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

The basketball team had a gathering at Fengzeyuan. The 12 players and several coaches, a dozen or so people, sat around a large round table, and the atmosphere was very lively.

The team members took turns toasting Yan Jiefang to express their gratitude, and even several coaches stood up to offer a toast.

Yan Jiefang felt somewhat flattered.

Everyone knows the truth: this Olympics was all thanks to Yan Jiefang's heroic efforts. Without him, the national team would have been nothing in this competition.

They couldn't even get out of the group stage.

This may be the only time in their lives they have won an Olympic gold medal, and everyone is very grateful to Yan Jiefang.

They all expressed that if Yan Jiefang ever encounters any difficulties in the future, he should just come to them, and they would never refuse to help.

Yan Jiefang naturally knew that words spoken at the dinner table should only be taken with a grain of salt; if you take them seriously, you'll lose.

The coaches also encouraged him to visit the gymnasium whenever he had free time and offer some guidance to the players on their skills.

Although the conversations were mostly uninformative, everyone got along quite well.

After the drinking session, life returned to normal.

The visit to Hong Kong is still a month or so away, so Yan Jiefang is diligently practicing his martial arts as usual.

He has now discovered that his cultivation progress is getting slower and slower. At the current rate, he may not be able to advance to the sixth level of Qi Refining until the second half of next year.

Of course, this speed is still much faster than that of many people in the cultivation world.

He himself wasn't in a hurry.

After all, his requirements weren't high: he just needed to advance to the Foundation Establishment stage before dying.

Given his current physical condition, he should have no problem living to the first milestone in 2025.

If nothing unexpected happens, there should be at least a minimum guarantee.

Now it depends on whether we can establish a foundation.

For over 40 years, he refused to believe he couldn't achieve the Foundation Establishment stage!

Unless a nuclear bomb explodes right in front of him, no one can stop him.

In early September, the children all went back to school, and Yan Jiefang was left alone in the courtyard again.

After finishing his cultivation, having nothing else to do, he went to the business administration department again to inquire about establishing a private enterprise or factory.

The result was still not good.

At this time, for sole proprietorships, the number of employees cannot exceed 7!

What else can such a small group of people do besides opening a small restaurant or a small clothing store?

Just like Sha Zhu's Spring Breeze Restaurant, there is a boss (Liu Yuyan), a head chef (Sha Zhu), chefs (Ma Hua and He Xiao), and four waiters (Xiao Dang, Huaihua, Liu Lan, and Lu Ren).

There are only eight people in total: the boss and seven employees.

This is the limit at this stage.

"Up and down" perfectly describes this situation.

If a company has more than 7 employees, or 8 or more, it will be classified as a "major private employer"!

Just wait and you'll be punished.

(Sha Zhu's other apprentice, Fatty, has already been poached by Yan Jiecheng and his wife.)

In early October, Yan Jiefang and a delegation consisting of more than a dozen other medal winners and seven or eight staff members officially traveled to Hong Kong.

At noon on the 7th, the delegation crossed the border into Hong Kong at the Lo Wu Port.

Not long after arriving in Hong Kong, they were interviewed by reporters from several Hong Kong media outlets.

Yan Jiefang, as a four-time gold medalist, was besieged by reporters.

As a seasoned 39-year-old, he answered their various questions with great composure, humor, and official manner, and his Tai Chi was very skillful.

This left reporters with no way to break through.

They are completely different from the image of mainlanders that everyone has in mind.

Seeing that there was nothing good breaking news from him, the reporters turned their attention to other people.

However, because Yan Jiefang wasted a lot of time, their gains were not as great as they had imagined.

After taking a group photo, the delegation boarded a bus and left.

Based on the normal situation at this time, Yan Jiefang speculated that they might not have any free time or shopping activities this time.

Then he wouldn't have a normal opportunity to go out and work with computers.

In order not to leave empty-handed, Yan Jiefang felt that he might have to resort to some unconventional methods.

Therefore, he kept observing the shops on both sides of the street along the way, trying to see if there were any computer malls or shops selling microcomputers.

Hard work pays off.

On his way, he noticed a store that might sell computers.

That's the Golden Building.

Unfortunately, although the roads in Hong Kong were narrow, they were still not narrow enough for Yan Jiefang, who was sitting in the bus, to use his divine sense to probe into the shops, let alone touch the computers inside.

He silently memorized the location and the route along the way.

As expected, upon arriving at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in the afternoon, they were all instructed to remain in their rooms and not to go out. (The most likely hotels for the delegation in 1984 were the Mandarin Oriental or the Furama Hotel.)

Yan Jiefang had no chance to take action at all.

In the evening, at the welcome reception, he once again attracted the attention of reporters.

But his flawless answers left the reporters speechless.

Even the most pointed questions can be easily resolved by Yan Jiefang, who has already reached or is nearing the pinnacle of his skills in Chinese language, writing, public speaking, and acting.

In the middle of the night, Yan Jiefang walked to the window on the 17th floor and looked at the night view outside.

The lights weren't very bright, and many places were still dark, which was perfect for being Spider-Man.

But he shook his head. "You want me to be Spider-Man for a broken computer?"

Are you crazy or am I crazy?

Isn't it better to just live a good life?

You don't need to be Spider-Man, but you can be a wall climber.

He opened the door and used his spiritual sense to go directly down the fire escape.

With divine consciousness present, it's almost impossible for anyone to discover him.

Soon, he walked down the fire escape to the first floor.

Normally, the doors here are locked, and they are only opened in case of fire or cleaning.

With a thought, Yan Jiefang's door vanished.

After he left, the door returned to its original position, just as it had been before.

As long as no one is around, Yan Jiefang walks in a straight line, and even the courtyard wall can't stop him.

No matter what it is, he can simply open a door and walk through it with ease.

Soon, he arrived on the street.

Yan Jiefang took out his watch and looked at it.

It is 2:40 a.m.

He took a 28-inch bicycle out of his storage space and rode it at breakneck speed toward the Golden Building.

The distance between Mandarin Oriental and Golden Tower doesn't seem far.

Only a dozen minutes had passed when Yan Jiefang arrived at the location.

He looked around and saw that even at this time, there were still occasional pedestrians on the street, and one or two drunkards were lying in the corner sleeping.

Yan Jiefang found a dark spot, opened the door, and walked into the store.

Apart from the lights in the security guard's room, it was almost completely dark here.

However, the darkness had no effect on Yan Jiefang.

He looked around and then began searching along the passage.

He discovered that this floor was mostly filled with electronic products.

Accessories such as monitors, keyboards, floppy disk drives, dedicated storage tapes, and printers are available.

Yan Jiefang only took a few of these peripheral items for backup, and even then, he took them in a scattered manner.

If the cost is split among themselves, each household won't lose much; it's only a few dollars or tens of dollars, so I'm sure these business owners can accept that, right?

After walking around for a while, Yan Jiefang arrived at the computer store.

The computers here have all been put away in safes or locked display cases by the boss or store manager.

But none of this matters to Yan Jiefang now.

He didn't take much; he only took two or three of each of the following machines: Apple IIc, IBM PC Jr, and Apple Macintosh.

Actually, there aren't many high-end Apple Macintosh machines here, and after he took them, there will be a temporary shortage.

The first two types of goods are still in relatively good supply.

He didn't take the whole machine for free; after taking the items, he put a dozen or twenty fingerprint-free Yuan Shikai silver dollars that had been obtained through a critical hit.

The two cancel each other out, so they're not really at a huge loss.

After taking some graphics cards, motherboards, and other parts, Yan Jiefang turned and left the Golden Building.