Poverty alleviation variety show goes to the countryside, my talent can no longer be hidden

Chapter 492

Amidst heavy snow, New Year's Day 2019 arrived quietly.

After staying in southern Henan for half a month, Zhou Hao brought Xu Lingyue back to Linhang to meet her grandparents and celebrate the New Year together.

The old couple were both shrewd people. When they saw how clingy the young couple was, plus the faint seductiveness in their granddaughter's eyes and eyebrows... they knew what was going on at a glance.

Although the old couple are relatively traditional and conservative people, they can only accept the reality when things have come to this point.

After all, they couldn't be more satisfied with Zhou Hao. Such an outstanding young man had not been involved in any other affairs during the two years that Hongdou had been away. This was definitely not something that ordinary people could do.

It would be a bit too much to ask him to stick to the bottom line.

And Hongdou has made it clear that she wants to entrust her life to me... In that case, let's do this.

After all, it's a mutual love, which is a good thing.

In her joy, the old lady personally prepared a large table of dishes and entertained her grandson-in-law. The old man even took out his treasured snake wine and forced Zhou Hao to drink a glass, saying it was a great tonic...

For a guy with a strong waist and iron kidneys, why would he need any tonic wine?
But he couldn't resist the old man's coercion and inducement, so he had to bite the bullet and drink it.

After eating and drinking, Zhou Hao felt like his stomach was about to burst. Seeing this, Xu Lingyue took him out for a walk.

On the one hand, it helps with digestion, and on the other hand, it is also an official statement of attitude - my partner is still here, so stop gossiping behind my back!
According to my grandmother, her neighbors have been gossiping a lot about her during the two years she has been studying abroad.

The general meaning is: Why would a boy who is so outstanding wait for you? He might be seduced away by a vixen one day!
Although she is not a competitive person, this time she just wants to show off and shut up these gossips.

Those neighbors were all thick-skinned. They wouldn't say anything nonsense at this moment. They just kept congratulating and expressing their gratitude, with a hint of envy in their eyes.

But I can’t even tell who I envy specifically.

These two are both top-notch people. If they were someone else, they might not be worthy of them...

Back in the courtyard, Xu Lingyue set up a small red clay stove and sat in the courtyard, warming her hands while chatting and drinking tea, which was quite fun.

Seeing the warm scene of the young couple talking and laughing in the yard, the old couple in the house smiled with relief.

"That's great, that's great..."

"Yes, my last wish is fulfilled if these two children can be together. Even if I die tomorrow, I will have no regrets."

"Don't talk nonsense. I'm still waiting for four generations to live under one roof..."

After chatting until nine o'clock, Zhou Hao went back to his room and started typing.

After all, novels are the foundation of his career and he cannot give them up.

Moreover, the momentum of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" is very strong, and the average subscription has reached 25. If he dares to stop updating, the book review section will probably be occupied by a group of angry old men cursing in an instant.

After several months of serialization, "Ghost Blows Out the Light" has already reached the penultimate story unit "The Wrath of the West Hunan". According to the current plan, it is estimated that it will be less than two months away from completion.

This book is his best-performing one so far, and all the data are far ahead of his previous works.

According to his estimation, the average subscription of this book will likely reach the threshold of 300,000 by the time it is completed.

This data is undoubtedly the T0 level of the current online literature circle, and it exists beyond the ceiling.

After all, for a so-called platinum author these days, it is already very impressive to have an average subscription of 100,000... The royalties brought to him by this book are also extremely terrifying.

Not counting various channels, the royalties shared and settled with major websites alone exceed three million per month!

However, the channel fee for this book is really not that much. The quarterly settlement is not as much as the monthly manuscript fee... There is no way. Mobile readers still prefer the kind of brainless and refreshing articles that are full of pretentiousness, slapping faces, and settling scores. This kind of niche style of book is basically just scraps on wireless channels.

Moreover, the wireless channel advocates equality for all. If people don’t like to read your book, it’s useless to push it to death. Besides, there are no recommended resources for “Ghost Blowing the Light”…

However, when things get dark in one place, there are always bright lights in another. Although sales through wireless channels are not good, sales through physical channels are extremely hot.

Especially in the Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asian markets, it is a phenomenal best-selling book. The six unit books released so far have sold more than 1900 million copies in total, with an average sales volume of more than three million copies per book!
In an era when sales of physical books are declining, this figure is simply astronomical in the small Hong Kong and Taiwan markets!

This is certainly due to the powerful management of Lao Xie, but the ultimate reason is that the quality of this book is extremely high, and it just happens to match certain folk customs in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. After all, the pursuit and attention to certain metaphysical folk customs in those places far exceeds that in the mainland.

On the contrary, in the mainland market, the sales of the physical version of this book are not particularly impressive. Although it has achieved an average of three million copies per copy, considering the market size, this sales volume is not very good.

However, this is also expected. After all, the scale of e-reading in the mainland market has far exceeded that of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Unless they are die-hard fans and die-hard believers of paper books, most people still prefer to open their mobile phones or tablets for e-reading.

Even so, the royalties brought by this sales volume are enough to make him the leader in the entire novel world.

Once the 18 royalties are announced, there will probably be another round of exclamations...

When Zhou Hao was daydreaming, he suddenly found the door was pushed open. Xu Lingyue, who was wearing pajamas and holding her pillow, tiptoed in and made a gesture to him to keep quiet, indicating that he should not make a sound.

After quietly closing the door, she threw herself into Zhou Hao's arms with a wisp of fragrance.

"Is it finished?"

"almost."

Xu Lingyue put her arms around his neck with seductive eyes, "Then why are you still sitting there?"

"No." Zhou Hao pointed to the next door like a thief, "The old couple is next door..."

"They don't have the habit of eavesdropping." Xu Lingyue also whispered.

Zhou Hao didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "I'm afraid that by then it won't be up to them whether to listen or not."

"Then... I'll just speak in a low voice." Xu Lingyue's pretty face flushed.

How could Zhou Hao bear this?
Just turn off the lights and work overtime.

In the next room, an old couple were imagining the beautiful scene of four generations living under one roof in the future, but they inadvertently heard some strange noises.

The old couple were experienced people and knew what had happened just by looking at each other.

"This girl is really shameless. She just ran over there."

"Young people are at an age when they know the sweetness of life. It's normal." The old man said with a smile: "Besides, if they don't get close to each other, when can I become a great grandfather?"

Upon hearing this, the old lady also laughed out loud.

The old man frowned and rubbed his chin, "Could it be that the wine was too strong? The girl will suffer tonight..."

(End of this chapter)