Chapter 115: Find a Matchmaker for You
Old Yang was carrying a bucket of corn oil and a big gift bag of snacks.
The corn oil is the same one that the school distributed before.
Chen Baomei raised her eyebrows.
Came here specifically to return her corn oil?
This scene doesn't look like it.
Seeing Chen Baomei, Teacher Fang joked, "As expected of a villa complex, the management is really strict. No one came to pick us up, and they won't let us in."
Chen Baomei smiled and said, "The property management here is quite standardized."
Everyone was already at the door, and Chen Baomei felt embarrassed to chase them away.
Entering the villa complex, the winding asphalt road is lined with a patchwork of pines, cypresses, and various rare plants. Fat-headed koi swim listlessly in the artificial lake. Each villa is surrounded by wrought iron fences and greenery, and once the iron gates are closed, it becomes a private world.
Old Yang looked here and there, looking around.
He exclaimed in admiration: "Comrade Baomei, your community environment is very good."
"It's okay."
In the villa area, the green environment is indeed better than that in high-rise residential areas.
In addition to the house type, the community environment is also a major factor she considers. When she looked at the house, she liked the environment here very much. It has a large yard and is not much different from her previous self-built house in the countryside.
Old Yang: "You are being modest."
After a few minutes of walking, we arrived home.
Chen Baomei pushed open the iron gate and invited the two in.
Seeing that there was such a large yard outside Chen Baomei's house, the two of them were full of envy.
Chen Baomei replanned the yard. Except for a small number of flowers, plants and trees, she reclaimed most of the land and planted many vegetables.
Outside the quartz brick area, Chen Baomei divided the spacious yard into small squares, planting white radish, cabbage, spinach, cilantro, lettuce...
There are all kinds of seasonal vegetables.
Seeing the vegetables growing so well, Teacher Fang couldn't help but praise them: "Wow, you've grown so many vegetables! You're really good at taking care of them."
Old Yang also followed suit and praised Chen Baomei for her virtue.
Inviting them to the living room, Chen Baomei asked Qiqi to make some tea.
Old Yang handed the bucket of corn oil and the gift package of snacks to Chen Baomei.
"I took your oil by mistake last time, and I've been thinking about it, so I brought it to you now. Also, this snack gift package is for the children."
Teacher Fang looked at the barrel of oil in surprise. She said it looked familiar. It turned out to be distributed by the senior citizens' school.
Chen Baomei has a granddaughter, and all the old men and women in her class know this.
Seeing that there was an extra little girl today, Old Yang asked Chen Baomei curiously, "You have two granddaughters? Didn't you say you only had one?"
Teacher Fang: "Yes, Baomei, I remember you just took care of a granddaughter."
"The other one is my granddaughter. She came to visit during the holidays."
"So that's how it is."
Qiqi poured tea over, and Chen Baomei asked her and Niuniu to go upstairs and play by themselves.
She had a hunch that since Old Yang and Teacher Fang came over without saying hello, something bad might be wrong.
After chatting for a while, Chen Baomei asked them directly what brought them here.
Teacher Fang smiled meaningfully.
"Baomei, you're only about fifty years old this year, right?"
"Next year I'll be 57."
In three years, she will be sixty years old.
The days after her rebirth were so comfortable that she always felt that time passed much faster than in her previous life.
"Speaking of which, Old Yang is sixty-five this year, not much different from you, only seven or eight years older."
Old Yang smiled and nodded a little embarrassedly.
Chen Baomei raised her eyebrows. Is he here to propose marriage to her?
Sure enough, Teacher Fang continued, "We're all classmates. Since Old Yang came to me for help, I can't refuse. I took the liberty of coming here today because I actually wanted to help you and Old Yang get together."
"Old Yang's wife passed away early, and he hasn't found a partner for so many years because of work and children. You're divorced and live alone with your granddaughter. As you get older, your children have started their own families and careers, so they have less time to spend with us. If we have a companion who knows us well, we won't be lonely, right?"
Old Yang rubbed his hands and said, "Yes, Comrade Baomei, we are so destined to be together. We can just live together. I'll buy the groceries and you'll cook. If I have a headache or a fever, the children don't have to come out. We can take care of each other."
"To be honest, it's you as a person that I'm attracted to. Otherwise, with my conditions, I would have found someone long ago."
Teacher Fang smiled. "Old Yang's monthly pension is eight or nine thousand. He has a car and a house. His conditions are pretty good."
The two of them chatted back and forth, praising Old Yang and talking about the benefits of remarriage.
Chen Baomei also laughed.
She didn't answer, but asked Teacher Fang: "I remember Teacher Fang is also single, right?"
Chen Baomei remembered that she was in her early sixties and had been a widow for six or seven years.
Teacher Fang nodded.
"Does Teacher Fang feel lonely?"
Teacher Fang shook his head. "Of course not. I have a job and participate in various activities in my spare time. I'm so busy that I can't handle it all. How could I possibly feel lonely?"
Chen Baomei spread her hands. "Although I don't have a job, I have granddaughters to take care of. When I have free time, I go to the senior citizens' university to kill time. If things don't work out, I go on vacation. I'm about to take the children to Sanya for a trip. My life is so fulfilling, how can I have the time to think about anything else? I have a different idea from you. I don't need to find a partner."
Teacher Fang is a nice person on weekdays, and since Chen Baomei still wants to continue learning at the senior citizens' university, she speaks tactfully.
When Old Yang heard Chen Baomei reject him, his face turned a little embarrassed.
"Comrade Baomei, you're not that old, so there's no need to be so harsh about some things..."
Chen Baomei raised her hand to interrupt him: "Thank you for thinking highly of me, but I really don't have any ideas or needs. You should find someone else to start a family with."
She has money and free time, so why would she want to find a partner?
They have no idea how wonderful it is to live as a single, wealthy older woman.
What's more, this old man Yang is not a decent person and doesn't know how to behave.
Showing up uninvited was already rude, but this person only brought a bucket of corn oil and a gift pack of snacks, and the corn oil was her own! She must be blind and desperate to find such a person.
Old Yang originally thought that with his conditions, Chen Baomei would definitely not refuse as long as he asked.
After all, in the years since his wife left, there have been many women who want to be with him.
But he looked down on them all and rejected them all.
He finally fell in love with Chen Baomei and thought he had it all figured out, but she rejected him.
After being slapped in the face, Old Yang was eager to save face, so he spoke a little inappropriately.
"Comrade Baomei, you probably don't know this, but before I retired, I was a section chief at the grain station, so I held an official position. In terms of wealth, I might be a little behind you, a relocated resident, but in terms of social status, you can't compare to me."
"You don't need connections to get around these days. If you're sick and want to find a good doctor, you need connections, right? If your granddaughter wants to go to a good middle school or high school, you need connections, right? If you're fighting alone, how can you possibly do that with someone fighting alongside you and sharing the burden?"
"I've thought it over carefully before deciding to start a new family with you. Please think about it carefully and don't answer me so quickly. We can still be together first, and then we can talk if you really feel it's not suitable."
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