Chapter 32: The “god” Who Controls The Satsuma Mandarins!
He stared blankly at the time on his mobile phone, which had turned to midnight.
Jiang Tao couldn’t wait to open the intelligence system to check today’s intelligence.
【 Today’s Intelligence 】: You had contact with the landlord Lu Qian yesterday, and obtained related intelligence—
72-year-old Lu Qian appears optimistic and cheerful on the outside, but he has always been lonely at heart and often can’t sleep alone at night.
He yearns to have a perfect love in his lifetime, but he has never found the right person.
After system detection, Ma Dongmei, who sells roasted sweet potatoes outside the Hongxing Second-hand Furniture Wholesale Market, has a 98% match rate with Lu Qian!
Match the two for marriage, and you will receive a 88,888 yuan red envelope reward from Lu Qian and permanent rent reduction.
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Seeing the intelligence updated today, Jiang Tao’s eyes lit up.
“The landlord is really young at heart despite his age. He’s over 70 and still believes in love…”
“But a red envelope of 88,888 yuan, he’s quite generous!”
“I’m definitely helping Grandpa with this!”
After carefully reading the intelligence again, Jiang Tao felt that this task of matchmaking the landlord was probably not too difficult.
Isn’t it just playing the role of a “matchmaker” to connect the landlord with that auntie named Ma Shenmeimei!
Moreover, the system indicated that the match rate between the two was as high as 98%, just 2 points away from 100%.
These two can be called a match made in heaven!
Such a high match rate shouldn’t be difficult to arrange!
It’s like throwing a burning fire stick into a pile of dry wood; it’s bound to ignite instantly!
“There seem to be three people selling roasted sweet potatoes over at the wholesale market.”
“If I have time today, I’ll go check which one is Ma Dongmei and scout her out first. If I don’t have time, I’ll wait, there’s no rush for this.”
“It’s getting late, time to sleep. Tomorrow I still have to drive out to sell oranges.”
“It’s already the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month. In another 10 days, I’ll go home for the Spring Festival. I need to earn more money to have a good Spring Festival this year!”
Thinking about having important business tomorrow, Jiang Tao plugged his mobile phone in to charge, turned off the lights, and crawled into his quilt to sleep.
Lying on his pillow, Jiang Tao’s mind was still wondering what that “suitable opportunity” was.
He had just glanced at the weather forecast on his mobile phone.
For the past ten days or so, the Capital City has been cloudy or sunny.
Apart from two blue warnings for strong winds and temperature drops, there was nothing special about the weather.
“Forget it, System Brother said it can increase in price, so it definitely will. I’ll know why tomorrow.”
Unable to figure it out, Jiang Tao stopped thinking about it and closed his eyes to sleep.
Ring ring, ring ring—
At 6 AM, the alarm clock on his mobile phone rang.
Jiang Tao reached out of his quilt to turn off the alarm, intending to snooze for a few more minutes before getting up.
However, things didn’t go as planned. After he turned off the alarm, his mobile phone’s ringtone rang again.
Ring ring, ring ring—
He opened one eye and glanced at his phone; the caller’s name displayed was “Xiao Liu.”
“Hello, Xiao Liu. Why aren’t you sleeping in this early morning?”
“The wholesale price has increased? By how much?”
Hearing Liu Zhiyuan’s extremely excited voice on the phone, Jiang Tao instantly felt awake and sat up from the bed.
“6 yuan?”
“Haha, of course! Do you believe in your brother’s business acumen now!”
“Let’s meet at Lao Guo’s shop as usual. Breakfast is on me today. After we’re full, we’ll get ready to work!”
“Gotta go, see you later!”
After a brief exchange on the phone, Jiang Tao hung up and walked to the window, looking out.
It was 6 AM in the Capital City, and it hadn’t fully woken up from its slumber yet; the sky was still somewhat dim.
Jiang Tao had dreamed of snow last night, but outside the window, it was the same as yesterday.
There was no extreme weather like the heavy blizzard he had expected.
He opened the weather app on his phone and took a look; it showed that today would also be a clear day, with temperatures ranging from minus 3 to 5 degrees Celsius.
This year’s Capital City was several degrees warmer than the same period last year, a genuine warm winter.
“Forget it, whatever the reason! Anyway, the price has gone up, and this money is mine to earn!”
Unable to understand why the price of satsuma mandarins had fluctuated so much, Jiang Tao couldn’t be bothered to think about it.
He quickly washed his hands and face with water from his thermos, applied some Dabo lotion, put on the black cotton-padded jacket he usually wore when driving, and went out.
In the time it took to smoke a cigarette, Jiang Tao had traveled from his rental room to “Lao Guo’s Shop.”
Liu Zhiyuan, Shan Yufei, and Zhang Chao were already waiting inside, chatting happily about something.
“Here comes our Zhuge Liang!”
“Brother Jiang, you’re truly prescient! How did you know there was a heavy blizzard in G Province and the satsuma mandarins couldn’t get out!”
“Our fruit wholesale group is full of people looking for satsuma mandarins! Even selling to those dealers, we can make a huge profit!”
Upon seeing Jiang Tao, Zhang Chao and the other two were as excited as could be. In a few words, they explained the reason for the price fluctuation of satsuma mandarins.
“Heh, it’s mainly thanks to my friend. If anyone is prescient, it’s them.”
“Listening to good advice leads to a full stomach. They are young and have accumulated a net worth of tens of millions, so they must have some ability.”
Jiang Tao calmly sat down at the dining table, but internally he was also incredibly excited!
In this satsuma mandarin project, he invested the most money. This time, he was really going to count money until his hands were sore!
“If I had known it was this reliable, I would have withdrawn my 100,000 yuan fixed deposit!”
“Who’s saying it’s not! It’s too late to say anything now. The entire Capital City is looking for satsuma mandarins.”
“In just this short time, the price in the group has risen by another 5 mao, reaching 6.5 yuan!”
Liu Zhiyuan and Shan Yufei truly regretted not going all in like Jiang Tao.
To play it safe, they had only invested 50,000 yuan each.
If they had invested over a hundred thousand like Jiang Tao…
Of course, it was too late to say anything now.
The world doesn’t have that many “what ifs.”
Some opportunities are fleeting. If you seize them, you seize them. If you don’t, you miss them for life.
The one who regretted the most was undoubtedly Zhang Chao.
He watched helplessly as his buddies who played together could make a small fortune, yet he had nothing to do with it!
“Brother Jiang, if there are any more opportunities to make money like this in the future, you have to call us brothers too!”
“Absolutely. We’re all brothers. We’ll earn money together. Order whatever you want, brothers. After we’re full, we’ll go load up the oranges and prepare for battle!”
Liu Zhiyuan and the others didn’t stand on ceremony with Jiang Tao and each ordered their favorite breakfast.
After eating their fill, the four of them drove their four trucks to the small courtyard Jiang Tao had temporarily rented to start loading.
Today was the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, which happened to be the day the Shahe Market opened on Friday.
The Shahe Market covered an area of over 60,000 square meters, with an average daily customer flow of over 60,000 people.
Especially at this time of year, more people flocked to the market to buy New Year goods.
The market was bustling, with people brushing shoulders, browsing various stalls for the products they needed.
Jiang Tao and the other three drove their trucks one after another to the fruit selling area.
Normally, there would be at least a dozen fruit vendors selling satsuma mandarins in the fruit area of the Shahe Market.
Today, Jiang Tao and his three companions had become the “gods” in charge of satsuma mandarins at the Shahe Market.
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