Chapter 208, Mom
"Why? Are you so good? The rich woman was very strange, but after thinking about it for a while, she understood, and said, "Is that boy not worthy of you?" β
Guan Yi hesitated, but nodded slowly and said, "Actually, as soon as I was born, the path of this life has already been set. I can't control my future relationship and marriage...... Although I don't know who my fiancΓ© is, my dad is definitely engaged, and I can only choose one of the groups of people he chooses at most, and I don't have the ability to choose on my own. β
"Wouldn't it?!" The rich woman was surprised, "In the current era of marriage freedom, these things are still important?" Didn't you go for it? β
Guan Yi smiled bitterly and shook her head, she fought for the last four years of her life, how could she fight for anything else? And in this generation, she is the only daughter of the patriarch of the family, and from the beginning of her birth, she has decided the path of the next life. She could refuse, or even run away from home, but in this case, her father's estate would fall into the hands of several clansmen. Although Guan Yi doesn't love money, she can't be sorry for her father and the family's efforts for hundreds of years.
The rich woman tilted her head and looked at her: "Is your family very rich?" β
Guan Yi thought about it, and finally nodded.
The rich woman sighed: "It's no wonder. Then she stopped talking, because she was also a rich person, so she had naturally been exposed to this kind of thing. Such marriages are often not confined to girls, and are also the case with many boys. If there is money and power in the family, the first principle of marriage is to be the right person.
In fact, it is not completely unreasonable to be a good match, if the gap between the two family levels is too large, then the education that you have been exposed to since childhood is different. Many wealthy families - rich here refers to the real rich, assets of tens of millions of yuan, really not a rich person - this kind of people are now "aristocrats", they attach great importance to the cultivation of their children, etiquette, musical instruments, fine arts, golf, equestrian and so on...... Many things that ordinary people have no access to at all, they have been cultivating since childhood, and they use the fastest and least time-wasting methods to teach their children.
I have to say that children who grow up under this kind of education, unless they are idiots, their knowledge will indeed exceed that of most ordinary children of the same age.
This kind of cultivation is not for the sake of pretending, but because now rich people have to learn this kind of thing if they want to improve their taste. In the future, when these aristocratic children grow up, they will have to take over the affairs of the family, and they will have to deal with people in a circle, the kind of people who are impolite, think they are mavericks, have countless holes in their ears, dress themselves like ghosts, and think that they are beautiful, and they will definitely not be likable.
As for the kind of poor sons and rich daughters in movie novels, or poor girls climbing high branches and becoming phoenixes, there are too few. It's pitiful, even if the woman has excellent looks, but most people who dream of marrying into a wealthy family and work hard for this thing can only become those courtesans who are happy.
Unless, she must have enough identity when she has appearances - such as those famous female stars in the film and television industry, and world champions like Guo Jingjing.
As for the poor boy wanting to marry the rich lady, and the rich lady also likes to swear with the poor boy, eating regardless of the image, the so-called affectionate drinking and drinking full thing...... That's even more impossible!
How could a beautiful rich lady not have a bunch of people coveting it? And many of them are people with very good backgrounds. If an ordinary poor boy really hooked up with a rich lady, it would definitely not take three days, he would leave the city with a blue nose and swollen face and a few broken bones, or he would be directly evaporated from the world.
Pretty realistic society, isn't it?
Well, even if you take 10,000 steps back, this poor boy and the rich girl have overcome many difficulties with the power of so-called love and finally come together. And what about after that?
The poor boy has no money, and he thinks that spending money on luxury goods is a waste. But the rich girl has been pampered since she was a child, she likes fashionable designer clothes, and often buys a pile of clothes at home but doesn't actually wear it much. In order to maintain her youth, she has to go to the spa and do treatments...... That's a lot of money!
If a rich girl leaves the family's property support, how can she have the money to continue to live her previous life?
Poor couples mourn!
Moreover, rich girls like opera and stage performances, and often spend money to buy tickets to see performances. But the poor boy still thinks that the money is not worth it, so it is better to get a computer at home and watch a movie...... The gap in surnames and hobbies will lead to the gradual accumulation of contradictions and then be intensified, and eventually the rich girl will feel that she is stupid, and she will feel that she used to think that boys were mavericks, and that it was vulgar to say foul words, and she would feel that this kind of love was not interesting.
This is actually the right door.
For example, if you are a high-achieving student who graduated from college and earns a lot of money, would you marry a country woman who can't even speak Mandarin, has never been to school, can't use a computer, and can't read foreign blockbusters? Even if she's good-looking!
Marriage is not about choosing beauty, but choosing a partner, choosing someone to spend your life with.
The rich woman sighed, some things are very realistic, and the reality is difficult to accept, at least at their current age. In fact, if it is for their future good, the so-called long pain is better than short pain, and the rich woman thought that it would be better to divide it early while the feelings were not deep. But looking at Guan Yi's sad appearance, she couldn't bear it, and comforted: "Girl, don't be completely discouraged, the so-called don't bully the poor boy, if your boyfriend is down-to-earth and hardworking, and has the ability, he will still have a chance to be with you in the future." β
Guan Yi smiled and didn't speak.
She believes in Chen Xu's ability very, very much, and it is really good for a freshman to achieve such results. And a lot of his achievements are factors that exclude the support of his family. If such a person has no talent, no one will believe it. But after all, manpower is sometimes poor! No matter how strong Chen Xu's ability is, it is impossible for him to create a great business empire single-handedly...... At least, it is absolutely impossible for her to complete this impossible task before she is forced to marry, even if she lives a lifetime.
Because Guan Yi's family is poor, it has been poor for two hundred years and more than ten generations of hard work to have the situation it is today, which has experienced risks and opportunities, and every opportunity can bring huge wealth to the family. This kind of wealth acquisition is simply unimaginable now. Therefore, she didn't believe that Chen Xu could do it, otherwise even if she had the slightest chance, she would leave it to Chen Xu.
How big is Guan Yi's family?
Rabies Buster has received a very good response all over the world, and because it is a complete monopoly, there is no need to worry that it will not be sold. Now Chen Xu's father's assets have reached nearly two billion US dollars, and he is completely a well-known rich man in China. But how does this asset rank in the world?
In this year's Forbes list, Bill Gates continues his No. 1 career, but the mythical founder of Microsoft is retiring. But his net worth of $40 billion is enough to become the goal of countless people. Warren Buffett, who is followed behind, is $37 billion, which is more than all the family assets of Chen Xu's father.
Although Rabies Buster has an absolute monopoly, because the drug is so small, it is difficult to get any large income nowadays, unless there is a big outbreak of rabies in some places - but this is almost impossible. Three billion dollars, relying on the money earned by rabies patients and defense agencies all over the world, after deducting taxes, there is not much left to invest in factories and so on.
So, billions of dollars in assets are actually nothing on the Forbes list, and there is a problem...... The Forbes list is actually not accurate at all. Many people don't know that the Forbes ranking is actually just an ornament, a kind of value competition on the surface. Many of the world's invisible riches, family forces hidden in the dark, are simply impossible to make this list.
It's not that they are not worth enough, to be honest, compared to them, not to mention the Chen Xu family, Bill Gates's little money is not enough to see at all, because they are low-key, these families have a decisive influence on the economy and politics of the world - such as the Rothschild family, they almost control the Federal Reserve, but their names have never been seen in mainstream media reports.
And the Morgan family and the Rockefeller family, which were picked up by the Rochester family, did not appear on the Forbes list. That kind of value competition was originally a farce. In other words, they are all some who rise up with their own strength, and can make ordinary people have a thought, like the protagonist in the novel. Like Gates, like Warren Buffett.
Another example is those, Saudi Arabia's princes and nobles, their assets, their invisible assets, can't be calculated at all, so these people can't appear on the Forbes list at all.
These families can really be regarded as rich!
And what kind of situation is Guan Yi's family? Is there such a powerful Chinese family in the world?
The answer is yes.
In the 19th century, when the Eight-Nation Coalition opened the door of the Qing Dynasty, which was closed to the country, several far-sighted officials in China at that time, such as Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, and Zuo Zongtang, launched the Westernization Movement, using the slogan of mastering the skills of the master and the control of the country, to learn the advanced technology of foreign countries. At that time, many people went abroad with their families.
Most of these people were young talents at that time, very smart and very capable and receptive, these people came across the ocean with a large amount of gold and silver, came to a strange country, and learned advanced technology and knowledge from foreign countries. Some of these people were not the kind of conservative, stubborn people, and it turned out that these people were much better mixed up than the conservatives. Because they were eclectic, they embraced the very advanced ideas of the West at that time, including the idea of equality and freedom at that time.
This group of people carried a lot of wealth and had been operating behind the scenes, and few people knew that they were Orientals. You know, since ancient times, the Chinese have been very smart, and they will have people who show outstanding talent in any field. But the Chinese liked the most infighting, and the foreigners at that time were more than a little bit behind the Chinese in terms of intrigue and trickery!
When this group of people put their minds on dealing with foreigners, they are simply like fish in water. And the most discerning group of people in this group found that the Qing Dynasty political axe at that time was not worth their desperate efforts again, so they finally gave up the Qing political axe and set up their own door.
And now, in the past two hundred years, these families have gradually grown, and they are getting farther and farther away from China. But the ancestral training of several families let them know that the fallen leaves return to their roots, so although they do not have Chinese nationality, they have always been oriented to this side and have their own assets in China.
The Guan Yi family, and Dong Qingqing's family, no, Dong Qingju's family, are all like this - of course, there are other ancient families.
Coincidentally, the housekeeper and the ancestors of the Dong family were once in Harmony City, of course, the name here was not called Harmony City at that time. Therefore, the heirs of the two families of this generation actually met and went to school in Harmony City in this way, and met Chen Xu...... So Guan Yi doesn't think that Chen Xu can have the ability to catch up with her family, and she is the only heir of this generation, the female head of the family. Therefore, her choice of mate is extremely strict, and it is impossible for her to fall on Chen Xu's head.
Of course, it is impossible for her to tell this rich woman about this kind of thing, because this kind of thing is extremely confidential. Now she came here to live an ordinary life, but at the same time she also found a stand-in to pretend to be her name in Cambridge as the housekeeper lady, in order to deal with the children of those big families.
Just when both of them were sighing, Chen Xu's voice suddenly came from behind them: "Guan Yi, you haven't left yet?" β
Guan Yi turned around, and her figure got out of the way, allowing Chen Xu to see the rich woman behind her. At this time, Guan Yi saw Chen Xu's expression like a sunset, he looked at the rich woman and called a word, hearing this word, Guan Yi's psychological quality was also shocked and almost fainted.
Because Chen Xu shouted:
"Mom!"
(To be continued)