Chapter 48: Jiang Tao’s Nest Egg And His Ambitions!
The main clientele for roadside restaurants like “Wangcai Restaurant” are migrant workers in the urban villages.
The main selling point is affordability, with the most expensive dish not exceeding 100 yuan.
The four brothers ate and drank to their heart’s content, and it only cost Jiang Tao less than 500 yuan.
When it was time to pay, the boss lady gave each of them a small bottle of beverage.
For the past few days, the four brothers have been coming here for team building every day.
Consequently, the boss lady became much more enthusiastic towards them.
Before, if he spent 500 yuan on a meal, Jiang Tao would worry about it all night.
Today, without even distributing the money from the satsuma mandarins, Jiang Tao had already made a small profit of over 70,000 yuan by selling lottery tickets.
The cost of this meal was really nothing to him.
After a hard day’s work for the brothers, it was only right for him, a major shareholder who had been missing for a day, to treat them to a meal.
The group chatted and laughed as they returned to the rental room Jiang Tao rented and began today’s profit distribution.
Today was slightly better than yesterday, with a total sale of 182,800.
According to the profit-sharing ratio, Jiang Tao took 71%, which was 129,788.
Liu Zhiyuan and Shan Yufei each took 14%, receiving 25,592.
Finally, 1828 remained, all of which was given to Zhang Chao, and Jiang Tao supplemented it with 1200.
Afterwards, he also gave Liu Zhiyuan and Shan Yufei a salary of 1000 yuan each.
Usually, after distributing the money, Liu Zhiyuan and the others would get excited and go to Zhang Chao’s place to play Fight the Landlord.
Today, although the amount of money distributed was not less than usual, the brothers seemed unenthusiastic.
Jiang Tao asked curiously, “Why aren’t you guys playing cards today? Why do you all look so unenthusiastic?”
“Um, Brother Jiang, our satsuma mandarins won’t be worth selling tomorrow.”
Liu Zhiyuan looked at Jiang Tao with regret.
This time, he had invested 50,000 yuan with Jiang Tao in the satsuma mandarins and had already earned over 130,000 yuan in a few days.
After deducting his 50,000 yuan investment, the net profit was over 80,000 yuan, averaging 20,000 yuan per day!
These past few days were definitely the most glorious days of Liu Zhiyuan’s life!
Unfortunately, such glorious moments only lasted a few days and would end tomorrow, returning everything to normal.
“If only I had listened to Brother Jiang and invested more back then.”
Shan Yufei also had a regretful expression.
His deposits were actually more than 50,000 yuan, and he could have taken out another 50,000 yuan!
However, his risk tolerance was only 50,000 yuan, so he didn’t dare to go all out like Jiang Tao.
Zhang Chao “…”
Among the brothers, Zhang Chao was naturally the most regretful.
At the time, Jiang Tao had offered him the opportunity on a silver platter, but he simply refused to take it and didn’t invest a single cent!
However, fortunately, Jiang Tao was generous; he had already paid him nearly 10,000 yuan in salary over these past few days.
While the brothers were feasting, he also got to have some broth.
“Brother Jiang, if there are any more opportunities to get rich in the future, please call us. You eat the meat, and we’ll be happy with some broth.”
Zhang Chao looked at Jiang Tao with even more respect than before.
“Don’t worry, brothers. If there are any more opportunities to make money in the future, I definitely won’t forget you all.”
Through this cooperation on the satsuma mandarin project, Jiang Tao gained a better understanding of Liu Zhiyuan, Shan Yufei, and Zhang Chao.
Liu Zhiyuan and Shan Yufei were both honest and reliable people, trustworthy partners.
Apart from his penchant for foot massages and seeking out young women, Zhang Chao was actually quite decent in other aspects.
If the intelligence system had any suitable projects in the future, Jiang Tao would consider the three of them first.
After all, they had a history of cooperation and a foundation of trust.
“Thank you in advance, Brother Jiang! Thank you, Brother Jiang, for helping us get rich!”
“Thank you, Brother Jiang! We’ve earned as much this year as in the past two or three years, and we can hold our heads high when we go home!”
“Thank you, my Brother Jiang!”
Liu Zhiyuan and the other two thanked Jiang Tao again with extreme sincerity.
“We’re all brothers; saying thank you makes it seem like we’re strangers.”
Speaking of brothers, Jiang Tao remembered Wang Lianming, who was still at the hospital taking care of his sister-in-law.
He had been so busy with various matters these past few days that he hadn’t had time to visit the hospital.
“If we finish early tomorrow, I plan to visit Brother Wang at the hospital. Do you guys want to come?”
Jiang Tao looked at Liu Zhiyuan and the other two and asked.
“Yes, I was planning to visit sister-in-law at the hospital before going home for the Spring Festival anyway.”
“I’ll go too.”
“Let’s all go together.”
Shan Yufei and Zhang Chao also readily agreed.
Jiang Tao made the decision, “Then it’s settled. We’ll visit Brother Wang and sister-in-law first, and then we’ll have dinner when we get back.”
“Okay!”
“No problem!”
After discussing business, Liu Zhiyuan and the others chatted with Jiang Tao for a few more minutes before taking their leave.
Jiang Tao walked the three of them downstairs and then went to Pang Dongdong Supermarket to buy a pack of Huanghelou cigarettes.
Life was getting better, and even his cigarettes had been slightly upgraded.
On his way back after buying the cigarettes, Jiang Tao ran into his landlord, Brother Lu, at the alley entrance.
Brother Lu’s attire today was as flashy as yesterday’s.
He wore a long black wool coat and a small black fedora, dressed like Xu Wenqiang from Shanghai Bund.
“Xiao Jiang, have you eaten yet!”
Lu Qian saw Jiang Tao and walked quickly towards him, greeting him with a smile.
“I’ve eaten. Brother Lu, you look very sharp today, are you going on a date?”
Jiang Tao looked Lu Qian up and down with a smile and teased him.
“Hehe, you guessed it, Xiao Jiang!”
“After visiting the Forbidden City with Xiao Mei today, we went to Quanjude for roast duck, then to Tiananmen and the Water Cube. It was a very fulfilling day!”
“Xiao Mei, she…”
Lu Qian excitedly shared bits and pieces about his time with Ma Dongmei, not giving Jiang Tao a chance to interrupt.
It was evident that their relationship was progressing smoothly and rapidly!
This was probably the power of a 97% match!
Jiang Tao had heard a saying before that who one spends a lifetime with is already predetermined.
You just need to find the right person, and you don’t need much effort to become a couple.
Jiang Tao’s elder brother, Jiang He, and sister-in-law, Zhang Xiaoyan, were like this, and he and Xu Li were too.
It was likely the same for the landlord and that Ma Dongmei.
Chatting on the road wasn’t enough.
Lu Qian invited Jiang Tao into his room and chatted for more than half an hour before letting him leave!
Returning upstairs.
Jiang Tao simply washed up and got into bed under his quilt.
Rubbing his hands, Jiang Tao opened the Alipay app and checked his account balance.
“304,794!”
“When has old Jiang’s nest egg ever been this wealthy!”
“Life is getting better!”
Seeing the balance in his Alipay account, Jiang Tao swallowed excitedly.
Just over ten days ago, he was still worried sick about over 80,000 yuan in external debt.
He worried about people coming to collect debts during the Spring Festival and couldn’t sleep due to anxiety every night.
Now, not only had he paid off his external debt, but his nest egg had also accumulated over 300,000 yuan!
Adding the 200,000 yuan transferred to Xu Li, the 100,000 yuan to upgrade System Brother, and the 60,000 yuan transferred to his little sister Jiang Bing today for stocking goods.
And not to mention the Nu’er Hong wine still under his bed, and the satsuma mandarins yet to be sold.
In just over ten days, Jiang Tao had earned seven to eight hundred thousand yuan with the intelligence provided by System Brother!
Relying on System Brother was truly like relying on a rich sugar mama.
In over ten days, he had earned the wealth that Jiang Tao would have needed more than a decade to accumulate!
His financial future was extremely bright!
Thinking about the Nu’er Hong wine under his bed, Jiang Tao’s appetite was whetted again.
He immediately got out of bed, took the wine jar from under the bed, and poured himself another cup.
The reason, of course, was to celebrate his nest egg breaking through 300,000 yuan!
At this rate of earning, buying a house and a car wouldn’t be far off.
Thinking about buying a house, Jiang Tao looked through the window of his rental room at the brightly lit high-rise buildings in the distance.
Less than 2 kilometers from Xiao Shahe Village, there was a residential area that had been occupied for less than 5 years.
The clean and tidy environment, and the spacious and bright houses in the residential area were a completely different world compared to the urban village!
Although it was now outside the Fifth Ring Road, the average price of houses was still over 30,000 yuan per square meter.
The money in Jiang Tao’s Alipay account was barely enough to buy a toilet.
Before today, as a long-term “Bei Piao” (someone who drifts to Beijing for work) for seven or eight years.
Jiang Tao had never dared to dream of buying a house in a place as expensive as Beijing.
Now, looking at the distant high-rise buildings, he suddenly felt a strong urge to settle down there.
Wishing all the handsome men and beautiful women a prosperous new year, and may your Alipay balance be 10 times that of Jiang Tao’s!
