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Chapter 287: Who is the boss of Qinghe Fund?! (Fourth update)_1

Chapter 287: Who is the boss of Qinghe Fund?! (Fourth update)_1

Ren He and Elder Zhou both felt a bit conflicted. It was actually a good thing that so many people were proactively inviting donations, but to reject all of them seemed somewhat unkind.

However, after much thought, Ren He suddenly said, "I don’t know if you agree with what I’m about to say, but let’s maintain our current model. It’s not that we have an inexhaustible supply of money; we just want the Qinghe Fund to avoid unnecessary disputes."

Humans are inherently suspicious creatures. Once you start accepting donations, there will inevitably be those who wonder whether you’re using the funds properly or if you are embezzling?

Don’t be fooled by the trusting face everyone shows now; in a world that has experienced an information explosion like the previous life, no matter how good you do, there will always be someone trying to discredit you.

From the very beginning, Ren He had always hoped that the Qinghe Fund could become a sanctuary where people could work without having to worry about so many complicated matters, where pure people do pure things.

With our own money, we can build schools wherever we wish and pay teachers as much as we want.

Take for instance the salaries for volunteer teachers. Ren He chose to treat them all equally, using the standard of first-tier cities. But then if the salaries of the volunteer teachers were to be disclosed, donators might suddenly realize, "Damn, they earn more than we do," and actually quite a few people would feel somewhat uneasy about that.

Ren He wasn’t speculating out of malice, but such misgivings have simply happened far too often in his previous life. They wouldn’t consider how hard it is for the volunteer teachers, and the Qinghe Fund didn’t have time to explain this to everyone.

So, it’s still more reassuring to use our own money.

Just like when a person spends their own money, their confidence is a bit stronger.

Ren He aimed to ensure that the Qinghe Fund had a strong foundation, so that even amidst rumors, one could stand tall: I haven’t spent a penny of your money, building Hope Primary Schools wherever we wish is our own business.

And after Harry Potter gets released, the Qinghe Fund won’t be short of money anyway. And even if it is, wouldn’t just writing another book solve the problem? To obtain two immunity privileges while satisfying the Divine Punishment System, why wouldn’t he be happy to do so, right?

If there was one annoying thing, for example, after writing Harry Potter and exchanging it for two immunity privileges, the tasks generated by Harry Potter couldn’t be exempted, otherwise he could have just played the immunity card right away...

Of course, even if there were no such restrictions and he really did that, the Divine Punishment System would probably just give him an impossible task like plucking stars from the sky to end him...

Experience proved that it’s best not to be too clever in front of the Divine Punishment System unless absolutely necessary...

Elder Zhou laughed and said, "We actually share the same thoughts, but you need to put in more effort. To raise a team of volunteer teachers and continue funding the kite-chasing project still needs more capital, especially since there are still many Hope Primary Schools under construction." For Elder Zhou, what he feared most was getting tangled up in disputes, but fortunately, Ren He shared his viewpoint.

"Don’t worry, you’ll have it soon," Ren He said with determination. Now, he was writing 90,000 to 100,000 words a day, and just in this month alone, he had produced nearly 3 million words. He was grateful for his cleverness in asking the Divine Punishment System for the reward of an advanced stenographer; otherwise, writing 10,000 words a day would have taken a year, wouldn’t it? That would stretch the timeline too long!

With over 3 million words, Harry Potter was nearing completion for Ren He. This novel, one of the best-selling and most profitable in his previous life, was about to be released.

And so, amidst the noise, the Qinghe Fund stubbornly chose to be self-reliant. Many industry insiders watched with skepticism, wondering how long can one last on just two books? Even the best books have their heyday, after all.

However, they didn’t realize that once Harry Potter was completed, or even after the Hogwarts Theme Park was built, Qinghe Fund would have a perpetual cash flow. Even if that cash flow slowly dwindled, the fund would still be a heftier beast than any horse.

Finally, in less than a week, Ren He completed the entire Harry Potter series. As he typed the last word and looked up at the brilliant sunshine outside the window, he felt a sense of satisfaction much greater than when he drank a cold bottle of cola in the summer.

The intense struggle of the past month had finally come to an end. In the last stretch, Ren He even felt a tingling pain in his fingers, an itch in the joints, knowing it was because of the excessive speed of typing. Even with his robust constitution, it was taking a toll on him.

He sent the operational plan along with the draft to Elder Zhou, who was a bit excited too. Was this the work that Ren He claimed was worth a hundred billion US Dollars?

Because he had completely left the Capital Journalism Group, Elder Zhou even established a new department within Qinghe Fund, specifically to manage the assets under the fund, which were the books themselves.

Everyone also knew that these works were the source of the fund’s finances, and they knew that they were written by the mysterious big boss. Each one harbored the thought of meeting this legend in person if the opportunity arose.

Isn’t the person who uses bestsellers like The Kite Runner for charity legendary enough? At least in their eyes, it was already enough.

Elder Zhou’s assistant had actually seen Ren He, but they had no idea that the youth was the big boss of their own establishment and couldn’t connect the two.

It wasn’t that they lacked imagination; the idea was just too inconceivable.

Elder Zhou had suggested launching a program, such as bringing village children to experience life in the city, but Ren He directly rejected it.

He once admired the program Transformers for giving many people a chance to change, but it was all about the children of rich families changing, not the poor ones.

Poor children, after living in the city and returning to their impoverished mountain villages, would find it hard to adjust, even becoming quirky or overly sensitive.

This wouldn’t be helping them; it would be harming them.

So Ren He’s long-standing criticism of Transformers was that you could just let the rich families’ children go to the countryside for reform; sending poor children to the cities was completely unnecessary and even detrimental to them.

Quietly telling them about the outside world, giving them hope, and then teaching them how to step by step, rely on their own efforts to venture out and see the more wonderful world, that would be enough.

They wouldn’t cherish things they didn’t achieve through their own effort, so forget it.

Ren He shared his thoughts candidly, and Elder Zhou also admitted he hadn’t considered enough. The more important task was to improve the voluntary teacher system and not to consider such superfluous matters.

By then, Qinghe Fund, holding classic works like Harry Potter, The Kite Runner, Three Character Classic, and a group of like-minded people striving for a common goal, was on the verge of taking off.

At this time, Ren He, as always, remained a behind-the-scenes figure, calmly hidden in the shadows, using his power to change the world, yet remaining untainted by it. No one knew that the Qinghe Fund was his asset, and no one knew that those classic works were written by him. Without journalists pestering him, he still had plenty of time to do what he wanted to do.

Having given others hope and dreams, it was time for him to fulfill his own.

He muttered to himself in his heart, "You know what I want to do, right? Can you give me face and release a related mission?" Ren He negotiated with the Divine Punishment System after completing Harry Potter.

"Mission: Complete the Mount Everest summit challenge within three months. Failure to complete will result in one month of host’s nervous breakdown," said the Divine Punishment System calmly.

Ren He took a deep breath and said, "Thank you."

At that moment, the sunlight was perfect, and he was about to venture into the Thin Air Zone to extol life. It was a journey themed around risking one’s life!

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