Chapter 380 — Go Fetch It Back

But Fatty Lai saw it very differently. To him it was a treasure beyond measure. Never mind one hundred million — he had just offered Wei Zhao five hundred million for it and been refused. In his eyes it was simply priceless!

As the old saying goes, all the gold in the world cannot buy back ten years of youth! If his old father could live ten more years after taking this pill, then it truly was a treasure beyond price! Yet this pill looked much smaller than before. Could it still have any effect?

With that thought, Fatty Lai hurried to ask, "Young man, this pill is a lot smaller than it was. Will it still work?"

The Life-Extending Detox Pill had been trampled and ground by Kang Zhaoming, with much of it stuck to the floor. Only this little bit had been swept up, and the rest had been wiped away by the cleaner's mop.

"To some degree, yes. I cannot promise five or ten years, but another year or two is quite possible," Wei Zhao said. "It all depends on your father's condition and how much toxin is in his body..."

"My dad has uremia. Can it flush that out?" Fatty Lai had been terrified that Wei Zhao would ignore him, so now that Wei Zhao was actually asking questions, he scrambled to seize the opening. If he could gain Wei Zhao's guidance, he would be so happy he might go mad.

"It can, with some effect. Keeping him going another year or half a year should be no problem," Wei Zhao said.

"Uh... then can it cure him?" Fatty Lai asked quickly.

"Perhaps if he ate ten or twenty of them? I cannot say for sure." Wei Zhao did not deceive him. Uremia was not so easily cured. Only acupuncture paired with herbal medicine held any hope of a cure.

"Young man, can you cure my father then? For the rest of my life I will follow you and work like an ox or a horse for you. I will pay any amount, boo-hoo..." Fatty Lai knelt before Wei Zhao again, and this time not only did he smear snot on Wei Zhao's trousers, but the hand that had just grabbed dog shit clutched Wei Zhao's trouser leg tight.

"Uh... let go first." Wei Zhao thought to himself that he would throw these trousers away as soon as he got home. They were beyond keeping.

"Then you will treat him?" Fatty Lai was overjoyed the moment he heard Wei Zhao's words.

"Get up right now, then roll on home and give your old man what you just picked up. He will not die any time soon!" Wei Zhao said helplessly. "Let me think about it first! Say, you seem to have some face? Are you famous or something?"

"Yes, yes, I will go back at once!" Fatty Lai nodded hurriedly, then said, "I have some small reputation in the business world. Young man, what is it you need?"

"Nothing much. I am setting up a company in a few days. Come lend your support at the opening, and I will spare you another Life-Extending Detox Pill," Wei Zhao nodded and said. "Are you free? If not, forget it."

"I am! I am! I am!" Fatty Lai said yes three times in a row, afraid Wei Zhao had not heard clearly and would cross him off the invitation list. He was so excited he nearly fainted. "I can just be your follower. Do not worry. I may be fat, but I am strong. Running errands is what I do best!"

"Then be off. Ask Mr. Liu for my number." Wei Zhao was truly pestered helplessly by this Fatty Lai and could only spare him a Life-Extending Detox Pill. After all, a trial on anyone was a trial, so he might as well give it to this fatty.

"Good, good!" Only then did Fatty Lai nod in perfect satisfaction and respectfully see Wei Zhao onto an unbelievably shabby van. Fatty Lai thought to himself, so Wei Zhao likes this kind of car? Someday soon he would switch to one himself. He had to match him to prove what a good follower he was!

Though Divine Doctor Kang's birthday feast was still underway and the guests were still all smiles, Divine Doctor Kang felt the mood was somehow wrong. Looking at Kang Zhaoming standing to one side brought back what had happened before.

Once the guests had finished presenting their birthday gifts, Divine Doctor Kang waved Kang Zhaoming over.

Kang Zhaoming ran over at once. He knew by now that he had stirred up trouble. Things were already quite clear. Wei Zhao was some young master, and though he had no idea how Kang Xiaobo had come to know such a man, Wei Zhao's identity was certainly far from simple!

Judging from the attitude of Manager Tian of the resort, Liu Tianyi, and Guan Xuemin toward Wei Zhao, Wei Zhao was absolutely no ordinary man! And that so-called Life-Extending Detox Pill of his might well be genuine! Perhaps it was a rare treasure from somewhere, yet Kang Zhaoming had treated it as trash and crushed it to pieces underfoot.

"Grandpa..." Kang Zhaoming walked over cautiously, his hatred for Kang Xiaobo deepening another layer in his heart! You knew such a formidable figure, so why did you not say so earlier? You made me make a complete fool of myself!

"Go find that cleaner from just now and bring back that whatever Life-Extending Detox Pill he swept away!" A truth even Kang Xiaobo could grasp — how could Divine Doctor Kang, at his great age, fail to grasp it? He too felt that if that Life-Extending Detox Pill were real, it would be a terrible pity to lose it. Yet he could not let outsiders see and lose face, so he warned, "Be careful. Do not let anyone see you!"

"Understood, Grandpa!" Seeing there was still a chance to undo the damage, Kang Zhaoming nodded quickly and went to carry out his grandfather's orders!

Kang Zhaoming strode quickly out of the banquet hall while no one was paying attention. In fact, as an insignificant clown of a nobody, no one was watching him at all.

Once out of the banquet hall, Kang Zhaoming happened to meet the cleaner who had been sweeping just now, and he ran straight over. "Auntie, let me ask you something. Where did you throw the trash you just swept up?"

Kang Zhaoming needed this cleaner's help at the moment, so he had to make his manner very pleasant. Had it been any other time, he would never have acted this way.

"The bins outside... but..." Before the cleaner could finish saying 'but', Kang Zhaoming had already turned and run! The cleaner shook his head. He had meant to warn him that there was a fatty by the bins grabbing garbage bags, but Kang Zhaoming was in too much of a hurry to hear the rest.

Afraid the trash in the bins would be carted away, Kang Zhaoming ran out fast as soon as he heard the cleaner's words. When he reached the entrance of the banquet hall, he saw an opened garbage bag beside the bins!

Kang Zhaoming was greatly alarmed. Could someone have stolen it already? Then he thought again. Around hotels and resorts there were always scavengers who liked to pick through bins for bottles and other things worth money. That broken pill — surely no one would recognize it?

Still, Kang Zhaoming dared not be careless. He ran over quickly, picked up the garbage bag, and began rummaging through it...

"Hmm? This should be it!" Kang Zhaoming suddenly pulled a black lump from the garbage bag.

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