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

He Yushui returned to her room alone, relying on the part-time work-study position arranged by the post office as her only hope at the moment.

She made up her mind to grow up and become independent as soon as possible.

After graduating from high school and starting a job at the post office, she should be provided with housing, and then she can leave this courtyard that lacks family affection.

Although this matter did not have the best outcome, it still helped her solve two major problems—eating and finding a job—all at once.

He Yushui was still very grateful to Yan Jiefang.

She planned to save some money so that she could treat him to a meal at a state-run restaurant when he came back next time.

After returning to school, Yan Jiefang resumed his studies.

During the grade-wide parade at the end of last month, he was officially assigned to the school's core militia battalion due to his excellent performance.

Upon returning to school, students like him who were incorporated into the militia were each given an extra training wooden gun and a canvas water bottle (made of aluminum).

There are 8 people in their dormitory, and 6 of them meet the requirements and have been granted basic staff positions.

The probability is average, within the normal range.

Basically, each male dormitory had 5 or 6 people selected.

Only the proportion of females is relatively low.

There's a reason for such a high percentage.

After all, as the top vocational school students of that era, they could be considered the pride of heaven, and upon graduation and entering their workplaces, they directly obtained cadre status.

They are not comparable to college students decades later.

Even students from 985 universities are far from it.

Zhao Lei and Wang Hao were eliminated for their own reasons.

Zhao Lei's lack of skill is entirely due to his own lack of focus in training.

Moreover, he seemed to know something about it.

Wang Hao's mistakes during the parade were entirely due to excessive nervousness.

He even cried secretly in a corner because of this.

Whether or not they are included in the militia's core staff doesn't really matter to them now.

According to the older students, there will be many more opportunities later, as long as they train well during regular training sessions.

Besides, even if we now have the basic structure of the militia, we can't rest easy.

If you don't train hard later, you'll be replaced by someone else.

Unlike September, which mainly consisted of basic drills, physical conditioning, and a small amount of tactical training.

Starting this month, they have added two military theory courses each Tuesday and Thursday afternoon [Air defense basics, NBC protection (chemical defense, bacteriological defense, and air defense), militia service, and basic military radio communications (in line with the school's radio engineering major)].

The rest of the afternoon consisted of practical exercises (wooden spear bayonet fighting, grenade throwing, rifle aiming) and a labor and defense system (1500-meter run, standing long jump, pull-ups).

During rifle aiming training, Yan Jiefang discovered that he had unintentionally learned rifle shooting skills.

He hasn't even tried live-fire shooting yet!

This skill seems useless to him now, but it's better than nothing.

Looking at the skill "Rifle Marksmanship (1/100)" on the panel, Yan Jiefang's eyes flickered.

He suddenly had the idea of ​​collecting a few of the "Equalizers for All Beings".

Anyway, as long as it's placed in the space, no one will know.

When he read the book before, he remembered that although guns were prohibited at that time, they were not as strict as in later years.

It should be relatively easy to buy on the black market, but the price is a bit high.

In most novels set in courtyard houses, firearms in decent condition cost between 80 and 90 to 150 and 160 yuan.

He still has 62 Yuan Shikai silver dollars in his storage space, which would be worth several hundred yuan on the black market.

Buying one or two firearms and the corresponding ammunition should be more than enough, right?

If that's not enough, he can use the system to get even more Yuan Shikai silver dollars.

Keep in mind that he hasn't used any critical hit chances since May, yet he's already accumulated 6!

If you want more money, it's incredibly easy to get thousands to tens of thousands!

Honestly, money was practically within his grasp.

However, there may be some risks when exchanging money on the black market.

This is also why he didn't go to Prince Gong's Mansion to look for the legendary gold and silver.

He had been in City 49 for quite some time now and had heard a lot about the place.

Currently, most of the courtyards of the Prince's Mansion are used for teaching purposes, and it is the site of the Beijing Academy of Arts.

The legendary treasure trove's rear building is a dormitory for students and a dormitory for single teachers (for art and teacher training college and vocational school students)!

There's no way you could dig for gold in a place like that without some kind of magical ability!

Anyway, Yan Jiefang couldn't do it.

Even if there were tons of gold here, he would never go.

There's absolutely no time or need for me to take that risk.

The other places aren't empty either.

The East Wing houses the Chinese Academy of Traditional Opera, the Institute of Ethnic Fine Arts, and the Central Institute of Ethnic Music (the predecessor of the Chinese Academy of Arts under the Ministry of Culture).

The northern back garden (Cuijin Garden, the garden area, the back garden of Prince Gong's Mansion) is within the public security area.

After all the Soviet experts withdrew in 1961, the compound was converted into a dormitory building for the families of cadres and staff of the Ministry of Public Security.

These places are right next to the rear building!

There are police officers on guard duty there regularly.

Besides, whether there's any gold here is questionable.

Yan Jiefang would have to be insane to risk taking those gold items that he could only collect and admire.

Furthermore, did those time-traveling predecessors from the courtyard houses, who collected large amounts of gold, silver, and antiques, actually use them for anything significant in the end?

Aren't they all just left to gather dust in the corners of the space?

Honestly, in the era of ration coupons, having enough money was enough; it's not like the world after 2000.

Besides, given his personal stats, he could have easily released a few popular albums in the 80s and 90s, which would have been far more effective than all the effort he puts in now!

Not to mention that after 2000 you could buy a few well-known stocks, and as long as it wasn't too outrageous, you could just sit back and count your money!

The advantage of being a prophet is not just a figure of speech.

(I've noticed many readers have mentioned this, so I'm addressing it here.)

While studying at school, Yan Jiefang officially finished his third novel.

However, his second book is not yet finished, so he is not in a hurry to send it out now.

He doesn't plan to write novels anytime soon, and spends most of his free time in the school library looking through lesson plans for various subjects.

The library at the Radio Industry School was small and had a limited collection of books.

He asked around and found that the library didn't have any textbooks, but fortunately, it had lesson plans for each subject.

If you want to learn relevant knowledge, you can only learn from lesson plans.

Given the features of his personal control panel, learning in this way is perfectly feasible.

In terms of his effort in studying, there was actually another roommate in the dormitory who was about the same as him!

This is Wu Xuewen wearing cloth-framed glasses. (Photo included in the author's notes)

Unlike Yan Jiefang, who was focused on completing the task, this student was genuinely studying diligently.

As time went on, although they didn't talk much, their relationship gradually improved.

After all, we are all like-minded students who love learning.

There's a saying, isn't there?

Do people with similar interests attract each other?

Besides the two of them, there was another girl in the class who was also a frequent visitor to the library.