"Prime Minister, please change your clothes. The meeting will begin in five minutes."
A male assistant in his thirties approached the pensive prime minister, bowed, and explained the prime minister's next work agenda. Immediately, his pupils contracted sharply because he saw a button-sized object quietly soaking in the tea in the transparent crystal ashtray on the coffee table.
That was a listening device that the National Security Bureau had previously hidden in the Prime Minister's clothes. The Prime Minister was not informed when it was installed because it was a decision unanimously approved by the Politburo. Otherwise, he would not have dared to use such a spy device on the most respected Prime Minister.
All of this was because the Premier had been in too much contact with Lin Yao, which could also be considered a disciplinary measure taken by the Party to prevent problems from arising in the first place.
Now it lies there quietly in the ashtray, so glaring, so unsettling.
The middle-aged assistant immediately tensed up, his heart pounding with anxiety. He stared at the bugging device in a daze, his expression losing all composure.
"What's wrong? This is what Xiaolin threw here. He said the buttons on his new pants were uncomfortable, so he just ripped them off and then poured some tea in them. Kids like to be mischievous."
The Prime Minister's voice rang out softly; he hadn't yet recovered from the shock. He didn't give such a trivial matter much thought.
"Thank goodness." The middle-aged assistant was secretly relieved, thinking that the Premier was unaware that he had been bugged, otherwise who knows what kind of earthquake the Politburo would have caused, and he would have to destroy the evidence immediately.
"Prime Minister, it's almost time. Please go change your clothes."
"No need, just wear this. This meeting isn't that formal. Let's go."
The Prime Minister immediately stood up from his chair and was the first to walk out of the room.
The middle-aged assistant quickly grabbed the listening device from the ashtray and stuffed it into his pocket. He then poured the water from the ashtray into the trash can, wiped it clean with a tissue to make it look like a brand new ashtray, picked up a document he had just brought, and rushed out of the room.
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"At least we can have some peace and quiet for a month."
While inserting an acupuncture needle into the American patient with a triple chin, Lin Yao chatted with Xiao Cao.
"It was two months. I accidentally left them unconscious for a little too long."
Xiaocao immediately replied, "But don't worry, apart from not waking up, I didn't do anything else to them. Anyway, these people will be well taken care of, they won't die, and they'll probably be about the same as before when they wake up."
Lin Yao's hand trembled. He almost inserted the wrong acupuncture point. The acupuncture points were really hard to find on the ridiculously obese American patient. His body was covered in bulging fat, and even if he knocked him unconscious, the silver needles would often shake due to his breathing, affecting the acupuncture effect.
At this moment, Lin Yao began to treat the illness using traditional medical methods and superpowers as an aid, which could also be considered as exploring new technologies. Fortunately, he could teach the doctors that Min Hong recruited in the future.
"If you're already this fat and still keep eating, you'll die of obesity sooner or later."
Lin Yao continued injecting the needles, grumbling and cursing. He was worried that Xiao Cao might act on her own again. With Xiao Cao's abilities, if she ever disobeyed, it would probably be the end of humanity. Lin Yao decided to try to win Xiao Cao over from now on to prevent her from becoming abnormal.
"Yaoyao, what are you cursing about? Someone asked you to help them lose weight and you refused. But this guy really can eat a lot. The elasticity of his stomach wall is more than twice that of an average person. It seems he usually eats until he's stuffed."
The little grass smiled, which matched Lin Yao's assessment, and didn't receive any warning from him, so it remained happy.
“How could I have time to help him lose weight? It’s only two million US dollars. It would take at least five or six hours. Unless he doesn’t mind his appearance after losing weight, I won’t help him. Didn’t you say it was hard for this guy to join? Fine, I make hundreds of thousands a minute. How could I spend five hours to earn his two million?”
Lin Yao lost his patience, unleashed his medical energy, and notified Xiao Cao to also help. They quickly finished treating the obese patient, then turned and called out, "NEXT."
"Two months it is, I just want some peace and quiet."
Lin Yao decided to accept reality. It would be better for Min Hong to have two months of buffer time to properly adjust the management in various places, and also to start recruiting doctors and nurses, so that he wouldn't have to run around the world alone like a firefighter in the future.
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"This is Minhong's next business plan. Take a look."
Zhang Hui pushed the thick stack of documents in front of her to the other side of the table, picked up her coffee and took a small sip, then began to scrutinize Lin Yao.
This boy is extraordinary. Not only does he possess exceptional medical skills, but most importantly, he has a kind and simple heart. I'm so happy for my good friend Wenwen. Finding a boy like this is truly a blessing for a woman.
Zhang Hui was lost in thought, watching Lin Yao engrossed in reading the documents. She wondered why she hadn't met a boy like him among all the others. Was it really true that the legendary thousand-year-old destiny required such a long wait?
Is it because Xia Yuwen suffered enough as a child that God compensated her by sending a good man to her side?
"But it wasn't easy for me either! From childhood to adulthood, although I've been pampered and never had to worry about food or clothing, I've also worked very hard!"
Zhang Hui admires Xia Yuwen. From a young age, she never believed that girls should be inferior to boys. She always worked hard to study and improve. Her family, which was of average means, could not provide extra help. She relied on her own wisdom and hard work to start her own business during college. Two years after graduation, she now owns one of the fastest-growing companies in the information industry.
She believed that she was no worse than anyone else and that her future would be bright.
However, Zhang Hui was not confident when it came to matters of the heart. From childhood to adulthood, all the boys around her seemed to be outstanding, but none of them could catch her eye. Perhaps her standards were too high, or perhaps her destiny had not yet arrived. In any case, she continued to live alone, enduring that feeling of loneliness.
Zhang Hui has now grown accustomed to this loneliness; she even uses "Accustomed to Loneliness" as her QQ nickname, which shows how disappointed she is with the generally superficial boys in today's society.
"How come Lin Yao's parents only had one son?"
Zhang Hui thought with regret, took a big gulp of coffee, the sweet and bitter coffee flavor stimulating her taste buds, and immediately lost interest in continuing to look at Lin Yao.
"Yaoyao, hurry up and flip through it! How are you going to finish reading all this at such a slow pace? There's so much information; by the time you finish, it'll be lunchtime. Are you not going to go dig for 'Tai Sui' at the Summer Palace?"
Xiao Cao spoke very quickly, urging Lin Yao to hurry up and flip through the documents, which made Lin Yao feel helpless. He thought to himself that these documents were not actually kept by him, and he could only browse through them once. If he flipped through the pages too quickly, would Zhang Hui on the other side think that he was just a good-for-nothing who was pretending to look at the documents but didn't even have the ability to pretend?
Lin Yao wasn't sure how intelligent Xiao Cao had become, but he was certain that she was almost monstrous. Normally, Xiao Cao could control one or two thousand people at the same time, and if it was surveillance, he didn't know how many tasks she could perform simultaneously.
When it comes to reading this kind of information, Xiaocao is faster than the world's fastest scanner. He just flips through the pages while Xiaocao memorizes them and organizes them later. However, Lin Yao is worried that Zhang Hui will laugh at him, so he pretends to flip through the pages at a leisurely pace. But while Xiaocao is complaining, he has already aroused Zhang Hui's surprise. It's a lose-lose situation.
"Yaoyao, Zhang Hui is really capable. What she produces is truly professional. It contains a lot of professional advice and even a response plan based on the psychological and behavioral reactions of the public. It's really amazing."
While Xiaocao was memorizing and analyzing, she was also chatting with Lin Yao, making Lin Yao feel like he was as stupid as a pig. He secretly wondered why he hadn't eaten the Earth Mother back then. If he had, he would have been the smartest person in the world and could have learned from Xiaocao to read books at a glance.
The Earth Mother, a symbol of wisdom, was given to the little grass; I can only remain humble in her presence for the rest of my life. Sigh…
"How is it, Mr. Lin? Is there anything amiss?"
Zhang Hui looked at Lin Yao with a hint of mockery, thinking to herself that this guy was really going too far. Even if it was just going through the motions, he could have flipped through the pages a little slower. He was so fast that even a digital camera couldn't keep up. If he didn't want to look at the documents, he shouldn't have made her bring them over. She was supposed to send someone to fly to Chengdu this afternoon, and now she's wasted even more time.