Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

Chapter 56 Cemetery
"So that's why you are Cantonese." Cousin Bing took out a map from his backpack, spread it out on the dining table, and pointed upwards, "Here."

"Martyrs' Cemetery?" A few days ago, Kang Qirui was still talking about the reason why elementary school students like Tianxiu went to the Martyrs' Cemetery to pay tribute. Today, his cousin Bing was going to bury his grandfather in the Martyrs' Cemetery. Everyone was shocked.

"The cemetery is for burying the dead." Cousin Bing still didn't see what was wrong. "What's so strange about that? You all have such expressions."

Kang Qirui said helplessly: "Cousin, that is the Martyrs' Cemetery, the martyrs. Does Grandpa have the qualifications?"

"A Bing, did you grow up reading shit movies? The revolutionary martyrs of the Cantonese Uprising more than 70 years ago are buried here. Can they be buried casually?" The old father was also speechless. How could this nephew be so uneducated?

"It's been more than 70 years, and Grandpa is from that era." Cousin Bing insisted. He thought for a moment and said, "It doesn't matter if he doesn't have the qualifications to go to the Martyrs' Cemetery, there is another place he can choose."

"where?"

Cousin Bing pointed to another spot on the map and said, "The 19th Route Army Cemetery."

"Don't even think about the 19th Route Army Cemetery." A-Zu waved his hand and launched a big move: "Teacher Kang, tell our cousin about history."

Kang Qirui rolled his eyes at Grandpa and said to his cousin Bing, "The Sichuan Army hasn't set out yet, but the Guangdong Army has already been wiped out. Only 3,000 of the 900,000 Guangdong Army have returned, and every household in Guangdong has white silk hanging on their heads. This is the story of the 19th Route Army fighting against the radish heads in Shanghai. You don't have to think about it. Oh, by the way, wait a minute." Kang Qirui ran to the living room and brought back a newspaper. "I saw this permanent cemetery for seeking roots in the newspaper today. Take a look."

Cousin Bing took the newspaper and looked at it, exclaiming: "Wow, six thousand yuan, is it so expensive?" Kang Qirui rolled his eyes and pointed at the number on it, "Cousin, look carefully, it's not six thousand, it's sixty thousand."

"Even if you sell me, you still can't get that much money." Cousin Bing sighed. They get dividends in the countryside, but the expenses are also high. The most important thing is that cousin Bing is not very willing to spend.

"That's nothing we can do." Kang Qirui thought for a moment, "Why don't you call and ask if there's any cheaper ones?"

Cousin Bing actually went to ask, without even eating. When everyone finished eating, Cousin Bing finally finished the phone call and told everyone the conditions he had negotiated. "What? You're selling us five cemeteries?" The second brother accused Cousin Bing after hearing this. Cousin Bing just said that the cemetery company agreed to sell him five cemeteries, and gave him one as a kickback.

As a result, this cousin Bing directly sold it to the Kang family, one cemetery plot was 50,000 yuan, and five plots were 300,000 yuan. Cousin Bing thought that if he sold it to the Kang family, the Kang family would pay all the 300,000 yuan, so he wouldn't have to pay a penny. No wonder the second brother scolded cousin Bing, because the second brother cared about money the most. The two quarreled and got really angry and wanted to fight. Kang Qirui quickly called A Yao and A Zu to separate the two.

Kang Qirui looked at his cousin Bing and said, "Cousin, I know and understand your desire to give our grandpa a proper burial, but if you have anything to say, please talk slowly."

"That's right. If you have something to say, just tell me slowly. A Zong, don't be angry." The old maid also tried to smooth things over.

"Actually, I don't think this grave is impossible to buy." Kang Qirui looked at Lao Dou's mother, "From Grandpa's case, it's not difficult to find that Cantonese graves are few and expensive now. It will be even more difficult in the future because there will definitely be more and more people." Cantonese now undergoes a small change every year, a medium change every three years, and a big change every five years. The number of foreign population will only increase.

"To put it bluntly, after a hundred years, if you want to bury your mother in Guangzhou, I'm afraid you won't be able to find a place." Kang Qirui's words made his father's face change, but he also agreed with his son that it was indeed difficult to find. Kang Qirui looked at Zhu Wanling and continued, "My mother-in-law is not young anymore. We should also prepare. In fact, this is nothing. Since ancient times, there has been a custom of preparing coffins and cemeteries in advance."

Kang Qirui was indeed right. In ancient times, the first thing a new emperor did after ascending the throne was to choose a cemetery and build a mausoleum for himself. In ancient times, when a person reached the age of 60, families with the means would start preparing funeral clothes, which were mostly sewn in the year of the calamity. The names of funeral clothes and coffins are all taken from the meaning of prolonging life, so preparing a coffin and cemetery in advance is not a strange thing, but a manifestation of filial piety.

"Arui, what do you mean?" The boss looked at the calm faces of the old lady and knew that they were not shy about these things, so he asked.

"Let's be filial. We brothers will share the old lady's house equally. My mother-in-law will also have one. Grandpa will have one. We will treat the remaining two as investments." Kang Qirui expressed his thoughts. "Investment?" The second brother couldn't stand anything about money, and he was very interested when he heard it.

"Yes, everyone knows about the current house prices, right? They are rising every day. Why? Because houses are a basic need, and there are more people than houses." Kang Qirui first talked about the house prices, and then said after seeing that everyone understood, "A cemetery can be said to be a basic need among basic needs. Houses can be inherited, just like our big house. Even if my grandfather is gone, the big house is still there and we can still live in it. So several generations can only have one house."

"But a cemetery is different. It can't be inherited like a house. Everyone will die, and everyone needs a cemetery. He can't inherit someone else's, and he can't dig someone else up, right?"

"With more and more people and less land available, cemeteries will become increasingly scarce, and the market for cemeteries will increase significantly in the future. We can consider buying one now as an investment."

After listening to Kang Qirui's analysis, everyone felt that it made sense and that the investment could be made. "Then how to do it specifically?" Cousin Bing didn't care about whether to invest or not, he only cared whether his grandfather could become a resident of the provincial capital.

"The total price is three hundred thousand, fifty thousand for one set. The five of us brothers will divide the two sets equally, twenty thousand each, and you, cousin, have to take fifty thousand. There are still one hundred thousand left. How much more can you give?" Kang Qirui did the math for everyone. According to this calculation, including Mrs. Zhu's share, he would have to take seventy thousand first, and then participate in the division of the last hundred thousand.

After the account was settled, A Bing, A Zu and the eldest brother Guang all looked troubled. The second brother and A Yao did not feel burdened. The situations of each person were different. A Bing was reluctant to part with it. This year, the Spring Festival dividend of their village was more than 10,000 yuan per person. There were six people in their family, and the dividend from the village alone was 70,000 yuan. He could afford the money, but he was reluctant to part with it.

But A-Zu has nothing, he lives paycheck to paycheck, he spends whatever he has. Da Lao Guang also has nothing, but his "nothing" is different from A-Zu's, he never had anything, he now works at Er Lao's hardware store, Xiang Lan works at a clothing store, their salaries are not high, although they have saved some money, but if they take it all out, it's just enough, there's nothing left.

Er Lao's hardware store business is okay now, and the clothing store business is very good. Not to mention the 20,000 yuan, he can even take the remaining 100,000 yuan, so he is thinking about buying a few more. Although A Yao is not as rich as Er Lao, he can still take out tens of thousands of yuan.

"I have to pay 50,000?" Cousin Bing complained.

"You pay 30,000 yuan, and I'll pay 20,000 yuan." The old woman said to my cousin Bing. "Thank you, aunt." My cousin Bing agreed immediately. 30,000 yuan was less than half of the year-end bonus, so he could still accept it.

"Auntie," Kang Qirui wanted to persuade her, twenty thousand yuan was the old maid's last remaining money. But the old maid interrupted, "Stop talking, that's my father, as a daughter, it's my duty to contribute." So no one persuaded her. After all, what the old maid said was reasonable, and no one could refute it.

"We have no problem, but we won't participate in the investment." Seeing that his mother had already paid, the boss had no choice but to take out all his savings.

"Big brother Azu, I'll pay your share first, and you can pay me back when you have money." Kang Qirui knew that Azu definitely had no money. Lending one was borrowing, and lending two was also borrowing. But it had to be lent. It wasn't that Kang Qirui was heartless, but between brothers, if you said you didn't have to pay it back, then people would think you looked down on him, and fairness was enough. What's more, it was this kind of money, you said you paid it, so you are filial? Everyone felt even more uncomfortable. Borrowing was different, there was borrowing and repayment, and everyone could accept it peacefully.

"Then I'll pay 50,000. 20,000 is for old Dou's mother, and 30,000 is for investment." A Yao said. Instead of investing in the stock market without knowing whether it will rise or fall, it is better to invest here.

"That means there is still 70,000 left." The second brother calculated and said, "Boy, you still have to pay Wanling's mother's share, and lend it to the eldest brother and A-Zu. It's stressful to have so much money, right? How about giving you the second brother the biggest share of the remaining 70,000? I'll take 50% and you take 20%?"

"Sure, no problem." Kang Qirui values ​​kindness, and he is fine with anything. There is no end to making money, so as long as everyone is happy. "Then cousin, I will go to the cemetery with you tomorrow, and we can bury Grandpa in peace after that."
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The setting that there are six people in cousin Bing's family comes from episode 72. Cousin Bing owed gambling debts and fled to Kang's house. Aunt Kang asked cousin Bing: "Where are your parents?" Cousin Bing replied that his father fainted from anger and was admitted to the hospital.

Therefore, in the original setting, Cousin Bing has living parents and two daughters, so there are six people in his family.

(End of this chapter)