Chapter 5 Kung Fu
After spending three days in New York, after the sales data of the broccoli dolls and video games during Christmas were released, Chen Chong took the Li Kaiyuan sisters and drove to Boston to meet his uncle.
This Christmas was a big win and made a fortune. In just one week, it was sold out for $30 and even sold at $150 on the black market. A diamond doll worth $100,000 was created by Shen Chong to satisfy the bad taste. It was also bought by a rich female tycoon for a high price of 380,000...
The sales of "Pac-Man" and "Tank War" exceeded 1 million, while "Tetris", which was launched a few months ago, successfully exceeded 2 million. You should know that at this time, the total number of Atari VP hosts in the entire North American market was only more than 00,000 units - more than one million units were sold after Tetris was released.
Also selling Apple 11 is also popular. As the second largest shareholder, Chen Chong got sales data as soon as possible. After acquiring VT, Apple 11's sales surged sharply. During Christmas, 50,000 Apple 11 were sold. The highest sales volume was only over 20,000 yuan per month. This booming situation is very beneficial to Chen Chong. When the stock is listed next year, the price should be higher than in history...
After Christmas, Shen Chong's sentence "The tail of software shakes the dog of hardware" became a household name and became the most popular line in the computer industry.
"Come on, come on, Yuan Yuan, eat the dishes." Zhao Anping greeted enthusiastically: "This is my best dish, fried double crispy, authentic Shandong cuisine."
"I'll eat it again." Li Kaiyuan held the bowl and said, "It's so delicious."
Chen Chong spent some time in Qingdao in his previous life, and ate all the local delicacies. He is quite familiar with Shandong cuisine. Oil-burned double crispy is one of the most famous special dishes in Shandong cuisine. It uses chicken ginger and pork belly as raw materials. The requirements for the temperature are extremely strict. If you owe a second, you will not cook, and if you want it, you will not be crispy after a second, you will not be crispy. It is the most difficult dish in Chinese cuisine.
He picked up a piece of chicken squid and put it in his mouth, chewed it slowly, and after savoring it, he gave a thumbs up and praised: "Uncle, good craftsmanship, crispy, tender and smooth, fresh and refreshing, the heat is just right, the master's level."
"You, like Lili, are all foodies." Zhao Anping unbuttoned his apron, sat on the table, and said with a smile: "But you are good. You can taste my skills. You are better than Lili. You deserve to be a descendant of our Shandong people."
"I wish Lily was at home too." Aunt Jane Au looked a bit like a traditional Chinese wife and mother. She said in a slightly weird but very fluent Cantonese: "She loves this the most."
Lily has a cheerful personality and is enthusiastic. She is worried about Brigitte Lin and insists on staying in Los Angeles, so she does not return to the East Coast with Shen Chong.
"Wait until the Spring Festival, I will make it for her to eat." Zhao Anping rubbed his hands. He turned his head to look at Li Kaiyuan and sighed: "Oh, in the blink of an eye, it's been more than 20 years old. When I left Hong Kong, you were only one year old and you just could walk. Look, you are now a big girl."
"Yes, you were very cute when you were a child." Jane also said to Lee Kaiyuan: "I hugged you at that time and took several photos."
"Is that true?" Chen Chong was intrigued and said, "Are you still here?"
"I'm here, but I don't remember where to put it." Jane thought for a while and said, "I'll go to the basement to look for it later."
Tianbao was unwilling to be lonely, so he raised his hand and said, "I want to see it too."
"You're the one who has a lot to do." Li Kaiyuan glared at her and said shyly: "I don't even remember my uncle's appearance back then."
"How can you remember the doll who is only ten months old?" Zhao Anping said with a smile: "You two are very good together, very compatible. You are a junior, holding gold bricks. A Chong can have today. It is all your blessing to him."
"Uncle is aware." Chen Chong followed his words and said, "When Yuan Yuan was born, there were colorful auspicious clouds, and he was born to boost his husband's life. In ancient times, I married her and could be an emperor. Now there is no emperor, so I have to be a rich man."
Zhao Anping laughed when he heard this, Li Kaiyuan was a little shy. She lowered her head and grabbed Chen Chong's hand from under the table.
After dinner, Jane took Li Kaiyuan sisters to find old photos, while Chen Chong was in the kitchen to help Zhao Anping clean up the dishes.
"Have you booked the ticket to Hong Kong during the Spring Festival?"
"It's already decided." Zhao Anping put the plate into the sink and said, "The moon issue is the plane on the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month."
"Okay, I'll pick you up then." Chen Chong wiped the clean dining table and said, "Uncle, what do you say about your settlement in Hong Kong?"
"She likes Hong Kong very much, no problem." Zhao Anping said while brushing the plate very quickly: "But Lily has two years to graduate, so we want to wait a little longer, and the whole family will go back together.
"It's good."
"A Chong, I heard from Lily that you lent a villa in Los Angeles to a Taiwanese female star to live in, right?
Lily, a gossip woman, knocked on her forehead with her fingers, and said, "She is Brigitte Lin, she is an alumnus of Teresa Teng and a good friend. Something happened in Taiwan, so she came to the United States to relax. My villa is empty anyway, so let Lily live there with her for the time being."
"What happened to her?" Zhao Anping picked up the plate that was washed, put it in the cabinet, and asked, "It's also a bullshit thing like a fake passport?"
"That's not, it's a matter of love." Chen Chong said casually: "I don't know the specifics. Anyway, it's just a matter of unfaithful man or a lover."
Zhao Anping said oh, saying, "Since he is Teresa Teng's friend, it is also worth Lily to accompany her more."
"Uncle, I heard that on your birthday in July, Lily took Teresa Teng back to Boston to sing a birthday song for you." Chen Chong said with a smile: "How about it, is it good to sing?"
Zhao Anping pulled off the plastic gloves and said with a smile on his lips: "That girl, Teresa Teng is a big singer, but she actually tricked me into singing a birthday song for me. She was just a fool."
"Uncle, you are a fan of Teresa Teng, and you play her songs every day in the restaurant." Chen Chong saw his pride, laughed and said, "You are in Chinatown now, but you have a big face. The big singer sang a birthday song for you on the spot."
Zhao Anping could no longer hold back the smile on his lips. He smiled like a flower and said, "I'm older than the age of being a face, but Lily is so dedicated. I have a good daughter and I will have no regrets in my life."
Chen Chong knew that he was a more traditional Chinese man and cared about the inheritance of incense, saying, "Aren't boys and girls all the same? They are all their own species."
Zhao Anping was silent and just nodded. He looked outside the door and asked softly: "I heard that Yuanyuan had been injured before, is it important?"
"It doesn't matter." Chen Chong said: "We went to the best hospital in New York the day before yesterday to have a check-up. We can have a baby, but it's a bit troublesome."
"That's good." Zhao Anping patted his shoulder and said, "My sister is the only child like you. Whether it's a boy or a girl, you have to come out."
"I know." Chen Chong didn't want to talk about this topic, so he asked, "Uncle, how do you feel when you went back to your hometown last time?"
"It's hard to say." Zhao Anping shook his head and said, "The changes in his hometown in Shandong are very different from what I remembered when I was a child. Fortunately, the ancestral hall is still there and the ancestral tomb is intact. I donated a sum of money and asked the village to help me renovate it."
"Then are your master still there?"
"It has been more than ten years since I died." Zhao Anping opened the refrigerator, took out two cans of beer, and said, "It is said that he was criticized and fought to death because he had served as a soldier under Zhang Zongchang back then. Alas, those years were really messy.
Chen Chong took the beer, took it in his hand, and asked, "Is there any martial arts practitioner in the local area?"
"Yes, yes, but they are all three-legged cats. They are not as good as me when they practice the fake moves." Zhao Anping took a sip of beer and said, "My master was in the Northeast and followed Sun Lutang to learn authentic Tai Chi. Unfortunately, I was young and impatient at that time. I only learned a little bit of a superficial approach and went to Hong Kong. Unfortunately, I can't learn it now."
"When I was studying martial arts, did I have no brothers or something?"
"Yes, yes." Zhao Anping said, holding a beer can, "I remember there were more than a dozen people, both men and women, but the situation was very chaotic at that time. Everyone begged for food from all over the world, and they had long since dispersed. I didn't see any of them when I returned home this time."
"Uncle, do you say that those kung fu masters from the Republic of China should still be alive?"
"Then it must be that practicing martial arts can strengthen your body. It's not a fool. As long as you don't encounter natural disasters and man-made disasters, you will have no problems at all." Zhao Anping looked at him and asked, "If you ask what this is, even if they live, they will never be old."
"I plan to make a few kung fu movies and want to find some masters who have real kung fu." Chen Chong opened the can and said, "Uncle, you are a trainee, have eyesight. Unlike me, you are easily fooled by others with flower stands."
"I want to find a martial arts practitioner, so I can go to a martial arts school in the mainland." Zhao Anping said: "I have a friend who sent her son to a martial arts school in Beijing last year. Last time I went to Beijing, I went to see him. There are many people in the school who have good kung fu."
Chen Chong said oh, quite surprised that Donnie Yen actually had something to do with Zhao Anping?
However, Donnie Yen was only sixteen or seventeen years old at this time, a teenage boy in his puberty, so he didn't need to pay special attention, so Chen Chong didn't care much. He said, "Martial arts schools are all practicing routines, right? It's so fancy. I want to find some hard bridges and hard horses to specialize in a certain kung fu."
"That's hard." Zhao Anping raised his head and drank all the beer, and then said: "Now the society is peaceful, there are guns and swords. Kung Fu has no place to use it. There are very few people who are dedicated to practicing one skill."
"Small is small, but there are always some." Chen Chong heard footsteps coming from the stairs, so he stood up and said, "Uncle, if you see someone right, remember to tell me."
Zhao Anping nodded, threw the beer can into the trash can, and said, "Let's go and see the photos. Not only do I have photos of Yuanyuan, but I have also saved a lot of them when I was a child."
Note the sales data, based on the historical sales of cauliflower dolls, Atari hosts, and Apple 11.
Chapter completed!