Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

"You're back? How's it going? Does it look good?"

No one wanted the tickets that Ayao brought back, so Sachiko had to go with him. After they came back from the show on Sunday afternoon, everyone asked curiously, mainly to see if it was a wise decision not to go.

"Don't mention it. Just look, what are you looking at?" Sachiko said angrily, "I looked at it the whole afternoon and I don't know what I looked at."

"Those dance troupes are not really that ugly, are they? Why did they come back with this attitude?" Big Brother Guang wondered, how ugly could they be?

Sachiko sighed and said, "It's okay that the dance is ugly, but you can just not watch it. But those people are annoying. They are all drunk. He fell asleep when he was drunk, and I didn't know what I was doing sitting there."

There's still wine to drink? Kang Qirui and his brothers' eyes dimmed in an instant, and they immediately regretted it. What a loss! Sachiko has been running the company for so long, and she has become very smart. She knew what everyone was thinking by looking at their expressions, and couldn't help but complain: "What are you looking at? What do you think that is? The rice wine on the street for five yuan for two bottles is better than this."

Ah. That's fine. Kang Qirui and the others relaxed and were about to tease A Yao when A Yao's phone rang first. He answered the call, "Yes, Aunt Zhang. No, no, my wife is feeling a little unwell, so I took her home first. I'm sorry I can't attend your symposium."

"What? Write your thoughts?" A Yao suddenly shouted, "I don't understand how to write it. No, no, it's just that my appreciation ability is limited."

"What? You write it? But it has to be published in Dance News under my name?" A Yao was about to refuse, but Aunt Zhang had already hung up the phone.

"Serves you right! If you had known this would happen, why did you do it in the first place?" Seeing A Yao's frustration, Sachiko laughed at him, "Who told you to organize everyone to go and watch it together? If you ask me, you should never accept additional tickets like this in the future. How can a ticket that no one wants be a good thing?"

"Yes, yes, yes." A Yao nodded quickly, fearing that if he was late, Sachiko would be even angrier. Er Lao laughed at the side and said, "You are talking so loudly now. What did you two say when Tianxiu's head teacher, Mr. Wang, gave us two drama tickets? You even mocked us at the time. Humph, handsome boy, there is a saying in this world that will always work, that is, cheap goods are not good, and good goods are not cheap!"

A Yao and Xing Zi went back to their rooms to rest with depressed faces. Kang Qi Rui also wanted to go back to his room to sleep and wait for dinner, but Da Lao Guang stopped him and asked, "A Rui, I want to ask you something. Can eating really replenish the body with the same kind of food?"

Although Kang Qirui was surprised by the boss's sudden question, he still answered seriously: "It is said that 'like cures like' is an important way of thinking in traditional Chinese medicine, which is mainly used to summarize the effects and main treatments of traditional Chinese medicine and food."

The theory of "like cures like" comes from the simple way of thinking of ancient people in understanding Chinese herbal medicine. After ancient people had certain experience in using traditional Chinese medicine in medical practice, they inferred the possible nature, flavor, meridians, efficacy and indications of other medicinal materials based on the existing experience, and then verified them in medical practice, thus giving rise to the theory of "like cures like".

For example, gardenia looks and colors like the heart and tastes bitter. Therefore, based on its appearance and nature and taste, it can be inferred that gardenia has the functions and properties of being cold in nature, entering the heart meridian, and clearing away heart fire. This is the specific application of the theory of like cures like.

Therefore, like-kindness replenishes like-kindness does not simply mean eating pork liver to nourish the liver or sheep penis to strengthen the yang. This misunderstanding is actually a distortion of like-kindness replenishes like-kindness, that is, "you are what you eat."

The difference between the two is that the theory of "like cures like" is subject to the constraints of TCM's analogical thinking and is a correct TCM theory. However, "you will get what you eat" is an abuse of the theory and a misunderstanding of the folks.

After Kang Qirui's explanation, Big Boss Guang muttered to himself: "Then can I eat beef to replenish the bull market and bring some bull market luck?"

The boss's mouth kept moving, but Kang Qirui didn't hear clearly, so he asked, "Boss, what are you talking about?"

The boss just shook his head and said, "No, no." Then he stood up and walked into the kitchen to find Aunt Zhen and said, "Aunt Zhen, have you bought the food for tonight?"

"I've bought it a long time ago, what's the matter?" Aunt Zhen asked.

"Nothing, nothing. I'll go out and buy some beef and cook a few more dishes tonight." The boss just said so, and Aunt Zhen naturally had no objection and nodded in agreement. As a result, the evening turned into a full beef banquet, with stewed beef offal with radish, beef with bitter melon, braised beef tripe, curry beef tendon, and blanched beef tripe.
"What's going on? A whole beef banquet?" A Yao woke up just in time for dinner.

"Well, you can eat it if there's any. I paid for this beef myself, and I didn't use any public money, so you can eat it without worry." Big Brother Guang said.

The second sister-in-law was very happy when she heard that there was a free meal. "That's right, if you have something to eat, eat spicy food. If you are not in good health, eat more beef." She said.

"Speaking of nourishing food, it shouldn't be beef, right? It should be bullwhip." A Zu joked. Second sister-in-law followed his words and teased: "Want to eat bullwhip? It's easy, ask A Jiao to make it for you when she's free. The last time she made it, it was so good that I didn't even know where the lid went in the end."

"You are so vulgar!" The big boss just commented, speechless: "Does eating beef necessarily replenish those things? I am replenishing my qi now, not my kidneys, understand?"

"What kind of energy do you want to replenish? What's wrong with your kidneys?" Xianglan had just come back from washing her hands. She only heard half a sentence from the boss and asked with a confused look on her face.

The second sister-in-law teased, "Anyway, you are blessed, hahahaha." The boss glared at her and she stopped talking and lowered her head to eat. Xianglan shrugged. She knew she couldn't get anything out of him, so she stopped asking and sat down to eat.

It was not until she returned to her room after dinner that Xianglan asked Da Lao Guang, "Why did you buy so much? I heard from Aunt Zhen that you bought almost half a cow today."

"If you like it, just buy more." The boss said with a wry smile.

"You don't have to buy food just because you like it. It's such a waste if you can't finish it." Xianglan shook her head and asked, "By the way, let me ask you, when I entered the dining room today, everyone was happy for me. My second sister-in-law even said that I was blessed. What on earth were they happy about?"

The boss was stunned for a moment, then evaded the question by saying, "Don't worry about them, they are just joking."

"Are you laughing at me for buying so much beef?" Xianglan was really innocent. She smiled and said, "You're weird too. You usually like to eat chicken, so why are you eating beef now?"

Big Boss Guang didn't want to tell the real reason, so he made up a story: "I had a dream last night. I was very hungry when I was dreaming. I happened to see people selling beef, but I couldn't eat any. I was so hungry that my hands and feet were shaking, so I wanted to eat some beef today."

"Oh, so miserable?" Xianglan was very easy to fool.

The boss nodded, "Yeah, beef is actually pretty good, as the saying goes, beef is good." As he spoke, he found a stuffed bear on the bed and said hurriedly, "Wife, why do we have this thing here? Throw it away quickly."

"Why throw it away?" Xianglan didn't understand and asked puzzledly.

"It's unlucky, that is to say." The big man thought for a long time but couldn't think of anything to say, so he could only say: "Anyway, it's not good."

Xianglan was even more confused. "What's wrong with this? Your son has been sleeping with it since he was young. He has been playing with it for three years. How can it be bad?"

"No, I really can't explain it to you clearly. If you don't throw it, I will." The boss was speechless. He was in a hurry and took the stuffed bear and was about to throw it out. Xianglan quickly stopped him and said, "You throw it, throw it. If you throw it, your son will fight you to death!" (End of this chapter)