In the life of gambling king Stanley Ho, there is a name he never mentions easily, but he always puts it in the most important position in his heart - his mother Xian Qingyun.

This woman is not the most high-profile in the celebrity circle on Hong Kong Island, but she is the most weighty.

She was born in the Xian family in Hong Kong, her ancestors were from a legal family, and her grandfather, Sin Defen, was a well-known local lawyer.

She is naturally good-looking, fair-skinned, deep eyes, and has a noble temperament, gentle and restrained temperament in the photo, and she is the kind of woman who knows at a glance that she has an extraordinary background.

What is really powerful about her is not her face, but her bones.

Married into the He family in her early twenties, her husband He Shiguang is the son of He Fuk and the heir of one of the four major families in Hong Kong.

At the wedding, the house was full of guests and flowers were like a sea, and Xian Qingyun has since become the "broad wife" of a wealthy family on Hong Kong Island.

This period of time is not long or short, like a dream paved with Phnom Penh, and soon woke up from the dream - the He family's business failed, the property was scattered, and the husband was depressed and borrowed wine all day to kill his sorrows.

That year, Xian Qingyun was less than thirty years old, and he was surrounded by a group of children waiting to be fed - thirteen.

If she had changed to someone else, she might have rolled up and gone back to her parents' house and found a new backer, but she didn't retreat.

While cleaning up her broken life, she turned herself into the backbone of the family.

She doesn't complain, she doesn't blame, and she puts all her strength into "how to hold on".

When the family ran out of money, she sold her dowry and exchanged pieces of gold jewelry for her children's tuition and food.

She used to sew shoes, laundry, and cook with her own hands, and no matter how difficult the days were, the clothes that the children wore when they went out were always clean and tidy.

She never talks about "sacrifice" or "maternal love", but everything she does is to push the thirteen children into the future little by little.

Stanley Ho first wanted to drop out of school to make money, but she slapped him back.

She said: "It's nothing to be poor, but you can't be ambitious, you have to keep reading." ”

After that, Stanley Ho finished college on a scholarship and fought all the way to Macau casinos and Hong Kong business circles, all relying on her "ruthlessness" behind her back.

Xian Qingyun taught not a simple "to be a man to work hard", what she taught was - even if the wind and rain are overwhelming, you must maintain your demeanor.

No matter how poor you are, you won't bow your head. No matter how difficult it is, I will not feel sorry for myself.

She doesn't let any child despise herself because of failure.

In a silent and firm way, she re-injected the "extravagance" of a wealthy family into the skeleton of life from the pedigree on paper.

It's a pity that she didn't wait for the day when her son became famous.

In the early 60s, she passed away in her early 0s, when Stanley Ho was just starting out, and there was still a way to go before the "gambling king".

What he admires most in his life is not any business rival, but his mother.

The black-and-white photo of her in his office has been on display for decades.

Her other child, Hong Kong's first female champion, Ho Wanhong, lived to be 106 years old.

How solid do you say this religion is, not only to teach the "gambling king", but also to teach the female pioneers of the times.

Xian Qingyun is not a person who stands in the spotlight, and her name is not blessed with a title halo.

She picked up the skeleton of a broken family and used her own strength to shape the real "He family spirit".

Her greatness lies not in the fact that she has done anything earth-shattering, but in the fact that she has not said anything, but she has carried the heaviest life in one go.

She was like the deepest roots, hidden in the dirt, unassuming, but holding up the whole tree.