Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

Chapter 124 Brother Niu is Sick
"Brother Niu, what's wrong with you?"

On the first night of December, the long-lost Brother Niu walked into the Kang family in a daze. When Xianglan saw him, she asked worriedly, "Brother Niu didn't look right, his face looked wrong, and he walked weakly."

"It's okay, hello everyone, good evening." Brother Niu was still greeting everyone, but his voice was weak. "Sit down first." The old man was worried that something had happened to Brother Niu, so he quickly asked the big brother to help him sit down first.

"Brother Niu, were you robbed or assaulted? Why are your face and lips blue? Do you want me to go to the hospital with you to get your injuries checked? Do you want me to call the police?" The second brother looked at Brother Niu's face and became worried. He thought that Brother Niu was robbed. After all, Brother Niu was so rich, it was hard to say.

"If I said I'm fine, I'm fine. Why do you need to check my injuries?" Brother Niu sat down on the sofa and wanted to continue talking when he suddenly felt nauseous and said "uh" as if he was going to vomit.

"Want to vomit? Hurry up and get a bucket for Brother Niu." Kang Qirui was most afraid of dirt. Upon hearing this, the second sister-in-law hurried into the bathroom and took out a bucket of water and placed it in front of Brother Niu. "Brother Niu, did you eat something wrong? Or did you drink too much?" The second brother asked doubtfully. This shouldn't be the case. He was sitting next to Brother Niu and didn't smell any alcohol.

Brother Niu wanted to vomit, but swallowed it back. He took a break and said, "I've been vomiting all day, but it's okay, I won't die." It should be said that Brother Niu's mentality is really good.

"You've been vomiting all day and you still say you're fine?" The Kang family started discussing. "Brother Niu, what's wrong with you? How did it happen?" Big Brother Guang asked with concern, after all, he was Xianglan's relative.

"I, Tie Niu, don't know either. Originally, even if I got an upset stomach after eating something unclean, it would just go out from the bottom in a while and I would be fine. But this time, it all came out from the top." Brother Niu said weakly, but what he said was a bit disgusting.

"Brother Niu, what on earth did you eat that you shouldn't have?" Kang Qirui asked.

"No, what I eat is very ordinary." Brother Niu thought for a while and said, he hasn't eaten anything in the past few days.

"Sister-in-law, I think you and A Guang should take Brother Niu to the hospital tomorrow to check what's going on." The old man said to Xianglan and A Guang. Although the old man said that he didn't like visitors to his house, he was very concerned about every guest who came to his house. "No, no, going to the hospital is like killing me." Brother Niu waved his hand, showing great resistance to the hospital.

"The hospital is here to save your life, not to take it." Kang Qirui said unhappily. Zhu Wanling works in the hospital. What did she say about the hospital? He just saw Zhu Wanling frowning. Now is a special period, and one cannot get angry easily. So his tone became a little heavier.

Hearing Kang Qirui's tone, Brother Niu also remembered that the wife of the fifth brother of the Kang family had a regular position in the hospital. Knowing that he had said something wrong, he quickly explained: "Fifth brother, please don't misunderstand me. I'm not saying that hospitals are bad. It's just that I, Old Niu, get dizzy whenever I hear the word hospital. I, Old Niu, can only go to restaurants and not hospitals in my life. It's my personal problem."

Kang Qirui shook his head. He wasn't really angry. He just wanted to remind Brother Niu. So he joked, "Brother Niu, don't even think about going to the hospital. Just think of it as going to a restaurant."

At this time, Xianglan brought a bottle of Baoji Pills and said, "Brother Niu, take some of this. It's very effective. You won't vomit after taking it." Brother Niu was very resistant to the smell of the Baoji Pills. He stretched out his hand to block it and said, "Go away, if you really care about me, go out and buy me something good to eat. Just now, the five brothers told me to go to the restaurant as if I were myself, and I'm hungry now."

As expected of Brother Niu, he was vomiting and having diarrhea, but he was thinking about eating. Xianglan had no choice but to go out and buy him a midnight snack. However, he was fine when he was eating, but he started vomiting and having diarrhea after eating. The mother and the father told Xianglan and the boss Guangming to take Brother Niu to see a doctor tomorrow.

The next morning, Xianglan was waiting for Brother Niu at the door of his room. When Brother Niu got up and opened the door, he saw Xianglan and said, "Oh, Xianglan, I'm really fine. I'm just a little short of oxygen now."

"Brother Niu, stop making excuses for me. Go wash up quickly. I'll take you to the hospital. A Guang has already called a taxi." Xianglan insisted. This was her relative from her hometown. If something really happened in her family, she would never be able to go back to her parents' home. Brother Niu had no choice but to agree to go to the hospital after her earnest persuasion. When Kang Qirui came back from get off work, he saw a group of people from the Kang family eating porridge around Brother Niu. Everyone looked sad. What happened? Did Brother Niu really have a serious illness? But seeing how happy Brother Niu was while eating, it didn't seem like that.

Holding back his curiosity, Kang Qirui greeted everyone and then asked, "Brother Niu, how was your visit to the hospital today? You seemed to be eating so happily, is everything alright?" Brother Niu drank porridge with pickles and said, "I don't know. After the examination at the hospital today, the doctor didn't let me in and only called Xianglan and A Guang in."

He turned around and looked at Xianglan and Big Brother Guang who were standing behind him, "Sister Guang, what's wrong with me? What did the doctor say? Is my illness serious?"

"Brother Niu, let me tell you the truth." The big guy got stuck halfway through his sentence and he backed off, "Let Xianglan speak." Brother Niu stared at Xianglan. Xianglan didn't dare to say anything when she was stared at. She kept saying "I" for a long time but couldn't tell what the disease was.

"Xianglan, we are from the same hometown and relatives, right? You know I have a quick temper, right? It seems that you are going to suffocate me and make me anxious today, right?" Brother Niu also felt that something was wrong and became a little anxious. Kang Qirui was also very curious about what was going on. "It's nothing serious, it's just that there is something extra in your stomach." Xianglan finally said.

"That's it? Oh, I thought it was something else. Isn't it normal to have something in the stomach?" Brother Niu laughed after hearing this, not taking it seriously at all. "I eat so much every day, so what's the big deal about this extra piece?"

"Brother Niu, you went for the check-up on an empty stomach this morning, so there's nothing in your stomach." Xianglan said tactfully.

"Hmm?" Brother Niu was stunned and asked, "How big is that thing?"

"About that big." The boss made a gesture, saying it was as big as two fingers. "I see, it must be the hawthorn we ate last night." Hawthorn? Hawthorn?
"Brother Niu, do you have any common sense of hygiene? Hawthorn aids digestion. The hawthorn residue I ate last night was digested this morning. Why is it still there?" Er Lao said unhappily.

"Brother Niu, let me tell you the truth. You have a tumor in your stomach." Xianglan said in a tearful tone. "What?" Brother Niu also stopped what he was doing, staring at his sister-in-law with wide eyes in disbelief. "What did you just say?" The sister-in-law had to repeat what she said. "How did you know?" Brother Niu asked.

"The doctor said so this morning. He didn't let you in, but he was afraid that you couldn't stand the shock, so he told me." The eldest sister-in-law explained. Brother Niu was also stunned and stood still. "Brother Niu, don't scare us. The results of the examination have not come out yet. We don't know whether the tumor is benign or malignant." The second brother hurriedly advised.

"Benign or malignant? What's wrong with benign? What's wrong with malignant?" Brother Niu asked Kang Qirui tremblingly. He knew that the most educated people in the Kang family were the five brothers. "If it's benign, then nothing will happen. If it's malignant, then part of the stomach will have to be removed." Kang Qirui explained. Although he studied literature, he still understood this basic common sense.

"What? How much should be cut off?" Brother Niu asked nervously. Kang Qirui didn't know. He looked at Xianglan, wanting to know what the doctor had told her. "About three quarters." Xianglan said honestly.

"No, you can even dig out my heart, but you can't cut out my stomach. That's what I, Old Niu, eat." Brother Niu said excitedly.

"Brother Niu, you can't joke about your own life." Kang Qirui advised.

"According to what you said, it must be malignant?" Brother Niu was now sad and disappointed. "No, Brother Niu, the results are not out yet, don't be so pessimistic." Kang Qirui comforted him. "That's right, Brother Niu, maybe it's more likely to be benign, look at how healthy Brother Niu is." Everyone was also comforting Brother Niu.

(End of this chapter)