Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

Chapter 96: Capturing "Jiao"

"Hey, Fourth Brother, what's your address? Aunt Dou said she'd come to your place to sit down today." Kang Qirui was apparently calling A Zu to ask for his home address, but in fact he was giving A Zu a chance to destroy the evidence.

"What's so good about it? It's just a house." A-Zu went out to play and didn't want to go back.

But Kang Qirui emphasized: "Mrs. Dou must go. If not, you can tell her not to let them go." A Zu was really speechless. "Okay, okay, I'll text you the address. That's it."

At four o'clock in the afternoon, a group of people from the Kang family arrived downstairs at A-Zu's new residence on time. While waiting for the elevator, Kang Qirui seemed to see his second sister-in-law. Before he could take a closer look, the elevator came, so he followed her into the elevator.

"The twelfth floor? Why do you live so high up? What if there's a power outage?" The mother sighed when she saw Kang Qirui press the "12" button. "Mom, if there's a power outage, just climb the stairs." The big boss said indifferently.

After exiting the elevator, he found room 1201 and rang the doorbell. But no one came to open the door, so Er Lao became impatient and shouted, "A-Zu, what are you doing in there? Open the door!"

After waiting for about ten minutes, A Zu finally opened the door. "Why did you take so long to open the door?" A Yao patted A Zu. After entering the house, everyone began to look at the layout and decoration of the house.

"Handsome boy, bring some tea." After watching for a while, the second brother saw that his father had sat down on the sofa, so he told his grandfather to make a pot of tea.

A Zu smiled and said, "There's no tea left. How about boiling water?"

"Are you kidding me? Can you pour a cup of boiling water for your father? I have come all the way to see you." Er Lao said angrily.

"There is no tea at home." A-Zu spread his hands.

The maid was cleaning up A-Zu's messy living room, then looked towards the kitchen and said helplessly, "A-Zu, how long have you not washed these dishes? They are all moldy." A-Zu shook his head to indicate that he had forgotten.

"Mom, why don't you just ask this poor guy how long it has been since he took a shower." The second brother continued to complain.

While they were chatting and laughing, someone knocked on the door. A-Zu hurried to open the door and was surprised to see who was coming: "Why are you all here together?" It turned out to be my second sister-in-law Sachiko and Xianglan.

"You're such a bad boy." The second sister-in-law looked as if she had expected it.

"Fourth Uncle, do you really live here?" Xianglan looked unconvinced.

"A-Zu? You you you..." Sachiko was so shocked that she couldn't speak.

"Yes, I live here alone." A Zu emphasized. When he saw Xianglan wanted to say something, he whispered to his second sister-in-law, Sachiko, and Xianglan, "A harmonious family brings prosperity, sisters-in-law." The three of them stopped talking.

When the nanny came out after washing the dishes and saw the three of them, she was surprised and asked, "Aren't you going to see Yumi?"

The three of them looked at each other, and finally the second sister-in-law said, "Yes, we are here to see Yumi. We just followed you here after seeing Yumi." She barely made up the story. An hour ago, the three of them came here to see Yumi. Yumi also said that she lived here alone. Then half an hour ago, Yumi said she was going to Shenzhen, so they left. As a result, when she went downstairs, the second sister-in-law realized that she had forgotten to take her handbag, so she went back upstairs. So there was this scene just now.

"Second brother, A-Zu's house is pretty nice." A-Yao exclaimed. "How is it? What do you think?" The eldest brother reminded the second brother that they came this time to see if A-Zu had a mistress.

After Er Lao understood, he deliberately said: "This house is exactly what I dreamed of, but the only flaw is that it lacks a 'Jiao'."

As expected, A-Zu took the bait, "Second brother, how could I, your younger brother, need any help when I am here? I am most afraid that you don't have time." A-Zu didn't notice at all that while he said this, his second sister-in-law was staring at him with murderous eyes.

"Handsome, that's a deal. Be sure to tell me when the time comes, so that the good things don't flow to outsiders." The second brother continued. A Zu took on the responsibility and smiled proudly: "Don't worry, I will definitely tell you, we are brothers."

"Are you serious?" The second sister-in-law tried hard to control her anger.

Ah Zu was unaware and said nonchalantly, "Of course I'm serious. She's just a spoiled brat. You can introduce Duoduo to the second brother."

"Okay, you can do it." The second sister-in-law gave A Zu a thumbs up, "With you, I have mine. Master, why don't we take a look at the room." A Zu finally reacted and quickly stopped the second sister-in-law, "There's nothing to see. I don't have the key."

"Why do I need a key to enter the room? You don't need a key, you can open the door with your mouth." The second sister-in-law was angry about what A-Zu said just now about introducing a beautiful woman to the second brother, and now she didn't care. She came to a room and chanted: "Bodhisattva, open sesame."

"I'll count to three. Come out quickly." The second sister-in-law began to count, "One, two, two and a half, three."

Yumi couldn't stand the pressure and walked out. Zu hid in the toilet while everyone was surprised.

"Yumi? How come you live here?" A Yao was shocked. He looked at Sachiko, "Wife, what's going on?" Sachiko said with resentment, "We knocked on the door just now and were also confused when we saw it was A-Zu who opened the door. A-Zu said that everything will be prosperous if the family is harmonious, so we didn't say anything."

"Where's A-Zu? Ask A-Zu to come out." The second brother said. Kang Qirui pointed to the toilet, "She's inside." Several people worked together to get A-Zu out, and the second brother asked directly: "Could it be that the legendary Jiao is her?"

"Sharing a room does not mean sharing a bed. You need to understand this concept clearly." A-Zu defended himself and Yumi.

The old man slammed the table and said, "Take them both back to the Kang family and punish them according to the family rules." The Kang family forced A Zu and Yu Mei to take a taxi back to the Kang family. After getting ready, the old man announced the formal convening of the trial of Kang Qi Zu, "A Zu, the eldest brother, his wife, the younger brother, his wife, and the old man's mother are all here. You have to explain this matter clearly."

"I really didn't expect that you two would do such a shameful thing. Hundreds of years of integrity of our Kang family has been ruined by a bad boy like you." The mother said disappointedly.

Before Grandpa could explain, the second brother, who always loved his younger brothers, objected first, "Mom, I think you are taking it too seriously. One is unmarried and the other is unmarried. It's normal for them to be together."

Ah Yao, who also had a great interest in the matter, followed up and said, "That's right. Speaking of which, living together before marriage is not against the law, especially now that it is the 21st century, and our family is relatively open, right? But then again, Ah Zu, do you know why I asked you to come back?"

"Because you deceived the people, especially all of us." As expected of someone in a government agency, he would make a big deal out of everything. Kang Qirui gave A Yao a thumbs up in his mind.

"That's right. There are so many people in the family and no one knows about it. You two have done a good job of keeping it secret. It's watertight." The second sister-in-law sighed, and then asked curiously, "By the way, when did you start?"

"I thought A-Zu was living with Diana, but it turns out he's living with Yumi. Who of you two took the initiative?" The eldest sister-in-law also looked like she had been gossiped about something.

Only Sachiko was really annoyed. "Yumi, tell your cousin, how far have you two progressed? Have you done those things? I'm telling you, you must not get pregnant before you get married."

Ah Zu couldn't listen any longer and shouted, "Have you said enough?"

"That's pretty evil." The most angry among the brothers was A Yao, because one of them was his younger brother and the other was his wife's cousin. If there was really a love triangle, how could he face Sachiko's family? "I hope you have a good cognitive attitude. Do you know that if you did this before, you would have been put in a pig cage and burned to death, you know?"

"Uncle, you are wrong to say that." The second sister-in-law retorted, "You said it yourself, that was in the past. Women in the past were oppressed by feudal ideas. It is different now. This is the 21st century. Women have long since risen up and become masters of their own destiny."

"Okay, okay, you're getting off topic. Now I'm asking about Grandpa." The old man interrupted the second sister-in-law and said to Grandpa, "You two continue to explain. Tell me what you did."

"We didn't do anything." This is the only thing A-Zu and Yumi kept saying to each other.

The second old man said unhappily: "Just live together, just live together openly. Why are you hiding it from others?" The second old man still insisted that the man was unmarried and the woman was unmarried, so he was not afraid to live openly.

"Grandpa and grandma, I think we should hurry up and help them get married." The second sister-in-law suggested.

"I object." A-Zu quickly raised his hand.

"Azu, do you want to deny it?" Sachiko glared at Azu.

"I object, too." Yumi also raised her hand.

Sachiko was so angry that she ran over and was about to slap Yumi, "What do you mean by this? I'm helping you? Do you really want to get married after you're pregnant?" Sachiko tapped Yumi's little head.

"Cousin, there's really nothing going on between me and Brother A-Zu." Yumi was so upset that she couldn't even cry. Nothing she said would be of any use.

"Do you think something will happen if you live together? Will the things you imagine happen?" A-Zu defended, "You are so vulgar, judging others by your own standards."

"Actually, I live with A-Zu-niang, but that doesn't mean we have that kind of relationship. We're just friends, not lovers. Do you think living together before marriage is fashionable? That's out of date. What's popular now is sexless cohabitation." Yumiya explained.

After hearing this, Kang Qirui said quietly, "A sexless marriage is not a marriage, is it?" The people who were originally a little shaken finally came to their senses and continued to stare at Azu Yumi and the others.

"Brother Rui, can I call you brother? Can you please stop messing with me? You know we don't mean that." A Zu was overwhelmed. If Kang Qirui determined that he had a relationship with Youmei, others would really believe Kang Qirui.

Kang Qirui stopped teasing A Zu and nodded, "I'm just correcting your words. Sexless cohabitation means that you are in a cohabitation relationship, which is a state of love. I know what you want to say. I think the term "shared housing" would be more accurate."

A-Zu and Yumi both nodded vigorously. "That's right, we are just sharing the rent. Brother Rui is right, we are sharing the rent, we are innocent, we have never done anything."

"That won't work either. Even sharing the house won't work." Sachiko breathed a sigh of relief, but she still insisted, "Clear? Nothing has happened? Then we can each live separately, and Yumi can move back in."

Yumi didn't want to come back. Living outside was so free. She looked at Kang Qirui for help, "Brother Rui, please help me talk to my cousin."

"Forehead"

Kang Qirui had no better solution. After all, the story of A-Zu and Yumi was really explosive. He knew that more than a decade later, this kind of opposite-sex sharing was very common in first-tier cities. Everyone was forced to share a house with a stranger of the opposite sex for work and livelihood. But if they had a choice, Kang Qirui believed that they would also prefer to share a house with the same sex.

A-Zu and Yumi are not strangers who share a house like in later generations. They are acquaintances who share a house. A man has a girlfriend, but he does not share a house with his girlfriend. Instead, he chooses to share a house with another familiar woman. The two of them cook and go out together every day. Such a situation, let alone in 2001, is still very explosive even in 2024.

(End of this chapter)