Daily Intelligence System: Financial Independence

Chapter 663: Chapter 315: You’re Out of Luck If You Mess With Me! (Part 2)

This whole thing has hit him just as hard.

It’s not that he’s worried about the supermarket being shut down for rectification.

What worries him more is how this will affect his daughter.

Gu Yao only just finished her master’s this year, she’s just turned 24.

For a girl, this age is the best time of her life.

If she has to live the rest of her life in the shadow of this incident...

As her father, he’ll feel guilty for the rest of his life too.

"If I’d arranged for Yaoyao to work at head office, none of this would have happened..."

Gu Hongsheng sighed to himself, already regretting the choice he’d made back then.

But what’s done is done, no amount of regret will help now.

Helping his daughter quickly walk out of this and dilute the impact is what matters most right now.

That night.

The three of them in the Gu family didn’t sleep at all, staying up until dawn.

Under the huge psychological pressure, Gu Yao’s mental strength was completely drained; she only fell asleep when she was exhausted to the extreme.

"Old Gu, what are we going to do about Yaoyao..."

Once Gu Yao fell asleep, Jiang Qianhong and Gu Hongsheng went out onto the balcony, and as soon as she opened her mouth she couldn’t help bursting into tears.

"Come on, don’t cry anymore. If you cry yourself sick again, who’s going to take care of Yaoyao?"

Looking at his wife’s eyes, red and swollen from crying, Gu Hongsheng’s heart ached too.

They’d been married for decades, their relationship deep and solid.

"I just can’t help it. How is our family having such a rotten year, all those Buddhas I worshipped were for nothing."

Jiang Qianhong wiped her tears, forcing herself to swallow the bitterness inside.

"Sigh, I’ll arrange for a few psychologists to come over today and give Yaoyao some counseling."

"Let’s listen to what the doctors suggest, they’re the professionals."

Gu Hongsheng had fought in the business world for half his life, but when it came to psychological care, he had no experience at all.

Professional matters still need to be handled by professionals.

"My poor Yaoyao, how did she end up encountering something like this..."

As she spoke, Jiang Qianhong sobbed.

Ever since she’d found out yesterday evening that something had happened to her daughter, she’d practically cried herself dry.

...

7:30 in the morning.

"Lazybones hubby, get up and have breakfast."

Xu Li, wearing a checkered apron, walked to the bedside and gently pinched Jiang Tao’s nose.

Looking at her husband sleeping in, there wasn’t the slightest annoyance on her face, only boundless affection.

"How come my bad hubby is getting more and more handsome?"

Staring at Jiang Tao’s increasingly delicate skin and sharper features, Xu Li felt like she could look at that handsome face all day without getting bored.

If she didn’t sleep with Jiang Tao almost every day, she’d be like everyone else and suspect her husband had snuck off to South Korea for plastic surgery.

Jiang Tao opened his eyes to see Xu Li tilting her head, watching him with interest.

Their heads were less than ten centimeters apart, they could feel each other’s breath.

"Mmm..."

Jiang Tao reached out, pressed Xu Li’s head down, and their lips met in an instant.

After a five-minute-long kiss, Jiang Tao finally got out of bed with a grin.

Xu Li was fastening her bra, giving her stinky husband a coquettish glare.

Every time she came to wake him, she couldn’t escape being teased and taken advantage of.

"Oh right, wifey, I’m hiring an assistant for you today. Do you want to go to the company and interview her?"

Jiang Tao was pulling up his pants when he remembered the info about Wang Xiaobai and casually mentioned it to Xu Li.

"Huh? An assistant for me? What do I need an assistant for?"

Hearing this, Xu Li looked a bit dazed; her blank, cute look was very endearing.

Jiang Tao joked with a smile, "My wife is a future big star, how can you not have an assistant by your side?"

"Tsk, spare me. I’m not that big of a deal. I’ve barely started and you’re already arranging an assistant for me. People will think I’m putting on airs."

Xu Li covered her mouth and chuckled, clearly not taking what Jiang Tao said seriously.

Jiang Tao looked at her and spoke seriously:

"Silly wifey, don’t laugh, I’m serious. I just happen to have a good candidate in mind. If we bring her into the company early and train her, she’ll be easier to use later."

"A good candidate? Do I know her?"

Seeing that Jiang Tao didn’t seem to be joking, Xu Li started to get curious about this person he mentioned.

Jiang Tao said, "You’ve met her, you know her. That girl who delivered the popcorn buckets to our place before, Wang Xiaohong’s older sister, Wang Xiaobai."

"Oh~ so it’s her! I remember her, she’s a pretty well-behaved and capable girl. Isn’t she working as a sales rep at some company?"

Xu Li had had a good impression of Wang Xiaobai before. Once Jiang Tao mentioned her, she immediately matched the image in her mind.

"Yesterday I ran into her at Wangfu Tea House when I was meeting a client. I thought she handled people and situations with just the right touch."

"Plus, her younger sister is dating our Shijie, so you could say she’s half one of our own."

"So I thought about poaching her to our side and grooming her properly. It’s easier to trust someone whose background you know."

"Also, once the script project kicks off, you’ll be filming while taking care of our daughter at the same time, you’ll definitely have a lot on your plate."

"By then you’ll need an assistant to handle all sorts of things and arrange your schedule."

"Instead of scrambling at the last minute to find some stranger you know nothing about, it’s better to hire someone early and train her yourself."

Jiang Tao laid everything out perfectly, leaving Xu Li with nothing to object to.

"Mm, I’ll listen to you then, hubby. I’m free this morning anyway, I’ll go over to the company and take a look."

Hearing how thoughtfully her husband had planned everything for her, Xu Li was really touched.

After they finished talking about hiring an assistant, the couple got dressed, straightened their clothes, and headed out together.

Jiang Wen and Tian Xiaomei watched the young couple leave, wearing that "we see but won’t say" look on their faces.

Seeing their son and daughter-in-law so loving, the old couple felt very gratified.

It’s just that...

Right now Tian Xiaomei couldn’t help feeling a bit guilty toward such a good daughter-in-law.

But as soon as she started feeling that way, she felt she was letting down Yuan Mengqi too, who’d made such a good impression on her at their very first meeting.

"Forget it, forget it, the kids have their own blessings."

"How many years do I have left anyway, what am I doing worrying about their business?"

Tian Xiaomei quickly talked herself around.

Honestly, she really liked both Xu Li and Yuan Mengqi. If both of them could be her daughters-in-law...

"That actually doesn’t sound so bad?"

The thought that suddenly popped into her head startled Tian Xiaomei.

But the more she thought about it, the more it made sense!

Be it Xu Li or Yuan Mengqi, both treated her wonderfully.

One bought her a pair of shoes worth several thousand, the other got her a scarf worth several thousand.

With two daughters-in-law spoiling her, the old ladies in the village would only have envy for her.

"Dad, Mom, can you two lock down a shop today?"

"Once it’s confirmed, I’ll have Yuan Mengqi arrange for people to come do an on-site survey and finalize the renovation plan as soon as possible."

Jiang Tao sat down across from his parents, grabbing a stuffed pancake and taking a bite while speaking casually.

"Yeah, we can confirm it today. Your mom and I talked it over again last night and combined it with Mengqi’s suggestions."

"We’ve decided to rent that storefront over on Longxi Street."

Jiang Wen looked at his good son, his eyes full of comfort and pride.

He’d always been proud of this second son of his.

Now when he walked down the street, he felt like his back was ramrod straight.

All of this was the confidence—one could even say the sense of superiority—that his son had brought him.

Jiang Tao had really brought glory to their branch of the Old Jiang Family!

For the past several dozen, even a hundred years, their branch in the big Jiang clan of Jiang Family Manor had had almost no presence.

Other families had people serving as leaders in the army, civil servants in public security, procuratorates and courts, or successful entrepreneurs running their own companies.

In Jiang Wen’s branch, for five generations up and down they’d all been ordinary farmers, either working the land in the village or going out to be migrant workers.

Jiang Tao’s rise had instantly made their branch stand tall in Jiang Family Manor.