Hong Kong Island Comic Master

Chapter 230 Leisure time
"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom..."

In 1967, for reasons of safety and security, the British Hong Kong government enacted legislation to strictly prohibit the import and setting off of fireworks and firecrackers to prevent anyone from obtaining explosives through this method.

Therefore, it is rare to see firecrackers being set off during the Chinese New Year in Hong Kong Island.

However, this does not mean that Hong Kong Island has less Chinese New Year flavor. On the contrary, there are many of them here!
During the Spring Festival, dragon and lion dances are one of the essential customs in Hong Kong Island.

"it is good!"

I saw a few young people wearing lion performance costumes, skillfully operating the lion heads in their hands, dancing vigorously, attracting cheers from the people around them.

Li Wannian and Zhong Chuhong were among them, applauding as they watched the wonderful performance.

Zhong Chuhong returned to Hong Kong in mid-January because the school was on winter vacation.

After returning, Zhong Chuhong and Li Wannian were inseparable. Like Lan Jieying, they seemed to want to make up for all the separation and missing in the past six months.

It's a pity that only Li Wannian suffered!

"Shall we go somewhere else?"

After watching for a while, Li Wannian suggested again.

"No, let's go back?"

Zhong Chuhong wore a gray belted coat and black leather boots today. She went to see the neon lights, but she became more and more bright and charming.

However, such a beautiful Zhong Chuhong, blinking at Li Wannian with her big eyes, made Li Wannian feel pain in his back.

It has to be said that although Lan Jieying solved the problem of Shura Field, she brought another problem to Li Wannian, that is, his body cannot keep up!
Don't look at other time-travelers who spend every day, being a groom every night, and the bride is not the same, but these are all benefits given by the author. Li Wannian does not have such an indestructible kidney.

"It's hard to celebrate the New Year, wouldn't it be a waste of time to go back like this?" Li Wannian said calmly, covering his waist.

"No, as long as you are around, it's not a waste of time. Why do you think so?"

Zhong Chuhong's last words made Li Wannian's hair stand on end.

"That's right, you are right! Aren't I worried that you are too tired?"

"How could that happen? I'm not the one who's tired!"

Zhong Chuhong covered her mouth and snickered.

Seeing Zhong Chuhong's appearance, Li Wannian had long understood that the other party did it on purpose.

The fact is indeed the case. Zhong Chuhong or she and Lan Jieying have formed a tacit understanding, which is to squeeze Li Wannian dry so that he has no chance to go out to find others.

Of course, it is not easy to do this. After all, Zhong Chuhong wants to study abroad, Lan Jieying is too busy at work, and most of the time around Li Wannian does not belong to the two of them.

In this case, what the two of them did was more of a silent struggle.

"Then we go back?"

Li Wannian tried to ask.

"Forget it, let's go shopping some more!"

With that said, Zhong Chuhong hugged Li Wannian's arm and pulled him forward, while Lin Feng followed the two of them from a distance.

The temple fair they visited was the Wong Tai Sin Temple Fair.

As one of the most famous temples on Hong Kong Island, every year on the first day of the Lunar New Year, citizens compete to get the incense sticks.

According to legend, the Huang Daxian enshrined in the temple is "responsive to requests", which is very effective.

In addition to the first day of the Lunar New Year, at the end of the lunar calendar every year and from the first to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, a large number of devotees will go to the temple. All Wong Tai Sin disciples will gather in the main hall of the temple at noon to participate in sacrifices.

Therefore, there were so many people at the temple fair today, and many of them brought their children.

"Look at my move, Explosive Beast, breathing fire!" "Here you go, you actually drew the Explosive Beast?"

Li Wannian, who was wandering around, heard a voice coming from the side and suddenly froze on the spot. He turned around and saw that it was two children in their early teens, playing against each other with Pokémon cards.

The Pokémon manga has been serialized for nearly five years now, and the plot has been updated for the Johto League Tournament.

Li Wannian has stopped updating the "Pokémon" comics since the year before last.

In other words, since Xiaozhi finished the Orange League Winners Cup and completed the fateful showdown with Xiaomao, Qiu Fulong has been in charge of the subsequent comics.

Although Li Wannian is no longer responsible for the comics of Pokémon, he will still participate in the design of Pokémon. In other words, the second generation Pokémon will still be designed by Li Wannian.

There is no way, this Pokémon is too profitable!

Although in terms of popularity and influence, Pokémon seems to be inferior to comics such as "Bleach" and "Dragon Ball". After all, both comic sales and animation ratings reflect this.

But in terms of peripheral sales, "Reaper" and "Dragon Ball" combined are not as good as "Pokémon".

Sales of Pokémon cards exceeded one billion just last year.

what does this mean?
This means that if each person owns 100 cards, 1000 million people will have purchased the cards.

This is more than the total population of Hong Kong Island!

Of course, with so many people, it’s impossible for all Hong Kong people to be buying, and it’s impossible for each person to only have 100 tickets. Who are you looking down on?
In fact, the majority of card sales are still in Wanwan, Southeast Asia, Neon and other places.

Especially neon. After neon was launched in 79, 80 million copies were sold in 2 alone, which was more than Hong Kong Island sold in four years!

And this is just for Pokémon cards. As for dolls, posters, clothing licenses and other peripheral products, the sales are even more terrifying.

Because of this, even though Li Wannian was unwilling to update this comic, no one from the company to the magazine to the toy factory was willing to give up.

Therefore, Li Wannian could only find an assistant to be responsible for this comic, while he put his energy into other aspects.

It has to be said that Qiu Fulong's drawing skills are quite good. If his name were not written in the author's column of the comic, ordinary readers would not be able to tell who drew it.

"How? Are you afraid?"

"Huh, am I afraid of you? Wait, let me see what I can use to deal with you!"

One of the children found that his Pokémon couldn't defeat the opponent's Explosive Beast, so he looked at his hand and fell into deep thought.

"Hurry up and get it out! Hehe, this is my new Pokémon at the bottom of the box!"

The other child was looking at each other in disbelief.

"Get out of this!"

At this time, Li Wannian pointed at a card in the child's hand from behind and said.

"Ah? Is Gengar coming out?"

"That's right, although Explosive Beast is powerful, he will be restrained by opponents with ghost, water, rock and other attributes. Gengar, Blastoise and other Pokémon can restrain him, so he is not invincible!"

The child doubtfully chose Gengar, and sure enough, the opponent's Fiery Beast was quickly defeated.

"Wow, uncle, you are so awesome!"

"Uncle?"

Hearing the other party call him "uncle", Li Wannian was immediately dumbfounded. He really shouldn't help this child. What's the look in his eyes?

Zhong Chuhong, who was on the side, saw Li Wannian chatting so leisurely with the children on the street, and a sense of happiness suddenly rose in his heart.

She suddenly thought, if she and Li Wannian were just a pair of ordinary lovers, walking on the street like this every day, would they be happy?
(End of this chapter)