Chapter 12 "Jingwu Heroes" sparks a kung fu boom
After negotiation with Li Xiaolong, Shao Yifu finally exchanged 5% of his shares in Shaw Brothers Pictures for 20% of Li Xiaolong's shares in Xiangjiang DreamWorks.
On April 1, 1971, on this day, "Jingwu Heroes" was fully released in Shaw Brothers Cinemas, because in recent years, Li Ping'an has successively built some theaters for Shaw Brothers Cinemas to fully manage, so now there are eleven Shaw Brothers leading cinemas, six of which belong to Li Ping'an, Li Ping'an expects that by the 80s, he will have 20 theaters in Xiangjiang is enough.
After Li Ping'an's improvement, "Jingwu Heroes" far surpasses Li Xiaolong's original version in terms of the watchability of the story and the excitement of the action scenes, and it can already be compared with the original time and space Li Lianjie's version. Now people's daily entertainment is still relatively simple, and "Jingwu Heroes" immediately induced a movie-watching boom as soon as it was released, and Li Xiaolong was even more prosperous in Xiangjiang.
Now the daily play of children in the streets and alleys has been changed to "fighting Dongying samurai", and many students have also been added to the large and small martial arts halls in Xiangjiang, and some individual clever martial arts hall masters have even published newspapers to challenge Li Xiaolong, and the popularity has soared. In particular, a master named Xu Xiaodong, who taught boxing and free fighting in Yuen Long, even shouted that Li Xiaolong was just embroidering his legs with fists and had no actual combat ability, and put down 5 million Hong Kong dollars to bet against Li Xiaolong, if Li Xiaolong could win him in the ring, the 5 million would belong to Li Xiaolong.
Li Ping'an was startled when he saw Xu Xiaodong's divine operation on TV, thinking that the fake madman in later generations had also crossed over, and later let people secretly investigate it to know that there was a false alarm, this Xu Xiaodong is now Chinese New Year's Eve two years old, and his father worked as a translator for the Japanese army that invaded Hong Kong during World War II, and he also studied in Dongying when he was a teenager, and learned karate in Dongying. Behind this incident is the shadow of the right-wing of Dongying. It turned out that Zou Wenhuai's "Jingwu Hero" was screened in Dongying, which also triggered a movie-watching boom, and the flamboyant Li Xiaolong defeated three shouting Dongying karate warriors during the promotion of Dongying, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the Dongying right* faction, and designed such a scene in order to earn back the so-called face.
Li Xiaolong naturally did not refuse to come to this kind of thing, and when he opened the martial arts gym in New York, Li Xiaolong did not face the kicking personnel who came to the door. As the saying goes, the more you know, the more you know about advance and retreat, and Li Ping'an learned the ancient method of Wing Chun after Li Xiaolong re-acquainted Li Xiaolong with the world, he felt that he had thought about many things simply, as the so-called rivers and lakes The more old people are, the more timid they are, so he came to visit Li Ping'an immediately after accepting Xu Xiaodong's challenge.
The housekeeper brought Bruce Lee into the living room, Li Xiaolong looked at Li Ping'an after drinking half a cup of tea, "You know Xu Xiaodong!"
Li Ping'an nodded, "I watched it on TV, and I hired someone to check it, Xu Xiaodong has practiced karate, Western boxing, taekwondo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and the way is a bit wild, but as long as you knock him down as soon as possible and don't give him a chance to breathe, there should be no problem." ”
Li Xiaolong looked a little uneasy, "I also know his details, and I am completely confident in defeating him, but this time I always feel a little uneasy, especially when the ring is set on the high seas." ”
Li Ping'an thought for a while, took out a file and handed it to Li Xiaolong, "Behind this incident is the plan of Kunio Suzuki, he belongs to the Dongying right* faction, if you can't get full protection, don't fight in the ring this time! After all, you are just a martial arts enthusiast, neither a soldier, nor have you ever killed anyone or seen blood, so you are not completely sure that there is no need to fight to the death with someone." ”
Li Xiaolong got up and bowed to Li Ping'an after reading the file, "Thank you for helping me do it, I must fight in the ring this time, I have already thought about it carefully." ”
Before Li Xiaolong took the file and left, Li Ping'an told him again, "If you fight, you have to leave no room for it, don't fail to pass the hurdle in your heart, they are all ready to take your life, so you don't need to think about it." ”
Two days later, Li Ping'an learned from the newspaper that the Huo family came forward to contact the Li family in this ring, and the Lin family and the Bao family worked together as a guarantee, indicating that it would be fair and just, and Bao Yugang, the head of the Bao family, even sent out a 10,000-ton cargo ship as a venue for the two sides. This time, many media have sent interview teams, and the wireless station and the Suzaku station will broadcast the ring match live. Li Ping'an also sent two bodyguards to mix in the reporter team of Suzaku Terrace, just in case.
On May 15, the weather was fine.
Li Ping'an stood in front of the TV in the master bedroom and waited for the start of the competition with Zhao Yazhi, Lin Qingxia and Lin Fengjiao. Originally, the three daughters had TVs in their respective bedrooms, but because they were afraid, they all squeezed into Li Ping'an's bedroom.
At this moment, the Baojia freighter, which has been parked on the high seas, has been temporarily converted into a similar venue for boxing matches, and more than 50 media outlets, plus the vice president of the Toei Karate Association as the referee, Oyama Beida, the president of the South Korean Taekwondo Association, Choi Hongxi, the president of the South Korean Taekwondo Association, George Gerrard, the vice president of the English Boxing Association, James Bullock, the honorary president of the American Boxing Association, and the representatives of the Xiangjiang Huo family, the Li family, the Lin family, and the Bao family crowded around the ring, and the referee on the court was judo star Akio Kaminaga.
The two bodyguards arranged for Li Ping'an to be on board were instructors in the Blackwater International Intelligence Section, who had served as FBI intelligence officers. After the two got on the boat, they unknowingly installed a bugging device in Xu Xiaodong's lounge, and forty minutes before the ring match, the two turned on the equipment and began to monitor and record. Half an hour before the game, a conversation between two men was heard in the headphones of the two monitors, the conversation was spoken in Toei, and Jack, who was listening to the two people, understood Japanese and had served in the military in Okinawa.
In the headphones, Xu Xiaodong said to another man: "Suzuki-kun, I can't beat Li Xiaolong at all." ”
The one named Suzuki responded: "Xu Sang, you don't have to worry at all, I will inject you with a strength potion later, and I guarantee that you will kill Li Xiaolong." ”
Xu Xiaodong asked worriedly: "There won't be any side effects!"
Suzuki responded: "Don't worry at all, it's just that you'll feel tired afterwards." ”
Jack patted his partner on the shoulder, turned around and left the listening room, directly found Li Xiaolong, and explained the situation directly to Li Xiaolong after showing the certificate. Li Xiaolong's face was very serious after hearing this, he hugged his fist at Jack, walked to the edge of the ring and began to prepare.
As soon as the bell rang, Li Xiaolong and Xu Xiaodong jumped into the ring at the same time, and after the two hugged each other's fists, Akio Kaminaga spread his hands to signal the start of the fight.
Li Xiaolong shouted, rushed forward, and hit Xu Xiaodong in the face more than ten times before he could react, and it took less than two seconds for Xu Xiaodong to fall into the ring for the rest of his life, and a burst of cheers rang out all around.
Shenyong Akio began to count the seconds for Xu Xiaodong, and when he counted to six, Xu Xiaodong knocked Shenyong Akio away with a punch, got up and rushed towards Li Xiaolong, only to see Xu Xiaodong's eyes blood-red, and his naked upper body was stretched with green tendons.
Li Xiaolong dodged Xu Xiaodong's hug, roared, flew into the air, kicked Xu Xiaodong's neck four times in a row with both feet, Xu Xiaodong's head tilted and fell in the ring for the second time, the scene suddenly quieted down, and a long minute was passed, and the medical staff next to him came to the stage to carry Xu Xiaodong away, and the cheers and applause were remembered around.