In the following week,
Jiang Tao and Xu Li drove their father-in-law's family of three around Beijing, embarking on a sightseeing and dining spree.
Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, the Bird's Nest, the Water Cube.
The Summer Palace, Yuanmingyuan, Fragrant Hills, the Badaling Great Wall…
They visited every well-known attraction in Beijing.
Every day, they tried different classic Beijing restaurants,
as well as some hidden gem restaurants that had earned Michelin star ratings.
During this time, Jiang Tao and Xu Li also took their father-in-law's family shopping at malls several times.
They bought clothes, bags, and jewelry for the three of them.
The total expenditure had long exceeded the limit of the [Filial Piety Card].
In just one week, they spent over 300,000 yuan.
And throughout the entire trip, Jiang Tao paid for everything out of his own personal savings.
Since his father-in-law's family rarely visited Beijing, Jiang Tao didn't mind spending this small amount of money.
During this period, the cattle from the ranch back home had all been sold, and the project was successfully completed.
They were just waiting for his brother-in-law and Liu Zhiyuan to come to Beijing so everyone could sit down and split the profits.
Jiang Bing's blueberry sales in Cuicun had also wrapped up successfully.
Over the course of half a month, 100,000 pots of blueberries were sold out.
After deducting labor, logistics, packaging, and the costs for promotions and traffic,
the net profit was 1.32 million yuan.
Based on an 80-20 split, Jiang Tao received 1.056 million yuan in profit.
After subtracting his initial investment of 800,000 yuan, his final net profit was just over 250,000 yuan.
Adding the 400,000 yuan from selling four special mutated blueberry plants earlier,
Jiang Tao's total profit from the blueberry pot project was 650,000 yuan!
During this project, he barely did anything, as Jiang Bing handled everything.
Investing 800,000 yuan and earning 650,000 yuan while doing nothing made him quite satisfied!
Jiang Bing earned over 260,000 yuan from this project, and she was equally satisfied.
The money from this one project surpassed what she had earned in the past few years.
This further solidified her resolve to always follow her second brother's lead.
After the blueberry pot project ended, Jiang Bing returned to the Jiang Family Food Factory.
Using his [Talent Scout] ability, Jiang Tao saw that Jiang Bing's talent lay in financial management.
So, he directly entrusted her with the financial management of the Jiang Family Food Factory.
Of course, he had complete trust in his third sibling.
Additionally, after the "buy one jin, get one jin free" opening promotion for the Delicious Eight-Treasure Pickles ended, sales had slightly declined.
However, they were still selling around 10,000 yuan worth of pickles daily.
Achieving such hot sales without any advertising was already quite impressive.
Jiang An'an's short drama had successfully started filming.
Her performance in the crew was excellent, earning unanimous praise from Qu Lei and others.
The friendship between Jiang An'an and Jiang Xue, the two kids, had also grown deeper.
They could spend an hour every day on video calls, never running out of things to talk about.
The two kids had clearly become best friends.
Jiang Tao also took the time to teach his parents the recipe for Delicious Barbecue Sauce.
After a few days of practice, they had basically mastered it.
They could now make barbecue sauce with over 90% similarity to the Delicious Barbecue Sauce.
The only troublesome part was selecting the ingredients.
Only within Jiang Tao's field of vision would ingredients suitable for making Delicious Barbecue Sauce be marked.
He couldn't teach this skill to his parents and had to do it himself.
But it wasn't a big issue.
He only needed to spend an afternoon to procure enough ingredients for about a week.
There had been significant changes at the Jiang Family Food Factory recently.
Jiang Tao invested over 600,000 yuan to install a fully automated packaging line with sterilization and disinfection functions.
The packaging for Jiang's Eight-Treasure Pickles and Jiang's Delicious Barbecue Sauce was becoming more professional.
The factory also hired eight new employees, all of whom were fellow villagers from Jiangjiazhuang with good relations to Jiang Wen or Tian Xiaomei.
The salary and benefits at the factory were quite competitive, even in Beijing.
Everyone worked diligently and cooperatively, and everything was proceeding smoothly, moving in a positive direction.
The only slight disappointment was that,
over the entire seven days, none of the 21 pieces of intelligence were valuable.
The intelligence refreshed was all trivial matters.
This made Jiang Tao wonder whether he should spend another 10 million to upgrade the system and add one more intelligence slot.
Of course, in the end, he held back.
His current assets were just over 10 million.
Having worked hard to save up 10 million, he was reluctant to spend it all on upgrading the system.
He decided he'd only consider spending 10 million to upgrade the system once he had saved 30 to 50 million.
During the seven days of sightseeing and dining with his father-in-law's family,
Jiang Tao and Xu Li also made time to visit Du Ennan and their goddaughter twice at Xinyuehui.
When Du Ennan recognized Jiang Xue as her goddaughter, she gave her a stored-value card with over 500,000 yuan.
This time, with Du Yuwei's birth, Jiang Tao and Xu Li, as her godparents, also prepared gifts.
Jiang Tao used the gold bars he had previously bought at Wanxianghui for a lottery,
as well as the four gold bars he had retrieved from the old Audi's door.
With a total of 800 grams of gold bars, Jiang Tao had a craftsman make two gold ornaments for Du Yuwei:
a longevity lock and a Qiankun ring.
With gold prices recently at a high, the two gifts from Jiang Tao and his wife were worth six or seven hundred thousand yuan.
Jiang Tao didn't feel reluctant.
After all, Du Ennan had given him a Mercedes GLS, and her father had given him a G-Class.
The benefits Jiang Tao received from the Du family far exceeded the value of these two small gifts.
Additionally, Jiang Tao subtly reminded Old Du
that his Vacheron Constantin watch was a fake, leaving it up to him to believe it or not.
This past week, Jiang Tao and Xu Li had lived quite a fulfilling life.
On the evening of March 30,
after playing cards, Xu Li nestled in Jiang Tao's arms, her face radiating happiness and contentment.
"Honey, my mom wants Sasha to find a job in Beijing. Can we help her?"
"If she can find 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 lasted long."
"Although she was immature before, she's my only sister. Can you forgive her?"
Xu Li's delicate fingers traced circles on Jiang Tao's stomach as she gently asked for his opinion.
In this household, although Jiang Tao let her manage the money, the ultimate authority still lay with him.
Of course, the money she managed, which seemed like a fortune to her, was pitifully small compared to Jiang Tao's personal savings.
Regarding arranging a job for her sister, if Jiang Tao said no, she'd only feel a bit down.
She wouldn't resent him or get angry.
Although Xu Li cared for her sister, she wasn't the type to blindly support her.
For all matters big and small, she still deferred to the head of the household, Jiang Tao.
"Silly, what's there to forgive? Your sister is my sister."
"You don't think I'd get mad at a kid like Sasha, do you?"
Jiang Tao chuckled, patting Xu Li's perky backside and shaking his head.
Whether in his humble beginnings or now with millions in assets,
Jiang Tao had never held a grudge against his little sister-in-law and always treated her like a child.
"My husband is so magnanimous~ *Mwah*."
Hearing Jiang Tao's words, Xu Li happily kissed his face, her heart filled with sweetness.
As he caressed Xu Li's smooth, jade-like back, Jiang Tao said,
"I'm planning to set up a livestream account for our food factory."
"Sasha often livestreams on Kuaidou, doesn't she?"
"And I've noticed she's quite talkative."
"Tomorrow, ask her if she wants to be a livestreamer for our food factory."
"For the salary, a base of 10,000 yuan, plus performance bonuses if sales do well."
Jiang Tao had used his [Talent Scout] title to observe Xu Sha these past few days.
He found that she had a knack for speaking, and the most suitable industry for her was livestream selling.
Coincidentally, Jiang Tao had recently been planning to start a livestream account for the company.
If the livestream account took off, they could adopt a dual-channel sales strategy, online and offline.
Xu Sha happened to be well-suited for the role of a livestream seller.
Hiring her would ease Xu Li's and her parents' worries while guiding Xu Sha onto a suitable career path.
In the future, she might even bring him considerable profits.
For such a win-win-win situation, Jiang Tao wouldn't hold a grudge over past minor conflicts and refuse to use Xu Sha.
"Uh, honey, isn't that salary a bit high?"
Hearing the terms Jiang Tao offered her sister, Xu Li asked, slightly surprised.
Xu Sha's Kuaidou account only had four or five thousand followers.
During her livestreams, there were only one or two dozen people in the room, with a small portion being real-life friends joining for fun.
Honestly, Xu Li didn't see any livestreaming talent in her sister.
With a base salary of 10,000 yuan plus benefits like social insurance and housing funds,
such generous terms were hard to find, not just in their hometown of Ping County but even in the city there!
Xu Li felt that Jiang Tao offering such high terms to her sister was definitely giving her a lot of face.
While touched, she felt an overwhelming sense of happiness.
"I'm giving our third sibling over 10,000 yuan, so I can't play favorites, right?"
"As for Building 62, let your sister keep living there."
"She can stay as long as she wants."
"When your parents come back to Beijing, they'll have a fixed place to stay."
"Honey, you're so good to me. Marrying you was the best decision I've ever made."
Xu Li's eyes reddened with emotion, her heart deeply touched by Jiang Tao's words.
Her sister had been so rude to him before, yet he could still repay her with kindness—this was the husband she loved most!
"Being able to marry a beautiful, gentle, and considerate wife like you is my good fortune."
Jiang Tao smiled, patting Xu Li's head, grateful for her unwavering support during his humble beginnings.
As they cuddled, Jiang Tao activated [Sleep Mode] for Xu Li, and within three minutes, she was asleep.
The effect of [Sleep Mode] was, as always, remarkably effective.
After Xu Li fell asleep,
Jiang Tao mentally opened the system interface to check today's intelligence.
"After a week of bad luck, it's about time for some high-value intelligence, right?"
"Stone Bro, come on, give me something good!"
Jiang Tao glanced at the seemingly ordinary "river pebble" on his 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 to Jiang Xue, one 100-yuan banknote is a special item.
After obtaining ownership of this item, you can activate it to gain a random attribute!
…
"System Bro, Stone Bro, you finally came through!"
Seeing that the first piece of intelligence today was about a special item,
Jiang Tao excitedly clenched his fist!
Based on past experience,
special items, once activated, always had impressive attributes!
The Wealth-Attracting Golden Toad, Salary Card, Delicious Pickle Jar, BAIC EU5, Treadmill, Holly Tree…
These were living proof.
With the special attributes of these activated special items,
Jiang Tao could live comfortably for the rest of his life even if he did nothing.
"A 100-yuan banknote is actually a special item."
"Special items really come in all forms, don't they?"
"What attribute will this one activate?"
After reading the first intelligence prompt, Jiang Tao's anticipation surged.
However, it was the middle of the night, and Jiang Xue was already asleep.
To gain ownership of the banknote, he couldn't steal it; he had to obtain it cleverly.
He needed Jiang Xue to willingly give it to him to truly gain "ownership."
With a thought, Jiang Tao continued checking the second piece of intelligence.
**[Today's Intelligence 02]:**
You had contact with Du Yongmei yesterday, obtaining related intelligence—
Among the mahjong set Du Yongmei brought from her hometown, one die is a special item.
After obtaining ownership, activating it will grant a random attribute!
…
"What's going on? Another special item?"
"And it's related to my mother-in-law again!"
Seeing the second piece of intelligence today,
Jiang Tao's eyes lit up!
Two special items in one day—this was too lucky!
Was this the heavens compensating him for a week of no valuable intelligence?
"A mahjong die? That's interesting."
"I wonder what attribute this one will activate?"
Jiang Tao knew his mother-in-law loved playing mahjong.
When the family came to Beijing for their trip, besides two sets of clothes, she brought her favorite mahjong set!
Three days ago, Jiang Tao and Xu Li had even gone to her place and played a few rounds of mahjong with her.
However, without the system's prompt,
even if a special item was right in front of him, no one would know it was special.
For example, the Wealth-Attracting Golden Toad, Salary Card, BAIC EU5, Fitness Treadmill, and others Jiang Tao had acquired—
those items all had original owners.
And they had been with their original owners for a long time.
But until they were discarded or sold, their original owners never realized they were special items.
It was only after the system's prompts that Jiang Tao could identify them as special items.
Without the system's prompts, he would have missed them all.
"Tomorrow, I'll have to find a way to get my mother-in-law's die!"
After reading the second piece of intelligence, Jiang Tao moved on to the third.
**[Today's Intelligence 03]:**
You had contact with Du Yongmei yesterday, obtaining related intelligence—
Du Yongmei unexpectedly became pregnant with her third child last night.
Remind her to supplement with folic acid, protein, calcium, iron, and various vitamins promptly,
to support the normal development of the fetus.