“A Guang, have you ever thought about changing jobs?” Kang Er Zheng asked Da Lao Guang.
“Change jobs?” Da Lao Guang was taken aback.
“Yeah, you’re working as a laborer in the factory now. How about changing jobs?” Kang Er Zheng nodded and said.
“This…” Da Lao Guang hesitated.
After all, his girlfriend Xiang Lan was still working in the factory.
“It’s not easy to find a job nowadays. Plus, I’m already this old, it’ll be hard to find a job outside. And, I only finished primary school, I don’t have much education, what else can I do besides being a laborer?” Da Lao Guang shook his head and rejected Kang Er Zheng’s suggestion.
Kang Er Zheng furrowed his brows and then smoothed them out.
Da Lao Guang had a point.
Da Lao Guang was the eldest son of the family.
He had shouldered the responsibility of the family early on.
He dropped out of school and went to work to support his younger brothers.
He went up to the mountains and down to the countryside to work.
Da Lao Guang was definitely a responsible elder brother.
He was also a very filial son.
He was just a bit simple-minded, that’s all.
Kang Er Zheng was thinking about what kind of job would be suitable for him.
He remembered that A Guang was about to be fired.
He was preparing for him in advance.
He wanted to give A Guang an office job, but A Guang really couldn’t handle it.
“Well, A Guang, if you ever need to find a job, come to me. I’ll see if I can find a more relaxing job for you.” Kang Er Zheng nodded and didn’t continue to persuade him.
“Okay, thank you, Uncle.” Da Lao Guang quickly thanked him.
Da Lao Guang’s current job paid very little.
A few hundred yuan a month.
It included food and accommodation.
The average monthly salary now was over nine hundred yuan.
A Guang’s salary barely reached that level.
A Guang was the one who lived the most miserable life out of all the brothers.
Ah Zong and his wife had been running a business, although they didn’t make a fortune, they made a good amount of small money. They could be considered to have some assets, they could afford to buy a house.
(In the first season, the Kang family divided their assets and Ah Zong and his wife bought a house in Tianhe. Back then, he was still running a hardware store, it could be seen that he had indeed saved a lot of money, at least ten to twenty thousand yuan.)
Ah Yao had a stable job, the unit had assigned him housing, he had food three times a day provided by the unit, his salary wasn’t low, medical care was covered by the state, he had a lot of benefits for holidays, he didn’t have to worry about food or drink, he didn’t have much to spend money on, and he didn’t need to buy a house himself, the unit assigned him one.
His two wives both had decent incomes.
His first wife, Xing Zi, was an insurance saleswoman, her performance was usually pretty good, her base salary plus commission was much higher than Ah Yao’s, but it was all performance-based.
His second wife, Huang Fei, worked in the same unit as Ah Yao, apart from her salary being lower than Ah Yao’s deputy-section chief待遇, the other benefits were similar, medical care was reimbursed, food was available at the unit canteen, it didn’t cost much. The only thing was that later there was a housing reform, she didn’t get a house, but she had a housing fund, she could buy a house herself, and she received subsidies.
Ah Zu was a white-collar worker. He worked in a foreign company, his salary was even higher than Ah Yao’s, plus bonuses and commissions, he could get a lot of money each month, but he couldn’t save any, he liked to spend lavishly. His salary was two to three thousand yuan, but he spent it all every month, and he needed his family to support him from time to time.
However, Ah Zu was amazing, he had snagged a foreign, American, highly educated and wealthy woman, Diana, they had their own house, and the couple lived a carefree life each month.
Only A Guang and his wife, they had to pinch every penny.
Their combined monthly income was not as high as Ah Yao or Ah Zu’s individual income.
It could be seen that they lived a hard life.
A Guang and his wife were also simple-minded, they had no fortune.
Many opportunities to get rich had slipped away from them.
“I wonder if they would be able to run a small supermarket?” Kang Er Zheng muttered softly.
He was thinking about helping them open a small supermarket, it was easy work and the income wasn’t bad.
He was just worried that they wouldn’t be able to handle it.
He had also admired them in the foreign dramas he watched.
Although they were simple-minded, they were truly good people.
“Uncle, if you have any good jobs, introduce them to me.” Ah Zu wasn’t interested, but Ah Zu was very interested and came over.
“You want one? This job of yours is pretty good, what are you changing it for?” Kang Er Zheng raised an eyebrow and said.
“Good? You don’t know my boss, Miss Tang, she’s an old spinster, she’s mentally twisted, she always bullies me.” Ah Zu started ranting whenever he mentioned Miss Tang.
Kang Er Zheng glanced at Ah Zu.
He knew that Miss Tang was a person who was fair to the matter, not the person.
This kind of boss was pretty good.
Miss Tang had encountered Ah Zu, Ah Qi, and Ah Jun, those troublemakers who loved to slack off.
They would constantly mock her as an old spinster.
If it was anyone else, Ah Zu and the other two would have been fired dozens of times.
Miss Tang was already very merciful.
“The jobs I introduce are much lower paying than yours, and they’re all laborer jobs. Can you accept that?” Kang Er Zheng said.
“Then forget it.” Ah Zu was not interested at all.
“You! You are the youngest son of your elder brother and sister-in-law, you are the most pampered. Stop giving your sister-in-law so much trouble.” Kang Er Zheng glared at Ah Zu and said.
“Uncle is becoming more and more like an elder now.” Ah Zong said with a smile.
“Of course, I am the elder, right?” Kang Er Zheng said with a smile.
“Playing cards?” Ah Yao held the deck of cards and asked.
“Play.” Kang Er Zheng nodded.
“I’ll play too.” Ah Zu also raised his hand.
“I’ll play too.” The second brother also sat down.
“We have enough, what about me?” Da Lao Guang found that they already had four people.
“Let’s do it this way, whoever loses gets replaced.” Ah Yao suggested.
“No problem.” They all agreed.
They were playing ‘Chudaer’.
It could be played with four people.
After a while.
Kang Er Zheng was temporarily living in the Xiguan big house on Kang’s side.
In a few more days, the house next door would be finished and he would be able to move.
During these few days.
He had blended into the Kang family’s life.
He ate and drank here.
Although he was their elder, the Kang brothers treated him like a brother.
“It’s so beautiful.” They walked into Kang Er Zheng’s newly decorated house.
The furniture had been moved in, Kang Er Zheng had hired a cleaning company to clean the entire house inside and out.
“Such a big bathtub!” They walked into the bathroom and saw a large bathtub.
“Uncle, aren’t you scared living here alone? How about I come over and stay with you?” Ah Zu’s eyes lit up and said.
“I’m not scared, but there are no spare rooms, I need to keep these rooms for your younger aunt and your grandmother.” Kang Er Zheng tactfully refused them.
If Ah Zu came to stay, he was guaranteed to make his house messy.
“Ah Zheng, you’re not cooking here?” Kang Bo saw that the kitchen only had a microwave, a refrigerator, and a storage cabinet, nothing else, no gas stove or gas, and asked, “Why don’t you have a gas stove?”
“Big brother, I’m eating at your place, what do I need a gas stove for?” Kang Er Zheng said.
He was paying for his meals at Kang’s place, and it wasn’t a small amount, he wasn’t short of money.
“That’s true.” Kang Bo nodded.
“Compared to our place, I feel like our place is a thatched hut.” Ah Zu said enviously.
“How much did all this cost?” Da Lao Guang asked with wide eyes.
“Not much.” Kang Er Zheng smiled and said.
The group toured the house.
They looked at this, pointed at that.
Everyone was envious of Kang Er Zheng.
After all, this was his own house.
And he was living alone.
“Okay, let’s go to a hotel and have a meal later, consider it my housewarming party.” Kang Er Zheng said when they were about to finish the tour.
“Okay, okay.” Everyone nodded repeatedly.
After all, who wouldn’t want to eat a big meal?
Kang Er Zheng took them to a restaurant nearby.
Originally, Kang Er Zheng had planned to go to a big hotel.
But his mother and Kang Bo felt that it was too wasteful.
They thought that Kang Er Zheng had spent so much money buying and decorating the house, they were afraid that he wouldn’t have any money to get married later, so they asked him to find a more ordinary restaurant to eat.
Kang Er Zheng was also touched when he heard their words.
They truly treated him as family.
Kang Er Zheng listened to their advice and chose a better restaurant.