Chapter 120: Aunt Often Makes Strange Noises At Night!
The second piece of intelligence made Jiang Tao’s entire body tremble, and his sleepiness vanished.
It’s only been a few days?
A week?
Uncle has already won over Tian Mingrong, and the seeds have sprouted?
Jiang Tao really didn’t expect his uncle to be so capable!
He and Xu Li had worked hard during the Spring Festival, but there was no sign of anything.
Of course, the most, most, most, most crucial thing is that 【 Continuing the Family Line 】 the task is complete!
Not only can he receive a huge reward of 1 million himself.
The Old Tian family will also have descendants, and their family line will not be broken by his uncle’s generation, which also alleviates a worry for his mother.
If his mother knew that his uncle already had a girlfriend and was pregnant, she would definitely be overjoyed.
Buzz~
The mobile phone on the bedside table vibrated, and the phone screen lit up.
Jiang Tao picked up his phone and saw that it was indeed a message about a transfer to his account.
【 Your ICBC Savings Card ending in XXXX has received 999999, your current balance is 1314520.99 yuan! 】
Seeing the string of numbers on the SMS that was longer than a password for his deposit balance, Jiang Tao felt a surge of secret delight.
In the past few days, he had invested in a cattle farm and taken over Xu Li’s cousin’s supermarket.
Jiang Tao had spent quite a lot of money, and his balance was running low.
With this recovery of funds, his deposit had finally returned to over a million.
Greedily wanting more, after reaching a million, he started thinking about earning his first 10 million, his first small goal.
After the cattle farm project is completed, with a 5x multiplier reward, he can earn several more million.
Also, after all the payments for the Flying Pig Popcorn Bucket project are received, there will be over a million in income.
Even if he splits it with Xu Li, he’ll still get several hundred thousand.
And then there’s the Mercedes-Benz case, where they refund three times the price, and he can get several million in compensation.
His first 10 million doesn’t seem too far away!
Before obtaining the Daily Intelligence System, Jiang Tao’s biggest dream was to win the first prize in the lottery, earning 5 million and then retiring.
Now, a dream that was once out of reach is within his grasp.
“In the new year, let’s aim to earn a small goal…”
“Forget it, let’s aim to earn 30 million, 50 million!”
After much thought, Jiang Tao finally set a more moderate target.
Since binding with the Daily Intelligence System, it has been about forty days.
Jiang Tao’s total assets have risen from over negative 80,000 to over 5 million.
In the future, on one hand, he can earn money through various new intelligence provided by System Brother.
On the other hand, he can use money to make money and expand his achievements.
In novels, when protagonists get a system, they can earn tens of millions or even hundreds of millions in a few days.
Earning 50 million in a year doesn’t seem unattainable for him.
50 million would be enough to establish himself firmly in the Capital City and provide a good life for his wife and children.
His mind was racing with thoughts, looking forward to the future life while also feeling a bit lost.
But Jiang Tao firmly believed that his future path in life would be smooth sailing.
He wouldn’t have to worry about anything anymore.
Money can be earned slowly, and life can be lived slowly; the process is more important than the result.
Xu Li’s movement on the bed pulled Jiang Tao back to reality.
Jiang Tao turned his head and glanced at Xu Li, who had turned over and was sleeping with her back to him, and then quietly deleted the SMS.
Men, while doting on their women, still need to have a little nest egg of their own.
After deleting the SMS, Jiang Tao put down his phone, hugged Xu Li’s delicate body from behind, and went to sleep!
The next morning.
As usual, Jiang Tao slept until he woke up naturally.
When he opened his eyes, he found that the delicate wife in his arms had turned into her quilt.
The clothes to be changed today were already placed on the bedside table.
While getting dressed, Jiang Tao was thinking about how to give his uncle’s family a hint about the intelligence from last night.
This news would be an absolute killer move for his uncle’s family, who were currently in a divorce dispute with their daughter-in-law.
After much thought, Jiang Tao ultimately decided not to contact his uncle’s family directly.
Instead, he edited a message on WeChat and sent it to his father-in-law, asking him to relay it.
As for whether his uncle’s family would believe this information or suspect it.
How they would investigate, and what the outcome would be, was not Jiang Tao’s concern.
After doing a good deed, Jiang Tao got dressed and went out.
Xu Li was already starting to bring breakfast to the table.
Today’s breakfast was shrimp congee and potato egg pancakes.
Xu Li woke up before 7 o’clock and had been busy all morning.
Jiang Bing, while taking big bites of the fragrant potato egg pancake, wailed:
“Second Sister-in-law, I’m so used to your breakfast. Without you, how will I live!”
Xu Li smiled gently, “Then you can come with us to the Capital City and continue to live with us.”
“Uh…” Hearing his second sister-in-law’s suggestion, Jiang Bing hesitated for a moment.
Although she ate well with her second brother and sister-in-law, she didn’t sleep well. It was a difficult choice!
“No~ Auntie often makes strange noises at night, I want to sleep by myself.”
Jiang Xue’s childish words instantly made her aunt blush.
Jiang Bing’s face instantly turned red as if it were about to bleed.
“Pfft~”
The shrimp congee in Jiang Tao’s mouth instantly burst out with laughter, but he managed to cover it with his hand.
Swish!
Xu Li and Jiang Bing’s gazes simultaneously fell on Jiang Tao.
Xu Li was a bit confused as to why he was laughing.
Jiang Bing suspected that her smelly second brother knew something?
“Uh, I just suddenly thought of a cold joke I saw last night and couldn’t help myself.”
“Sorry, sorry…”
Jiang Tao explained as he took out a napkin to wipe his hands.
Seeing her second brother wipe his hands with a napkin, Jiang Bing suddenly felt a sense of familiarity, and her pretty face turned redder.
Xu Li chuckled from the side, “What joke is so funny, husband? I want to hear it too.”
“I want to hear too! Daddy, tell us quickly, I love listening to jokes the most~”
“Uh…”
Looking at the mother and daughter egging him on, Old Jiang’s mind raced, and he actually thought of one.
“One morning, when a little earthworm was eating breakfast, he didn’t see his father and asked his mother.”
“Mom, Mom, where did Daddy go?”
Xu Li, Jiang Xue, and Jiang Bing’s eyes were all fixed on Jiang Tao’s face, their eyes turning back and forth as they waited for his next words.
“The mother earthworm said, your father went fishing with someone, hahaha~~~”
Jiang Tao couldn’t help but laugh after he finished telling the joke.
“Pfft~”
Xu Li, who always had a low laugh threshold, instantly broke down laughing, covering her mouth with her hands and shaking with laughter.
Jiang Bing laughed even louder: “Hahahaha… Little earthworm’s dad, went fishing with someone, with someone! Hahahaha…”
“…”
Only Jiang Xue, with her big, clear eyes, looked at the three adults speechlessly, wondering if there was anything funny about it.
A small joke instantly livened up the atmosphere at the dining table.
After breakfast, Xu Li went to the kitchen to clean up.
Jiang Bing took Jiang Xue back to their mother’s side to help her parents, who were traveling far from home for the first time, pack their luggage.
Jiang Tao, with nothing else to do, drove towards the Tian Family Village cattle farm to say goodbye to his uncle.
Inadvertently, his uncle had earned him 1 million, and Jiang Tao couldn’t pretend nothing happened.
Coincidentally, he still had two packs of Huazi cigarettes and a case of Moutai at home, so he decided to give them to his uncle as a reward.
At 9 AM, Jiang Tao drove to the Tian Family Village cattle farm and rang the doorbell outside the main gate.
A worker at the cattle farm, seeing the Mercedes-Benz outside through the gap in the door, trotted over to open the gate for Jiang Tao.
“Good morning, Boss!”
“Good morning, is my uncle in the farm?”
“Yes! The Farm Manager is in the office!”
After a brief chat with the worker, Jiang Tao drove into the yard and parked on a flat area.
He got out of the car, opened the trunk, and beckoned the worker who had opened the gate for him to help him carry the wine.
The worker, seeing the conspicuous Moutai logo on the case and the two packs of Huazi cigarettes, was filled with envy!
Why didn’t he have such a capable nephew!
Led by the worker, Jiang Tao arrived at his uncle’s office.
Seeing his uncle again, Jiang Tao felt his eyes light up!
Every time he saw him before, he was in a dirty work uniform, and his hair was so greasy it could be used for frying.
After a few days, his uncle had a new haircut, a short buzz cut that gave him a spirited and capable look.
It was as if he had become more than ten years younger.
He was wearing a dark green down jacket, a black two-piece wool sweater underneath, and dress pants and leather shoes on his lower body.
It was a world away from his previous image of wearing loose-fitting clothes and work shoes whose colors were indistinguishable.
“Yo, Uncle, you look sharp in that outfit! You should have dressed like this sooner!”
Jiang Tao gave his uncle a thumbs-up and praised him with a smile.
“Haha, you kid, stop teasing your uncle. I’m fifty or sixty, what’s so handsome about me! You’re more handsome, Xiao Tao!”
“Since you were little, everyone who saw you praised how good-looking you were, saying you’d definitely marry a beautiful wife when you grew up.”
“And you really lived up to expectations and married such a beautiful wife.”
“Hahaha, that’s true. Uncle, I don’t object to you saying that.”
Jiang Tao laughed and admitted that Xu Li had pursued him initially, attracted by his handsome appearance.
After a few laughs and jokes, they chatted for another half hour.
Jiang Tao subtly inquired if his uncle had any financial difficulties, but he denied them all.
He was just short of directly asking if he had prepared the betrothal gifts, banquet, and house for the marriage.
If Tian Mingrong’s demands weren’t too excessive.
Jiang Tao wouldn’t mind helping his uncle arrange their wedding for one or two hundred thousand.
After all, his uncle had earned him 1 million, so it could be considered a task reward for his uncle.
Jiang Tao stayed at the cattle farm until after 10 AM.
During this time, Liu Zhiyuan and Shan Yufei, who had gone out to buy cattle, also returned with two cows.
The two brothers were now shareholders of the cattle farm and received dividends.
They were also employees of the cattle farm, earning high salaries and working with great enthusiasm.
In just a few days, the number of cattle at the farm had increased from the initial 106 to over 180, nearing the 300 head target set by Jiang Tao.
There was no pressure to gather 300 head of cattle before the market trend mentioned in the intelligence system arrived.
After leaving the cattle farm, Jiang Tao drove to Jian Tao Supermarket in Li Family Town.
He parked the car on the roadside in front of the supermarket’s main entrance.
Sitting in the car, he looked inside the supermarket and saw more than a dozen customers selecting products, while his elder brother and elder sister-in-law were busy serving them.
Jiang Tao did not get out of the car; after finishing a cigarette, he stepped on the accelerator and drove towards Jiang Family Village.
“When you’re in your prime, I want to sing a song for you~”
“My good brother, tell me anything on your mind.”
“Life is bound to have ups and downs, but we must live bravely; what’s the point of hardship and fatigue.”
“Brotherhood is higher than the sky and wider than the earth; we will definitely remember those years~”
Jiang Tao hummed along with the music in the car.
Scenes of him and his elder brother Jiang He growing up together flashed through his mind like a slideshow.
When they were children, the family of five squeezed onto a large kang.
He and his elder brother would share a quilt every night, pinching each other’s private parts.
When he first started elementary school, Jiang Tao was bullied by several fifth-graders.
His elder brother, armed with a stick, took on the whole group alone and ended up with a bruised and swollen face.
Because the family was poor and couldn’t afford three university students, his elder brother stopped studying after junior high, giving the opportunity to read to his younger brother and sister.
When his elder brother first started working, his salary was only a little over 300 yuan a month.
His first month’s salary was used to buy Jiang Tao a brand-new bicycle with gears.
This way, Jiang Tao wouldn’t have to ride his family’s old bicycle, which was broken except for the bell, to school.
He wouldn’t have to endure the strange looks from his classmates or be ridiculed by a few mischievous students in the class.
Elder brothers are like fathers; Jiang Tao never forgot the cherishing his elder brother gave him.
Now, he has obtained the Daily Intelligence System, and in just over a month, his life has undergone a complete turnaround.
His future life is full of promise, with boundless financial prospects.
Jiang Tao felt it was only right to help his own elder brother within his capabilities.
He truly didn’t think much of a small supermarket with an annual income of only 300,000.
But it could greatly improve his elder brother’s family’s situation, allowing them to live a more relaxed and dignified life.
Jiang Tao drove home, and it was exactly twelve noon.
Today’s lunch was the last meal Jiang Tao’s family would have in their hometown.
Uncle Tianming and his aunt from next door also came to his home to see Jiang Tao’s family off and helped with preparing the meal.
His father-in-law’s family of three also came to his home to see his daughter’s family of three off.
The mother-in-law held Xu Li’s hand, her eyes full of reluctance, but she also supported Xu Li and Jiang Xue accompanying Jiang Tao to the Capital City.
After all, the education and medical facilities in the Capital City were not comparable to a small county town like Ping County.
Around 12:30 PM, sixteen dishes were served on a large round table with a lazy Susan.
Everyone took their seats to toast Jiang Tao and his group.
Jiang Tao had to drive in the afternoon, and Old Sun, his father, Xu Li, Jiang Xue, and his mother would be in the same car, so it was not convenient for them to have the smell of alcohol.
Therefore, no one drank alcohol at lunch today; everyone drank beverages.
Elder Brother and Elder Sister-in-law, knowing Jiang Tao’s family was returning to the Capital City, also specifically rushed back from the supermarket to see them off.
The meal ended around 2 PM.
After a simple tidy-up, everyone parted ways at the entrance of the home.
Jiang Tao, driving his wife, daughter, parents, and Old Sun, embarked on the road back to the Capital City.
This was the first time his father and mother had traveled so far.
They looked out the car window at their hometown receding into the distance.
They felt both curiosity about the big city and some apprehension.
