Chapter 529 — Bought as a Makeup Box
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Besides, the Kang family could not bankrupt itself buying this thousand-year snow lotus; having not a cent left to its name would hardly do either, would it?
Kang Jinglong sighed. There was no time to stop his father now! Yet since they had already locked horns with Fatty Lai, there could be no backing down; the Kang family was not the sort to shrink from a fight!
"On purpose?" Fatty Lai had been on the verge of giving up, but Kang Guifeng's outburst made him quite unwilling to give up after all. He rose to his feet and shot back: "What, does the general manager of the great Divine Doctor Kang Pharmaceutical Group not know what an auction means? You can bid, but I cannot?"
At this point Kang Jinglong had no choice but to stand up as well. He was a member of the Kang family too, and with his own father on his feet, how could a junior like him simply sit by and do nothing?
Kang Jinglong's tone, however, was nowhere near as aggressive as Kang Guifeng's. Neither haughty nor humble, he said: "Mr. Lai, my father did not say you cannot buy it; he asked what use this thousand-year snow lotus is to you. Could you tell us? Precious as this medicinal herb may be, surely not every Chinese medicine formula calls for it?"
"What use I buy it for?" Fatty Lai was instantly delighted. "Do I have to tell you what I buy it for? Can't I buy it just to play with? Or why don't you first tell me what use you buy it for?"
Kang Jinglong smiled faintly. Fatty Lai's words were exactly what he wanted; he could not have wished for the man to say anything better, for now he could move on to the next step of his plan! From the moment Kang Jinglong had risen to his feet, he had already mapped it all out.
"Mr. Lai, there is no harm in my telling you!" Kang Jinglong said. "We who run a pharmaceutical company do seek profit, but our guiding principle is to heal the world and save lives. That much is beyond dispute, is it not?"
Fatty Lai frowned, unable to fathom what Kang Jinglong was getting at, yet he did not argue.
"Mr. Lai, our Kang family is buying this thousand-year snow lotus to save a life! As the saying goes, saving a life is like fighting a fire, and this thousand-year snow lotus is a guiding ingredient; the patient we are treating needs only this one ingredient to complete the cure." Kang Jinglong went on, still neither haughty nor humble: "Though there may be some friction between us, I hope Mr. Lai will, for the sake of our shared calling as healers, put the greater good first and the patient above all! If you are merely buying it to play with, then please yield it to us, for after all we mean to use it to save a life!"
Once Kang Jinglong finished speaking, the whole hall fell silent at once! Kang Jinglong sneered inwardly. Play games with me? You are a hundred years too green. When it comes to playing dirty, who the hell do you think you are?
It must be said that Kang Jinglong's words had tilted the room's sympathies toward the Kang family! The man had said it was to save a life; were Fatty Lai to snatch it from them now, that would be going a bit too far, would it not? And Fatty Lai had said himself that he was bidding just for fun. You buy for fun, they buy to save a life; are the two the same?
If you refuse to yield it, then you are standing by and letting someone die! You work in the medical field too. Have you never heard the saying, "A healer's heart is one of benevolence"? Would you really stand by and watch another person die?
Of course, Kang Jinglong was not worried that Fatty Lai might change his tune and claim he too was buying it to save a life, because by now it was too late to change his tune. How could there be such a coincidence? You save a life, and he saves a life too?
He did not believe Fatty Lai would do such a thing, because that would invite even greater contempt.