Abandoned babies are a common synonym for tragedy, but sometimes the big hand of fate always creates some miracles.
In 2004, in a maternal and child health hospital in Changsha, Hunan Province, China, another little life was born from the mother's belly, but the family members surrounding her seemed unhappy and even depressed.
Why? Because the newborn is a girl.
Today is different from the past. The idea of favoring sons over daughters has become increasingly rare. Many families even want a cute and well-behaved daughter, but there are always some people whose ideas are still backward and rigid. This is the case for this family.
In fact, they have given birth to three children, all girls. Like many rural people, they are working hard to have a son, even violating the family planning law and completely ignoring their poor family background.
When they saw the third daughter, everyone had lost their patience. As relatives, the first thing they thought of was to get rid of this "hot potato" quickly.
Some people said that they would give the child to another family for adoption, but in the end, they even ran out of patience. That night, the child's biological mother went directly to a local park, secretly placed her child on a secluded lawn with her own hands, and then turned around and left without looking back.
This park is located in the city center. Early the next morning, a large group of old people came one after another, walking, dancing, and doing Tai Chi. Because the child was in swaddling clothes and obscured by the green trees, no one saw it for a while, but then she started crying loudly, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.
A group of kind-hearted old people immediately searched around and found a baby girl lying on the ground. They quickly sent the baby girl to the hospital. Everyone paid a little money for a doctor to check. Then they contacted the nearby police station, and the police also began to post notices to look for the child's family.
But how did they know that this child was deliberately abandoned? So the search was fruitless. Under such circumstances, the baby girl was sent to the Changsha Children's Welfare Institute and became an orphan, but at least she had someone to rely on.
As a child abandoned by her parents, this girl is destined to have a hard time living a happy life, but her fate will give her an amazing turn in the near future.
At this time, in the United States of America, which is far away across the ocean, a young businessman has founded a young company. He is a top student who graduated from Princeton University with excellent grades. He joined a large company right after graduation and became the vice president of a trust company at the age of twenty-five.
Under the tide of the times, he quickly noticed the Internet business, and what he was interested in was a very special territory - online book retailing. He felt that moving books to the Internet would be a very popular way of reading and could make a lot of money.
So he took out almost all his savings, ran to Seattle, and started his own business in a rented garage. He was so confident about his company that he named it after the largest river in the world. The company was called "Amazon", and the young man's name was Jeff Bezos.
After this, Amazon's book business quickly exploded across the United States, quickly becoming the largest and most famous online bookstore. Bezos took the second step and launched music, video tapes, pharmacies, home furnishing and other modules one after another. The company's scale has once again expanded greatly.
By 2000, Bezos had become the spokesperson of "e-commerce", and Amazon also ushered in an astonishing market value of US$20 billion after evolving from a simple online bookstore to an online retailer.
Bezos’s love life is also very happy. His wife Mackenzie was one of the first employees to join Amazon. The most interesting and ironic thing is that the couple gave birth to three children together, but all three were boys. Bezos always hoped to have a well-behaved daughter, which became his regret.
With his financial conditions, he can completely regenerate, but he cannot have a random birth, and what if he is still a son? So Bezos thought about it and finally decided to adopt one, but he was very busy with work at the time and put the matter on hold.
Until 2002, Amazon was getting bigger and bigger, and it was already preparing to enter the international market. And on a global scale, no place in the world has a larger consumer group than China.
Bezos knows a lot about China and loves it. He has already planned to open up the Chinese market. Naturally, he will bring some subordinates to this country for inspection and research. In the process, he made many Chinese friends. During a later conversation, someone suggested that Bezos adopt a Chinese daughter. The friend said that Chinese children are diligent, smart, and sensible.
Bezos was moved. After a short time, he couldn’t wait to put the matter on his agenda. As for China being so big, where can one go to adopt? He chose a big city that he had visited before and left a deep impression on him - Changsha, Hunan.
When the staff of the Changsha Children's Welfare Home watched the bald foreigner walk in from the gate, although they did not know his exact identity, they vaguely heard that he was a wealthy and famous person from various countries and abroad. They could not help but feel happy for the children in the home, and they did not know who would eventually be adopted by him.
Bezos walked around the orphanage, and then he saw a little girl. She was the baby girl who was abandoned by her parents in the park. After being adopted by the orphanage, she had been shy and grew up silently. She didn't talk much on weekdays, but when she saw Bezos, she unexpectedly took the initiative and called "uncle". These two words
completely changed her fate. When Bezos learned about her situation from the staff, he was extremely surprised and concluded that the little girl's sudden opening was a gift from fate. So he immediately signed the adoption agreement, took the little girl as his adopted daughter and brought her back to the United States, and also gave her a brand new name - Annie.
Not long after, Anne followed her new father across the ocean and came to the unfamiliar United States. Everything around her changed drastically. She lived in a large villa with a large area of coverage.
As a child who had just arrived and was completely unfamiliar to everyone, Anne was greatly tolerated by her mother and brothers. Even though she had yellow skin and black hair that were completely different from everyone else, she was quickly regarded as a family member and received very good care in all aspects.
Among them, Bezos himself is the one who dotes on Anne the most. He is completely obedient to this adopted daughter, giving her the best conditions in everything from material to emotional.
While growing up, the other three sons all received a very strict education. Only Anne had never been scolded and was almost as close to her as his own. Bezos did not even conceal his life experience from her, and clearly stated the causes and consequences to her very early on.
In order to prevent his daughter from forgetting her motherland, hometown and culture, he also hired a very professional Chinese professor to teach at home, and even encouraged other family members to study together. As a result, the family would occasionally even communicate with each other in Chinese.
Anne's background was very unfortunate, which made her very mature and sensible at a young age. Even though her adoptive father's conditions were excellent, she still maintained a frugal style for a long time. She never was extravagant when buying things. The money she spent on food, drink, clothes, etc. was almost the same as that of ordinary Americans.
Once she bought a pair of very cheap Converse canvas shoes at a discount from one of the best department stores in the United States. After Bezos found out about this, he scolded his daughter, saying that she "had no impulse to spend and spent too little money.""
Of course, this is not nonsense. Annie, who grew up in such a family, has a very high starting point, so it is very important to cultivate a correct outlook on financial management and consumption from an early age, just like Bezos said: "Money stored in the bank will grow exponentially. There is no need to waste time waiting for discounts to buy these useless assets. "
The reason why Bezos said this is because Anne's monthly pocket money is a full 50,000 US dollars, which is far more than the monthly salary of most Americans...
At the same time, Amazon is also developing rapidly. Under the guidance of Bezos's series of correct decisions, after surviving several crises, it has become the most successful e-commerce website in the world. As of 2021, Bezos ranked first on the "Forbes Global Rich List" with a net worth of US$200 billion, and was well-deserved as the world's richest man.
Although Bezos and his wife MacKenzie chose to divorce due to some personal reasons, they still raised four children together, which did not have much impact on them. ml1
Logically, MacKenzie could take half of Bezos’ property, but in the end, the woman voluntarily took only a quarter of it.
At this time, many people couldn't help but notice that according to U.S. property inheritance laws, Anne, as an adopted daughter, will also receive a quarter of Bezos' property in the future, which is an astonishing wealth of 38 billion U.S. dollars, and may even become the richest woman in the world.
And Anne's father, who doted on her extremely, even publicly stated in an interview:
In the future, his daughter will definitely inherit her share of assets.
In fact, Bezos’s plans for Annie’s future had already begun. In 2014, he Then the daughter was sent to a private island near the coast of Belize in the Caribbean . While on vacation, she was asked to think about how to spend money.
In 2016, he spent US$23 million to buy a mansion covering an area of nearly 30,000 square meters in New York, but he has never lived in it. His purpose is self-evident.
A few years later, he made another move and bought four large apartments next to Central Park, the center of New York. He spent a total of nearly 100 million U.S. dollars, planning to leave one apartment for each of his four children in the future...
Bezos's doting on his daughter is actually related to his childhood and teenage experiences. Abandoned and eventually adopted by an engineer, Mike Bezos.
Not only was this stepfather not mean, but he did his best to repair Bezos's young and creative mind. Not only that, when his son was struggling to start a business in the early stages and was short of cash, Mike directly handed over his many years of savings to him. This was also an important fund for Bezos's future empire.
Seeing this, I believe many people will understand that Anne's enviable situation is both an accident and a necessity. People are extremely jealous of the huge wealth she inherited, but they have never experienced the pain of being abandoned by her relatives since she was a child. Bezos saw the shadow of his former self in her, so when Anne grew up, she asked her father, "Why do I look different from my mother and brother?" "
and Bezos's answer was:
"Because you are a gift from God in the East. "
It is true that fate gave Bezos a perfect daughter who remained well-intentioned, and Anne also gained the ultimate happiness that was completely opposite to her childhood. She had the richest man in the world and a caring wife. Dad, with three outstanding and mature brothers, she is known as the "Little Princess of the Amazon Empire", and she has indeed embarked on a carefree life.
I believe that her family who abandoned her in Changsha Park could never have imagined this.
