Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

Chapter 155 World Cup Aftermath
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On the afternoon of June 4, Zhao Dayu came to Ruhao Tea Restaurant as scheduled to watch the first match of the Chinese national football team with the fans. The Chinese national football team faced Costa Rica, the weakest team in the group. Before the game, everyone expected to win one game, draw one game, and win one game, which was Costa Rica. At that time, the head coach of the Chinese national football team, Milutinovic, had experience in coaching Costa Rica before, so everyone's expectations were not completely impossible.

Just as everyone expected, Sun Taiyang broke through on the right after just one minute of the game, and the opponent could only stop him by committing a foul, giving the Chinese team a free kick in front of the penalty area. Zhao Dayu and the fans of Ruhao Tea Restaurant cheered excitedly. Then Yang Chen turned around and passed the opponent on the left, which resulted in the opponent receiving a yellow card. In the first 20 minutes of the game, the Chinese team basically pressed Costa Rica and was really full of hope of winning.

Although Sachiko, who was sitting between Kang Qirui and Ayao, didn't know much about football, she could tell from the excited voices of the fans around her that the Chinese national football team had a good chance of winning, and she became more and more panicked. The "Chinese national football team wins a game, and Mebon will refund the full amount" campaign had been launched for two weeks, and the business volume of both the direct-operated stores and franchise stores was booming. Just when she was panicking, Sun Taiyang was seriously injured by the opponent and was carried off the court on a stretcher. Zhao Dayu and the fans felt very sorry for him, and Kang Qirui knew that these 20 minutes were the only World Cup experience of Sun Taiyang in his career.

At the end of the first half, the score was 0-0 and the two sides shook hands. At halftime, Zhao Dayu was chatting and drinking with the fans. Sachiko finally found an opportunity to stop him and asked nervously, "Coach Zhao, do you think we can win this game?" Zhao Dayu smiled. He naturally knew what answer Sachiko wanted to hear, but he really thought that the Chinese national football team had hope. "From the first half, the two sides can be said to be evenly matched, and we have more opportunities. If we can seize the opportunities in the second half, there should still be hope."

As he spoke, he saw Sachiko's face darken. He paused and said, "But after the sun went down, our offensive also slowed down a lot. It's hard to say, hard to say."

Sachiko sat back in a panic, and Kang Qirui comforted her: "Don't worry, we can't do anything sitting here. We can only watch the performance on the field." At this time, Kang Qirui was also conflicted. He didn't know whether he hoped to win or lose. He could only leave his life and death to fate, and wealth and honor to God.

After the second half started, the Chinese national team had a series of chances, but they failed to seize them. Instead, Costa Rica scored a goal in the 60th minute in the penalty area by Gomez, breaking the deadlock and taking the lead. Sachiko jumped up, and then all the fans in the stadium stared at her. She quickly sat back and hid behind A Yao. Just when everyone was angry, Costa Rica scored another goal with a corner kick, scoring two goals in four minutes and leading 2-0, which was maintained until the end of the game.

After the game, Zhao Dayu chatted with the fans for a few minutes and then left. Kang Qirui saw him off and returned to Ruhao Tea Restaurant. He found Sachiko and said, "After this game, we basically won't lose money on this event. We can't play against the remaining two opponents. So we have to take advantage of the games in the next few days to increase the intensity of the event. Let everyone work overtime, open an hour earlier in the morning, and close an hour later in the evening."

Sachiko nodded, said something to Ayao, and went back to the company to arrange work. Kang Qirui also went home. When he came back, he saw Kang Siqi lying on the sofa playing. "Ah!" She couldn't speak yet, but she already knew people a little bit. She smiled happily when she saw her father coming back. Kang Qirui's heart melted. He hugged his daughter and started to chew her fat face.

When Zhu Wanling saw her daughter screaming because of Kang Qirui, she slapped him on the back and said, "Oh, you got her."

Kang Qirui smiled and said, "Our Siqi is obviously happy, right Siqi? Smile for mom." Kang Siqi also cooperated and laughed immediately. Zhu Wanling nodded her daughter's head and said, "Hey, it really is your father's cotton-padded jacket?"

Kang Qirui took his daughter to drink milk powder and coaxed her to sleep before coming to the dining room to eat. When he was coaxing the baby just now, everyone had already eaten, except him. Zhu Wanling heated up the food for him, and after Kang Qirui had eaten, she asked with concern: "How was the game today?"

Kang Qirui took a bite of the food and said, "Guess?"

"I'm a kid? I'm guessing." Zhu Wanling glared at Kang Qirui, "I know even without you telling me that we must have lost. If we had won, Sachiko would have come back long ago." Her logic was that if Sachiko didn't come back, it meant that the business was good, and if the business was good, it meant that the national football team lost. If we had won, the store would have closed long ago, and there would be no customers.

In the next two games, the Chinese national football team, just like in history, lost to Costa Rica 0-2, then lost to Turkey 0-3 and Brazil 0-4. No wonder Chinese people are good at math, they can even list out an arithmetic progression when they lose a game. With the elimination of the Chinese national football team, the activities at the clothing company also ended. After discussing with Kang Qirui, they launched a series of encore activities, but they were basically the same as the World Cup activities of other companies on the market. There was nothing explosive, but the business was better than usual. On the second night after the Chinese national football team was eliminated, Kang Qirui came home from get off work and saw Guangzongyaozu and the other two listlessly sitting on the sofa and sighing. He asked, "What's wrong with you? Sighing. Why don't you watch the game?"

"Alas, the Chinese national football team is out. It doesn't matter whether I watch other teams' games or not." A-Zu said dejectedly.

A Yao suddenly started cursing, "It's so infuriating just to talk about it. That referee was really outrageous. It was clearly a foul."

"That's right, how could they be eliminated in the group stage?" Although Erlao is also a shareholder of the clothing store and the Chinese national football team's defeat brought him a lot of profits, but as a fan he still couldn't accept it and said with tears in his eyes.

Kang Qirui shook his head. Now everyone is scolding this national football team, but this national football team later became the youth of countless people. "Do you want to be like this? It's just a game. If you lose, you lose. Besides, there are so many teams and so many games in the World Cup. It's also very exciting." He comforted everyone.

This year was the peak of the Chinese national football team. When everyone thought that the Chinese national football team would rise from then on, the Chinese national football team played a joke on everyone. You thought it was the beginning? In fact, it was already the peak. The Chinese national football team in later generations was getting worse and worse, losing more and more. Everyone was disappointed when they lost to Syria, which had been at war for years, but then they lost to Vietnam during the Spring Festival and Hong Kong City on New Year's Day, which made fans witness that the Chinese national football team will never have a bottom line.

"Wow..." My second sister-in-law suddenly burst into tears while watching TV.

"Hey, hey, hey, your husband is still alive, why are you crying?" When the second brother saw his second sister-in-law crying, he kicked her.

"Wow, I'm heartbroken." The second sister-in-law wiped her eyes with a tissue and pointed at the TV. These days, Kang Qirui and his brothers have been watching the World Cup on TV, and the second sister-in-law has not watched TV. Today, she rarely has TV to watch, but the couple she has been chasing after actually broke up. She couldn't keep up with the plot at all, and she immediately became sad.

"It's insane. What's so good about it? It pollutes our vision." Ah Yao was also very unhappy. He directly snatched the remote control from his second sister-in-law and changed the TV program.

"If you don't want to watch this, then don't watch this." The second sister-in-law also rushed over and changed the TV program. Anyway, she couldn't keep up with the plot, so she could change the show. "Huh, retard." A Zu said after watching for a while.

"Are you guys angry?" Kang Qirui felt that they were very resentful.

"You guys are really crazy. You become like this after watching the World Cup." Sachiko was also helpless. She was very happy now and didn't understand why her brothers were unhappy.

(End of this chapter)