Chapter 850 — The Kang Family's Urging

"Anyway, just be as careful as you can." The old director knew Yu Xiaoke had already made up her mind, so he said no more. And the orphanage truly could not afford to lose that income; without it, they really would not be able to hold on.

Yu Xiaoke posted the commission on the Thief Sect's own website, then sat back and waited for someone to take the job.

Of course, once a commission was posted, it was hardly likely that someone would come looking right away. So in the meantime Yu Xiaoke wanted to do something. She thought and thought, and decided she had no particular skills to speak of; the only thing she could come up with was selling flowers outside the hospital. That was low-risk and profitable. So she took Xiao Ken and a few of the older children to the wholesale market, bought up some flowers, and started selling them in front of the First People's Hospital.

Actually, flower sales in that area were controlled by a local tough. But this tough knew Yu Xiaoke and knew she was a female cat burglar, not someone to be trifled with. He had also heard that the city was in the middle of a crackdown, so he understood that her flower-selling was only a stopgap and wouldn't last. He simply turned a blind eye.

Kang Zhaoming lay in his hospital bed. Fortunately his legs had suffered only a fissure fracture, not a comminuted one — a relatively minor break. But as the saying goes, a bone injury takes a hundred days. So even with good medicine, Kang Zhaoming would not be up and walking any time soon.

Luckily wheelchairs these days were fairly smart — they could go forward, backward, and turn — and with his two lackeys Wang Shubin and Zhu Xiaozhang following him around, it didn't really hold him back.

Today was the day Kang Zhaoming was discharged. Though for anyone but a terminal patient, leaving the hospital was usually something to celebrate, Kang Zhaoming was in a foul mood.

He had lain in that bed for so many days, and since that one visit, Guan Xin had never come again! The whole point of his hospitalization had been to get close to Guan Xin, but he hadn't gotten close to her at all — he had simply suffered for days for nothing.

"Shubin, do you have any other good ideas?" Kang Zhaoming was getting anxious. His family kept calling to urge him on, telling him to settle the matter with Guan Xin as soon as possible. But his leg was broken — what chance did he have to win her over?

"Young Master Ming, I don't think the 'illness' angle is going to work on Guan Xin anymore," Wang Shubin said after some thought.

"No kidding! You think I don't know that? Guan Xin's already getting suspicious. If I get sick again, even if she doesn't think I did it on purpose, she'll figure I'm a jinx who's always ill — why would she want to be friends with me then?" Kang Zhaoming snorted. "Besides, of her patients, who could conveniently get hurt in exactly the right way? Too light or too serious, and you can't control it!"

"True. But I really can't think of anything better..." Wang Shubin said cautiously. "Those online dating guides are all nonsense, just there to fool people. There's no practical use in them at all!"

"What do they say online?" Kang Zhaoming asked.

"Stuff like drugging her, or 'board the train first and buy the ticket later'..." Wang Shubin said.

"Damn, what have you been browsing — some porn site? What a mess!" The moment Kang Zhaoming heard it, he knew there was no way to pull it off. Drug Guan Xin and rape her? He'd be lucky if she didn't hate him to death — and she'd hand him the formula? Dream on!

"Yes... yes..." Wang Shubin wiped his sweat and thought, Weren't you the one who told me to look? But he didn't dare talk back.

As they were talking, Kang Zhaoming's phone rang. He picked it up and saw it was his elder brother, Kang Zhaolong. He answered at once: "Brother?"

"Zhaoming, I heard you're being discharged today? How are you doing?" Kang Zhaolong had business with Kang Zhaoming, but since his brother was just leaving the hospital, he had to ask after him first.

"Not bad, but I'm still stuck in a wheelchair. Brother, did you need something?" Kang Zhaoming asked.

"What else would it be?" Kang Zhaolong sighed. "The Xiao family came to Grandfather's door to force the marriage. They even brought a Mystic-rank expert along — damn it, are they trying to scare our Kang family? So you need to hurry up over there. You have to win Guan Xin over and get that formula! Whatever means you use, get it done fast — otherwise your brother will have no choice but to marry Wang Xinyan..."

Kang Zhaoming thought to himself, Marrying Wang Xinyan would be a wonderful thing! If they'd let him do it, he'd be only too happy.

But he also knew that if the Kang family really got the formula for the Longevity Detox Pill, it would be a qualitative leap — with that formula alone, they would become a clan in hot demand overnight.

Though none of the clans that had taken the Longevity Detox Pill had publicly proclaimed its effects, they had all quietly sent people to ask the Kang family whether the pill they had bought at the auction might be for sale — and if it was, they would offer a reasonable price.

A reasonable price? The Kang family had already spent over four hundred million to buy that Longevity Detox Pill. So a reasonable price would have to be more than four hundred million, wouldn't it? Truly unimaginable! But Kang Zhaoming also understood that even five hundred million would be worth it to the old relics of some great clans — even hidden clans. A single pill that bought you ten more years of life — that was buying life with money! Any price was worth it!

And Kang Zhaoming had experienced the effects of the Longevity Detox Pill firsthand. Even now he was still reaping the benefits — otherwise, after that cold he'd had, plus being hit by a house, he would never have recovered so quickly. It was all thanks to his changed constitution.

If it had been the old Kang Zhaoming, weak from kidney deficiency, he would have been lying in the hospital unable to get out long ago.

So once the Kang family obtained the formula and began refining the Longevity Detox Pill, which of those clans would not show them some respect? When that time came, the Kang family's elevation to a great clan would be only natural.

"I'll hurry..." Kang Zhaoming said. "But this isn't something you can rush, is it?"

"It is urgent! Very urgent! You must hurry — that's Grandfather's wish too," Kang Zhaolong said. "And there's one more thing. I hear Doctor Guan Pharmaceuticals is releasing a product next month — same effect as our Kang family's Golden Wound Medicine, only they're calling it Trauma Medicine. Besides getting the Longevity Detox Pill formula, you'd better also find out the formula for Doctor Guan's Trauma Medicine, and especially look into their raw material procurement channels!"

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