The cultivator Fu Xiaoyue only wanted to make a little retirement money using her cultivation space. She never expected to make more and more, or for the things she sold to grow increasingly varied.
Someone suggested, “Your products are great, but you sell such a mixed assortment. Why not open a department store?” Those words were a revelation.
From then on, her shops spread from the countryside across the whole country. Every time her products entered a new city, the local people flocked to buy them. At an international trade fair, she watched as even the blue-eyed, blond-haired foreigners were won over by her products. She clapped her hands and made a bold decision: “Why bother selling domestically? Foreign trade is the way of the future!”
Soon, her stores had spread across more than fifty countries, making her an undisputed international retail giant. Some people even traveled all the way to visit her cultivation base.
A thought struck her, and she decided to turn her little village into a national 5A-rated tourist attraction, with free admission.
Someone asked, “How are you going to make money that way?” She waved a hand. “Oh, I just want to live a little more comfortably. I never planned to make money from tourism!”
Her name became famous at home and abroad. To the public, she was an outstanding industrial entrepreneur. But when Huaguo's newly established pharmaceutical company suddenly rose to prominence and snatched a slice of the market from its rivals in fierce international competition, people learned that she was also a member of its research and development team. Those in the know immediately understood the connection.
Then a professor who had just achieved a breakthrough in seed improvement also stepped forward, saying that he owed his success to Ms. Fu's help.
The name Fu Xiaoyue instantly became a hot topic of discussion around the world that year. Yet the woman at the center of it all still lived in the little mountain village where she had started, spending every day close to the land.
