Chapter 123: The Money-attracting Golden Toad That Earns Thousands Daily And An Old Acquaintance!
Outside the door of the VIP reception area at Aidi International Kindergarten.
Knock, knock, knock.
A woman with delicate makeup on her face, wearing the kindergarten uniform of a purple suit skirt set and nude stockings, stopped at the door and knocked.
“Please come in.”
Hearing the voice from inside, Jiang Yi gently pushed open the door and entered the room.
“Sister Dong, I’ve finished my tasks and am here to report back from my leave.”
Jiang Yi walked to the desk and respectfully spoke to a woman behind it, who wore pomegranate-red framed glasses and had permed curly hair.
Dong Mei put down the carbon pen in her hand and said softly:
“Xiao Jiang, it’s good that you’re back.”
“There’s a parent coming this afternoon to enroll their child, and it happens to be a child in your class.”
“Please familiarize the parent with our campus and tell them more about our featured courses.”
“Try to get the enrollment done today.”
“Okay, Sister Dong, I understand.”
Jiang Yi nodded slightly in agreement, as this was part of her job.
She just hoped in her heart that the child’s parent wouldn’t be the kind of pervert who stared at her sensitive areas last time.
“Contact the parent a bit later to see when they’ll be arriving.”
“Go to the campus entrance to greet them. Make sure the parents feel the importance and warm welcome that Aidi extends to its students’ parents.”
“Here are the parent’s name and phone number.”
“Oh, what a coincidence, Jiang Tao, this client shares the same surname as you, Xiao Jiang. Your names are quite similar, like family.”
Dong Mei chuckled and handed Jiang Yi a piece of A4 paper with Jiang Tao’s information, adding a small joke.
“Jiang Tao?”
Jiang Yi took the A4 paper and was slightly taken aback upon seeing the name.
A somewhat blurry figure quickly appeared in her mind.
It was a handsome young man.
On her first day as a university homeroom teacher, after her self-introduction, she had asked the students in the classroom to introduce themselves one by one.
The first boy to stand up and introduce himself was named Jiang Tao.
With one named Jiang Yi and the other Jiang Tao, and introducing themselves next to each other, it immediately caused a burst of laughter among the students in the classroom.
Some mischievous students even joked if they were related, if they were siblings.
Because of that self-introduction, Jiang Tao left a deep impression on Jiang Yi.
In the following years, Jiang Yi obviously paid more attention to Jiang Tao than to other students in the class.
It was as if she truly treated him like a younger brother.
Time flies, and almost ten years have passed.
That once-youthful young man must now be married with a career, a pillar of his family, right?
Stirred by the memory of youthful beauty, a gentle curve appeared at the corners of Jiang Yi’s mouth.
“Jiang Tao is a common name, it’s probably just a coincidence.”
Jiang Yi put away the paper, excused herself from Dong Mei, and turned to leave.
Back in her office, Jiang Yi took out her mobile phone from the small pocket of her suit jacket and dialed the number from the A4 paper.
“Huh, it’s a number from Shi City?”
Seeing that the dialed number was from the same city as the university she used to teach at, Jiang Yi’s expression changed again.
Ring, ring, ring—
The call was answered after ringing for quite a while.
A man’s slightly breathless voice came from the other end.
“Hello… who is this.”
“Hello, Mr. Jiang, I am Jiang Yi, the homeroom teacher of Class K4-3 at Aidi International Kindergarten. I’d like to schedule a time for you to come to the kindergarten to complete the enrollment.”
“Jiang Yi? Oh, hello Teacher Jiang, we’ll be there this afternoon… around 3 o’clock, cough.”
“Okay, I’ll be waiting for you at the entrance. I look forward to meeting you.”
“Alright, see you later.”
The other person then hung up hastily, giving Jiang Yi no chance to speak further.
After ending the call, Jiang Yi’s beautiful willow-leaf eyebrows furrowed slightly.
The name, phone number IP, and voice all pointed to her former student.
Could it really be him?
“It should be just a coincidence…”
Jiang Yi thought about Aidi Kindergarten’s high tuition fees and then felt that this Jiang Tao was not the same person as that Jiang Tao.
The annual tuition fee for the kindergarten department at Aidi International Kindergarten was 183,000 yuan, which was equivalent to Jiang Yi’s annual salary.
Even in a place like the Capital City, it could be considered a “noble kindergarten.”
If a family didn’t have several million yuan, they wouldn’t be willing to send their child here.
Her former student was just an ordinary junior college graduate from a rural background.
Besides being a bit handsome, he hadn’t shown any special talents during university.
At most, it had only been six or seven years since he graduated from university.
The possibility of him earning a net worth of tens of millions was extremely slim.
Unless he won the lottery.
…
Bai Ge Zhuang New Village Residential Area.
Jiang Tao leaned back comfortably on the large sofa in the living room.
Xu Li was facing away from him, her little bottom pouting as she rinsed her mouth by the trash can.
“Honey, who was that just now? Their voice sounded nice, must be a beautiful woman.”
Xu Li spat out the water from her small cherry mouth, then turned to look at Jiang Tao, asking with a charming smile.
The blush on Xu Li’s delicate face had not yet faded from her praise of Xiao Jiang, making her look even more radiant than flowers.
“No one is as beautiful as my wife.”
“It was a teacher from Aidi Kindergarten, saying they’d be waiting to receive us this afternoon.”
Jiang Tao said as he adjusted his pants, got up from the sofa, and zipped them up.
His praise for Xu Li was not just perfunctory.
Who says a home-grown flower isn’t as fragrant as a wild one?
It didn’t apply to his silly wife!
“What time is the appointment? Are we going now?”
Xu Li asked, tying the trash bag in the trash can, preparing to take it downstairs later.
“It’s scheduled for 3 o’clock, no need to rush, we have plenty of time.”
“Okay, okay, then I’ll go fix my hair and touch up my makeup. You messed up my hair.”
Xu Li gave Old Jiang a flirtatious glare and turned, swaying her hips as she walked towards the bedroom.
“With a pampered wife at home, even wolfberry can’t cure me.”
Watching his wife’s graceful back, Old Jiang reached up and touched his waist.
He secretly decided to eat more kidney-nourishing foods like walnuts and shrimp recommended by Third Sister from now on.
While Xu Li went back to her room to fix her hair and makeup.
Jiang Tao turned and walked towards the room that was originally reserved for their daughter, Xiao Xue.
He had placed that Golden Toad in that room this morning and hadn’t had a chance to examine it closely yet.
He entered the room and shut the door behind him.
Jiang Tao walked a few steps to the dressing table in the room and took out the Golden Toad from the black trash bag.
The originally bronze-colored Golden Toad emitted a dark golden light in Jiang Tao’s vision.
At the same time, there were two lines of text above the Golden Toad.
【 Item Name 】: Money-Attracting Golden Toad.
【 Status 】: Unbound, Inactive.
As he saw the text description, the method to activate this Golden Toad instantly appeared in Jiang Tao’s mind.
It was very simple: just drip a drop of blood into its large mouth to activate it and obtain random attributes.
“This is a blood-drop recognition procedure? It’s not modern at all, too primitive.”
Despite his grumbling.
Jiang Tao was still very much looking forward to the special attributes hidden within this Golden Toad.
He casually took a small brooch from the front of his sweater.
Jiang Tao gritted his teeth and stabbed his index finger, but it didn’t break the skin.
When it comes to oneself, it’s indeed difficult to go through with it!
After pricking himself twice more, he finally broke the skin, and a small bead of crimson blood emerged from his fingertip.
Jiang Tao quickly extended his finger into the Golden Toad’s mouth.
With a gentle shake, the blood drop from his fingertip fell into the Golden Toad’s large mouth.
【 Item binding in progress, please wait… 】
【 Item activation in progress, please wait… 】
【 Item binding successful, activation successful! 】
【 Item Name 】: Money-Attracting Golden Toad.
【 Binder 】: Jiang Tao.
【 Attribute 】: Wealth from all directions.
【 Wealth from all directions 】: The Money-Attracting Golden Toad can absorb 10,000 points of wealth energy daily. The exchange rate between wealth energy and cash is 1:1.
【 Current Money-Attracting Golden Toad has accumulated 5 points of wealth energy. Would you like to exchange it for cash immediately? 】
“Gulp…”
After seeing the description of the Money-Attracting Golden Toad, Jiang Tao couldn’t help but swallow.
Absorbing 10,000 points of wealth energy per day, at a 1:1 ratio, means he could exchange it for 10,000 yuan daily!
That’s 300,000 yuan per month.
3.65 million yuan per year!
With this item, even if he just lazed around in the Capital City, he could live more comfortably than most people for the rest of his life!
What does a passive monthly income of 300,000 yuan mean?
It’s almost equivalent to having over 100 million yuan principal deposited in a bank?
This thing is simply a super-powered golden rice bowl!
At this moment, Jiang Tao finally understood what netizens meant by how satisfying a life with cheats is.
What it feels like to constantly cheat and be constantly satisfied!
This time, it was like he spent 700 yuan to buy a golden finger with a passive annual return of 3.65 million!
It couldn’t be more satisfying!
While stunned, Jiang Tao saw that the wealth energy accumulated by the Golden Toad had reached 20 points.
He attempted to convert the wealth energy into cash and initiated a withdrawal.
The next second, he heard a rustling sound of money falling to the ground.
Jiang Tao took out his mobile phone and saw a small transfer of 20 yuan received on Alipay. The withdrawal was successful!
“There’s another stable source of income now, not bad, not bad.”
Jiang Tao’s gaze fell upon the Money-Attracting Golden Toad on the dressing table, his eyes shining.
He would have to worship this “ancestor” well from now on!
If that jerk from this morning knew he traded a pack of cigarettes for a golden finger, he’d probably cry himself to death in the restroom!
Putting his phone in his pocket, Jiang Tao cupped the Money-Attracting Golden Toad in his hands and walked out, starting to look for a place to put it.
Wherever he put it, it didn’t feel safe; he was afraid it would be stolen.
“I’ll have to buy a safe when I have time and lock it up. Then it will be safe!”
Jiang Tao muttered to himself as he carried the Money-Attracting Golden Toad into the master bedroom.
“Honey, why did you bring that here? Ew, it’s so ugly~”
Xu Li, who was sitting at the dressing table applying makeup, saw the Money-Attracting Golden Toad Jiang Tao brought into the room and showed a disgusted expression on her cute face.
“Don’t call it ugly. This thing has been blessed, it’s as effective as the Heluo Stone I gave you.”
“This is our family’s God of Wealth, we have to worship it well from now on.”
Jiang Tao said as he opened the bedside cabinet next to the bed and carefully placed the Money-Attracting Golden Toad inside before closing the cabinet door.
“Really? Then we must worship it well.”
“But, dear husband, why did you lock our God of Wealth in the cabinet? Is that how you worship it well?”
After Xu Li finished speaking, she covered her mouth and giggled, feeling that her husband’s chuunibyou moments were quite amusing.
“I’m just afraid of it being stolen. Better safe than sorry.”
“Are you ready? We should head out.”
Jiang Tao stood up from the floor and turned to look at Xu Li, his eyes suddenly lighting up.
Her thin red lips were freshly painted with a vibrant yet not gaudy lipstick, her almond eyes and rosy cheeks exuded natural charm.
“Honey, can you see if there’s anything else I need to tidy up?”
“This is the first time meeting Xiao Xue’s future teacher, I want to make a good impression.”
Xu Li said as she twirled in front of Jiang Tao, showcasing her figure from all angles.
“Perfect~”
Jiang Tao mimicked Jin Xing’s gesture and gave his highest praise.
“Hehe, this is worthy of my handsome husband~”
Xu Li walked to Jiang Tao’s side, linked his arm, and her eyes on him were overflowing with love.
If her younger sister, Xu Sha, saw this scene, she would definitely roll her eyes and think to herself, “My sister’s love-struck brain is acting up again.”
Dressed neatly, Xu Li linked her arms with Jiang Tao’s and they walked out, chatting and laughing.
After pressing the down button at the elevator entrance, the two began to wait for the elevator.
Creak.
While Jiang Tao and Xu Li were waiting for the elevator, the room door diagonally behind them suddenly made a sound, and then slammed shut with a clang.
A man with black-rimmed glasses, a medium-length parted hairstyle, who looked to be in his forties and had a very serious expression, stood behind them, carrying a black briefcase.
Hearing someone arrive, Xu Li stopped talking and became quiet.
Jiang Tao, being new here, had no intention of getting to know his neighbors and remained silent.
After waiting for about three minutes, an elevator coming from upstairs dinged and opened its doors.
Jiang Tao, Xu Li, and the man behind them entered the elevator one after another, and the three of them took the elevator downstairs together.
After going downstairs, Jiang Tao and Xu Li found the Mercedes-Benz GLS parked in the residential area’s public parking spot and drove towards Aidi International Kindergarten.
“Honey, the man who came down with us looked so stern. He looks like he’s not easy to get along with.”
“If he’s not easy to get along with, then so be it. In a big city, there are many people who live on the same floor for years and don’t know each other.”
“Honey, what’s the price of houses here? How much would a house like the one we used to live in cost?”
“My master said it’s around 37,000, and the one we lived in was 138 square meters. You can calculate it yourself.”
“37,000 multiplied by 138 equals, equals…”
Xu Li spoke as she calculated, and in a very serious manner, took out her mobile phone to start computing.
“5,106,000! Good heavens.”
“Even winning the first prize in the Double Color Ball lottery, after taxes, wouldn’t be enough! As expected of the capital city, these housing prices are insane.”
“Can’t afford it, can’t afford it. We’ll just rent a place.”
After calculating the value of the house, Xu Li adorably stuck out her tongue, shook her head, and exclaimed that she couldn’t afford it.
“This is just outside the Fifth Ring Road in the capital city. Inside, the Second and Third Ring Roads, the price would more than double.”
“Don’t worry, renting is just temporary. In at most one or two years, our family will be able to buy a house with full payment in a more prosperous area of the capital city.”
“And then I’ll buy you a Maserati or something, so you can drive out for a spin every day.”
Jiang Tao said this while driving, a smile of immense confidence on his face.
With the money-making intelligence provided by the Daily Intelligence, there was now also the “money-generating miracle,” the Money-Attracting Golden Toad.
If he couldn’t even afford a house in the capital city, couldn’t even afford a luxury car for his wife.
Then he would definitely become the most miserably failed protagonist in history.
If he wrote himself into a book, he’d become the Gotham Joker, laughed at by a large group of netizens.
“Honey, you’re amazing. We mother and daughter are so blessed to be with you.”
Xu Li looked at Old Jiang, who was driving with one hand, with a doting expression, cupped his large hand, and placed it on her face.
At this moment, Xu Li felt like the happiest woman in the world.
Even without a car or a house, having her husband by her side was enough.
“But, forget the Maserati. If I drive one, people will think I’m doing e-commerce.”
After Xu Li finished speaking, she made herself laugh again, her snow-white chest bouncing.
Jiang Tao thought about it and agreed; Maseratis had been overused by those in e-commerce and direct selling over the years.
There were too many direct selling posts congratulating “Boss X” on getting a Maserati.
As a result, some genuine wealthy clients who could actually afford a Maserati were no longer willing to buy one.
In the past, a Maserati was a symbol of status and wealth, but now it had almost become a symbol of direct selling and e-commerce.
While chatting and laughing, the Mercedes-Benz GLS arrived at the main entrance of Aidi International Kindergarten.
Still dozens of meters away, Jiang Tao saw a woman through the car window waiting at the school entrance for something.
The woman was wearing a purple suit skirt set and nude stockings on her legs.
Her dark black hair was pinned up at the back of her head, revealing a slender and fair neck; she was an elegant young woman.
“Honey, could that be our daughter’s future homeroom teacher?”
Xu Li glanced at the time on her phone; it was currently 2:57 PM, very close to the time Jiang Tao had arranged with the homeroom teacher on the phone.
“It should be. Hmm…”
As they got closer, Jiang Tao could also gradually see the face of the homeroom teacher waiting eagerly at the entrance, and he was a bit surprised and taken aback.
“What’s wrong, honey?”
Xu Li sensed an unnatural expression on Jiang Tao’s face and asked curiously.
“Why does our Xiao Xue’s homeroom teacher look so much like my university homeroom teacher? She might even be the same person.”
“Ah? Your university homeroom teacher?”
Xu Li was also stunned when she heard Jiang Tao’s words. How could it be so coincidental!
Her husband’s university homeroom teacher is now teaching her husband’s daughter?
Squeak!
The Mercedes-Benz GLS stopped in front of Jiang Yi.
The driver’s and front passenger’s doors opened almost simultaneously, and Jiang Tao and Xu Li got out of the car.
“Teacher Jiang? It really is you! You haven’t changed at all after all these years.”
After getting out of the car, Jiang Tao was basically certain that the woman in front of him was his former university homeroom teacher, Jiang Yi!
Of course, Jiang Yi wasn’t that old.
When she taught Jiang Tao and his classmates, she was only 23, just three or four years older than the third-year students.
“Jiang Tao, it’s really you! When I saw your information back then, I was wondering if it might be you, but I didn’t expect it to be you!”
In such a large city like the capital, unexpectedly meeting her former student here, Jiang Yi was also very pleased, but more so surprised!
Driving a Mercedes-Benz worth over a million, bringing her daughter to an international kindergarten with tuition fees of over 180,000 yuan a year.
And the woman by his side, she must be his wife, right? She’s even more beautiful than the big stars on TV.
It seems this student of hers is doing very well and has become successful!
“Teacher Jiang, let me introduce you, this is my wife, Xu Li.”
“Lili, this is my university homeroom teacher for four years, Teacher Jiang Yi.”
“Hello, Teacher Jiang.”
“Hello, Xu Li.”
As Xu Li and Jiang Yi shook hands with smiles, they were also sizing each other up, secretly comparing.
In terms of height, Xu Li, at 1.72 meters, completely outmatched Jiang Yi, who was only 1.65 meters.
However, with the compensation of Jiang Yi’s 5-centimeter peep-toe high heels, they looked quite similar.
Xu Li had a slender and tall build, while Jiang Yi was plump and full-figured, like a delicate young lady.
In terms of appearance and temperament, the two were almost evenly matched, with no clear winner.
“Let’s get in the car first, Lili. Teacher Jiang, I’ll drive you both in.”
Jiang Tao smiled and beckoned Xu Li and Jiang Yi, then drove them into the campus.
Under Jiang Yi’s direction, Jiang Tao drove directly to the kindergarten department and was given a tour of the campus by her.
Aidi International Kindergarten not only had a preschool class but also its own elementary, junior high, and high school departments.
If the family’s conditions allowed, they could study here all the way until they went abroad for further education.
According to the admissions officer from yesterday.
Over 25% of Aidi School’s graduates are admitted to the world’s Top 20 universities.
Over 75% of graduates are admitted to the world’s Top 50 universities.
For universities within the world’s Top 100, the admission rate is 100%.
If one doesn’t wish to study abroad, the admission rate to domestic undergraduate programs is also basically 100%.
With some effort, admission to 985 and 211 universities is also achievable.
After all, the tuition fees at Aidi International Kindergarten start at over 180,000 yuan per year, from kindergarten onwards.
The cost for one child to attend Aidi from kindergarten to high school graduation is over 2 million yuan.
The cost of cultivating a child at Aidi is tens of times higher than at ordinary schools!
If they didn’t achieve some results with this investment, it would be truly unacceptable.
Jiang Yi took Jiang Tao and Xu Li on a thorough tour of the kindergarten department.
The learning area, play area, dining area, and rest area all exuded a sense of high-end, luxurious grandeur.
This was a completely different world compared to Jiang Family Village Kindergarten.
While following Jiang Yi on the tour of the school and listening to her explanations.
Xu Li also began to like the place and started to feel that the 180,000 yuan tuition fee wasn’t that expensive anymore.
The tour concluded.
Jiang Yi took Jiang Tao and Xu Li to the admissions office to complete the enrollment procedures and paid a one-time fee of 197,000 yuan.
Jiang Xue was successfully enrolled in the K4 Class 2, the large preschool class taught by Jiang Yi.
After completing the enrollment, Xu Li looked sincerely at Jiang Yi and said:
“Teacher Jiang, our Xiao Xue has just come from the countryside, and she will surely have trouble keeping up with our pace after enrolling. I’ll need you to take good care of her in the future.”
Jiang Yi smiled gently and said:
“Please rest assured, we teach according to the students’ aptitude here. We treat every child as if they were our own, and I will help her catch up with the curriculum as quickly as possible.”
“Thank you, I’m sorry to trouble you.”
“You’re welcome, it’s our duty.”
“Then we’ll be going back now. See you on the first day of school.”
The visit was complete and enrollment was finished. Jiang Tao and Xu Li said goodbye to Jiang Yi and drove away.
When they returned home, it was just past 5 PM.
Their parents hadn’t returned yet.
The two then went to the nearby Wumei Supermarket for a big shopping spree.
Rice cooker, pressure cooker, frying pan, stew pot – they bought everything that could be used.
Then came grains, vegetables, meat, eggs, milk, and seasonings like oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar.
Xu Li also bought Jiang Tao a lot of goji berries, shrimp, walnuts, cashews, oysters, and other ingredients for nourishing the kidneys and strengthening the body.
The once empty kitchen was no longer empty, and the empty refrigerator was filled with various ingredients.
The fruit platter on the large coffee table in the living room also had several kinds of washed fruits.
Jiang Tao’s family’s life in the capital was gradually getting on track.
