The Great Sage Returns from Ten Years of Imprisonment

Saturday marks the continuation of the National Day holiday.

It was 3 p.m. at the villa.

Ling Yun was woken up by the alarm she had set and opened her eyes.

He first glanced at the bright sunshine outside, then reached out and grabbed his phone from the bedside table.

His phone screen lit up, and he immediately saw two text messages from Chairman Zhao. The second message was sent five minutes earlier.

"As you predicted, Goldman Sachs and Barclays did try to contact Wang Mian and his team today to discuss stock index options betting. However, Wang Mian and his team went to Shenzhen early this morning and ignored these guys."

"There's been significant news from Europe: a joint statement from the UK, Germany, France, and Italy, indicating their readiness to take all necessary measures to stabilize the banking system. Will this affect the international financial markets on Monday?"

Looking at the two text messages, Ling Yun curled his lip in disdain.

Immediately afterwards, he replied with a text message.

"Ignore those Goldman Sachs and Barclays guys. Keep them hanging on. If we can drag this out until the US stock market opens on Monday night, they'll be doomed."

"As for the joint statement from the four European countries, and other various market rescue measures, they are just noise and should be ignored."

"Let's look at it from a different angle. The bailout measures taken by the four European countries indirectly show that the European banking crisis is far more serious than the outside world knows."

"Given the current fragile market sentiment, people tend to view these issues from a negative perspective rather than a positive one."

"Given this, I believe that such market rescue measures are likely to backfire, and European stock markets are likely to fall even more sharply on Monday."

After sending the text message, Lingyun checked other messages and missed calls.

As his phone's encryption measures were upgraded, the number of spam calls and text messages decreased significantly.

Today, the people who sent text messages and made phone calls were all family members and familiar friends.

This included his mother, who sent him a text message asking him to come back to the courtyard house for dinner that evening.

Zhang Lu also gave a briefing on the progress of the acquisition of the fashion magazine and investment company, etc.

Then there was a missed call from Secretary Zhou, probably nothing particularly important, since he only called once.

After reading the text messages and missed calls, Lingyun did not reply immediately, but instead got out of bed and went to the bathroom to wash up.

A dozen minutes later, he finished showering and came out of the bathroom, then went into the dressing room to change his clothes.

Then he took out his phone and called Secretary Zhou to ask what was wrong.

As he expected, nothing serious happened to Secretary Zhou.

This was simply because Saudi Arabia officially announced in the afternoon that it would immediately lower crude oil export prices to Asia and the United States, and the price reduction would be substantial.

For domestic airlines, this price reduction is quite tempting.

That's why President Kong had Secretary Zhou call to ask for Ling Yun's opinion.

We should consider whether we should take advantage of this opportunity to buy a large quantity of aviation fuel from Saudi Arabia.

After Secretary Zhou finished explaining the situation, Ling Yun smiled and shook his head.

"Saudi Aramco lowered its crude oil export prices because they found that the international crude oil market was already oversupplied, making a price reduction inevitable."

"With Saudi Aramco's proactive price cuts, a sharp drop in crude oil futures prices next Monday is inevitable, and international oil prices falling below the $90 mark is a certainty."

"Under these circumstances, airlines only need to ensure their daily operations and maintain a certain level of strategic reserves. There is no need for them to make large-scale fuel purchases for the time being, as international oil prices will only continue to fall..."

As he spoke, he had already gone down to the living room on the first floor.

Then we saw Alyssa Chia and Lei Lei practicing yoga together, their body curves and postures incredibly alluring.

Although there is a gym and dance studio at home, the ladies still prefer to practice yoga and other stretching exercises in the living room.

They exercised while chatting and laughing.

They only go to gyms and dance studios for other purposes, such as aerobics or light shaping and strength training.

Da Meiyuan and Yanzi were not in the living room. Da Meiyuan went to the Poly Theatre for a live rehearsal to prepare for the upcoming premiere of the play.

Yanzi went to work at a magazine. Her column had new tasks, including filming with the crew and reviewing the copy.

The news that the current fashion magazine's boss is battling cancer and is about to sell his controlling stake in the magazine is now common knowledge.

In this situation, morale within the magazine was low, with many people worried that they would lose their jobs if the magazine changed hands!

Some of these middle and senior managers are even searching the world for information about the acquiring party and the new boss, preparing to take the initiative and seize the opportunity, with no intention of working at all!

Unfortunately, despite their best efforts, they could only find out a little bit about the acquisition team led by Lawyer Zhang, but they couldn't find out who the big boss behind the scenes was!

So much so that they wanted to show their loyalty in advance, but couldn't find the temple gate at all!

Little did they know that one of the magazine's future bosses would be Yanzi, one of the magazine's most diligent middle managers.

Once the acquisition is complete, Yanzi will appear before everyone as the boss, and that scene will definitely be quite spectacular!

Seeing Ling Yun come downstairs, Jia Jingwen, who had just assumed a backward arched posture, prepared to stop and stand up.

Leilei, who was doing a glute bridge, immediately relaxed her lower back muscles and plopped down on the yoga mat.

Just then, Ling Yun suddenly raised a finger and put it to his lips, silently shushing.

Then he waved to them and turned to walk towards the restaurant.

The two beautiful women immediately understood what he meant, smiled and nodded, and remained silent.

Upon entering the restaurant, Ling Yun pulled out a chair and sat down to continue discussing international oil price trends with Secretary Zhou.

Upon hearing his suggestion, Secretary Zhou decided to immediately relay it to General Manager Kong and General Manager Sun to provide investment guidance for the fuel procurement plans of various airlines.

They chatted for a few more minutes before ending the call.

It wasn't until Lingyun hung up the phone that Jia Jingwen and Leilei entered the restaurant.

Afterwards, Lingyun ate lunch while chatting and laughing with the two beautiful women.

Before we knew it, the afternoon had passed quickly.

As evening fell, Ling Yun disguised himself and led Zhong Tao and the others to Houhai.

When he returned to the courtyard house, Leilei, who had set off earlier, and Yanzi, who had come directly from the magazine office, had already arrived at the courtyard house.

They were accompanying their grandmother on a walk and chatting, and they were so charming and attentive.

Looking at Lingyun, he had just greeted his parents when his mother immediately called him to the study and questioned him face-to-face.

"You're not pretending at all anymore, huh? You actually brought Yanzi and Leilei home for dinner together. What kind of spell have you cast on these two girls?"

"More importantly, how do you plan to face Yanzi and Leilei's parents? You're such a womanizer, I'm embarrassed to even see Yanzi's mother."

Ling Yun chuckled and quickly put on a smiling face as he began to spout his twisted and heretical theories.

"As you can see, Yanzi and Leilei are both so beautiful and cute. I don't want to give up either of them; I want them both."

"More importantly, given my current wealth and status, and this extremely high-risk job, dating without marriage is the best option."

"In this way, you will have more grandchildren to love and dote on, and you won't have to worry about the family planning policy restricting our family size, and the inheritance issue will no longer be a problem."

"Moreover, this effectively diversifies risk. Even if I lose everything on investments, it won't affect Yanzi and the others. Your grandchildren will live a life of luxury..."

Before he could finish speaking, his mother slapped him on the shoulder.

She rolled her eyes at him again, and said with a mocking laugh:

"You brat, you're such a smooth talker! You're clearly a womanizer, always flirting with everyone, yet you talk so confidently, as if everything you say is right!"

"You're just being ridiculous. Wait until you make a fool of yourself, then see how you clean up the mess! If your dad and I hadn't talked you out of it for ages, Yanzi's dad really might have come after you with a kitchen knife!"

Despite saying that, Mom couldn't hide her interest.

From her perspective, of course she hopes Lingyun will have more babies, the more the better!

Whether Ling Yun gets married or not is completely irrelevant; it seems that not getting married is indeed better.

Five or six minutes later, Mom and Lingyun came out of the study.

Immediately afterwards, Mom took Yanzi and Leilei to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

Lingyun went to the yard to play with some kittens!