Chen Tongfu changed his clothes and went out.
The aunties who were picking vegetables in the yard stopped and turned to look at him.
"Mr. Chen is going out again?"
Chen Tongfu recognized that this was Aunt Wang, his neighbor who lived on the left side of the corridor.
"Yes, Aunt Wang, I have a dinner appointment with a friend. I've told you several times, Aunt Wang, please stop calling me Mr. Chen and call me Xiao Chen."
Aunt Wang obviously has her own judgment and is unwilling to change her address. She is very concerned about Chen Tongfu's love life and asked Chen Tongfu if he has a girlfriend.
Chen Tongfu quickly denied: "No, we are just ordinary friends."
"Just ordinary friends..."
Aunt Wang dragged out the last syllable and Chen Tongfu didn't know whether she believed it or not. He quickened his pace and walked out of the yard. He was really afraid of Aunt Wang's chatting style which was like checking household registration.
When the other aunts asked Aunt Wang why she was paying attention to Chen Tongfu, Aunt Wang said mysteriously, "Mr. Chen looks ordinary, but I feel he is not an ordinary person."
Not like ordinary people, then he is an ordinary person?
Others thought Aunt Wang knew some gossip, but Aunt Wang said it was just a feeling.
"He's very polite."
"What's wrong with being polite? How many men in Shanghai are not polite?"
"Exactly. It seems he was unemployed for a long time. What's the point of being polite? He'll starve to death without a job!"
"I've never seen him cook..."
"He doesn't own a house in Shanghai. How could someone make a lot of money and not buy a house?"
Aunt Wang can talk a lot when she says one thing.
Because Aunt Wang was particularly concerned about Chen Tongfu's relationship status, the neighbors suspected she was trying to be a matchmaker. They thought being polite was useless, as life was all about money, and everyone advised Aunt Wang to give up the idea.
Aunt Wang was unmoved.
She firmly believed in her intuition that Mr. Chen was not an ordinary person.
What's wrong with being unemployed?
The fact that he is not in a hurry to find a job after being unemployed for so long shows that he has a strong family background!
Anyway, during the time when Mr. Chen was unemployed, she saw that he was still leisurely and not in a hurry, and just lived his life as usual.
And there is one detail Aunt Wang didn’t mention.
Her family lived next door to Chen Tongfu. For some reason, there was a problem with the sound insulation of the wall panel between the two households. Aunt Wang had good hearing and could often hear Chen Tongfu making English phone calls at night.
This Mr. Chen is quite mysterious.
Maybe some important person came to this old house to experience life?
As shown in the movies, some rich people like to pretend to be poor. The girlfriends that rich people find when they are pretending to be poor are generally considered non-materialistic by their partners, and they all end up happily married at the end of the movies!
Aunt Wang has a 34-year-old daughter who works as a clerk in a foreign company. As a young girl, she was very picky about relationships and missed out on good ones. The men she met later were each less and less attractive. Aunt Wang wanted to help her daughter find a date, but she thought Chen Tongfu seemed too boring. Aunt Wang repeatedly persuaded her daughter, and after several failed blind dates, she finally softened her stance and expressed a willingness to meet Chen Tongfu.
Seeing Chen Tongfu going out with a happy face, Aunt Wang was afraid that Chen Tongfu had suddenly become romantically involved, so she didn't bother to pick vegetables and hurried back to the house to call her daughter.
"Come back tomorrow for dinner!"
"No, I have an appointment."
"Cancel all your appointments. Invite Mr. Chen to your house for dinner tomorrow. He's a stranger living alone in Shanghai, how can he handle the care and concern of others? If you have more dinners together, you and Mr. Chen will be together~"
The daughter grumbled and agreed, and Aunt Wang finally showed a satisfied smile.
In the evening, Chen Tongfu and Zou Weijun finished their meal and chatted for a while about the "Dream Building Fund" before returning home around ten o'clock. Aunt Wang was waiting in the corridor, offering to treat him to a meal.
"We've been neighbors for so long, but we've never had a meal together. A home-cooked meal is a great way to get to know each other better!"
Chen Tongfu subconsciously wanted to refuse, but then he remembered that Zou Weijun was going on a business trip the next day and he probably wouldn't be able to find anyone to have dinner with, so he didn't refuse.
… “I’ve paid off the update I owed!!!
I feel so relieved now that I'm debt-free. If I have two more chapters, I can confidently call them extra chapters (putting my hands on my hips for a moment!)"
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