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

After the Chinese New Year, Yan Jiefang's super critical hit count was refreshed again.

Looking at the new number of super critical hits, he doesn't plan to use them for the time being.

His original plan was to directly target one of the three soups and four pills he made last year.

With just one super critical hit, the resulting medicine can definitely solve one or two of his hidden problems.

But he later inadvertently recalled the various martial arts manuals he had seen online.

Although these techniques themselves are not very useful, after being subjected to a super critical strike in his hands, he might just obtain some kind of immortal cultivation technique.

With the addition of the "Heaven rewards diligence" idiom, he could cultivate immortality on Earth!

If one truly becomes an immortal, living for hundreds of years wouldn't be unreasonable, would it?

When he returns to the main world, he can take all seven rewards!

This wave will make you rich overnight!

Even without cultivation techniques, obtaining martial arts internal skills would be great.

Maybe this can also fulfill his childhood dream of becoming a martial arts hero.

Therefore, he decided to visit both the Beijing Municipal Library and the Dongcheng District Library carefully.

For the next few days, he spent his days in both libraries.

Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned; there were no books on similar techniques in either of those places.

Not to mention the "Four Classics of Internal Kung Fu", "Tai Chi Toad Fishing Strength", "Dragon Hibernation Skill" and "Shangqing Heavenly Heart Orthodox Method" that will be readily available in the future, there are not even any incomplete or fragmented versions.

It seems that this method is not feasible for the time being.

People at that time believed that the law should not be easily passed on. Later, everyone will find that these things were all imagined by our predecessors, and the content was shrouded in mystery, having no practical use in reality.

Or rather, it may have some hypnotic effect, but no greater effect.

Yan Jiefang didn't know if critical hits were useful, but he could afford to waste a super critical hit.

Time flew by and the start of the new school term arrived quickly.

Yan Jiefang returned to school.

A few days later, he received the new email at the guardhouse.

This time, he received two remittance slips, both for 75 yuan.

As for the royalties for February, they won't be sent until March.

At that time, he will receive 375 yuan in royalties every month!

This is equivalent to 10 months' salary for Sha-zhu at the beginning of the TV series.

In this day and age, such income is absolutely beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Even Yan Jiefang, who doesn't value money that much, felt somewhat invigorated.

When I'm writing a novel, I tend to write faster.

That noon, after lunch, Yan Jiefang, along with Wu Xuewen, Li Jianjun, and others, were about to go to the library to look up some materials on radio.

Class teacher Ms. Zhao suddenly walked over quickly:

"Yan Jiefang, I need to talk to you about something. Come with me to the playground."

He nodded:

"Okay, Teacher Zhao."

Others, seeing this, followed along out of curiosity.

The cafeteria was not far from the playground, and the group quickly walked onto the track.

Yan Jiefang saw that there were already several people waiting here, including Coach Li from the school basketball team. He was not only the head coach of the basketball team, but also the head coach of the school sports team.

Coach Li waved to him and pointed to a young man in his forties standing next to him:

"Jiefang, this is Assistant Wang from the First Ministry of Machine Building. He's here today to test your 100-meter sprint performance on behalf of the Ministry."

Yan Jiefang stood still, glanced at Assistant Wang, and then nodded to Coach Li:

"Okay, Coach Li, I will definitely do my best and not let down the reputation of our Beiwu Electric School."

Coach Li looked at the tall and imposing Yan Jiefang and patted his arm with satisfaction:

"Don't feel pressured, just perform at your normal level."

The venue was ready in advance. After Yan Jiefang did some simple pre-exercise preparations, he stood behind the starting line.

"Snapped!"

As the starting gun fired by Assistant Wang rang out, Yan Jiefang dashed off the starting line.

Assistant Wang and Coach Li stood at the finish line. When they saw the white smoke coming out of the starting gun, they pressed the start button on the mechanical stopwatch to begin timing.

Yan Jiefang's running speed was naturally very fast, and he quickly crossed the finish line.

Coach Li quickly pressed the stop button on the stopwatch as he reached the finish line.

The people standing next to him all craned their necks to look at the stopwatch.

Coach Li showed the stopwatch and announced the time:

"Nine and six seconds!"

Coach Zhou of the track and field team had a big smile on his face:

"Yan Jiefang's performance is still so consistent!"

The other teachers watching also chimed in with smiles on their faces:

"Yan's physical fitness is truly amazing!"

"As he gets older, there should be room for his grades to improve further."

Subsequently, two more tests were conducted, and Yan Jiefang's performance was very stable, with times of 9.6 seconds and 9.7 seconds respectively.

Assistant Wang left satisfied with his results, and before leaving, he encouraged him not to slack off and to continue training.

Yan Jiefang looked at Coach Li, somewhat puzzled:

"Coach Li, what happened today?"

Coach Li glanced at the crowd around him, pulled him aside, and whispered:

"I received a tip from the street that there will be a large-scale international competition this year, and our country will also send athletes to participate."

The selection of athletes is currently underway. After the leaders of the ministry learned about your performance in the competition last year, they wanted you to represent our First Ministry of Machine Building in the selection process.

Assistant Wang is here today to confirm your grades, so you don't make a fool of yourself and embarrass the leaders.

Yan Jiefang nodded, indicating that he understood.

The nation has just emerged from the shadows; the humiliation of the past two or three hundred years has left people with low morale.

We definitely need to boost morale through some competitions right now.

Now that he has the opportunity, Yan Jiefang is naturally willing to contribute to the country, show his power, and crush all his opponents!

...

In the courtyard, after the birth of Sha Zhu's eldest son, He Xiao, it was as if he was blessed by heaven, and he was allocated three rooms in the front yard.

These three rear-facing rooms are currently under repair. Once the repairs are complete, the He family will be able to move in.

His family's housing suddenly became more spacious and they were no longer in such a predicament.

Li Huaide had actually spoken to He Yuzhu about this last year, but the residents in the courtyard were unaware of it.

But this did not stop some of their equally homeless neighbors from being jealous.

When Sha Zhu's family was in trouble, they not only didn't help, but also mocked them. Now that the He family is doing well, they've started making crickets again.

The six words "hating others for what they have and laughing at others for what they don't" perfectly capture the nature of these guys.

Li Huaide initially offered two options, but Sha Zhu couldn't make a decision on his own. That evening, he went home and discussed it with his wife, Liu Yuyan.

Liu Yuyan immediately made the decision: she wanted three rear-facing rooms plus the current gatekeeper.

And I explained the reasons to him in detail.

Although the back room doesn't sound as nice and the environment isn't as good as the side room, it's not bad either.

In addition, there are four rooms, one of which can be set aside as a kitchen, so there will be no shortage of living space when there are more children in the future.

Sha Zhu wholeheartedly supported his wife's decision.

The addition of the word "children" in particular fueled his enthusiasm.