Daily Intelligence System: Financial Independence-Chapter 327 - 166: The Role of the Friendship Boat and the Plan to Make Friends
Plus, this time Jiang Tao helped him "reunite with his biological family," helped his whole family get back together.
The bond between the two brothers got even closer.
"Hey, Chaozi."
Jiang Tao answered the phone and greeted Zhang Chao on the other end with a smile.
"Your sister-in-law went out to hang with her friends, it might not be convenient for her."
"I’m here with Third Brother."
"What can we do, really? Selling stuff, you know, nothing compared to you, Young Master Zhang."
"Haha, alright, alright, you’re treating, of course I’ll come—gotta give you that face."
"Okay, deal then."
After a few quick words, Jiang Tao casually hung up the phone.
Jiang Bing turned away from her computer screen and looked at Jiang Tao: "Who was that, Second Brother?"
Jiang Tao laughed, "Just Zhang Chao calling to say he’s treating us for lunch. You wanna go?"
"Of course! Gotta go, Zhang Chao is rolling in money now, we should totally eat him out of business!"
As soon as Jiang Bing heard Zhang Chao was paying, she looked like she was ready to sharpen her knives on the livestock.
Jiang Tao grinned, "Just don’t go too hard at him, you might scare the guy."
"Am I that scary? I’m a sweet little cutie, how could I possibly scare anyone? More like charm them!"
Jiang Bing rolled her eyes at her Second Brother, completely speechless.
"By the way, Third Brother, do you think..."
"Stop right there! I think you’re a better match with Zhang Chao than I’ll ever be!"
Jiang Bing cut him off before Jiang Tao could finish his sentence.
"What kind of bullshit is that!"
Jiang Tao burst out laughing at Third Brother’s comment, but seeing she wasn’t into Zhang Chao, decided to drop the subject.
They chatted a bit more, then Jiang Bing got back to work.
Jiang Tao, meanwhile, kept planning how to get more Close Friends.
Each new Close Friend was worth a million.
This was definitely worth trying.
"Teacher Jiang..."
"If Teacher Jiang puts in a bit of effort, maybe he could be a Close Friend too?"
Scrolling to Jiang Yi in his contacts, Jiang Tao remembered something.
Last time he lent Jiang Yi some money, the system said Jiang Yi’s affection for him had gone up a lot.
"Affection" and "friendship points" must be connected.
Theoretically, the better the affection, the higher the friendship points.
Besides Zhang Chao and Jiang Yi, there’s Liu Zhiyuan, Shan Yufei, He Jing, Wang Lianming, He Fang, Lü Qian, Uncle Lü...
Jiang Tao mentally calculated which friends he was on good terms with.
Good to have a direction to work on going forward.
If you want deeper friendships, you’ve gotta do something.
Reaching out and hanging out more is the simplest, and most effective way.
Even the best buddies get distant if you never keep in touch.
If you can earn some rewards while strengthening friendships—
For Jiang Tao, it’s a solid deal.
Soon it was noon.
Jiang Tao drove Jiang Bing straight to a restaurant called Sheng Baiwei in Huilongguan for Zhang Chao’s lunch invite.
This place is an old Beijing brand, running for over forty years.
The specialty’s old Beijing cuisine.
The prices aren’t high, less than three hundred per person.
But the food’s great—it’s a famous trendy spot in Huilongguan.
Every lunch it’s packed to the brim.
They say you’ve usually gotta reserve two or three days in advance just to get a table.
Zhang Chao got a private room here thanks to his dad being buddies with the boss of Sheng Baiwei.
Jiang Tao and Jiang Bei walked in and told the waiter Zhang Chao’s name and room number.
The waiter led them up to the second floor, stopped at room 206, then went back downstairs.
Knock knock knock—
Jiang Tao knocked on the door, and footsteps came from inside.
The next second, the door swung open, and Zhang Chao appeared in the doorway, grinning.
"Brother Jiang, Xiao Bing, you’re here, come on in!"
Zhang Chao beamed at Jiang Tao and Jiang Bing, looking as genuinely happy as anyone could be.
He was sincerely grateful to Brother Jiang Tao.
Without Jiang Tao, how would he have the chance to eat here now?
Before, he was driving a delivery truck all over, eating noodles or stir-fried cake for lunch.
Might not even hit a restaurant once a month.
Now, after he finally reunited with his birth parents—
From now on, even if he does nothing, he’ll have 100,000 yuan in pocket money each month.
