Chapter 1283 — The Kang Family's New Decision: "Is... Is There Something Wrong With That?" Kang Jinglong Was Stunned.
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"What makes you suppose their trauma medicine follows the same recipe as our golden wound medicine? Don't tell me you intend to announce to the media that you had Zhaoming bribe the vice president of Doctor Guan Pharmaceuticals and obtain the formula? Say that, and the reputation of our Divine Doctor Kang Medical Group will be ruined along with it!" Divine Doctor Kang gave a cold snort and went on: "Besides, if you were to list those rare medicinal ingredients, the prescription for our Divine Doctor Kang golden wound medicine would be exposed to the danger of leaking as well! Remember, what makes our formula special lies precisely in those few precious herbs. If others learn of them and start probing, who knows - tomorrow a Doctor Li or a Doctor Wang might pop up! Isn't that just asking for trouble?"
"That... Grandfather, I'm sorry. I didn't think it through!" Kang Jinglong hung his head and conceded his error with ill grace. He had been far too eager to turn the situation around, and so he had spoken without running it past his brain.
"Zhaoming, what are your thoughts? To think that of all the Kang family's young dandies - the one I used to have the least faith in - you are now the cleverest and most capable of them all!" Divine Doctor Kang was thoroughly pleased with Kang Jingming, especially since he had time and again rendered outstanding service, and so he valued him all the more.
"Grandfather, I think that while we are disposing of our trauma medicine stockpile, we ought to be doing something else as well. We cannot just sit here waiting to die!" Kang Jingming said. "The Great Families' summit is about to convene. We must do something, or we will certainly have no chance this time round!"
"Good. No sitting and waiting - go out and seize the chance. That is what descendants of my Kang family ought to do!" Divine Doctor Kang nodded. "Tell us your view!"
"First, our strength is far too thin, so we should draw a great family to our side. The best choice would actually be the Xiao family - after all, our two families once had a marriage pact, which makes them far easier to approach and win over than the others." Kang Jingming began to analyze smugly.
As a matter of fact, everyone understood the analysis he was giving; they simply felt there was no hope in it. But this foolhardy Kang Jingming did not care about any of that. He thought only of raising his own standing and his voice in the family, so no matter how feasible the matter might be, he would put it forward first.
"Mm, that makes sense." Divine Doctor Kang nodded.
Kang Jinglong, listening from the side, had very nearly reached the limit of his endurance! Makes sense? Makes a blasted bit of sense! He knew that Grandfather now found Kang Jingming pleasing to the eye, so whatever the boy said, Grandfather pronounced it sensible!
Kang Jinglong cooled his head, stepped forward and objected: "Grandfather, Zhaoming, though the Xiao family used to be on good terms with us, things now... Last time we went to pay them a visit, the Xiao family didn't even bother to acknowledge us. Do you really think the Xiao family would still take our family seriously?"
"Mm, what Zhaolong says is indeed a problem. What is your view, Zhaoming?" In truth Divine Doctor Kang possessed neither much ability nor much of a mind. At the very beginning he had been nothing but an illiterate who had not even finished primary school; by a stroke of fortune he had come into possession of a golden wound medicine formula, and it was on that account that he had been able to found the Kang family!
In reality, the man had no ability to speak of whatsoever. He did not even understand basic medical knowledge, let alone the management of a clan. In former years, however, backed by the mighty golden wound medicine formula, other families had all come to fawn upon them, so it hardly mattered that the Kang family was mediocre. Things were different now.