Chapter 858 - 348: The First New Year’s Eve Dinner

Li Yang initially wanted to cash out a bit of money.

However, this time Jiang Banxia earned enough, so cashing out doesn't hold much significance.

The reason he persists is because of this opportunity.

Starting next year, the global financial market won't have any trends. For Jiang Banxia, the best option is to create trends.

It's not feasible at Wanliu Capital; it's too restricted there.

Jiang Baichuan can help a little bit, but it's ultimately unreliable.

To continue, he can only find a way to have stronger channels.

This Boeing incident was purely unexpected, and Bitcoin isn't a big enough market for Jiang Banxia to operate.

So, Jiang Banxia only has one way to go.

Can't retire at twenty-five, right?

However, Jiang Banxia doesn't want to go.

Jiang Banxia wants to retire.

The problem is, given what she's done, who would let her retire? Retiring means death!

Even being mediocre isn't an option.

Li Yang is fine, so far, he hasn't been entangled in cause and effect.

...

When he came out of the bedroom, he saw his father watching at the door.

After he came out, his father asked, "Did you invite Bai Qing?"

"Huh? Came?"

"Yeah, came and is helping in the kitchen. Said she insists on going, what to do?"

Li Yang laughed and said, "Isn't that great? Let mom learn a few tricks from her; she's quite good at cooking."

Li Likun glared and said, "Is that what I'm talking about? What does Xiaxia say?"

"It was Xiaxia who asked me to call her. You want to see the expression of the eldest grandson, it's almost overflowing, who wouldn't notice?"

"Really?"

Li Likun touched his face.

Li Yang walked to the living room and saw Xue Ning holding a few-month-old baby.

This little one's name is Bai Yi.

The other kids are all older, for instance, Bai Ye and Li Yuqing are already over five years old, Li Lingyou is six months younger, and three to four months away from five years old.

The youngest, Li Xinyi, is close to two years, can already walk, and calls out for mom and dad.

Li Yang holds two daughters, one in each arm.

He chats with Li Xinyi about stories she can understand, like what you're doing, ouch.

Li Xinyi learns from Li Lingyou, who learns from Jiang Tiandong.

Anyway, children have remarkable learning abilities.

Jiang Tiandong even teaches Li Lingyou to play games, and Li Lingyou has a high rank in Battle Party.

The higher his rank gets, the more Jiang Banxia wants to hit Jiang Tiandong.

Jiang Tiandong has been beaten quite a bit lately.

In terms of education, Li Yang and Jiang Banxia do not intend to pressure the kids much or expect them to be exceptionally great.

Naturally, they never thought of leaving much money for the kids.

If the kids want anything, let them fight for it themselves. Anyway, Li Yang and Jiang Banxia are still young and have plenty of time to wait for the kids to grow up, wait for them to have their own understanding of the world.

Their preference is to listen to the kids' thoughts, ensuring their worldview follows the right path.

As long as their character isn't bad, everything else is secondary.

Sometimes Li Yang lets the kids fight for something but patiently tells them how to fight for it.

This is a long-term project that might take over ten years; you can't tell the outcome in a day or two.

Except for Bai Ye, this little guy.

After a while, Jiang Banxia came out.

She probably knows Bai Qing is busy in the kitchen, so she took the initiative to tidy up.

She never used to do this job...

Of course, at home, Li Yang never tidies up either.

...

Around six in the evening, the New Year's Eve dinner began to be served gradually, and Chen Peipei also arrived to greet Li Likun and the others.

Li Likun and Wang Cuiping were indeed shocked by Bai Qing's culinary skills.

Especially the entire table full of dishes, with plating looking particularly good, like dining in a big hotel.

Typically, when Wang Cuiping cooks at home, there's no plating, anyway it's either a plate or a bowl, and she scarcely uses any strange spices.

Like oyster sauce, there's a bottle at home, but Wang Cuiping never uses it.

Her commonly used seasonings are just five: oil, salt, vinegar, soy sauce, and chicken essence.

She hardly uses spices like star anise or cinnamon.

Bai Qing's cooking is certainly at entry-level, with good seasoning combinations and a more diverse range of dishes.

Once at the table, Jiang Banxia smiled and said, "Thanks to President Bai for today. Originally wanted to invite you to dinner, didn't expect we would benefit."

"Just a few dishes, President Jiang. If you want to eat, I can come to cook every day."

"If you say that, in the future when I want to eat, I'll have to shamelessly call you."

"Sure."

With dinner soon starting, Jiang Banxia definitely won't have any temper.

Besides, so many people are here.

No matter how extreme her personality is, some things can only be said privately.

This is the first time Jiang Banxia ate food cooked by Bai Qing. Even if she doesn't want to, she must admit it indeed tastes better than her mother-in-law's cooking and even her own mother's cooking.

A meal lasted for an hour and a half, Li Yang specially poured a glass of wine for Li Likun, finding an excuse to drink a couple of sips with him, otherwise he'd feel embarrassed to drink.

Cigarettes and alcohol, in the family, are considered rare items. Forget cigarettes; Li Likun used to go out and secretly take a few puffs, but hasn't touched them at all in the past two years.

Li Yang is the same way; after all, smoking doesn't give him any pleasure, his threshold isn't at that level.

On the dining table, Bai Ye was very well-behaved, quietly eating. Even when full, he still sat at the table listening to the elders chat.

Most of the time, he watched Li Yang. He's quite happy to have such a dad.