Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

"Big sister, what are you going to buy?"

After dinner, A-Di asked the big brother Guang Xianglan to accompany her to the night market, and Xianglan asked. During the day, they took A-Di to Baiyun Mountain. It was economical and affordable to spend a whole day with a few dollars of tickets.

"No big deal, just buy whatever you like." A-Di said with a smile. After climbing the mountain all day, she had been wanting to go shopping.

Big Brother Guang also came over and said, "There are a lot of two-yuan stores in Guangzhou now. You can choose whatever you want for two yuan each. Xianglan and I will take you to have a look later?"

A-Di shook her head and said with a smile, "No, I want to go to Jingcheng Road and Huanshi Road. There are many big department stores there. I also want to go to World Trade Center and Tianhe City Mall. I heard there are many brands to buy there."

Da Lao Guang and Xiang Lan were both shocked, their eyes widened as they asked, "Ah? You want to buy a branded item?"

A-Di was also stunned by their shocked expressions, "Yeah." She didn't understand why they were so surprised when she wanted to buy a brand.

"Adi, those are big companies, and the things there are very high-end and expensive." The boss said with embarrassment. He always thought that Adi was still as poor as before. If she really went to those places to buy things, she couldn't afford it herself, but she was reluctant to pay for it herself.

But A-Di said meaningfully: "Money is not a problem. The most important thing is that I want to check out the market." She thought for a moment and then said: "Let's not talk too much. It's getting late. Let's go quickly, shall we?"

Da Lao Guang was about to nod his head in agreement, but Xianglan held him back and said to A Di, "Excuse me, sister. I suddenly remembered that I have something to do in the evening. A Guang and I have an appointment to talk about restaurants with an expert. How about we go shopping another day?"

The boss looked at Xianglan and knew that she didn't want to go by herself so as not to have to pay, so he also kept silent. A-di smiled in understanding and said, "It's okay, you guys can go and do your work, I'll go by myself. Anyway, we can take a taxi back and forth, so we won't get lost."

"Okay, do your own thing." She picked up her handbag and went out. She went out for more than three hours and didn't return to Kang's house until around 10 o'clock in the evening.

After everyone watching TV greeted A-Di, Er Lao asked curiously, "Sister Di, after spending an entire night in Cantonese, what do you think of our Cantonese?"

"It's really beautiful, even more beautiful than a few years ago." A-Di sat on the sofa and said, "This night out feels very different from a few years ago. The night view is especially beautiful."

Big Brother Guang’s focus was different from everyone else’s. He asked, “Adi, you came to Guangfu a few years ago? Why didn’t you come to see me?”

A-Di waved her hands and explained, "No, I saw it on TV. This is my first time to visit Guangfu." Only then did Big Brother Guang change his expression and started to smile. A-Di sighed again, "To be honest, if it wasn't for the fight, I really wouldn't have come back. Guangfu is too big."

Seeing that she came back empty-handed, the second sister-in-law asked, "Sister Di, you have been shopping for so long and you didn't buy anything?"

A-Di nodded and said, "Yeah, I didn't buy anything, but I liked a camera. That camera..." She was just talking when Da Lao Guang interrupted her and said, "Wait, A-Di, did you buy it?"

"No." A-Di shook her head.

"It's a good thing you didn't buy it, otherwise you would have wasted your money." Big Brother Guang breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "I have two of those things." Everyone looked at Big Brother Guang in surprise. He continued, "What are you looking at? Do you think you big brothers have no wealth? A-Di, wait for me, I'll give you one."

A-Di stared at the big guy who walked back to the room and was stunned. "Give it to me?"

When everyone saw that the boss had returned to his room, they all looked at Xianglan with confusion. Xianglan herself was also confused, "Don't look at me, I don't know anything."

The price of cameras is not affordable these days. Entry-level models cost three to four thousand yuan, and semi-professional models can even cost tens of thousands of yuan. So when the boss said he had two cameras, everyone was so surprised. This thing is not something that anyone can afford.

"It's a good thing I asked you just now, otherwise I would have bought the same thing twice." Da Lao Guang came out of the room holding a camera, handed it to A Di and said, "This camera is a bit old, but it's still very useful. Consider it a gift from me to you."

A-Di looked at the camera in Da Lao Guang's hand and couldn't help laughing. "A-Guang, you're wrong. I don't want these, I want a digital camera." A-Di said.

Everyone started laughing, but Xianglan said helplessly, "I just find it weird. They clearly said camcorder, but you heard it as camera? I thought you bought two camcorders and I didn't know about it."

"It's not a camera?" Big Brother Guang said awkwardly. "I'm being kind to you, Big Brother. Tian Xiu won't even play with your point-and-shoot camera if you give it to him as a toy." Second Brother also laughed and teased. Big Brother Guang was not convinced, "What? I just heard her say she wanted to buy a camera."

"I have two of these cameras at home. I want to buy a 100-megapixel picture-in-picture camera." Auntie waved her hand and said to Big Brother Guang, "I just saw a Canon DC10 in Tianhe City. I heard it's new and has very advanced technology."

Er Lao whispered to Da Lao Guang and laughed that this time he was not just bleeding, but vomiting blood. Da Lao Guang was also a little nervous. He quickly said to A Di: "In fact, the camera you mentioned is not for sale. Tianhe City just took it out for display, not for sale."

"Really? I saw the one on top with a price tag on it." A-Di recalled it in her mind and said, "It's not that expensive, only about 5,000 yuan."

"You must have read it wrong. The price is in US dollars, which is equivalent to 4 yuan." The second sister-in-law deliberately exaggerated, "Such an expensive thing is useless."

A-Di frowned. She didn't think she was seeing things. But she still followed her second sister-in-law's question and asked, "Where can I buy cheaper ones?"

"Gangcheng, there are cheaper ones for sale in Gangcheng." Da Laoguang said smartly. A-Di's eyes lit up and she was about to speak, but Xianglan took the lead and pulled Da Laoguang over and whispered, "What if she wants us to accompany her to Gangcheng for a tour?"

Da Lao Guang was startled and turned around and said hurriedly, "Adi, the problem is that you have to use Hong Kong dollars to buy in Hong Kong City, and we don't have that many Hong Kong dollars."

"Hong Kong dollars?" A-Di thought thoughtfully.

At this time, the landline in the living room rang. Big Brother Guang didn't want to continue talking about the camera, so he took the initiative to answer the phone, "Hello? Who are you looking for? The boss? We don't have a boss. You dialed the wrong number." Then he hung up the phone.

"How can there not be any? We don't have much in our family, but we have a lot of bosses." Erlao was right. He was the general manager of the tea restaurant, Sachiko was the general manager of the confinement center, Ersao was the deputy general manager of the clothing company, and A-Zu was the president of the film and television company. These four could all be called bosses.

"A Guang, who are you looking for?" the nanny asked. Big Brother Guang shook his head and said, "He said he wanted to find the boss, but I thought there is no one with the surname "Boss" in our family. They are all surnamed Kang, and there is Lao Kang. So I hung up, and I don't know who he is looking for."

Everyone rolled their eyes speechlessly when they heard this.

"Ring, ring, ring" At this time, another ring sounded from A-di's handbag that she placed next to the phone. Da Lao Guang took the handbag and handed it to A-di and said, "A-di, why did you bring the alarm clock with you when you came to Guangzhou?" Kang Qirui couldn't hold it back anymore and laughed so hard that tears came out.

"Sorry, maybe my cell phone is ringing." A-Di unzipped her handbag and saw that someone was calling her. She stood up and said, "Sorry, I'll go in and answer the call first. You guys can chat slowly."

After she entered the room, the mother said with emotion: "Adi is really amazing, she even has a mobile phone." According to statistics from the Ministry of Information Industry, in 2005, the penetration rate of mobile phones in my country was 25 per 25 people, exceeding the world average for the first time. And these mobile phones are not just mobile phones, but also include many people who use PHS, so owning a mobile phone is still considered a symbol of status in this day and age.

Even though almost everyone in the Kang family has a cell phone, they don't dare to use their cell phones to make calls. Most of the time they use the landline at home because cell phone charges are too expensive. This is similar to the situation that 20 years later, the burden of maintaining a car is greater than buying a car, so everyone is quite surprised that A-Di has a cell phone.

The eldest brother was puzzled, he didn't want to believe that A Di was rich. The second brother pointed at the eldest brother and said, "I noticed that your performance has been much better recently. Don't act anymore. I want to ask you, did you give A Di the phone?"

"Me?" The eldest brother was stunned. He didn't expect that he could be suspected. But Xianglan agreed with the second brother, "Of course he gave it. Didn't Guang mishear and think that A-Di had cancer and sent 2,000 yuan? Since A-Di is not sick, the money doesn't need to be used for medical treatment. It is very likely that he used it to buy a mobile phone."

Lao Dou nodded and thought that Xianglan's idea was very possible. He sighed, "I never thought that the country people were so poor, but their consumption was so high and so extravagant." Even Da Lao Guang thought that Xianglan's guess was right. He couldn't help but say, "That's true, but fortunately I'm smart. So far, I haven't spent a penny, hahaha."

"Isn't it because I reminded you? Otherwise you would have been fooled this morning." Xianglan said.

Kang Qirui disagreed with everyone's point of view. He shook his head and said, "I think Sister Di is pretty good, not like what you say. And the boss hasn't seen her for more than 20 years. Maybe she has really developed. Don't we say in Cantonese that one year a small school becomes a middle school, three years a middle school becomes a big school, and five years a big school becomes a big school? Sister Di has been in the countryside for more than 20 years. It's normal for her to have a big school become a big school, right?"

Everyone was thinking about what they heard, but they still didn't quite believe it. Kang Qirui could understand them. After all, the boss had only heard that A-di was sick and sent two thousand yuan to her. Now A-di has appeared in Kang's house in good spirits for two days. She said she wanted to buy this and that, but she didn't even mention the two thousand yuan, let alone gave it all to the boss.

Therefore, everyone had a preconceived notion that A-Di was rich, or rather, everyone did not want to believe that A-Di was a person who obviously had a lot of money but did not pay back the money. (End of this chapter)