Hong Kong Comic Master

"Wow, I never thought that the mainland has changed so much in recent years, and it is more advanced than New York and Los Angeles!"

Li Bangliang looked out the window at the high-rise buildings with flashing neon lights, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Haha, how much do you look down on the Magic City? The buildings in New York and Los Angeles decades ago can't be compared with these newly built buildings?"

Sitting opposite Li Bangliang was Li Wannian who was drinking tea.

Li Wannian really did what he said.

After handing over the company's work to Li Wanshui and his son, he took his son Li Bangliang and daughter Li Jinyun to wander around the mainland.

After traveling for half a month, they went to five or six cities in succession, and the last stop was the Magic City.

At this time, they were in a sky garden restaurant in the center of the Magic City. The reason for choosing this place was not because the environment here was good and the food was delicious, but because this building belonged to their Li family!

As one of the earliest Hong Kong businessmen to invest in the mainland, the Li family undoubtedly reaped a lot of dividends.

Unlike Li Chaoren who frantically hoarded land without building, the Li brothers really invested real money to help major cities build faster, and this building in front of them is just like that!

Along the way, they truly witnessed the rapidly rising mainland, which was completely different from the information the two brothers and sisters had heard since childhood.

As for Li Wannian, he had long been mentally prepared for this, so he was not surprised at all. On the contrary, when he saw his children's surprised looks, he still had a trace of gloating joy in his heart.

Well, this dad is really dear!

Compared with his brother, Li Jinyun took photos and punched in at the dining table, and didn't care about looking at the scenery outside the window.

Li Jinyun can almost be called one of the earliest people in the world to use a smartphone!

This is because DreamWorks' investment company bought a large number of stocks at the bottom when Apple's stock price fell to the lowest, and became a shareholder of Apple.

Later, when Jobs returned to Apple, it was also Li Wannian who pushed behind the scenes, so is it difficult to get a few mobile phones?

Since using a smartphone, Li Jinyun has become an internet celebrity, often sharing her life on social media accounts.

"Okay, you can eat now!"

Finally, Li Jinyun said to the two after taking the photo.

At this time, Li Bangliang, who was already starving, quickly retracted his gaze, picked up the chopsticks and ate non-stop.

"Brother, slow down, isn't it just going to the United States? Why do you feel like you are fleeing?"

"What do you know? It's worse than fleeing in the United States!"

Speaking of this, Li Bangliang was scared.

People who have never been abroad will never know how bad the food is abroad!

It is said: Give you a son, and give you a cook!

This is absolutely true. The son of the Li family, who used to eat and wear clothes at home, went to the United States for four years, and he was forced to cook a good meal.

Not only that, in the past six months since returning to China, he has eaten everything with relish, and his face has obviously become rounder.

The tearful look on his face made Li Jinyun roll his eyes.

"Ah, One Piece is on hiatus again. Is our Wansui Lord playing games again?"

"Can't someone lock him at home?"

Li Jinyun was about to say something, but when she heard two children behind her discussing their father's comics, she couldn't help but look back.

The two children, about ten years old, were chatting, holding tablets in their hands, sighing.

Now, of Li Wannian's comics, only One Piece is still serialized, and the other comics are basically finished.

But even so, he often takes a hiatus, and has long been known as the old thief!

In fact, until 2000, Li Wannian had always maintained a very stable serialization, but in the 21st century, his serialization became more and more unstable.

Including the current One Piece, in 2009, when One Piece was serialized for 20 years, he chose to suspend publication. At that time, the top war chapter had just ended, and readers were waiting for the plot two years later. As a result, Li Wannian directly suspended publication for two years.

Two years! Do you know how we spent these two years?

At the beginning of this year, One Piece finally resumed serialization, but it was suspended again after only half a year.

Let alone these children, you would be numb too!

After following the comics for 20 years, the readers have changed from children to their fathers, and the plot of the comics has only been halfway through. It is really a family sacrifice, don’t forget to tell your father!

Now it is finally the 00s who are beginning to suffer from this!

“Hahahaha…”

Listening to the conversation between the two children, Li Jinyun couldn’t help laughing.

How could they know that the person they complained about was sitting behind them.

"Is it that serious? They made you laugh like this?"

"Dad, if I tell them who you are now, will they come and tie you up to draw cartoons?"

"You can try?"

Seeing his daughter being naughty, Li Wannian didn't care at all.

"Come on, if they knew my identity, they would have to take photos and ask for autographs right away?"

After eating, Li Bangliang couldn't help rolling his eyes.

He had seen such scenes many times along the way.

Although his dad rarely appeared in public, there were many fans who knew what he looked like, but they just didn't dare to associate him with that famous name when walking on the street.

Once it was confirmed, there was naturally a lot of support, with fans surrounding him asking for his autograph.

Over the years, I don’t know how many people have grown up watching Li Wannian’s comics, animations, TV series, movies and other works.

It goes from 60 to 00, which means the span is enough to go from grandparents to grandchildren!

There are hundreds of millions of fans accumulated all over the world. Therefore, Li Wannian's influence is definitely greater than that of many entertainment stars.

"Oh, that's so boring!"

Li Jinyun muttered, then picked up the chopsticks and started eating too.

"You're quite gloating about your misfortune, aren't you?"

"Hey, hey, how powerful is Dad, how many kids can he still deal with?"

"Stop making excuses with me! Hurry up and eat. After eating, it's almost time!"

Li Wannian reached out and hit Li Jinyun on the head.

The reason why the three of them chose the Magic City as the last stop of their journey is because today is the last stop of Moonlight Girl’s world tour.

At seven o'clock in the evening, half an hour before the official start of the concert, the Magic City Stadium, located at No. 666 Tianyaoqiao Road, XH District, was already packed with people.

As the most popular band in the entire Chinese circle, Moonlight Girls naturally has countless fans. Even Li Wannian and others who were walking through the green channel were shocked by the scene in front of them.

Li Jinyun couldn't help but sigh: "My sister-in-law, they are really popular!"

"Don't think this is the limit for my sister-in-law and the others. Many of my classmates in the United States have fathers who are obsessed with Moonlight Girl!"

"Really or not?"

"Of course, when I first learned about it, I was as surprised as you!"

"Okay, we're going in, don't waste time here!"

Finally arriving at the entrance of the passage, Li Wannian entered the stadium with his children in each hand.

Walking out of the passage, Li Bangliang felt that his eyes suddenly opened up. What appeared in front of him was a bizarre world made up of colorful lights, sometimes flickering and sometimes flowing, as if the entire night sky was lit up.

In the auditorium, the crowd surged like a surging ocean, and everyone's face was filled with excitement and anticipation.

The air is filled with various smells: sweet popcorn, rich coffee, and a hint of perfume. These smells are intertwined to form a unique concert atmosphere.

This is not the first time for Li Bangliang and Li Jinyun to attend a concert, but it is indeed the first time for such an enthusiastic concert to be held by their own family!

Soon after the father and son took their seats in the front row, the concert began.

The stage was obviously empty, but bursts of passionate prelude suddenly came from the speakers, making people's hearts beat faster in anticipation of the wonderful performance that was about to be staged.

Suddenly, a bright light hit the center of the stage. Under the spotlight, a hole suddenly appeared in the floor, and four beauties slowly rose from the ground with various musical instruments in their hands.

"Pokémon, I'm going to catch you!"

With just one sentence, the audience cheered one after another, as if they were about to overturn the entire venue.

Then, passionate music started playing.

"Try your best, go, go, go, go, go

listen to me quietly

Laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh

Increase your skills

…”

Moonlight Girls performed "Pokémon Master" as the first song of their concert.

As the first song of their band, it can be said that this song has accompanied them throughout their career.

In addition, even though this song has been around for more than thirty years, it still doesn't feel outdated at this time.

Although Li Wanyue is now 60 years old, her singing voice is still as good as before, with strong penetrating power. Every note is like a carefully polished gem, shining with charming light.

The audience swayed to the rhythm of the music, and the fluorescent sticks in their hands drew beautiful arcs in the air.

Li Wanyue only used one song to draw the audience into this paradise of music, and everyone was enjoying this audio-visual feast.

The same is true for Li Bangliang.

Although Moonlight Girls has rarely performed together as long as he can remember, he grew up watching animations produced by his father's company, and he is very familiar with his sister-in-law's singing voice!

Happy time always passes quickly, "Rolling Star", "Sky", "Meeting Under the Blue Sky", "chAngE", "Girl S", "Blue Bird", "Romantic for You", "Fight" "Together" and so on. As Li Wanyue sang classic animation songs one after another, all the fans were immersed in Li Wanyue's singing and recalled their childhood.

Just like that, two and a half hours had passed before I knew it, and the concert was finally coming to an end.

Li Wanyue brought Lan Jieying, Ou Guifen, and Jiang Peili to the front of the stage. The soft light of the spotlight fell on her, covering her with a golden halo.

"Hello everyone, I'm Moon!"

"I'm Yammie!"

"I'm lili!"

"I'm Grace!"

"We are Moonlight-girls!"

Although the four of them can be called grandmothers, each of them has maintained a good figure. Coupled with the beautiful makeup, it can be said that they are dreaming back to their youth!

"Once you hear Moonlight Girl, you will always be Moonlight Girl. Thank you all for coming to our mamasang concert. Before you know it, the concert has reached the last song..."

As the team leader, Li Wanyue was breathing heavily, but she was very excited. Her speech also made the audience cheer again.

"This last song is a new song, and it will also be the last song of our Moonlight Girl Band. Before we know it, my sisters and I are already old..."

"ah……"

"No..."

Li Wanyue's words attracted a huge response from the scene.

In response to this breaking news, all the fans at the scene screamed in pain!

"Don't go too far. I've reached retirement age, so I can't delay retirement!"

Faced with everyone's pleas, Li Wanyue still joked with everyone.

"Buzz buzz..."

However, the audience at the scene was still restless.

"Thank you for your support all the way. Please forget these unhappiness for the time being and focus on this last song, the theme song of "Dragon Ball GT", "Gradually Attracted to You"!"

Li Wannian's "Dragon Ball" comic was completed in 2002. At that time, almost everyone thought they said goodbye to the world's most popular comic. However, they did not expect that this year, "Dragon Ball" actually launched another animation project, which is called "Dragon Ball". Dragon Ball fan animation "Dragon Ball GT".

In fact, Li Wannian also participated in this animation, but he was not overly involved. He just felt that the story originated from Dragon Ball and ended with Dragon Ball. This is really suitable to bring an end to "Dragon Ball".

And this song "Gradually Attracted to You" was once one of Sakai Izumi's masterpieces, but because "Dragon Ball GT" did not appear, this song also did not appear.

So Li Wannian brought it to sing for Li Wanyue!

"The heart is gradually attracted to

By your charming smile

Let's escape from this endless darkness together

…”

Although the fans were very reluctant to leave, when Li Wanyue's soft singing sounded, the audience gradually became quiet. However, while listening to the song, a sad mood spread in the audience.

"...

I think no matter who you are, you must want forever

Even though I pretend not to care

But actually I love you deeply

Let's escape from this endless darkness together

Hold my hand! "

When the song finally came to an end, when Li Wanyue finished singing the last word, the scene had already turned into a sea of ​​crying. The bursts of crying made Li Wanyue choke up several times. She couldn't help crying and couldn't say another word.

At this time, Lan Jieying stepped forward, hugged Li Wanying in her arms, and at the same time picked up the microphone and said, "Stop sitting there. It's a rare day like this. Why don't you come up and say a few words for my sister?" "

Lan Jieying's words caused the scene to explode. The lights and camera also moved sideways in time, and Li Wannian's face appeared on the big screen.

For a moment, the scene erupted in enthusiastic cheers.

Li Wannian walked onto the stage with questions in his head. After taking the microphone from Lan Jieying, he said, "No one told me about this section?"

"Hahaha……"

The audience at the scene was amused by Li Wannian's words.

"Let's talk about it. After all, it's the day when our Moonlight Girls are going to disband."

Lan Jieying, who is getting older, has always been very obedient to Li Wannian's wishes, but this time she took matters into her own hands in the hope of bringing their group to a successful conclusion.

Li Wannian nodded, and then said loudly: "Hello everyone, I am Long live!"

"Long live, long live, long live!"

This meme has been played in Hong Kong in the 1980s and has been played in mainland China today. Li Wannian will be booed by fans in almost every offline meeting, and Li Wannian has long been accustomed to it.

Most of the fans of Moonlight Girl are fans of Li Wannian's comics, so the two are connected.

Now after seeing Li Wannian alive, he is naturally overjoyed.

"Thank you all for your long-term support to Moonlight Girl and me. The luckiest thing in our lives is to have your company!"

“I still remember when Moonlight Girls was first formed, the four of them were all high school students, younger than most of the people present.

At that time, because of one of their own words, they came up with the idea of ​​starting a band. They hired Grace's brother as a teacher to learn musical instruments and singing!

However, all this time, they didn’t think they would succeed, I was the only one who kept encouraging them!

Sure enough, everyone knows what happened next. Their singing was recognized and their fans became more and more, which ultimately led them to where they are today!

Youth is gone, time is easy to grow old, and time is ruthless to everyone. What we have to do is to create wonderful memories that belong to everyone in this only time.

I believe that their memories are wonderful and beautiful enough, and so am I. What about you? "

Li Wannian's words aroused everyone's thoughts at the scene, and for a moment, they actually forgot their sadness.

"Stop making these useless things and update the comics quickly!"

Fortunately, at this moment, a voice suddenly came from the audience, interrupting the moment of silence, and the audience burst into laughter.

"That's right, that's right, I'm over forty years old, can I still see the finale of "One Piece" in this life?"

"You are so old, and you still have the mood to come to the concert. Can you sleep at night?"

"Promise me, please keep drawing, okay?"

For a moment, countless noisy voices rang out at the scene, and the concert suddenly turned into a meeting to urge more.

"Hahaha, okay, no problem, I'll write it when I get back!"

Faced with such a situation, Li Wannian could only agree with a smile.

"Yeah..."

The on-site urging was successful, and the scene was so happy.

Everyone who was still immersed in sadness just now had a bright smile on their faces.

"Okay, I won't steal the show, and I will return the stage to Xiaoyue. Of course, I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to you! I can stick to drawing comics for so many years because of you lovely fans!"

After that, Li Wannian returned the microphone to Anita Mui and walked off the stage in a chic manner.

No one can stand on the stage forever. There will always be a day when people step down. However, unless Li Wannian himself is willing, no one can drive him off the stage. Who makes him the greatest comic master in Hong Kong Island!