Chapter 82 - 39: Kyoto Bank’s Cao Wenzhou (2)
"Huh? But didn’t Xiao Shen already tell them?"
Jiang Li blinked, confused. ’Figures I’d be the one with the bad memory.’
Since she had already told Jing Shiyun and the others, the Shen parents must have been told as well. She didn’t need to worry about it.
Nevertheless, she gave Jiang Manshu a call. "Hey, Mom, have you left yet?"
"We just left." After a pause, she continued, "The whole family is coming."
In other words, besides the Shen parents, Shen Yuchu and his wife were coming too.
It had to be said, dinner tonight was going to be a lively affair.
"Okay, drive safe."
After hanging up, she gave the room a quick tidy, and then her phone rang—it was the delivery driver.
"Ms. Jiang, your delivery has arrived. Are you able to come down and get it?"
"Okay, I’ll send someone to get it right away."
She immediately called Xie Wan, then headed downstairs herself.
When she got downstairs, she ran into Xie Wan, who was already bringing in the delivery.
Jiang Li tilted her chin. "Wash and slice the fruit."
"Okay."
’It wasn’t that she didn’t want to do it herself. But with a butler and maids around, why make things harder than they needed to be?’
She walked over to a sofa, sat down, then pulled out her phone to order a car through an app.
Next, she contacted Zhao Jingyi and Xia Mengxue, telling them to get ready to pick up the shipment.
Of course, in addition to contacting Zhao Jingyi and Xia Mengxue, she also sent a message in the Dream Maker group chat.
After all, there were five computers. Zhao Jingyi and Xia Mengxue were just two people, and the other three computers had to be moved to the office.
Besides the computers, there was other equipment, too. You couldn’t expect two women to handle it all by themselves.
In crucial moments like these, you had to rely on your assistants.
Zhong Xu: Boss! I’ll go!!!
Liu Qian: Sister Jiang, I’ll go too! I’m at the company right now overseeing the renovations!
The other four quickly chimed in, all saying they wanted to go too.
Seeing their responses, Jiang Li immediately transferred 10,000 to each of them in the group chat. "This is a bonus for all of you."
After getting a flood of "Thank you, Boss!" emojis, Jiang Li issued her next order. "Also, I want to find people to film some short skits. I have a villa and luxury cars; we just need to get the place decorated. I want you to make this happen ASAP."
’Now that she’d bought the house and cars, it was time to put filming the short skits on the agenda.’
In other words, all the pieces were in place.
Zhong Xu: Boss, can I take the lead on this?
Jiang Li didn’t agree outright. "It’s a meritocracy. Whoever presents the most satisfactory plan will be in charge of the short-skit division."
’She had six employees, after all. The opportunity was there for the taking; it was just a matter of who could grasp it.’
"One more thing. Establish an angel foundation to invest specifically in people who want to be entrepreneurs but lack the funds."
’It’s no great feat to be rich yourself. The real feat is making everyone else rich, too.’
’Even if society is a tattered mess, as long as there are people willing to patch things up, it’s bound to get better over time.’
Just as she finished delegating all her tasks, her phone rang.
"Hello, is this Ms. Jiang?"
A man’s voice came from the other end of the line, sounding like he was in his forties.
Jiang Li asked, her voice tinged with suspicion, "This is she. And you are...?"
"Well, my name is Cao Wenzhou, and I’m the president of Kyoto Bank."
Jiang Li couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow, wondering what Cao Wenzhou wanted from her.
She wasn’t in any hurry, however. She knew the other party was the anxious one.
Cao Wenzhou paused for a second, then cleared his throat. "Forgive me for the presumptuous call, but I couldn’t help but notice the substantial amounts being deposited into your account. I was hoping to gauge your interest in a charity auction being jointly hosted by Kyoto Bank and Fengdu Bank."
’So that’s how it was. When you had no money, you didn’t even know what a charity auction was.’
’Now that she had money, people were going out of their way to invite her.’
Jiang Li didn’t answer right away. "Sorry, I’m not particularly interested."
’It didn’t take a genius to figure it out. There was no way Cao Wenzhou was inviting her to a charity auction out of the kindness of his heart. It was all about the money.’
Cao Wenzhou immediately sweetened the deal. "Miss Jiang, if you attend this auction, I’ll personally upgrade you to our bank’s Supreme VIP status. From then on, you’ll have priority access for any business you conduct at our bank."
This took Jiang Li by surprise. She hadn’t expected that attending a single auction could earn her Supreme VIP status at Kyoto Bank.
After all, Kyoto Bank had only a handful of Supreme VIPs to date.
’She’d actually wanted to go and see what it was all about anyway; she’d only held back to see what she could get out of Cao Wenzhou.’ "Seeing as you’re so sincere, then I suppose I can go see what all the fuss is about."
Cao Wenzhou finally let out a sigh of relief, wiping the sweat from his brow. "Great! Why don’t we exchange contact information, and I’ll have the formal invitation sent to you?"