The Great Sage Returns from Ten Years of Imprisonment

After finishing their discussion in hushed tones, Ling Yun and Deputy Director Zhang returned to the dining table and sat down to prepare for breakfast.

Just as Lingyun sat down, her personal cell phone suddenly beeped.

He casually took out his phone and glanced at the message he had just received.

The message came from an unfamiliar phone number, and it was from the United States.

But the person who sent the message was not a stranger; they were using Chinese, and the words conveyed a false sense of insincere friendliness.

"Xiaoling, I'm Wenwen's father. Can we meet? We're right outside the hotel where the delegation is staying."

"Don't overthink it. We're here in Washington for tourism. We saw on the news last night that you were in Washington with a delegation to attend the financial summit, so we came here to meet you."

Upon seeing this text message, Ling Yun froze on the spot.

Speak of the devil, and he appears; this scumbag couple is truly unbearable to be talked about!

After cursing under his breath, he turned and glanced at where Deputy Director Zhang was.

At a nearby dining table, Deputy Director Zhang was quietly reporting something to Deputy General Manager Wang, unaware of what was happening here.

Seeing this, Ling Yun chuckled softly.

Then he looked away and turned off his personal phone.

For him, paying any attention to that disgusting scum couple would be a waste of his life.

He wasn't worried that his family wouldn't be able to contact him after he turned off his phone. The delegation had a designated person responsible for contacting people in China, and his mother and Da Meiyuan also knew how to contact him in case of emergency.

If they encounter any trouble in China, they will know which emergency number to call to quickly contact Lingyun.

More importantly, when the delegation leaves the hotel and heads to the main venue of this global financial summit, most delegation members will have to turn off their personal mobile phones.

Moreover, Ling Yun, who serves as SZ Financial's full-time translator and senior financial advisor, would be even less likely to be using her personal mobile phone.

Ling Yun wasn't surprised at all that Li Wen's parents were able to get her personal cell phone number and then send her text messages.

Or rather, he wasn't surprised at all that Goldman Sachs could get his personal cell phone number.

Goldman Sachs is known as the world's largest investment bank. If it doesn't even have this much power, then it doesn't deserve to be number one!

Before long, everyone finished breakfast and got up to leave the restaurant.

Just then, a staff member from the General Office of the State Council approached and whispered something to Ling Yun.

He was told not to rush back to his room, but to go to the conference room on his floor for the final preparatory meeting before the summit officially opened.

Those attending this preparatory meeting were the senior members of the delegation and the expert group members; ordinary members of the delegation were not qualified to attend.

Ling Yun was the only exception; he was considered an unofficial member of the expert group.

Upon receiving the notification, Ling Yun nodded slightly and then followed the staff to the conference room upstairs.

On the street outside the hotel, Li Wen's parents sat in a minivan, anxiously looking at their phones and occasionally stealing glances at the heavily guarded hotel entrance across the street.

The reason it was described as a sneak peek was because two burly men were sitting opposite them, staring intently at them.

Not far behind, in another five-star hotel, Lourdes was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of his suite, looking down at the van on the street and at the hotel where the Chinese delegation was staying.

The text message requesting a meeting was sent about ten minutes ago, but it seemed to have sunk without a trace, receiving not even the slightest response.

Li Wen's parents, who had initially thought they could get a good deal, were now extremely uncomfortable.

This feeling became even stronger after I saw Llaude at the hotel behind the hotel.

This selfish couple finally realized that they seemed to have gotten themselves into huge trouble and had lied to the wrong person!

The couple were overjoyed when they received the money from Lloyd, but now they are filled with dread.

Li Wen's parents didn't even dare to think about what kind of punishment they would face if they failed to complete the task assigned by Lloyd.

Only then did they realize it.

Unlike back home, here, it wouldn't be much harder for Lloyd to crush the couple than to crush two ants.

Only in China can capital be shackled, and no matter how powerful those who control capital are, they cannot do whatever they want.

Thinking about this, Li Wen's parents' fervent worship of their spiritual homeland began to waver once again.

Such subtle wavering began to occur from the very first day they set foot on the North American continent, and it accumulated more and more over time!

Of course, they are still stubbornly denying it and will never admit it!

Li Wen's father tried to turn on his phone again, but nothing changed.

There were no new text messages on my phone, but the signal was full.

Seeing the phone remain unresponsive, Li Wen's father's heart sank deeper and deeper into hell.

He hastily wiped the fine beads of sweat from his forehead and muttered in a low voice in Shanghai dialect:

"Honey, what should we do? That little bastard still hasn't replied. Did he even receive our text messages, or did he receive them but just ignore them?"

"Given that ruthless bastard's style, after all the trouble we caused him in Shanghai, he probably won't even acknowledge us, let alone offer us money in person."

Li Wen's mother glanced at the black and white duo across the street, then at the hotel entrance not far away, and shook her head in horror.

"I don't know either, honey. That little rascal is heartless. What if he doesn't care about our past and refuses to see us?"

"If we had known it would turn out like this, we really shouldn't have come to Washington, let alone accepted the money from Goldman Sachs in advance and spent some of it. Now we have no way out."

Hearing his words, Li Wen's father was completely at a loss.

After a moment of silence, he gritted his teeth and cursed under his breath:

"That damned little bastard Ling Yun is going to just stand by and watch us get killed by Goldman Sachs. He's so vicious, I'm not finished with him!"

"If all else fails, we'll contact Nannan and have Wenwen call and beg him. Wenwen is still one of us; even if she hates us, she won't watch us go down a dead end..."

As they were talking, the white man opposite them who could speak Chinese suddenly said with a gloomy face:

"Mr. Li, you'd better pray you can get an appointment with Ling Yun. This is America; nobody takes Goldman Sachs' money and doesn't deliver. Someone that capable hasn't even been born yet!"

"If you can't arrange to meet Lingyun as you previously promised and persuade him to change his mind, you can imagine what will happen to you next."

Hearing this ominous warning, Li Wen's parents both shuddered.

Immediately afterwards, Li Wen's father nodded in a pleading tone and said:

"Don't worry, Mr. Sherman, we'll definitely be able to contact Ling Yun, arrange a meeting with him, and help you persuade him."

"The reason he didn't reply to the text message is probably because he just woke up and was washing up, and didn't see it. I'll call him right now and ask him to come out and meet me."

Before he could finish speaking, he quickly found Ling Yun's phone number and dialed it with trembling hands.

The next moment, he was stunned for a moment, and then he visibly relaxed a lot.

"Ling Yun's phone is switched off and can't be reached at all. Obviously, he couldn't have seen the previous text messages."

"Mr. Sherman, could you please tell Mr. Lold that it's not that we're not doing our job, but rather that Ling Yun is the problem?"

As he spoke, he deliberately turned on his phone's speakerphone to demonstrate to the Black and White Duo on the other end.

Hearing the voice coming from the phone, Sherman had no choice but to nod.

"Okay, this is indeed not your problem."