"It's okay, we'll be able to hibernate soon. There won't be anything to do then, so you can sleep as long as you want."

Si Tian nodded helplessly and changed the subject.

"Okay, okay, we're going to the brigade leader's house today, do we need to bring something with us?"

My family sent me some cigarettes and alcohol, and specifically wrote a letter telling me to thank the brigade leader properly.

Zhu Qinghao had the same idea. After all, since they arrived, the captain had been busy taking care of them, and it would be really inappropriate not to thank him.

"Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking. I was planning to discuss it with you before I left, but I didn't expect you to come first."

A gift is definitely necessary, but how to give it is a problem, and it's quite a difficult one for the two of them.

If the gift is too extravagant, it might scare people away; but if it's too insignificant, it might seem insincere.

After discussing it, the two decided to each give half a pound of brown sugar, two packs of Daqianmen cigarettes, and a can of fruit.

This amount of money wasn't much for either of them, but it would still be considered a thoughtful gift even by today's standards.

When the two arrived with their gifts, Aunt Haiying was sitting at the door, doing needlework with her head down.

"Aunt Haiying, we've come to exchange our dishes!"

Upon hearing the sound, Tian Haiying quickly smiled and put the basket in her hand aside, then got up to welcome the two people outside the courtyard in.

"You two young educated youths are here? I was thinking you might come in the afternoon!"

"But coming in the morning is perfect, since your brother Weiguo and the others are home then. You can have him just push the groceries back to you, saving you the trouble of carrying them back yourself."

Si Tian had a long face, thinking she would have to carry the vegetables back many times, but she was surprised to hear such a big surprise as soon as she arrived.

"That's wonderful! Auntie, you're so kind. I was just worried about how to move back, and you solved this big problem for us. Thank you, Auntie, and thank you, Brother Weiguo!"

The brigade leader's family was quite large, and all of them were hardworking and diligent, so they received a lot of vegetables. In addition, his sons and daughters-in-law would also help Tian Haiying reclaim wasteland and grow vegetables during their spare time from the busy farming season, and they grew quite a lot.

Therefore, their family should be the one in the entire brigade with the most spare capacity and the most willing to exchange vegetables with others.

"Why say all that? If you hadn't exchanged it, your brother Weiguo and his two brothers would have had to push the vegetables all the way to the city to exchange them, which would have been even more troublesome. If anyone should be thanking you, it's me who should be thanking you."

Tian Haiying wasn't talking nonsense. Their family usually had a surplus of vegetables every year, but there were relatively few families in the village who wanted to exchange their vegetables, so they usually had to take them to the city to exchange them.

These days, radishes and cabbages aren't worth much. Even if you bring them into the city, they'll only cost a penny and a half to a penny per pound at most. If they're any more expensive, people won't buy them.

Potatoes and green onions are a bit more expensive, sometimes reaching 4 cents a pound, but they can't just sell those two, can they? What about radishes and cabbage?

So when Zhu Qinghao and Si Tian suggested exchanging vegetables at her house, Tian Haiying was really happy. Putting everything else aside, since everyone lived in the same village, it would at least be much more convenient.

In addition, she liked the two children quite a bit. Although they were from Kyoto, they didn't have any airs of superiority or look down on them. On the contrary, they were always very polite.

So when she heard the two of them say they wanted to change their vegetables, she offered to let them know they could do it at her own home, and secretly decided to give them a very cheap price.