The next day, the sun was already high in the sky when Li Zetian finally woke up.
His father Li Chengzhi and mother Xiao Zhixuan had long gone to work, but breakfast had been prepared for Li Zetian and was placed on the dining table.
After Li Zetian finished washing up, he ate breakfast while thinking about what he was going to do today.
Of course, the first thing was to go and inquire about Bruce Lee’s situation; secondly, Li Zetian planned to go to the Hong Kong Public Library.
There happened to be a Hong Kong Public Library on Waterloo Road in the Kowloon area, built in 1965.
Perhaps there would be the information he needed.
At this very moment, Bruce Lee’s incident shocked the whole of Hong Kong.
Even Western countries and mainland Chinese media focused heavily on reporting it!
Last night, international superstar Bruce Lee was sent to the hospital.
The doctor said that high-intensity training, frequent fighting competitions, and overwork had caused significant damage to Bruce Lee’s brain.
Fortunately, he was rescued in time this time; if it had been even a moment later, I’m afraid even the gods would have been powerless to reverse the situation!
Right now, after two hours of emergency treatment, Bruce Lee was out of danger.
Li Zetian didn’t even need to ask around; he had already learned about Bruce Lee’s situation from the conversations of passersby.
As for whether his act of delivering takeout would be exposed after Bruce Lee woke up, Li Zetian didn’t care.
Yes, Bruce Lee indeed didn’t order takeout, and the restaurant indeed didn’t send anyone to deliver takeout.
Li Zetian’s behavior seemed full of flaws.
But, didn’t the clever Li Zetian have a countermeasure?
During this period, almost every young person worshipped Bruce Lee.
Li Zetian could also say that he was a fan of Bruce Lee, and coincidentally bumped into Bruce Lee entering Betty Ting Pei’s house.
Therefore, he pretended to deliver takeout just to be able to see Bruce Lee once.
As for why he wore a mask?
The reason was even more sufficient: because he caught a cold and had a fever, and had not fully recovered yet.
This was not a lie; it was absolutely true!
Bruce Lee was the bridgehead for Hong Kong cinema to step into the international arena.
If he didn’t die, under his influence, Hong Kong cinema would have a place in the United States and even the world.
However, what Li Zetian valued more was that Chinese culture could be spread through movies and influence the whole world!
Why do American movies, TV dramas, novels, comics, music, and so on sell well globally?
It’s because the whole world identifies with American culture.
With five thousand years of Chinese history, how brilliant is the culture!
But why can’t it shine brilliantly all over the world?
As a descendant of the Yan and Huang emperors, the pride and honor in Li Zetian’s heart could be imagined.
He certainly hoped that Chinese culture could be promoted and spread!
…
Around 10 o’clock, Li Zetian came to the Kowloon Public Library.
For the time being, the scale of this library was not large, and there were very few highly professional computer-related books.
However, having something was better than nothing.
Li Zetian chose 6 books because the library allowed borrowing up to 6 books at most.
Among the 6 books, 5 were related to computers, and the other one was “Economics” written by Paul Samuelson, the winner of the 1970 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
This book was a classic among classics.
Generally, anyone studying economics had basically read this book.
Moreover, it was also the highest-selling economics textbook globally!
Li Zetian thought to himself that in the future, not only did he want to become an excellent computer engineer, but he also had to learn how to manage a company.
In fact, the latter was much more important than the former.
Therefore, starting now, Li Zetian had to store up knowledge.
Over the next few days, Li Zetian finished reading the 6 books in one breath.
The length of “Economics” was already very short, but its structure was magnificent, and the text and exposition were extremely rigorous.
After reading this book, Li Zetian already had a relatively complete cognitive framework of economics.
The other 5 books were not thick either, and when Li Zetian read these 5 books, he read them almost ten lines at a glance.
As everyone knows, the principles of computers are all the same, and programming languages are also comprehensively understandable once one is mastered.
Programmers who have been code monkeys all know that learning one programming language and then learning other programming languages is simply so easy.
Of course, there were some contents in the books that Li Zetian simply couldn’t bear to look straight at; they were too damn outdated…
While Li Zetian was reading books to recharge himself, he was also waiting for James Wong’s reply.
“A Man Should Stand Strong” had been sent out for many days, and it seemed to have sunk like a stone in the ocean.
Li Zetian didn’t know that his letter had been treated as an ordinary fan’s letter by James Wong’s assistant, left to gather dust in a thick pile of letters.
Perhaps one day, on a whim, James Wong would open this letter, but Li Zetian obviously didn’t have such good patience.
By August, the day to go to Harvard University in the United States to study was drawing near.
Li Zetian still hadn’t seen James Wong’s reply, so he decided to go directly to record companies to peddle his song.
Li Zetian was a very proud person; if he was going, he had to go to the biggest record company!!!
Before 1999, PolyGram was the most famous and largest record company in the world, and also the record company with the longest history in the world up to that point.
However, unexpectedly, Li Zetian was shut out.
Although Li Zetian was already 17 years old, this body had a fair-skinned baby face, making him look like a junior high school student.
Coupled with his nondescript, mainland-accented Cantonese, it was not hard to imagine what kind of impression he would make in the minds of PolyGram’s people.
As the saying goes: “A mouth without hair, cannot be trusted to do things well.”
PolyGram was the world’s largest record company, and the targets they invited songs from were all well-known lyricists and composers.
Buying a song from a junior high school student, wouldn’t that make people laugh?
Therefore, before the song was even looked at, Li Zetian was driven away.
“Go away, go away.
Your hair hasn’t even grown fully, and you actually come here to sell songs.
Wait until you grow up!”
Li Zetian walked out of the PolyGram building very helplessly, couldn’t help shaking his head and mocking himself in his heart: “Hehe, growing a baby face, blame me then…”
Just as Li Zetian stepped forward and was about to head to another record company, someone suddenly shouted at him: “Hi, wait a minute!”
Li Zetian turned to look.
It was a well-dressed, middle-aged man in a suit, about forty years old, with small eyes, less than 1.7 meters tall, and sporting the currently popular parted hair.
“Is something the matter?” Li Zetian asked.
“You’re here to sell songs, right?
Let’s chat.
Oh, this is my business card!” With that, the man handed Li Zetian a business card, which read “Wu Feitian, Director of the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong”!
Li Zetian was slightly surprised in his heart; the title was the same as James Wong’s.
“Let me see how the song you wrote is.
If it’s written well, I can help recommend you to PolyGram Record Company!
I used to be a music teacher in a university, and I know that some students are brimming with talent and can write many nice songs, but they just have no connections.
Although Hong Kong is not big, there are quite a lot of people who can write lyrics and compose music, but only a very few truly become famous…” After speaking, Wu Feitian sighed, expressing regret.
Li Zetian actually had some impression of this person, because he had just seen him chatting with a high-level executive of PolyGram Record Company.
It seemed that the relationship between the two was pretty good…
Li Zetian thought about it.
If he had his recommendation, maybe he could immediately sell the song to PolyGram Record Company.
Even good wine fears a deep alley!
Who knows how many good songs in history have been buried…
“Okay, then I’ll trouble you to appreciate it!” Saying so, Li Zetian took out the piece of paper with the song “A Man Should Stand Strong” written on it from his pants pocket and handed it to Wu Feitian.
Wu Feitian took this piece of paper and looked at it carefully for a few minutes.
After finishing, he shook his head and said: “You wrote a Cantonese song, but you yourself are a mainlander, so this Cantonese song of yours is not written very well, but…
as a newcomer to be able to write such a song is already very good, worthy of praise!
I can help you submit the song to PolyGram Company.
As for whether they want your song, you can get a reply in three days!”
Li Zetian smiled in his heart.
James Wong’s “A Man Should Stand Strong” is not written well?
Then what else can I say?
Anyway, as long as this song can be submitted into PolyGram Record Company, there will always be someone among them who recognizes its value!
“Then I will leave it to you!”
“It’s just a small matter!”
Li Zetian waited for three days.
Three days later, he did not receive any news from PolyGram Record Company.
Instead, on TV, he saw a piece of entertainment news: “The title track for the new Cantonese album of the famous Hong Kong singer and actor Sam Hui has been confirmed.
The song’s name is ‘A Man Should Stand Strong’, and the composer and lyricist are both Wu Feitian!!!”
After watching this news, Li Zetian couldn’t help but sneer.
There really are such shameless people in this world!
(END CHAPTER)