Chapter 380 — Go and Fetch It Back
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Divine Doctor Kang's birthday banquet was still going on, and the guests still wore smiles on their faces, but the Divine Doctor felt something was off about the atmosphere. Looking at Kang Jingming standing to one side, he was reminded of what had happened earlier.
After the guests had presented their birthday gifts, Divine Doctor Kang waved a hand at Kang Jingming.
Kang Jingming hurried over. By now he knew he had caused trouble; the situation was obvious. Wei Zhao was a young man of standing—how Kang Xiaofeng knew him, Kang Jingming had no idea—but Wei Zhao's identity was definitely no simple matter!
Judging by the attitudes of Manager Tian of the resort, Liu Tianyi, and Guan Xuewen toward Wei Zhao, Wei Zhao was absolutely no ordinary person! And that so-called life-extending, toxin-expelling pill of his might well be genuine too! Perhaps it was some rare treasure obtained from who knew where, yet Kang Jingming had taken it for trash and crushed it to bits.
"Grandfather..." Kang Jingming approached cautiously, his resentment toward Kang Xiaofeng deepening. You knew a remarkable leader—why didn't you say so earlier? You made me look a fool!
"Go find that cleaner from just now, and get back that life-extending, toxin-expelling pill he swept away!" If even Kang Xiaofeng understood the reasoning, how could Divine Doctor Kang, at his age, not understand it? He too felt that if the pill was genuine, it would be too great a pity to lose it. But he could not let outsiders see and lose face, so he instructed, "Be careful. Don't let anyone see you!"
"Understood, Grandfather!" Seeing there was still a chance to salvage things, Kang Jingming nodded hurriedly and went off to do as his grandfather had ordered!
Kang Jingming slipped out of the banquet hall with hasty strides while no one was paying attention. In truth, a trivial figure like him — a nobody no more consequential than a clown — had never drawn anyone's gaze to begin with.
Just outside the banquet hall, Kang Jingming happened to run into the cleaner who had been sweeping up moments ago. He rushed over at once: "Auntie, let me ask you something. Where did you dump the trash you just swept up?"
With this cleaner being the one he needed a favor from, Kang Jingming had to put on the best behavior. In any other situation, he would never have stooped to this.
"In the trash bin outside... but..." Before the cleaner could get the word "but" out, Kang Jingming had spun on his heel and bolted. The cleaner shook her head. She had meant to warn him that there was a fat man grabbing a trash bag over by the bin, but Kang Jingming was far too hurried to catch the rest of her words.
Afraid that the trash in the bin might already have been hauled off, Kang Jingming sprinted out the moment he heard the cleaner's answer. But when he reached the entrance outside the banquet hall, he spotted a trash bag that had been torn open lying beside the bin!
Kang Jingming's heart nearly leapt into his throat. Could someone have gotten to it already? But it occurred to him at once that around hotels and resorts there were always scavengers who liked to dig through the trash bins, fishing out empty drink bottles and anything else they could sell. That ruined pill — surely no one would recognize it for what it was?
Still, Kang Jingming dared not linger. He hurried over, snatched up the trash bag, and began rummaging through it...
"Huh? This has to be it!" Kang Jingming suddenly fished a black lump out of the trash bag.