Chapter 90: Praise My Husband!
“Quick, quick, come in, come in.”
Old Xu had just made a strong comeback against the odds downstairs, and he was in a great mood.
He warmly invited his daughter and her family of three inside.
Du Yongmei, who was cooking in the kitchen, heard the commotion at the door and also turned off the heat to welcome them.
Of course, her welcome was only for her precious elder daughter and granddaughter.
As soon as she came out and saw the Moutai wine box in Jiang Tao’s arms, Du Yongmei couldn’t help but be stunned.
For so many years, Jiang Tao’s Spring Festival gifts of wine were always common brands costing three to five hundred yuan.
Giving Moutai, this was truly the first time in history!
“Mom~ do you have Boiled Sliced Pork in Hot Chili Oil tonight? My husband loves it the most, it absolutely must be there!”
Xu Li affectionately went forward and hugged her mom’s arm, asking about the dishes for tonight.
“Yes! You’ve told me eight times on WeChat! Do you think I dare not make it!”
Du Yongmei shifted her gaze away from the Moutai wine box in Jiang Tao’s arms, rolling her eyes speechlessly.
“Hehe, thanks mom, mom is the most reliable!”
“Tsk tsk tsk…”
Xu Sha, who was sitting on the sofa in the living room scrolling through Little Red Book, looked at her sister who was acting spoiled with their mom at the door, and was utterly speechless!
How could this be a woman in her thirties, she was as childish as a three-year-old!
“Mom, Happy Spring Festival.”
Jiang Tao greeted Du Yongmei with a smile.
Although he knew his mother-in-law didn’t particularly like him, she was Xu Li’s biological mother after all.
Jiang Tao had always treated Du Yongmei with respect and never lost his manners.
“Mhm.”
“Xiao Xue, your aunt bought a lot of goodies earlier. Come, Grandma will take you to get them.”
Du Yongmei merely grunted in response to Jiang Tao’s greeting, then took off her apron, took Jiang Xue’s hand, and led her to Xu Sha’s snack stash for some raiding.
“Mom! No! Xiao Xue, come, Auntie will take you to buy new ones. Children shouldn’t eat adult snacks, it’s not healthy!”
Seeing her snack stash about to be plundered, Xu Sha sprang up from the sofa as if she had springs attached to her backside.
She grabbed Jiang Xue’s hand and loudly led her out, not even glancing at Jiang Tao, her brother-in-law, the entire time.
After a few pleasantries, Old Xu and Jiang Tao went to the coffee table in the living room for tea.
Xu Li mysteriously pulled her mom into the bedroom.
“Mom, this is for you from my husband.”
Upon entering the room, Xu Li handed her mom the bulging red envelope she had been carrying in her pocket.
“This is…”
Du Yongmei knew how much money it was just by touching the thickness, and her face showed surprise.
“My husband said it wasn’t appropriate to buy cigarettes and alcohol for Dad but nothing for you.”
“So he’s giving you a red envelope, buy whatever you like.”
“Hehe, isn’t my husband filial?”
Xu Li hugged her mom’s waist, resting her head on her mom’s shoulder, and continued to boost Jiang Tao’s standing with her mom.
“He was thoughtful, first Moutai and then Zhonghua cigarettes, and now such a large red envelope for me. What good fortune did he stumble upon this year?”
Du Yongmei was indeed looking at Jiang Tao with new eyes this year.
“My husband had good luck this year, no, rather than luck, it’s more appropriate to say he has good vision!”
“A while ago, he and some friends did a Satsuma Mandarin project, you’d never guess how much he earned.”
When mentioning the money-making projects her husband had worked on, Xu Li’s beautiful eyes sparkled, filled with admiration for him.
Du Yongmei said, “How much can selling Satsuma Mandarins earn? Ten or eighty thousand at most.”
“750,000! In just over ten days, my husband earned 750,000! Hehe! You tell me if my husband is capable or not!”
When talking about the money Jiang Tao earned from the Satsuma Mandarin Project, Xu Li had a look of shared pride on her face.
“How much?”
Du Yongmei was shocked, her expression suggesting she was asking if she was sure it wasn’t 75,000 but 750,000.
“When he discovered the business opportunity, my husband immediately invested 250,000 and made a net profit of 750,000!”
“Quick, praise my husband. We’ve been married for so many years, and I’ve never heard you praise him!”
“With such great achievements this time, you should be able to earn at least one compliment, right?”
Xu Li swayed her mom’s arms, trying to earn her mother’s praise for her husband.
“Well… that is indeed quite impressive.”
At this moment, Du Yongmei thought even more highly of Jiang Tao.
Whether it was luck or foresight,
being able to earn 750,000 in just over ten days was a real skill!
Her own savings accumulated over decades only amounted to a little over a million yuan.
Xu Li continued, “And Mom, let me tell you something even more incredible and explosive!”
“How explosive can it be? Look at how excited you are. You’re an adult, why are you still like a young girl who hasn’t seen the world.”
Du Yongmei feigned disdain, but her heart was full of joy.
Every time her elder daughter acted spoiled with her, she felt like she was ten years younger.
Xu Li joyfully said, “My husband did a favor for a big boss, and the boss directly gifted him a Mercedes-Benz GLS! It’s worth over a million!”
“A Mercedes-Benz worth over a million! You’re saying someone gave Jiang Tao a Mercedes-Benz worth over a million!”
Du Yongmei was shocked again, looking incredulous.
In just over ten minutes, Jiang Tao had brought her wave after wave of shocks.
Xu Li smiled, “Mhm, the car is downstairs. When you have time, I’ll drive you for a spin.”
“Jiang Tao, what kind of favor did he do for them? For someone to give him such an expensive car, those big bosses are truly generous.”
Du Yongmei couldn’t figure it out, and suddenly worried if Jiang Tao had gotten involved in some crooked path.
“That big boss is the general manager of a large mall in the Capital City. I’ve spoken to her on the phone, she’s definitely not a bad person.”
“Besides, you know my husband, he wouldn’t do anything illegal or immoral.”
“That’s true…”
Du Yongmei nodded, and she no longer pressed for details.
Seeing her son-in-law in middle age starting to turn his life around, she, as the mother-in-law, naturally welcomed it.
It seemed her precious elder daughter had finally seen the end of her hardships, which was a good thing!
The mother and daughter chatted in the room for over an hour.
Xu Li proudly showed her mom the new mobile phone and gold bracelet Jiang Tao had given her.
Looking at her elder daughter’s happy and fulfilling life, Du Yongmei suddenly admired her daughter’s judgment.
When she married Jiang Tao back then, he had nothing, truly impoverished.
Not to mention a house in the city, they didn’t even have their own house in the village and were still living with her parents and sister.
It was only this year that they built a new house, and the couple finally had a home.
“An old saying goes, ‘When luck shifts, the energy of the house changes.’ Lili, your decision to build a house in the village with Jiang Tao was a brilliant move.”
“It must be that after you moved into the new house, the house energy changed, and the constellations became lucky stars, making the house energy prosperous, which is why Jiang Tao has had so much luck with money this year.”
Du Yongmei thought it over and over, and finally attributed Jiang Tao’s incredible financial luck this year to metaphysics.
