Chapter 911: Only One
Xiao Shiqiu was amused by my anxious look, and he even deliberately kept me in suspense, "It's almost time for dinner. After you finish your meal and go back to your room, I will tell you slowly.
Be good, go eat first, my business dinner is about to start."
I was extremely anxious, but he was calm and composed.
Looking at the time, it’s indeed time for dinner. Never mind, I’ll listen to the story in the evening. I always feel that there will be another big news here.
A luxurious dinner in the evening made Fang Dongmei and Aunt Wang nervous again.
Although the two children don’t have much concept of money, their natural love for food has successfully extended their love to me. After all, I was the one who brought them here to eat.
Although the food was delicious, I was still thinking about the phone call with Xiao Shiqiu in the evening, so I was a little absent-minded while eating.
When I walked out of the restaurant, the two children acted as if I were their real sister.
I asked Xiaoyan and Fang Dongmei to take Aunt Wang and the children to the club to find a place to play, whether it was swimming or soaking in hot springs. I went back to the room early alone.
After taking a bath and putting on a facial mask, I paced back and forth in the room anxiously before he called me. If I had known, I would have gone for a SPA first and then came back to wait for the call.
Just when I was about to fall asleep from boredom, the phone finally rang.
"Baby, are you free now?" Xiao Shiqiu's low voice sounded, and my heart, which was a little irritable just now, calmed down instantly.
I was clearly dying of anxiety waiting for his call, but now I started to be stubborn again, "Oh, I just got back to the room, I didn't expect you to be so impatient to call me."
I shuddered after saying this. It sounded a bit pretentious.
Xiao Shiqiu chuckled softly, "How about giving you another half hour to take a shower?"
"No, no, no~" I said hurriedly, "I, I washed before I went out."
He didn't expose me. When you go to a restaurant, no matter how high-end it is, your body and hair will be covered with the smell of cooking fumes.
He knew that I had zero tolerance for this and would always take a shower first when I returned to my room.
"Okay, it's time for you to tell me what you didn't finish talking about before." I began to skillfully use the method of changing the topic and successfully diverted his attention to the main matter.
"What I'm going to tell you starts from my grandfather's generation. It might be a bit boring. If you get tired of listening later, just say something."
"I'm not sleepy, I'm not sleepy. Just go ahead and tell me." I urged him quickly. Why does he need so many preludes to tell a story?
The old man of the Xiao family has three brothers, and he is the second oldest. He has an older brother named Xiao Yuantian and a younger brother named Xiao Yuanchuan.
Before liberation, the Xiao family was a businessman with a small fortune.
Old Master Xiao was the smartest of his three brothers, so the Xiao family focused on training him and supported his studies until he went to study in Russia in the north at the age of seventeen.
In that era, not to mention studying abroad, even studying in China was not affordable for ordinary families.
Mr. Xiao's father invested everything he had in this second son, almost spending all his family fortune.
The eldest and the third son naturally had some complaints, but with their father putting pressure on them, they didn't dare to say much.
When Mr. Xiao came back from Russia, he brought with him Katyusha, who was fair-skinned, beautiful and had long legs. She was Xiao Shiqiu's grandmother.
I couldn't help but sigh, "So your beauty comes from your grandmother. Luckily, your grandfather has good taste and went to Russia. If he went to Africa, we probably wouldn't have been together in this life."
I'm not racist, I just don't like that color.
Xiao Shiqiu laughed heartily, "Remember to come home with me next time and tell this to the old man in person, and thank him for his aesthetic taste."
I:"……"
Although Grandma Xiao was stunningly beautiful, her traditional father still found it unacceptable for his son to marry a woman of a different race.
So with no other choice, Grandpa Xiao took Grandma to join the army, and they became a legal couple in the army.
This made his parents very anxious. This was the son they had high hopes for. If anything happened to him, the Xiao family would probably be ruined.
Fortunately, Grandpa Xiao was smart and had a strong destiny. He changed his destiny with his knowledge. Since he had overseas connections, he helped the army with whatever it needed. It didn't take long for him to hold an important position in the Quartermaster Department.
After the family compromised, Grandpa Xiao would occasionally bring Grandma home.
After defeating the Japanese, the army recruited more soldiers. At that time, the fabric for making military uniforms was in short supply, so Grandpa Xiao used his savings and some jewelry brought by grandma, went home and bought several looms to produce military uniform fabrics for the army.
Later, the scale of the business grew bigger and bigger, until after liberation, when it took on a batch of military supply orders, and only then did it really save up some money.
I suddenly remembered that among the STG Group's subsidiaries, there was a textile-related company, so I asked, "Is this the predecessor of the clothing company under STG?"
"Smart, you're right."
After the industry grew bigger, Grandpa Xiao's parents were still alive. According to the previous rules, as long as the parents were alive, the family would not be divided. However, during the later movement, industrial and commercial registrations had to clearly identify the property owners.
Grandpa Xiao was moving from the military to politics at that time, so he registered the legal person under my uncle's name.
A question suddenly occurred to me: "Then the other two rooms have no objection?"
"Why would I have no objection?" Xiao Shiqiu sneered, "So when the reform and restructuring began, Grandpa gave each of the two families 15% of the shares.
But the voting rights are always in our hands.”
"What happened next?" I felt that things were not that simple.
Later, although the Xiao family's business was under the name of the eldest uncle, the eldest uncle was not good at business, so the actual operation had always been run by Xiao Shiqiu's father. The business grew very quickly in those years, and the Xiao family had begun to have a place in City A.
Just like his grandfather, Xiao Shiqiu became the most outstanding of all the descendants of the Xiao family. When he went to study in the United States, he started a business while studying. With the first money given by his family, he brought back his first pot of gold when he returned to China.
STG was founded by him after he returned to China.
"So STG was actually started from scratch by you?" I always thought he was a second or third generation rich man, but I didn't expect that he actually started his own business.
"You can count it that way, but the start-up capital was given by my family. I can't say that I relied entirely on myself." This guy was still modest.
"Later, every project of my own company was on the cusp of a new trend, and it started off very quickly. The scale of STG has far surpassed that of the Xiao family's company.
Later, my uncle passed away and my father wanted to retire, so he asked me to take over the Xiao family company.
Actually, I didn’t want to get involved at that time because there were too many troubles involved.
The biggest problem is the issue of offspring in our branch.
After my cousin passed away, I was the only child in the family.
The other two families, however, have large families, and with so many descendants, there is not enough to divide the profits.”
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