Chapter 498 — We Sell the Deluxe Edition Too
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Xiaokun, follow them. See which hotel they're staying at, then find out the identity of that young man beside Lai Changshan!" ordered the middle-aged man sitting next to Yu Haitian.
"Yes, sir!" The young man called Xiaokun nodded. Once outside the auction house, he flickered and vanished into the vast night.
Fatty Lai had no car in Yanjing, and the hotel the three of them were staying at wasn't far from the auction house—about a kilometer on foot. For all his girth, Fatty Lai was in decent shape; Guan Xuewen, hale and hearty, could only benefit from an occasional stroll; and Wei Zhao, of course, had no problem at all.
So the three of them didn't take a cab, but simply walked back toward the hotel. It was a good bit of exercise, and once there they could grab some late-night snacks at the tea restaurant.
"Boss, have you figured out what we're going to auction yet?" Fatty Lai was still thinking about making another splash at the auction house, and afraid Wei Zhao might have forgotten, he offered a reminder.
"I really haven't given it any thought," Wei Zhao said, brow furrowing slightly as he sank into contemplation. What Miracle Doctor Kang had put up for auction was the deluxe edition of his Golden Wound Medicine. If he were to put out a deluxe edition of his own wound medicine, it would obviously smack of bandwagon-jumping...
"Boss, the way I see it, why don't we just come out with a deluxe edition of our wound medicine too? They have theirs, we have ours—no need to overcomplicate things!" Seeing Wei Zhao's dilemma, Fatty Lai made his suggestion.
"Wouldn't that just be following the crowd? Wouldn't that put us a notch below them?" Wei Zhao countered.
"Well... Boss! I'm out of ideas too. Our pharmaceutical company is still in its early stages, and I don't intend to release too many varieties. Having the Life-Extending Detoxifying Pill as our signature product is plenty. If we offer too many kinds, it'll only obscure how good our wound medicine and painkillers are. Besides, we should reveal our trump cards slowly—showing them all at once goes against the principles of business."
"That must be the deluxe edition of the wound medicine!" Wei Zhao nodded, already turning something over in his mind. "Our deluxe wound medicine is different from Divine Doctor Kang's. I've added a few more herbs to the wound medicine. It has a marked effect on old, lingering scars and can rapidly clear away decay and regenerate flesh!"
"Huh?" Lai the Fatty's eyes went wide, and he stared at Wei Zhao in disbelief. "Boss, it really has such miraculous effects?"
"It's nothing miraculous, really. It's just the wound medicine with a few other Chinese herbs added in. The only catch is that the cost goes up considerably." Wei Zhao shrugged and spoke in a very matter-of-fact tone.
"Well... a bit higher cost is no problem. These are the fine pieces for auction, after all. The ordinary version won't have the extra ingredients," Lai the Fatty said. "Going by the annual auction prices for Divine Doctor Kang's deluxe Golden Wound Medicine, a single box goes for over five hundred thousand!"
"Oh? That's quite high, then. The cost is certainly covered!" Wei Zhao was somewhat surprised. A single box of Golden Wound Medicine could sell for five hundred thousand?
"That's nothing. Five hundred thousand means nothing at all to those rich people. They're the sort who make hundreds of thousands a second. If they cut their hand, recovering a day sooner might let them earn even more money!" Lai the Fatty laughed. "To be honest, I bid on a box last year myself!"