Chapter 400 — It Really Works
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Kang Cuipu and Kang Jingming were cast from the same mold, both cut from the cloth of scheming scoundrels, or else one could not have had the father sending a fake ginseng root at the birthday banquet and the son sending a fake prescription!
So Kang Cuipu understood at once what Kang Jingming meant: that there was nothing wrong with Kang Jingming at all, and he was deliberately putting on this act!
Kang Cuipu showed nothing on the surface, but inwardly he was praising his son as truly formidable, the pupil surpassing the master and outdoing even himself in cunning!
"Child, you truly are a good child!" Hearing Kang Jingming's words, the divine doctor Kang could not help but be moved to tears: "Zhaolong, since he cannot go to the hospital, you examine him for me. Take his pulse and see how he is."
"Yes, Grandfather." Kang Jinglong looked coldly at Kang Jingming putting on his performance. As for what sort of person Kang Jingming was, he, his cousin, knew all too well: full of tricks since childhood and craven in the face of death. If he were truly at death's door, how could he possibly refuse to go to the hospital? So Kang Jinglong guessed that Kang Jingming was eight parts faking it.
But he could not say so. To speak of such things at such a moment was clearly inappropriate. Yet Kang Jinglong did rather envy Kang Jingming. He himself was the genius of the family, his grandfather's successor, and yet Kang Jingming had stumbled into sheer dumb luck, having eaten a worthless little pill and thereby come to be held in high regard. Had he known it would turn out this way, he would rather have swallowed it himself.
Of course, if at the time it had been Kang Jinglong who asked to test the medicine on his own body, the divine doctor Kang would not have agreed either. After all, Kang Jinglong was the future hope of the Kang family. Even knowing full well that the elixir would not kill a man, the divine doctor Kang would never take the risk of letting Kang Jinglong try it.
At this thought, Kang Jinglong's heart settled somewhat. He walked over, took hold of Kang Jingming's wrist, and checked his pulse. Though weak, there was nothing seriously wrong.
"Hm?" Kang Jinglong was a meticulous man, and he suddenly noticed that the pores of Kang Jingming's body seemed to be covered by a layer of greasy yellow-black oil: "What is this? Something coming out of your body?"
Kang Jingming had until then been paying attention only to his symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea, and had not noticed that there was still a layer of sticky filth on his body: "This... what is this?"
"Marrow cleansing and bone renewal? Can that little pill really be a longevity-and-detox elixir?" Kang Jinglong stared in astonishment at the matter being discharged from Kang Jingming's body: "It is gone, it should be gone now! I have seen similar descriptions of marrow cleansing and bone renewal in certain ancient medical texts, and this is exactly the effect they describe!"
"It really is a longevity-and-detox elixir?" The divine doctor Kang was astonished as well, and at that moment could not help but feel a twinge of regret. If only he himself had eaten it, how much better that would have been! Kang Jingming was young, so what toxins did he need to expel? It was he who ought to be enjoying longevity and expelling toxins! But the remaining half had clearly been cut off and could not be eaten now; it would have to be sent to the group's research institute for composition analysis and laboratory testing.
"It should be right!" Kang Jinglong nodded. "But used on Zhaoming, the effect is not especially pronounced. For one thing, he is young and has fewer toxins in his body; for another, he only ate half."