Chapter 415 — The Kang Family's Marriage Alliance "Bang!"
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Divine Doctor Kang slapped his own thigh and sprang excitedly to his feet: "A word from you has woken the dreamer! Truly, a word has woken the dreamer! Zhaoming, what you've said makes excellent sense — if urine can cure disease, why not dung?"
"Exactly, Grandfather. Don't people say 'stinking dog shit'? That proves dog shit stinks, and in the old days surely nobody ever ate it, because it stinks too much!" said Kang Jingming. "But it's possible that someone stumbled onto the secret of dog shit by pure accident, and that's how the Longevity Detox Pill was made. In fact, the stuff in it is very likely just stinking dog shit!"
"Grandfather, there's something to what Zhaoming says!" How could Kang Jinglong let Kang Jingming hog all the glory? He had once been the most outstanding of the household's younger generation, so he hurried to cut in: "Grandfather, I think so too. Look at the so-called dog treasure — it's nothing but a stone from a dog's belly. In any other animal, a stone is garbage, a waste, but in a dog it becomes a treasure. So I'd say dog shit may not be such a bad thing either. It's probably the main ingredient of that Longevity Detox Pill!"
"Right, Zhaolong makes sense too!" Divine Doctor Kang nodded. "Your grandfather didn't dote on you two for nothing. With you brothers in this generation, the Kang family is bound to shine even brighter! I'm very pleased. If this Longevity Detox Pill is successfully developed, you two brothers will deserve the greatest credit, and when the time comes, you'll take the lion's share of the shares."
"Thank you, Grandfather!" Kang Jinglong and Kang Jingming were both delighted. A few words had won them shares in a new drug — it was almost too easy.
"Then here's what we'll do, Zhaolong: arrange for some people to collect dog shit, and we'll run an experiment!" Divine Doctor Kang instructed. "Produce the Longevity Detox Pill as quickly as possible. Once we do, the Kang family's standing will climb another level! That Golden Wound Medicine of ours will be small potatoes by comparison!"
"No problem, Grandfather. I'll find someone to handle it right away and get it done as soon as possible!" Kang Jinglong nodded and accepted the task.
"Good, very good!" said Divine Doctor Kang. "There's one more very important matter I want to raise — your marriage, Zhaolong."
"My marriage? What do you mean?" Kang Jinglong was startled. "I don't even have a girlfriend. What marriage are we talking about?"
Kang Jinglong was not like Kang Jingming. Kang Jingming romped through every flower garden, changing girlfriends more often than he ate meals. Kang Jinglong was different. As the rising star of the Kang family's third generation, he had been laden with expectations since childhood. He wanted to fall in love and find a girlfriend too, but he was a man of iron self-control and immense ambition, so he had resolutely given up on romance; even when a girl stirred his heart, he chose to let her go.
He devoted himself wholly to scholarship — otherwise he could never have sailed through his doctoral studies. All of it was won by his own effort; he had never once invoked the Kang family's influence.
That was the main reason Divine Doctor Kang thought so highly of him, so now that the old man had brought up his marriage, he was rather baffled.
"Heh heh, girlfriend or no girlfriend doesn't matter. Your grandfather has arranged a match for you. The girl in that family is very beautiful, and they're a great clan. What do you say, Zhaolong?" Divine Doctor Kang asked.
"This... isn't it a bit soon? Grandfather, I haven't even finished my doctorate..." Kang Jinglong was somewhat taken aback; the whole thing felt too sudden.