Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

Chapter 228 High-tech Fear
"Eh? Zu, why are you sleeping here? Where's Paul?"

On the fifth day of the Chinese New Year, the second brother and his wife came back from their mother's home in Chaoshan. As soon as they entered the house, they saw A Zu sleeping alone on the sofa in the living room. The second brother woke him up and asked. Tian Xiu and Si Yu smiled and said, "Happy New Year, Uncle Si, and I'm lucky."

Ah Zu woke up in a daze, and as soon as he got up, he had to give out red envelopes, which made him even more unhappy. He took out two red envelopes from his pocket with a depressed look and handed them to Tian Xiu Si Yu, and then said, "You are still the boss. You watch movies in my room all day and I have nowhere to go but sleep here. Then Diana took Paul out to bask in the sun."

"What do you mean?" The second brother was not here for a few days and didn't know what was going on. When A Zu was about to speak, Kang Qirui and Zhu Wanling brought Kang Siqi back to the Kang family. As soon as the little guy Kang Siqi saw people, he said sweetly: "Second uncle, second aunt, fourth uncle, happy new year and good health." Then he stared at them with big eyes.

A Zu and Er Lao Er Sao naturally gave her a red envelope each. Kang Qirui asked her to follow Zhu Wanling to get her luggage back to the room first, and then asked, "What were you talking about just now?"

At this time, A-Zu was able to tell the whole story. It turned out that after A-Zu tricked Da Lao Guang's DVD into his room a few days ago, Da Lao Guang was not a complete fool. If A-Zu didn't help him play the movie, Diana would help him. So Da Lao Guang knocked on A-Zu's room early in the morning and asked Diana to help her play the movie. When A-Zu woke up, Da Lao Guang had been watching it for a long time.

"Then you deserve it." Kang Qirui commented.

"No, listen to me." A Zu turned to Kang Qirui and explained stubbornly, "If the boss doesn't know how to use such a high-tech thing, then he can only put it in my room. But who knows that he will occupy my room forever."

Kang Qirui glanced at him and exposed his lies, "What's so high-tech about DVDs? Just plug in the cables and turn on the player without thinking. If you really think that the boss has occupied your room, you can put the DVD back to his room. But you don't want to, you would rather sleep here, don't you want to occupy the boss's DVD yourself."

"That's right." The second brother also agreed. He slapped A Zu's thigh fiercely and said, "Don't explain. Explanation is covering up. Covering up is useless."

A Zu had no more words to say, so he lay down and continued to sleep, playing the role of someone you can't afford to offend but you can afford to avoid. Kang Qirui didn't continue to argue with him, he said hello to the second brother and went out with Zhu Wanling and Kang Siqi, he had made an appointment before the New Year to visit his teacher's house today.

In the next few days, Kang Qirui and Zhu Wanling went out early every day. They went to Malaysia to celebrate the Chinese New Year this year. Neither the elders on Kang Qirui's side nor the relatives on Zhu Wanling's side had visited them to pay New Year's greetings. Therefore, they could only go to Kang Qirui's house to pay New Year's greetings before he went to work.

On the evening of the tenth day of the first lunar month, Kang Qirui and Zhu Wanling returned to the Kang family, exhausted. They had finally visited everyone they were supposed to visit, but they were exhausted. Only Kang Siqi was happy every day. She counted her red envelopes with excitement, "Daddy and Mommy, are we going to collect red envelopes tomorrow?"

"Take your head off and go take a shower with Mommy." Kang Qirui tapped her forehead unhappily. This child thought that New Year's greetings were fun.

Kang Siqi made a face at Kang Qirui and then went to take a shower with Zhu Wanling. After the mother and daughter finished showering, Kang Qirui went into the bathroom. After showering, he washed Kang Siqi's clothes and his and Zhu Wanling's underwear by hand. The Kang family's habit is that each family washes their own children's clothes and adults' underwear, and then washes outer clothes together in the washing machine.

After hanging up the hand-washed clothes, he took the unwashed clothes and walked to the washing machine, only to find that the original washing machine had been replaced with an old-fashioned double-drum washing machine. It happened that Er Lao and Auntie also brought clothes to wash, so he asked: "Er Lao and San, do you know what's going on?"

"I don't know either. This 'Shinno' is rare nowadays. Where did you get it from?" A Yao also looked puzzled. "I remember we used this in the single dormitory before. It's been almost ten years."

"What is 'Shinno'? A peerless dinosaur." The second brother threw the clothes into the washing machine. "The original washing machine was broken. The eldest brother bought this from the second-hand market today."

Da Lao Guang and A Zu also brought clothes to wash. Da Lao Guang said cheerfully, "Try this new washing machine first." "You call it a new washing machine?" A Zu looked disgusted, "Today's washing machines are so high-tech and there are all kinds of models. Why do you want to buy this junk that is decades old?"

"Don't tell me about high-tech stuff. I can't handle that stuff." The big guy just put the clothes into the washing machine. "What rubbish? Do you know what the owner of the second-hand store said to me?"

Everyone shook their heads. How could they know that?

"He said I had good vision, saying that this thing has mature technology, is simple and practical, and the biggest advantage is that it saves money." The big boss just talked, "What's the use of your high-tech? Not only are they difficult to use, but they also break easily. Once they break, they take a long time to repair. The most important thing is that they are extremely expensive."

"So it is said that being yourself is the most comfortable thing for a person." The second brother said with a wry smile, "In my opinion, this semi-automatic washing machine is not suitable for you. It would be more suitable for you to buy a washboard." The washing machine that the eldest brother bought is a semi-automatic one. After washing, the clothes have to be taken to the dehydration bucket next to it.

"Boss, since you think this washing machine is useful, please find the time to take out the clothes and put them in the spin bucket." A Zu said as a matter of course. Whoever buys it is responsible for it.

Big Boss Guang didn't have any objections, as he had anticipated this moment when he bought it.

But he regretted it after only two days. There were too many people in the Kang family. This old washing machine had a small capacity and a long time. The clothes of the whole family had to be washed twice. After each wash, they were very heavy without dehydration. He was exhausted every time to pick them up and put them into the dehydration bucket. After two washes, the whole night was gone, and there was no time to do anything else.

"Honey, I don't think this can go on." That night, when Da Lao Guang finished his work and returned to the room, Xiang Lan frowned and said to her, "You have no time for yourself every night because you do this. Some of them watch TV, some go out to play. Who has thought of helping you?"

"There's nothing I can do about it. It's your husband's fault that he doesn't understand those high-tech things, so he can only buy this kind of washing machine." Although Da Lao Guang also felt very tired, he had no choice but to endure it himself.

"We can't do this for the rest of our lives, right? I think we should all learn some cultural knowledge and technology, and then we can change our living conditions for the second half of our lives." Xianglan said.

"Ah? Change your living conditions?" The boss didn't understand.

Xianglan sat down on the bed and said seriously, "Second Uncle and Sachiko are now in charge of their own affairs. What about us? We can only work under Second Uncle. Why didn't Arui give the clothing company to us instead of Yongfang? It's because we are uneducated, don't know computers, and can't handle those company management matters."

"So I think you should learn some computer knowledge. I see that Sachiko and the others all use computers to work. Now my second uncle's tea restaurant has also started to franchise stores. I think that in the future, computers will also be used for work. If we don't learn computers, I'm afraid that we can only serve tea in tea restaurants in the future."

Although Xianglan's words are pessimistic, they are indeed the practical problems that Big Brother Guang is facing now. Computer office is bound to be an inevitable event in the future, and we will soon enter the era of comprehensive computer office. If Big Brother Guang Xianglan does not know how to use a computer, he really cannot keep up with the development of the Kang family.

(End of this chapter)