Updated: 2011-08-31

The cool breeze on the lakeside in late autumn, the sun is shining, and the air is fresh, and the crazy girl of the Ruan family, who has just come out of the "International Private Equity Club 2011 Annual Gathering", looks like a different person - a black professional outfit makes her look like she is finally planning on Wall Street. The initiator who hurriedly dialed the phone thousands of miles away and hung up the phone in a hurry without saying a few words, he didn't know how much conjecture a phone call that could make Ruan Yu get up and run directly at such a level of meeting would cause many conjectures in the international private equity circle, in fact, Ruan Yu, who had just sat at the head of the conference room, suddenly got up, and had already made countless diamond-level bachelors who were worth close to 9 figures hold back their eyes, if it weren't for the notoriously evil spirit of the Ruan family's work, I really don't know how many people would have changed their ways to find out the origin of that phone call。

After answering the phone, Ruan Yu did not go back directly, but stood on the shore of the lake and stared at the rippling blue lake, just like the professional outfit opposite to the usual sandals and ultra-shorts, looking lonely and lonely. Ten minutes later, a withered yellow leaf quietly passed by, the eldest lady of the Ruan family came to her senses, smiled lightly at the lake, turned around, and turned back into the goddess of the Ruan family, who was high in the hearts of countless men.

"International Private Equity Club" is an unofficial organization initiated by Ruan Yu when he was a master's student at Harvard, at first there were only Harvard classmates who studied the same group of topics as Ruan Yu, and later absorbed many Harvard elites, after Ruan Yu became famous on Wall Street, this originally unknown private club became the most concentrated place for young elites on Wall Street, and most of the members were alumni from Harvard, Wharton, and MIT. I don't know when it began, the club formed a habit of gathering twice a year, and voted once in the first half of the year to select the countries and cities that most people are willing to go to in the first half of the year, and by chance, the party in the second half of this year was set in Suzhou. Ruan Yu is the initiator of the club, although he gave up the title of president to another alumnus because he spent most of his time in China, but as a founding person, Ruan Yu will not leave directly without greeting or calling, talent is important in the financial circle, but network resources are sometimes more important than talent. This can be seen from the fact that Ruan Yu, who has never liked to be restrained, is dressed in black professional clothes, personality is important, but it still needs to be divided into occasions.

When he returned to the venue chartered by Kempinski, the host happened to call Ruan Yu's name, and the crazy girl of the Ruan family, who had just pushed the door in, didn't say a word, and went straight through the center of the venue to the podium. Dozens of pairs of eyes of different colors are staring at this beautiful Asian woman who is likely to become a "female Buffett" in the future, and every half a year at the club gathering, this talented woman will give a speech that shakes half of Wall Street, so they are curious and looking forward to what kind of surprises this beautiful woman will bring to themselves today under the premise of the current European debt crisis and the decline in the US economic growth.

Ruan Yu stood in front of the podium, swept around the financial elites sitting in the audience, and after a few seconds, slowly said in standard American English: "Many people should be very much looking forward to my speech today, because according to past experience, everyone knows that after listening to Ruan Yu's speech, it is not surprising that there will be more than 40% investment income in half a year." There was a good-natured smile from the audience, and some people who have benefited for several years in a row clapped their hands sincerely.

The woman of the Ruan family smiled slightly: "Actually, I don't want to talk to you about finance today. The audience suddenly fell silent.

"I'm sure there are a lot of people in the audience who, like me, graduated from the prestigious Harvard University, and who have graduated from Harvard in recent years. Some people in the audience nodded, but the vast majority of them were confused, because they didn't understand what the women of the Ruan family wanted to express.

"Yes, you guessed it right, I want to talk about happiness with the elite of the financial industry today. "No one is a fool to become a real member through the strict scrutiny of the guò club, on the contrary, most of them are genius-level people with an IQ of more than 150, although Ruan Yu's topic has nothing to do with finance, but they still listen very carefully and patiently, and many of them also open their laptops and mobile phones to record the recording software.

"What is happiness? Many people who have lower incomes than us and who live in worse circumstances think that we are happier than them, because we can wear a suit of several thousand dollars, wear an Armani tie or a Hermès silk scarf, and go to all kinds of high-end occasions, and it is true that our material life is richer than theirs, and we can enjoy much more things than theirs, but, all of you, who dares to say that you are absolutely happy at this moment?"

The audience was silent for an instant, and there was no sound of hitting the computer keyboard, and everyone was thinking about the question thrown by Ruan Yu: Are we really happy?

"Not long ago, I met someone. He was different from everyone in this room, he hadn't gone to school for a day, but he had read more than ten times more books than many people who had completed their Ph.D. and then went on postdoc, and he had been trapped on a mountain for twenty-five years and couldn't leave half a step. Twenty-five years old, I believe that there are many people in the audience who are just in their early twenties like me, and you may have traveled to many inaccessible places in the world, but at most he has walked to the foothills of the mountains in twenty-five years. In order not to affect the two brothers who are as talented as you and me, he resolutely came to a strange coastal city alone, worked as a brick movers on construction sites, mixed cement, walked through scaffolding without any protection, and counted building materials, earning more than 2,000 yuan a month, which is only more than 300 US dollars. Three hundred dollars, enough for all of you to have a dinner, a romantic date, and yet with a brother who was only six or seven years old, he was very happy in his construction work, and he felt very happy. By chance, he studied hard for 25 years and finally gave him the opportunity to be a tutor in a large family, and finally, his salary rose to 5,000, and he didn't have to worry about eating and drinking, but he was still reluctant to take the bus for two yuan a trip, and he would still buy a few more books with the money saved. Finally, one day, the child of a large family was kidnapped. Speaking of this, the Ruan family's crazy girl stopped, and everyone in the audience raised their heads and waited for her to continue.

The big family actually sent him to negotiate with the gangsters, and without bringing a dime of ransom, he went to the place where the gangsters were holding hostages. Before I got out of the car, I asked him if it was worth losing his life to earn that little money? Guess what he said. ”

No one objected to the Ruan family's crazy girl talking about a topic that had nothing to do with finance at all, on the contrary, these elites with very diffuse thinking were all speculating about what the unknown young man had said.

"Did he say he wanted to join the gangsters in collecting the ransom?" a young Middle Eastern man with a long beard shouted in accented English.

"Does that mean it's a teacher's duty?" said a young European.

"Did you mean he was forced?" said another young Japanese.

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The answers of the financial elite are varied, and in the end, even the answer that there is a beautiful lover among the kidnappers comes out

"I'm glad that none of you took the initiative to relate this sentence to finance, and it is true that his answer has nothing to do with finance, but your answer is not right. Ruan Yu paused and put away the smile on his face, "At that time, he replied like this, 'No, why isn't it worth it?' A blind bear of a few hundred pounds can't shoot me to death, and a person who weighs a hundred or ten pounds is afraid of a ball? crushed to death, eighteen years later, he is a good man, if he can't be crushed, Lao Tzu will have the opportunity to become a king. ’”

The last paragraph of Ruan Yu is spoken in Chinese, in fact, because of Ruan Yu, more than half of the members of this club are proficient in Chinese, and the rest are at least half-hanging. Ruan Yu's words were thrown into the hearts of this group of financial elites, and after digesting this passage, the previous worries about European debt and economic recession were swept away, and a pride in creating a historical myth in the low period of the financial market suddenly arose. After more than ten seconds of silence, a burst of thunderous applause suddenly broke out, and the eldest lady of the Ruan family also left the venue under the eyes of everyone.

"Very wonderful speech! Rachel, your speech is really wonderful!" said the young man who sent Ruan Yu out of the hotel.

Ruan Yu smiled: "Thank you, Jimmy, you will have to trouble you in the next trip, I suddenly encountered some urgent matters to deal with." ”

As the second president of the club, Jimmy is also one of the loyal Ruan fans, and he sent Ruan Yu to the car very gentlemanly all the way, until the Audi Q7 disappeared from sight, he shrugged his shoulders: "Twenty-five-year-old construction worker, interesting, I really want to meet if I have the opportunity." ”