Chapter 361 — Wei Zhao's Birthday Gift
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"Heh... your second grandfather, the divine doctor Kang, really lacks for nothing. Whatever you give, his family won't think much of it." Wei Zhao smiled. "It depends on their attitude toward your family. From what you've said, the relationship between your two families is only superficially passable — if in truth it isn't good, then give too little and they'll think you a pauper; give too much and they'll think you're putting on airs!"
"Ah, you're right!" Hearing Wei Zhao's words, Kang Xiaofeng nodded in wholehearted agreement. "If it were Kang Jingming and the others, even a calligraphy scroll they wrote themselves would have my second grandfather treating it like treasure and beaming for ages — they're his own flesh-and-blood grandsons, after all. But me..."
"All right, Xiaobo. Since you call me boss, I'll take care of this for you! I'll prepare a special, generous gift for him — though whether he believes it is up to him." Wei Zhao hesitated a moment, then said.
"Oh? Boss, you have something good over there?" Kang Xiaoyinbo was overjoyed the moment he heard Wei Zhao's words. "Boss, do you have some grand gift that will let us hold our heads high?"
"I do. That is exactly what I am preparing for you. But I am afraid they will not believe it is anything good," Wei Zhao said.
"If they do not believe it, then let them not. It does not matter. What counts is that the thought is there!" Kang Xiaoyinbo nodded. "Boss, no matter what, I believe in you!"
After hanging up, a faint smile traced across Wei Zhao's lips. So, Divine Doctor Kang... once my own Doctor Guan brand grows big, there is no guaranteeing he will not become an enemy. To keep him from entertaining any unrealistic notions, I may as well put him in his place at this birthday banquet!
After the last round of acupuncture on Liu Zhenhu, Wei Zhao had hit upon an idea: to produce a Marrow-Washing Bone-Refining Pill. Not the genuine article, of course. A true Marrow-Washing Bone-Refining Pill required vast quantities of precious Chinese herbs; not only was the cost frighteningly high, but the yields of those herbs also meant such a pill could never be mass-produced.
This was a pill Old Man Wei had once given him in childhood to temper his constitution, one that could expel impurities from the body and thereby achieve the effect of washing the marrow and refining the bones.
Naturally, Wei Zhao would not bring out such a treasure. What he meant to make was merely a substitute, one that could only expel the impurities left behind by incomplete metabolism and the toxins accumulated in the body. It could not truly remake one's constitution.
Even so, that alone was enough to extend a lifespan by several years, even ten. That is, provided the body had no major ailments. This was no elixir, only something akin to a detoxifying medicine; even taken, it could not cure illness.
The acupuncture Wei Zhao had performed on Liu Zhenhu last time had already achieved a similar effect, and that could be replicated with a Chinese patent medicine. This time, attending the birthday banquet of Kang Xiaoyinbo's granduncle, what Wei Zhao meant to present was precisely one such Marrow-Washing Bone-Refining Pill — though he had renamed it the "Life-Extending Longevity Detox Pill."
The name was rather more precise.