Chapter 48

"How much do these medicines and the consultation fee cost?" Yang Kang frowned and asked.

Tian Shan carefully collected the disposable syringe and the empty medicine bottles, then tidied up the medicine box before saying, "I don't know; I have to ask my master."

"How much did the injection you gave me cost? Since you know it's expensive, you must have an idea of the market price, right?" Yang Kang frowned and asked. He felt that he had been taken advantage of by Gong Sunzhi. Sometimes, private doctors really couldn't be trusted.

"Market price?" Tian Shan glanced at Yang Kang with a hint of disdain and said, "The market price is around 20,000."

Yang Kang felt a pang of pain. Such a small amount of medicine actually cost 20,000? The problem was that today's plus yesterday's would be 40,000, and there was still the traditional Chinese medicine...

He couldn't possibly ask Tang Chen to pay for it, could he?

Although he really didn't want to take the traditional Chinese medicine, Gong Sunzhi had already delivered it, and it seemed he couldn't return it...

That old man must have misunderstood, thinking he was Tang Chen's son, a young master of the Tang family, naturally wealthy, and it was no big deal to take some outrageously expensive medicine, without knowing that he had nothing to do with Tang Chen. He was just someone Tang Chen had picked up by chance.

"Damn..." Yang Kang couldn't help but mutter a curse.

Tian Shan was about to speak when, unexpectedly, Tang Chen and Gong Sunzhi walked in together. They exchanged a few pleasantries, and then Gong Sunzhi left with Tian Shan.

Yang Kang also wanted to leave, but Tang Chen insisted he stay for lunch. During lunch, Yang Kang asked about the medical and consultation fees, but Tang Chen said he didn't know; Gong Sunzhi would settle with his family's finance department. These small matters wouldn't be reported to him.

"I have to pay for the medicine," Yang Kang said helplessly. He didn't like owing favors, and now he owed Tang Chen a big one.

"I'm not short of a few thousand for medicine," Tang Chen said, "You don't need to worry about it."

"I know you're very rich," Yang Kang said, feeling speechless.

After lunch, although Tang Chen wanted to keep him, Yang Kang insisted on leaving. Tang Chen, helpless, had his driver send him off and specifically reminded him to take his medicine, eat well, and not to quarrel with his family.

Yang Kang just smiled bitterly. Tang Chen kept misunderstanding that he had run away from his family in a quarrel— but did he even have a family?

On his father's side, he had no relatives. Jiang Yan was just a distant relative of his father. On his mother's side, after her death, his grandmother's family had some misunderstandings with his father.

Even if there were some misunderstandings, it would have been fine, as the relationship was still maintained. But after his father made a bad investment in "The Glory of Tokyo," his uncle and aunt were the first to come asking for money.

There were some other dirty matters involved. After his father's death, he quickly sold the property and other assets and repaid all the loans to his uncle and aunt.

His grandmother was good to him, but his uncle and aunt's family really didn't like him, so he couldn't go there.

Tang Chen's driver, nicknamed Leopard, not only drove but also served as a bodyguard. He was very enthusiastic and only left after dropping Yang Kang off at the antique street.

Back at Ruyi Workshop, Yang Kang thought for a moment and called Huang Tang, telling him he wouldn't tutor Yin Ying anymore. Huang Tang asked why, and he explained that he knew Yin Ying's sister, Yin Qing, and they had some past issues, but he didn't want to say more.

He had always been wealthy but never brought friends to Peach Source Villa, so although Huang Tang was a good friend, he didn't know that Yang Kang had a house there, and it was number 203.

"Hey, little prince, if you're really struggling, don't go out in this hot weather," Huang Tang sighed over the phone. "If you need money, I have some; you can take it."

"No, I have money," Yang Kang quickly said. The sale of Wu Zhen's "New Bamboo" had left him with over ten million, so he wasn't really struggling.

"Since you have money, don't cause trouble. I have a case recently and won't have time to find you a job," Huang Tang said.

"What case are you working on?" Yang Kang was very curious.

"Alright, I'll tell you in a few days; I don't have any leads yet," Huang Tang quickly said.

By evening, Yang Kang saw it was getting late and took his wallet to go buy some food. He had just closed the door and walked a few steps when he ran into Old Wang, who specialized in jade, walking his bird in a cage.

"Uncle Wang, hello," Yang Kang greeted politely.

"Oh, Ah Kang!" Old Wang stopped and asked, "Where are you going?"

"Where else? I'm just going to buy some food," Yang Kang smiled.

"Come here, I have a question for you," Old Wang said, pulling Yang Kang to the side of the street and asking in a low voice, "Do you know that your uncle Jiang Yan has been borrowing money all over the antique street, saying he wants to buy some bronze artifact?"

"Ah?" Yang Kang was taken aback. Buying a bronze artifact? In recent years, bronze artifacts and Ming and Qing dynasty porcelain had been very popular.

"Haven't you heard?" Old Wang frowned and asked. "The other night, your uncle and his wife came to me asking for 100,000. I thought it was unreliable and refused. His wife said a lot of nasty things, which made me very uncomfortable, and I'm still upset about it."

Wei Yan was very sharp-tongued, and Old Wang had been unjustly scolded, feeling very unhappy and wanting to vent to him. Yang Kang immediately smiled and said, "Why should you take it to heart?"

"Exactly!" Old Wang said, "I have money, but do I have to lend it to her?"

"Ha ha!" Yang Kang just smiled. Borrowing money wasn't easy to ask for unless you were close, and Old Wang and Jiang Yan weren't that close.

"Hey, Ah Kang, stand still, let me take a look," Old Wang suddenly said.

Take a look? Yang Kang was taken aback. What was there to look at? He wasn't a young maiden, what was there to see?

"This jade pendant... from the Song Dynasty?" Old Wang, excited, put the bird cage on the ground and held the coiled branch lily of the valley white jade pendant hanging from Yang Kang's neck, saying, "This carving is smooth and refined, delicate and exquisite, clearly from the Song Dynasty... The jade material is genuine white jade, as smooth as a young lady's skin."