Daily Intelligence System: Financial Independence-Chapter 44: System Upgraded to Level 2! (Happy New Year’s Eve)

Chapter 44: Chapter 44: System Upgraded to Level 2! (Happy New Year’s Eve)

Sometimes, fate is just that mysteriously wonderful.

Some couples go through a decade of long-distance love, only to lose to reality in the end.

Finally, each finds an honest person to settle down with and live an ordinary life.

Then there are those who fall in love at first sight and talk marriage by the second meeting.

Getting married in less than a month doesn’t necessarily mean they won’t be happy.

Jiang Tao’s eldest brother Jiang He and his sister-in-law Zhang Xiaoyan met through a blind date.

The two got married lightning fast, in less than a month.

They’ve been married for more than ten years now, with two sons, and their life is pretty good overall.

Landlord old man and Ma Dongmei, who hit it off at first meeting, aren’t that much of a rarity either.

If you click with someone, you can chat about anything; topics just keep coming and you don’t have to force it.

If you’re not feeling it, the two of you can sit together for an afternoon and still not find a single thing to talk about.

Watching the two of them chatting away, Jiang Tao, the "temporary Yue Lao," felt he could now retire from duty.

Today’s two tasks had gone surprisingly smoothly.

He’d gotten the lottery ticket from the car.

And he had managed to set up landlord old man and Ma Dongmei successfully.

Just as Jiang Tao was about to leave with He Jing,

Lü Qian, lips already purple from the cold but still trying to look composed, came up to him.

"Xiao... Xiao Jiang, you did a great job today! I won’t shortchange you, brother!"

Lü Qian grinned, quietly said to Jiang Tao, and gave him a big thumbs-up.

"By the way, southwest corner room 209 on the second floor just got vacated. You go ahead and move in."

"Stay as long as you want—rent and utilities are all free!"

Jiang Tao was surprised, "Old man, are you serious?"

"Of course I’m serious! I’m thinking about sending you a red envelope too! The girl you introduced me to—I really like her."

Lü Qian grinned, "Oh, Xiao Jiang, you free tonight? If you are, join us for dinner."

"You know, you’re also the matchmaker for me and Xiao Mei!"

"No need, old man, I’ve already got dinner plans with some old friends tonight."

When Jiang Tao heard Lü Qian calling him a matchmaker, he couldn’t help but laugh and shake his head. To be fair, he wasn’t wrong.

In this whole thing, he really had played the role of matchmaker.

"All right then, let’s find another chance. I’ll treat you, brother! Oh, and quit calling me old man—call me Brother Lü!"

Lü Qian reached out, patted Jiang Tao’s shoulder, and cheerily corrected him.

"Haha, sure, looks like I just got promoted!"

Jiang Tao smiled; landlord old man or Brother Lü, it’s all just a title anyway.

Suddenly Lü Qian remembered something, "Oh right, Xiao Jiang, do you still have any of that Daughter Red Wine you shared with me last time?"

Jiang Tao’s eyes lit up, "Yeah, still got some."

"Save me five jars! I’ll pay you right now!"

While saying this, Lü Qian pulled out his phone, found Jiang Tao’s WeChat, and promptly transferred him one hundred thousand yuan.

To rural uncles and aunts, one hundred thousand yuan is a huge amount.

Even if they sold everything they could, barely anyone would be able to put together that much.

But for Lü Qian and these Beijing Old Deng types, it was no big deal.

Dropping one hundred thousand on five jars of wine—their eyes don’t even blink.

"Alright! I’ll save the wine for you and drop it off at your place tonight!"

After exchanging pleasantries with Lü Qian, Jiang Tao tapped to accept the transfer—another hundred thousand in the account!

They chatted for a bit longer, then Lü Qian happily trotted off to chat with Ma Dongmei and He Jing.

Jiang Tao, meanwhile, hopped onto the bus back to Xiaoshanhe.

He got off at Xiaoshanhe Village, and it was just after nine in the morning—still early.

He walked ten minutes back to his rented room.

After locking the door, Jiang Tao lit a cigarette, then focused his mind and opened the Daily Intelligence System interface.

[Daily Intelligence System]

[Host]: Jiang Tao (30 years old)

[System Level]: Level 1 (One intelligence item refreshed daily.)

[Today’s Intelligence 01]:

Last night, while scrolling on your phone, you saw Tian Zhipeng selling a used Lavida.

Inside the car’s glove box, tucked in the user manual, is a winning lottery ticket worth 68,996 yuan.

[Note]: This ticket expires in two days; after that, it will be invalid.

[Spend 100,000 yuan to upgrade the system to Level 2? After upgrading, two intelligence items will be refreshed daily.]

Looking at the deep blue virtual system screen in front of him, Jiang Tao quietly smoked a cigarette.

Then he decided to upgrade the system.

The 100,000 yuan the landlord had just transferred for wine was exactly enough to cover this upgrade fee.

[Deduction successful. System upgrading. Estimated time: 10 hours. Please wait...]

Seeing the system was upgrading, Jiang Tao let out a long sigh.

Spending 100,000 yuan at once—does sting a bit!

But after upgrading, he’d get one more intelligence item every day.

The sooner you spend this 100,000, the more value you get!

If he waits a month to upgrade, he’d spend the same amount but miss out on thirty pieces of intelligence!

Thinking about it that way, Jiang Tao felt totally at ease.

Invest early, profit early!

After upgrading the system, with nothing else to do, Jiang Tao decided to go out for a stroll.

It’s been over ten days since binding to the intelligence system, and Jiang Tao had learned a bit about how it works.

The system provides intelligence based on what he did or experienced the previous day.

Going out more not only helps him relax, maybe he’ll run into some luck or opportunity too.

He walked leisurely through the streets of the urban village.

On Jiang Tao’s face, that chill contentment stood out among all the hurried passersby.

He’d already pocketed 100,000 today.

Tonight he’d split profits from the sugar mandarins, making at least another 100,000 or so.

Guaranteed income for the day: more than 200,000!

Jiang Tao felt so light-footed, he might just float away at any moment.

Passing by a lottery shop, Jiang Tao paused for a dozen seconds, torn.

Finally, the lure of winning couldn’t be resisted; he went in and bought 10 yuan worth of lottery tickets.

Today happened to be Sunday—Double Color Ball drawing day.

These days at the end of the year, who knows, maybe the directors are under pressure or something.

Everywhere, news keeps popping up about lottery players winning big.

Someone wins fifteen million on a six-yuan ticket, thirty million on a ten-yuan ticket, heck—even hundreds of millions!

Jiang Tao didn’t expect first prize; second prize would suit him just fine!

He didn’t know about regular people winning first prize, but he was sure about second prize!

After all, he already had a winning second prize ticket in his pocket!

After buying lottery tickets, Jiang Tao spent another twenty yuan on two ten-yuan scratch cards.

Of course, the result was blowing his money—everything went to support the lottery business.

Stepping out of the lottery shop, Jiang Tao randomly got on a bus, trying to broaden his range of activities.

Whether this approach worked, he wasn’t sure.

But doing something is always better than doing nothing.

He kept wandering until Liu Zhiyuan and the rest closed shop at six.

Same old place: the boys stuffed their faces, then went back to Jiang Tao’s house to split profits.

Today, without Jiang Tao as the main force, sales were noticeably down.

Liu Zhiyuan and his crew sold a total of 156,800.

Jiang Tao took 71%—which is 111,328.

Liu Zhiyuan and Shan Yufei each got 21,952.

Zhang Chao still got his fixed two thousand salary.

After splitting, Jiang Tao pulled out three thousand from his cut to pay salaries to Liu Zhiyuan and the lads.

He hadn’t lifted a finger today, so just pocketing over 110,000 didn’t feel right.

After handing out salaries, Jiang Tao chuckled, "By the way, guys, I’ll need another day off tomorrow."

"Of course you can!"

"Hahaha, we’re just hoping Brother Jiang keeps taking days off!"

"Totally support Brother Jiang taking more days off!"

When they heard Jiang Tao wanted another day off, Liu Zhiyuan and the guys all raised both hands to show their support!

Whether Jiang Tao came to the stall or not, their workload per day didn’t go up—they’d earn the same as before.

But they’d get an extra thousand yuan!

Of course, they were loving it!