Chapter 017: I wish you a happy life
Para'atu, California, United States of America.
At Facebook's headquarters, a middle-aged programmer with a Chinese face is typing on the keyboard with a bright face, his name is Constance Tang, the Chinese name is Tang Yao, one of the thousands of programmers on Facebook.
But soon it won't.
Because instead of typing out code, he's typing a resignation.
An hour ago, the results of the latest lottery draw came out: $700 million, and he was the winner.
Tang Yao never imagined that the lottery ticket he bought at a convenience store would have won the biggest prize in the past five years.
Nearly half of the $700 million needs to be deducted, and the rest is all owned by him, and it is estimated that $400 million can reach him, which is enough for him to live dozens of lifetimes!
Thinking of this, Tang Yao really wanted to look up to the sky and yell: Zuckerberg, can you still trap me in this little fish pond?
Although Tang Yao couldn't wait to stand up and dance now, he could only suppress his excitement in order not to attract the attention of people with bad intentions.
At this time, the mobile phone rings.
After Tang Yao picked it up, he greeted perfunctorily: "Hello, this is Constance Tang from Facebook Corportation. οΌβ
However, the phone rang in Chinese: "Little Tang, I am grandma, I found out that Tang Guofeng, who helped our family back then, is your uncle, he has a direct descendant, you have won the jackpot now, but you have to help them." β
Tang Yao knew that it involved the lottery, so he also changed to Chinese, and he was the only one in this office who knew Chinese, so it was safer to use Chinese.
Three generations of immigrants who still understand Chinese are definitely a rare species.
Tang Yao asked, "Grandma, of course, what is his name?" β
Tang Guofeng is a figure of Tang Yao's grandfather's generation, and with Tang Guofeng's desperate help, his family survived the war, and escaped to the other side of the Atlantic through an accident.
Grandma thought for a while over there and said, "That kid has just gone to college, his name is Tang Xiang, I think you can call him RMB 5 million." β
"Now that our country has just finished hosting the Olympics, listening to the BBC and FOX reports, saying that the country's money has been emptied, and now I am afraid that there will be no grass!"
The BBC is the British Broadcasting Corporation and the FOX is the Fox News Channel.
Tang Yao said disappreciatively: "Grandma, these two are typical conservatives, although all our media are hacking China, but conservatives are the most ruthless, you can just listen to their words as a joke." β
However, his grandmother didn't seem to be satisfied with his answer: "I grew up there, and I don't know what it's like there?"
Grandma said in a kind voice: "In short, our motherland should be quite poor, giving Tang Xiang's child five million should be enough for decades, and when you stabilize the jackpot prize, we will contact them." β
"Don't forget, just add a note to the money and transfer it, don't rush to contact just yet. β
Grandma thought very simply, although she wanted to find her ancestors and visit relatives, but she was not guilty, she had so much idle money, what if she was known by poor relatives and was chased upside down.
Tang Yao smiled helplessly and corrected: "Grandma, first of all, our motherland is USA, not CHINA. β
"In addition, now CHINA is no longer the era you live in, they are much richer than before, and they make money by hosting the Olympics, how can it be that the money of the whole country has been emptied?"
Tang Yao expressed his dissatisfaction with these media with private goods.
"Don't be brainwashed by the conservatives, now that the election is in its final stage, they are already going crazy when they see that they don't report their positions, and they are going to come with all the news out of their mouths. β
Grandma snorted coldly over there: "You stinky boy, no matter what you think, grandma will definitely not vote for that Ao, Ao, Ao or something?"
βO~ba~ma.β Tang Yao read out that person's name word by word.
Grandma was stubborn: "It doesn't matter if he's a horse or a donkey, I'll leave it here anyway, he definitely can't win, how can an African American be the president?" β
"Whether he wins or not, you say it doesn't count. Tang Yao whispered.
Grandma didn't want to quarrel with her grandson because of this, so she ended the topic in a huff.
"We'll see you next month, just listen to my command in the next few days, and send the five million to Tang Xiang's kid first. β
Tang Yao agreed, "OK."
......
Tang Xiang, who was far away on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, had just gotten up from a nap when he received a transfer text message:
"Hello Mr. Tang, your bank card with the tail number of 1438 received a transfer of 5,000,000.00 yuan on October 12, 2008. β
It's been a week since the eleventh holiday, and you're still having a good time?
I don't know why CCB's operators are so lazy.
Tang Xiang looked at the transfer information of five million yuan and clapped his hands excitedly: "It's finally here, I've finally become a millionaire now!"
Even though the money has to be returned to the game after a month, a millionaire for a month is still a millionaire.
However, it was only ten minutes of work that Tang Xiang received a phone call, and the caller ID was marked as: Lingshuihe Branch of Tailian Construction Bank.
Tang Xiang was mentally prepared for this, so he picked up the phone, and the standard and sweet Mandarin of the customer service sister came from the other side: "Hello, are you Mr. Tang Xiang?"
After Tang Xiang picked up the phone, he was still in a state of excitement about receiving the transfer, and he wanted to rap into the phone now: yes! Itβs me! Whatβs upοΌ
Of course, this kind of thing must not be spoken, Tang Xiang replied in a polite and slightly cold tone: "Hello, it's me." β
The customer service asked tentatively: "If there is no mistake, do you know that your bank card with the tail number has just received a transfer of Wu Baiyuan, and it is a cross-border transfer." β
Tang Xiang said in a casual tone: "Of course I know." β
The customer service girl frowned on the phone, this answer is too streamlined, under normal circumstances, customers will take the initiative to quickly explain the situation, and now it seems that they can only ask slowly.
Of course, Tang Xiang will not take the initiative to explain, after all, if you say too much, you will lose.
So she continued to ask: "Your bank card was purchased by Tailian University of Technology for freshmen, and the account was opened for less than three months, so you should be a freshman, right?"
Tang Xiang said, "Yes." β
The customer service girl sighed softly over there: It's another bean-like answer.
Good cold customer.
Tang Xiang had long known that this large transfer exceeded the standard line of bank monitoring, so the bank must have questioned him.
If he is the general manager of a large company, or a well-known local tycoon, with tens of millions of daily turnover in his account, then more than 500,000 monitoring lines, the bank will only file at most.
But his card is only used by students, except for the 300,000 yuan he got from cashing in gold last time, the most inflow per month is the 600 yuan living expenses given to him by Tang Zhihai, so the sudden receipt of 5 million transfers will inevitably attract the attention of the bank.
The customer service had to continue to ask: "Since the amount you received does not match your display status, I need you to explain the source of the money." β
Tang Xiang breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this: it seemed that it was just a routine inquiry.
So he replied truthfully: "This money is sent from Lao Mei, the sender is my cousin Constance Tang, the Chinese name is Tang Yao, he is the winner of the latest lottery jackpot, because there is such a layer of kinship, so I have a larger amount of money to help." β
There was a slight smacking sound on the other side of the phone, and soon the pleasant voice of the customer service rang again: "Mr. Tang, we already know the situation you reflected, and it is the same as what we know." β
As we know about it?
You all know what's going on, and what are you calling me for?
Eat too many salted duck eggs, idle?
Tang Xiang said suspiciously, "You already understand the situation?"
Customer service: "Yes, Mr. Tang, Mr. Tang Yao has explained the situation on the transfer remarks, and there is no problem after verification, and I just follow the prescribed process." β
The implication is that I'm going through a formality.
Tang Xiang also breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, he originally thought that it would take a fierce battle to explain the source of funds, but he didn't expect it to be so simple, it seems that the bank is not as responsible as he imagined.
"That's fine, goodbye. Tang Xiang was about to hang up the phone as he spoke.
"Sir, please wait!" the customer service quickly stopped her.
Tang Xiang was puzzled: "Is there anything else?" β
"That's right, Mr. Tang, we have some wealth management businesses and products to introduce to you here. The customer service's mouth suddenly seemed to be loaded with a machine gun, and he shot at Tang Xiang at an average speed of six words per second:
"Do you want to invest in a shocking financial product?"
"Do you want to get the money in your hand pregnant and give birth to more money?"
"...... are you?"
Tang Xiang immediately interrupted her: "Wait a while, I don't want to, Dadi doesn't want to." β
However, the customer service quickly replied: "Sir, this is our fixed advertising slogan, ah no." It's my training sales words, no! it's our first phrase......"
The customer service girl seemed to realize that she couldn't come back, so she simply gave up struggling: "Anyway, I just read it out for you, and I didn't mean to ask for your reply." β
Tang Xiang: ( ΜΠ Μ)γ
"The cash cow wealth management product is our bank's self-operated, medium and low-risk, non-principal-guaranteed floating income wealth management product, as long as the raised funds are invested in high-quality corporate trust financing projects, the product yield is not only ......."
"All in all, the income of this product is higher than that of all similar wealth management products in other banks!"
However, what she said next was thunderous:
"Please keep in mind that although our wealth management products are at a disadvantage year-on-year, we must emphasize the advantages and pay attention to the ...... of this paragraph when selling."
The voice of the customer service girl is getting quieter and quieter.
Tang Xiang: β(βββΟβββ)β
There was no movement on the other side of the phone for a long time.
"Goodbye, Mr. Tang, I wish you a happy life. The voice on the other side was a little crying.
Toot, toot, toot, toot β