Financial freedom starts with the daily intelligence system!

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle——

At 6:30 a.m., Tian Xiaomei was stir-frying a plate of shredded potatoes in the kitchen.

I've been thinking about what my son mentioned a couple of days ago about opening a shop with a friend.

Opening a restaurant was something she and her husband Jiang Wen had dreamed of for decades, but had never been able to realize.

When the two first got married, they thought about opening a husband-and-wife shop.

But at that time, Jiang Tao's grandparents didn't have much savings and couldn't help much.

The couple didn't want to beg for money from others, so they went out to work and earn money.

Just as she had saved enough money to open a restaurant, Tian Xiaomei became pregnant with her eldest son, Jiang He, and the restaurant opening plan had to be put on hold.

The two planned to open the shop when their eldest child was two or three years old and started kindergarten.

Then she got pregnant with her second child, and then her third...

Finally, when the third child, Jiang Bing, started kindergarten, Jiang Tao's grandparents passed away one after the other due to illness.

Jiang Wen is the only son in his family and has no siblings to help him.

Paying for their parents' medical treatment and funeral expenses not only depleted the family's entire savings but also left them with a considerable amount of debt.

By the time the couple had paid off their debts, their old house was in disrepair, leaking air everywhere, and was about to become a dangerous building.

So, they demolished the old house and started building a new one.

The result was that he was in debt again.

After the debt from building the house was paid off, the three siblings, Jiang He, Jiang Tao, and Jiang Bing, started junior high and high school one after another, reaching the age when they were most likely to spend money.

The couple were paying off their debts while also supporting their three children's schooling.

Mingming is busy from the beginning to the end of every year, extremely busy.

But they just couldn't make much money. Every year during the Spring Festival, Jiang Wen and his wife would struggle to even buy new clothes for their three children.

While other families slaughter a pig for the New Year, Jiang Wen and his wife would only buy twenty or thirty catties of meat at most.

They were very frugal when buying firecrackers, only buying a tiny amount.

After finally managing to send all three children to school, he built a house for his eldest son, Jiang He, and helped him get married.

The eldest son got married, and then the second son got married.

Jiang Wen and Tian Xiaomei have been busy for over forty years since their marriage.

They lived in a cycle of making money, incurring debt, paying it back, making money, incurring debt, and paying it back.

Having lived most of my life, I've never been wealthy, and my savings have never exceeded 10 yuan.

The couple's long-cherished dream of opening a restaurant has been shattered time and time again.

Faced with the need to support their families and pursue their dreams, they had no choice but to bow their heads for a few coins.

Working is at least a sure way to make money; you get paid for every day you work.

The biggest risk is that the boss will abscond with the money.

Jiang Wen and his wife valued stability, and even if they earned tens of yuan less each day, they always worked for bosses they knew.

There's no need to worry about the boss running away.

Opening a restaurant involves not only rent, but also equipment and material costs.

Whether it can be done or not is still unknown.

Every year, so many new restaurants open, and so many old restaurants close down.

Who can say for sure that they are the one whose business is thriving?

Instead of the one that had to close down because of a business slump?
Jiang Wen and Tian Xiaomei spent most of their lives in poverty, constantly walking on thin ice.

It can be said that they have absolutely no ability to resist risks.

Therefore, the two could only enjoy their dream of opening a restaurant during casual conversations.

It was never implemented, nor was there ever an opportunity to implement it.

The couple's ordinary, mundane life is a true reflection of the lives of the vast majority of ordinary people.

Working is the main theme of an ordinary person's life.

Self-employment, even opening a small shop and being the boss, is a very small minority.

Jiang Wen and Tian Xiaomei, the elderly couple, never dreamed that they would have such a blessed day in their old age.

They both worked at Jiang's Food Factory, and Jiang Tao enrolled them in social security in Beijing.

After deductions for social insurance and housing fund, the elderly couple still receive more than 3 yuan a month!

Their daily work is very simple: preparing the secret recipe for pickled vegetables.

The two of them can finish this amount of work in about an hour, and the rest of the time is entirely up to them.

The elderly couple now live a life they never dared to dream of before.

But the elderly couple had worked hard all their lives, and they were quite unaccustomed to having a little leisure time.

After preparing the secret recipe at the food factory every day, the elderly couple would go down to the workshop and work alongside the ordinary workers.

Jiang Tao and Jiang Bing both told them not to overwork themselves and to get more rest, but it didn't work.

Although I earned a good income at the food factory and the work was easy, I didn't really like it.

The elderly couple still wanted to open a restaurant from the bottom of their hearts.

Opening a restaurant has almost become an obsession for the two of them.

When the elderly couple heard Jiang Tao say that he was starting a restaurant business with a partner a couple of days ago, their previously lukewarm interest instantly rekindled.

only……

They haven't figured out how to tell Jiang Tao yet.

Click~
Once the shredded potatoes in the pan were slightly browned, Tian Xiaomei turned off the gas stove and deftly used a spoon to transfer the shredded potatoes to a plate.

"Mom, you've worked so hard. Let me take it."

After entering the kitchen, Xu Li smiled and said something to her mother-in-law, then picked up a plate and walked towards the dining room.

"Is Xiao Tao up yet? You're just spoiling him. He's over thirty and he sleeps in every day, even later than Xiao Xue."

As Tian Xiaomei took off her apron, she laughed and made a comment.

Of course, she was just saying it.

Seeing how well her daughter-in-law treated her son, and how they were so devoted to each other, she was overjoyed.

“My husband works very hard, leaving early and coming home late every day. I just called him, and he's getting dressed.”

Xu Li blushed slightly as she spoke; the wake-up service she had just received was something she couldn't tell outsiders.

As the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law walked out of the kitchen one after the other, Jiang Tao also pushed open the door to walk out of the bedroom.

"Thanks for your hard work, Mom. Oh, where's Dad?"

Jiang Tao went outside and, not seeing his father, asked him a question with some confusion.

Click~
As soon as Jiang Tao finished speaking, Jiang Wen opened the door from the outside with his key and came in, carrying a bag of clay oven baked flatbread from his hometown of Ping County.

"Xiao Tao, get up! I just went to the market and bought some clay oven baked flatbreads, they're still warm."

"The newly opened restaurant has pretty good cooking skills; it tastes almost the same as the ones back home."

As Jiang Wen spoke, he held up the food bag in his hand to show off the sesame seed cakes he had just bought.

"Really? It's really not easy to buy this kind of clay oven baked sesame seed cake from our hometown in the capital. I'd better have one."

Jiang Tao looked at the clay oven-baked sesame cakes his father had bought and a hopeful smile appeared on his face.

Most of the sesame seed cakes sold in Beijing are the kind baked in an electric oven with sesame paste.

There are sesame paste flavor, salt and pepper flavor, and red bean paste flavor, among others.

The clay oven baked sesame seed cakes from Jiang Tao's hometown are a local specialty.

It was also recognized as an intangible cultural heritage in 2010.

Clay oven baked sesame seed cakes are fragrant, crispy, and crunchy, making them a dish you'll never tire of.

Jiang Tao has been eating this for decades since he was a child and he has never gotten tired of it.

If you stuff some donkey meat inside, the taste is just as good as donkey meat sandwiches. "Hey, isn't it a coincidence? The owner of the pancake shop is from our hometown of Ping County! He's from Wangjiazhuang."

After sitting down at the dining table, Jiang Wen started talking about what had happened to him that morning.

"From Wangjiazhuang? From Wang Zhiyuan's village."

As Jiang Tao spoke, he reached into the food bag and took out a still-hot clay oven-baked sesame seed cake, taking a bite with a crunch.

When you bite into a clay oven baked flatbread, the sesame seed crust is fragrant, crispy, and crunchy, while the savory dough inside is also very chewy.

"This tastes really good; it would take eight to ten years to make it taste like this."

After taking a bite of the clay oven baked flatbread, Jiang Tao gave a thumbs-up in praise.

"I'll try it too."

As Xu Li spoke, she reached out and picked up a palm-sized clay oven-baked flatbread, breaking it in half.

She has a small appetite; half an egg is enough for her at a meal.

"Mmm, it tastes really good!"

After taking a bite, Xu Li also gave a thumbs up and praised it.

"The snack industry is still promising. With this skill, even if you can't make a lot of money, it shouldn't be difficult to earn 10,000 or 20,000 a month."

Jiang Wen is earning more than the owner of the clay oven sesame seed cake business right now.

But deep down, he was a little envious of those who could successfully start their own businesses and become bosses.

"By the way, Mom and Dad, didn't you want to open a restaurant?"

"My friend and I are planning to open another branch of Delicious Casserole in our Pingchang District."

"Have you two considered becoming the main owner and co-owner of our branch?"

Jiang Tao looked at his parents, his face full of sincerity as he asked for their opinions.

This morning, I saw the information about my parents wanting to open a restaurant for the second time.

Jiang Tao is preparing to fulfill the elderly couple's dream.

"You...you're opening a branch so soon?"

Jiang Wen was very surprised when he heard his son's words, and looked at him with disbelief.

The first store has only just started renovations and hasn't even officially opened yet, and they're already opening a second one?

Isn't this a bit too fast?
Although Jiang Wen dreamed of opening a restaurant, he was also afraid that his son's ambitions would be too great and cause trouble.

"Yes, your first store was still under renovation, wasn't it?"

Tian Xiaomei's eyes were full of concern and worry when she looked at her son.

"We are confident that Jiang's Delicious Casserole will be a huge hit after it opens."

Jiang Tao smiled confidently and said, "Opening two stores at once is considered very conservative in my opinion."

"If it weren't for the shortage of manpower, I would have been thinking of opening twenty or thirty Jiang's Delicious Casserole restaurants all over the capital in one go."

"Twenty or thirty?"

Xu Li and Jiang's parents were all surprised when they heard Jiang Tao's bold words.

Of course, despite their surprise, they firmly supported any decision Jiang Tao made.

"Yes, in the future, our Jiang's Delicious Casserole will be all over Beijing, with branches in every area."

Jiang Tao smiled and spoke casually, as if he were talking about where to eat today.

Running a restaurant seemed like a trivial matter to him.

Today, he has enough resilience to withstand risks and enough capital to make mistakes.

You don't need to worry about never being able to recover after your business fails.

Of course, there's the "system-level cooking skills" you've just learned and the "delicious casserole" that adds to the flavor.

It's like having two trump cards in your hand.

How to lose?
If this business fails again, then it's really not as Teacher Xiaoyan said, I should just go home and raise pigs.

"Honey, you're amazing! You'll definitely succeed! We all believe in you."

Looking at her husband's confident demeanor, Xu Li felt he was incredibly charming, and her gaze towards him became even more affectionate.

"Mom believes in you too."

Looking at her increasingly confident son, Tian Xiaomei felt a great sense of comfort.

Jiang Tao looked at his mother and asked, "Mom, how is my uncle's studies going?"

A while ago, Jiang Tao brought his uncles Tian Xiaoguang and Tian Mingrong to Beijing, hoping they could take over their parents' jobs.

It can also be seen as a backup plan he made for his parents to leave their jobs at the food factory.

Jiang Tao's uncle, Tian Xiaoguang, is also someone Jiang Tao can completely trust.

Jiang Tao was quite relieved to learn the secret recipe for Eight Treasure Pickles from him.

“Your uncle took it very seriously this time and did a great job. He didn’t let you down.”

"He can now make the sauce independently."

Speaking of her younger brother, Tian Xiaomei looked at her son with a hint of gratitude in her eyes.

My younger brother, Tian Xiaoguang, is 52 years old this year and is a well-known bachelor in Tianjiazhuang.

Originally, everyone thought that his life would be just like that, and that he would definitely end up alone.

That's what everyone in the village thinks.

Even Tian Xiaoguang's relatives and friends thought so.

Even Tian Xiaomei, her own sister, thought so, feeling that her brother's life was ruined.

No one expected this.

Tian Xiaoguang, who is now in his fifties, has suddenly and unexpectedly gotten together with his first love.

Moreover, although Tian Mingrong is a bit old.

But in terms of both looks and figure, she was far superior to the women in their forties and fifties in the village.

After all, when Tian Mingrong was young, she was known as the most beautiful girl in the surrounding villages; she was the village beauty.

The fact that Tian Xiaoguang and Tian Mingrong got together and that she became pregnant at lightning speed shocked everyone.

All of this stemmed from Jiang Tao, the "matchmaker," who brought the two together.

Tian Xiaoguang and Tian Mingrong never denied that they were truly grateful to their nephew Jiang Tao whenever they mentioned him!

This time, Jiang Tao invited the two to come to Beijing to develop their careers.

They arranged food and lodging for the two of them, taught Tian Xiaoguang their family's top-secret recipe and techniques, and paid him more than 10,000 yuan a month.

At the food factory, everyone couldn't help but feel envious when they talked about Tian Xiaoguang, praising him for having such a good nephew and how he benefited from his nephew's good fortune.

Tian Xiaoguang has never denied this point either.

Seeing her younger brother now enjoying success in both love and career, Tian Xiaomei, as the older sister, is very gratified.

She used to feel ashamed that her younger brother had remained a bachelor his whole life and had not been able to leave an heir for the Tian family.

Now, she can proudly tell her parents that her younger brother has a wife and will soon have children.

Of course, she also knew that it was all thanks to her youngest son.

Her decades of doting on her youngest son were not in vain!
"Since my uncle can already do it independently, then Mom and Dad, you should gradually hand over the work to him."

"You two should take some time to walk around and find a suitable place to open a shop in Pyeongchang District."

"The area should ideally be between 200 and 300 square meters; not too small, but not too big either."

"If there's anything you don't understand or are unsure about, you can call on Jiang Jiaqi."

"That girl Xiaoqi knows quite a lot."

While eating a clay oven baked flatbread, Jiang Tao explained the work he needed to do next to his parents.

"Okay! We'll go to the factory later to finish making today's sauce soup, and then we'll tell your uncle so we can look for a place this morning."

Jiang Wen, who had been silent until now, was also very excited and thrilled!
My decades-long dream is about to be fulfilled, my life will soon be complete, and my life will feel much more fulfilling! (End of Chapter)