Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

Chapter 40 Helping Cousin Bing

Kang Qirui's words won the unanimous approval of the second brother, second sister-in-law and A Zu. Landlords have it so comfortable. They don't even have to ask for the rent themselves. They can just lease it to the second-hand landlord and sit back and collect the money every month.

The second-hand landlords also make a lot of money. If nothing else, they make a lot of money from the water and electricity bills every month. The electricity price is 6 cents, but they just charge 5 yuan. Even if relevant policies are issued, it is useless. You have a plan, but he has a way to get over the wall. They changed the electricity price to 1 cents plus 5 cents for line maintenance, and they still charge you 6 yuan per kilowatt-hour. What can you do?

"My cousin is indeed a cultured man, he sees things clearly. I don't know how happy I am now, how can I be bored?" Cousin Bing also agreed with Kang Qirui's opinion, "I am like this now, I get up in the morning and go for tea, then walk around and visit the market. I have a simple lunch, in the afternoon I meet up with a few friends to play mahjong, and in the evening I meet up with friends to go to karaoke, sometimes to the sauna, and then go out for a midnight snack, and go home to sleep at three or four o'clock. Do you think I am happy?"

Not to mention that it is only the first day of 2001, even if it is 20 years later, Kang Qirui believes that 99% of people envy this kind of life, which is just like being in heaven. Everyone looked at Cousin Bing with a strange look in their eyes and decided to give him a good meal in the evening.

"Cousin, given your current status and position, you can't eat at home tonight, right?" The second sister-in-law is not only straightforward, but she is also very aggressive when she has something to say.

"Oh, that's right, it's already past 5 o'clock. We definitely can't have dinner at home. I'll treat everyone today and invite the whole family to a big meal." After hearing what his second sister-in-law said, cousin Bing looked at his watch and didn't hesitate to treat everyone to dinner.

"A Bing, A Bing, there's no need to spend so much money, just eat at home." But the old maid disagreed. They said that everyone who came to the house was a guest, and it was no fun to let the guests treat you to a meal.

"Aunt, your brain can't keep up with the current situation. Nowadays, people eat to be happy. They pay attention to the environment, the dishes, the service, and the enjoyment of eating. A Zong, you decide what you like to eat." There is nothing wrong with what cousin Bing said, but his tone sounds like a nouveau riche.

"There's a new Chaozhou restaurant opened at the corner of our street. Why don't we go there to eat Chaozhou food?" Ah Zu was very excited to hear that there was something to eat. He was a foodie.

"Just go to a food stall. Teochew cuisine is very expensive." Although the old lady agreed to go out to eat, she still wanted to save some money for her nephew.

"Hey, my cousin, this suggestion shows that you think highly of me. If I don't go, wouldn't I be embarrassed? Let's go eat Teochew food!" Cousin Bing made the decision. "Also, Grandpa, after dinner, I'll have to trouble you to find a place for everyone to sing, dance, and take a sauna. Let's relax and go."

"Wow, okay, okay, I'll arrange it for you." There was food and fun to be had, and A-Zu was very excited. He patted his chest and promised to make everything perfect for his cousin Bing.

After eating and singing karaoke, cousin Bing went back home. The old lady wanted him to stay at home for a few days, but cousin Bing disagreed, saying that Guangzhou was not as fun as their country. This made the Kang family confused. Is the country so developed now? Is it more fun than Guangzhou?

After New Year's Day, everyone went back to work and it was Xianglan's turn to take a day off. "Knock, knock, knock," there was a knock on the door. The Kang family usually closed the door at dinner time.

"I'll go open the door." Xianglan stood up and opened the door when she heard the voice. Not long after, everyone who was eating heard the eldest sister-in-law shouting outside, "What happened?" Everyone hurried out and saw a man with clothes on and couldn't see his face clearly, "Why did you let him in without asking clearly?"

"I don't know. He ran in as soon as I opened the door." The sister-in-law cried out in injustice.

"It's me, aunt and uncle." Kang Qirui grabbed the man and tore off his clothes. It turned out to be his cousin Bing. "Cousin, you really look amazing after three days of absence."

"Cousin, what happened to you? Were you robbed?" The second brother asked with concern. The wine that cousin Bing sent last time was still very good. "Achan, call the police."

"Hey, hey, hey, wait a minute, don't call the police." Cousin Bing said quickly, "Everyone listen to me, this is what happened, the village committee wanted to transfer my household registration to an urban one, but I didn't want to, so I ran away."

This confused everyone. What happened to the city hukou? Xianglan looked at the old woman and asked, "Mom, is he sick?" The old woman didn't know what was going on, so she asked A Bing to explain in detail what was going on.

"It's like this. The village committee said that I was disobedient and they want to transfer my household registration to an urban one." Cousin Bing was still vague.

Xianglan poured a cup of tea for her cousin Bing. "Isn't this good? Cousin, I want to discuss something with you. If you don't want a city hukou, then give it to me."

Although Xianglan has been married to Da Laoguang for half a year, her household registration is still in the rural area of ​​southern Henan. Unlike more than ten years later, when you can get a household registration after two years of marriage, according to the current household registration management method, although you can also transfer your household registration after marriage, the conditions are very harsh, and Xianglan does not meet any of them. If Xianglan wants to transfer her household registration to Guangfu, she can only buy a house and get a blue-print household registration. Sachiko is a blue-print household registration, and a blue-print household registration can be converted to a formal household registration after five years.

"Give it to you?" Cousin Bing asked doubtfully, "Cousin, I think you may have misunderstood. No one in our area wants to transfer their hukou to a city hukou."

"Why?" Everyone was confused. How many people are scrambling to get a city hukou, but why is no one willing to do so?
"It's very simple. We have opened many factories in our area, and many houses and land in the village are rented out. All villagers can participate in the dividend distribution, and each person can get at least more than 10,000 yuan a year. If I change my household registration to a city household, I won't get a penny, and I won't get any dividends." Cousin Bing explained.

What does this mean? In 2000, the average annual wage of employed workers in my cousin Bing's city was 12780 yuan, and the average annual net income of farmers was 5576 yuan. In other words, the dividends of my cousin Bing's village are equal to one year's salary of office workers and two years' income of farmers. No wonder my cousin Bing and his family care so much about this rural household registration. "So that's how it is." Everyone suddenly realized it.

"It's true that people have different fates." Xianglan, who also has a rural household registration, was very emotional. If they wanted to be farmers, they would not get any money, and if they wanted to be city dwellers, they could not get a household registration, so they had to go back to their room depressed.

"Cousin, why did your village transfer your household registration to an urban one?" Kang Qirui asked puzzledly.

"I just played a few rounds of mahjong." Cousin Bing was a little embarrassed. "So it was gambling." Kang Qirui understood a little and told the truth.

"We are playing small games, it's not gambling at all." Cousin Bing didn't think it was a big deal. He had a few acres of land and a few houses for rent, and his family of five earned nearly $60,000 in dividends a year. Playing mahjong was no big deal.

"A small piece of land is also called gambling." The old woman pointed at cousin Bing's head and said.

"I don't want to gamble, I just have my hands scratched. It's boring to just play, it's just a small amount of money." Cousin Bing was still quibbling, and even dragged it into the farmers, "Farmers are all like this, one month for the New Year, three months for farming, and eight months for gambling."

"Cousin, don't blame the ground for not being able to poop. Farmers are very hardworking and work hard to earn money." Kang Qirui didn't indulge his cousin Bing, "I think you don't farm for three months and gamble for twelve months."

This made everyone laugh. Kang Qirui continued, "How about this, cousin? I'll find you a job in Guangfu. When you earn money from working, take it back to the village committee to prove it. When the people in the village committee see how hard you work, they won't have the heart to really transfer you to a city hukou, right?"

The old lady and the old man looked at each other and both thought this was a good idea. If he could prove to the village committee that he had changed, he would be forgiven. But his cousin Bing disagreed: "Don't bother with my business. It's not a big deal. At most, I will go back and admit my mistakes. They won't really cancel my dividends."

"Can you please ignore it? If you go back and hang out with those people again, not only will you lose your treatment as a villager, but I'm afraid you will even lose all the capital you saved, you poor boy." The old woman hit A Bing and expressed her disappointment at his failure.

"Azu, can you find a job for my cousin in your company?" Seeing that cousin Bing no longer objected, the old man began to assign tasks, and the first person he found was Azu.

A-Zu seemed very helpless and speechless. He stood up and said, "Are you kidding me, Dad? You have so many people who run shops at home, but you don't choose me, a worker? Besides, the college students in our company are fired in a minute. My cousin is only in the fourth grade of elementary school."

Before he could finish his words, his cousin Bing interrupted him: "Hey, hey, hey, what are you talking about? I'm in the fifth grade of elementary school. You said I'm one year younger than you, and I actually repeated the year twice." When his cousin Bing was in school, it was still the 54-school system, which meant that he failed to graduate from elementary school even after repeating it twice.

A Zu was severely defeated by his cousin Bing's shamelessness. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, cousin, do you know that our boss requires a high school diploma to hire a handyman?" Cousin Bing ignored A Zu.

"The clerk can't do it, what about the cleaner? What about the delivery worker?" The old maid looked at the second sister-in-law, "Achan, didn't you say that a worker in your clothing store resigned?"

The second sister-in-law looked embarrassed and didn't want to agree. She felt that cousin Bing didn't look like a serious worker. But before she could say no, cousin Bing quit first: "How can these jobs suit me? I need others to clean my personal hygiene for me, how can I help others clean?"

This really pissed off the old lady. She stepped forward and slapped her cousin Bing hard in the face. "You are just spoiled by your parents. You are lazy and don't know how to grow crops. You still think you are great, right?"

Cousin Bing felt very aggrieved after being beaten by the old woman, and said, "Aunt, if you want to help me find a job, you should also ask for my personal opinion, right? You can't just decide on your own, right?"

"Okay, okay, then tell me what you want to do." The old woman said unhappily.

"I know I'm uneducated and can't do many things. But I have money. If I have money I don't have to work for others. I can be my own boss." Cousin Bing said this in a very heroic manner. If you didn't know him, you would think he was a millionaire.

"So how much money do you plan to invest in your business?" Kang Qirui asked curiously.

"About three to five thousand." Cousin Bing held up three fingers.

"Tsk." Everyone booed Cousin Bing after hearing this. He sounded so grand and we thought it was a lot, but it turned out to be only three or five thousand. It was not even enough to buy a peddler cart and make a living.

"Cousin, do you have any financial problems?" Kang Qirui asked doubtfully.

"Yes, there are some gambling debts that have not been recovered yet." Cousin Bing confessed.

"You still want to collect the gambling debt?" Kang Qirui was speechless. "How about this, my second brother and his wife's clothing store will open a branch after the New Year. We are going to start decorating in the next two days. You can go and do some work."

The decision to open a branch was made in December. The store had been open for three months, with a monthly turnover of around 12 to 3 yuan, and the payment for the goods was deferred for one month, which meant that there were always hundreds of thousands of yuan on the books. There happened to be a shop for transfer in Tianhe City, so Kang Qirui discussed it with his second brother and his wife, as well as Zhang Yongfang, and decided to take it.

"A laborer? Doesn't that mean I have to do hard labor?" Cousin Bing looked reluctant, but when he saw the old woman was about to come over and beat him again, he nodded in agreement.

The reason why Kang Qirui was willing to help his cousin Bing was because in the future, when the two elders returned to the countryside to live in their old age, their cousin Bing had always been around to take care of them. This was enough for Kang Qirui to help his cousin Bing. However, his cousin Bing was still too prodigal and had not turned over a new leaf. Therefore, he had to suffer a little so that he would understand how happy his original life was and how to cherish it.

(End of this chapter)