Chapter 400 — It Really Works
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
"Good. Zhaolong, take the other half of the longevity-and-detox elixir to our group's research institute at once for composition analysis and laboratory testing. If our group can master the formula for this medicine, then the Divine Doctor Kang brand will surely rise to yet another level!" The divine doctor Kang instructed Kang Jinglong with some excitement.
"Yes, Grandfather!" Kang Jinglong nodded, though inwardly he smiled bitterly. Composition analysis was not so easy as that. If the ingredients were ordinary, well and good, but if some exotic herb had been added, there was basically no hope of ever analyzing and identifying it.
In the special-care ward of a high-end hospital in Donghai City, an old man lay weakly on the bed. In the outer room of his ward, a square-faced man was talking in low tones with a doctor: "If my father does not get a kidney transplant, how much longer can he hold on?"
"Less than a month." The doctor shook his head. "We have done all we can."
"If he does get a transplant, what are the chances?" the man asked. This man was Lai Pangzi's elder brother, Lai Changtian. "Money is no object!"
"Mr. Lai, frankly speaking, Mr. Lai the elder is in very poor condition. A transplant now, and I fear he would not even survive the operating table." The doctor spoke honestly: "With your family's means, finding a matching kidney donor is not a problem; if the proper channels fail, there are also black-market ones... but that is not a matter that money can solve."
"Doctor, can you think of something else?" Lai Changtian hesitated a moment, then said: "Or, at least, could you make him wake up? Lying there in a coma like this is no way to go on."
It was not that Lai Changtian truly cared whether his father lived or died. The crux of the matter was that before his father fell into the coma, he had not made a will. If his father passed away just like this, then the remaining estate could only be split evenly with his younger brother! He was not reconciled to that. He had poured far more of his heart's blood into the group than his younger brother, Lai Changshan!
Lai Changshan was in charge only of real estate and trade and sales. True, in the eyes of others these two industries were already high-margin lines of business, but what Lai Changtian was in charge of was manufacturing!
Compared with real estate and trade, this electronics manufacturing business, with its vast industrial park, was the true core industry of the group! Even if the real estate and trade divisions were carved off and given to Lai Changshan, the group would not be gravely wounded.
But Lai Changtian feared that his younger brother would contest control of the industrial park with him. That was the last thing Lai Changtian wanted to see, so he had to get his father to wake up and make a will!
His father was no fool either, and he certainly would not want to see the electronics industrial park he had built with his own hands torn to pieces by family infighting! The best solution was to leave the two subsidiaries in real estate and trade to Lai Changshan, and perhaps give Lai Changshan a share of the electronics industrial park as well, but without any say in management or decision-making, and with the shares in his hands not to be sold at will, and if sold, only to himself at market price!
Such was Lai Changtian's calculation. The terms were not unreasonable, and he was confident that for the sake of the industrial park's prosperity his father would surely agree to his proposal. But if his father went just like that, Lai Changtian could not guarantee that his younger brother would not come to seize power.
"He might wake..." The nephew might indeed, but once he woke, the man would probably be finished all the same. "...The doctor understood Lai Changtian's meaning and so explained.
"This... let me think about it!" Lai Changtian frowned. He did not even know whether, in the instant of waking, there would be time to set down a will.