After confirming their respective rooms, everyone was busy putting away their luggage because the captain and others were waiting for them to have dinner.

Bai Guoguo also opened the door of her room, and He Gang and He Hongjun quickly helped her move her luggage and miscellaneous items bought at the supply and marketing cooperative into the room.

"Put this pot aside for now. When I get back from my uncle's house, I'll get some yellow mud to cover it up. That way, you won't get smoke when you cook or light a fire. If the house still needs any furniture, I'll take you to Uncle Zhao's carpentry house to pick some out."

He Gang put the iron pot on the stove in the house, brushed the dust off his hands, turned around and said to Bai Guoguo.

"Brother Gangzi's uncle is the team leader we just met. And Uncle Zhao, whom my brother mentioned, is an old carpenter. The furniture he makes is sturdy and durable. Everyone likes it. You can exchange it with him for grain or coupons. If you really don't have money, that's fine too."

He Hongjun, who helped Bai Guoguo carry two large sacks into the house, looked at Bai Guoguo's slightly confused eyes and explained to her.

"So Captain He is actually Brother He's uncle. I thought it was just a courtesy address. So I'll have to bring some gifts when I go to dinner."

Bai Guoguo suddenly realized that it was no wonder that He Gang greeted the captain and called him "uncle" as soon as he got off the car.

"It's okay. You don't have to bring a gift. My uncle doesn't care about these things."

He Gang listened to Bai Guoguo's meaning and decided to bring more gifts because he was his uncle.

He was very happy in his heart, but he still refused. The girl had a hard time too, and he didn't want her to spend too much money.

"You've helped me so much today. Of course I have to bring gifts when I visit your elders, otherwise people will say I have no manners!"

Bai Guoguo blinked her big eyes and explained to He Gang seriously. After that, she turned around and took out two bags of snacks, a bag of brown sugar and a bottle of white wine from her big package.

In this day and age, bringing so many things to someone’s home for the first time can be considered a valuable gift.

After learning from He Hongjun that he had a baby who had just been weaned, he took out a can of malted milk.

She packed these things in a net bag and carried it, urging He Gang and He Kongkong to leave quickly. After struggling for most of the day, she was almost starving.

"You don't need to bring so many gifts when you go to my uncle's house. A bag of snacks will be enough. You are also thin, so you should nourish yourself more!"

He Gang didn't want the little girl to spend too much money, so he tried to persuade her several times. However, Bai Guoguo, who was too hungry and had no patience, rolled her eyes at him, so he stopped talking.

"What do you grown men know? This is called reciprocity. You've helped me so much today, and we're friends. Captain He is your uncle, and it would be disrespectful if you didn't bring a little gift when you visit him for the first time. Besides, this is just this once, and you can't let me be stingy. Oh, let's go! I'm starving!"

Bai Guoguo rolled his eyes and said with disdain, "Mature men are just careless."

"Okay, okay, let's go quickly. Don't let yourself get too hungry!"

He Gang was so happy when he saw the little girl rolling her eyes at him without any hesitation.

"That's right, I'm almost starving. Thinking about my aunt's cooking skills is ruining my appetite. Let's go quickly!"

He Hongjun, who was following behind the two of them, didn't notice their expressions and just wanted to eat.

So a few people called the other three educated youth and hurried to Captain He's house.

The other three people also had some understanding of the ways of the world, and each of them brought a gift. Yang Xiaoyong's was a bottle of wine.

Li Dongyang's was a bag of snacks he brought from Shanghai. Fortunately, the weather was cold, otherwise they would have gone bad.

Wang Qiuyu was carrying a can of food. When she saw Bai Guoguo holding a bunch of things in her hands, she secretly cursed this vixen for being so cunning.

Preparing so many gifts behind their backs makes them seem so stingy. If they continue to spend so lavishly, she will starve to death sooner or later.

Li Dongyang's face also looked a little bad. He originally thought that he had prepared a bag of snacks brought from Shanghai, which was already generous enough, but he didn't expect that Bai Guoguo prepared more than him.

Li Dongyang, who planned to teach the village cadres well from the beginning and assign them a job quickly, felt that he had miscalculated.

Who would have thought that Bai Guoguo would bring so many gifts when he visited someone's home for the first time? Even when he was in Shanghai, only people who came to propose marriage brought so many things.

In fact, this involves a question of value awareness.

Although Bai Guoguo knew that she had traveled through time, she was not a native and had not yet realized the value of the things she had in this era.

She has considered reducing the number of gifts. In the 21st century, anyone who only brings so few things from a friend's elders' home will be talked about behind their back.

So in the final analysis, she didn't understand enough about this era of material scarcity.

This led our comrade He Gang to believe that the little girl Bai Guoguo brought valuable gifts to his uncle's house because she valued him very much.

This guy was so happy all the way that his mouth was almost stretched to his ears.

Fortunately, he was walking in front and leading the way, so others could not see the expression on his face, and he managed to save his reputation as the leader of the Red Star Production Brigade!

Bai Guoguo did not feel the resentment of Wang Qiuyu and Li Dongyang, nor did he feel the happy mood of Captain He.

Now she was only thinking about going to Captain He's house as soon as possible to worship her Wuzang Temple.

Today, apart from taking a shower in the morning, I quickly ate a few mouthfuls of food at the state-owned restaurant and didn't have time to eat enough. It's already past three in the afternoon and I'm still hungry.

Calculating the time, she had only eaten three or four mouthfuls of rice, two pieces of sweet and sour pork, and two pieces of braised pork in red sauce in more than ten hours today.

Besides, I had been busy with so many things today, and I was exhausted both mentally and physically. Those few mouthfuls of food were digested without a trace.

She is so hungry now that she feels like she could be eaten alive by a cow. If she doesn't eat something, the child will faint from hunger!

Perhaps he heard the wailing in her heart, and He Gang quickly told everyone that they had arrived at his uncle's house.

Captain He’s home is located right in the middle of the brigade, not far from the drying yard where he worked in the morning. However, it still takes more than ten minutes to walk from the educated youth site.

Their yard is not much different from those of the surrounding houses, except that there are three newly built brick houses.

As soon as they arrived at the door, He Gang took the initiative to help everyone open the gate of the yard.

Uncle He heard some movement at the yard door and walked out of the house.