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

To the surprise of the people in the ward, they thought that venereal disease, which was very serious, should be difficult to treat, or even incurable, and that one should die in pain.

As a result, Yi Zhonghai returned to the hospital that same day after receiving the penicillin injection.

But the neighbors in the courtyard still avoided him even more.

Wherever he went, people around him would quickly back away, and children were strictly restricted from getting close.

Yi Zhonghai has long since given up and doesn't care about these things at all.

What surprised him most was how cheap the treatment for venereal diseases was.

He originally thought that this time he might go bankrupt and be back to square one.

The doctor told him that all the costs combined would be less than 10 yuan!

This left him completely bewildered, and he had to ask several times to confirm it.

For Yi Zhonghai, who has over 2000 in savings, it's just a drop in the ocean.

His biggest expense lately has been finding a backdoor, which has cost him over two hundred yuan in the past six months.

He still has a considerable amount of savings, and based on his spending over the past ten years, he doesn't need to spend more than a hundred yuan a year.

Even without interest, it's enough for him to live on for another 20 years!

He is 54 years old this year, and in another 20 years, he will be 74 years old.

That's enough! If he can really live to 74, he feels that his life has been more than enough!

He's much more carefree than many people!

He could say this with a clear conscience: even Yan Jiefang, who has countless honors, is not as dashing as himself!

Yan Jiefang is like a tiger trapped in a cage.

They look incredibly brave, but in reality, their hands and feet have long been bound!

But I had long since escaped the law!

Having figured these things out, Yi Zhonghai felt that there was absolutely no need for him to risk going after Yan Jiefang; that would only lower his own standards.

So he disassembled the thing he had made and scattered it to various corners for safekeeping.

Afterwards, he fell asleep peacefully and comfortably.

The following evening, Yan Jiefang returned to his single dormitory building.

To avoid missing the bus the next morning, he usually returned to his dormitory the night before.

In this respect, Li Qingbo was similar to him.

"Junior Yan, do you have a girlfriend yet?"

Senior Li lay on the bed, staring straight at the ceiling. Suddenly, as if lost in thought, he turned to Yan Jiefang across from him and asked a question.

"No."

Although Yan Jiefang didn't know why his senior was asking that question, he quickly answered, then he also seemed a little confused.

"Senior, you've been out of school for years, why aren't you married yet?"

These dormitories are called single dormitories, which, as the name suggests, are for single men.

Of course, if someone has a private house like Yan Jiefang, but it's located far away, they might still live here even after getting married.

Both Yan Jiefang and Li Qingbo are unmarried.

Although the senior's appearance is very ordinary, it has nothing to do with being ugly. With his education and job, finding a wife should be easy for him.

It's not normal that he's still single.

There are only two reasons Yan Jiefang can think of:

First, the senior student had too high standards and looked down on the female factory workers and classmates who were of average appearance, or pretty girls who were not particularly attractive.

Secondly, he already had a woman he liked, but she didn't reciprocate his feelings and found someone more outstanding.

Yan Jiefang felt that the second reason was more likely, after all, he knew Li Xuechang's temper after more than half a year of contact.

He has a mild personality and is not the kind of person who is picky.

Instead of answering Yan Jiefang's question, Li Xuechang offered a word of advice:

"Junior, if you have a target, act on it sooner rather than later, lest you regret it later."

"Okay, I'll listen to my senior."

Seemingly sensing the casualness in Yan Jiefang's tone, he opened his mouth, but ultimately remained silent.

After all, his junior brother was completely different from him.

Recently, he had also heard about his junior's romantic luck back in school.

Someone as outstanding in every way as my junior, and with such a handsome appearance, has no trouble finding a girlfriend.

He's the kind of guy who has countless girls throwing themselves into his arms like moths to a flame; you can just pick whichever one you want.

He is completely different from ordinary people like myself.

Senior Li felt that the differences between people were extraordinary.

He shouldn't have started that conversation!

The room fell silent for a moment.

Before the power outage, Yan Jiefang continued to focus his attention on Japanese books.

Senior Li had good eyesight, and he immediately noticed that the junior was holding what appeared to be a Japanese book, which surprised him greatly.

I had heard that Junior Yan was not only good at sports, but also got perfect scores in his studies every year. I never expected that he could even speak Japanese!

Thinking about this, another question arose in Li's mind:

"Junior Yan, are you reading Japanese materials?"

Yan Jiefang held the cover up to show it before replying:

"right."

"Is it also related to radio?"

"No, that's not it. I've recently become interested in computers, so I borrowed a few Japanese books."

"Electronic computers? That's a cutting-edge field!"

After all, Senior Li was a top student in radio engineering, and with Factory 774 designing and manufacturing the first integrated circuit board this year, he also had some knowledge of news about electronic computers.

"Yes, developed countries are all researching electronic computers now, and our country can't fall behind."

"That's true. If we fall behind, we'll be attacked! We must catch up!"

But isn't electronic computers a topic only for top universities or research institutes?

Is it a bit... for you to study on your own?

Li Xuechang didn't say what he meant next, but Yan Jiefang knew what he meant.

It's a waste of his time and effort to learn on his own.

Yan Jiefang didn't need to explain to him; he simply said:

"I'm just learning and having fun in my spare time. I'll learn as much as I can."

...

1965 ended in a tumultuous year, and the new year of the Great Wind finally arrived.

Although some rumors could be sensed, most ordinary people still didn't react much.

Of course, no matter how big the storm, it will not have much impact on workers and farmers who are working normally.

In addition to his regular work, Yan Jiefang handed over the direction finder he had used to win the radio direction finding championship to the factory, along with detailed blueprints.

After seeing his physical prototype and drawings, several engineers were greatly inspired by the ingenious ideas within.

Because of this blueprint, several diode and triode products manufactured by Factory 774 were greatly improved, and their functions were significantly enhanced.

It also received unanimous praise from the military.

The factory was generous in its reward for this, not only providing labor protection supplies but also awarding the employee a major merit and issuing a factory-wide commendation.

This matter was also recorded in his personnel file, which could serve as evidence for his future promotion.