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Chapter 497 - 491. Elder Zhou’s Worries (First Update)_1

Chapter 497: 491. Elder Zhou’s Worries (First Update)_1

"Cang Hai" had been completed and handed over to Elder Zhou, and Ren He received a Perfect Level reward, along with two exemptions from missions.

One day, Zhou Wumeng led people carrying a big hemp sack to the Courtyard House to find Ren He, who initially thought these were local specialties Elder Zhou had brought back from the mountains. To his surprise, the sack was filled with thank-you letters from the children in the mountainous area.

This left Ren He astonished, as he had never received thank-you letters from anyone in his past or current life. The sincere words touched his heart and left him sitting in the Courtyard House, filled with indescribable emotions.

The children from the mountainous region expressed their gratitude for the Qinghe Fund providing them with clean and bright new schools, and even thanked them for enabling a once deeply respected teacher, who had left due to life’s struggles, to ultimately return to their side.

These teachers went to the mountains full of dreams and firm beliefs, only to be defeated by reality in the end.

Some might say that these teachers’ convictions were not strong enough, and others, more maliciously, might say the teachers were too materialistic.

But could those criticizing, while enjoying a comfortable urban life, really have any right to judge others? At the very least, these teachers had tried.

Ren He felt that this was definitely not the teachers’ fault; it was reality’s fault, and if there was a mistake, it needed to be changed. No matter who was making the change, he himself had to make his own contribution first.

Elder Zhou handed Ren He an envelope, saying with a laugh, "This is from the teacher who left without saying goodbye from the place where you initially taught. He has returned and is now part of our teaching program. He used to earn only 400 yuan a month in the mountain village, went up to 2800 yuan after returning home, and now we are paying him 5100 yuan. After returning, he even got married, and this time, his wife also went to the mountain village with him saying they wanted to make up for the pangs of conscience from the past."

Ren He nodded and exchanged a smile with Elder Zhou, "Aren’t these the very people we want to help? I really couldn’t care less about helping those teachers who are neither morally upright nor capable."

Elder Zhou took a sip of water and reminisced, "Over forty years ago when I went down to the countryside, I visited the homes of those folks in the mountains. Back then, their nourishment wasn’t as good as it is now, and honestly, it’s not much better today. Although times have always been moving forward, it feels as if time has always stood still for them. Our lives improved, and we became the first to prosper from the reform and opening-up policy. The promise that the rich would bring along the poor turned into a joke..."

"Don’t dwell on the hardships, being able to enjoy a good life is what matters," smiled Ren He. "You just manage the Qinghe Fund with peace of mind, aiming for those who prosper first to help those who prosper later. Don’t worry about me over here."

"Alright, you saw right through me, you’ve done a good deed indeed," Elder Zhou said with a laugh as he left, but Ren He was left alone in the yard, lost in thought.

He was fully aware why Elder Zhou had come today: it was not just to share joys with him, but also to regularly inspire Ren He’s kindness with some things.

Honestly, the Qinghe Fund didn’t rely on anyone’s whims, and could carry out philanthropy as desired, independent of anyone else.

Although sometimes there might be negative media opinion, the fact was the Qinghe Fund would not be affected in any way.

And the person who could influence the Qinghe Fund the most was actually Ren He himself.

Elder Zhou sometimes worried that if one day Ren He lost interest in philanthropy, what would happen, especially since the copyrights within the Qinghe Fund were in Ren He’s hands.

Especially now, with Harry Potter’s immense popularity, billions upon billions of US dollars were at stake, and Elder Zhou was genuinely concerned that Ren He might have regrets.

However, Elder Zhou was very happy today, because Ren He showed no sign of regret at all; it seemed as if the money from the Qinghe Fund didn’t matter to him at all.

Elder Zhou also felt emotional, recalling how the green, inexperienced youth of the past now controlled such a vast Internet Empire.

Back then, when he went to Luo City to sign a contract with Ren He, he got sent off with just a bowl of noodles...

In fact, Ren He had previously felt that his greatest gain from writing "Cang Hai" was the Perfect Level reward and the two mission exemptions, but now it seemed that the biggest gain was bolstering the Qinghe Fund and attaining inner peace; these were his greatest gains.

He worked tirelessly on the third part of the "Ling Fei Script," so he could launch it into operation sooner and make more money, in order to help more people.

Now Elder Zhou was also very busy, initially with the mountainous region, but now with the operation of copyrights.

Due to the abundance of copyrights, Elder Zhou was unanimously kept at headquarters by all members of the Qinghe Fund and was downright forbidden from entering the mountains.

One reason was that his age was indeed getting there, and continuing at this pace would upset his sons.

The second reason was that no one in the Qinghe Fund was more adept at dealing with literary matters than Elder Zhou. With him around, everyone felt more at ease.

Tasks differ, and in reality, the operation of copyrights was much more important than going into the mountain villages because without money, there would be no need to go in at all.

Elder Zhou had to manage the operations of Harry Potter, as well as works like Kunlun and Cang Hai, and was genuinely swamped.

With Harry Potter’s official global website launched and merchandise about to be produced, the income was no small sum, but Elder Zhou insisted on producing quality merchandise, determined not to tarnish the brand.

All Ren He could do was to quickly finish writing "Ling Fei Script" in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" trilogy, both for his martial arts dream and for the Qinghe Fund.

Which boy hasn’t nurtured dreams of living the life of a martial arts hero? However, Ren He was very aware that this was hardly possible in real life; even as a master of combat, he couldn’t perform the light-as-a-feather stunts described in martial arts novels.

A dream is after all just a dream. Ren He now hoped to secure a sniper rifle again—not to use, but to look at or collect at home—a personal fancy, a memento of a past carnage.

He hadn’t handled this himself and now lacked the connections for it. Ren He always felt that even within his country, one needed some means of self-defense. This was like someone who has been hungry for a long time needing to have some food in their pocket—without it, they feel insecure.

Having been through that bloodshed, Ren He felt a lack of security.

As "Ling Fei Script" approached completion, Ren He wasn’t worried about anything except the anticipation of the Divine Punishment System springing up with something problematic. He always felt the next mission might not be so simple...

He first wrote "1984" and used an exemption to bypass the mission, then went on to write the last part of "Ling Fei Script."

The publication of "1984" wasn’t intended to become part of the Qinghe Fund’s assets. The release of this novel had its own considerations and therefore couldn’t be swapped for an exemption.