Wu Huanfa lived a happier life than 99.999 percent of the people in the world. When he was old enough to understand, his father's career had already taken off. By the time he became an adult, his father had become the famous Asian Paint King.
He has had a flexible mind since he was young and his academic performance has always been good. He went abroad to study in high school and went to a world-class university.
This is his academic success.
After returning from studying abroad, he joined the company under his father's arrangement. Although his business talent was not as good as his father's, the entrepreneurial generation, the education he received was incomparable to his father's. He worked his way up in the company step by step, and in just ten years, he successfully took over the control of the company from his father.
This is his career success.
While he was working hard in the company, he married a gentle and virtuous wife.
This is success in love.
His wife gave birth to a smart son. His son Wu Qingyuan's academic performance was better than his. After returning from studying abroad, he followed the same path he had taken.
In just a few years, he was promoted to the position of general manager and was capable of taking over, but he was not old yet, so he kept the position of chairman.
This means that the Wu family has a successor.
Now, the only thing that worries him is his son's lifelong affairs.
His son is already 38 years old this year. People of this age would have been grandfathers in ancient times, but his son has never planned to get married, which makes them, as parents, secretly anxious.
When their son had his first girlfriend, he was still in college, and as parents they naturally had reasons to interfere in his relationship.
Things are different now. His son has become a well-known figure in the business world. They can only urge him to get married but cannot forcibly interfere in his marriage anymore.
Fortunately, there are many successful people in this era who get married in their forties, so although Wu Huanfa is anxious, he does not force his son to get married.
He believed that his son could handle the matter. After all, he was only in his sixties and in good health, so he could afford to wait.
As it turned out, he was right, and his son's marriage was finally here!
However, what Wu Huanfa never expected was that his son's blind date would be a princess of Siam. Even though their Wu family was a well-known wealthy family in Singapore, if they married into the royal family of Siam, it would be too high for their family to marry into.
After listening to his son's story, Wu Huanfa asked, "Son, is this Master Jiang you mentioned reliable? She is the princess of Siam. He is qualified to act as a matchmaker. This completely overturns my understanding of matchmakers."
Mrs. Wu was also a little bit incredulous and asked worriedly, "Son, I know that Siam is a big Buddhist country and almost everyone believes in Buddhism. Could that Master Jiang be a liar pretending to be a Buddhist master?"
Wu Qingyuan was at a loss for words when he heard this and said, "Mom, you are so vigilant, but I am not a fool, your son. How can I trust someone so easily?
Master Jiang, that is Brother Long's friend. His ability to predict marriages is well-known in the mainland of China. When Brother Long introduced him to me, he told me in detail about his matchmaking experience. It was really amazing, and he deserves the title of Master Matchmaker. "
Mr. and Mrs. Wu suddenly realized that it was no wonder that their son believed in Master Jiang so much. It turned out that he was a friend of Long Zeyu, the son of a high-ranking official.
Wu Huanfa said: "Since Master Jiang is Long Zeyu's friend, then this must be true. What do you think of this blind date?"
In front of his parents, Wu Qingyuan did not hide his thoughts and said bluntly: "Master Jiang said that I have a similar personality to this Siamese princess, so I naturally want to meet her and have a chat."
Wu Huanfa asked: "Has Master Jiang told you about the King of Siam's attitude towards this matter? And is the princess willing to go on a blind date with you?"
Wu Qingyuan said: "This is just the beginning, the King of Siam doesn't know about this yet, Master Jiang will wait until we are sure about it before telling the King of Siam.
As for the princess, there must be no problem, otherwise Master Jiang would not have mentioned this to me. He flew to Xingzhou to find me only after getting the princess's consent."
Wu Huanfa nodded and said, "I understand what you mean. Your mother and I have no objection. You should reply to Master Jiang immediately and ask him to arrange a time for the blind date!" It is normal for the King of Siam to be unaware of this. As long as the princess agrees to have a blind date with his son, then it is worth a try.
Wu Qingyuan smiled and said yes. He had expected this answer.
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The provincial capital of Guangxi Province.
After flying for more than ten hours, the Qiu family of three finally returned to their hometown.
When the three members of the Qiu family arrived at the airport, dozens of relatives came to greet them. The welcoming lineup was quite strong, and they were all Qiu Chengguo's relatives.
Qiu Chengguo was born in a poor rural family in the capital of Guangxi Province. He has many brothers and sisters, four older brothers and three older sisters, and he is the youngest in the family.
After making a lot of money in the United States, Qiu Chengguo did not forget his brothers and sisters. In the 1990s, he rushed back from the United States and provided financial support for his brothers and sisters to start their own businesses.
Now, twenty or thirty years have passed, and Qiu Chengguo's brothers and sisters are doing quite well, especially his second brother and his wife, who have run a successful business and are worth hundreds of millions.
The other brothers and sisters have a net worth of at least 10 million.
Qiu Chengguo is undoubtedly the biggest contributor to the present success of his brothers and sisters. When he came back from the United States, he not only provided them with start-up capital, but also pointed out the way for them to start their own businesses with his knowledge and intelligence.
Over the past two or three decades, not all brothers and sisters have succeeded in starting their own businesses. Some have succeeded but some have failed. However, they are united, and after failing, they quickly make a comeback with the help of other brothers and sisters.
With such a unique opportunity, it would be hard for the Qiu brothers and sisters not to succeed.
After all, the biggest difficulty for ordinary people to start a business is the lack of start-up capital. Many people don’t know how many years it will take to raise a sum of start-up capital.
Once you fail, you will be back to the time before liberation. It will take who knows how many years to raise the second round of startup capital. It can be said that there is no cost of trial and error. You either succeed or fail.
Like the Qiu brothers and sisters, after making a mistake once, they can sum up the good experience, learn the lessons of failure, and start a second business immediately. With such good conditions, success is inevitable unless there is really no way out.
After greeting their relatives warmly, Qiu Chengguo and his family of three got into their relatives' luxury cars and headed for a famous restaurant.
An hour later.
In a large private room in a restaurant, dozens of people from the Qiu family sat at four tables.
One table was for Qiu Chengguo's five brothers and three brothers-in-law, one table was for Qiu Chengguo's wife, four sisters-in-law and three sisters, another table was for Qiu Yinan and a group of cousins, and the remaining table was for the second-generation daughters-in-law of the Qiu family and the third generation of the Qiu family.
At Qiu Chengguo's table, Brother Qiu asked, "Old Eight, before you came back, you called and said that you were going back to your hometown to retire and would not go to the United States anymore. Is this true?"
Qiu Chengguo nodded and said, "Of course it's true. I can go to the United States to make money, but there is definitely no place better than my hometown for retirement. After all, that's where I grew up."
Brother Qiu said, "It's good to be back. We brothers and sisters are all developing in the provincial capital, so we can get together every now and then. But you, the eighth brother, are in the United States, so it's quite troublesome to get together.
Now that you are back, we eight brothers and sisters can have a reunion in the future."
Qiu Chengguo said: "Actually, I wanted to come back a few years ago, but at that time, Yi Nan was in the early stages of starting a business, so I naturally had to stay and help him keep an eye on things. In addition, it would take some time to deal with the real estate in the United States, so it has been delayed until now."
Brother-in-law Qiu San joked, "I'm afraid there's another reason. That is, you can't bear to give up your superb poker skills. You can play as much as you want in the United States. If you want to play such exciting poker again after returning to China, you have to fly to Macau."
Fourth Brother Qiu smiled and replied, "That's for sure. If I had Lao Ba's card skills, I wouldn't want to come back either. Wouldn't it be fun to stay in the United States and make money?"
As soon as this was said, everyone agreed.
As Qiu Chengguo's brothers and brothers-in-law, they really admire him very much.
Qiu Chengguo's story of making a fortune is really quite legendary.
Because there were many brothers and sisters in the family, his family was really poor when he was a child. He worried about the next meal after eating the previous one. Being in such a family, Qiu Chengguo knew that studying was the only way out, so he studied hard.
Hard work pays off. Against the backdrop of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, Qiu Chengguo won the opportunity to study in the United States as an "exchange student" with his excellent academic performance.
It was not until I went to the United States that I realized how big the economic gap between China and the United States was at that time.
While studying, Qiu Chengguo worked part-time in a nursing home there and earned a full $400 a month.
You know, that was the 1970s and 1980s!
Not to mention 400 US dollars a month, for the rural people in our country, it is already a happy thing to be able to earn two big unity after working hard for a month.
In other words, Qiu Chengguo earned more from doing odd jobs for a month than his parents earned from working hard at home for several years. This shows how big the gap is between the two places.
This income made Qiu Chengguo, who had just arrived in the United States, extremely excited. He then worked harder and more responsibly, and continued to get promotions and salary increases.
After a period of time, Qiu Chengguo's income almost doubled.
After getting rid of poverty, Qiu Chengguo was unwilling to work all his life, he also wanted to start his own business and become a boss.
So in his junior year, Qiu Chengguo, who was in his twenties, resolutely chose to drop out of school, quit his job at the nursing home, and started working in a restaurant to gain experience for opening a restaurant.
Qiu Chengguo started out as a dishwasher in a restaurant. Because he was diligent, hard-working and studious, within a few years he became the all-round chef of the restaurant.
After accumulating a certain amount of experience, it was the late 1980s when Qiu Chengguo finally made up his mind to go out on his own and opened a restaurant named "Taste of China".
After having his own shop, Qiu Chengguo is even more motivated and works almost all year round. Although he is the owner of the restaurant, he also participates in cooking, take-out, and waiting.
At this time, he had no idea of settling down in the United States. He just wanted to make a lot of money quickly and then return home in glory.
However, it is really hard to predict what will happen in life. One day in the late 1980s, he delivered a takeout to a poker club, which completely changed the trajectory of his life.
At that time, the customer who ordered the takeout was playing Seven Card Stud. Qiu Chengguo stood nearby and watched curiously for a while, and found that the customer who ordered the takeout won more than a thousand dollars in just a short while.
At that moment, Qiu Chengguo's three views were greatly impacted. He worked hard for a month and only earned one or two thousand dollars, while others could earn more than one thousand dollars in a blink of an eye. The psychological gap was really too big.
While lamenting that people are different after all, Qiu Chengguo is also filled with great interest in poker.
So, on a Sunday night, after closing the restaurant door, Qiu Chengguo drove into the poker club again.
Then, a world-class gambling king was born!
Of course, this process was definitely not smooth sailing, especially when Qiu Chengguo first came into contact with Seven Card Stud, he lost more than he won.
But it has to be said that Qiu Chengguo is really talented and good at observation and thinking. As he plays cards for longer and longer periods of time, his gambling skills continue to improve.
It wasn't long before he ran out of opponents at the poker club.
A few years later, he went to Las Vegas for vacation. In this city famous for gambling, Qiu Chengguo participated in the gambling with a try-it attitude. Unexpectedly, it was this accidental win that made him win tens of millions of dollars.
Just at this time, the WSOP (World Series of Poker) started, and Qiu Chengguo, who was in good luck, also signed up for the competition.
Then he overcame many obstacles and defeated many popular players, finally winning the championship of this series of events and taking home the gold bracelet.
Taking advantage of his good luck, Qiu Chengguo participated in the US Poker Championship that year. He won the championship again and shocked the United States.
If it were an ordinary person, he would have become arrogant long ago after winning several championships in a row.
But Qiu Chengguo was very clear-headed. He felt that his strength was not enough and he needed to continue to study. So he unexpectedly returned to the city where he had worked hard before, lowered his status and found a job as a dealer in a casino. He spent more than a year carefully observing the actions of those people in the casino, trying to figure out how to understand people's hearts.
Two years later, Qiu Chengguo, who had mastered the gambling skills, returned to the gambling arena and participated in the $3,000 WSOP event that year, and won the championship again.
From then on, he was unstoppable and won countless poker tournaments, becoming a world-renowned gambling king.
Anyone who can become a club-level gambling master is no longer short of money, let alone a world-class gambling king. His net worth has long been as high as more than ten billion US dollars, and he can be said to have both fame and fortune.