Chapter 856 — Kang Jingming's Visit
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Guan Xiaopeng, meanwhile, sat on the living-room sofa chatting with Guan Xin about this and that around the hospital.
Kang Jingming followed Guan Xiaopeng's car all the way to the gate of Guan Xuedmin's villa. In his pursuit of Guan Xin, he had gone so far as to buy a forged university pass, purely for the convenience of getting in and out of the faculty residential area.
"Young Master Kang, it looks like that man must be Guan Xin's father. A driver would never be able to get into the villa. Shall we pay a call on him tonight?" Wang Shubin asked.
"Yes. First we'll buy some gifts, then we'll pay a visit," Kang Jingming said. Now that he was certain the man was Guan Xin's father, Guan Xiaopeng, he felt greatly reassured.
Carrying some fine cigarettes and liquor, with Wang Shubin pushing his wheelchair, Kang Jingming arrived at the villa's front door and rang the bell of Guan Xuedmin's house.
Zhu Xiaozhang had been left behind to keep watch in the car; his temperament made him unfit to be brought inside.
Auntie Liu opened the door. At the sight of Kang Jingming in his wheelchair and Wang Shubin pushing him, she was momentarily taken aback. "Excuse me, are you here to see Professor Guan about a medical consultation?"
"No—this young master... ah, I am Kang Jingming, second grandson of Divine Physician Kang of East Sea. I've come specially to call on President Guan Xiaopeng."
"Oh, then please wait a moment. I'll go and ask for you," Auntie Liu said with a nod. She did not open the outer iron gate, but turned and went straight back into the living room.
"Liu Ma, who's here?" Guan Xiaopeng asked, somewhat puzzled, when he saw that Liu Ma had not brought anyone inside.
"Mr. Guan, there is a man who claims to be Kang Jingming, the second grandson of Divine Physician Kang of East Sea. He wishes to pay you a visit. What do you say?" Liu Ma said.
"Oh? Someone from the Kang family?" Guan Xiaopeng was taken aback. "I'll go and have a look," he said.
Guan Xin's expression, however, changed. She had not expected Kang Jingming to actually dare show himself at their door. What was he plotting? She was just about to tell her father not to go, but seeing that he had already risen to his feet, she held her tongue, thinking: Let him come in. It might be just as well to have things out with him plainly!
Guan Xiaopeng and Liu Ma reached the entrance together. At the sight of Kang Jingming sitting in a wheelchair, he could not help but start. He had never met Kang Jingming, but he had certainly not expected the man to arrive in a wheelchair. He could not resist asking, "You are Kang Jingming? What happened to you?"
"Hello, Uncle Guan. I am Kang Jingming!" Seeing that Guan Xiaopeng had come out to receive him in person, Kang Jingming hurriedly said, "I just got struck by something a couple of days ago, that's all. It's nothing serious—an ordinary bone fracture. I'll be fine very soon!"
"I see..." Guan Xiaopeng did not feel it appropriate to press further. Instead, he opened the iron gate and let Kang Jingming and Wang Shubin into the villa. "Kang Jingming... you don't mind if I call you that?"
"Not at all, not at all. Uncle Guan, you can just call me Zhaoming!" Kang Jingming said respectfully. He wanted to make a good impression on Guan Xiaopeng, so naturally he put on the air of a model young man.
Guan Xiaopeng nodded. "Kang Jingming, you came here to visit me? Might I ask what this is about? Are you speaking on behalf of your grandfather, or...?"
"It's like this, Uncle Guan. How about we talk in the study?" Kang Jingming was afraid that Guan Xin might contradict him while he spoke, so he suggested that Guan Xiaopeng take him to the study.