After breakfast, Li Zetian went out.
He planned to submit “A Man Should Stand Strong” to James Wong (Huang Zhan), one of the “Four Great Talents of Hong Kong”, borrowing his golden mouth for a review so as to make the song famous, thereby attracting the competition of major record companies.
Although James Wong’s current fame had not yet reached its future peak, he had already composed many songs, was a director of the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong, and had great influence.
Of course, there were currently music masters more famous than James Wong, but why did Li Zetian still submit to James Wong?
As for this reason, it was actually very simple, because “A Man Should Stand Strong” was originally James Wong’s work.
When he, the original author, saw “A Man Should Stand Strong”, presumably his sense of resonance should be a bit stronger than others, and his evaluation would be higher!
Even if it was a newcomer’s first song, Li Zetian wanted to sell it as expensively as possible!!!
James Wong’s information was not difficult to find out.
Besides being a lyricist and composer, he was also a writer, host, business owner, director, screenwriter, actor, etc.
He was brimming with talent.
This year, he also wrote an adult joke collection “The Unprintable Collection”, which aroused a burst of heated discussion among Hong Kong people.
Li Zetian came to the post office, filled in the information, stuffed the piece of paper with the song written on it into an envelope, and then mailed it to James Wong.
Walking out of the post office, Li Zetian’s heart was full of expectations, thinking to himself that maybe in a few days, James Wong would contact him!
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As everyone knows, Hong Kong in the 1970s was full of business opportunities, but the more important personal computer industry revolution occurred in the United States.
At this time, computers were not only very expensive, but also bulky and huge.
But in January 1975, Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) launched the world’s first microcomputer Altair-8800.
For a time, winds and clouds surged, shocking the industry, and thereby igniting the future leading figures of the computer industry — Bill Gates and Steve Jobs!
Not long after, Microsoft and Apple successively established companies in this year.
Thus, a magnificent personal computer industry revolution opened an extremely gorgeous chapter!!!
As the old saying goes: “Opportunities must not be missed, time will never come again!”
Bill Gates would rather drop out of Harvard than insist on starting a business, and Li Zetian naturally could not miss this opportunity either!!!
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It was now July 20th, and Harvard University registration was on September 1st.
After Li Zetian mailed the song, having nothing to do, he was walking on the street.
When he saw a movie poster, he was suddenly startled.
“In this era, Bruce Lee doesn’t seem to be dead yet?!
Wait, July 20th??
July 20, 1973, isn’t that exactly the time when Bruce Lee died suddenly?”
Although Li Zetian had not watched any of Bruce Lee’s movies completely, it did not prevent Bruce Lee from becoming someone he respected very much.
Li Zetian even specifically Baidu-ed Bruce Lee’s information.
He was a pioneer of the world martial arts revolution, a martial arts combatant, a martial arts philosopher, the founder of UFC, the father of MMA, a martial arts grandmaster, the pioneer of kung fu movies, and the founder of Jeet Kune Do.
Perhaps he wasn’t the best fighter, and in fact no one can always be the best fighter, but to Chinese people, Bruce Lee is definitely the most famous!
Not only did he establish martial arts schools and commit himself to the spread of Chinese martial arts, but he also punched the Japanese karate champion and kicked the Thai Muay Thai champion, promoting the prestige of our country.
Even world boxing champion Muhammad Ali came to ask Bruce Lee for advice on boxing techniques!
Regarding the cause of Bruce Lee’s death, some say he died of a drug allergy, while others say he was intentionally murdered; opinions vary.
But anyway, he died tonight.
It is said that Raymond Chow, Bruce Lee, and Betty Ting Pei discussed “The Game of Death” for more than two hours at Betty Ting Pei’s house.
Around 7 o’clock in the evening, Bruce Lee said he had a headache and wanted to go to sleep and rest for a while, but the result was that he never woke up!
Li Zetian muttered: “If I call the hospital for an ambulance before 7 o’clock in the evening, as long as the rescue is timely, is it possible that Bruce Lee will not die?
Whether in reality or on the screen, Chinese people all over the world still prefer to see a hero who beats up Japanese devils, Vietnamese guys, white people, and black people!!!”
Thinking of this, Li Zetian looked around, and immediately walked to the nearest newsstand, wanting to find Betty Ting Pei’s home address from it.
Bruce Lee was currently the hottest star in Hong Kong.
His four and a half movies in Hong Kong broke multiple records 3 times.
Betty Ting Pei was his rumored girlfriend, and entertainment gossip magazines had frequently reported the rumor of Bruce Lee staying overnight at Betty Ting Pei’s house.
“Boss, do you have any newspapers about Bruce Lee staying at Betty Ting Pei’s house?
If so, I want a copy!”
“Of course there are!”
The newsstand boss took out a stack of newspapers and placed them in front of Li Zhetian.
“All of them?”
“That’s right.”
“Uh, the quantity is too much.
Let me quickly glance through first.
Whichever newspaper looks good, I’ll buy that one!”
“Okay, go ahead and look.”
Li Zetian rapidly scanned these newspapers and soon found Betty Ting Pei’s home address, secretly memorizing it in his heart.
“Boss, there doesn’t seem to be any explosive news in the newspapers.
Forget it, I’m not buying!”
One couldn’t blame Li Zetian for being stingy.
After all, his family was poor, the money in his pocket was scarce, and he saved wherever he could.
Moreover, even if he bought this kind of gossip magazine, he wouldn’t read it, so naturally he was unwilling to spend that wasteful money.
In his previous life, Li Zetian was an orphan and almost starved to death many times.
It was precisely because he had experienced hunger and poverty that he had an almost crazy special emotional attachment to food and money.
He wouldn’t waste a single grain of food, nor would he waste a single cent!
Money that shouldn’t be spent won’t be spent; he would absolutely not slap his face until it’s swollen just to look fat!
The newsstand boss grabbed those newspapers back at this time, cursing while doing so: “You mainland boy, if you’re not buying, get out of here.
What a damn waste of my time!”
“With this service attitude, you’ll probably just guard this broken newsstand for the rest of your life!”
Li Zetian shook his head.
After leaving here, Li Zetian started wandering around randomly.
It was only after 11 o’clock in the morning now, still early from 7 o’clock in the evening.
Hong Kong in 1973 was already very prosperous, with heavy traffic, an endless stream of cars, and rows of tall buildings.
In addition, there were many construction projects underway, which couldn’t help but make Li Zetian think of Hong Kong’s real estate, which was simply the most lucrative of lucrative industries.
However, for the temporarily penniless Li Zetian, it had nothing to do with him.
Perhaps one day in the future he would also be qualified to enter this game, but not now.
Li Zetian then came to the University of Hong Kong.
He wanted to go to the library to find a few books on current computer programming languages in order to understand the current state of computer development and the differences in programming languages.
It was really hard to find this type of book in ordinary bookstores; not only were they all in English, but there were also many professional terms, obscure and difficult to understand.
Actually, Li Zetian knew the most popular programming language at present; it should be the BASIC language, and Microsoft built its fortune by writing BASIC interpreters back in the day.
After that, Microsoft kept updating the BASIC language and launched Visual-Basic.
And Li Zetian had self-taught Visual-Basic through the network in his previous life, so he could be considered quite knowledgeable about the BASIC language.
However, Li Zetian soon realized he had made a wasted trip.
When he arrived at the library, the librarian asked him to show his student ID or library card.
How could Li Zetian have these?
He couldn’t help shaking his head and said: “Sorry, I am not a student of the University of Hong Kong.
Can’t people from outside read books in the University of Hong Kong library?
I just want to read, not borrow, just looking up some information!”
“No, this is school regulation!”
“What kind of broken regulation is this?
It’s simply hindering the spread of knowledge!” Li Zetian was a bit unhappy, thinking to himself that without the Internet, it was really too inconvenient.
If you wanted to look up information, there was nowhere to look it up!
The librarian still coldly refused: “As the saying goes, nothing can be accomplished without norms and standards!
Sorry, I can’t let you in!
Unless you can get admitted to the University of Hong Kong and become a student of the University of Hong Kong…” When the administrator said this, he clearly carried a tone of contempt.
Obviously, he didn’t think Li Zetian could get admitted to the University of Hong Kong.
The meaning in his words was nothing more than wanting Li Zetian to back out in the face of difficulties!
Li Zetian understood what he meant, smiled, and didn’t say anything more.
Just as he was about to leave, a sharp and extremely mocking voice came from behind him: “Mainland boy, you’re saying the grapes are sour because you can’t eat them, right!
The University of Hong Kong is not a place someone like you can get into…”
Li Zetian turned around and saw a smooth-talking, slightly sinister-looking man walking over with his arm around a fashionably and sexily dressed long-haired girl.
It was the man who spoke.
Li Zetian only glanced at the person, then ignored him.
What identity would he have in the future, and what identity did that person have?
This kind of person wouldn’t intersect with him again, so what was the point of paying attention to him?
Li Zetian didn’t even look him straight in the eye, and passed right by him, heading straight for the main entrance of the library.
However, when he reached the main entrance, he stopped.
A blackboard hung next to the main entrance, with a very interesting mathematical problem written on it.
The reason it was called interesting was that this problem was very difficult.
Presumably, there must be very few people in the University of Hong Kong who could solve this problem.
Li Zetian stood there staring at the blackboard for four or five minutes.
His action immediately attracted the attention of many people.
“Who is this person?
He looks very young.
Which class in the math department?
He actually has the guts to challenge the super difficult problem that Professor Zhou’s team spent over a year setting up?!
Moreover, this problem has been put out for a week, but still no one has been able to solve it!”
“Hehe, he is not a student of our school, but an arrogant mainland boy who doesn’t know the immensity of heaven and earth!
Hehe, you guys wouldn’t think he could solve this problem, right?
That’s simply utterly absurd!!!” the sinister man said disdainfully.
However, as soon as his voice fell, Li Zetian suddenly took action.
He took a few steps forward, picked up a piece of white chalk, and started writing on the blackboard.
Mathematical formulas came to him simply effortlessly.
In less than a minute, the problem was solved.
At the end, Li Zetian wrote down a sentence: “I am the mainland boy you speak of, but I am better than every single one of you!!!”
Actually, Li Zetian completely had no need to prove anything for himself, because he simply didn’t care about false reputation, pursuing the principle of “low profile is king” in his heart.
But right now he had to stand up to prove for the hundreds of thousands of compatriots from mainland China who were ridiculed and scolded as “mainland boys”, that we mainlanders and you Hong Kongers are all sons and daughters of China, and we are no worse than you!!!
(END CHAPTER)