Lao Geng's Four Years at the Nursing Home

Geng Dongyan married at 24 and had a son and a daughter. In 2002, he divorced his ex-wife, Old Quail, and moved with his son into the resettlement apartment he had bought. After retiring in 2012, he went back to work to make use of his remaining years because he and his daughter-in-law could not get along. In the autumn of 2014, he helped his son pay part of the cost of buying a home in Hangzhou, where he stayed temporarily. In the spring of 2015, he moved into a nursing home. In the spring of 2016, he entered into a marriage agreement with Lin Haining, a single elderly woman, and they moved in together in a room with its own bathroom, splitting living expenses equally. They took turns living at the nursing home and in Geng's home in Hangzhou. When they stayed in Hangzhou, they also had to host relatives from both sides. In 2017, Geng helped his son pay part of the cost of buying a home in Xiamen. While the couple stayed there, they had to help care for Geng's grandchildren. In 2018, Geng's ex-wife, Old Quail, was hospitalized with a serious illness. She passed away in January 2019. Geng's daughter and son-in-law reached an agreement with Lin Haining and asked her to help look after the children. Geng and his wife left the nursing home and moved in with his daughter to care for her children.