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

However, Yan Jiefang had only been promoted ahead of schedule a few months ago. No matter how fast he is promoted in the future, there must be a two-year interval. This is a red line that no one is allowed to break.

It's also to prevent certain people from using their power to commit fraud, otherwise the entire social structure would collapse very quickly.

Although he has been working at the factory for less than a year, Yan Jiefang has been interacting with the local basketball team since his first year of vocational school.

I then did two more internships here during my four years of vocational school.

Therefore, his connection with Factory 774 actually dates back quite a while.

In addition, they won three gold medals at last year's National Games.

There were also two improvements and optimizations to the workshop production line and production process.

This made him very famous throughout the factory, and many workers had heard of his name.

Many factory leaders also saw his potential and were very optimistic about his future, and were willing to try to win him over.

The deputy chief engineer of the technical team and the deputy factory manager of the production side would occasionally come to check on us.

In addition, because his two novels were serialized in "RM Literature" and "Beijing Literature" and became very popular, even the head of the publicity department would ask him to write one or two pieces of publicity material from time to time.

Although he had no powerful connections, Yan Jiefang was actually very influential in Factory 774.

After all, besides what was mentioned above, he also held official positions in the First and Fourth Ministries of Machinery Industry after winning the New Forces gold medal and the National Games gold medal.

Who knows, maybe one day some high-ranking leader will remember that there is such a person who runs very fast.

Now he mainly works in the team's common laboratory located on the edge of the workshop.

This laboratory is not large and has been in operation for about ten years. Most of the equipment inside was "aided" by the Soviet Union.

Those who don't understand the term "aid construction" might still harbor illusions, but Yan Jiefang, who now knows the details, naturally scoffs at it.

Despite the Soviet Union's default, the entire nation worked hard and tightened their belts, finally paying off the debt of approximately 86 billion yuan last year (1965)!

That year, our motherland became one of the few countries in the world with neither domestic nor foreign debt, and it was also a large country.

Gossip less.

Despite daily cleaning and maintenance, the laboratory still looks somewhat old.

The public laboratory is located not far from the production line and is used for team spot checks, troubleshooting, and small-scale process experiments.

After working here for more than half a year, Yan Jiefang was already very familiar with the place and knew the entire electron tube production process like the back of his hand.

Any problem presented to him can be solved effortlessly.

This has led to the fact that whenever there is a problem, whether it's a small one or a large one, the team leaders on the production line or the workshop directors who manage the workshop will run directly to him first.

It's because he's nearby and his technology is reliable.

Yan Jiefang, who was bored out of his mind, was happy to help everyone solve problems.

If it weren't for the timing and other conditions not being in place, he could have found a way to carry out a major overhaul of the factory's overall production processes and procedures right now.

Unfortunately, he was just a lowly level 15 technician, and his words carried little weight.

They don't even have their own independent laboratory; that's reserved for technicians at level 7 or above.

No matter how skilled you are, don't even think about it before you're 35.

By then, he had already left the factory and gone to the outside world.

While Yan Jiefang was working quietly in the factory, the atmosphere outside began to tense up.

Yan Jiekuang, who was still in the second year of junior high school, could clearly feel that the atmosphere at school was beginning to change.

Some underachieving students would cause trouble from time to time, and the school's discipline gradually lost its effectiveness.

Sometimes when Yan Jiefang returned to Mianhua Hutong, he would talk to his second brother about these things that happened at school.

This was an inevitable trend, and Yan Jiefang had no choice but to tell him not to get involved and to just focus on his studies.

We will make arrangements for him later.

Hearing his second brother's words, Yan Jiekuang felt a little relieved.

He was determined to attend a vocational school and desperately didn't want anything to go wrong.

Sometimes when Liu Guangfu talked to him about school matters, he would say with a sense of relief:

"I'll be taking the high school entrance exam soon, and then I'll go straight to a vocational school. These things from junior high and high school definitely won't affect me!"

"But Yan Jiekuang, you might be in trouble!"

Yan Jiekuang responded:

"I have my second brother to back me up, so there's no need to be afraid."

Amidst all this commotion, June arrived.

On this day, the school announced an early holiday, canceling all final exams and the high school entrance exam!

As for the start date of the second half of the school year, we'll wait for further notice!

That afternoon, the two originally spirited teenagers stood at the school gate, hugging each other and crying uncontrollably.

Many students were watching and laughing at the scene.

After returning home, they couldn't eat for several days.

When Liu Guangtian heard about his third brother's situation, he felt very sorry for him. He made a special trip back and took Liu Guangfu away with him.

A few days later, a quiet and reserved boy appeared at the eastern suburbs crematorium.

He rarely spoke to anyone, but simply followed his brother's lead and did things quietly.

After returning to Mianhua Hutong, Yan Jiefang comforted Lao San several times.

He was told that when he reached a certain age next year, a job would be arranged for him so that he wouldn't have to worry.

Yan Jiekuang's emotions gradually calmed down.

Yan Jiedi, the primary school student, was basically unaffected and continued to attend school normally every day.

This guy is a stupid academic failure. Instead of studying properly, he envies his third brother who doesn't have to go to school and doesn't have any homework.

So enviable!

Liu Ruyan, who was far away in Jiangcheng, was also greatly affected, and she could no longer continue her high school studies.

The senior year of high school was abolished, high school became a two-year program, and the college entrance examination was also abolished.

(Junior high school was also changed to a two-year system. Some novels depict this two-year system, which is based on this period. It was impossible to take the college entrance exam in those times.)

In other words, she had already graduated from high school after just finishing her second year of high school.

In her letter to Yan Jiefang, she said that she had originally planned to study hard, get into a university in Beijing, and then meet him again, but now she didn't know what to do.

Yan Jiefang, seeing that the letter seemed a bit off, replied to her directly:

Hurry up and get the letters of introduction for visiting relatives and getting married, then come to Beijing to get married! The train ticket and remittance will arrive in a few days.

Just kidding, I'll get into a university in Beijing and then come see him again.

What era are we living in now?

The college entrance examination in this era is truly a battle of thousands of troops crossing a single-plank bridge!

In 1965, so many universities in Beijing only recruited a few hundred students in the entire Chu province. How could you, Liu Ruyan, be ranked like this?

You must be joking!