Chapter 571 — Divine Physician Kang Nearly Kicks the Bucket
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The rest of the Kang family found this reasoning sound, so with great urgency they stewed up the dog meat. The dog had been a hefty beast, and it took the entire family the whole evening to demolish every last morsel!
Everyone wanted to extend their lives. Divine Physician Kang was ensured the largest share, but the others all scrambled to shovel it down as well. By the end, they were forcing it past their lips with clenched teeth, all of them waiting for a miracle to be born.
Their thinking was sound enough; the actual outcome was pathetic. The next day, beyond the fact that everyone had overeaten and produced more excrement than usual, not a shred of effect materialized. They had eaten all that dog meat for nothing.
Divine Physician Kang's heart was bleeding. What an ill-fated stretch this was—had the Kang family's luck not gone bad enough already? His heart truly bled. That fortune of over four hundred million had been scraped together over years of grinding toil, and now it had simply evaporated!
"Grandfather, since the dog ate the Longevity and Detoxification Pill, it surely couldn't have digested it completely, right? There might still be remnants of the pill in the dog's droppings. How about I try eating some of the dung?" Kang Jingming's mind was quick to adapt. With the dog meat proving useless, he had turned his attention to the feces.
"Well..." Divine Physician Kang listened to Kang Jingming and found the idea had some merit. There really could be undigested remnants of the Longevity and Detoxification Pill in that dung! If Kang Jingming went ahead and ate it, he might just score another windfall—who knew!
So Divine Physician Kang gritted his teeth and declared, "I'll eat this one. You already had your turn last time. This time, let me have a go!"
There wasn't much dung to go around, and everyone was eyeing it covetously. But with Divine Physician Kang having spoken, the Kang descendants had no choice but to yield this precious, solo opportunity to the old man himself.
This particular batch of dung was far more foul than usual. But for the sake of longevity, Divine Physician Kang had to steel himself and eat it. He nearly suffocated outright from the stench—if he hadn't bitten down and pressed on, he would surely have vomited it back up.
But this time, Divine Physician Kang was disappointed once more. More than disappointed—he very nearly forfeited his old life!
Once the dung went down, vomiting and diarrhea certainly followed. But there was no detoxification. After two or three days of writhing agony, Divine Physician Kang was on the verge of dehydration. The Kang family realized they couldn't let this continue and rushed the old man to the hospital. The diagnosis: food poisoning...
The doctor remarked that if they had waited even two more days, the old fellow would have been done for.
The Kang family were baffled at first—how could eating a bit of dog dung cause poisoning? But when Divine Physician Kang came to, a single sentence jolted everyone awake from their bewilderment. The pill was called the Longevity and Detoxification Pill—it was meant to expel toxins! All he had eaten was the very waste the dog had excreted. Was it any wonder he was poisoned?
After exhausting every trick in the book, the Kang family's great enterprise ended with Divine Physician Kang nearly losing his life. Summoning a family meeting from his hospital bed, he decreed that this entire affair was to be classified as the Kang family's number one secret—no one was ever to speak of it again!
The reason was obvious: it was simply too humiliating. If this ever came to light, the Kang family would truly be finished!
For now, they would just have to execute Kang Jingming's seduction plan in earnest. Going after Guan Xin was the pragmatic move—if they could get the formula for the Longevity and Detoxification Pill out of her, the Kang family could weather this crisis.