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

Today is the 21st day of the 12th lunar month, which is January 26, 1962 in the Gregorian calendar.

The first semester of vocational school officially ended. In those days, the winter vacation for vocational school students was half a month and fifteen days.

School will start on the fifth day of the first lunar month.

Yan Jiefang lay on the bed and began to take stock of the various supplies and other items in his personal space.

First up are the giant meat buns, there are over three hundred of them!

The remaining quantity was much larger than he had initially estimated.

This is because the school food was relatively good after he went to vocational school, which led him to eat fewer steamed buns.

I still have 62 Yuan Shikai silver dollars left. Except for exchanging them for 5 yuan at the beginning, I haven't used them since.

After all, his monthly royalties are quite substantial.

He barely used any of the royalties. Apart from saving 200 yuan in his bank account, he kept the remaining nearly 200 yuan in his personal storage space for emergencies.

In addition, there was nearly half a pound of pig's head meat, a bottle of Erguotou (thank you from Liu Guangtian), a lot of warm boiled water, some mixed grain steamed buns, mixed flour steamed buns, five or six pounds of fruit candy, and some other miscellaneous items.

There weren't many items, which was related to his unwillingness to spend time collecting them.

There are also 8 normal critical hits. These critical hit counts can be accumulated indefinitely. When not in use, Yan Jiefang lets them accumulate.

He has a rather conservative personality and is not in a hurry to use them.

The second super critical hit hasn't been released yet; it'll probably have to wait until after the Spring Festival.

He had some thoughts on this super critical hit.

He had asked his older teammates about live-fire shooting when he was on the basketball team.

They said there is an opportunity for live-fire shooting every year around April.

Unable to find firearms on the black market, he considered using Type 53 7.62mm carbines (a copy of the Mosin-Nagant M1944 carbine) that had been abandoned by troops during live-fire exercises. (This type of rifle was also used in live-fire exercises; the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle was prioritized for front-line field troops.)

This gun uses the 7.62×54R full-power rifle cartridge, which is extremely powerful (its lethality is far greater than that of the 56 medium-power cartridge, about twice as much).

Another feature is its high accuracy.

It has Mosin-Nagant lineage, a stable barrel, and a straight trajectory, making it easy for beginners to hit the target at the 100-meter chest ring target.

It is also sturdy and durable, very reliable, and the folding triangular bayonet has extremely high rigidity, giving it a great advantage in bayonet fighting.

However, its shortcomings are also obvious in modern combat.

1. Strong recoil; 2. Extremely low rate of fire (5 rounds with bolt-action manual firing); 3. Relatively long barrel.

Being eliminated from the military was also due to the circumstances.

But for Yan Jiefang, this gun was more than enough.

Moreover, the firearms used for target practice at the school are all in perfect condition, which are much more reliable than those bought on the black market.

With this information, Yan Jiefang abandoned his plan to buy guns on the black market outside the city.

If regular critical hits don't work, he'll likely use the only super critical hit chance he has next year.

Anyway, since the super critical hit happens once a year, he doesn't think it's as precious as he imagined.

If it succeeds, who knows what might happen!

Yan Jiefang is also very much looking forward to it.

The Yan family spent the next few days preparing for the New Year.

During the Lunar New Year period, the supply of goods on the streets was noticeably more abundant.

However, Yan Bugui was born with an innate talent for being stingy, and he would calculate countless times before buying anything.

Sometimes, Yan Jiefang was truly impressed by the things the couple bought.

Can't we even enjoy the New Year in a little bit?!

He wasn't without suspicion that these two guys were deliberately targeting him.

But looking back at my memories, it's always been the same every year, with no difference whatsoever.

This suggests that they may have had such thoughts, but did not act on them.

After all, they both knew that the second brother wasn't stupid and would definitely be able to see through these little tricks at a glance.

I'm reminded of the classic scene in the TV series where Yan Bugui distributes peanuts.

On the day before the Lunar New Year, Yan Jiefang stopped the two people who were about to leave and laid his cards on the table:

"How many votes do you have at home? Show them to me!"

Yang Ruihua was stunned for a moment, but Yan Bugui reacted quickly. He took all the receipts from his and Yang Ruihua's bags and handed them to his second son.

"It's all here, Liberation, you..."

Yan Jiefang took it, glanced at it a few times, then ignored them and directly called to the third brother:

"Jie Kuang, come on, let's go buy New Year's goods with your second brother!"

"They're here!"

Yan Jiekuang quickly put down his book and came over.

Although it was a year of famine, the entire Yan family had a fixed quota, plus special tickets for the Spring Festival, so they had quite a lot of tickets saved up.

For the next two or three days, Yan Jiefang took his third son and ran back and forth on the streets.

Finally, before the 27th of the lunar calendar, I bought a lot of New Year's goods.

The pork weighed only 2.4 jin (approximately 1.2 catties). (During the Spring Festival, each person received a 6-liang (approximately 300g) ticket, totaling 1.632 yuan.)

5 jin of frozen ribbonfish. (1 jin ticket per person during Chinese New Year, total 1.5 yuan)

I also bought quite a few snacks and the like.

Each household had a special quota of half a jin for peanuts and fruit hard candy, and Yan Jiefang simply waved his hand and ordered them all to be bought!

Each household only has 2 liang (100 grams) of sunflower seeds, buy them all!

I also bought rock sugar, brown sugar, malt sugar melon (Guandong sugar), glutinous rice strips, fried noodles, Sachima, and so on.

However, these items all require tickets, and even if you have money, you can only buy a small amount.

As for grain coupons, he only bought the finest grains that Yan Bugui was unwilling to buy.

28 jin of regular flour + 14 jin of rice + 2 jin of high-gluten flour for holidays + 1 jin of premium rice for holidays = 45 jin. (Total: 8.35 yuan)

These were all purchased with tickets and money, and the cost wasn't too high, less than 13 yuan in total.

Even so, the abacus-wielding couple were all smiles.

The real, bigger expense was the state-run, high-priced non-staple food counter that Yan Jiefang specifically went to (which only accepted cash and no receipts).

He bought half a pound each of cooked beef and mutton in this place at 4-7 times the normal price, for a total of 8 yuan.

A roast chicken and a braised duck, each costing 4 or 5 yuan, totaling nine yuan.

I spent another 3 yuan to buy half a pound of milk candy.

Yan Jiefang naturally didn't forget to use 5 critical hit attempts to crit all of these things once, and obtained a large amount of cooked food.

From now on, he will no longer need to worry about eating these common meats.

After bringing these things home, Yan Bugui and his wife became incredibly hospitable and much more polite in their speech.

It's quite uncomfortable for some people.

Yan Jiedi has been ecstatic these past few days.

She had never had such a lavish New Year in her entire life.

Aside from playing outside all day, he spends most of his time at home revolving around Yang Ruihua.

I'm always trying to find ways to get some snacks.

The third brother followed Yan Jiefang every day, so he naturally ate the best and most plentiful food.

He never expected to be able to eat so many delicious things that he had never eaten before during the Chinese New Year.

I've really learned something new this time.

The eldest brother, Yan Jiecheng, hasn't started his holiday yet.

A while ago, thanks to the matchmaker Wang's introduction, he got to know Yu Li, and the two are now trying to get to know each other.

Seeing that his second son had bought so many nice things, his eyes darted around, and a plan gradually formed in his mind.