Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

Chapter 102 Xianglan's "Uncle"

"Did you find it?"

Kang Qirui shouted when he saw Tianxiu hadn't come home for a long time. Tianxiu hurriedly put the things in the kitchen in order, ran back to the patio and said to Kang Qirui, "I can't find it. I don't know where I put it."

"It's okay. I'll buy a pair of scissors tomorrow when I go to buy fertilizer." Kang Qirui said, "Let's go. Uncle San's guests seem to have arrived. Let's go out." When he heard the sound of the door opening outside, he knew that A Yao had returned with his guests.

"This is Mr. Chang from Taiwan." A Yao introduced the guest to everyone. "I am honored to meet you." Mr. Chang saluted everyone, and everyone returned the salute.

"These two are my parents and my family." A Yao then introduced the Kang family to Mr. Chang. "Welcome, welcome." Old Dou said to Mr. Chang with a smile.

"Mr. Kang." Mr. Chang said, and the brothers all responded, "I mean Mr. Kang." Mr. Chang pointed at A Yao and said, "You are so warm and hospitable."

A Yao smiled and said, "Mr. Chang, in our family you just need to call me A Yao. If you call me Mr. Kang, many people will respond to you. Haha." Mr. Chang also laughed. He then introduced his goddaughter, Miss Zeng Ruoting, the general manager of his company, to everyone. When A Zu saw the beauty, his eyes were fixed.

"Ayao, the food is ready, please invite the guests in to eat." After taking the gift from Zeng Ruoting, the nanny told Ayao to invite the guests in to eat and chat while they eat.

After everyone sat down in the dining room, the old man said politely, "It's a home-cooked meal. I'm sorry for not hosting you well. Please, don't be polite." Mr. Chang looked at the table full of southern Henan dishes and sighed, "I came back to look for my relatives but to no avail. I'm not in a good mood and I have no appetite. Tonight we have such a rich hometown-style dish, Miss Xianglan and my fellow countrymen, and you all are here to accompany us. Although you are from Cantonese, I feel very close to you and I'm very happy. I want to eat too."

It seems that what A Yao had found out was correct. Mr. Chang really likes the warm family atmosphere in a lively atmosphere. Mr. Chang took a bite of the dish and said in surprise, "It's authentic!" He then picked up the bowl and drank the porridge by turning it with his wrist. Seeing this, A Yao motioned for everyone to drink the porridge in the same way. Mr. Chang was even more surprised, "Why? You can do this too?"

"It's fun to drink like this." said A Yao.

"Uncle Chang, let me tell you, we often eat porridge like this. We learned it from our eldest sister-in-law." In order to help A Yao, the second brother has been trying to please Mr. Chang.

"Ms. Zeng, please." A-Zu, who had been staring at the beauty all night, saw that she hadn't touched her chopsticks, and thought she was embarrassed. In fact, she had a resistance to the Kang family and thought that the Kang family was just playing tricks on them.

Mr. Chang continued to drink the porridge. He ate the angelica that Tianxiu accidentally dropped into the porridge. His eyes widened and said, "This is the taste. Miss Xianglan, do you have to put angelica in this kind of porridge?"

"Danggui? I don't think I put it in?" Xianglan was confused by the question. She didn't put it in.

"Yes, sister-in-law, you forgot." The second brother followed the other party's meaning and said, "Uncle Chang, let me tell you, our sister-in-law often puts angelica in this porridge. She said that adding angelica makes the flavor stronger."

Mr. Chang nodded in agreement and recalled, "When I left my hometown, my mother made this kind of porridge to see me off." Then he asked Xianglan, "Miss Xianglan, what is your father's name?"

"My father," Xianglan was about to answer when Mr. Chang interrupted her and said, "Not his full name, but his nickname."

"I heard from my mother that my father's nickname was Gou Wa." Xianglan was a little embarrassed to mention her father's nickname. Everyone laughed, but Mr. Chang's expression changed. He asked anxiously, "Does he have two brothers? One was sold to someone when he was born, and the other went to Taiwan to serve in the army?"

Xianglan nodded, as if it was true. Mr. Chang saw Xianglan nod and stood up excitedly, "Oh, I am Gousheng, and you are my eldest niece."

"Ah?" Could it be such a coincidence? Kang Qirui shook his head. Knowing the truth, how could he bear to tell Mr. Chang who was so excited when he saw him? Xianglan was not his relative.

Mr. Chang was so excited that he didn't even eat dinner. He dragged Xianglan back to the hotel. He brought a lot of things he had left home with him this time. They were all in the hotel room. If Xianglan could recognize that they were her things, then it must be her niece. Seeing that Mr. Chang insisted on taking Xianglan to the hotel, A Yao followed him. After all, this was his guest.

At 10 o'clock in the evening, Xianglan and Ayao still hadn't come back. The second sister-in-law said anxiously: "Sister-in-law and Ayao have been gone for a long time, why haven't they come back yet? Did something happen?" "Of course, that's Xianglan's uncle, he must have a lot to say." The nanny said with understanding.

"Grandma, come to think of it, it's so dramatic, like a play. Xianglan just cooked a meal of southern Henan dishes, and suddenly an uncle appeared, and he's a rich man from Taiwan." The second sister-in-law said this with some envy.

"Second sister-in-law, there's something even more dramatic." A-Zu said excitedly, "I almost got in the same car with Miss Zeng this morning."

"What? Living together?" Everyone thought it was that living together. "It's the same car." A Zu said with a smile, "I didn't expect that we would have dinner together tonight. Isn't that dramatic?"

Kang Qirui shook his head and smiled bitterly. This A-Zu was indeed a man whose nature could not be changed. He wanted to flirt with other women even after having Diana. There was indeed a reason why he and Diana took so long to get married. "Can you please be more reserved? Man, I watched you all night, and you watched others all night." Er Lao pointed at A-Zu and scolded him.

"Hey, what are you looking at her for?" The second sister-in-law thought that the second brother had been looking at Miss Zeng all night.

"I saw him looking at her all night." Er Lao explained helplessly. "Yes, I looked at you all night too." Yumi glared at A Zu and said with gritted teeth.

"Why are you looking at me?" Azu was speechless. Sachiko looked at Azu and Yumi with a meaningful look. She knew that it was impossible for the two of them to be together. She could only shake her head and smile bitterly about Yumi's secret crush on Azu.

As they were talking, Xianglan and Ayao came back. Everyone looked at Xianglan, wanting to know what the final result was. "Is that old man Chang your uncle?" the old man asked directly.

"I'm not sure about that. I remember having the same things at home when I was a kid, but they are very common things in our area, almost every household has them." Xianglan said uncertainly. The things Mr. Chang took out were too common to prove anything. For example, the red plastic stool of Guangdong Province, which is something that almost every household has. Does it prove that we are related if you have it and I have it? Obviously not.

"But I heard from my father that he has a younger brother named Gousheng, and another younger brother was sold to someone else when he was born." Xianglan continued to talk about the family situation. "That's right, I think it's 99% true." Er Lao said affirmatively, "Ayao, give me a high five, this investment should be fine, haha." Ayao also excitedly gave Er Lao a high five,

"Sister-in-law, why don't you write a letter and go back to the countryside to find out about this matter?" Da Dou thought about it and told Xianglan. Why not call? Because at that time, many rural areas only had a public telephone at the village committee, and there was no private telephone at all. All communication depended on writing letters and sending telegrams. Xianglan nodded, she also wanted to find out about this matter.

The next day, cousin Bing came to Kang's house early in the morning and invited everyone to have morning tea. The matter was the same as yesterday. "A Zong, the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon. I want to borrow your hardware store to do some business. I will provide the goods. After the profit is made, we will split it 50%. OK?"

Before the second brother could speak, Kang Qirui asked first, "Cousin, what big business is it? Is it worth you treating our whole family to tea?"

"That's right, cousin, we must be included in the big business." Sachiko wanted to do business when she saw it.

"What can he have?" Er Lao said disdainfully, "You don't want to get some snails from the countryside and fry them in my hardware store, do you?"

"What's fried snails?" Cousin Bing was speechless. "Mooncakes, beautiful mooncakes, those are the ones I gave you last night." When Sachiko heard it was a mooncake business, she pretended she knew nothing and buried her head in eating.

The second brother still shook his head, "Those mooncakes are good, but my store is a hardware store, is it appropriate to sell mooncakes?"

"So you will never be rich in your life." Cousin Bing provoked, "How can there be so many rules in doing business? Just sell whatever is easy to sell. What's wrong with a hardware store selling mooncakes? I've even seen a decoration store selling salted fish."

"It's up to you." Er Lao thought about it and it made sense. As long as he could make money, that was enough.

(End of this chapter)