On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Qian Shulan and Xiaowu's family returned to Shenzhen again.
They officially established an electrical appliance company, with Qian Shulan holding 70% and Xiaowu and his wife holding 30%. This was mainly because she had contributed the most money before, and the money borrowed this time was also borrowed in her name.
Wangjia Village also began reform and opening up. The Wangjia Village Production Team was officially renamed Wangjia Village. Wang Shouquan was the team secretary and Qian Minghua was the village chief.
Zhou Xuemei's land was not divided among Li Chunhua, but was cultivated by Zhengjun and his wife.
In the words of Zhengjun's wife, she has many brothers from her mother's family, and when she is too busy, she can ask them to come and help. If you can plant six or seven acres of land without spending money, only a fool would push it away.
Seeing that her third sister-in-law was unwilling to plant the crops, Zhou Xuemei naturally let Zhengjun and his wife do it.
Qian Shulan, who is far away in Hong Kong, doesn't know all this. She is now in Hong Kong looking for the whereabouts of Dashuanzi, Xiaolihua and Ma Yunhao.
Hong Kong is so big that it would take her forever to find the missing person, so Qian Shulan directly posted a missing person notice in the newspaper. However, although this is the best way at present, it may not be successful.
You know, she had asked Li Shirong to help take care of Da Shuanzi and Xiao Lihua before, and Li Shirong put it in the newspaper just like her. But the two never contacted him.
After leaving the newspaper, Qian Shulan took Wang Shouzhi with her, introduced by Li Shirong, and prepared to negotiate with several foreign electrical appliance brands for the agency rights to operate these brands in China.
It's called management rights, but in fact it means that these home appliances will be built in China, and they will directly buy goods from the factory. Of course, everything is conditional. They must sell a certain amount every year before they will consider building a factory in China.
China was very poor at that time, and these people were not optimistic about the Chinese market. Qian Shulan signed the contract smoothly.
Three Japanese electrical appliance brands were signed, and two Korean electrical appliance brands were also signed.
Li Shirong raised his eyebrows when he saw the two people were so generous, "Aren't you worried about losing everything?"
He has invested in more than a dozen supermarkets, most of the products in them are shipped from overseas, so the supermarkets are still losing money. But he has a lot of assets over the years, so he can still afford the losses.
These two people are gambling with their entire fortune. If China's reform and opening up is successful, it will be fine. But if not, these two people will lose everything they have invested.
If Li Shirong put himself in his shoes, he would definitely not dare to gamble so big.
Qian Shulan put the signed contract into her newly bought briefcase and said with a smile, "If we lose money, we lose money. We can earn more as long as we have hands and feet. At worst, we have a food factory to support us, so we won't be unable to support ourselves."
Li Shirong's eyes sparkled. Apart from anything else, Aunt Qian was in her seventies or eighties, yet she was still so brave. This courage made him admire her wholeheartedly.
"You will definitely succeed." They have even thought of a way out. It seems that the two are not gambling, but are really confident.
"I heard that the head of Mig Electric Appliances from the UK is coming here to participate in a charity auction. Do you want to discuss cooperation with them?" Li Shirong suddenly spoke.
Mig appliances? This brand is definitely a high-end British home appliance brand. In the current domestic situation, most people probably can't afford it. Li Shirong was not optimistic either. He just asked a routine question.
But when Qian Shulan heard this, her eyes lit up with excitement. In later generations, this brand was once glorious in China for a period of time. As soon as it entered China, it seized the high-end home appliance market in China. Later, domestically developed home appliance brands rose rapidly, and MIG gradually retreated to the UK.
Does this mean that she can make a fortune before the product is fully developed in China
"Please introduce me to someone." Qian Shulan made the decision quickly.
"Do you two still have money?" You know, the agency fee and down payment for starting a brand is a considerable amount of money. Where do they get so much money
Qian Shulan nodded affirmatively, "Yes!"
She had to make some money even if she didn't have any. At worst, she could just sell her yellow croakers.
Seeing that she was determined, Li Shirong stopped trying to persuade her and took out two tickets for the auction. "Okay, see you tomorrow morning."
Although Qian Shulan likes to collect antiques, she doesn't really like attending these charity auctions. They're too elegant, and she has to wear a dress, which is too much trouble. If it weren't for Mig, she would never have attended.
The next day, Qian Shulan and Wang Shouzhi went to a beauty salon to get their hair done in the style of the Republic of China. They had their hair permed into a swallowtail style, which was a bit similar to the style Zhao Wei wore when she sang on stage. Wang Shouzhi almost burst out laughing, and Qian Shulan also felt that it was a bit eye-catching, but there was nothing she could do about it because she could only have this kind of perm. She couldn't stand other styles, so she could only accept it reluctantly.
The two arrived at the auction at the designated time.
Hong Kong had not yet returned to China at that time, so the auction was also very British in style. The Republic of China clothes worn by Qian Shulan seemed rather strange.
However, she didn't care about the unusual looks from others. Before Li Shirong showed up, she was looking at the collections at the auction.
There will be antiques at this auction, but they are few and far between.
With Qian Shulan's current vision, she quickly discovered that the collection value of these antiques was not high, and she had no intention of buying them.
She took a casual glance and actually saw a painting by Picasso. Qian Shulan had seen many such modernist paintings before.
Her best friend Han Xiaoqing once told her that her family had a Picasso painting worth hundreds of millions, but Han Xiaoqing, who had no artistic talent at all, said she couldn't appreciate the beauty of it at all.
"This should be true, right?" Qian Shulan heard someone ask next to her.
"Of course it's real. This painting was Mr. White's collection. If his son hadn't lost all the family business, it wouldn't have ended up like this." A person nearby explained.
Qian Shulan raised her eyebrows, and when Li Shirong came over, she pointed at the painting.
Seeing that she was actually very interested in the painting, Li Shirong did not hide it from her, "It is indeed true."
He originally wanted to buy a few paintings for his own collection, so he asked someone to appraise all the paintings, and this painting was no exception.
Qian Shulan's heart moved. She liked to invest in antiques not because she liked them, but because she knew how to identify antiques. In fact, celebrity paintings have a higher collection value than antiques.
She wanted to open a museum, and it would not be justified if there were no paintings in it. Now this painting was the one with the greatest investment value, and she secretly decided to take a picture of it.
The auction hadn't started yet, but everyone else had arrived. In essence, this kind of auction was still an excuse for everyone to do business.
Li Shirong quickly took Shulan and the other two to a man in a black suit. Although it was a British brand, the person in charge of the Asia region was a yellow-skinned, black-eyed Chinese.
Li Shirong introduced the two people, "Aunt Qian, this is the head of MIG Asia, Mr. Boone White."
Qian Shulan felt vaguely that the other person looked familiar. Just as she was about to ask, a girl came up from behind, patted her arm and said with a smile, "Brother, do you want a glass of champagne?"
Qian Shulan raised her eyebrows. This girl also had black hair, black eyes and yellow skin. She was obviously Chinese. She felt that these two people looked more and more familiar.
But the man seemed not to hear his sister's voice. After careful identification, he asked tentatively, "Excuse me, are you Ms. Qian Shulan?"
More than 20 years have passed, and Da Shuanzi never expected to meet his lifelong benefactor in Hong Kong. He came back to Hong Kong this time because he heard that China had changed, and he wanted to come and find out whether it was true or not. He wanted to repay Grandma Qian who had been kind to him.
"Da Shuanzi? You are Da Shuanzi?" Qian Shulan didn't dare to recognize him at all. Who would connect the young talent in front of her with the down-and-out little boy who was almost starving to death
Da Shuanzi was so excited that he couldn't say anything more while holding Qian Shulan's hand. "Grandma Qian, you are still so energetic? That's great!"
Xiao Lihua was next to him and the wine glass in his hand almost fell to the ground. Li Shirong suddenly realized that Mr. White was Dashuanzi.
"Grandma Qian, I miss you so much!" Little Lihua excitedly threw herself into Qian Shulan's arms. Others heard her exclamation and cast their eyes over.
Qian Shulan smiled and patted her on the back.
This was no longer the place to talk, so Li Shirong immediately led them to a secluded place to chat.
Dashuanzi briefly explained his situation, and Qian Shulan realized that Dashuanzi's situation was so difficult.
"It's all my fault. I should have arranged for you before I left." Qian Shulan blamed herself a little. Because she didn't do business with Li Shirong during that period, she couldn't open her mouth to ask him to take care of the brother and sister. Otherwise, they wouldn't have suffered so much.
"No, no, we didn't suffer much. The main reason was that we didn't have a household registration, so we had to hide from place to place. But when we met old Mr. White, everything got better." Dashuanzi explained with a smile.
Qian Shulan smiled slightly, "You are very lucky."
The gold bars she left for them could only help them get rid of their financial problems, but they had no identity and lived a hard life. Da Shuanzi met Mr. White by accident, who liked Da Shuanzi's character very much and adopted him as his son. They went to England together, got new identities, and started a normal life.
The MIG company where Da Shuanzi worked was a company of the White family. It was Mr. White who decided that Da Shuanzi should be the head of the Asia region.
"Does Mr. White have any children?" Qian Shulan asked a little worriedly. She was not overthinking it. It would really cause conflicts if the adopted son and the biological child lived under the same roof.
Da Shuanzi smiled and said, "Grandma Qian, I know what you are worried about. Old Mr. White and I had an agreement that although I am his adopted son, I will not take the inheritance rights of their family. I will only work for him for ten years. After ten years, I will start my own business. This year is already the third year."
Old Mr. White brought him back just to be a whetstone for his sons. He knew his identity, but that didn't mean he would be slaughtered.
Qian Shulan was slightly startled. Why did she feel that this time point was so similar to the development history of MIG in China? However, she had not paid much attention to this foreign family in her previous life, so she had no way of knowing whether Da Shuanzi had done anything about it.
But Dashuanzi is still Dashuanzi, and he always sticks to his principles.
"You are doing well the way you are now." Qian Shulan was very happy.