Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

"Yongfang, why did you come here alone? Didn't you ask Dalaogong to pick you up?"

Summer came early this year. It was only late May and the temperature in Guangzhou had already exceeded 30 degrees. A few months ago, NASA scientists announced that 2005 would be the hottest year in human history. So when Kang Qirui saw Zhang Yongfang coming to Kang's house alone after returning from a business trip for half a month, he was puzzled. Shouldn't Da Laogong drive to the airport to pick her up on such a hot day?

"He doesn't know I'm back." Zhang Yongfang said this with a calm tone, which was very informative. Then she pulled the maid to change the subject and said, "Aunt Kang, this is the specialty I brought you."

The maid refused for a few times before accepting it with embarrassment. She thanked him, "Yongfang, Yongfang, we are old acquaintances, why are you still so polite?"

"Yes, yes, Aunt Kang, I want to stay at your house for two days." Zhang Yongfang said coquettishly.

The old man and his wife looked at each other in confusion. The old man said, "Yongfang, it didn't matter if you lived here before you got married, but now that you are married and have your own house, why do you want to live here with me?"

"Aunt Kang, just think of this as helping me." Zhang Yongfang leaned on the nanny and continued to act coquettishly, "At most I'll pay for your accommodation."

"Silly girl, that's not what I meant." The mother quickly clarified.

"Then I'll take that as your agreement." Zhang Yongfang pulled the suitcase and walked inside. Old Madam Dou had no choice but to let her go.

After she went in, the maid pulled Kang Qirui from behind and said, "Ah Rui, what do you think Yongfang is doing? She has her own house but she insists on living in ours."

Kang Qirui thought for a moment and said, "I'll give Dalaogong a call."

When Da Laogong received Kang Qirui's call, he had just dropped off a passenger. He hung up the phone, put up a sign to stop taking passengers, and drove to Kang's house. As soon as he arrived at Kang's house, he went to Zhang Yongfang's room accompanied by his mother, Kang Qirui, and said, "Yongfang, you're back? Why didn't you let me pick you up?"

"I know the route better than you do, so you don't need to take it." Yongfang was packing up the things she bought on this business trip and didn't respond to Da Laogong.

"Yongfang, let's go home?" Da Laogong said again. The maid also advised her to go home, but Zhang Yongfang got anxious when she heard about going home, "Aunt Kang, I won't go back. Just let me stay here."

"Yongfang, we are not going to drive you away. But you two must go back to your own home. If you live alone in a place, doesn't that mean you are separated?" said Dou.

Zhang Yongfang looked at the old Dou mother, then at Da Laogong, and said firmly: "I can't live with him."

Before she finished speaking, Da Laogong interrupted her and said, "Yongfang, why? You..." He thought for a moment, pulled Zhang Yongfang and said, "Do you think I have bad breath? I brush my teeth every day. If you don't believe me, you can smell it." He opened his mouth wide and moved towards Zhang Yongfang's face, but Zhang Yongfang pushed him away.

"I want to be with you. I want to be with you." Zhang Yongfang hesitated for a moment, but still said what she really thought, "I want to divorce you."

Just a few simple words shocked everyone present.

"Yongfang, it's no big deal, just talk it out, why do you want a divorce?" The nanny advised, "There's no such thing as overnight hatred between a couple, if you have something to say, just talk it out, why do you have to get a divorce?"

"Yongfang, what did I do wrong?" Da Laogong looked annoyed, "I made a mistake, can't I change it?"

Zhang Yongfang shook her head and said, "It's not that you did anything wrong, it's that we are not suitable to be together."

"I think we are a good match." Dalaogong said helplessly with his hands spread out.

"What a match." After Zhang Yongfang said what he was thinking, he became more unscrupulous. "I work in the office while you drive a taxi. I drink milk and eat bread every day while you drink porridge and eat steamed buns. What a match for us."

"Then I...then can't I change it?" Da Laogong begged. Zhang Yongfang turned her head away, "By the time you change it, the beauty will be old."

Da Lao Gong didn't understand why Zhang Yongfang wanted to divorce. He felt that he had been very good to Zhang Yongfang since they got married. He sighed and said, "As the saying goes, a husband and wife for a day are bound by a hundred nights of love. How can you bear to leave me?"

"It's better to suffer a short pain than a long one. Let's just say goodbye now." Zhang Yongfang pushed Dalaogong out of the room and closed the door. Kang Qirui then took Dalaogong to the living room and said, "Let her calm down first. You can't talk well with her like this now."

Da Laogong sat down in the living room and said, "In the past, no matter how angry Yongfang was, she would just smash cups and plates, but she would never ask for a divorce."

It was almost time for dinner, and everyone had gone home. They also learned from the old lady that Da Laogong and Zhang Yongfang were going to divorce. A Zu guessed, "Did she find out that you were fooling around outside?" "I swear to God, I have never done anything to let Yongfang down, or I will be struck by lightning." Da Laogong was immediately excited when he heard this. He stood up suddenly and shouted loudly, as if the louder he shouted, the more it would prove his innocence.

The second brother nodded, "I believe this. Even if he wants to cheat, he doesn't have the money."

"Everyone, could you please help me persuade Yongfang? Thank you." Da Laogong said this. He couldn't think of any other way.

"Don't worry, Da Laogong, it's better to have someone beat up their son than to have someone divorce their wife. We will definitely help you." The old man agreed without even thinking about it. Soon everyone decided that Xianglan's second sister-in-law Zhu Wanling and the other two who were more familiar with Zhang Yongfang would go and test her attitude.

As soon as the three of them entered Zhang Yongfang's room, Xianglan asked directly: "Yongfang, do you really want to divorce Dalaogong?"

Zhang Yongfang nodded without saying anything.

"But Dalao Gong is a very nice person," Xianglan said.

Zhang Yongfang shook his head in disdain and retorted: "What a bullshit, it has a lot of shortcomings."

"Everyone has shortcomings, like my husband, who is dark, thin, and has ragged shoes." The second sister-in-law sat next to her and said, "To put it bluntly, even dogs wouldn't want him if he were thrown to the street. But I have been holding him for so many years, and I have become accustomed to him after enduring so much."

Seeing how hard her second sister-in-law worked, Xianglan also talked about the shortcomings of the boss. "And what about my husband? You don't know that my husband snores like a pig when he sleeps at night. Also, his sweat odor makes it difficult for you to fall asleep at night. But over time, if you don't listen to the snoring and smell the sweat odor, you will not be able to fall asleep."

Zhu Wanling was a little hesitant at first, but when she saw Xianglan and her second sister-in-law staring at her, she said decisively, "My husband is the same. Yongfang, don't be fooled by his easy-going appearance. In fact, he is very chauvinistic. He thinks that he is the only one who is right and everyone else is wrong. Everything should be done according to his instructions. But after a long time, it's pretty good not to have to worry about anything."

"My husband is the same, dirty, smelly and a male chauvinist." Zhang Yongfang also joined the discussion to denounce her husband. The second sister-in-law took the opportunity to say, "Just bear with it. It will pass in a while."

"I divorced him not because of these." Zhang Yongfang waved her hand.

"What's the reason?" The second sister-in-law thought for a while and guessed, "Maybe that stinky man is pregnant."

"He dares! I'll destroy him." Zhang Yongfang was furious when she heard this, but she quickly calmed down and said casually: "But I don't care even if he has it now, anyway, I have it."

"What do you have?" Zhu Wanling asked doubtfully, "You have a child? Then you still want a divorce?"

Zhang Yongfang thought for a moment and said softly, "Since you two are good sisters, I'll tell you that I met a foreigner on this business trip and he proposed to me."

The door was pushed open from the outside, and Da Laogong walked in angrily and said, "Okay, you female Chen Shimei, you want to abandon me to find a foreigner?"

"Why did you eavesdrop on other people's conversations?" Zhang Yongfang showed no shame at all. Instead, she questioned Daluogong, "I just want to have a better life. What's wrong with that?"

"How dare you say that? Are you worthy of me, a female Chen Shimei?" Da Laogong became even angrier.

"Who is Chen Shimei?" Zhang Yongfang said sharply, "Nowadays, people are free to marry and divorce. I have no feelings for you anymore. I will divorce you and pursue my own happiness and marry someone else. I have not cheated on you during marriage, so I have done my best for you."

"I'm telling you, you, a female Chen Shimei, can't even get a divorce from me." Da Laogong has been in Guangzhou for so long, and he is no pushover. He said in a deep voice, "If you want a divorce, you have to give me half of your property. Are you willing to do that?"

"Don't keep calling me Chen Shimei. If you call me Chen Shimei, I will show you how Chen Shimei is today." Zhang Yongfang also got angry when she heard that. She shouted, "I'm going to divorce you. You can't even think of getting a penny of my property. Didn't you call me Chen Shimei? When did Qin Xianglian ever get Chen Shimei's property?"

Seeing that they were arguing more and more, Zhu Wanling and the others quickly separated the two of them, pushed Da Laogong out of the room and closed the door. Zhu Wanling then said, "Yongfang, I remember that you were already divorced in your hometown before you came to Guangzhou. Are you going to get divorced for the second time now?"

"That's right. A woman who divorces many times will have a bad reputation." The second sister-in-law continued Zhu Wanling's words and said, "The first divorce is considered great, the second divorce will be difficult, and the third divorce will be considered as waste."

"Also, Yongfang, this woman becomes worse the more she gets married." Xianglan also gave some advice.

Zhang Yongfang simply couldn't listen. She said, "You are city people. There is a woman in the UK who has been divorced 64 times. I am only getting divorced for the second time. I can't catch up with her even if I ride a horse. Besides, foreign men don't care how many times you are divorced." (End of this chapter)