Chapter 2746 — Kang Jingming's Plan
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Besides, this was also a chance to showcase his younger brother's capabilities. He had no reason to refuse!
Just then, Wang Xinyan happened to wake up, and Kang Jinglong, as if he had been injected with chicken blood, pounded his chest and declared, "Rest assured, Wang Xinyan is my fiancée. No matter how expensive or hard to find these herbs are, my younger brother can help find them!"
"By the way, Xinyan, how about we tell Uncle Wang and Aunt Xiao about this? While we're at it, we can ask them about what happened back then—see if they can still locate that wandering master they met, and whether they can get the prescription and the name of that spirit herb from back then?" Wei Zhao said to Wang Xinyan after Kang Jinglong had left.
"This..." Wang Xinyan's expression dimmed a little. Over the past few days, she had come to understand her own condition. Wei Zhao's potions could not make her better; even though Wei Zhao had stopped cultivating, the time she spent drowsing each day was still increasing. Was this a sign that she was going to die?
Yet Wang Xinyan did not resent Wei Zhao. Helping him cultivate had been her own willing choice. She only felt that dying like this was a little hard to bear—she could not bear to leave her family, could not bear to leave Wei Zhao, could not bear to leave her friends...
Still, there was one benefit to dying: the conflict between Wei Zhao and the Xuandan Sect would never come to be.
"Xinyan, right now both Teacher Bai and I are at our wits' end. Won't you stop hiding it?" Wei Zhao urged, somewhat helplessly.
"Ah, all right. If Teacher Bai's potions still don't work, I'll tell my mom and dad..." Wang Xinyan nodded. She was a girl of rather gentle and yielding nature, and she did not like others to fret over her affairs.
After Kang Jinglong left, he phoned Xiao Ben and confirmed that Wang Xinyan had indeed been frail and sickly as a child. Then, on one occasion, when Wang Xinyan's father, Wang Xuben, had gone to the Miao frontier region to gather medicinal herbs, he had encountered a wandering master who gave him some potions and a spirit herb. Only after Wang Xinyan took them did her health improve.
Having learned this news, Kang Jinglong stopped doubting Wei Zhao and directly dialed his younger brother Kang Jingming's number.
"Brother..." Kang Jingming had also been meaning to call Kang Jinglong, to tell him that he was preparing to make a trip to East Sea City in the near future on a mission, in exchange for the pill formula from Wei Zhao. But what troubled him was that he had no idea how to approach Wei Zhao. He was afraid that Wei Zhao would not only ignore him but give him a beating on top of it—what then?
"Zhaoming, is it convenient for you to take a call right now?" Kang Jinglong asked. Although Kang Jingming was his younger brother, his status was now far different from before, and Kang Jinglong could not help being cautious.
"Brother, I was just about to call you. These next few days, I may have to return to East Sea City," Kang Jingming said.
"What? You're coming back to East Sea City? That's wonderful—I was just wanting you to come back for a visit. The reason I'm calling is that there's something I'd like to ask your help with!" Kang Jinglong said. "Your sister-in-law—that is, Wang Xinyan—has run into some health problems!"
"Health problems? What kind of problems?" Kang Jingming was taken aback.
"It's just that she was frail as a child, and recently it's flared up again. She's always drowsing..." Kang Jinglong recounted the general situation with Wang Xinyan to Kang Jingming, and at the end said, "Zhaoming, you have to help your brother this time. I've already given my word about these herbs—you must get them..."