I, Yan Jiefang, will live to 2025 in this courtyard house.

Peaceful days always pass quickly.

On July 10th, the final exams were completed, and the semester officially ended.

According to the education policy at the time, vocational school students were required to intern in factories during the summer to reform their thinking, establish a working-class mentality, eat, live, and work with the workers, and become apprentices of the workers.

The internship period is set at twenty to twenty-five days.

That means summer vacation won't officially start until around September 1st.

Yan Jiefang's class, led by their homeroom teacher Zhao, went to the neighboring 774 Factory, also known as the North China Radio Equipment General Factory, for an internship.

Factory 774 and Factory 718 are the preferred factories for students of radio industry schools to practice in.

The class was stationed directly at the factory, under complete closed management, and had no time to go home.

On the day they arrived at the factory, the workshop director gathered all the interns together.

"All students will be assigned to formal production teams, learn skills in their assigned positions, obey the instructions of their mentors, and abide by factory rules and regulations..."

Students are assigned to positions in turn, divided into five trades: resistor pressing, capacitor welding, electron tube assembly, machining, and circuit board assembly. Each student is mentored one-on-one by a senior worker.

Teacher Zhao stayed at the scene and gave the students some instructions:

"Going to the factory is not just a formality; you need to observe more, learn more, and do more hands-on work, and get rid of the habit of being detached from work and only studying books."

The students shouted in unison, "Yes!"

The workshop organizes weekly political study sessions, which are combined with practical production operations to simultaneously implement ideological education.

The entire process is designed to ensure that students thoroughly understand the production process, become familiar with machine tool operation and circuit assembly, and avoid mere theoretical knowledge.

Soon, the list of job assignments was released.

Yan Jiefang was assigned to the circuit board assembly process, which was also the position with the most interns this time.

The experienced technician who was training him picked up a circuit board and pointed to the solder joints and traces.

"Follow my steps, keep your hands steady and your eyes sharp, and don't make any mistakes."

Yan Jiefang nodded in response, stood at his workstation, and began to observe the operating procedures.

The entire process was well-organized, with a unified operating mode, and was basically consistent with the assembly line operations in later electronics factories.

He observed silently throughout, without making a sound or delaying, following his mentor's pace, and officially began his summer internship.

Although he never worked in an electronics factory to tighten screws in his later life, this experience can be considered a hands-on one.

With Yan Jiefang's knowledge and physical abilities, he easily learned all the tasks in this process.

After a few days of simple practice, he was even better at assembling circuit boards than the master craftsman who taught him.

After carefully examining several of his finished products, the master craftsman gave them all a thumbs up:

"Heroes have always emerged from among the young!"

On the contrary, Teacher Zhao didn't find it strange at all.

After all, she had already witnessed this student's intelligence and talent back in school.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, he should get full marks in all subjects on his final exams this time.

She realized that this child was the legendary genius who could learn anything at a glance and master it in no time.

If you go to high school and take the college entrance exam, you can easily get into Peking University or Tsinghua University.

Attending a vocational school ultimately buried his talent.

Yan Jiefang's background was ordinary, and there was nothing that could be done about it.

However, being able to attend their 49th City Radio Industry School is already considered a very good outcome, and there is much to be gained in the future.

Yan Jiefang didn't take the workers' praise to heart, simply offering a few words of modesty before returning to his work.

All he's doing now is just a protective shield for the next decade or so.

As long as he stays in the factory and keeps his job, he can easily avoid that period of strong winds.

His true potential will only be realized after the period of strong winds has passed.

On August 1st, Yan Jiefang returned to the courtyard house after his internship ended.

"We're back from liberation."

As Yan Jiefang walked through the gate, a woman's voice suddenly came from his right, almost startling him.

Turning his head, he saw that it was Sha Zhu's wife smiling at him.

At this point, after more than half a year of effort from Shazhu, she was beginning to show her pregnancy.

With Yan Jiefang's medical skills, he could tell at a glance that she was more than two months pregnant.

And they also knew that this baby was a girl.

The two had almost no interaction in their daily lives; when they met before, they would at most nod to each other.

This made him a little suspicious: he wondered what this woman wanted to do.

If someone tries to borrow money from him, he will make sure they know that the Yan family's reputation for being stingy is well-deserved.

Yan Jiefang simply nodded somewhat rudely at her and walked over.

Liu Yuyan stared at Yan Jiefang's retreating figure, lost in thought.

After being stripped of his title of "Third Uncle," Yan Bugui now either works as a fisherman by the river or tends to the dozen or so flowerpots in front of his house.

Perhaps because of the hot weather, he carried a watering can and stayed in the yard watering the flowers today.

Yan Jiefang glanced at the guy but didn't greet him.

Yan Bugui didn't pay any attention and continued to look at the pot of roses in front of him.

"Second Brother, you're back?"

Having probably heard the commotion outside, Yan Jiekuang came out and happened to see Yan Jiefang walking over.

"Jie Kuang, I'm going to the trust store to buy a bed right away. Come with me."

Upon hearing this, Yan Bugui immediately looked over:

"Jiefang, why bother with all that? There's a bed for you at home, you can sleep here."

Or, you can move that bunk bed from inside the room to the other room. It's nothing, just 40 yuan.

Hearing this, Yan Jiefang and Yan Jiekuang were both speechless. "You want 40 yuan for that broken bed with countless cracks?"

Yan Jiekuang rolled his eyes and said to Yan Jiefang:

"Second brother, ignore him, let's go."

The two went straight out of the courtyard and quickly disappeared from sight.

Yan Bugui slapped his mouth:

"How could I forget again? Jiefang knows exactly what's going on. If I had known, I would have asked for 20 yuan. Maybe I could have actually sold it."

After all, he's slept in this bed for so many years, he should be used to it by now.

After wandering around the trust store for a while, I found that there were indeed many mahogany beds or canopy beds mentioned in time-travel novels. They must have been sold by some Manchu remnants who couldn't make ends meet during the difficult period.

Yan Jiefang took a fancy to one of the pear branch canopy beds, which had excellent carving and was well-preserved.

When I asked about the price, it turned out to be 180 yuan!

Other similar ones would cost around 150 or 160.

Even those with mediocre carvings and poor preservation still cost over 120.

Rosewood beds are cheaper, generally priced below 120 yuan.

As for rosewood and huanghuali, they have mostly ended up in antique shops or in the hands of officials and wealthy families.

You basically can't see them here.

Sure enough, people know the value of good things, and there's basically no chance of finding a bargain.

Since there were no truly top-tier luxury items like rosewood or huanghuali, Yan Jiefang's interest waned considerably.

In the end, I only bought a mahogany bed (a small, flat bed) that was 1.5 meters wide and 2.08 meters long and looked pretty good.

I also bought four plain rosewood chairs with backrests and a small rosewood square table.

Finally, a mahogany five-drawer chest was added.

合起来总计200块。（115+12*5+25，红木桌椅的价格差不多）

I called two porters at the door to haul all these things back to my home in Mianhua Hutong.