From the first day of his rebirth, Li Mu has been thinking about how he can use his Internet knowledge to earn the tuition for his first year of college and a laptop during the summer vacation.
What I never expected was that the first money I earned was from selling songs. There are so many unexpected things in life.
When Li Mu got the demo of his two songs, it was already past six o'clock in the afternoon. Zhang Kexuan was happy, but he didn't want to let this "talented man" Li Mu leave so quickly. He forced him and Chen Wan to eat at the best restaurant in Jinling. Food stalls.
Li Mu originally wanted to refuse and drive back at this point. It shouldn't be too late to reach Haizhou, but Zhang Kexuan refused to let him go, saying that it was unsafe to drive at night and he was worried.
Chen Wan also advised Li Mu not to worry, as he could go back tomorrow morning.
Zhang Kexuan suddenly remembered something and said hurriedly: "By the way, the results of the Olympic bid will be broadcast live at ten o'clock tonight. If the bid is successful, there will be a night celebration in Jinling. I will take you to eat food stalls, drink cold beer, and watch the live broadcast of the Olympic bid!"
Li Mu suddenly realized that it is July 13th. At about ten o'clock tonight, Samaranch will announce in Moscow that Yanjing has won the right to host the 2008 Summer Olympics. It is indeed a matter of national celebration. In this case, then... indulge. Bar.
Li Mu called his parents to explain, drove Chen Wan's A6, and followed an imported Land Cruiser driven by Zhang Kexuan to a food stall in the most prosperous area of the city center.
These days, you can still see food stalls in the most prosperous places, but in a few years you won’t be so lucky.
The food stall that Zhang Kexuan took everyone to was quite high-end. The most eye-catching thing was the rear-projection TV placed in the middle. In this era, large rear-projection TVs were still very rare items.
Zhang Kexuan greeted the boss, who took them to the best reserved seat, which was very close to the TV and right in front of it.
"We often come here to watch football when we have nothing to do." After sitting down, Zhang Kexuan asked Li Mu, "Do you like football?"
"I like watching, but I'm not very good at kicking."
Zhang Kexuan said with a smile: "We don't play football very much. We really lack sports cells, but we just like to watch."
After finishing speaking, Zhang Kexuan added: "But this year the national football team is a bit awesome. In the World Cup Asian qualifying group stage, they won all six games."
Ye Tianming smiled and said: "You don't even look at the players in the group stage. Maldives, Cambodia, Indonesia... I think that when it comes to the top ten games in Asia, 80% of the national football team will still be finished."
Xia Xia said: "Hey, I have a vague feeling that the national football team has a chance to compete in the World Cup this year!"
Li Mu calculated the time and found that the national football team had finished the group stage, but the top ten Asian games would not start until the end of August. He was very impressed because by that time he had already reported to school and prepared for military training.
As for qualifying for the World Cup, we have to wait until early October at Wulihe Stadium, where the national football team defeated Oman 1:0.
Li Mu was really excited at that time, but it was not the same. In the World Cup group stage, the national football team was killed three times in a row. He lost all three games, missed nine shots, and failed to score a goal. He returned home in disastrous defeat.
Zhang Kexuan greeted the boss and ordered a lot of food and drinks, focusing on a lot of barbecue and spicy crayfish. Finally, he asked the boss to bring out imported Corona beer. His high-spirited look showed that his mood was not ordinary. good.
Li Mu was also very happy. He put a total of 80,000 yuan in the schoolbag he put in the trunk of Chen Wan's Audi. This money was considered the first money he earned after being reborn, but it was not yet the first pot of gold. Li Mu decided not to tell his family yet, but would buy a laptop in Jinling tomorrow, and then he could really start his own Internet layout.
In the summer evening, with food stalls and cold beer, and a beautiful woman like Chen Wan by his side, Li Mu felt that life was indeed quite happy. Since he had completely shouldered the banner of being awesome in front of Zhang Kexuan and the other four, the four of them He was also very respectful to himself, taking turns to toast and thank him constantly.
During the clinking of glasses, Li Mu learned that the name of the four-person band was Jinling Noise. Li Mu did not comment on the somewhat strange name. Anyway, he did not understand the names of many rock bands, such as "Frost Eve," Sunrise last night or something like that.
People with common topics gathered together, talked a lot and drank a lot. After talking a lot, Li Mu discovered that these four rich second generations did have unparalleled enthusiasm for music and rock, and he had always been a music lover, so As we chatted, we felt more and more speculative.
Unknowingly, it was half past nine in the evening. Li Mu was a little confused after drinking, but he could see a lot of pedestrians gathered on the street. They were wearing national flags, holding high flags and even painted national flags on their faces. A large group of people. They gathered in the downtown area, and the police were standing by, but they had no intention of interfering.
Li Mu blew a bottle of Corona and looked excited at the crowds surrounding him and at the big screens hanging outside the commercial building showing CCTV's live broadcast.
The Chinese people in 2001 were happy. The whole country celebrated twice, one was tonight's successful bid for the Olympics, and the other was qualifying for the National Football World Cup on the night of October 7th.
There are more and more people, and you can even see some young men buying a bunch of pure water and drinks with their own money, and giving them to everyone on the street.
"The Olympic bid will definitely be successful!" Someone shouted at the top of their lungs, and the crowd immediately burst out with huge energy: "The Olympic bid will be successful!"
Li Mu smiled knowingly, he would definitely succeed. In about half an hour, the whole country would really be celebrating.
Zhang Kexuan was deeply affected and said: "I will pay for all the boss's Coronas, and I will distribute them for free on the street after my successful bid for the Olympics!"
The other three second-generation rich people immediately expressed their intention to participate together.
Li Mu then said, "You should follow the example of others and buy canned beer. There are so many people, and it would be bad if the beer bottles cause accidental injuries."
Zhang Kexuan suddenly realized: "You are still thoughtful." After speaking, Zhang Kexuan waved his hand: "Boss Zhou!"
The boss, who was in his thirties, hurried over. Zhang Kexuan was his regular customer. The business he brought to him made him a lot of money. Moreover, Zhang Kexuan was cheerful and did not look down on others like the rich second generation, so the boss I have a good relationship with him.
Zhang Kexuan took out the key to his Land Cruiser from his waist, handed it to the boss and said: "Lao Zhou, please help me. Our brothers are all drunk. You can drive my car out and buy cans of beer for me. If you can, Buy as much as you want, and if your bid for the Olympics is successful, I’ll treat the big guys on the street to drinks!”
Lao Zhou was stunned for a moment, then slapped his thigh: "Count me in!"
At this time, there is really a sense of national pride stirring in everyone's heart. Li Mu said: "Count me in, there are six of us. How much wine we buy, we will share it equally."
"Then I have to be counted as one!" Chen Wan didn't want to be left behind.
Fortunately, there were police officers maintaining order among the crowd, and there was space for cars on the road. Boss Zhou left the business to his wife, took a waiter and drove away in Zhang Kexuan’s car. Zhang Kexuan himself said that he used to drink here. If there are too many, I often let Lao Zhou drive for me.
In an era when drunk driving was not checked, as a rich second generation who had the consciousness not to drive after drinking, Li Mu's impression of Zhang Kexuan improved a lot.
Because the results would be announced after ten o'clock, Lao Zhou did not dare to delay. He drove around and bought about a dozen boxes of cans of beer and came back. It was almost ten o'clock at this time.
Zhang Kexuan held a cigarette in his mouth and asked everyone to take the more than ten boxes of beer out of the car and pile them on the roadside. There were 24 cans of beer in one box. There were tens of thousands of people in the downtown area, but it was still a token of appreciation. .
At early ten o'clock, Samaranch finally called out.
This year, there are still four candidate cities, Istanbul, Paris, Toronto and Osaka. Therefore, at the moment when Samaranch did not name the city, no Chinese dared to be 100% sure that Yanjing could succeed. Oh no, Except Li Mu.
At 22:08, Samaranch on TV said two words: "Yan-Jing."
In an instant, the whole country was in an uproar...
(End of chapter)