Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

Chapter 156: World Cup Aftermath (Continued)

"Honestly, are TV stations short of talent? They keep filming these kinds of things."

The second brother looked at the TV for a while and shook his head, showing no interest at all. He continued to complain: "If so, just tell me. I, Kang Qi Zong, have a lot of ideas to offer them."

The second sister-in-law rolled her eyes, raised her hands and patted the air, and said angrily: "You are kind, if you don't want to see it, don't make any noise. So much nonsense!"

A Zu said, "Then show it to Second Sister-in-law, don't be so annoying."

The second brother lay on the sofa and spread his hands, "I'm not annoyed!" Kang Qirui shook his head. If you're not annoyed, why are you speaking Mandarin?
A Yao: "You are more annoying than me!"

A-Zu: "I'm not as annoying as you!"

The three brothers were annoying each other, which made the second sister-in-law feel overwhelmed. The maid washed some fruits for everyone. After she put them down, she asked in confusion: "What's wrong with you? You've been either annoyed or bored these days."

Kang Qirui took an apple and ate it while saying, "Mom, they are in this World Cup. Those who wanted to watch were eliminated, and those who are still in the game don't want to watch it, so they are depressed." The second sister-in-law felt that what Kang Qirui said was right, "Yes, these guys are suffering from post-World Cup depression."

"Wrong, I'm not suffering from post-cup depression." Ah Zu jumped up, holding the water cup as a microphone and sang: "I am empty, I am lonely, I am empty again."

"Shut up and sit down." Just now, A Yao said that the TV polluted his visual environment. Kang Qirui wanted to say that A Zu's crazy look was the real pollutant of his visual and auditory environment. Sachiko also felt that the three of them were in the way, and she also cursed, and A Zu sat down awkwardly.

The second sister-in-law even directly asked them to go away, "Go away, go away, don't disturb us watching TV." The pregnant second sister-in-law spoke, and the second brother and the other two had to leave reluctantly.

"It's crazy, it's just the World Cup, everyone must be sick." The second sister-in-law was still disliking the second brother and the others. Sachiko nodded in agreement. Kang Qirui thought for a while and said, "It's rare for the Chinese national football team to make it to the finals. It's normal for the second brother and the others to have expectations. The more expectations, the greater the disappointment. Of course they will feel uncomfortable. The second and third sisters-in-law should pay more attention to their emotions and don't let them do anything stupid." After that, he went back to his room.

Back in the room, the little girl Kang Siqi was breastfeeding. When she heard the sound, she turned her head and saw that it was her father. After that, she stopped breastfeeding and stretched out her hands to grab Kang Qirui. Kang Qirui was immediately very happy and said, "You want daddy to hold you, right? Come, daddy, hold you."

Zhu Wanling slapped his hand away and said, "Stop making trouble. She just woke up and hasn't eaten yet." Then she patted her daughter on the back and scolded her, "Do you like your dad so much? Who was hungry and wanted to eat milk just now?" After she coaxed Kang Siqi and fed her a few more mouthfuls, Kang Siqi was determined not to eat anymore, so Kang Qirui picked her up and started playing with her on the bed.

In the next few days, the two brothers, A Yao and A Zu, were in a bad mood and caused different troubles. When the two brothers were buying goods, they were all thinking about the World Cup. He originally planned to buy 20 cases of beer, but he wrote 200 cases. When the brewery sent the beer to them by truck, the two brothers were shocked. Fortunately, beer is easy to store, but it takes up too much space.

Because the national football team's games were either at 2:30 or 7:30, A Yao remembered the time when the bureau leader came to inspect as 7:30. As a result, the leader, who arrived at the airport at 6:30, had to wait for half an hour before being picked up by the driver. The director scolded A Yao for half an hour.

A Zu was even more exaggerated. He sent the important documents that Miss Tang asked him to mail directly to Brazil. Fortunately, the postage was not enough and it was returned directly, otherwise he would probably lose his job.

On the weekend, Kang Qirui came to A Yao's room to find him and borrow his computer. Kang Qirui of course had his own computer, but his daughter was still asleep, so he came to A Yao's room because he didn't want to wake her up. "Spanish star? Who is the one in the red frame?" He asked, seeing a newspaper on A Yao's computer screen. He only recognized a few of the football stars of this period, and he only recognized Casillas and Raul. Seeing that A Yao ignored him, Kang Qirui picked up the newspaper and saw a name written in small letters under the photo, "Morientes? Idol?"

"What kind of idol is this? I feel sorry for him. This is outrageous." When Ayao heard Morientes' name, he stood up excitedly like a bull seeing a red cloth. "It was clearly a goal, but the referee ruled it was not scored. This referee is too much."

A Yao was talking about the match against Spain yesterday afternoon. He said that he would not watch the Chinese national team being eliminated, but his body was still very honest. In yesterday's quarter-finals, the referee blew off a free kick by the Spanish team in the second half of the game, and also blew off a goal by Morientes in overtime. In the end, Spain lost in the penalty shootout, and the South Korean team entered the semi-finals of the World Cup.

Kang Qirui shook his head, turned on A Yao's computer, and said, "There's nothing we can do. The referee is the absolute authority on the field, and we can only listen to him." Even though this game is still considered by many people many years later that the referee was paid to let the South Korean team advance, the referee at the time, Egyptian Jamal Ghandour, firmly believed in an interview in 2022 that the 02 game was one of the best referees in his entire career. He claimed that if he really wanted to eliminate the Spanish team, he only needed to give the South Korean team a penalty kick.

But now A Yao obviously doesn't think so: "Since the end of the game yesterday, I have been thinking about why Spain lost. I thought about it all night, and I still think that they lost because of the referee. If the World Cup depends entirely on the referee in the future, will the World Cup still be the World Cup?"

Kang Qirui was working on his stuff in front of the computer while interrogating A Yao: "So according to you, it was the referee who made the Spanish team miss the penalty shootout?" He turned to look at A Yao, "Even if the tie in regular time and overtime was caused by the referee, what about the penalty shootout? Of course I don't deny that the referee had problems, but Spain's elimination cannot be entirely blamed on the referee. The referee is also a factor in the game. If you can't win, you can't win. There's no point in thinking about it. You might as well think about the happier times, haha."

After saying that, he left A Yao's room, leaving A Yao alone in the room crying sadly. "What period?" The old lady who was eating breakfast in the dining room saw Kang Qirui coming out of A Yao's room and heard A Yao's angry voice inside, so she asked, "Is it the in-laws who are arguing?"

"It's okay, we didn't quarrel. Third brother was wailing about the World Cup period." Kang Qirui sat down to eat breakfast, and A Yao's room came to him shouting again, "Is the World Cup still the World Cup?"

"Is World Cup depression so serious?" The second sister-in-law was a little surprised. The mother heard A Yao's voice getting louder and louder, and she put down her chopsticks and walked into A Yao's room worriedly, "World Cup. World Cup" A Yao kept crying. The old man and the mother were really worried, so they asked Kang Qirui to drive A Yao to the hospital.

Kang Qirui looked helpless. He was a government official. He cried like this because of the World Cup. He shook his head and drove. His father and mother drove A Yao to the gate of Kang's house and waited for Kang Qirui to drive over. After arriving at the hospital, Kang Qirui didn't know what number to register for depression due to the World Cup, so he just randomly chose an internal medicine department where there were not many people.

"Have you ever felt as uncomfortable as you do now?" the doctor started asking after taking your pulse and measuring your blood pressure.

A Yao scratched his head and said awkwardly, "Before? I haven't tried it."

The doctor frowned and said, "That's strange. There's nothing wrong with you. All the tests are normal." My father said, "Doctor, do you think it's some rare and complicated disease?"

"Well, go get another CT scan and have a thorough check." Before the doctor finished speaking, A Yao heard two people talking about football outside the corridor, so he ran out and asked, "What's the football news?"

"Maradona said the refereeing was unfair this World Cup and that we should organize another world tournament." One of them said. Kang Qirui came over and stopped A Yao from chatting, complaining, "You are seeing a doctor, why are you still watching football? Come on, come on." It was a rare weekend, and he wanted to go back to see his daughter early.

"Actually, if you ask me, football matches should use electronic referees, so there won't be mistakes." After Kang Qirui brought A Yao back, the doctor suddenly sighed. Kang Qirui couldn't help but shout in his heart: Is this the master among the people? He actually accurately predicted in 02 that electronic referees VAR would be used in the future. But this doctor was still wrong. Machines will not make mistakes, but people are still the ones who use machines, and people will "make mistakes".

(End of this chapter)