giants of the era

Chapter 7 Gifts
Ten thousand Hong Kong dollars was a lot of money in 1973.

In the early 70s, the Shaw Brothers Film Company was only willing to pay US$5000 for Bruce Lee to make a film.Bruce Lee was unwilling, so he signed a contract with Golden Harvest Film Group and received two films. The salary was 2.5 US dollars, which was less than 20 Hong Kong dollars based on the exchange rate at the time.

The monthly salary of people at the bottom of Hong Kong society is only about a few hundred, a little better than a thousand.

In fact, Li Zetian's parents earn more money than many people in poor areas. Li Chengzhi is an editor, and Xiao Zhixuan is a junior high school music teacher. Both of them earn more than 1500 Hong Kong dollars.But you must know that they were able to train Li Zetian into a student of the music department of Harvard University, and the cost was huge.As we all know, learning music is very expensive, and you know all kinds of musical instruments. Even if you can't afford it, you have to rent it.It is true that Li Zetian's mother is a music teacher, but using public equipment for private use will definitely be criticized by others, not to mention Xiao Zhixuan is a mainlander!

After Li Zetian left Polygram Records, he went to a restaurant and had a good meal.After he was done, he went shopping again and bought a Parker pen for his father Li Chengzhi and a pair of high heels for his mother Xiao Zhixuan, which cost about three thousand Hong Kong dollars.

In a blink of an eye, 8 Hong Kong dollars is three out of ten, but Li Zetian doesn't feel bad at all. If he has money, he is willing to buy more expensive ones!It is only August 3rd, and Li Zetian is very confident that he can earn enough for his tuition and miscellaneous expenses before the start of Harvard University!
In the evening, as the sun set, the golden afterglow shone on Li Zetian's body, as if covered with a golden veil.

Mother Xiao Zhixuan came back one step earlier than Li Zetian and was preparing dinner in the kitchen.

As soon as Li Zetian entered, Xiao Zhixuan noticed a bag in his hand.

"Buy something?"

"Yes, Mom. Bought you a pair of shoes!"

As Li Zetian said, he took out the shoe box and placed it on the table.

Xiao Zhixuan couldn't help being surprised when she saw the English on the box!
"Salvatore-Ferragamo, Ferragamo! How did you buy such expensive shoes!!!"

Known as the kingdom of women's shoes in Italy, Ferragamo is known all over the world for its traditional handmade designs and novel styles.Every woman yearns for a pair of beautiful high heels. Although Xiao Zhixuan has never bought such shoes, she obviously knows about the Ferragamo brand!

Li Zetian handed her the contract in his hand, and said: "This is the contract I signed with Polygram Records. I wrote a song and sold it to them, earning [-] Hong Kong dollars, and there are also royalties for the lyrics. In the past You guys bought things for me, now that I’m making money, of course I’m going to buy you gifts! Your gift is this pair of Ferragamo high heels, and Dad’s gift is a Parker pen.”

"But, there's no need to buy such an expensive one!" Xiao Zhixuan shook her head, feeling sorry for the money.

"You have worked so hard to raise me, what is this little money!!! I will buy you better things in the future, let you live in a big house, drive a good car, and have servants to serve you!" Li Zetian thought. With the memory of the original owner of the body, when the memory is fused with him, the two of them are inseparable from each other at all. Xiao Zhixuan and Li Chengzhi are his biological parents.Li Zetian's words revealed the truth without any falsehood.

When Xiao Zhixuan heard this, her eyes were reddish and moist, and she was deeply moved.

She carefully put the shoes into the cabinet and treasured them up. This is a gift from her son and must be worn only on important occasions.

"Son, rest while I cook."

"I'll wash the vegetables for you!"

……

Li Chengzhi worked overtime tonight and didn't come back until 9 o'clock in the evening.

"Have you had dinner yet?" Xiao Zhixuan asked while helping her husband take off his suit.

"I ate at the company." Li Chengzhi replied, putting on a pair of slippers.

"What's wrong with you? Work is not going well?" Xiao Zhixuan asked.

"nothing……"

Li Chengzhi shook his head, walked into the hall, and sat down on the sofa.

"It's nothing, look at you, your unhappiness is written all over your face. Come on, what's the matter?" Xiao Zhixuan frowned slightly and asked.

Li Chengzhi sighed slightly, and said: "You know, we are mainlanders, and we have only been in Hong Kong for more than a year. It is normal to be excluded by others. Our newspaper office plans to open a detective story column to attract more people to buy newspapers. I was in charge at the beginning. For this reason, I spent a lot of time carefully researching the materials of the more outstanding detective novel writers in Hong Kong, in order to persuade these detective novel writers to sign contracts with our newspaper! But unexpectedly, this afternoon, the leader suddenly said that they would Substitution, another person from the company is in charge of this matter!"

"Why the sudden change?"

"Because this person is familiar with several very good detective novel writers..."

"Then your previous efforts were in vain?!" Xiao Zhixuan frowned.

Li Chengzhi nodded helplessly.

In the room, Li Zetian heard their conversation clearly, and felt sorry for his father.

When the father is humiliated, the son also feels the same.

"What should I do for my father? Write a detective novel?"

Li Zetian couldn't help thinking, he doesn't read many novels, because he likes mathematics with strong logic, and he has outstanding talent, so he happens to like reading detective novels very much.Needless to say, "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle, there are also "None Survived" and "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie, "The Devotion of Suspect X" and "White Night" by Keigo Higashino. ", Ellery Quinn's "The Tragedy of X" and so on.

Li Zetian felt that if he had to copy the original novel verbatim, he would definitely not be able to remember it.But if you follow the example, you can probably write a good detective novel.Perhaps some innovations can be made on the original work to make the work more ups and downs and exciting!
The Li family was a scholarly family, his grandfather was a patriotic literati, and his father, Li Chengzhi, was an editor. He was engaged in the translation of literary works in his early years. After being influenced by his ears and eyes, Li Zetian's writing level in this life is not far behind.Coupled with the fusion of past and present memories, his writing ability has naturally been greatly improved.

"Let's write, everything is difficult at the beginning! Maybe I can write a very good work myself! After writing, not only can help my father gain a firm foothold in the newspaper office, but also make money, killing two birds with one stone!" Li Zetian's eyes were fixed, and he made up his mind. determination.As for which work to choose, he has also thought about it. Keigo Higashino's "Devotion of Suspect X" tells the story of a mathematical genius who started a series of wits with the police in order to help a mother and daughter hide the crime of killing their ex-husband. scam.Li Zetian himself is also a mathematical genius, so he was very impressed by this work!

in the hall.

Xiao Zhixuan comforted: "Don't think so much! I have a good thing to tell you!"

"What a good thing!"

"The song our son wrote sold!"

As soon as Li Chengzhi heard this, the unhappiness on his face disappeared immediately, replaced by excitement, curiosity and happiness.As long as the son is promising, that is more important than anything else! ! !

"What's the name of the song? Which record company did you sign with?" Li Chengzhi asked quickly.

"The song is called "A Man Should Be Self-Reliant", and it signed a contract with Polygram Records!" Xiao Zhixuan said.

When Li Chengzhi heard the title of the song, he couldn't help being stunned for a moment, "The title song of Xu Guanjie's new album seems to be called "A Man Should Be Self-Reliant"?"

"That's right, the song our son wrote is this "A Man Should Be Self-Reliant"!!!"

"I remember it seems to be a song written by someone named Wu?"

"Hmph, he is a shameless thief who plagiarized our son's song! Don't you know that this morning, my son went to Polygram Records alone to ask for an explanation. Not only did he successfully expose Wu Feitian's plagiarism, he also got Compensation!"

Li Chengzhi looked excited, he didn't expect his son to be so capable, much better than himself as a father!
Xiao Zhixuan went on to say: "In the end, my son earned [-] Hong Kong dollars and the royalties for the lyrics and music of the song "A Man Should Be Self-Reliant". No, I even bought you a gift, a Parker pen!" After finishing speaking, Xiao Zhixuan will Give him the Parker pen.

Li Chengzhi took the pen and was so moved that he couldn't speak for a long time!

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