Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

Chapter 108 Cousin

"Not fat, not thin, not tall, not short, maybe with a country accent, don't pick up the wrong answer."

Early in the morning of that day, Aunt Dou asked Er Lao to pick up his cousin who had returned from the United States, but Er Lao was not listening carefully. He was on the phone all the time. Last night, Kang Qirui went to his room to talk about the tea restaurant. He was also very interested. In order to get a stake, he took the initiative to take on the job of recruiting chefs, so he was always calling his friends.

"Okay, okay, I got it." The second brother responded and took his second sister-in-law out. He had a lot of things to do today.

Kang Qirui was writing a list of preparations for the tea restaurant. He was used to listing all the things and sorting them by priority. He had to confirm that all the things were completed before entering the opening process. The most important things at the moment were to first find a store, second write a menu, and third find a chef.

Sister Jiao was his designated chef, but she could only make butterfly rice and fried noodles. Other snacks, milk tea, bread, etc. needed to be recruited separately. These were the difficulties and key points of recruitment, which were related to the overall quality of the tea restaurant and could not be sloppy. Kang Qirui planned to go to Hong Kong with the eldest brother Guang and the second brother Xianglan in a few days to investigate the market. He had already obtained everyone's information last night and went to apply for a tourist visa in the afternoon.

When he finished writing and sorting the list and went to apply for a tourist visa to go home, he happened to meet the second brother and his wife who were bringing an old lady home. "Old man, I have completed the task. I'm leaving her to you." The second brother said, holding the old lady.

"Hello, hey, hey, who did you bring back?" The old man obviously didn't know the old lady that the second brother brought back. Kang Qirui also saw a graceful and well-dressed woman sitting in the living room.

"Xiang Gu." Er Lao said confidently, "Xiang Gu who came back from America."

When the old man heard this, he was completely speechless. He pointed at the second brother and said angrily: "The American is Aunt Fen, she came by herself." It turned out that the elegant and well-dressed woman was the old man's cousin Aunt Fen. The second brother, who had picked up the wrong person, quickly pulled the old lady he picked up to ask questions, and then he realized that she was selling mushrooms.

"Cousin, I'm sorry." After figuring out the situation, the second brother quickly apologized to Aunt Fen, but was scolded by his father again, "What cousin? Auntie!"

Er Lao looked at Aunt Fen, then at Dad. He leaned over and whispered in Dad's ear, "She doesn't look like your cousin at all, Dad. She looks more like my cousin."

"Grandma, didn't you say that my cousin was 68 years old? Why does she look only 40?" The second sister-in-law also said in the nanny's ear. This cousin of my grandfather was really too young and looked much younger than my grandfather.

The nanny smiled and said, "My cousin looks young."

After everyone exchanged pleasantries, the second brother sent Xiang Gu, who had been picked up by mistake, back home. In the evening, when the Kang family came back, the old man introduced each of them to Fen Gu one by one, and there was another round of pleasantries and greetings.

"I was so busy talking that I forgot to give you gifts." Aunt Fen pulled over a suitcase and opened it while saying. When they heard that there were gifts to be received, everyone sat on the sofa and waited. Aunt Fen took out a watch box first and handed it to Lao Dou, saying, "A Shou, this is for you." Lao Dou accepted it happily after being polite. Then she gave a box of bird's nest to Mazi, a shaver to Da Lao Guang, a belt to Er Lao, a camera to A Yao, a DV camera to A Zu, a fountain pen to Kang Qirui, and a pair of sneakers to Tian Xiu.

So people have to have some hobbies, otherwise people won't know what to give them as gifts. For example, A Yao likes taking pictures, A Zu likes photography, and Kang Qi Rui likes writing. The gifts Aunt Fen gave them were all very expensive. Cameras and video cameras cost thousands of yuan, and brand-name pens are also very expensive. For someone like Da Lao Guang who doesn't have any hobbies, he can only give a shaver, a male product that is not very valuable.

"Don't call me cousin aunt, it's boring." When everyone received the gifts, they all expressed their gratitude to cousin aunt. Aunt Fen smiled and said to everyone: "You all can call me by my name, just call me Lara."

"Laolai?" Everyone couldn't hear clearly. Aunt Fen explained: "It's not Laolai, it's Lara. In Chinese, it means labor, and Lala means playing the violin. Lara."

"Oh, Laura." Everyone finally understood. "In the United States, it's not customary to call aunts and uncles. They either call them by their English names, or uncle or aunt."

The second sister-in-law, who did not receive any gift, finally had time to interrupt and said, "Laura, thank you for giving gifts to my husband and son. I don't need them, hahaha." Sachiko and Yumi also nodded.

"I have something else for you ladies, but it will be tomorrow. Do you have time?" When they heard Laura say that she had gifts for them, they all nodded to indicate that they had time.

The next day, Kang Qirui left home early to go back to school for classes. He and the second brother made an appointment to go to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau together at three o'clock in the afternoon to handle the company registration procedures. They had already agreed on opening a tea restaurant this time, with a total investment of 35 yuan. KS Investment Company invested 50 yuan, accounting for 15% of the shares, Kang Qirui personally invested 20 yuan, accounting for 7% of the shares, the second brother invested 10 yuan, accounting for 3% of the shares, the eldest brother invested 10 yuan, accounting for 10% of the shares, and the remaining % was held by Zhiyang Enterprise Management Partnership.

"Hey, why is no one home?" After Kang Qirui and Er Lao finished their business, Er Lao went back to the hardware store, and Kang Qirui went straight home. When he entered the house, there was no one, not even Sister Jiao. He picked up the phone and called Zhu Wanling. After asking, he found out that all the women in the family were dragged by Laura to the beauty salon for beauty treatments. At first, Ersao and the others didn't want to go, but they agreed to go after Xingzi and Zhu Wanling persuaded them. Lao Dou went to sing Cantonese opera with Liang Bo, and the others went to work or school and hadn't come back yet.

After hanging up the phone, Kang Qirui felt quite interesting. He hadn't been home alone for a long time. There were more than ten people in the Kang family, so it was really difficult for all of them to be away from home. But before he had time to savor the feeling of being alone at home, Mrs. Zhu came in and said, "Arui, where is your grandmother?"

"Mom." Kang Qirui quickly asked Mrs. Zhu to sit down, and then poured her a cup of tea before saying, "My cousin from the United States is back. My mother and her went out shopping, and my father is at Uncle Liang's place. What do you want to talk to them about?"

"Oh, is that so? Then I'll come over in the evening. I'm going to another house first. I'm leaving." Mrs. Zhu stood up and said she was going to another house without even drinking her milk tea. No one knew what she was in such a hurry for.

Kang Qirui shook his head and went back to his room to do his own things. Zhu Wanling and the others didn't come back until after six o'clock. As soon as they came back, they started to cook. Although it was very late, there were many people. With the help of several people, Sister Jiao only took less than an hour to prepare the meal. During the meal, Kang Qirui told them about what Zhu's wife had asked Lao Dou's mother. Lao Dou and the others were also confused and didn't know what exactly happened.

(End of this chapter)