Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

Chapter 140 Brother Bao and the Ants
"Mom, this roast goose is delicious."

A few days later, at lunch on the weekend, Grandpa took a piece of roast goose and praised it. Kang Qirui tried it and it was indeed good, so he asked where he bought it, and the mother said he bought it at the street corner. "Did Uncle Chen win the lottery today? The roast goose is so delicious, unlike his usual gestures, hahaha." The usual roast goose is not so delicious.

While everyone was chatting, Diana looked melancholy. She put down her chopsticks and said, "I don't want to eat anymore. I'm full." A-Zu was stunned for a moment, then picked up a roast goose leg and gave it to her. "Diana, don't pretend to be polite. Here, I'll give you a roast goose leg."

Diana covered the rice bowl with her hand and whispered, "No, I don't want to eat it." A-Zu shrugged and said indifferently, "You don't want to eat? Then I will eat it."

"You are not allowed to eat it either. Don't learn from those vulgar people." Diana continued to whisper softly, "Brother Bao, you used to eat very little of something as good as the Pearl White Jade Pills. Why are you eating so much now?"

Brother Bao? Kang Qirui and Zhu Wanling looked at each other and both tried to hold back their laughter. They were right. Diana really did imitate Lin Daiyu after reading A Dream of Red Mansions. But the maid didn't understand. She asked, "Grandpa, who is Brother Bao?"

"Madam, Brother Bao is Jia Baoyu, and the fourth brother and the fourth sister-in-law are now Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu, hahaha." Kang Qirui explained to the madam with a smile, and also teased A Zu and Diana. Diana didn't understand what Kang Qirui meant at all, she nodded and said, "Yes, he is Brother Bao, and I am Sister Lin."

A Zu was so embarrassed that he wished there was a hole in the ground for him to crawl into. He pulled Diana back to the room without even saying hello. After they left, Kang Qirui and Zhu Wanling laughed. The second sister-in-law said to the second brother, "Husband, shall we play like A Zu and Diana?"

"What are we playing?" asked the second brother.

"I am Pan Jinlian, and you are Ximen Qing." Kang Qirui was so shocked by his second sister-in-law's words that his bowl fell on the table. He asked reflexively, "Then who is Wu Dalang and who is Wu Song?" He regretted it as soon as he said it, because the old lady Dou, the second brother and the second sister-in-law all glared at him.

After lunch, everyone watched TV and ate fruit in the living room. Of course, Zu, the foodie, was there. But just as he took a bite of fruit, Diana came out holding a copy of Dream of the Red Chamber and asked, "Brother Bao, do you have a hoe at home?"

"Hoe?" A'zu was stunned for a moment, but Kang Qirui immediately realized that Diana should have seen the part where Daiyu buried the flowers. He held back his laughter and said, "Yes, yes, there's one in the utility room, go get it." That was bought when the second brother wanted to dig up the toilet to look for treasure, but he was stopped by Kang Qirui in time and it has been kept in the utility room ever since it was used.

Zhu Wanling rolled her eyes when she saw Kang Qirui watching the fun. She felt that her husband was good in every way except that he loved watching the fun, like a child. Diana was very excited when she heard Kang Qirui's words and said, "There are fallen flowers in the courtyard. I'm going to bury them. Brother Bao, I want you to be buried with me."

"Ah?" The second brother was shocked.

"What's the condition for rebelling? You have to be buried with me." The second sister-in-law said "Puh, Puh" three times.

A-Zu quickly stood up and comforted the anxious old lady, "Don't get excited, I'm used to this. It's okay, she meant to accompany Daiyu to bury the flowers, not to bury me with the flowers." Then he came to Diana and asked, "Diana, I remember Daiyu went alone, so I don't need to go."

Diana shook her head, "Brother Bao came later." She took Diana and walked into the patio garden. After more than ten minutes, Kang Qirui went inside to take a look and found that they were really burying flowers. Kang Qirui was watching with great interest at first, but as he watched, he felt more and more strange.

After thinking about it, he decided to interfere in his family's love life for the first time. He coughed to let A Zu and Diana know of his presence, and when they all looked over, Kang Qirui said, "Fourth brother, why do you like Diana?"

A Zu didn't expect Kang Qirui to ask him this question. After a moment of silence, he answered in Diana's expectant gaze: "It's because she has the autonomy, independence and distinct personality of foreign women." Diana felt sweet after hearing this.

Kang Qirui nodded and asked, "So if you let her learn from Lin Daiyu now, will she still be the independent and distinctive Diana that you like?" Seeing that A Zu and Diana both had thoughtful expressions, Kang Qirui quietly left and returned to the living room to continue watching TV with Zhu Wanling.

"What have you been doing in there for so long? What are Zu and Diana doing?" Zhu Wanling asked. Kang Qirui said proudly, "I went in to save two lost lambs." Zhu Wanling rolled her eyes and ignored Kang Qirui's boasting. After Kang Qirui's soul-searching, Zu and Diana decided to be themselves and no longer imitate Lin Daiyu.

A few days later, Er Lao saw many more ants in the courtyard when he got up. He rushed to get insecticide to spray them to death, but was stopped by Lao Dou, who said that he had bought these ants for more than 2,000 yuan. When Er Lao heard this, he shouted and called the whole family over. After listening to Er Lao's retelling, everyone was stunned by Lao Dou's anger.

"So you guys don't read books or newspapers. Now many flyers say that raising ants can make you rich, and some people even come to buy them. You just watch me get rich." Facing everyone's questioning, Dad was not panicked at all, and after saying that, he took biscuits to feed the ants. "Dad, you are too wasteful, aren't you? Feeding ants with biscuits?" A Zu said angrily.

"Ants like to eat sweet things." Lao Dou said as a matter of course, "Do you know why Xiang Yu died? It was because he let ants eat sweet things."

The old man's tone was particularly confident. Kang Qirui carried forward his tradition of watching the fun and not fearing the big things, and said with a suppressed smile: "Old man, I don't believe it. It has nothing to do with it." The old man really took the bait, and he said: "Don't you understand? Let me tell you, when Xiang Yu retreated to Wujiang River, he saw ants crawling all over the words 'Xiang Yu died here'. He thought it was God's will so he committed suicide."

"Oh wow, what a coincidence?" Kang Qirui said at the right time when everyone was still confused.

"It turned out that it was Liu Bang who bewitched him. He wrote the words 'Xiang Yu died here' on the ground with sugar water, and the ants crawled on it. Xiang Yu thought it was God's will and decided to die." Lao Dou explained with a laugh.

I almost believed your lies. This is Kang Qirui's current psychological portrayal. The second sister-in-law said helplessly: "They just use sugar water, it's too wasteful for you to use biscuits, master." As a result, the old man also had his own reasons, "These biscuits are imported, and ants will grow faster after eating them, so we can make money."

"Dad, you must have read too many flyers and got cheated." The second brother pointed out the problem directly.

"Where's the evidence?" The old man was not convinced. "My silly father, you said he was a liar, how can a liar have any evidence?" The second brother was helpless. Raising ants will make you rich? He would never believe it even if he was beaten to death. If he is not a liar, then what is he?

"You are a bunch of losers. You blame me when I have nothing to do. Now I have something to do and you still blame me." The old man still didn't believe that he was cheated. At this time, he saw Diana coming in and asked, "Diana, you usually tell the truth. Do you think I was cheated by someone for raising ants?"

"Yes, Dad, you've been cheated." Diana handed the newspaper in her hand to her father, "Look, the newspaper said it was a scam." Kang Qirui turned his head and looked at Diana and A Zu. Well, she turned back into the familiar Diana. It seemed that these two people were really thinking seriously about how to get along with their family members.

"Ah? Then I lost more than 2,000 yuan in vain?" After seeing the report in the newspaper, my father had to believe it. After watching the excitement, Kang Qirui came out to comfort my father, "It's okay, my father, you can return it now and get your money back, it's not considered a scam."

There are two main scams of raising ants. One is the Donghua Group illegal fund-raising fraud case, and the other is the Yili Shen ant rental fraud case. Both cases are still in a very developing period at this stage, and ant farmers at this time can really make money. The Donghua Group's case was not executed until the moment before his execution, and many owners who benefited from ant farming teamed up to appeal for him. The Yili Shen case was even more outrageous. In 03, the Yili Shen advertisement endorsed by Uncle Benshan was broadcast on CCTV and other TV stations across the country. The degree of brainwashing was no less than "Use Melatonin for gifts". In 03, the sales of Yili Shen reached 5.3 million.

It is only 2002 now, and it is still a long time before the scam is exposed, so Kang Qirui said that it is not too late for Lao Dou to get a refund. As for other people who have been cheated, Kang Qirui is powerless. After all, they can still speak up for the scammers after the scammers have been sentenced to death. Kang Qirui will definitely not persuade them to change their ways.

"So many dishes?" When they were having dinner, they found that the meal seemed particularly rich and sighed. The nanny said, "Your father went to return those ants today, and he actually made more than a hundred yuan. He said he would add more dishes today."

"What do you think, is this really a scam? When I went to return it today, not only did they not make things difficult for me, they even gave me an extra hundred, saying that I had worked hard to raise it all day. I was thinking, if this was a scam, would they return the money so readily? Not only did they return the money, but they also gave me extra money?" The old man looked puzzled, and when he said that, the others had similar expressions and became suspicious.

Only Kang Qirui still firmly believed that it was a scam. He explained to everyone: "In fact, this is a Ponzi scheme. The simple understanding is 'rob Peter to pay Paul'. First tell everyone how high the rate of return is, and then use the money of the people behind to pay the people in front as a quick profit. Because the people in the front did get very generous returns, more and more people believed it and invested more and more money. After they defrauded enough money, they ran away."

The first one to understand was A-Zu. He suddenly realized, "That means they haven't defrauded enough money yet, so they are afraid of being exposed, so they return the money to Lao Dou. And they deliberately pay more money to create the illusion of making money."

"Yes, so you will never buy ants again, old man. They are taking advantage of your psychology and making you think that he made 100 yuan in one day, so how much can I make in a year?" Kang Qirui continued to scold old man, "How many people will go to him to buy ants at once? If you really go to buy ants, you will see that you will not be able to find him in less than three months."

Lao Dou did have the idea of ​​buying another one and raising it again. He finally thought it through, but he still said stubbornly, "When did I say I would buy another one? I was just telling you about my experience today. Let's eat."

(End of this chapter)