Chapter 183: Special Banknotes, Mahjong Dice, And A Mother-in-law Pregnant With Her Third Child!
In the following week.
Jiang Tao and Xu Li drove their father-in-law’s family of three around the capital city, enjoying food and sightseeing.
Tiananmen, Forbidden City, Bird’s Nest, Water Cube.
Summer Palace, Old Summer Palace, Fragrant Hills, Badaling Great Wall…
They visited all the famous attractions in the capital city.
Every day, they rotated through some of the capital city’s time-honored brand restaurants.
And some treasure restaurants that received Michelin star ratings.
During this time, Jiang Tao and Xu Li also took their father-in-law’s family shopping several times.
Buying clothes, bags, and jewelry for the three of them.
The total consumption had long exceeded the limit of the 【 Filial Piety Card 】.
In just one week, they spent over 300,000 yuan.
And the entire expense was paid from Jiang Tao’s nest egg.
It was a rare occasion for the father-in-law’s family to visit the capital city, so Jiang Tao didn’t mind spending a little money.
During this period, the cattle at the hometown cattle farm had all been sold, and the project had concluded successfully.
They were just waiting for his uncle and Liu Zhiyuan to arrive in the capital before sitting down to split the profits.
Jiang Bing’s work selling blueberries in Cui Village had also successfully wrapped up.
It took more than half a month to sell all 100,000 potted blueberry plants.
After deducting labor, logistics, packaging, and expenses for promotion and traffic.
The net profit was 1.32 million yuan.
According to an 80/20 split, Jiang Tao’s final revenue was 1.056 million yuan.
After deducting his 800,000 yuan investment, the final net profit was a little over 250,000 yuan.
Plus the 400,000 yuan earned from selling the four special mutant blueberry plants previously.
Jiang Tao’s total revenue from the blueberry potted plant project was 650,000 yuan!
During the operation of this project, he hardly did anything; Jiang Bing was in charge the entire time.
Investing 800,000 yuan and earning 650,000 yuan while doing nothing, he was quite satisfied!
Jiang Bing earned over 260,000 yuan from this project and was equally satisfied.
The profit from one project was more than she had earned in the past few years.
This further solidified her resolve to always follow in her second brother’s footsteps.
After the blueberry potted plant project concluded, Jiang Bing returned to Jiang’s Food Factory.
Jiang Tao, the 【 Bole 】, saw that Jiang Bing’s talent was in financial management.
So, he directly handed over the financial power of Jiang’s Food Factory to her.
Of course, he completely trusted his third sibling.
Secondly, after the “buy one jin, get one jin free” opening event for Delicious Eight Treasure Pickles, sales had declined somewhat.
But it still managed to bring in over 10,000 yuan in sales daily.
To be selling so well without any advertising promotion was quite impressive.
The short play starring Jiang An’an had successfully begun filming.
And her performance in the crew was excellent, receiving unanimous praise from Qu Lei and others.
The friendship between the two children, Jiang An’an and Jiang Xue, had also become even deeper.
The two would spend an hour on video calls every day, with endless things to talk about.
These two children had clearly become two little best friends.
Jiang Tao also took the time to teach his parents the recipe for Delicious Barbecue Sauce.
After a few days of practice, the two had basically mastered it completely.
They could now make barbecue sauce that was over 90% similar to Delicious Barbecue Sauce.
The only troublesome part was selecting the ingredients.
Only within Jiang Tao’s vision were ingredients suitable for making Delicious Barbecue Sauce marked.
He couldn’t teach this task to his parents, so he had to do it himself.
But it wasn’t a big problem.
He only needed to spend an afternoon to procure enough ingredients for about a week.
There had also been significant changes at Jiang’s Food Factory recently.
Jiang Tao invested over 600,000 yuan to install a fully automated packaging production line with sterilization and disinfection functions.
The packaging for Jiang Family Eight Treasures Pickles and Jiang Family Delicious Barbecue Sauce had also become more standardized.
The food factory also hired 8 new employees, all of whom were fellow villagers from Jiang Family Village who had good relationships with Jiang Wen or Tian Xiaomei.
The salary and benefits at the food factory were quite good, even by capital city standards.
Everyone was dedicated to their work, working together harmoniously, and everything was progressing in an orderly fashion, all developing in a positive direction.
The only drawback was.
For seven full days, none of the 21 pieces of intelligence were valuable.
The refreshed intelligence was all about trivial matters.
This made Jiang Tao hesitate whether to spend another 10 million yuan to upgrade the system and add another piece of intelligence.
Of course, he ultimately held back.
His current assets totaled just over 10 million yuan.
He was reluctant to go all-in on upgrading the system with the 10 million yuan he had finally saved.
He would only consider spending 10 million yuan to upgrade the system after saving thirty to fifty million yuan.
During the seven days of touring and eating with his father-in-law’s family.
Jiang Tao and Xu Li also took time to visit Du Ennan and their goddaughter twice at Xinyue Hui.
When Du Ennan recognized Jiang Xue as her goddaughter, she gave her a stored value card with over 500,000 yuan loaded onto it.
This time, for Du Yuwei’s birth, Jiang Tao and Xu Li, as godfather and godmother, also prepared gifts.
Jiang Tao utilized the gold bars he had bought at Wanxiang Hui for a lucky draw previously.
And the four gold bars he had retrieved from the door of his old Audi.
With a total of 800 grams of gold bars, Jiang Tao commissioned a craftsman to create two gold jewelry pieces as gifts for Du Yuwei.
A longevity lock and a cosmic ring.
Gold prices had been high recently, so the value of these two gifts from Jiang Tao and his wife to their goddaughter was already six to seven hundred thousand yuan.
Jiang Tao wasn’t heartbroken about it.
After all, Du Ennan had gifted him a Mercedes-Benz GLS, and her father had gifted him a G-wagon.
The benefits Jiang Tao received from the Du family far exceeded the value of these two small gifts.
Additionally, Jiang Tao also subtly reminded Old Du.
Reminding him that his Vacheron Constantin was a fake, whether he believed it or not was up to him.
This past week had been incredibly fulfilling for Jiang Tao and Xu Li.
On the evening of March 30th.
After playing cards, Xu Li snuggled into Jiang Tao’s arms, with a happy and contented expression on her face.
“Husband, my mom wants Sasha to find a job here in the capital city. Can you help her?”
“If she can get a stable job, my parents won’t have to worry about her.”
“They’ve asked friends and relatives to find seven or eight jobs for Sasha, but none of them have lasted long.”
“Even though she was immature before, she’s my only sister. Can you forgive her?”
Xu Li’s slender fingers traced circles on Jiang Tao’s stomach as she softly asked for his opinion.
In this family, although Jiang Tao let her manage the finances, the ultimate decision-making power still rested with Jiang Tao.
Of course, the money she managed, which she considered a huge sum, was meager compared to Jiang Tao’s nest egg.
Regarding arranging a job for her sister, if Jiang Tao refused, she would only be a bit dejected.
She wouldn’t blame him or get angry with him.
Although Xu Li was very good to her sister, she wasn’t the “sister-worshiping type.”
For all major and minor matters, the opinion of the head of the family, Jiang Tao, was always paramount.
“Silly girl, of course, I can forgive her. Your sister is my sister.”
“You don’t think I’d get angry with someone like Sasha, do you?”
Jiang Tao chuckled as he patted Xu Li’s perky backside, shaking his head with a smile.
Whether in his humble beginnings or now with tens of millions in assets.
Jiang Tao had never held a grudge against his sister-in-law, always treating her like a child.
“My husband is so generous~ Muah.”
Hearing Jiang Tao’s words, Xu Li smiled and pecked him on the cheek, feeling incredibly sweet inside.
Jiang Tao gently rubbed Xu Li’s smooth, jade-like back and said:
“I plan to set up a live stream account for our food factory.”
“Sasha often live streams on Kuaidou, doesn’t she?”
“Besides, I think she’s quite good at talking, with a quick tongue.”
“Tomorrow, ask her if she wants to be a live stream sales host at our food factory.”
“As for salary, it’ll be a guaranteed 10,000 yuan, with performance commission if sales pick up.”
Jiang Tao had also observed Xu Sha using the 【 Bole 】 title these past few days.
He discovered that the girl had good speaking skills, and the industry most suitable for her was live stream sales.
Coincidentally, Jiang Tao also had plans to manage the company’s live stream account recently.
If the live stream account could be successful, they could adopt a dual-channel sales strategy of online and offline in the future.
And Xu Sha was perfectly suited for the role of a sales host.
Hiring Xu Sha into the company would not only relieve Xu Li and her parents of worry but also guide Xu Sha onto a suitable development path.
In the future, she might even bring him considerable revenue.
For such a win-win-win situation, Jiang Tao wouldn’t hold grudges over past minor conflicts and discard Xu Sha.
“Uh, husband, isn’t this treatment a bit too high?”
Xu Li asked with slight surprise after hearing the treatment Jiang Tao offered her sister.
Sasha’s Kuaidou account only had about four to five thousand followers.
During each live stream, there were only twenty to thirty people in the room, with more than half being friends from real life stopping by.
Honestly, Xu Li couldn’t really see her sister having any talent for live streaming.
Besides the Five Insurances and One Fund, a guaranteed 10,000 yuan salary.
Such generous treatment was hard to find not only in her hometown of Ping County but even in the nearby cities.
Xu Li felt that Jiang Tao offering such high compensation to her sister was definitely giving her significant face.
While feeling touched, she also felt incredibly happy.
“I pay Lao San over ten thousand yuan; I can’t be biased, can I?”
“She can continue to live in Building 62.”
“She can live there for as long as she wants.”
“That way, when your parents visit the capital city in the future, they’ll have a fixed place to stay.”
“Husband, you’re so good. Marrying you is the most correct decision I’ve ever made.”
Xu Li’s eyes reddened with emotion from Jiang Tao’s words, her softest spot deeply touched.
Even though her sister had been so disrespectful to him before, he could still repay kindness with kindness; this was the husband she loved the most!
“Being able to marry a beautiful, gentle, and considerate wife like you is also my good fortune.”
Jiang Tao smiled and stroked Xu Li’s head, also feeling grateful for her unwavering support during his humble beginnings.
While embracing intimately, Jiang Tao activated 『 Sleep Mode 』 for Xu Li, and she fell asleep within three minutes.
The effect of 『 Sleep Mode 』 was as reliable and immediate as ever.
Jiang Tao waited until Xu Li was asleep.
Then, with a thought, he opened the system interface to check today’s intelligence.
“After a week of bad luck, it’s time for some high-value intelligence to refresh!”
“Brother Stone! Give me some luck!”
Jiang Tao glanced down at the seemingly unremarkable “Heluo Stone” on his beaded bracelet and silently prayed.
【 Today’s Intelligence 01 】:
You had contact with Du Yongmei yesterday, obtaining related intelligence—
Among the 1,000 yuan pocket money Du Yongmei gave Jiang Xue, one hundred-yuan banknote is a special item.
Upon obtaining ownership of this item, you can activate it and obtain a random attribute!
……
“System Brother, Brother Stone, you’ve finally become useful again!”
Seeing that the first piece of intelligence refreshed today was a special item.
Jiang Tao clenched his fist excitedly!
Based on past experience.
As long as it’s a special item, the attributes after activation will surely not be bad!
Money-Attracting Golden Toad, Salary Card, Delicious Pickled Vegetable Jar, BAIC EU5, Treadmill, Holly Tree…
These items are living examples.
Relying on the special attributes of these activated special items.
Relying on the special attributes of these activated special items.
Jiang Tao could now live the rest of his life with ease even if he just lay flat.
“A 100-yuan banknote is also a special item.”
“This special item is truly all-encompassing; anything can be one!”
“What attribute will I be able to activate this time?”
After reading the content of the first piece of intelligence, Jiang Tao’s anticipation surged.
However, it was late at night, and Jiang Xue was already asleep.
If he wanted to obtain ownership of that banknote, he definitely couldn’t steal it; he had to be clever.
He would only truly obtain its “ownership” if he could get Jiang Xue to willingly give it to him.
With a thought, Jiang Tao continued to refresh the intelligence, looking at the second piece.
【Today’s Intelligence 02】:
You had contact with Du Yongmei yesterday, and obtained related intelligence—
Among the Mahjong tiles Du Yongmei brought from her hometown, one of the dice is a special item.
Upon obtaining its ownership, activating it can grant a random attribute!
…
“What’s going on? Another special item?”
“And it’s related to the mother-in-law again!”
Seeing the second piece of intelligence refreshed today.
Jiang Tao’s eyes lit up again!
Two special items refreshed in one day, this is too lucky!
Could this be heaven compensating him for not getting any high-value intelligence all week?
“Mahjong dice? Interesting.”
“I just don’t know what kind of attribute this thing will activate.”
Jiang Tao also knew that his mother-in-law loved playing Mahjong.
When the family came to Beijing to travel, besides two sets of clothes for changing, she brought her favorite set of Mahjong tiles!
Three nights ago, Jiang Tao and Xu Li even went to his mother-in-law’s place and played a few rounds of Mahjong with them.
However, before receiving any prompts from System Brother.
Even if a special item was right in front of them, no one would know it was a special item.
For example, the Money-Attracting Golden Toad, Salary Card, BAIC EU5, and Body-Strengthening Treadmill that Jiang Tao had previously acquired.
Those items originally had owners.
And they had been with their original owners for a long time.
But their original owners never discovered they were special items until they were abandoned or resold.
Jiang Tao was only able to identify those as special items after receiving prompts from System Brother.
Without System Brother’s prompts, he would have missed out on those special items as well and wouldn’t have obtained any of them.
“Tomorrow, I’ll have to find a way to get my mother-in-law’s dice!”
After reading the second piece of intelligence, Jiang Tao continued to look at the third.
【Today’s Intelligence 03】:
You had contact with Du Yongmei yesterday, and obtained related intelligence—
Du Yongmei unexpectedly became pregnant with her third child last night.
Remind her to promptly supplement with folic acid, protein, calcium, iron, and various vitamins.
This is beneficial for the fetus’s normal development.
