Chapter 112: Two Partners Are In Place!
【Today’s Intelligence 02】:
You had contact with your mother-in-law, Du Yongmei, yesterday and obtained relevant intelligence—
Du Yongmei was persuaded by her best friend Wang Hongying and is currently participating in a brush order activity; 26,800 yuan has been frozen.
A kind reminder can avoid subsequent losses of 750,000 yuan!
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“…”
Upon seeing the second piece of intelligence, Jiang Tao was surprised and also somewhat speechless.
How could his mother-in-law, such a shrewd person, fall for such a scam?
On television, on the radio, all sorts of anti-fraud promotions and short videos are broadcast daily, yet people still fall for scams every day.
“Fortunately, I have System Brother’s intelligence; otherwise, the money father-in-law worked hard for half his life to earn would have gone down the drain.”
After reading the two updated pieces of intelligence for today, Jiang Tao had a thought, closed the interface, and lay down on his pillow to sleep.
The next morning.
When Jiang Tao woke up, Xu Li was already in the kitchen making breakfast.
He stretched and picked up his mobile phone from the nightstand to check it.
It was just past 8 o’clock in the morning.
Today was already the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.
The custom in Ping County was not to visit relatives, and Jiang Tao had nothing else to do today.
“I need to quickly find the five partners!”
A thought suddenly struck him about the first piece of intelligence that had refreshed last night.
Jiang Tao immediately felt energetic and put on the clothes Xu Li had laid out for him on the bed.
This was the closest he had come to being a millionaire in his thirty-one years of life.
And it was also the fastest way to achieve it, so he had to take it seriously!
“Husband, go call your daughter and Third Sister to get up, we’re having egg pancakes for breakfast today~”
Hearing the movement outside the door, Xu Li knew it was Jiang Tao without turning around.
After gently giving him instructions, she continued humming a cheerful tune while making breakfast.
It was clear that Xu Li was in an exceptionally good mood today.
It was unclear whether it was because of the 1 million from last night or the exhilarating exercise.
“Third Sister is getting too much, she’s even sleeping later than me.”
Jiang Tao said with a smile, turned, and walked to the door of Jiang Xue’s room, pushing it open directly.
Upon entering, Jiang Tao saw Jiang Xue’s legs propped on Jiang Bing’s stomach, still fast asleep.
Jiang Bing, on the other hand, had her head covered with the quilt, completely buried in the bedding.
“Get up quickly, it’s time to eat~”
Jiang Tao, as usual, went over and gave Jiang Bing and Jiang Xue a flurry of phantom punches.
“Don’t bother Second Brother, I’m sleeping a little longer. I’m not having breakfast, wake me up at noon.”
Jiang Bing’s muffled voice came from under the quilt.
Jiang Xue rolled over and continued sleeping, like a little sloth.
Suddenly, the air in front of Jiang Tao rippled, and a line of text appeared on his retina.
【Jiang Bing: Can be invited.】
“Third Sister, Third Sister, hurry up and get up, quickly, Brother needs to discuss something with you.”
Seeing that his Third Sister could be invited as a partner, Jiang Tao was overjoyed and increased the force of his hand patting the quilt.
“No matter what it is, let’s talk about it at noon. Please, Second Brother, let me sleep a little longer. You’re my real brother.”
Jiang Bing, who had started up the “little movie” again last night, just wanted to sleep well now; everything else could wait.
Unless…
“Are you going to talk about making big money at noon too?”
As soon as Jiang Tao finished speaking, Jiang Bing shot up from the bed, flung off the quilt, and looked disheveled.
“Second Brother! Do you have another good project! Tell me, tell me, what are we doing this time?”
Hearing that it was about making money, Jiang Bing’s interest was immediately piqued.
She grabbed Jiang Tao’s arm, her face filled with impatience.
Now, Jiang Bing regarded her Second Brother as the “Internet Buffett.”
Her Second Brother had an exceptional sensitivity to products!
The Ultraman Hair Clip and the recent Flying Pig Popcorn Bucket were living examples.
These two projects, conservatively estimated, could bring Jiang Tao hundreds of thousands in revenue.
Jiang Bing had also benefited from these two projects alongside her Second Brother, receiving dividends far exceeding her primary job.
Now, upon hearing that Jiang Tao had a new project, she was naturally very interested.
“I feel that the price of beef cattle has been at a low for a long time, and it’s due for a rebound. Therefore, I plan to buy cattle.”
“Ah? Buy… cattle?”
Hearing her Second Brother’s words, Jiang Bing looked at him hesitantly and couldn’t help but laugh.
“Second Brother, are you kidding? Are you buying those moo~ cattle? The beef we ate yesterday?”
Jiang Tao nodded, “Yes, that kind of cattle.”
“Uh, no, Second Brother, are you serious? Really buying cattle? How many are you planning to buy? Who will feed them? Do you know how to raise cattle?”
Jiang Bing looked at her Second Brother with surprise, feeling that his money-making project this time was very abrupt and the scope was unusually large.
The first was the Ultraman Hair Clip, the second was Nezha 2’s popcorn bucket, and the third was cattle…
“Didn’t our uncle say that their boss wanted to sell everything and exit? Why are you jumping into the pit?”
Jiang Bing gave her Second Brother a sideways glance, feeling that his judgment wasn’t very good this time.
“When others are greedy, I am fearful; when others are fearful, I am greedy. Have you heard that saying?”
“When others are more eager to exit and escape, that’s when we jump into the pit to pick up money.”
“After my careful observation and analysis in the past few days, I feel that the spring of the bull market is coming soon.”
“The specific reasons are as follows…”
Jiang Tao had great confidence in the intelligence provided by the Daily Intelligence System; at least, it hadn’t failed him yet.
Therefore, he was definitely going to proceed with this investment project in beef cattle.
Moreover, he intended to gather five partners as much as possible!
Compared to the five-fold bonus rewarded by the system.
The profit from the appreciation of the cattle themselves was a smaller part.
“Second Brother, are you serious? Really buying cattle?”
Seeing Jiang Tao rattle on with so many logical points, Jiang Bing’s expression became serious.
“Absolutely serious, and this time I plan to buy at least 300 head. If I don’t do it, I’ll go all out.”
Jiang Tao’s expression was calm, and his tone conveyed an air of everything being under his control.
Jiang Bing was astonished, “But 300 head of cattle… how much would that cost!”
Jiang Tao said, “I estimate it will be around 3 million yuan in total.”
“3 million! That’s so much!”
Jiang Bing smacked her lips. Before today, she hadn’t dealt with such a large project!
In her entire life, the biggest project she had handled was the one where Jiang Tao spent 200,000 yuan to buy 10,000 Flying Pig Popcorn Buckets before the new year.
From 200,000 to 3 million, the increase in investment amount was too exaggerated!
“Yes, that’s why I need to find a few more partners to do this project together. We’ll earn money together. Third Sister, you’re the first one!”
Jiang Tao smiled at his sister. He was naturally willing to bring his Third Sister in on such a sure-win deal.
After convincing Third Sister, Jiang Tao planned to visit his Elder Brother to see if he could be invited as a partner.
Jiang Bing hesitated for only about ten seconds before making her decision.
She ultimately decided to trust her Second Brother’s judgment and looked at him, asking, “How much should I invest?”
Jiang Tao held up two fingers: “At least 200,000.”
“Second Brother, did you peek at my phone? How did you know I had 200,000! This is my dowry that I painstakingly saved for over 4 years!”
Jiang Bing looked at her Second Brother in disbelief. Her entire savings were exactly 200,000 yuan plus over 3,000 yuan. She didn’t believe this was a coincidence.
Jiang Tao jokingly said, “Wow, Third Sister, you’re amazing, already saved 200,000! I thought you’d have to borrow some from our parents.”
“Second Brother, let me confirm with you one last time, are we really buying cattle this time? Speculating on cattle?”
“Haha, yes, speculating on cattle. Let me ask you one last time, are you in or not?”
Jiang Tao confirmed with his Third Sister one last time.
“I’m in! My dowry is gone, at most…”
“Stop, stop, stop, what nonsense are you spouting, you jinx? We haven’t even started, and you’re already thinking about how to lose money?”
Jiang Tao interrupted his Third Sister, feeling amused and helpless, not letting her continue.
“Oh right, ptooey, ptooey, unjinxed words. We’re going for the big money!”
Jiang Bing scratched her head and smiled sheepishly, looking a bit silly.
As soon as they talked about making money, Jiang Bing’s sleepiness vanished, and she quickly got dressed and up.
Jiang Xue was also pulled out of her quilt by Jiang Tao, dressed, and then directly carried to the sofa in the living room.
Jiang Xue, with her eyes half-closed, scratched her head and said, “Dad, I feel like I can’t breathe.”
“That’s because you’re not fully awake yet. Wake up quickly, and you’ll be fine.”
As soon as Jiang Tao finished speaking, Xu Li walked out of the kitchen holding a large tray.
Seeing the two lively figures, one big and one small, sitting on the sofa, Xu Li burst into laughter.
“Husband, look at what you’ve done.”
Jiang Tao asked, puzzled, “What good deed did I do?”
“Take a good look at the clothes you put on your daughter. Are any of them on correctly?”
Jiang Tao looked at his “little cotton jacket” and couldn’t help but laugh.
No wonder she felt like she couldn’t breathe; she had the sweater on backwards.
And the little jeans were also on backwards.
“Tsk tsk tsk, men, not a single one is reliable. It’s good enough if they can take care of themselves.”
Jiang Bing, who had just finished brushing her teeth and come out of the bathroom, took the opportunity to mock them.
Jiang Tao looked at Jiang Bing, about to retort, but when he saw that her sweater was also on backwards, he couldn’t help himself.
“Hahahaha…”
“Third Sister, don’t you look in the mirror when you brush your teeth?”
“Before you criticize others, at least take a look at yourself, hahahaha, I’m dying of laughter.”
Seeing her Second Brother crying with laughter, Jiang Bing lowered her head, saw her own backwards sweater, and instantly blushed.
This was truly a case of embarrassment giving birth to embarrassment, and it reaching its peak!
After a period of joking, Jiang Bing went back to her room to change her sweater and then sat down at the dining table with a slightly embarrassed expression.
Breakfast today was egg pancakes and fresh milk, personally made by Xu Li.
The dough for the egg pancakes was mixed by Xu Li herself, and the oil used for frying was pure peanut oil pressed from peanuts given by her parents.
Even the shredded potatoes and carrots were grown in her parents’ vegetable garden.
The breakfast was clean, hygienic, and healthy, and tasted better than the breakfast sold at food stalls outside.
“Second Sister-in-law, your cooking skills are superb; you could open a breakfast shop.”
While eating the pancakes, Jiang Bing couldn’t forget to give her Second Sister-in-law a thumbs-up and praise.
“So delicious~ Mom is the best!”
“Giving a thumbs-up to my wife.”
Jiang Xue and Jiang Tao also chimed in with their praise.
“Just eat your food; even the pancakes can’t shut you up.”
Xu Li smiled. Making breakfast for the people she loved every day was also a form of happiness for her.
“By the way, Wife, I have something to tell you.”
“Mm, Husband, you say.”
“Can’t you two just speak directly? Talking like this, ‘Wife,’ ‘Husband’~ Yuck~~~”
Jiang Bing smacked her lips, rolled her eyes, and hadn’t even finished her egg pancake yet, she was already full of “dog food.”
“Don’t interrupt, or I’ll kick you out.”
Jiang Tao flicked his Third Sister on the forehead, making her grimace as if she dared not speak but was resentful.
“Wife, we recently…”
Jiang Tao analyzed the plan to buy cattle again with Xu Li and explained his investment plan to her.
“Husband, you decide. I don’t understand these things.”
“But no matter what you do, I will support you. How much more money do you need? I’ll transfer it to you.”
After hearing Jiang Tao’s investment plan, Xu Li chose to give her full support without any hesitation, both spiritually and financially!
Jiang Tao was also very pleased to hear this.
He liked Xu Li’s personality of supporting him no matter what he did and never nagging him.
To have a wife like this, his life was not lived in vain.
“I’ll tell you when I need money. Oh, speaking of money, I just remembered something.”
“Yesterday, I saw Zhang Chao post in a WeChat group that several people in his village were scammed out of over 200,000 yuan.”
“There are too many online scams recently, and they specifically target elderly people with weak anti-fraud awareness.”
“Remind your mother more too, so she doesn’t get scammed.”
While eating the egg pancake, Jiang Tao smoothly shifted the topic to fraud cases, indirectly hinting to Xu Li.
“You know my mom, she’s very shrewd. Who can scam her!”
Xu Li pouted, looking dismissive, confident in her own mother.
“…”
Jiang Tao was also speechless. He didn’t know how such a smart person as his mother-in-law could make such a basic mistake.
“Even the most shrewd person can have a moment of confusion. It doesn’t hurt to remind her more.”
“Mm-hmm, I know. We’re going hiking up the mountain for a temple fair today, I’ll remind her.”
Xu Li didn’t know why Jiang Tao suddenly brought this up, but seeing how serious he looked, she nodded in agreement.
They ate and chatted. After breakfast, Xu Li went to the kitchen to wash the dishes.
Jiang Tao sat on the sofa, and suddenly a brilliant idea flashed through his mind.
Immediately, he started searching WeChat for various cases of brushing orders and being scammed and began reposting them to his Moments!
“So-and-so was scammed out of 400,000 yuan for brush orders,” “So-and-so clicked on an unknown link and was drawn into a group, where over 500,000 yuan was stolen.”
“So-and-so believed the so-called consumption rebate and was scammed out of over 600,000 yuan of hard-earned money.”
Jiang Tao reposted more than a dozen news items related to fraud to his Moments.
Several friends asked him on WeChat if he had started working at the anti-fraud center.
Some even asked if he had been scammed.
Jiang Tao ignored their teasing.
He just wanted to attract his mother-in-law’s attention and vigilance through this extremely unusual behavior, thereby avoiding greater losses.
750,000 yuan was likely all the savings the mother-in-law’s family had accumulated over the years.
His mother-in-law was so shrewd and strong-willed.
If she were scammed out of 750,000 yuan, she might even do something foolish.
“I hope my mother-in-law can see that I’m trying to hint at her!”
Jiang Tao stopped after reposting 10 fraud cases. This reminder should have been clear enough.
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Ping County, Xicheng Huafu Residential Area.
Building 22, Unit 1502.
Du Yongmei was hesitating while looking at the message from her best friend Wang Hongying on her phone.
【You can withdraw once you reach 100,000 yuan, I just withdrew a few days ago.】
【We’ve known each other for decades, would I lie to you?】
Wang Hongying also sent Du Yongmei a screenshot of her successful withdrawal.
After hesitating for a few minutes, Du Yongmei was about to exit WeChat to continue brushing orders on the software recommended by Wang Hongying.
Glancing over, she saw a red dot refresh in the Moments section.
For Du Yongmei, who had a slight case of OCD.
She absolutely would not allow any red dots to appear on her phone.
So, she opened Moments and saw a post by Jiang Tao forwarding an online case about brushing orders and being scammed.
Scrolling down, the second one was also about it.
The third, fourth, fifth…
At first, Du Yongmei thought Jiang Tao had gone mad and didn’t pay much attention to the content he was forwarding.
However, when she scrolled down to the 8th fraud case forwarded by Jiang Tao, her finger froze.
Her facial expression immediately became solemn.
With a gentle tap of her finger, she opened and read the full article. The more Du Yongmei read, the colder she felt.
This case was exactly the same as her current situation, with no discernible differences.
In this case, Du Yongmei felt like she saw her own reflection in the victim!
In this case, the victim’s withdrawal amount was frozen due to an operational error.
Then, they started to accumulate a larger amount according to the other party’s requirements.
The victim didn’t have that much money and even took out an online loan to gather 100,000 yuan, but failed again and needed to gather 150,000 yuan to withdraw.
Then it was 200,000, 250,000, 350,000…
In the end, the victim was scammed by the fraud group out of over 500,000 yuan and was burdened with online loans!
After reading this case, Du Yongmei slumped onto the sofa, feeling a wave of aftershock.
After a long while, she finally came back to her senses.
Once she recovered, the first person she called was Xu Li.
“Hello, Lili, Mom thinks she’s been scammed…”
By the time Jiang Tao and Xu Li rushed to her father-in-law’s home, it was already past 10 in the morning.
Her father-in-law, who had gone out to play cards, and her younger sister, who had gone out to play, had also returned.
The mother-in-law sat on the sofa sighing continuously, and the atmosphere in the house was extremely oppressive.
“Mom, what’s going on? This morning when my husband told me to remind you, I said you wouldn’t be scammed.”
“Sigh!”
Du Yongmei sighed, feeling that her actions were incredibly foolish and very embarrassing.
“It was your Aunt Hongying who instigated your mother! We’ve known each other for decades! She even scammed your mother! What a scoundrel!”
Upon mentioning the mother-in-law’s old best friend, the father-in-law was also full of anger.
26,000 yuan was more than two months of his salary.
Although losing this amount wouldn’t cripple them, it still hurt to think about it.
If this money were spent at home, it would be enough to buy several large appliances!
“We can’t just let this go! Targeting my mother, it’s too despicable!”
Even Xu Li, who rarely lost her temper, was angered.
In the end, the whole family went to the nearest police station together, reported the crime, and filed a case.
Even if the losses couldn’t be recovered, they could still curb the criminals’ arrogance.
With an amount of 26,800 yuan involved, it was considered a significant case. After reporting it and providing some evidence, the case was successfully filed.
Xu Li and her mother-in-law had originally planned to go hiking today, but the plan was canceled due to this matter.
After reporting the case, they returned home together.
“Okay Mom, don’t blame yourself. If anyone is to blame, it’s Aunt Wang for being so despicable. After decades of friendship, who would have thought she would betray you.”
“She was quick to run; she’s no longer in Ping County and has probably already run off to that scam den.”
Xu Li and Xu Sha flanked the mother-in-law, comforting her.
“Jiang Tao, thank you for today’s matter. If not for your reminder, I don’t know how much more Wang Hongying would have scammed me.”
Du Yongmei looked up at Jiang Tao, speaking to him kindly for the first time.
While still calling him “Jiang Tao,” her tone was more than ten times better than before.
“We’re family, no need to be so formal.”
Jiang Tao’s expression was very calm, exuding an air of being unfazed by praise or criticism.
Strangely, when he was poor and had no money, Jiang Tao cared a lot about his mother-in-law and sister-in-law’s attitude towards him and how they viewed him.
He was determined to show off in front of them once he became rich!
Now that he had money and was wealthy, Jiang Tao cared less about what others thought of him.
No matter what you think of me or how you see me, I am who I am. Your thoughts do not affect me in the slightest.
“Alright, let’s not talk about this anymore. Fortunately, the loss this time wasn’t significant; consider it a lesson learned with money.”
“Everyone must improve their anti-fraud awareness from now on and not make the same mistake twice.”
“Lili, Shasha, Jiang Tao, you all need to learn from this incident.”
The father-in-law waved his hand, ending the topic of being scammed. The matter was temporarily concluded.
Although this piece of intelligence didn’t bring Jiang Tao a single cent of profit.
It was very valuable in helping his father-in-law’s family recover over 700,000 yuan in losses.
After dealing with his mother-in-law’s issue, Jiang Tao turned his attention to his father-in-law, checking if he was a partner he was looking for.
【Xu Wencheng: Can be invited to participate!】
Seeing that his father-in-law could also participate in this investment, Jiang Tao was delighted.
Finding partners wasn’t as difficult as he imagined!
Third Sister is one, Father-in-law is another.
He hadn’t even properly started searching, and he had already found two.
The remaining three would probably not be hard to find!
“Jiang Tao, let’s go to the balcony for a smoke.”
“Okay, Dad.”
Jiang Tao agreed with a smile to his father-in-law’s invitation. They walked to the balcony one after another and opened a small crack in the window.
Xu Wencheng took out his cigarette case, offered Jiang Tao a Huazi cigarette, and lit one himself. The father and son began to smoke.
“By the way, Dad, I’m planning to invest in a project recently. I wonder if you’re interested.”
Jiang Tao didn’t beat around the bush with his father-in-law and got straight to the point.
“Oh? What project?”
Hearing his son-in-law’s words, Xu Wencheng appeared very interested.
“I recently discovered…”
After explaining to his Third Sister and Xu Li twice, Jiang Tao’s explanation to his father-in-law became much smoother for the third time.
“The bull market will rebound in a month? Prices will surge?”
Xu Wencheng didn’t really understand these things, but hearing Jiang Tao explain it so plausibly, he was somewhat moved.
However, he did not immediately respond to Jiang Tao and needed to consider it further.
