Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

Chapter 190 Spending money like water

"What did you say to that loser? Why did he change his attitude so quickly?"

Seeing Tianxiu happily running back to the room, Er Lao looked at Kang Qirui with a little surprise and asked. Kang Qirui shrugged and ignored him, letting him guess.

What could Kang Qirui say? He could only tell Tianxiu that there were more games on PHS than on mobile phones. As for whether games would harm Tianxiu, Kang Qirui thought that was not a problem at all.

For example, nowadays many parents do not allow their children to touch computers, thinking that computers are a scourge. However, ten years later, computers have become the most important productivity and learning tools.

Times are changing, but the battle of wits and courage between parents and children will never go out of date.

From unplugging the TV cable and hiding the remote control ten years ago, to hiding the mouse and putting away the broadband cable now, and then to hiding the mobile phone and tablet ten years later.

It is never these external temptations that ruin children, but the internal education of parents. Kang Qirui believes that children are like a blank sheet of paper, and what kind of person they will become in the future depends to a large extent on what their parents draw on this blank sheet of paper.

Kang Qirui is still very confident about the internal education of the Kang family. He thinks that Tianxiu will never become a fat otaku who is addicted to the Internet and games when growing up in such a family environment. Sometimes it is not appropriate to push children too hard, and they need to combine work and rest. This is why Kang Qirui advocates giving Tianxiu a PHS that can play games.

But ideals are beautiful, but facts are disappointing.

Just one week later, when Er Lao got home from get off work, A Yao said something to him. After hearing that, he angrily called Tian Xiu out of the room and said angrily, "Your uncle told me that your meal card is out of money and you need to top it up. You only spent 200 yuan for five days? You ate seafood buffets every meal?"

"How can I eat seafood buffet every meal?" Tianxiu firmly denied.

The second brother said unhappily: "No? Forty dollars a day on average, forty dollars is enough for a buffet." This price is enough for an elementary school student to eat in the cafeteria for a day even twenty years later.

"My boy, you are so fat now. If you keep eating like this, you will turn into a fat cat." The old man smiled. He didn't think too much about it. He simply felt that his grandson ate too much.

"You didn't hear the whole thing. Twenty yuan was the meal card deposit, and there is still three yuan and seventy yuan in it. That means I only used more than one hundred and seventy yuan." Tianxiu was calculating the bill, emphasizing that he had not used up all the two hundred yuan.

"That's right, second brother. The twenty yuan is indeed the deposit for the meal card." A Yao said, helping Tian Xiu prove that he did not spend as much as two hundred yuan.

The second brother was at a loss whether to laugh or cry, "It's only over one hundred and seventy yuan?" What's the difference between this and spending two hundred yuan?
"The food in the cafeteria is very expensive. Sometimes I buy some stir-fried dishes to change the taste, and some Coke, soup, etc. I really have never treated my classmates to a meal." Tianxiu confessed himself, but the second brother and his wife didn't hear it.

"Forget it, forget it. Eating is a blessing, as long as it is eaten and not wasted money." The mother was eager to protect her grandson, so she said something fair.

"It's good for children to eat better at noon, but they have to know when to stop, okay?" The old man also chimed in. After getting the support of the two elders, Tianxiu perfunctorily replied, "I know," and fled the scene. It was too late for the second brother and his wife to stop him.

The second sister-in-law looked at the second brother and asked, "Are you still going to charge it?"

"Of course I'll top it up, doesn't he need to eat?" The second brother rolled his eyes at the second sister-in-law in annoyance. This question was unnecessary. Lessons aside, if you have no money, you must top it up.

The second sister-in-law smiled awkwardly, took out two hundred yuan from her pocket and handed it to A Yao, "Third Uncle, then please help Xiuzai to top up another two hundred yuan." A Yao took the money and nodded.

Er Lao recalled what Tian Xiu had said just now, and finally understood what was going on. He slapped his thigh and said angrily, "Did you notice that the loser slapped his tailbone and confessed himself? I really didn't treat my classmates to a meal, and I didn't ask him this question."

"Yes, yes, that means you are invited." The second sister-in-law also realized it later.

"Also, I called him these days, but he was either busy on the phone or the phone was busy with something else. In short, I couldn't get through. There must be something wrong with this poor guy." The second brother thought for a while and instructed the second sister-in-law, "Leave Siyu to the nanny for the next two days, and you go and see what he is doing." "Okay." The second sister-in-law nodded.

Tianxiu was completely unaware that his second sister-in-law would follow him, and he did not hide his actions. His second sister-in-law went out for a day and found out everything about him. He had lunch with two or three classmates, and they had a bottle of Coke for each of them in addition to the delicious fish and meat. Not only that, he also lent his cell phone to more than a dozen classmates to chat on the phone.

The second sister-in-law was so angry that she almost had a fit on the spot. She held back her anger and returned to the Kang family. That night, she and the second brother played a mixed doubles match against Tianxiu, and directly stopped his meal card, so that he could only go home for dinner every day. Because of this incident, Tianxiu was also excluded by other classmates. Tianxiu looked depressed and found Kang Qirui who was reading a newspaper alone in the courtyard garden.

"Are you trying to ask me why they excluded you?" Kang Qirui asked, putting down the newspaper.

Tianxiu nodded, "Yes, I treated them to so many meals before, and my parents beat me up. I just can't treat them to meals anymore. Why don't they thank me but exclude me? I don't understand."

"Let me tell you a story." Kang Qirui thought about it and decided to use a story to tell Tianxiu the truth.

"Once upon a time, there was a kind-hearted young man who gave a bun to a nearby beggar every day as a way of helping him. He did this for a long time. But suddenly one day, the young man had no buns to eat from the beggars, so the beggars found the young man and scolded him severely, thinking that the young man was a heinous crime for cutting off his food supply."

"It was the same beggar. There was a well-known bully living near him. The bully would slap the beggar every day. Suddenly one day, the devil stopped begging the beggar. The beggar was very happy and cried with gratitude to the bully, thinking that the bully was kind."

"Do you understand?"

Tianxiu shook his head, and Kang Qirui asked him to think about it carefully. He really thought about it for a while, but still shook his head and said, "Uncle Yao, I still don't understand why a good person becomes a bad person if he doesn't do good things for one day?"

"Tianxiu, you must remember, unless you are sure that you have the ability to always be good to her, don't be good to others without reservation. Because human nature is that many times when you are sincere to someone, over time she will not take you seriously, and she will think that everything is natural. And as long as you don't treat her well once, she will immediately be full of malice towards you." Kang Qirui said.

"Is that so?" Tianxiu felt that his worldview was challenged.

"Give me an example. Is your dad better to you than your mom? Of course they are. So how do you view all this?" Kang Qirui started with Tianxiu and tried to explain it to him as simply as possible. "Do you think it's natural for them to be good to you? If something doesn't go your way, you'll get angry with them?"

Tianxiu was about to deny it, but Kang Qirui said, "Don't deny it. Just like this time when your mom stopped your meal card, and last time your dad didn't buy you a cell phone or upgrade your computer, were you angry?"

Tianxiu was speechless this time. Kang Qirui patted his head and said, "So, that's the truth. Even father and son are like this. What's more, it's between you classmates."

It's not just Tianxiu, many children are actually like this. They fight back in front of their parents, but they are submissive in front of outsiders. They get angry when they disagree with their parents, but they dare not speak loudly to their partners, and they are always flattering.

"I understand." Tianxiu wanted to run away after he finished speaking, but Kang Qirui held him back, "Now that you understand, do you know what to do?"

"What?" Tianxiu blinked and joked, "I see. You want me to go back to school and be a bully, bullying them every day. When the day comes that I stop bullying them, they will be grateful to me, right?"

"Hey, you poor boy, you didn't play enough, right?" Kang Qirui's defense broke, "You don't want to learn good things, but you have to learn bad things, right?"

"Oh, I was just kidding." Tianxiu laughed, then said seriously: "Go back and apologize to your parents. I know, uncle."

Kang Qirui then smiled with relief.

Tianxiu is not a bad person, but he was spoiled too much by his family. He was the only child in the family for ten years after he was born. He was spoiled by his grandparents, parents, uncles and a bunch of people, so he became a little spoiled and lazy. In fact, he is very smart, polite and loving. From his love for animals and the fact that he only treated his classmates to meals when he took the money and did not do anything bad, we can see that he is a good person.

(End of this chapter)