Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

"It's already the seventh day of the first lunar month before I knew it. The seven-day holiday has passed in the blink of an eye, and I have to go back to work tomorrow."

Xiyangyang's first film "Night Club" has not yet completed post-production editing. Their goal has never been the Spring Festival but the Shanghai Film Festival in June. Therefore, the Kang family's Spring Festival in 6 was the same as usual, and there was not much difference from previous years. On the evening of the seventh day of the first lunar month, A Yao suddenly sighed while reading the newspaper.

"People like you don't know how to appreciate the blessings you have. You've already had seven days off and you're still complaining." The second sister-in-law glared at him speechlessly and said, "It's hard for us to work like a dog for seven days." The noodle shop of the eldest brother Guang Xianglan, the tea restaurant of the second brother, the clothing store of the second sister-in-law Zhang Yongfang, and the confinement center of Xingzi did not take a break during the New Year.

"Second sister-in-law, you are such a joke. I am just going out to distribute red envelopes and money everywhere, and you just sit in the office without doing any work and receive money. How happy are you?" A Yao said.

Tsk tsk tsk, the second brother pointed at A Yao and said, "Did you hear that? What do you mean when rich people say they have money? They give out red envelopes everywhere. Remember to give a red envelope to my son and daughter when you leave tomorrow."

"Wow? I'll listen to you about the rest. You're really joking about this." A Yao looked at Er Lao speechlessly and said, "On the first day of the new year, Xingzi and I gave all the red envelopes to Tianxiu, Tianyou, Siqi, Siyu and Paul. I won't say anything about the others. I sent you two and you only sent one to Zhizi. Now you still want more?"

"Who told you to have a girl?" The second brother teased, and then said seriously: "Do you understand the two natures? The first day of the new year is the beginning of the year, and tomorrow, the eighth day, is the beginning of a good year."

A Yao had no choice but to agree. Sachiko said, "By the way, husband, you have to go to work tomorrow. Have you prepared the red envelope you got for the start of work?"

"Kick-off lucky money" is a custom in Guangdong, Hong Kong and other places, also known as "lucky money", "lucky things" and "li things". Generally, on the first day of work after the Spring Festival, employees wish their bosses a happy new year, bosses give lucky money to employees, leaders give lucky money to subordinates, and married people give lucky money to unmarried people.

The boss usually gives 100 or 200 yuan, and the leaders and married people usually give out less, about 10 yuan, just for the sake of good luck. But everything is about accumulating a little, and many people can receive thousands of yuan just from the opening red envelopes.

"It's been prepared a long time ago. Aunt Song, Xiao Yun and a few others, five envelopes are enough for me." A Yao said while counting on his fingers.

"Five envelopes? Isn't that a little too little?" Sachiko asked doubtfully. She felt that they had plenty of money and there was no need to be so stingy. The second sister-in-law shared the same view. She said to the old man, "Master, he has your genes, stingy and cowardly!"

The old man didn't expect that this could be linked to him. He said to his second sister-in-law, "You are so rude. Don't even say it." Then he looked past his second sister-in-law and said to A Yao, "A Yao, seriously, people will congratulate you when you get promoted. Your five red envelopes are not enough. You have to give red envelopes when people congratulate you, otherwise they will say you are not hardworking!"

"What the boss said is right. If you are a useless boss, the people under you will say that you are not helpful and not motivated. They will tear you apart like a chicken in a minute." The second brother also advised.

A Yao thought about it and felt that what everyone said made sense, so he took Sachiko back to the room to prepare red envelopes. After sealing about dozens of envelopes, Sachiko stopped and frowned and said, "I don't have any new banknotes. I opened my daughter's red envelope and used all the new banknotes. Do you have any more?"

"Aren't old and new the same? They're all red envelopes, it doesn't matter, just wrap them up." A Yao continued to wrap the old bills with a nonchalant look on his face. "How are they the same? People will say that old bills are thoughtless, and new ones look more comfortable." Sachiko thought about it, and an idea came to her mind: "Your nephews and Eiko must have a lot of new bills, why not exchange them with them?"

"That's fine." A Yao agreed and went out to call Tian Xiu, Tian You, Si Qi and Si Yu to his room. He didn't call Paul because he was just over a year old, and Paul's red envelope was in A Zu Diana's hands. After A Yao told everyone about the money exchange, Tian You agreed immediately.

However, Tianxiu rolled his eyes, pulled his brothers and sisters behind him, and said, "It's not that we don't want to exchange, but we have to make it clear in advance that your old 100-yuan bill can only be exchanged for my new 80-yuan bill."

A Yao and Xingzi were stunned. After a while, A Yao said, "You are not serious, are you? Uncle San just wants to exchange some new banknotes with you. Why do you want to eat Uncle San's water?"

"This is not called drinking water." Tianxiu shook his head and argued: "This is called equal exchange. If the old banknotes are exchanged with the new banknotes at a 1:1 ratio, how can the value difference between the new and the old be reflected? That's why the old banknotes should be discounted."

Sachiko patted Tianxiu's arm and said unhappily, "Handsome boy, your younger brother wanted to switch with us just now, do you have to do this?" "The younger brother is a little mean, he doesn't consider things so comprehensively, and as the boss, I can't just watch him suffer in silence, right?" Tianxiu said righteously, "Are you going to switch now or not? If you don't, I'll take them back to sleep."

"Change, change, change, do you want to do this? Even Third Uncle is playing." A Yao glared at him, but finally agreed to Tian Xiu's request. Tian Xiu successfully helped everyone increase their red envelope money by a large margin, and received countless admiring looks from Si Qi, Si Yu and Tian You.

On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Kang Qirui's main task was to distribute red envelopes. He went around the Ruhao Tea Restaurant office and its directly-operated branches, the clothing company office and its directly-operated branches, the Xiyangyang Film and Television Company, and the confinement center. Although the eighth day was not the first day of work for many people, it was Kang Qirui's first day at work, so distributing red envelopes was his due.

When he was about to leave after handing out red envelopes at the confinement center, Sachiko suddenly ran out of the office and stopped him. He looked at Sachiko in confusion. Sachiko asked anxiously, "Arui, do you have any loose paper?"

"Distributing red envelopes? What are you here for? I saw you gave out red envelopes to everyone just now." Kang Qirui asked in confusion, and then said, "I didn't distribute red envelopes. They were all 100-yuan each." Kang Qirui distributed red envelopes of 100 yuan each at the beginning of the work, and the total amount distributed to all companies was more than 100,000 yuan. Of course, this was not paid by him personally, but was paid from the company's account.

"It wasn't me. It was A Yao who called me and told me that he still felt unsatisfied after distributing 200 red envelopes, so he asked me to give him another 100 pieces of 10-dollar paper." Sachiko said with a painful and helpless look on her face.

"After sending out 200 letters, we still need to prepare 100 more?" Kang Qirui was stunned after hearing this. He was stunned for a while before saying, "I remember he said before that their entire unit only has 200 to 300 people. Does he plan to send out the entire unit? He is only a deputy director, not a director. Is it really that exaggerated to send out the entire unit?"

Moreover, even though A Yao was promoted to a higher position, he didn't manage more people. He only managed a few people in the administrative department and the office, which was not as many as when he was in the trade union. At most, he could just send a few colleagues from their department. Did he think that he was the director and that everyone in the unit had a share?
Sachiko was also very angry, but she had no other choice. Although she had a strong personality, she always protected Ayao's face in front of outsiders. Seeing that Kang Qirui said no, she said hello and went to the clothing store to find her second sister-in-law.

Of course, the clothing store had a sufficient stock of loose paper during the New Year, but the more it had, the more it would be used. Second Sister-in-law only gave Sachiko fifty ten-yuan sheets and asked her to go to Ruhao to get the rest. When Sachiko arrived at Ruhao, she saw Director Zhao eating on the first floor. She went up to the second floor office area and came to Second Brother's office. She was not in a hurry to change the loose paper, but asked, "Second Brother, how long has Director Fatty been downstairs?"

"Director Zhao?" Er Lao recalled for a moment and said, "Anyway, he was there when A Rui came to hand out red envelopes in the morning. He's been sitting here for at least a few hours."

"How many hours have you been sitting here?" Sachiko frowned and shook her head and said, "That's to avoid sending out red envelopes. Second brother, I won't change the loose paper for now. I'll leave first." The second brother nodded and continued to work without thinking too much.

After going downstairs, Sachiko did not leave in a hurry, but went to the kitchen to find A Jiao and told her that Director Zhao was very generous and that he would give a big red envelope of 100 yuan to any child who greeted him and wished him a happy new year. A Jiao believed it and stopped working. She went home and brought her five bone-changing dragons to Director Zhao to wish him a happy new year. Each of the five bone-changing dragons gave him a new year's greeting.

But Director Zhao was unmoved. He pretended to be asleep at first, and when he was found out, he pretended that the phone was ringing and the signal was bad and he couldn't hear what was said on the other end, so he walked out of Ruhao Tea Restaurant. "This fat guy is so stingy, he deserves to have a baby without an asshole." Gillian angrily cursed at his fleeing back.

Sachiko came to Ayao's workplace and told him that Director Zhao was not at work to avoid receiving red envelopes. He said in surprise, "No way? Is this possible?"

"What's wrong with that? They're hiding away and enjoying their delicious food, but you're pretending to be generous and counting money for them. It's a lot of money." It's unclear whether Sachiko was scolding A Yao or Director Zhao, but A Yao didn't tell the difference anyway.

"Honey, maybe you've seen it wrong? The director is probably just entertaining someone in a tea restaurant." A Yao knows how to brainwash himself. Sachiko glared at him and said, "Who is your director? Whether he is entertaining someone or someone else entertains him, would he choose a tea restaurant? He is obviously hiding to avoid receiving red envelopes and is using you as a shield."

"There's nothing we can do about it. After all, he's the director." A Yao also seemed helpless. What could he do when his higher-ranking official could overpower someone so powerful?
"Then you don't have to pack so much, do you?" Sachiko still couldn't understand Ayao. She said, "You are not the director. When the director gives out red envelopes to everyone in the unit, that's using the public account. But when you give out red envelopes to everyone in the unit, the money comes out of our wallets."

A Yao thought about it and felt that what Sachiko said made sense, so he agreed: "I understand, wife. Anyway, he is unkind and I am unjust. I will not be so stupid this afternoon. I will not send anyone to come."

But just as he finished speaking, he heard a group of people coming to wish him a happy new year. A Yao was so scared that he jumped up and took Sachiko to find a place to hide. (End of this chapter)