Chapter 1181 — The Kang Family's Shock: Watching Dr. Guan's Trauma Ointment Roll Out in Bulk and Pour Steadily into the National Market, the Whole Kang Family Was Left Gobsmacked
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"Grandfather, I don't agree with my elder brother!" Kang Jingming was a good-for-nothing to begin with, but lately, like a blind cat stumbling onto a dead mouse, he had scored one success after another, and his head had begun to swell — so right from the outset he took the opposite side from his brother.
"Oh? Why?" Divine Doctor Kang asked quickly.
"That..." Kang Jingming frowned. He had objected purely out of reflex; what reason was there to give? But since Grandfather had put the question to him, he could hardly say he did not know. He had no choice but to steel himself and start spouting nonsense: "Grandfather, think on it. You said yourself not long ago that Dr. Guan's Pharmaceutical Company could not possibly have begun laying the groundwork to buy up those raw materials years ago. And if they had possessed this miraculous prescription all along, they would have launched it ages ago — why would they have delayed until now? A few years back they could have held their own against our Divine Doctor Kang's Golden Wound Medicine; why bother waiting? So that theory simply doesn't hold water!"
"Then what do you suppose the reason is?" Divine Doctor Kang nodded, himself rather inclined to think Kang Jingming's words were not without reason.
"I'm wondering whether this Guan Xuewen has substituted some inferior herbs for a few of the costly ones in the formula. Remember, Guan Xuewen is an expert in the medical world — it's not out of the question!" Kang Jingming said. "If he swapped in some cheap, inferior herbs, then naturally the cost drops — and he wouldn't need to purchase any of those expensive rare materials either..."
"Aren't you talking through your hat? Didn't you already wheedle the prescription out of them? Are you saying the one you got is wrong?" Before Divine Doctor Kang could speak, Kang Jinglong shot back. "Besides, if the herbs in that prescription could be changed, our Kang family would have changed them long ago! Don't forget — I studied medicine too. For years our Kang family's laboratory has been devoted to researching whether the rare and costly herbs in the prescription can be replaced by others!"
"Can you compare yourself with Guan Xuewen? He is an expert; you've only just graduated! Confidence is all very well, Elder Brother, but push it too far and it becomes arrogance and conceit," Kang Jingming said. "Either way, I still hold to my own view. I did lift the prescription — that much is true — but you can't guarantee they won't alter it when they actually go into production!"
"Enough! Stop bickering!" Seeing his two grandsons come to blows of words, Divine Doctor Kang grew vexed on the spot. At a time like this they were still squabbling over nothing — if their own house could not stand united, how on earth were they going to deal with anyone else?
Kang Jinglong and Kang Jingming shut their mouths at the same moment, though each still wore the look of one refusing to yield to the other.
"What Zhaoming said has a certain logic to it, but the likelihood is slight. After all, a prescription cannot simply be altered at will — this is an ancient miraculous formula; you don't change it just because you say so," Divine Doctor Kang said. "I say we go with Zhaolong's plan: buy up Dr. Guan's trauma ointment in bulk."
"Thank you, Grandfather!" Kang Jinglong was delighted at once. Divine Doctor Kang had made his decision this way, which meant he was backing him — and so this round of argument had been won by Kang Jinglong himself!