Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

Chapter 10: Wishing Grandma

"Tears are like rain outside the curtain."

"Drip till dawn."

Kang Ershou was singing Cantonese opera while Kang Qirui was sitting on the sofa and listening with great interest. To be honest, his father was really good at singing opera and he himself said that he was a representative of the shrimp-like voice.

"Oh, dad, it's the Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai again. I've been listening to it for decades. Turn it off. I can sing it." Some people like it and some people hate it. A-Zu doesn't like Cantonese opera. He came over to turn off the speakers and complained to dad at the same time.

"I guarantee you'll enjoy listening to "Shanbo's Deathbed." Kang Ershou was unhappy.

"What a feeling! I'm sweating." Grandpa held the remote control to stop his father from turning on the TV, muttering to himself, "Didn't Liang Shanbo just suffer a broken heart? What's the big deal? Tell him to learn from me. I never feel sad after a broken heart."

"If you learn from you, you'll be in trouble, you'll become Ximen Qing. This is art, it has nothing to do with a broken heart, understand?" Kang Ershou was really angry at his son's words.

"If he wasn't heartbroken, why would he be so desperate? Fortunately, Liang Shanbo didn't marry Zhu Yingtai, otherwise there would be a big problem." A-Zu was determined to piss off his father today. "There's a new point of view in the news recently saying that Zhu Yingtai is very likely a lesbian."

Kang Ershou was really angry this time. He ignored A-Zu and asked Kang Qirui, "Xiao Rui, you tell me, teach this loser a lesson."

Kang Qirui didn't want to pay attention to these discussions. In fact, these remarks were spread by their Chinese department, and everyone had their own opinions. He was not interested in these. At this time, a person walked in at the door and diverted Kang Ershou's attention.

"Who are you looking for?" Kang Ershou didn't know the old woman who came into his home. She was dressed in a flashy way and wore big sunglasses. He had no impression of her at all.

"Really? Ah Kang, you don't even recognize me?" The man took off his sunglasses and asked, "Look at me again to see who I am."

"Mrs. Zhu?" Kang Ershou was still unsure.

"What's so ugly about 'Sister-in-law'? Just call her 'Girl'." Mrs. Zhu was not happy to be called that and insisted on calling her 'Girl'. She then looked at Kang Qirui and A-Zu who were sitting next to her and asked, "Who are these two?"

"The fourth and fifth brothers." At this time, the old man had a pretty good relationship with Mrs. Zhu, and they were talking and laughing.

"You've grown so big that I couldn't recognize you. You've graduated from college, right? You must have made a lot of money, hahaha." Mrs. Zhu was very familiar. She touched A-Zu's face and then Kang Qirui's face.

“Auntie Zhu, you’ve been in Malaysia for so many years, and I thought you were reluctant to come back.” Dad invited Auntie Zhu to sit down and continue chatting.

"Actually, I've wanted to come back a long time ago, but the fortune teller looked at my palm and said that I can't come back in the year of the Ox or the year of the Pig." Mrs. Zhu opened her right palm and pointed at the palm lines with her left hand to explain to her father.

"You have to choose a day to go home. If something happens at home, you won't be able to come back, right?" Dad joked with Mrs. Zhu.

"Well, after making some money, people always have to show off their good intentions when they go out." Mrs. Zhu deliberately boasted, "I helped Wanling's aunt run a whole store in Malaysia, so I have food and shelter, and I am quite prestigious in front of others."

Mrs. Zhu acted as if she was living a good life. Kang Qirui found it funny, but A-Zu disagreed.

"It's just that I was worried about Wanling, so I came back to see her."

"I heard that your eldest son and third son are married."

"Yes, I originally wanted Wanling to be the daughter-in-law of our Kang family." The old man explained quickly. He knew that Mrs. Zhu brought this up on purpose to ask about Wanling and A Yao.

"What do you mean originally? It's not the same now." Kang Qirui took the opportunity to go up. But Kang Ershou disagreed and quickly stopped Kang Qirui from continuing: "What nonsense are you talking about? You have nothing to do here. A-Zu and A-Rui go back to the room."

A-Zu had wanted to leave a long time ago, but he was embarrassed to leave as a guest. Now that he had received the imperial decree, he immediately dragged Kang Qirui back to the room. Kang Qirui knew that Mrs. Zhu came mainly to ask Lao Dou to help Wanling arrange a blind date. He remembered that the ending was that Lao Dou's introduction did not satisfy Mrs. Zhu, so he followed A-Zu and left.

Unexpectedly, Kang Ershou arranged a blind date for Zhu Wanling at home at noon the next day. It was really efficient, Kang Qirui complained silently in his heart. The man who was dating Wanling was pretty good-looking. He worked in the district government and his position was higher than A Yao. He was a section chief. Mrs. Zhu and Zhu Wanling seemed to be very satisfied with him. They even made an appointment to have tea together another day. Kang Qirui was very anxious. He remembered that Mrs. Zhu was superstitious and had to calculate the day to go home yesterday, so he came up with a plan.

"Ahem." Kang Qirui coughed to attract everyone's attention, and then said to the blind date man: "Hello, I'm Kang Qirui, a teacher at Shuangyashan University. Can I exchange business cards with you?" He took out his own business card. Seeing that she was a university teacher, the blind date man was naturally willing to make friends, so he exchanged his business card with Kang Qirui.

"So the brother's name is Liang Weixiong." Kang Qirui sighed first, then took Mrs. Zhu aside and whispered, "Miss Zhu, this guy is not good."

"Hey, hey, hey, why not? Can't you see that our Wanling is doing well?" Mrs. Zhu was a little unhappy. She had just found a husband for her daughter, but now someone said it was not okay. Even if she was called Miss Zhu, it was unforgivable.

"Look, what's Sister Wanling's surname? Zhu. What's this person's surname? Liang. Liang Zhu Liang Zhu, will that work?" Kang Qirui tried to trick Mrs. Zhu.

"Oh, yes, yes, you are right, Laowu." Mrs. Zhu did not find it absurd. Instead, she agreed deeply.

"Xiao Rui, what are you doing with Mrs. Zhu? There are guests here, are you so rude?" Kang Ershou knew what his son was thinking and was afraid that he would cause trouble. And it was also very rude to leave the guests alone.

After hearing what Kang Qirui said, Mrs. Zhu's satisfied smile disappeared and she sent Liang Weixiong away with just a few words.

"What's wrong? Wasn't everything fine just now? Did Lao Wu say something? Don't listen to his nonsense." Kang Ershou was puzzled. Why did Mrs. Zhu suddenly become a different person? Wang Yulian and Wanling were also very surprised, so they waited for Mrs. Zhu to give a reason.

Mrs. Zhu then repeated what Kang Qirui had just said, saying that Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai were destined not to be husband and wife. This made Kang Ershou very helpless: "It's the 21st century, not ancient times. Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai are just a story, don't take it seriously."

"That's right. Whether or not you can be husband and wife depends on fate. It has nothing to do with your surname." Wang Yulian also chimed in.

"It's just about fate. People with the surname Liang and Zhu are just not destined to be together, otherwise why would people write about it and perform it for hundreds of years? Why doesn't anyone write about us Kang and Wang?" Kang Qirui was talking nonsense, and today for Wanling, he even disregarded his identity as a university teacher and talked nonsense to fool everyone.

"Old Five is right. People are all about fate. I would rather believe it than not believe it." After saying this, Mrs. Zhu took Wanling home. Kang Qirui also went back to his room to write his lesson plan.

Next, Mrs. Zhu used a box of roast goose to ask Xingzi to help introduce. Xingzi introduced one of her clients to Wanling, but was also ruined by Kang Qirui who led Mrs. Zhu to say that the person with the last name Ma was Ma Wencai.

When Mrs. Zhu walked out of Kang's house, she was still angry and swearing, and then she knocked down A-Zu. A-Zu was very angry at first, but when he saw that it was Mrs. Zhu, he said politely: "Oh, it's Mrs. Zhu. Sorry, are you feeling unwell? Otherwise, come to my house and sit for a while."

When Mrs. Zhu heard about the Kang family, she started to curse: "Shut up, don't mention your family. What kind of people did your family introduce to our Wanling? None of them were good. They were not sincere. Only your fifth brother was better. He even told me their shortcomings."

"That's for sure. Xiao Rui just made up lies to fool you. He just wanted to ruin those people's blind dates with Sister Wanling. Do you think he really believes that Liang Zhu is destined not to be together?" A Zu couldn't bear to see others scolding his family members, so he decisively sold out Kang Qirui.

Mrs. Zhu still didn't believe it, "Why did he lie to me? Why did he ruin Wanling's blind date? Don't say bad things about people behind their backs."

Ah Zu picked up the things that had fallen on the ground, stood up and said to Mrs. Zhu, "Why? He likes Sister Wanling."

"Really?" This shocked Mrs. Zhu.

"Of course it's true. It's just that my grandmother doesn't agree, and Sister Wanling herself doesn't seem to be interested in it." A-Zu said as he walked towards home.

Mrs. Zhu quickly stopped A-Zu. He wanted to leave without explaining himself clearly? "Why?" Mrs. Zhu asked to get to the bottom of it.

"Why else? Because of the big age difference? Think about it, my brother is only 22 years old. That's an 8-year age difference." After responding with one sentence, A-Zu took advantage of Mrs. Zhu's deep thoughts and quickly ran home.

At this time, no one knew what Mrs. Zhu was thinking.

(End of this chapter)