Chapter 52: My Husband’s Luck With Money Has Been Great Lately!
Inside a new house of 180 square meters in Jiang Family Village, Ping County.
It was cold and bleak outside, but warm as spring inside.
The room temperature was not much different from the centralized heating in the city.
From the layout design to the selection of renovation styles and effects for this house.
Custom wardrobes, curtains, and home appliances throughout the house.
Xu Li put a lot of effort into creating this new home from scratch.
Xu Li was very satisfied with and liked the house she designed herself.
Living in the village, food, clothing, housing, and transportation are actually fine.
Everything is about the same as in the city, and the prices are even cheaper.
Meituan Youxuan, Duoduo Maicai, and various express delivery services can reach the supermarket at the village entrance directly.
In spring, summer, autumn, and winter, there are seasonal vegetables of all kinds grown in their own vegetable gardens.
The only slight drawback is in education, which lags far behind the city.
When Jiang Tao was young, Jiang Family Village Elementary School was a complete primary school.
There were plenty of students, with twenty to thirty students in each class from first to sixth grade.
In the past twenty-plus years, the number of students at Jiang Family Village Elementary School has decreased steadily.
By last year, the total number of teachers and students in the entire school was less than 20.
Jiang Family Village Elementary School was directly integrated into a neighboring village by the education bureau.
Even after integration, each grade only has seven or eight, or about ten students.
It’s impossible to form a standard class.
Jiang Xue is still in preschool this year and will start first grade next September.
Xu Li and Jiang Tao plan to have Jiang Xue attend Dongjie Second Primary School, which is zoned for her maternal grandmother’s home.
This matter is difficult but achievable.
Xu Li’s cousin, Xu Kai, works at the county education bureau, and her cousin-in-law, Gao Yunting, is the vice principal of Dongjie Second Primary School.
Jiang Family Village is only a little over 2 kilometers from Dongjie Second Primary School, so there is no need to rent a place in the county town specifically for school, let alone buy one.
That’s why the couple chose to build a house in the village in the first place.
After getting up, Xu Li, wearing a light pink pajama set with cute bears, went to the kitchen to make Ma Dongmei’s favorite hand-grabbed pancakes for Jiang Xue.
She also heated a pound of fresh milk in a milk pot.
After preparing breakfast, she then pulled Jiang Xue out of her warm quilt.
While Jiang Xue was eating breakfast, Xu Li called Sun Na on her mobile phone.
She told Sun Na everything Jiang Tao had told her that morning, word for word.
“Your Old Jiang dreamed that I won the Third Prize? How much is the Third Prize?”
On the other end of the phone, Sun Na found Xu Li’s words quite amusing.
Xu Li said while eating a slice of bread, “The Third Prize is a fixed 3,000 yuan.”
“Hahaha… I have that kind of luck with money?”
“Then if I bet tens of thousands of times on this lottery ticket, will I become a billionaire directly?”
Sun Na on the other end of the phone clearly did not take Xu Li’s words seriously.
Xu Li said, “My husband told me not to be greedy, to bet at most 10 times. You too, if we bet too much, his dream won’t be effective anymore.”
“Look at you, talking as if it’s real, it’s just a dream~ How can it be so accurate!”
“I’ve already taken a photo of the lottery ticket and sent it to you. If you want to bet, you can do it yourself. I’m not spending this money for nothing.”
“Honey, I have to go to work now, I’ll hang up first, talk later tonight.”
“Nana, you’re really not going to bet? My husband’s luck with money has been quite good lately.”
“No, no, I don’t believe in this stuff~ Bye bye, wish you and Xiao Xue a happy day today~”
On the other end of the phone, Sun Na hung up the video call after she finished speaking.
Xu Li couldn’t persuade her much about buying lottery tickets.
If she won anything, it would be fine, but if she didn’t win, wouldn’t she have wasted money for nothing?
Actually, she also knew that lottery tickets relied entirely on metaphysics.
What is destined to be yours will be yours; what is not, do not force it.
Many lottery players have dreamed of winning the lottery.
But how could an individual’s dream affect reality?
After Jiang Xue finished her hand-grabbed pancakes, the mother and daughter each drank half a pound of milk.
After a simple wash-up, Xu Li rode her electric scooter with Jiang Xue to Ping County town.
She went directly to the store where she often bought lottery tickets and bought 10 times the amount of Sun Na’s randomly chosen 5-bet ticket worth 10 yuan, spending 100 yuan.
After buying the lottery tickets, Xu Li rode her electric scooter with Jiang Xue towards her maternal grandmother’s home.
“Mom, when is Dad coming back? I haven’t seen him in person for a very, very long time, I miss him so much.”
On the back of the electric scooter, Jiang Xue, wearing a small pink helmet, hugged her mother’s waist and asked in a milky voice.
“Soon, Dad said he’ll be back in about five or six days. Then we’ll take Xiao Xue to the amusement park and the zoo~”
“I miss him so much.”
“Mom misses him too~”
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Capital City.
After Jiang Tao sold the scratch card worth 20,000 yuan that he won, he originally planned to go out and have fun again.
Expand his activity radius and visit more places.
The chances of obtaining high-value intelligence should also be greater.
However, while he was waiting for the bus, he received a phone call from his landlord, Brother Lu Qian.
Lu Qian asked him to help Ma Dongmei move her things.
“Sure, Brother Lu, are you and Sister Ma starting a wonderful life of cohabitation?”
When Jiang Tao saw Lu Qian, who was already waiting there, at the place where he parked his truck at the village entrance, he teased with a smile.
Lu Qian was cosplaying Xu Wenqiang again today; he was the flashiest person on the street.
“Hahaha, not yet, not yet~”
“Xiao Mei is renting a place in Bai Ge Zhuang, and the conditions there are much worse than here.”
“I just had a tenant move out of my place, so it’s perfect for her to live in.”
“Let’s go, Xiao Jiang, Xiao Mei is already waiting over there, let’s head over now.”
As Lu Qian spoke, his face was beaming with a happy smile, just like a young man in love.
“The one closest to the water gets the moon first. Brother Lu, this is a brilliant move!”
Jiang Tao praised Lu Qian with a thumbs-up, chuckling.
“You talk too much! Come, come, here’s a pack of cigarettes to shut you up.”
Lu Qian smiled and took out an unopened pack of Huazi cigarettes, lit one for himself after opening it, and then handed the whole pack to Jiang Tao.
“Got it! Bai Ge Zhuang, right? I know that area. Brother Lu, get in!”
Jiang Tao didn’t stand on ceremony with Lu Qian. He happily took the Huazi, lit one, and put the rest directly into his pocket.
The father and son got into the truck together, and Jiang Tao drove towards Bai Ge Zhuang.
After driving for about ten minutes, the truck arrived at the former site of Bai Ge Zhuang village.
This area is actually a demolition zone, and the relocation began three or four years ago.
The village was filled with rubble destroyed by excavators.
Only the apartment buildings of seven or eight stubborn holdouts remained, standing alone amidst the ruins.
Ma Dongmei’s rented place was in one of these holdouts’ apartment buildings.
The conditions here were indeed much worse than those in Xiao Shahe.
Under Lu Qian’s direction, Jiang Tao drove the truck downstairs and met Ma Dongmei, who was already waiting there.
Ma Dongmei was wearing a long brown down jacket today, and her slightly graying hair was neatly styled.
Although she didn’t say much, her face always carried an incredibly warm smile.
Ma Dongmei waved and greeted Jiang Tao with a smile when she saw him.
She had a very good impression of Jiang Tao and thanked him for introducing her to Lu Qian.
Lu Qian’s smile never wavered when he saw Ma Dongmei.
After gesturing with Ma Dongmei for a while, he then called Jiang Tao to follow him into the apartment building.
Although the building was old and dilapidated, dark, and damp.
Ma Dongmei’s room, like herself, was organized and spotlessly clean.
Ma Dongmei had lived there for about ten years, but she didn’t have many things in her room.
The three of them cleared out all of Ma Dongmei’s belongings from the room in one trip.
After moving the items, Lu Qian called Ma Dongmei’s landlord to inform him that Ma Dongmei had moved out.
For this kind of old and small dormitory building, landlords are usually too lazy to inspect upon a tenant’s departure, and there’s no situation where they’d bring a flashlight to check for damage.
After Lu Qian finished the call, Jiang Tao drove him and Ma Dongmei back to the outside of Lu Qian’s small building in Xiao Shahe.
Jiang Tao then helped move the items into a room on the sunny side of the first floor.
Busy with work, the morning passed quickly.
At noon, Lu Qian treated Jiang Tao and Ma Dongmei to a meal at a small restaurant in the urban village.
One reason was to thank Jiang Tao for his help that morning, and the other was to celebrate Ma Dongmei’s housewarming.
While eating, Lu Qian insisted on giving Jiang Tao 1,000 yuan as a labor fee.
Not accepting it would be looking down on him as Brother Lu!
