Chapter 62: Reunion (Seeking Recommendation Tickets!!)

  A meeting with the mainland business counselor was scheduled for the afternoon, so after signing with Sun Renchao in the morning, I rushed back to San Francisco after lunch.

  The meeting was set at a hotel in San Francisco where Grandpa Jester was staying.

  Jester's grandfather runs a chain of Chinese restaurants, and also has several Western-style hotels under his name, but none of them are high-end, only this one in San Francisco is four-star, the others are all three-star.

  The formal start of this symposium was after lunch.

  Jester had previously obtained information about the commercial counselor from his grandfather, who seemed to have just arrived from China and contacted Jester's grandfather as soon as he came to the United States. After hearing that Jester's grandfather organized an investment delegation to the mainland, he wanted to talk to these Chinese people with intentions of investing in the mainland.

  Eliminate their concerns about the mainland.

  Jester rushed to his grandfather's hotel at 1:30. The seminar was scheduled for 2 o'clock in a large conference room of the hotel. Originally, Jester's grandfather had planned to have everyone eat together, but due to the mainland business delegate's polite decline, it did not happen.

  The conference room was on the top floor of the hotel. Jester looked around with some boredom while waiting for the elevator.

  Then his eyes changed and he looked a bit dull.

  He saw a girl wearing a white dress, and the face that had been floating in his mind for nearly two months gradually became clearer.

  It was in a bookstore in Los Angeles where he met a girl named Qin Shuyi.

  She was still wearing the same plain white dress she had worn in the bookstore in Los Angeles, her hair tied back in a ponytail, black leather shoes and white socks, looking exactly as she had when Jester saw her in Los Angeles.

  Then Jester saw a man following her who was dressed in attire that clashed with the American nation.

  The other person was not very old, also Chinese, at most in his early thirties, with a neat and tidy short haircut, wearing a pair of somewhat outdated black-framed glasses, dressed in a clean and tidy Zhongshan suit, with a pen clipped to the breast pocket, just from this attire it was enough to judge the other person's background.

  Obviously, Jester stared at a girl for so long that it naturally drew the attention of the one being stared at.

  Qin Shu's face first showed a hint of anger, then glared in Jester's direction. When she saw Jester's face clearly, her face involuntarily revealed a hint of surprise.

  "It's you!"

  The girl's voice was somewhat unexpected, and she didn't think that she would run into the boy who had lent her "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" here.

  "It's me." Jester just nodded, facing this girl he suddenly became a bit tongue-tied, really didn't know what to say as an opening.

  "I've finished reading the book..." The girl, apparently not used to talking to boys, blushed as soon as she opened her mouth. Her voice was soft, but pleasant in Jester's ears. "I went to your school looking for you before, but they all said it wasn't likely that you'd be back on campus before the end of break, so I figured I'd just wait until school started again and return it to you... didn't expect to run into you today."

  "Hehe." Not knowing how to start a conversation, Jester could only dryly laugh twice and say, "It's fine, I wasn't in a hurry to read that book anyway."

  "Is this Mr. Li Jie?" The man, dressed like a mainland intellectual, walked up and asked with a smile.

  "No."

  Before Jester could react, Qin Shu Yan took the initiative to speak up, "Young uncle, his name is Jester Lee, he's an American-born Chinese, studying at UC. The book 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' I was reading earlier was borrowed from him."

  "Haha!" This time, the man called "Little Brother-in-law" by Qin Shuyi burst out laughing. He said in a teasing tone, "Shuyi, I asked you to be my assistant and help me sort out some information on American Chinese entrepreneurs, but you don't even know who Jest Lee is?"

  This remark made Qin Shu's pale face turn bright red, extending all the way to her white neck. She furrowed her good-looking eyebrows as if trying hard to think, wanting to recall what was special about this big boy named Jester Lee in front of her, but after thinking for a while, she still knew nothing and could only look at her little brother-in-law with confusion.

  "Usually you don't watch news?" Qin Shuyan's little brother-in-law could only ask this one sentence.

  Qin Shu Yan shook her head again.

  At this time, her younger uncle scolded with a smile of "hating iron for not becoming steel": "With your attitude, you still want to be my deputy. If you weren't my niece, I would have scolded you to death."

  "Hmph!" Qin Shu Yan was also annoyed by her younger uncle's words and let out a hum of anger, staring at him with wide eyes, saying viciously, "You dare to scold me? I'll tell my aunt about you bullying me. Just wait and see how she deals with you when we get home!"

  "Alright, I won't bother you anymore." Qin Shuyi's little brother-in-law waved his hand and shifted his gaze to Jester, extending his own hand with a very standard diplomatic smile on his face, neither humble nor arrogant, not fawning or distant. In a very formal tone, he said, "Yang Hailong, Commercial Counselor of the Los Angeles Consulate."

  "Li Jie, Jest Li, you must have heard of my name." Jest also smiled and shook hands with this business counselor named Yang Hailong.

  "Of course." Yang Hailong nodded and didn't say much, then changed the subject, asking somewhat curiously, "I see you two knew each other before?"

  Then, Jester told him about the time he met Qin Shuyi in a bookstore in Los Angeles. Of course, he didn't mention how he chased after her to return the book and tied her shoelaces for her.

  He also clearly saw that after he didn't mention tying his shoelaces, Qin Shu's originally tense and bright red face revealed a hint of relaxation.

  But seeing Jester's gaze at himself, Qin Shu Yi felt a little embarrassed and shifted his own eyes away.

  "So that's how it is." Yang Hailong also showed a look of realization.

  However, the gaze he looked at Jester was still a bit strange, and Jester also felt a little uncomfortable being stared at. With a guilty conscience, Jester didn't dare to ask why he was being stared at in such a way. Fortunately, Yang Hailong's strange gaze only lasted for a moment before returning to normal.

  After the elevator door opened, Jester, Yang Hailong and Qin Shuyi walked into the elevator together.

  "I heard Mr. Li say that you plan to invest tens of millions of dollars in the country this time?" Yang Hailong asked proactively in the elevator.

  Juster nodded in agreement: "I plan to set up a large electronic product manufacturing center domestically, the labor cost in the US is too high."

  Yang Hailong nodded and continued to ask: "Has the location been determined?"

  Jester shook his head and continued, "I plan to go back home and take a look around, but I'll definitely be along the coast. Right now, I'm quite optimistic about Shenzhen, after all it's a special zone, the conditions and benefits are a bit better."

  Yang Hailong smiled after hearing this, seeming to think for a moment before speaking: "Actually, Mr. Li, the several hundred million dollars you're investing, no matter where it's placed domestically, the benefits and conditions are all the same. What you can enjoy in Shenzhen, you can also enjoy elsewhere. Moreover, the domestic authorities have attached great importance to your investment after receiving news from here. The Minister of Electronics Industry, Jiang, has given instructions that we must clearly understand your investment goals and what conditions you require, so please feel free to state them."

  This was somewhat unexpected for Jester, who hadn't thought that an investment plan he had casually mentioned to his grandfather would be taken so seriously by a high-ranking official.

  While speaking, Yang Hailong sighed and said: "Although there have been many foreign investments in the country before, most of them were low-tech industries that simply exploited labor. However, your investment this time is in the electronics industry, which is highly valued domestically, not to mention the huge amount of investment you've made."

  Jester's face also turned red when he heard this, and he couldn't help but speak out to correct it: "Actually, I plan to invest in the construction of only semi-finished products for assembly, which is also an industry that exploits human labor."

  "I know." Yang Hailong nodded after hearing Jester say so, indicating that he understood, and then continued, "But even if it is, it's something that has never happened domestically before."

  As he spoke, his tone became somewhat subdued: "Even if it's just a label assembly, only foreign electronic products are sold domestically, and domestic electronic products have never been sold abroad. Although you only plan to build an electronics manufacturing center in China, for us, this is a good starting point. Once we start, there will be more opportunities. We hope to prove that Chinese workers can also make high-tech products."

  "So......" Yang Hailong's gaze turned fervent as he looked at Jester, licking his lips and saying with extreme envy, "Director Jiang has already agreed to meet you in person when you go to the mainland. As for what kind of support you will receive beyond what is written on paper, you will know then. Moreover, Director Jiang will be promoted again after this change of office, I heard that he will go to Shanghai to take up a high-ranking position."

  Jie Si Te heard what the other person said and was slightly moved. He suddenly remembered who Yang Hai Long's mouth mentioned, Jiang Bu Chang.

  He suppressed his inner excitement and asked in his calmest tone: "Minister Jiang? Which Minister Jiang?"

  Yang Hailong looked at Jester with some surprise and said, "You're not all planning to invest domestically, are you? Don't you know which minister is in charge of this area? The Ministry of Electronics Industry only has one Minister Jiang, so how can there be another Minister Jiang? It's that Minister Jiang from the Three Water!"

  "It's him after all."

  After hearing Yang Hailong's response, Jester also became certain. The Jiang Director in his mouth was actually who.