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

While Yan Jiefang was handling these matters at home, Yi Shi's second album had already begun to sell well in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and some parts of Southeast Asia.

The songs on Little Jew's album are also quite good and are very popular.

The ten songs are: Moonlight in the City, Iron Bars, Love Troubles (female voice), Spreading, Don't Ask Who I Am, Monologue, Your Eyes, Snowman, All in Words, and Secrets.

The first seven songs are the main tracks, while the last three are just filler tracks.

These songs were all good to begin with, but after Yan Jiefang's adaptation, they became even more suitable for Xiao Youyi.

While it may not reach the sales of over three million copies of the previous one, reaching one million copies should not be a problem.

Because of the widespread popularity of her previous cassette tape, Little Jew has become famous in mainland China even though she has never been there before.

After more than half a year of development, it has now directly risen to the first tier in mainland China!

She is in no way inferior to Amin.

Moreover, as her pictorials gradually spread in mainland China, more and more teenagers and middle-aged people were attracted by her stunning beauty and naturally tried to buy her genuine cassette tapes.

I want to hear her voice.

...

In mid-August, the company in the Special Economic Zone called to report that the server center had been basically successfully debugged and asked if he had time to come and watch the opening ceremony.

Of course he had to get involved in something like this.

And he forgot one thing: this server center was, after all, an original IBM product, and although the system inside was compatible with his operating system.

But there's still a layer between them, and they need to be transformed.

It's naturally not as smooth as the original system he wrote himself.

Once he gets there, he'll need to spend some time replacing the operating system on the minicomputer.

Currently, only he can accomplish this task, which forces him to get involved as well.

Once this server center is officially launched, everyone who has installed the chat software he released will be able to make friends and chat online.

Starting this year, the first year of online dating has officially begun.

And he was the founder.

Yan Jiefang immediately planned to buy a plane ticket and head south.

"Dad, could you take me with you to see this place? I'm so bored here."

At this moment, the third brother made a request.

Yan Jiefang glanced at him and nodded:

"Alright, let's head south together then."

As for the fact that the third brother is still a member of the Beijing team and has football matches to participate in, they didn't mention it at all.

In their view, it was nothing more than a trivial matter.

Besides, with Yan Xueheng, the second oldest player, on the team, the Beijing team simply couldn't possibly lose.

Since our son is coming along too, we can't take the plane.

He went directly to the station and bought a soft sleeper ticket for train number 15 to Guangzhou on the 17th.

At 22:17 on August 17, the Yan family father and son boarded a southbound train at Beijing Railway Station.

Less than two hours after their train departed, a serious train accident occurred in the Dayaoshan Tunnel ahead.

The passengers on the train didn't hear about the accident until the next morning via the train's public address system.

"Attention passengers, attention passengers."

We have just received a dispatch notification that a track fault occurred between Pingshi and Lechang on the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway. After emergency repairs, the section has now reopened to traffic. This train will temporarily stop at Pingshi Station to receive further instructions. After departure, the train will pass through the section at a reduced speed.

Due to a line malfunction, this train is expected to arrive at Guangzhou Station two hours and forty minutes late. On behalf of all the train crew, I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused to passengers by the delay.

Passengers are requested not to disembark without authorization. Please keep your belongings safe. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

"Attention passengers, attention passengers."

...

The announcement on the radio glossed over the incident, and Yan Jiefang only learned later, upon hearing the news, that the accident was actually extremely tragic.

The accident was caused by a passenger on train 247 throwing a smoldering cigarette butt into the inspection hole of the heating pipe in the carriage, which ignited the accumulated debris inside, causing a fire and smoke to rise in hard-seat carriage number 17.

The train crew and conductor twice applied the emergency brakes to stop the train and put out the fire inside the tunnel.

Due to the overcrowding inside the carriages, passengers panicked after the fire broke out. Many passengers jumped out of the windows and landed on the tunnel tracks, with some ending up on the tracks of an upbound freight train.

The northbound freight train No. 1766 entered the dark tunnel and, upon spotting people on the tracks, was unable to brake in time, striking passengers who had jumped off the train and were wandering on the tracks.

The incident resulted in 10 deaths at the scene, and many others sustained serious or minor injuries.

Transportation in those days was really backward, and coupled with improper operation and sabotage by bad elements, accidents happened almost every year.

Here are two examples:

On June 26, 1989, the No. 364 train on the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway was bombed. It was a man-made explosion that killed 24 people and injured 39.

On June 13, 1991, a freight train, No. 109, on the Beijing-Shanghai Railway collided with another train. The driver fell asleep at the wheel, resulting in the death of the locomotive's co-driver and minor injuries to 27 passengers.

1989‑08‑15 东航 MU5510坠河，机上40人，34人遇难，仅6人生还！

October 2, 1990: Xiamen Airlines MF8301 hijacking and collision incident at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport.

Hijacker Jiang Xiaofeng fought for control of the control stick during landing, causing the 737 to go out of control and crash into two other commercial airliners on the tarmac. All three aircraft were damaged and exploded!

A total of 128 people died!

These are just cases that have occurred in the last two years. If the timeline is extended, there are many more major incidents, which will not be listed one by one.

Yan Jiefang reads the newspaper almost every day, and these events seem to be vivid in his memory.

This is also why I don't allow my family members to travel by plane.

No one can guarantee that the plane we are on won't be involved in any major accident.

Every time I fly, it's like dancing with death.

Only someone like him who can fly wouldn't be afraid of a plane crash; at worst, he could just leave.

Anyway, he can't stand even the slightest injury.

When we arrived in Guangzhou, the train was indeed almost three hours late.

Yan Jiefang and his third brother bought tickets here and took the train to Luohu Station.

After exiting the port, they immediately drove to the company.

In the afternoon, the father and son arrived at the computer room located in the company's technology building.

At this point, all the preparations were complete, and all that was left was for the boss to come over so that the power could be turned on.

Yan Jiefang nodded to everyone and gave the instructions:

"Don't rush to turn on the power. Let me finish coding the operating system for the minicomputer first."

Everyone was a little confused. Wasn't the minicomputer system already prepared?

However, no one said anything; there must be a reason why the boss said that.

Yan Jiefang went to his office and began typing rapidly on the keyboard. Soon, his hands were so blurry that only afterimages remained.

The sound of keyboard clicks filled the air.