Lookout丨 He warmed the city of Xi'an

Source: Lookout

◇ "I did this without thinking about money from the beginning!" ”

◇Some netizens said that Ming Tinggui is warm not only 81 children, but also 81 families, which warms the entire city of Xi'an

Xi'an, Shaanxi, under the epidemic, cold night. In the closed management of the community, young tenants rely on instant noodles and snacks for several days in a row, and the 41-year-old landlord Ming Tinggui is uneasy.

In order to get this group of young people to eat a hot meal, he did his best to insist on making a hot meal for them every day. The tenants thanked him and asked him for money, but he did not accept it. "I did this without thinking about money from the beginning!"

Let the kids have a hot meal

On December 9, 2021, the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic broke out in Xi'an, and from 00:00 on December 23, the community (village) and units in Xi'an City implemented closed management. In a family home of a unit in Xi'an's Xiaozhai commercial circle, 81 tenants of Ming Tinggui could not go out and could only stay in their houses. 80% of the tenants are students, who come to Xi'an for graduate school, internship, training, etc.

By December 27, Xi'an city has been closed management for 4 days, young students rely on noodles and snacks all day to live, Ming Tinggui saw that his heart is not a taste. "The kids came to live with a suitcase, not to mention pots and stoves. Now that they are growing their bodies, who can bear to eat like this every day? ”

Ming Tinggui liked to call these young students "children". In order to make their food a little secure, Ming Tinggui bought as many dishes as he could, including garlic and ginger. Considering that some students do not have lunch boxes and chopsticks, he also bought 2 boxes with a total of 500 disposable lunch boxes, as well as matching disposable chopsticks.

On the evening of December 27, he hand-wrote a letter of request for comments and posted it to the tenant group. "Brothers and sisters, I know at the moment that your meals are the biggest problem, and you endure hunger every day... I do my best to take turns cooking for everyone, even if it does not completely solve the problem of hunger, at least to increase everyone's ability to fight hunger. ”

The tenants were very agreeable when they saw it, and Ming Tinggui began to prepare cooking utensils for cooking. Usually, the pots and pans at home meet the needs of his family of 5 people to eat, and now the number of people eating has increased a lot, which is not enough. He borrowed an electric cake bell from a friend, plus an electric cake bell from his own family, and solved the problem of flapjacks in both ways. He borrowed a stainless steel cauldron from a friend again, and he didn't have to worry about boiling porridge.

While solving the problem of so many people eating, we must also consider epidemic prevention and control, and personnel cannot get together, cannot gather, and cannot cross infection. Ming Tinggui, who lives on the first floor, removed the stainless steel protective mesh from the kitchen of his home and opened the window so that the meal could be delivered directly from the window.

He asked people who wanted to eat to make "solitaire" reservations in the group in order to prepare ingredients according to the number of people in the reservation. He divided the people who made reservations for dinner into groups of 5 and divided them into groups. After one group of people has finished eating, they will notify the other group to come, and each person will be separated by 2 meters. "At the beginning of that period, the number of confirmed cases in Xi'an rose every day, and the prevention and control of the epidemic was really not sloppy at all." He said.

"When the epidemic is over,

We came to Xi'an to thank you in person."

Including her 65-year-old mother and wife who is 5 months pregnant, Ming Tinggui's family is busy cooking. Every morning after breakfast, they start to prepare, wash and cut vegetables. By around 5:30 p.m., the meal is ready and the tenants are asked to come down and pick up the meal in the order in which the group is divided.

Shredded potatoes, scrambled eggs with peppers, torn cabbage, pot helmets, pancakes... As much as possible, the recipes are different every day. On the most day, a total of 45 people made reservations. The family was busy from morning to night, and even some of them were in a hurry. But after three or four days of perseverance and mastery of the rules, everything can be ordered and step by step.

Every night from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., tenants would come to eat one after another, and through the kitchen window, young faces were full of childishness. Ming Tinggui wore a mask and disposable gloves and was "fully armed" to serve the children.

Students who have lunch boxes will come down with lunch boxes, and he will provide them if they don't, and when they meet tall boys to cook, he will beat more dishes or give more cakes. "You have to feed the babies, you can't let the babies go hungry!" Every time he cooks, he will do more and leave it for students who are really difficult and embarrassed to make an appointment.

On New Year's Day 2022, he wanted to make a meat dish for his children, but he was unable to buy meat. On January 3, with the help of friends, he finally bought meat and made a big meat stew for everyone.

"I am also a migrant worker in Xi'an, in the past few years, I have been wandering outside, I have suffered a lot of suffering, I have suffered a lot of sins, and with the help of many people, my life is slowly getting better, and I think it is time for me to repay my kindness." Ming Tinggui said, "These children who live here are very good, they have difficulties, I can't watch it like this." ”

The 65-year-old mother suffers from cerebral infarction and should not have worked too hard, but the old man could not stay idle, helping him wash vegetables, side dishes, stir-fry dishes, and clean stoves every day. Sometimes the dish can not be fried in one pot, and the old man will be fried in two pots. After several days of high-intensity work, the elderly's body is somewhat overwhelmed. Ming Tinggui and his wife overcame difficulties and insisted on cooking for the tenants.

There were tenants who paid for his meals. "Brother, I have to work hard every day for you to cook for everyone, I am very grateful, I hope to help you reduce some stress." After saying that, I turned around 1,000 yuan, 500 yuan... He didn't receive a penny and automatically returned it. "Who doesn't have a hard time? To do this, I didn't expect money from the beginning! ”

After the student's parents found out, they called him and sent a message: "With such good people taking care of the children, we are very relieved at home." When the epidemic is over, we will go to Xi'an to thank you in person! He replied: "Don't be rude, it is right to help the baby!" ”

A lot of people have to support him

Tenants were touched by his kindness. A tenant once interned at a local media in Shaanxi Province and provided his story to the media. After the report, Ming Ting gui was on fire. Online, likes are pouring in like a tidal wave. Some netizens said: "This is really something that ordinary people can't do." Although dozens of people only have one meal a day, but the home is a small pot and a small stove, this meal takes several hours, and what about ingredients? Under the epidemic situation, the unimaginable difficulty can be seen in the love of the landlord's family. ”

Another netizen said: "Your warmth is not only 81 children, but also 81 families, which warms the whole city of Xi'an." More netizens saw that Ming Tinggui's gas stove had to be lit by a lighter, saying that he was selling stoves, and when he unsealed, he would send him a stove to go over!

Ming Tinggui was nervous after knowing that he was famous online. "But doing a very ordinary thing, why did it attract so much attention?" He said that his original intention is very simple, that is, to let the children eat a hot meal in a special period, and other really did not consider!

After reading the comments of netizens, he was moved and also shed tears. The classmates who have not been in contact for many years add him to the WeChat initiative to transfer money to help him with his good deeds; after the community property and community cadres know, they are very supportive of him and try their best to provide convenience for him. Many strangers added his WeChat to the short video account and sent him red envelopes "wanting to do their best", but he all politely refused.

Most of the houses rented by Ming Tinggui are entrusted to others, and the original owner was also deeply moved after learning of his good deeds, saying that if there is any difficulty, he is willing to help, and he thanked and replied that "there is no difficulty at present".

Recently, in order to let more parents see how he cooks and cooks, Ming Tinggui opened a live broadcast on the short video platform for the first time, and thousands of netizens praised him in the live broadcast room and gave him "gifts", and he hurriedly closed the gift sending function. There are also people who pay him for traffic, and he "criticizes" the other party in good faith. In the live broadcast room, some students did not say "thank you" after taking the meal, netizens accused it of being "impolite", and Ming Tinggui quickly explained that "we are very familiar with it." If a person who is very familiar always says thank you, will you feel a sense of distance and strangeness? So don't put thank you on your lips. ”

The attention and praise made Ming Tinggui a little uneasy. He said he didn't ask for praise, he didn't ask for anything in return, he only asked for a clear conscience. He firmly believes that if this matter is replaced by someone else, at a critical moment, it will also do the same. He made up his mind that no matter how much it cost, he would keep cooking for the tenants until the community was unsealed, or until the day they could order takeout.