He Wanqi
Ho Hung-sin is known as the "Macau Gambling King", but the first generation of "gambling queens" is not any of his wives and concubines, but his sister Ho Wanqi.
After all, in addition to the original match, when the other wives and concubines of the gambling king entered his life, He Hongshen had already achieved fame and fortune, and the family property was complete, and the natural relatives and friends of his generation who fought with him in the early years to lay down the family.
Among them, the most beautiful process, the most desperate ending, and the most lamented in life is the sister of the gambling king, the famous "Ten Girls" gambling queen He Wanqi.
She once called the wind and rain under Ho Hung-sun alone, was the "Ten Girls" who stomped on Macau to shake; she also desperately pursued love, and had decades of aberration with her cousin He Hongzhang, who did not serve five clothes.
In the end, He Wanqi and her brother He Hongshen and her lover He Hongzhang all turned against each other, and in her later years, she was held hostage and controlled by Bu Xiaozi, so that the other flesh and blood siblings did not see her for the last time.
He Wanqi
The saddest thing is that He Wanqi fell to this fate not because of the "greed for money" that the world ridiculed, but because she was a mother, an eccentric mother.
Jia Mu in "Dream of the Red Chamber" was biased towards her younger son Jia Zheng and grandson Jia Baoyu, laying the bane of the Jia family's raid on the family.
He Wanqi is like Jia Mu, for the sake of her favorite son, she gave up family affection, love, reputation and other children, and went to death alone.
Even before dying, she was still obsessed with fighting for property from her brother so that her beloved son could have money to squander...
Ho Wan-chi and Ho Hung-sun's grandfather was Ho Fook, one of the five great merchants in Hong Kong, and the Ho family was one of the leading Chinese merchants in Hong Kong at that time.
The left he fu in the back row, the front row, the middle he dong, the right one in the front row, he Gantang
In addition to Ho Fook, the other two are Ho Tung, the richest man in Hong Kong, and Ho Kam Tong, a wealthy businessman, Ho Tung is Ho Fook's brother, and Ho Kam Tong is the half-brother of the two.
Ho Dong Ho Fu's father was a Jew from the Netherlands, and coupled with their marriage to other mixed-race families, white genes were very evident in the descendants of the two.
Among them, especially The prominence of Ho Hung Sun And He Wanqi, the specific performance is that the appearance of the young is exceptionally outstanding.
Left one He Wanqi
Ho Wanqi has been a notorious beauty since childhood, and the most spoiled darling of her father, Ho Sai Kwong, who lived a carefree and wealthy life in a mansion in the Mid-Levels of Hong Kong before the age of 10.
European and American speculators who controlled Hong Kong in 1934 realized that Asia was already in jeopardy in Japan's frenzied aggression.
These bloodthirsty gold-devouring beasts set a large number of traps to nearly plunder the Chinese merchants and middle class on Hong Kong Island.
Even a wealthy merchant family like He Shiguang, who has been rich for two generations, has a solid family foundation, and has social status, is not immune.
The person who drew the circle was He Wanqi
He Shiguang's fourth brother, He Shiliang, could not accept the bankruptcy and committed suicide directly, while his second brother He Shiyao was insane due to the betrayal of his business partner.
He Shiguang was also in debt, and even fled to Vietnam to hide his debts.
Because of financial constraints, He Shiguang could not escape with his whole family, and could only let his wife Xian Xingyun stay in Hong Kong with some of his younger children to withstand the persecution of creditors and relatives.
Ho Sai Kwong himself went to Vietnam with his elderly children who could already help him in the business field, and the only one he could not give up was his favorite Ho Wan Ki.
He Wanqi, who was only about 10 years old at the time, was determined to follow her father, and probably the sensitive girl had realized the great changes in the family and had to stay by the side of her father who loved her most to have a sense of security.
He Wanqi
He Shiguang really loved her to the extreme, and the pampered little girl on the way to escape was definitely a burden, but after thinking about it again, He Shiguang still took her on the road with him.
However, there is no school suitable for Ho WanQi to receive education in Vietnam, so when the family's economic conditions eased slightly, Ho WanQi returned to Hong Kong to study, while taking care of her father in Vietnam.
The days of traveling between Vietnam and Hong Kong have made Ho Wanqi suffer a lot, but she has also seen a lot of big scenes that she could not have imagined when she was raised in a deep boudoir.
It was also about this experience that allowed Ho Wanqi to be exposed to the profiteering and excitement of the gambling industry earlier than Ho Hongshen.
He Shiguang got a gambling license to run a casino in Vietnam, and although He Wanqi was still young, she was also interested in the casino operation where money flowed.
These extraordinary experiences make He Wanqi's beauty particularly different, roughly looking like a dignified and elegant rich girl, but when you taste it carefully, you can feel a hint of wildness and burning sharpness.
The last emperor of Vietnam, Bao The Great
This charm allowed Ho Wan Qi to capture many admirers, and even the rumored last emperor of Vietnam, Nguyen Phuc Hun, known as "Bao The Great", also fell under her pomegranate skirt.
However, the "love affair" most deeply involved with He Wanqi is naturally her unrequited love with her cousin He Hongzhang.
Although He Hongzhang was younger than He Wanqi, he was the main heir of the grandson of Sir He Dong, the leader of the Ho family.
When He Hongzhang lived with his family in Shanghai when he was a child, when he returned to Hong Kong by chance to attend a family gathering, he saw his cousin He Wanqi, who was as beautiful as a blooming water lily.
"At my grandparents' wedding party, there were hundreds of people present, but I fell in love with her at first sight, she is quite a beauty."
He Wanqi
Decades later, the elderly He Hongzhang still remembers his meeting with He Wanqi with infinite affection.
For He Hongzhang, He Wanqi was originally more curious than good, because He Hongzhang, as the successor of the He Dong family, did not live in Hong Kong when he was a child, and the two were quite strange.
He Hongzhang spent most of his teenage years receiving a more traditional and formal education in Shanghai, with little intercourse with other ethnic groups that had fallen into disrepair.
Back in Hong Kong, Ho Hung-chang is like a teenager who walked out of a glass house for the first time in his life, and what comes into view under the scorching sun is a wild rose that has experienced wind and rain but is particularly brilliant.
He Wanqi
This eye directly hit the teenager who was just fifteen or sixteen years old, and the purest and warmest first love in his life was born.
The eighteen- or nineteen-year-old and well-informed girl did not take the boys who were a few years younger in her eyes at first, and He Wanqi only regarded him as a little brother, and naturally accepted He Hongzhang's closeness.
After spending a long time together, He Wanqi realized that although they were all descendants of the He family, He Hongzhang was completely different from her shrewd and domineering brother He Hongshen.
Among her brothers and sisters, He Wanqi is the closest to her ninth brother, He Hongshen, who is only two years apart in age, and was an inseparable playmate when she was a child.
Ho was only in his early 20s at the time, and the sharpness and oppression that would make the whole of Southeast Asia look at him in the future has gradually taken shape.
Ho
Most of their children are somewhat aggressive, which is the reason why they are extremely fast but also completely collapsed, and the sharp edge is too easy to hurt and easy to die.
He Wanqi was accustomed to seeing the domineering teeth and claws of her brothers in the family, and for the first time she saw the gentlemanly demeanor of a gentleman with a standard He family's face and a humble and courteous demeanor.
Gradually, He Wanqi's feelings for He Hongzhang were no longer simple sister-brother feelings, but gave birth to love that only men and women had, which made He Hongzhang, who was deeply in love with her, ecstatic.
After the two were happy, the feelings of He Hongzhang and He Wanqi quickly warmed up, and the young people did not know how to hide their feelings, and it did not take long for them to be seen by the elders.
The He family is a large family with a large population, each room man has multiple wives and concubines and countless outer chambers, and the marriage family is also a similar mixed-race rich merchant.
He Hongzhang
Therefore, the rules and family style are not as strict as other rich and noble families of scholars, and each house and branch has a private affair and an undignified marriage that is difficult to see.
However, He Hongzhang and He Wanqi fell in love or caused an earthquake among the ruling parents within the He family, after all, the grandfathers of the two were brothers, and they were close relatives who had not yet served five times.
He Hongzhang He Wanqi's blood relationship may not be as close as that of those aunts and cousins who can be legally married, but it violates traditional Chinese ethics.
The parents of the He family immediately beat the Mandarin duck, while driving He Hongzhang back to Shanghai, and then directly sending him to study abroad, while seizing the time to choose a husband for He Wanqi.
Because He Shiguang went bankrupt and fled, his children became broken in the eyes of the Hong Kong tycoons and were not well-regarded in the marriage market.
Even Ho Hung-sin was arranged by the family to go to Macau, and in an almost extraeous form, he married Lai Wanhua, the daughter of the Macau Lai family.
The best men in the marriage market have only "traded" such marriages, and the fate of waiting for He Wanqi can be imagined.
In fact, He Wanqi's luck is not too bad, because of the relationship with He Hongzhang, her marriage He Dong family personally asked, rather than letting the already depressed family come to find.
Ho Wan Qi Mai Chi Wai
The final choice of Mak Chi Wai is the nephew of Ho Hung Cheung's grandfather, Sir Ho Tung, who is considered to be the queen of the Hong Kong Wang.
Although the Mai Zhiwei family is not as rich as in its heyday, there is no longer a large industry, but it is also a proper middle-class family, he is a high-level white-collar worker.
Although Mai Zhiwei was not handsome in appearance of the mixed race in his youth, he was also considered to be a tall face, and he had a good personality, and he was very tolerant of He Wanqi, and his wife was in charge of the family.
However, Mai Zhiwei really has no ability, and his personality is not competitive, he only wants to live a plain and stable life, and does not want to struggle or change.
This kind of stagnant day may be more uncomfortable than death for He Wanqi, who likes a luxurious life and intense stimulation, which Mai Zhiwei can't give.
For Mai Zhiwei, marrying such a beautiful and famous wife, his life will be completely complete, and he only wants his wife and children to be hot.
He Wanqi is an incredibly intelligent woman, although she looks down on her husband from her bones, she will not indulge in self-hatred and self-pity to make her premature aging and ugliness.
She patiently managed her marriage and gave birth to a son and a daughter with Mak Chi-wai, which made the Ho family and his Hong Kong high society praise her;
While learning the knowledge of management, accounting, management, etc., he is enthusiastic about public welfare and social networking, so as to accumulate strength and contacts for the future.
Such a day, Ho Wanqi lived for ten years, until 1953, When Ho returned to Hong Kong from the United States.
He Wanqi
At this time, He Wanqi was already full of age, although there was no longer a girl pure, but her unique elegance and beauty were entering the most blooming season.
He Hongzhang, who has been in the United States for almost ten years, looked at the dream girl with a more exuberant face and walked towards him with a beautiful smile.
At that moment, He Hongzhang's heart fell again.
At this time, the two are not the age of less and less, He Wanqi is a wife and mother, they know that the feelings between each other are not bright, although it is difficult to help themselves, but they have learned to hide carefully.
However, the secret underground love also makes this unrequited love more thrilling and exciting, making them unable to extricate themselves, after all, the more forbidden fruit, the sweeter the taste of stealing.
The extramarital affair between the two lasted for several years, and He Hongzhang was also over thirty years old and was heavily urged to marry as the heir of the family.
He Hongzhang and his family
He Hongzhang loves He Wanqi, and he does not want to enter into a marriage that lacks love and is bound to have betrayal, so he always pushes back on family arrangements.
If He Hongzhang still has some naïveté about this love, He Wanqi is not the age of blind dreaming, she understands that she and He Hongzhang will not have results in this life.
Therefore, He Wanqi has long confessed to the marriage arranged by the family for He Hongzhang, but from the perspective of feelings, it is indeed difficult to escape the pain.
Her empathy and heartbreak made He Hongzhang extremely distressed, so when he gave in to the family marriage, He Hongzhang took 2 million yuan to He Wanqi as compensation.
Ho
Two million in the 1950s, equivalent to 1 billion now, this huge amount of money is not a breakup fee for the two, but a gift from He Hongzhang to He Wanqi to make her happy.
At that time, He Hongzhang felt that he could not hold his lover's hand and send her to the sun, so he built a gold house for her in the dark, so that real gold and silver could warm her lover's body and mind.
In addition to the two million in cash, He Hongzhang also gave He Wanqi a number of properties at home and abroad, a large number of jewelry and other valuable gifts.
He Hongzhang later even made He Wanqi his own executive, and the project he managed turned out to be a trust fund for his sons born in wedlock.
After He Wanqi received He Hongzhang's "love guarantee", she did not hide the money in the small treasury, but generously found her ninth brother He Hongshen and invested in his fledgling company.
The adventurous spirit and desire to pursue fame and fortune in this woman's heart have never been extinguished by the warm water of husband and life, nor will they rely solely on the generous charity of men.
She had been dormant for too long and was about to start making a big splash.
Ho went to Macau in the 1940s and soon became the son-in-law of the local tycoon Lai family, and his ambition, ability and gambling spirit soon came to the fore with the blessing of his wife's family.
Lai Wan Hua Ho Hung Sun
In less than a decade, Ho became one of the most important newcomers in Macau.
But the gun shot the head bird, his limelight stimulated the local forces in Macau, several land snakes began to target him, even if there is the protection of his father-in-law's family, it is only enough for him to retreat from the whole body, and he can no longer stay in Macau.
Ho returned to Hong Kong with a swallow of anger and vowed to go back to the field one day.
In the early 1960s, Macau legalized the gambling industry through a process with the intention of establishing the largest casino in Asia.
Before that, Macau's gambling industry was very developed, but at that time, it belonged to the gray industry that could not be put on the table, and the casinos were controlled by underworld gang backgrounds.
Although these forces are intertwined and deeply rooted, if Macau wants to become a paradise for the legal gambling industry, it must make all operations decent.
Ho Hung-sun just saw this opportunity and returned to Macau with funds and partners, and among these funds was He Wanqi's two million, and the ten girls also came to Macao to personally fight.
The following decades were the most beautiful years for Ho Wanqi, and she became the right-hand man of the Ninth Brother, the "queen of gambling" under the ten thousand people in Macau.
He Hongshen does not care about the details, all the specific implementation is decided by He Wanqi, she exerts the experience gained when she was young and the results of years of learning, soft and hard to keep the gambling king empire in order.
At that time, there was a famous saying: "Ten girls make a sound, and the whole casino will shake." ”
At the same time, her underground love affair with He Hongzhang is still hot, and she has given birth to a son and a daughter for her cousin, of course, the children are registered and raised as Mai Zhiwei's children.
He Wanqi and her son and daughter-in-law Chen Fusheng
He Wanqi and He Hongzhang secretly gave birth to a pair of children, the son is called Mai Shunming's daughter is called Mai Huiyu, they are he Wanqi and Mai Zhiwei's family counted as the third and fourth oldest, there is a brother and a sister on it.
Some people say that He Wanqi is extremely patriarchal, in fact, it is slightly biased, she is not only patriarchal, but gives all her love to Mai Shunming alone.
Just as In the eyes of Jia Mu, the eldest son Jia Yu is only worthy of living in a horse shed, the family property and family property should be inherited by the younger son Jia Zheng.
In He Wanqi's eyes, only Mai Shunming's son was her heart and liver baby, and the other children did not pay much attention to it.
Mai Shunming likes to eat grouper, and every day there is a fresh fish that is his personal meal, and the other brothers and sisters have no share.
Stationery toys and even all supplies, Mai Shunming not only has the largest share, but also has to choose, other brothers and sisters can only take him to pick or even simply not.
This completely unfair coddling intensified as Mai Shunming grew, because Mai Shunming's desire to be overdone by coddling also grew.
The injustice of doting as a child determines at most whose snack toys are more exquisite; when they grow up, they are still the same, and spoiled children who are spoiled by coddling usually have uncontrollable destructive power.
Mai Shunming is such an unrestrained destruction king, he has not inherited the talents of his parents, and is a mediocre person with arrogant self-esteem and low eyesight.
If this kind of person does not have resources, in fact, the harm is limited, but if Mai Shunming has a mother like Wanqi, the destructive effect is a geometric rise.
The left and right horse leaders are Mak Chi Wai and He Wanqi
He Wanqi is shrewd and strong in the mall, invincible in the love field, but all reason in front of Mai Shunming is gone, she only wants to prepare the best for Mai Shunming, and everything else does not matter.
In this insignificant, there are both her ninth brother He Hongshen and her lover He Hongzhang.
He Wanqi is bent on letting Mai Shunming inherit his position and power in Macao Entertainment, if Mai Shunming is a capable and effective descendant, He Hongshen may not be unwilling to give a chance.
But Mai Shunming is a profligate gambler and incompetent, and the various foreign debts owed due to gambling or business failures are as high as hundreds of millions, and every time He Wanqi demolishes the east wall to make up for the west wall to pay off the debt for her son.
He Hongshen had long seen that his nephew was not pleasing to the eye, and as an uncle, he could still pinch his nose to help him pay off his debts, and as a result, He Wanqi actually wanted to stuff such waste into the company as a senior manager!
He Hongshen's own children did not want to enter the core layer, let alone just nephews, and at this time he had already accepted more concubines, and there were more and more children, and he did not want to squander his property to his nephew.
Ho Hongshen launched his favorite four rooms and his sister to fight in the ring, and there are many means to continuously dilute and deprive He Wanqi of her power and shares.
He Wanqi couldn't help but be anxious when she saw that Brother Jiu didn't have any affection, there was no Australian entertainment as a backer, who could take care of her baby son after she died.
He Wanqi's memoirs
So she took He Hongshen to court to fight for property, and on the other hand, she revealed her son's true origin to Mai Shunming, so that he could eat a reassuring pill, and it didn't matter if there was no uncle and his father could rely on it.
Mai Shunming was shocked to learn that his uncle He Hongzhang was actually his biological father, and then he was even more ecstatic.
Although He Hongzhang is not very famous, the wealth of the He Dong family is not comparable to that of the outbreak family.
Mai Shunming is only afraid that with this father, he is a real rich man, no longer a bottomless son.
In fact, in a short period of time, as he wished, after Mai Shunming revealed that he was the son of He Hongzhang and his mother, He Hongzhang recognized this unrequited love and illegitimate son.
Mak Shun Ming randomly changed his name to "Ho Tung Shun Ming" to flaunt his Hong Kong Island Wang's ancestry.
When Mai Shunming was full of ugliness, He Hongzhang's married son became a quarrel, because their property trusts were all managed in the hands of He Wanqi, the "mistress", and they felt insecure.
In order to support He Wanqi, He Hongzhang personally confronted his sons in court, exposing each other's shortcomings, and even the conspiracy paragraphs suspected of killing children were put out, and the father and son were affectionate.
Mai Shunming even used the name of the He Dong family to deceive in various ways, and finally abandoned his wife and son, and He Hongzhang, who was exhausted, could not help but sigh, "He said it was my son, who knows who his father is." ”
Although this sentence can be said to be the complaint of the old man, but hearing the words in the ears of the parties, Mai Shunming simply took He Hongzhang to court, saying that he slandered and claimed 600 million US dollars.
Mai Shunming
Of course, this amount of reason will not succeed, but the lawsuit itself angered the darling He Wanqi, who began a cold war with He Hongzhang and refused to see this lover who had loved for decades.
I don't know if this cold war stimulated the unique "drama essence" gene of the He family in He Hongzhang's bones, and He Hongzhang, who has always been calm and self-sustaining, actually broke out and sued He Wanqi in court.
The reason turned out that the 2 million yuan was not given to He Wanqi that year, but an investment, and He Wanqi was required to repay it with profits.
After the court, He Wanqi rightly stated that the reason why she got the money was because she was Mai Shunming's mother, and the 2 million yuan was a gift of love.
When it was He Hongzhang's turn to speak, his words did not even have the two million things that went, but all became a confession of love for He Wanqi, and the final result can be imagined, that is, it will not be solved.
This lawsuit is similar in nature to Mai Shunming's accusation against He Hongzhang for slander and demanding compensation, but it is all for the sake of self-satisfaction and the unreasonableness of hurting the hearts of relatives, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is a waste of judicial and social resources.
From this point of view, He Hongzhang Mai Shunming is indeed his own father and son, He Wanqi is not idle, she and He Hongshen's lawsuits are one after another, and although the internal and external struggles do not use knives and guns, they are also quite hot.
He Hongshen did not have any superfluous nonsense, not only overturned all of Ho Wanqi's lawsuits in court, but also expelled Ho Wanqi from the shareholders' meeting outside the court.
Ho Wan Qi and Ho Hung Sun
Brothers and sisters who have fought side by side for decades have turned against each other.
He Wanqi'en also broke off He Hongzhang, two farce lawsuits exhausted the two decades of abnormal love, although after He Hongzhang was very regretful, he kept sending gifts and letters to ask He Wanqi for forgiveness.
But I don't know whether it is the heart that has been decided, or Mai Shunming cut off the communication between the two, anyway, until He Hongzhang's death in 2017, he has never been able to see He Wanqi again.
He Hongzhang's last wish was that He Wanqi Mai Shunming's mother and son could come to his funeral, but neither of them showed up, only sending flowers and mourning cards like the most ordinary friends.
Because He Hongzhang did not condone Mai Shunming enough, He Wanqi sentenced her to death for decades of love between her and He Hongzhang.
Because Ho Hung Sun was not generous enough to Mai Shun Ming, He Wanqi regarded her brother as an enemy until her death, and her heart and mind were to ask Ho Hung Sun for money.
Because other relatives were estranged from Mai Shunming, He Wanqi basically cut off contact with other children and siblings in her later years, and as a result, she died almost empty around her.
On June 5, 2018, He Wanqi died alone in the hospital, and she spent her life because of the defeated family.
Pathetic, pathetic, hateful.