Chapter 569 — Operation Secret Theft
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"I've heard of them, but wasn't that a long time ago? Haven't the former four young masters all gone their separate ways?" Gao Xiaofu said.
"It was An Liwen, one of the Songshan Four Young Masters, who did it! Gu Mengyao is his childhood sweetheart — that I never saw coming. This time I fell right into his hands!" Zhong Yongliang's voice carried a note of helpless resignation. "I won't be settling this score."
"No way — he's that formidable?" Gao Xiaofu gaped. "Then what do we do?"
"What else can we do? Lie low for now." Zhong Yongliang's tone was flat. "Don't worry. The matter's been settled. It won't drag you into anything."
"Brother Liang, that's not what I mean. I'm not afraid — I just think this is too vicious. Cutting out one of your kidneys!" Gao Xiaofu said the words out loud, but inside he was terrified as well.
"Forget it. Let's keep our heads down from now on. Once Nai Pao comes down the mountain, we'll see who dares cross us!" Zhong Yongliang gritted his teeth, his voice heavy with hatred.
"That's right! Once Nai Pao is back, who do we have to fear? We'll be the new Songshan Three Young Masters — anyone who stands against us, we wipe them out!" Gao Xiaofu too was eagerly looking forward to Zhang Nai Pao's return.
"All right, Xiaofu, focus on your classes. Let's stay out of trouble for the time being," Zhong Yongliang said. He said nothing about getting Young Master Bing to make trouble for Wei Zhao — he was afraid Gao Xiaofu might let it slip. The present Zhong Yongliang had grown far more composed than before.
Donghai City, the villa of Divine Doctor Kang.
Divine Doctor Kang's face was dark with displeasure. At the auction, the Kang family had not reaped a single benefit. Not only had they bought a Life-Prolonging Detox Pill at an exorbitant price, they had burned through most of the family's liquid assets! That was bad enough on its own — but worse still, their hopes of being elevated to a noble house were all but extinguished!
The Beauty and Skin-Nourishing Gold Wound Medicine they had placed such high hopes in had become superfluous in the face of Guan Doctor Pharmaceuticals' premium wound medicine. The thousand-year snow lotus they had purchased at such a steep price might not even recoup its cost!
"Grandfather, I think the great-uncle must have handed the formula over to Kang Xiaofeng. Otherwise, how would Guan Doctor Pharmaceuticals have the formulas for both the wound medicine and its premium edition?" Kang Jinglong watched his grandfather pacing back and forth across the room and ventured cautiously.
"I've already asked him. Ling Tou said he has never even seen the formula, and that Kang Xiaofeng doesn't have any formula on hand either." Divine Doctor Kang shook his head. "I know Ling Tou's character — if he wanted to make money, he would never have fallen out with me in the first place!"
"Grandfather, times have changed." Kang Jingming stepped forward and spoke up. "Back then, the great-uncle had no grandchildren and didn't think that far ahead — he only considered himself! But now he's thinking about his descendants' future! Look at how miserably Kang Xiaofeng is getting by — the women he goes after are leftovers I've already had! The great-uncle probably can't bear to watch his grandson live in poverty either, so he handed the formula over to Kang Xiaofeng! But he's too proud to admit it to your face."
"Zhaoming, there's something to what you say," Divine Doctor Kang nodded. "In your view, what should we do?"
"That..." Kang Jingming was a treacherous, scheming sort by nature — devising sinister plots was second nature to him — but asking him to devise actual countermeasures was something of a stretch.