Chapter 521 — Kang Jinglong's Cunning
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"You see it very clearly indeed! Even I had not thought of that!" Divine Physician Kang burst into laughter upon hearing this. "Haha, I was still fretting over this matter, but hearing you say that, I am suddenly at ease!"
"Exactly, so marriage with the Guan family is out of the question. But before Guan Xuewen dies, having Zhaoming go after his granddaughter and bring back a bit of inside information would be greatly to our Kang family's advantage—who knows, he might even get hold of the secret formula!" Kang Jinglong said.
"Oh? That would work too?" Divine Physician Kang's eyes went wide. All along he had thought himself thoroughly shrewd and calculating, but now he found that his eldest grandson was even more of a scoundrel.
"Why not? Zhaoming is a master of romance to begin with—what woman can he not win over? Give this matter to him, and it will be done!" Kang Jinglong said. "In the future, even if I become family head, I will split the family fortune with him—half to him! So long as he renders this great service!"
Divine Physician Kang nodded. This was also the first time he had come to know his eldest grandson's mind and plans. Since he could declare himself thus, Divine Physician Kang was reassured! Though the Kang family was now flourishing day by day, what Divine Physician Kang feared most was that after he was gone, the brothers Kang Jinglong and Kang Jingming would fight for power and profit and tear the Kang family apart!
But now, with these words from Kang Jinglong, he was at ease handing the Kang family over to him! At this thought, Divine Physician Kang said, "Very well. This matter still requires long deliberation—we cannot be rash. Only after we have studied it thoroughly can we act!"
"Yes, I was only speaking of Zhaoming's usefulness! In fact, looking across the great clans, every family has a son who is something of a wastrel. Are they truly all wastrels? Some may be genuine, but some, I suspect, were deliberately cultivated!" Kang Jinglong said. "And these wastrels exist so that they can do the things others cannot do in the ordinary way!"
"Indeed, you boy, you do have a head on your shoulders!" Divine Physician Kang nodded. "As for courting Guan Xuewen's granddaughter—if an ordinary man did it, he truly could not pull it off. To court her and then cast her aside would badly damage the family's name. But let Zhaoming do it, and no one will say a word, because Zhaoming is a wastrel to begin with! If he does it, so be it—it has always been this way; one can only say that this time he went a bit too far!"
"Heh heh, Grandfather, that is exactly what I meant!" Kang Jinglong nodded.
"Mm. Tomorrow morning I will go contact the Yu family, and you contact Wu Chengtian. We will go together, then discuss the matter of our family being elevated to a great clan!" Divine Physician Kang decided, somewhat excited.