Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

"This place faces south and north, has a square layout, elegant decoration, a mature community, and complete facilities. It's a good house."

That night, Zhu Wanling invited the entire Kang family, Mrs. Zhu, Guiyuan Amei and others to the hotel for dinner to celebrate Kang Qirui's promotion to professor and to congratulate him on his advancement in the academic circle. After dinner, everyone returned to the Kang family and was chatting when a middle-aged woman in red walked into the Kang family, looked around the living room and commented.

"Hello, hello, hello, who are you?" The old man asked the visitor. Hearing that the middle-aged woman spoke Mandarin, the old man looked at Xianglan and said, "Sister-in-law, is she your relative?"

"No, I don't know her." Xianglan answered her father first, then turned to the middle-aged woman and asked, "May I ask, who are you looking for?"

After putting down her luggage, the middle-aged woman said, "Let me introduce myself. My name is Jin Yinzhu, Jin as in gold, Yin as in silver, Zhu as in pearl. I am Zeng Youmei's aunt. Zeng Youmei's mother told me this address. I also have a photo of Zeng Youmei here." As she said that, she took out a photo from her trouser pocket.

Hearing her words, everyone looked at Sachiko. Sachiko stood up with a puzzled look on her face and took the photo, muttering: "It's really Yumi, but why don't I recognize you?"

"Who are you?" Jin Yinzhu obviously didn't know Sachiko either. Everyone was confused. Sachiko frowned and said, "Yumi's mother and my mother are sisters. If you are Yumi's cousin, then you should also be my cousin. But I've never heard of you."

"Your mother and Yumi's mother are sisters?" Jin Yinzhu said with sudden enlightenment, "Then I know. You are Hu Xingzi, right? You know Wenzhou Shuigui Village, right?"

Sachiko nodded, "Yes, I am Hu Sachiko. Shuigui Village? I seem to have some impression of it."

"It's good that you have an impression. Your grandmother married to Shencheng from Shuigui Village." Jin Yinzhu said.

Sachiko thought about it carefully and finally remembered. She said, "I remember my mother told me about it, but I have never seen my grandmother."

"It doesn't matter whether you have met her or not. I haven't met your grandmother either." Jin Yinzhu waved her hand and said nonchalantly, "As long as you remember that there was such a thing, it will be fine."

"I think I remember it, but I don't know you, and I haven't heard my mother say that she has a cousin." After Sachiko remembered it, she became even more suspicious of Jin Yinzhu's identity.

"Sachiko, you don't know her? Then you stumbled into the house in vain?" asked the old man. In Cantonese, the term "stumbled into the house in vain" is usually used to describe those who trespass with the intention of doing something bad.

Jin Yinzhu got anxious when she heard that. "No, no, no, it wasn't for nothing. By the way, let me show you my ID card." She took out her ID card and handed it to Xingzi. "Your grandma and I are real fellow villagers. Your grandma's ancestral home in our hometown is right next to ours."

After she said that, Kang Qirui understood everything. He pointed at Xingzi and said to Jin Yinzhu directly, "It means that you and my third sister-in-law's grandmother are not relatives, but just fellow villagers, right?"

"Yes, yes, yes." Jin Yinzhu was not embarrassed and nodded to admit it. The old man shook his head vigorously and said speechlessly: "You haven't even seen their grandmother and you come to recognize relatives. I really admire you."

"Uncle, you can't say that. You have to rely on relatives at home and rely on fellow villagers when you go out." Jin Yinzhu grinned, paused for a moment, and then said, "It's so late, I don't know if I can..."

Before she finished her words, Mrs. Zhu stood up and interrupted her, asking, "Don't you have a place to live?" Jin Yinzhu nodded embarrassedly, and Mrs. Zhu immediately took her hand and said enthusiastically, "I have a lot of beds for rent, why don't you stay with me?"

"Is it?" Jin Yinzhu was delighted when she heard it, and asked again: "Is it expensive?"

"It's not expensive. I have different grades." Mrs. Zhu actively promoted: "For 50 yuan, you can sleep on a bed, see the garden spirit, and use the furniture and appliances as you like. For 30 yuan, you can sleep on the sofa and sit on the stool, but it's best not to watch TV."

The second brother touched Kang Qirui's arm and whispered in his ear: "Your mother-in-law is really good at business. Her old house is divided into different levels. Does she think she is one of the 72 tenants?" He spoke louder and louder. Kang Qirui was afraid that Mrs. Zhu would hear it and it would be difficult for him to stand aside, so he turned around and glared at him. But Mrs. Zhu still heard it, but she didn't care at all, and said proudly: "This is called a marketing strategy. A Zong, you really need to learn from me."

Jin Yinzhu waited until she finished talking to Er Lao before she said, "Do you have any 10 yuan?"

"10 yuan?" Mrs. Zhu was stunned. After a while, she said indifferently, "Yes. Wear slippers, sleep on stones and cover straw mats. Think about it yourself, and come to me when you have made up your mind." She was so angry that she stood up and went home. Zhu Wanling couldn't let her go, so she took Kang Siqi and chased after her, hoping to coax her not to be angry at this late hour.

Jin Yinzhu wanted to chase him out, but in her haste she kicked the luggage she had just put down. She took out a huge pair of leather shoes from her luggage and said to everyone, "Oh, I almost forgot, I brought you our Wenzhou specialty, all handmade."

"Is it a shoe or a boat?" Er Lao took the leather shoes from Jin Yinzhu's hand and asked, "Who are they for?"

"In line with international standards, hahaha." Jin Yinzhu smiled, took out two bags and handed them to everyone, saying, "Here, this is also a specialty of Wenzhou, buttons."

The nanny politely declined the gifts she brought, thought for a moment and said, "If that's the case, although you are not a relative of Sachiko, you are still half a fellow villager. It's so late today, so you can stay here for the time being."

No one had any objection to Mazi's arrangement. Previously, Niu Ge, Zhang Yongfang, Da Laogong and other fellow villagers of Xianglan had all lived in the Kang family, so everyone was used to it.

"Thank you so much." Jin Yinzhu bowed 90 degrees. After the nanny helped her up, she hesitated for a moment and said, "But."

"But what?" asked the nanny.

"But I have a little sister who is unfamiliar with Guangzhou. Can you let her live here too?" Jin Yinzhu said.

"Your sister, right?" asked the old man. Jin Yinzhu nodded, and the old man continued, "Well, the bed in our guest room is very big, so it doesn't matter if there is one more person."

When Jin Yinzhu heard this, she shouted loudly outside. Soon, a woman who looked similar to her came in. As soon as she entered the door, she bowed and said, "Thank you. You are so kind. My name is Jin Xiufeng, and I also brought some local specialties." Jin Xiufeng took out a bunch of socks and distributed them to everyone, "Take them, take them. They are very good."

"You are so kind-hearted. We two sisters sincerely thank you." Jin Yinzhu and Jin Xiufeng bowed to everyone again, and then said, "But..."

"What's going on again?" Er Lao felt that this scene was very familiar.

"There is no one in our family to take care of the child, so I brought him here. I wonder if he can live here?" Jin Xiufeng grinned and said with a smile.

"This is called getting on the bed and pulling the quilt." The second sister-in-law snorted and said. Getting on the bed and pulling the quilt has the same meaning as the idiom "getting an inch and pushing a foot".

The old father waved his hands and said, "It doesn't matter if there are more children. It will be miserable for the children to have no place to sleep." As soon as the old father finished speaking, Jin Yinzhu and Jin Xiufeng ran out immediately and soon came back with the two children, as if they were afraid that the old father would go back on his word.

"Thank you, everyone. You are so kind." Jin Yinzhu and Jin Xiufeng led the children to bow to everyone. Kang Qirui couldn't remember how many times they bowed. (End of this chapter)