youth settlement had been cleared away, and most importantly, Li Qingqiu had even built a giant snowman that was five or six meters high.

"Third Uncle, how did you do that?"

"It took some effort."

Li Qingqiu thought to himself, "This is cheating! It's the system! Grabbing 100 jin at a time, at least hundreds of times, how could a snowman made of tens of thousands of jin of snow not be tall or big?" Most importantly, the snow was very compact, making it entirely possible to climb on it.

Li Qingqiu even designed a snowman that looks like a slide. "Want to try it out? It's quite fun."

"This is a slide."

Yin Yi cheered and ran up, plopped down on her bottom, and slid down laughing. Li Qingqiu caught her before she fell. "That was so much fun! Li Qingqiu, put me down, I want to play more!"

"OK."

Li Qingqiu said with a smile, "Wait here, I'll go get two grass sticks, or I'll slip and fall on my backside."

"Mmm-hmm-hmm."

"Li Qingqiu, you are so kind."

Yin Yi chuckled. Li Qingqiu was a really good person. This girl loved the snow slide so much that she couldn't get enough of playing on it.

Unfortunately, most children don't have proper padded jackets. In this freezing weather, many children are huddled under their blankets, otherwise they would really freeze.

Although Lijia'ao wasn't at the point where every family only had one pair of cotton-padded trousers, in a family of seven or eight, at least two or three people didn't have proper cotton-padded trousers.

Even though Shi Lanhua's family is considered well-off, the cotton-padded trousers worn by Li Xianshu and his younger siblings are actually not of good quality, and the cotton used is probably old cotton that is over ten or twenty years old.

When the temperature drops to minus ten degrees Celsius, all the little kids are huddled together in their blankets. Only wealthy families with cotton-padded trousers and coats can play in the snow. Poor people don't even have the chance to go out, let alone play in the snow.

"Let's play for a while and then go inside to warm up by the fire; it's cold today."

"It's alright, it's alright, Li Qingqiu, it's even colder in my hometown, but I'm not afraid of that."

Yin Yi had a great time. Temperatures below -10 degrees Celsius are normal in the capital during winter, but for Lijia'ao, located on both sides of the Yangtze River, it was definitely cold. Although it wasn't a record low, it hadn't been this cold for over ten years.

Not to mention the snow, it was a once-in-a-century snow disaster, something the older generation had never seen before. No wonder the production team was somewhat caught off guard. In previous years, the snowfall was about half a foot deep, but they had never seen a blizzard like this, with more than ten centimeters falling in half a day and nearly thirty centimeters falling in a single day.

"You're not afraid, but Zhao Nan is. Our coats aren't as warm as yours."

"Then Zhao Nan, you can wear my coat."

Yin Yi brought quite a few clothes, including two padded jackets and a thick coat, unlike the poor Li Qingqiu, whose padded jacket was only recently stuffed with cotton, otherwise his tattered jacket would have made him freeze to death long ago.

"Zhao Nan, don't go playing around with her like that, you'll catch a cold. Go back inside and warm yourself by the fire."

"It's alright, Third Uncle, I'm not cold."

Okay, so you guys aren't cold, and I'm the only one who's cold, right?

"Third brother."

"Big brother, what brings you here?"

Li Qingqiu hadn't expected his older brother, Li Qingchun, to come over at this time. "I'll take Aunt Feng up the mountain later. This is Aunt Feng's coat. Aunt Xiulan helped me pack it up and asked me to give it to Xiaohua. I'll find someone to help alter it so she can still wear it."

"understood."

Li Qingqiu sighed. In the current scarcity of resources, a single padded jacket is a significant thing. Even if a person dies, the padded jacket should still be passed down. As long as the person doesn't die naked, there's no need to bury the clothes as well.

As for demons and monsters, in the torrent of humanity, when poverty reaches a certain point, who cares about demons and monsters? Poverty is invincible.

"Alright, I'm going back now. I'll take Aunt Feng up the mountain later."

"We can't afford to delay in this weather, or the mountain road will become even more difficult to travel."

Li Qingchun didn't delay. Li Qingqiu sighed, "We're poor now, and human life is cheap. If someone dies, they're just carried up the mountain and buried. As for coffins, our family is wealthy enough to prepare one, but let's forget about the crazy aunt's family. We can just dismantle the wooden planks and put them together however we want."

Li Qingqiu didn't go to see it; there wasn't much to see. He just saw it off from a distance.

"what?"

Seeing the large coat moving on the ground, Li Qingqiu was startled, then quickly followed. "Xiao Hua?"

"It really is you! What are you doing out here?"

Little Flower, wearing her grandmother's big coat, followed the group carrying people up the mountain step by step with difficulty, tears streaming silently down her face.

"Don't go, go back." Xiao Hua came out barefoot. This child is crazy. Li Qingqiu didn't even know when she ran out.

The distance from the educated youth settlement to the foot of the mountain is at least several hundred or even a thousand meters. With such heavy snow, how did this child manage to walk all that way?

Xiao Hua waved her hands, wanting to get down and follow them up the mountain. Li Qingqiu frowned slightly and gave her a few slaps.

"Don't move. I have a bad temper. If you move again, I'll really hit you."

Li Qingqiu had never taken care of a child before, and she was a bit helpless, so she could only pretend to be fierce to intimidate them. "Your grandma is gone, what good will it do if you go? Wait until next spring, when the snow melts and the weather warms up, then you can go up the mountain to see her."

"Waaaaah."

Xiao Hua finally burst into tears, and Li Qingqiu stopped hitting her; the child was pitiful. "Your foot... well, never mind, I'll take you back to the educated youth settlement first. You're really just making trouble for me."

They sneaked out and actually wanted to go up the mountain. In this weather, one wrong move and they could lose their lives. Li Qingqiu was actually quite scared.

Upon arriving at the educated youth settlement and meeting Yin Yi, Guo Zhaonan said, "Keep an eye on this little girl; she was just about to go up the mountain."

"I'll boil some hot water later and let her soak her feet. She's really reckless."

"We were startled; they disappeared in the blink of an eye."

Yin Yi had just finished playing on the slide when she returned to the room and found Xiao Hua nowhere to be seen. The two of them searched around the educated youth settlement but couldn't find her. They were quite anxious and originally planned to go look for Li Qingqiu.

"It's not entirely her fault."

"Never mind, Yin Yi, make some meat porridge for her later, she's been crying all the way here."

Li Qingqiu sighed and went home first. It was too cold. He would quickly cut and mend the thick cloth to make a coat lining, which would block the wind a bit. When he got home, Shi Lanhua and her sister-in-law were talking about the crazy aunt.

The group sighed deeply. Life is so cruel and miserable. Especially when they talked about the crazy aunt's husband going to fight the American devils, Li Qingqiu realized that he and his fourth uncle had also gone to Korea to fight the American devils, but unfortunately, they never heard from them again.

"I didn't expect there to be a fourth uncle?"

"The third brother is back."

"Eldest sister-in-law, second sister-in-law, I happen to have something I need your help with."

"What's up?"

Lin Xiu had previously looked down on Li Qingqiu, but now that Li Qingqiu was much more capable, digging for winter bamboo shoots and hunting wild boars, he was doing just that.

"I bought some cloth to sew onto my coat so it can keep out the wind when I go out."

"Did you buy the fabric?"

Lin Xiu was somewhat surprised. When Li Qingqiu took out the fabric, Lin Xiu was even more astonished. How much money would so much fabric cost? Where did Lao San get so much money?

"Second sister-in-law, can you do it?"

"Okay, leave it to me."

Lin Xiu went back into the house and got a wooden ruler. She measured Li Qingqiu first, knowing it wouldn't be good to take off his coat; Li Qingqiu would surely freeze to death if he did. "Alright, wait a moment, I'll cut it for you. You can have your younger sister do the sewing."

"Thank you, Second Sister-in-law."

"Why are you being so polite with me?"

Li Qingqiu handed the whole piece of cloth to Lin Xiu, who was very happy. Such a large piece of cloth, even if cut into scraps, would be enough to make at least two pairs of insoles. Li Qingqiu didn't care about the scraps. He went back into the house, intending to warm himself by the fire. Just as he was about to pick up the ceramic basin, Li Qingqiu was attracted by a few spirit branches in the corner.

"Something's not right. When I released it, it definitely didn't have these spots."

"How can this fungus grow so fast in such cold weather?"

"Has a deity appeared?"

Li Qingqiu's eyes widened as he examined it closely. Indeed, the pea-sized fungi had definitely grown within the last few hours. "What's going on? The fungi spawned by the cultivation system are ignoring the weather?"