Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

Chapter 239 Opening Business

"Hello? Are you looking for Ah Bing? Wait a minute."

Cousin Bing followed the guest from southern Henan that day and naturally got nothing. He stayed in Guangzhou these days, hoping to find the person who cheated him, but how could it be so easy? After he ran away from the pyramid scheme den, they couldn't find him, so he probably moved away from Guangzhou immediately. They weren't stupid enough to wait for you to come and catch him, right?

At noon that day, my father received a call looking for his cousin Bing, so he called his cousin Bing out to answer the phone, while he went into the kitchen to see if the soup he had stewed in the morning was ready.

But when he walked into the kitchen, he didn't see the stew pot. "My stew pot was clearly placed here, how come it's gone?" He searched the kitchen but couldn't find it. Cousin Bing came in after answering the phone, and saw that his uncle was rummaging through things and asked, "Uncle, what are you looking for?"

"I'm stewing Cordyceps. I've been stewing it since this morning. I saw it just before I answered the phone, and it disappeared in the blink of an eye." The old man said with a puzzled look on his face.

"It definitely isn't me. I'm the most honest person and I never eat other people's food." Cousin Bing immediately stated that it had nothing to do with him, and then he guessed: "I guess it was Xianglan, you know those people from southern Henan, tut tut tut." He shook his head, and although he didn't say the rest of the words, his meaning was self-evident.

The old man naturally didn't believe it. He poked his cousin Bing's head and scolded him, "Don't talk nonsense, you bad boy. My sister-in-law is not that kind of person. Why does she have to be so sneaky if she wants to eat? If she told me, would I not give her food?"

"If it's not her, then who is it? What's so strange about Xianglan taking it?" Cousin Bing still insisted on his guess, "People in southern Henan are the greediest. It must be her. I tell you."

"Don't take this opportunity to scold my sister-in-law. She has been married into our Kang family for so many years. How could I not know what kind of person she is?" The old man still trusted Xianglan very much and did not listen to his cousin Bing. The old man changed the subject and said, "Was the phone call you received just now your wife calling you to go back to the countryside immediately?"

Cousin Bing was stunned for a moment. It was indeed A'e who called him to go back to work. He had been out for more than a week and still hadn't returned. A'e almost cursed him on the phone. But Cousin Bing didn't want to go back. He denied it and said, "How could it be? She just called me to chat casually. This is what I thought. I plan to find that person from southern Henan before going back. Otherwise, I will not be willing to go back."

"There are so many people in Guangzhou, and it's like looking for a needle in a haystack to find someone. Just leave it to the police to find them." Lao Dou advised bitterly, "If you go back to the countryside to work these days, you may be able to earn back all the money. The longer you stay like this, the greater the loss will be."

"You don't understand, uncle. This is not a matter of money. Do I need these few thousand dollars? I just can't accept that I was cheated by someone from another province. I must find him, otherwise I won't be able to sleep when I go back." Cousin Bing was determined. He was determined to find the man from southern Henan to take revenge.

The old man shook his head and didn't bother to pay attention to him. At this time, A Zu came in with a stew pot in his hand and said, "Old man, I'm so lucky today. There is such a good stew in the kitchen." Before he finished speaking, the old man slapped his hand and said angrily, "You poor boy, this is the stew I made for myself to eat, and it turned out that you stole it, you are really a bad boy."

"A-Zu, it was you who went into the kitchen and took it to eat? How come I didn't know?" Cousin Bing also asked in surprise.

A-Zu said as a matter of course: "I did eat it. Do I need your permission to go into my own kitchen and get something to eat? You are so silly. I'm sorry, old man." The last sentence was said to old man, and then he ran away.

"Why isn't it Xianglan?" Cousin Bing was very annoyed.

"Hey? Have you had enough of the trouble?" The old man rolled his eyes at him and said, "Don't take advantage of this to talk about my sister-in-law, or I won't let you go."

"Hehe, this was purely an accident, uncle." Cousin Bing said perfunctorily with a smile.

Time soon came to March 2004, 3, the fourteenth day of the second lunar month, the right time for opening. The confinement center founded by Sachiko, Kang Qirui and others finally opened. This day happened to be a Saturday, and Kang Qirui specially asked Er Lao, the president of the Xiguan Lion Dance Association, to invite two lion dance teams to perform.

In addition to the lion dance team, Kang Qirui also arranged a lot of flower baskets and invited reporters from newspapers and TV stations. Therefore, there were a lot of onlookers and they talked a lot.

"See? People from the TV station are here. This store must be very famous!"

"People from the newspaper are here too. Look over there, there's a reporter from Southern Metropolis Daily." "My goodness, this store called Bella is really a hassle."

Yes, the final official name of the confinement center is SAINT BELLA Mother and Baby Care Center. The reason why it uses an English name is that Kang Qirui insisted on using English, which makes it look high-end. Kang Qirui is a researcher in literary history. He knows very well that Chinese people have serious symptoms of mother tongue shame and have an unusual admiration for foreign languages.

Let's take a simple example. There are two football teams named after cities: the fans of the Guangzhou team will think it's ordinary or even un-football-like, but the fans of the Barcelona team will think it's very nice. The fans of the Guangzhou team will think it's meaningless, but the fans of the Manchester City team will think it's great.
Another simple example is that people prefer to say OK rather than good.

The reason why we decided to call it SAINT BELLA is because SAINT means saint, especially a kind and loving person, holy and great - "Saint is anyone in the heaven". BELLA means beauty and pretty in Italian, and generally refers to beautiful women with noble, outstanding and smart images. Women who have completed the great childbearing process are called SAINT BELLA.

Kang Qirui defines mothers as great and beautiful women, and hopes to make SAINT BELLA a synonym for refinement, style and sentiment. He hopes to create the ultimate "confinement journey" for every mother, making the important milestone of conceiving a life a "journey" worth enjoying.

"Sachiko, congratulations and good luck on the opening." The Kang family and acquaintances congratulated Sachiko one after another. Amid the congratulations, Sachiko symbolically cut the roasted pig with a knife and completed the roasted pig cutting ceremony. Then someone came to help divide the roasted pig, and the opening ceremony was declared over.

Everyone walked into the rest area of ​​the confinement center and saw that the decoration was very high-end and expensive. "Sachiko, you decorated the first floor like this and it's completely wasted. Isn't it stressful?" Lao Dou couldn't help asking. He just walked in and found that there was only a lobby and a rest area on the first floor, and no rooms. He was a little worried about the performance pressure of the confinement center.

"Dad, don't worry about that. Our main focus here is high-end and professional. We are different from other confinement centers that use confinement nannies. We adopt a 24-hour one-on-one nursing model with nurses, and all of them have nursing qualifications." Sachiko talked freely, echoing her father's words and saying to everyone present: "We equip each mother and baby with two nurses, providing 2-hour one-on-one uninterrupted care, 24-degree personal care, and tailor-made personalized care plans. We started pre-booking last month, and so far all the rooms have been fully booked."

The onlookers at the scene were impressed and applauded. I don't know if they really listened or were just giving face to the Coke and hamburger in their hands.

Of course, what Sachiko said is true. SAINT BELLA's service model is a dimensionality reduction attack on other confinement centers in this era. If SAINT BELLA is professional, other confinement centers are not even amateur now. According to the timeline, the formal development of confinement centers will not be until at least after 2010. In other words, SAINT BELLA is at least six years ahead of the industry, so how can it not be popular?
Cousin Bing knew that the confinement center was opening today, so he said he was going to buy gifts so that everyone could go first and not wait for him. As a result, it has been a long time since the opening ceremony ended and it is almost noon, but Cousin Bing has not come yet. "Cousin Bing doesn't have money to buy gifts so he doesn't dare to come?" A Zu saw that the mother was worried about Cousin Bing, so she guessed.

"Nonsense, he asked me to borrow 500 yuan before he left this morning, how could he not have money to buy a gift." The mother patted A-Zu and sighed, "This poor boy is really, it took him so long to buy a gift."

Just as the nanny was about to send everyone out to look for him, Cousin Bing walked into the confinement center with a man. When the two of them came closer, Xianglan recognized at a glance that the man led by Cousin Bing was the guest from southern Henan who was driven away by Cousin Bing in the tea restaurant that day.

What Cousin Bing did next made Xianglan even more confused. He bowed to Xianglan and said, "Xianglan, I'm really sorry. I misunderstood you people from southern Henan before. I apologize to you."

"Ah?" Not only Xianglan, but also the Kang family members were puzzled. How did this cousin Bing change so much? Cousin Bing took the initiative to explain: "Today I went to buy gifts to congratulate you on your opening, but my bag was robbed halfway. Fortunately, this young man helped me catch the man and returned my wallet to me."

Cousin Bing pointed at the man from southern Henan next to him and sighed, "So now I know that no matter who you are, there are good people and bad people. You can't think that everyone is bad just because there is one bad person. There are still many good people."

"Wow, it's rare. Such a profound truth actually came out of your mouth, cousin." Kang Qirui patted his cousin Bing's shoulder and laughed. Cousin Bing was not angry, and continued: "I saw that he helped me so much, so I thought of inviting him to dinner. But I was afraid that you would worry about me if I didn't show up, so I came here first. By the way, Sachiko, congratulations. I bought this bag of apples for you."

"Thank you, cousin." Sachiko took the apple and thanked him in return.

"Aunt, uncle, cousins, I'll leave first." Cousin Bing said hello to everyone, then took the southern Henan man next to him and took him to eat delicious food. He walked two steps and turned back to Xianglan and said, "I'll invite him first this time, and next time I'll invite your parents-in-law to apologize to you."

The boss just waved his hand and said, "Oh, cousin. We don't know you yet. You're just being stubborn because you've been cheated. We understand you. Don't worry, we don't take it to heart, hahaha." Xianglan also nodded beside him.

(End of this chapter)