Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

Chapter 111 Cat for Food

"Is this dish enough? If not, let's order more."

The group came to a more upscale restaurant on Changsheng Street, booked a large private room and ordered twelve dishes. After all the dishes were served, Brother Niu asked everyone to pick up their chopsticks and asked.

"Brother Niu, we just finished our meal and are still full. That's enough, that's enough," said the old man.

Brother Niu is also a down-to-earth person, so he stopped being polite after hearing this. He sat down and picked up a piece of fish, "Then I won't be polite, I'll try this fish first." After taking a bite, Brother Niu asked in confusion, "Huh? Why is this Cantonese fish boneless?"

"Eat more, there's a lot of stuff in there." Er Lao said with a smile. "Really?" Niu Ge took another bite and exclaimed, "It seems there are some fragrant mushrooms in it, delicious."

The old man picked up a piece of duck's paw and gave it to Brother Niu, saying, "Brother Niu, try this duck's paw. It also has no bones and has crab meat and shrimp meat inside." Brother Niu was shocked. He took a bite in disbelief and found that it was true.

"Really? This is amazing." Brother Niu said in amazement, "I was wondering how you Cantonese people raise animals? How come chickens, ducks, fish, meat, beans, and vegetables all grow together? Wouldn't that be a monster?"

"Brother Niu, do you think this monster is delicious?" A Zu asked with a smile. "Delicious, delicious." Brother Niu didn't even need to say it, you could tell by the way he was wolfing it down.

"We know that Cantonese people love to eat monsters. Why don't we northerners know how to take these monsters back and breed them?" He is indeed a model of getting rich first. The first thing he thought of was business. It's a pity that this business is destined to fail. "Brother Niu, this is not called a monster. This is a very common dish in Cantonese. Look." Xianglan pointed to the dishes on the table and said, "What you just ate is called stuffed dace, and this is called stuffed duck feet with hundreds of flowers."

"Stuffed? Is this fish stuffed?" Brother Niu was even more surprised. If it looked like this, then we could say that nature is magical, but this is artificially brewed, then we can only say that the chef is amazing. Xianglan nodded, "My mother-in-law, my second sister-in-law, and our nanny Jiaojie usually make it at home."

The old man proudly said, "Our Cantonese dishes have deceived many outsiders." Brother Niu agreed, "Any of your side dishes is a masterpiece. If it were a famous dish, how could it be possible?"

"Needless to say, it has a name, Cantonese cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, the more you eat it, the more you want to eat it." The second brother said with a smile. Kang Qirui was eating while thinking about the pun.

Everyone chatted and ate like this. After more than an hour, when they were full and satisfied, the old man called the waiter and said, "Miss, please pay the bill." Brother Niu was not happy and kicked the bill into his arms. The old man quickly said, "Brother Niu, this is embarrassing. You are the guest and we are the host. How can we let you pay the bill?"

"Didn't we agree that I would treat you?" Brother Niu insisted on treating everyone and refused to accept anyone else's invitation. "To be honest, I really don't want you to treat me to a meal, but I have a condition." Everyone became curious and looked at Brother Niu, waiting for him to say the next word.

"You have to send someone to take me out to find food every day." It had to be Brother Niu. The conditions proposed by people who love food are so simple and unpretentious. "Brother Niu, don't you northerners say that all of us Cantonese are 'cats for food'? I think you, Brother Niu, are the real 'cat for food', hahahaha." After hearing Brother Niu's conditions, Lao Dou joked.

"Brother Niu, are you here to study the food culture of Guangzhou this time?" A Yao has been in the government for a long time, and he studies everything. "Culture? Don't talk to me about culture. I haven't been to school for a few days. I just come here to eat and drink." Brother Niu waved his hand. What culture or study has nothing to do with him.

"Brother Niu, it doesn't matter if you don't go to school for a few days, the most important thing is to make money. My second brother is the least educated in our family, but he is also the richest." A Zu sighed, "I am the most educated in our family, but I am also the poorest." Kang Qirui rolled his eyes and stared at A Zu and said, "I won't argue with you if you say that the second brother is the richest, but I won't agree if you say that you are the most educated. My worst student is more educated than you."

A-Zu was not embarrassed by Kang Qirui's ridicule and just drank his tea. Brother Niu asked in confusion, "Wow, this little brother is very talented. You just said student, you are a teacher, right?" When Kang Qirui was about to speak, Xianglan said, "Brother Niu, our fifth uncle teaches at the most powerful university in Guangdong Province. He was promoted to associate professor in September. He is very educated." Faced with Xianglan's flattery, Kang Qirui had to laugh it off. "Xianglan, you found a great in-law family. You are so lucky." Brother Niu sighed and returned to the original topic, "I have made enough money now. For the rest of my life, I want to work hard to realize the lofty ideals that I have set for myself.

Brother Niu is really awesome, and his tone is even more awesome than others. It was the first time that Kang Qirui heard someone say that he had made enough money. He smiled and said, "Brother Niu, what is your lofty ideal? Tell us about it."

"Eat!" Brother Niu said firmly, "Eat all over the country, isn't that great?"

"You don't know, you experienced the natural disaster in the 1960s, didn't you?" Brother Niu continued, "You are so young that you probably didn't experience it. You are so lucky. I was so hungry in those years. It was a miracle that I survived. From that time on, I secretly swore that when I got rich, I would eat dried radish as my meal every day. In those years, in order to eat a few pickles that fell out of the seam of the sack, I followed the pickle cart and walked ten kilometers."

Ah this, everyone was really shocked. "Is it really that exaggerated?" A Zu asked on behalf of everyone.

"No, this is not an exaggeration, this is all true. I'm telling you, I've stolen things before, I also took one of the salted fish that Wanling's grandma hung out to dry at the door." In order to prove that those years were really difficult, the old man did not hesitate to reveal the shocking news. Zhu Wanling, the only person who was barely involved in the incident, joked, "Then I have to bring a salted fish back from home to give to my mom someday, hahahaha."

The incident that year was just laughed off. After laughing, Brother Niu sighed: "You have never tasted the feeling of hunger. If people are really hungry, they will even eat tree bark."

"Brother Niu, your original ideal was to eat dried radish as a meal, why did you change it to wanting to eat it all over the country?" Kang Qirui saw that everyone was beginning to reminisce about the good old days, and the atmosphere was a bit awkward, so he took the initiative to change the subject and asked Brother Niu.

"I changed my life goal only after I made money." Brother Niu smiled embarrassedly. "When you get rich, you want to change. Now that you are so rich, you can't really eat dried radish every day, hahaha." Kang Qirui still tried his best to adjust in the direction of happiness. What he just said about stealing things and eating tree bark was too depressing.

"Hahaha, yes, yes. And look at me, I don't smoke, gamble, or go to whores. I don't have any other hobbies except eating. You have to find ways to make me spend my money." Brother Niu's tone was as arrogant as ever. "Okay, okay, let's talk about business. Who of you will go out to eat with me tomorrow?"

Zong Yaozu and the other two raised their hands immediately. The old man suddenly coughed twice. Kang Qirui understood what the old man meant. He pulled down the second brother's raised hand and said, "Second brother, how can you have time? You still have to run around for things in the store. Although it is opened by the eldest brother and his wife, you also invested money." Then he said to A Yaozu and A Zu, "You two are even more helpless. Tomorrow is a weekday and you have to go to work. It's too late to ask for leave now."

Er Lao originally thought that he had plenty of time to work on the road in front of the hardware store, so he could go out to eat and drink and try out other restaurants. However, he also noticed that his father was acting strange, so he followed Kang Qirui's words and said, "Then only his father is free. Brother Niu, how about asking our old man to accompany you for dinner tomorrow? Our old man is an old Cantonese man, and he knows how to eat."

"Then it's settled, hahaha." Brother Niu naturally had no objection. The old man of the Kang family was a good eater and drinker, so it was no problem to have him accompany him. But after just one day, he regretted it. When he returned to the Kang family the next night, he had a bitter face. After his father went in to take a shower, he quietly complained to everyone.

"To be honest, these two meals today were so tiring, each one more difficult than the last. Your old man started testing me the second I ordered the dishes, and he wasn't satisfied with the test. He had to teach me a lesson, a history lesson on food, telling me when this dish was invented and when it was improved. It gave me a headache just listening to me."

"I am a person who is not afraid of anything except forcing me to learn culture. How can a student like me enjoy eating for a teacher? I don't even know what the food I ate today tastes like."

(End of this chapter)