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Chapter 150 - 149. The First Qing He Hope Primary School (Fourth Update, Asking for Monthly Pass)_1

Chapter 150: 149. The First Qing He Hope Primary School (Fourth Update, Asking for Monthly Pass)_1

After submitting her college choices, Yang Xi was to return to the Capital with Yang En. When it came time to submit choices, the classmates all mentioned getting together after the exams, organized by the class president, Duan Xiaolou.

However, Ren He directly stated he might not be able to attend since he was headed to the Capital, and it would take him about a week to return.

Before anyone had time to react, Duan Xiaolou had already said, "Then let’s wait a week to meet up. Our junior high reunion wouldn’t be complete without our top scholar, right, everyone?"

The other classmates didn’t give it much thought and immediately laughed, "Yes, we can’t do it without you. We’ll wait for you to come back from the Capital to get together."

Ren He’s charm attributes had already gained 3 points, and these invisible charms made people want to be closer to him; strangers wouldn’t have a bad first impression either. So, everyone felt it didn’t matter to wait for Ren He—after all, the summer vacation was still long. When wouldn’t be a good time to meet up?

Suddenly, Duan Xiaolou casually asked, "What are you doing in the Capital? Going on a trip?"

"Yeah, a trip," Ren He said cheerfully: "Sorry to trouble you to wait for me. I’ll pay for the meal when we get together."

"Haha, looks like Ren He got a good allowance for scoring first place. Alright then, we’ll wait for you to treat us!"

After joking around with them for a while, Ren He left the classroom. Occasionally spending a little money to satisfy his newfound vanity wasn’t too bad...

That evening, Yang Xi set off with Yang En. However, this time, the two of them didn’t feel like they were about to part ways because they both knew the next meeting wouldn’t be too far off.

The train carrying Yang Xi left Luo City Station for the Capital.

She watched the scenery retreat past the window, then slowly enter the fields, her heart tingling with a bit of excitement because she was returning to the Capital with five new songs.

And that person had already sent a text message, having started his drive following her footsteps into the Capital. The feeling was like having a protective Knight secretly guarding her.

Yang Xi felt that ever since she met Ren He, life had hardly been calm. He was always showing his amazing qualities, and the surprises Yang Xi received in the past half-year seemed more than in the previous 16 years combined.

Back in her Luo City room, she had framed the sketch Ren He gave her and hung it on the wall. Whenever she saw that famous painting, she felt a bit smug—who would have thought that painting would hang in her room?

And the girl in the painting was her.

Yang En looked at Yang Xi’s sweet expression as she gazed out the window and was puzzled. Could it be that his daughter didn’t have much affection for Ren He? Otherwise, shouldn’t she be feeling a little sad about their separation?

Little did he know, Ren He was already on the path to winning over his daughter...

The train thundered toward the Capital, a city of fame and fortune, while the innocent girl in love looked at the landscapes in the wilderness outside the window, all so stirring, and her youth was just beginning.

...

Driving his pickup truck at breakneck speed, Ren He was on his way to the Capital. Half a year had passed since their last challenge, but the popularity of those five songs hadn’t decreased much; you could even hear people humming them in Luo City and at many college campus singer contests.

It could be said that their previous challenge was a success, and their arrival in the Capital was sure to trigger a second climax.

The journey was smooth, and by the time Ren He reached the Capital, Yang Xi had just returned to her grandparents’ house, so he definitely couldn’t take her away today. But fortunately, Ren He had learned that although Yang Xi was back in the Capital, she was still under the guardianship of Yang En and wouldn’t often live with Su Ruqin; after all, Yang En and Su Ruqin were divorced, and Yang En was Yang Xi’s guardian.

Fathers-in-law tend to be a bit easier to deal with than mothers-in-law...

Last time, Ren He had learned that his mother-in-law was no pushover. You’d think that one should stick to facts and reason, but Su Ruqin didn’t play by the rules at all and refused to reason!

With nothing else to do, Ren He simply made plans to have dinner with Elder Zhou. Zhou Wumeng was quite surprised to hear of Ren He’s arrival in the Capital; it was a good opportunity to discuss a whole bunch of things.

At dinner, Zhou Wumeng took Ren He to have roast duck, and when Ren He saw how generously Zhou Wumeng was acting, he had a sinking feeling that the old man must have had some scheme in mind for him!

Otherwise, with Elder Zhou’s frugal ways, how could he possibly treat him to such an expensive meal? Ren He had guessed Zhou Wumeng’s intention quite accurately...

No sooner had they sat down than Zhou Wumeng said, "The first royalty payment for the Three Character Classic has been received since the rights were incorporated into Qinghe. We’ve tentatively set Qinghe’s office address at a vacant property of my family, provided free of charge by my second son. You can rest assured that Qinghe Fund’s money will definitely be put to good use and not wasted extravagantly."

Elder Zhou had mentioned this before; he has four sons, and although none of them are extremely wealthy, neither are they poor. They generally support Elder Zhou’s philanthropic endeavors.

Offering up a property as an office space, Ren He thought, was quite selfless. Although the property was still in his name, since it was to be used for Qinghe Fund’s office, he would not be able to use it himself for the time being.

Ren He had never worried about Elder Zhou getting up to any tricks with the Qinghe Fund. He comforted Elder Zhou, saying, "I’ve never been concerned about that. You just manage as you see fit. As far as I’m concerned, I’ve already acted as though I’ve never written the Three Character Classic."

"Well, I still need to tell you," Elder Zhou continued, "our first Hope Primary School is ready to start construction. Recently, many people from the Capital interested in charity have joined in, all volunteering without salary, though we have also hired two college students specifically to handle the paperwork. The first Hope Primary School will be in Northern Shaanxi, and we plan to gradually expand from there throughout the entire Greater Northwest, building Qinghe Primary Schools all over the Northwest!"

Such grand ambitions—was he drawing a pie in the sky...

Ren He coughed twice and spoke, "Just get to the main point, none of us are that pretentious. I’ll definitely do whatever is within my capacity..." For Ren He, charity was inherently a good thing, as it not only helped children in the mountains but also provided an opportunity for many who were eager to contribute to charity but lacked funds. It was a good cause!

And just for the sake of his relationship with Elder Zhou, if the man really had any requests, he might as well just help out where he could.

Zhou Wumeng smiled, "I knew you were a reasonable person. Here’s the thing, I’ve been negotiating the price for the animated rights of the Three Character Classic, and it surely won’t be very high... Qinghe Fund is still short on funds! What do you think about bringing in the rights to Kunlun too?"

Elder Zhou now always referred to the Qinghe Fund as "our Qinghe Fund" when discussing it with Ren He... He did this to make Ren He feel more of a sense of belonging to Qinghe Fund...

However, he couldn’t let the old man always have his eye on his most profitable project. He still had Qinghe Games eagerly awaiting his support! Even if he were to produce more valuable work, it would need a fermentation period, but Qinghe Games could not wait.

After thinking it over, Ren He said, "As for Kunlun, you should put that out of your mind. I guarantee that within a month, I’ll write another piece for you! The rights to it will go directly to Qinghe Fund!"

Zhou Wumeng’s eyes brightened, and he barraged him with questions, "What kind of work? Have you started yet? What’s the name? Is it the second part of the Classic of Mountains and Seas?"

"It’s not the second part of the Classic of Mountains and Seas; it’s called The Kite Runner!"

Honestly, Ren He had not intended to touch this book because its story wasn’t set in China. When people asked how a middle school student who had never been abroad could write such a book, Ren He would have no answer.

But now he planned to play the rogue, completely avoiding any answer. What business was it of theirs how he knew? Could he not have visited in his dreams?

Ren He had never planned to publicly admit that those works were his own. Even if someone remembered and tracked him down, he would outright deny having written them.

Firstly, he had never intended to acknowledge those works as his own—they were purely for making money. Secondly, he had no intentions of gaining fame through them.

If anyone asked, "Mr. Ren He, how were you able to write The Kite Runner? It has so many life details that someone who hasn’t lived there couldn’t possibly capture,"

Ren He would simply say, "Sorry, you’ve mistaken me for someone else. I didn’t write that."

He was writing purely for profit; he wasn’t pretentious about it. Why shouldn’t he take advantage of any opportunity to make money? Ren He had never planned to gain both fame and wealth through literature. He hoped that in the future, once he became famous, everyone would call him a gaming magnate, the Father of Dota, or the King of Extreme Sports...

He was a Big Player, not a great author! What others saw as worthy of historical renown was just a means to earn money for him... and that money was going toward charity.

He couldn’t be more indifferent to wealth or fame, Ren He self-deprecatingly reflected.

Ren He chose The Kite Runner as the second work to be incorporated into Qinghe Fund because it was very marketable; in his past life, The Kite Runner was one of the few books that Ren He remembered consistently topping the bestseller lists for a decade!