Chapter 2394 — The You Family's Courtship
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"Exactly. Not only must we keep up our friendship with the Xiao family, we must use this occasion to extend the olive branch—take the Xiao family with us into business, and grow rich together!" Kang the Divine Physician said. "These recent business failures have taught me a thing or two! Our Kang family has been too selfish in the past. But now we must cure ourselves of that fault. We must let the world see that those who helped the Kang family will, once the Kang family is strong, receive a hundredfold in return for a single drop of kindness!"
"Grandfather, I understand what you mean." Kang Jinglong nodded thoughtfully. "You mean to tell us that as our Kang family rises ever higher, we must pay all the more attention to our reputation!"
"It is good that you understand, Zhaolong." Kang the Divine Physician nodded. "Your marriage is, in truth, no longer of any importance. So long as Zhaoming is with us, the Kang family cannot fall. Rather than seek an alliance by marriage, we would do better to follow steadily in Zhaoming's wake—that is worth more than anything. Of course, Zhaolong, you must not let it trouble you. Zhaoming may be doing better than you, but when you become head of the family, the status and position you attain will be far higher than before!"
"Yes, sir!" Kang Jinglong nodded hurriedly in assent. He had long since made his peace with this. Even if he must still bow his head before Kang Jingming, there was no help for it—Kang Jingming was a man of the Xuandan Sect now, no longer merely his younger brother—and he himself had reaped no small benefit from it!
Even as they spoke, the telephone by Old Master Kang's hand rang. He glanced at the caller display, and after a brief start of surprise, answered it with a smile. "Greetings, Patriarch You! How do you do!"
"Old Kang, just call me Old You from now on. What is this 'Patriarch' business? So distant!" Old Master You laughed heartily, speaking with great courtesy.
"Ha ha, then I shall do as you say rather than stand on ceremony." Old Master Kang was an old hand at intrigue and grasped at once the purpose of Old Master You's call: the family had begun to court them! In the past, when the hidden You family telephoned the Kang family, it was always in the tone of a master issuing orders—never so courteous as this. But today Old Master You had shed his usual manner and spoke to him as an equal, and Old Master Kang knew that the You family had received the news as well.
"Old Kang, congratulations! Your grandson has been singled out by the Xuandan Sect and made the prized disciple of the Fifth Elder. When he rises in the world and becomes an elder of the Xuandan Sect's next generation, you must not forget to lend our You family a hand!" Old Master You plainly knew more than Old Master Kang. Since Kang Jingming's side could openly put out word that he had become the Fifth Elder's disciple, and that Heaven, Earth, and Man himself had opened the furnace to refine pills in person, it all showed that Kang Jingming was destined for greatness!
If he truly succeeded in refining the Bone-Washing Marrow-Cleansing Pill, then Kang Jingming's succession to the Fifth Elder and his appointment as an elder of the Xuandan Sect's next generation would be all but certain! So even Old Master You could not remain unmoved, and hastened to cultivate good relations with the Kang family in advance!
An elder of the Xuandan Sect was a lofty figure even in the eyes of the hidden You family—one who could directly determine the You family's standing before the Xuandan Sect. How could Old Master You fail to take him seriously?
"Ha ha, you flatter me. Zhaoming is still young, a mere junior disciple—an elder is a very long way off..." Though Old Master Kang said this, his heart gave a leap!RQ