novelraw Chapter 394 - 184: Special Banknotes, Mahjong Dice, and the Mother-in-law Expecting Her Third Child!
Chapter 394 - 184: Special Banknotes, Mahjong Dice, and the Mother-in-law Expecting Her Third Child!
In the following week,
Jiang Tao and Xu Li drove around Beijing with their in-laws, starting a tour filled with eating and sightseeing.
Tian’an Gate, Forbidden City, Bird’s Nest, Water Cube.
Summer Palace, Yuanming Garden, Xiangshan, Badaling Great Wall...
They visited all the famous attractions in Beijing.
Every day, they tried different well-known old restaurants in Beijing,
as well as some hidden gem restaurants with Michelin stars.
During this time, Jiang Tao and Xu Li also took the in-laws on several shopping trips.
They bought clothes, bags, and jewelry for the family.
Total spending exceed the limit of the Filial Piety Card a long time ago.
In just one week, they spent over 300,000 yuan.
And it was all covered by Jiang Tao using his own savings.
This was a rare visit for the in-laws to Beijing, so spending a bit of money didn’t matter to Jiang Tao.
Meanwhile, all the cattle at the family farm back home had been sold, marking the perfect end to the project.
Now, they were just waiting for the uncles and Liu Zhiyuan to come to Beijing so everyone could sit down and split the profits.
Jiang Bing had successfully wrapped up the blueberry sales in Cui Village.
In over half a month, all 100,000 pots of blueberries were sold.
After deducting costs for labor, logistics, packaging, and promotion,
the net profit was 1.32 million yuan.
According to the 80/20 profit-sharing model, Jiang Tao eventually received 1.056 million yuan.
After subtracting his 800,000 yuan investment, the final net profit was a bit over 250,000 yuan.
Adding the 400,000 yuan from selling those four special mutant blueberry plants earlier,
his total earnings from the blueberry project amounted to 650,000 yuan!
During the operation of this project, he basically didn’t do much; it was entirely handled by Jiang Bing.
Investing 800,000 to comfortably earn 650,000 was quite satisfactory to him!
Jiang Bing also made over 260,000 from the project, which made her very satisfied as well.
The earnings from one project surpassed what she had earned in years before.
This further solidified her resolve to always follow in her second brother’s footsteps.
After the blueberry project ended, Jiang Bing also returned to Jiang’s Food Factory.
Jiang Tao, with his "Bo Le" ability, saw that Jiang Bing’s talent was in financial management.
So, he directly entrusted her with the financial authority of Jiang’s Food Factory.
He fully trusted his Third Brother.
Moreover, the Delicious Eight Treasure Pickles, after the buy-one-get-one-free opening promotion ended, experienced a slight decline in sales.
However, they still managed to sell about 10,000 yuan worth every day.
Considering there was no advertising or promotion, such hot sales were impressive.
Jiang An’an’s involvement in the short drama had smoothly kicked off.
Her performance in the crew was excellent and received unanimous praise from people like Qu Lei.
The friendship between Jiang An’an and Jiang Xue, the two little ones, had also deepened.
The two of them could video chat on their phones for an hour a day, always having endless things to talk about.
The two kids had clearly become close little friends.
Jiang Tao also took some time to teach his parents how to make the Delicious Barbecue Sauce.
After a few days of practice, they basically mastered it completely.
They could now produce barbecue sauce with more than 90% similarity to the Delicious Barbecue Sauce.
The only tricky part was selecting the ingredients.
Only under Jiang Tao’s vision were suitable ingredients for making the Delicious Barbecue Sauce marked.
He couldn’t teach his parents this part; he had to do it himself.
But it wasn’t too much trouble either.
He just needed to set aside an afternoon to purchase enough ingredients for about a week.
Over at Jiang’s Food Factory, there had been significant changes recently.
Jiang Tao invested over 600,000 yuan to install a fully automated packaging line with sterilization functions.
The packaging of Jiang’s Eight Treasure Pickles and Jiang’s Delicious Barbecue Sauce looked more and more professional.
The factory also hired 8 new employees, all of whom were friends with Jiang Wen or Tian Xiaomei from Jiang Family Manor.
The factory’s salary and benefits were considered quite good even in Beijing.
Everyone was dedicated and cooperative, and everything was proceeding in an orderly manner, heading in a positive direction.
The only slight disappointment was.
In the whole 7 days, all 21 pieces of information turned out to be worthless.
All the information refreshed were trivial matters.
This made Jiang Tao hesitate whether to spend another 10 million to upgrade the system for one more piece of information.
Of course, in the end, he held back.
His total assets were only a little over 10 million now.
Having painstakingly saved up 10 million, he was reluctant to spend it all on a system upgrade.
Only when he had saved up around 30 to 50 million would he consider spending 10 million to upgrade the system.
During the seven days of their tour with the in-laws,
Jiang Tao and Xu Li also took time to visit Du Enan and their goddaughter twice at Xinyue Club.
When Du Enan had recognized Jiang Xue as her goddaughter, she had given her a prepaid card with over 500,000 yuan.
This time, for the birth of Du Yuwei, Jiang Tao and Xu Li, as godparents, also prepared gifts for her.
Jiang Tao used the few gold bars he had bought at Wanxianghui for the lottery,
as well as the four he got from the old Audi car door.
All 800 grams of gold bars were crafted by an artisan into two gold pieces as gifts for Du Yuwei.
A longevity lock and a Qiankun Circle.
The gold prices had been high recently, so the two gifts from Jiang Tao and his wife to their goddaughter were worth sixty to seventy thousand.
Jiang Tao didn’t feel any heartache.
After all, Du Enan had given him a Mercedes GLS, and her father a G-Class.
The benefits Jiang Tao received from the Du Family far exceeded the value of these two small gifts.