At noon on January 9, the Huating community of Shui'an Huating in Xianshuigu Town, Jinnan District, had been sealed off for a whole day. Nankai University teacher Liu Mingming and his wife Tianjin University teacher Wang Jie found when making lunch that there were two potatoes left in the refrigerator, the dishes were gone, and even the rice flour oil was not much left. There are still elderly people and children at home, what can I do about this?
Push yourself and others, where to buy vegetables?
On the morning of Saturday, January 8, Liu Mingming was planning to sleep. Because just on January 7th, a busy semester ended.
But Then Came Omikejong.
At 10:00 a.m. on January 8, the gate of the community began to be closed, and the community grid members began to notify the community of the sealing and control management from floor to building, and they were not allowed to leave the community. At 11:30 a.m., Liu Mingming saw two patients in Jinnan District positive for new crown on the Internet, and then the official news announced the first batch of sealed and controlled communities, and the waterfront Huating where they lived was impressively listed. Liu Mingming really didn't know what sealing meant at that time, and joked with his wife that if it was a few days earlier, it would be better, you wouldn't have to go to work, and it was only after the holiday that it was closed.
At noon on the 9th, Liu Mingming found that his family's diet had become a problem. Liu Mingming and his wife do not have the habit of storing vegetables at home, and there is very little rice flour oil at home. Liu Mingming quickly opened the takeaway software, and all the shops showed that they were suspended. Broken, about to run out of food, adults can insist, what about the children in the family?
Fortunately, at that time, I could also ask my friends who lived nearby to send some food, because many teachers from Nankai University lived nearby. On the evening of the 9th, a friend sent More than 200 yuan of vegetables and rice noodle oil to Liu Mingming, placed at the gate, just when he went to the door to pick up, he saw that many residents around him were taking things they bought from their relatives and friends, knowing that this was not a problem of one person and one family.
Soon, the community staff issued a notice in the owner group, prohibiting everyone from going out to pick up items, and residents in the sealing area could not go out of the house, and if necessary, they could contact the grid staff to help send them upstairs. Hearing this news, the owner group immediately exploded, the entire community of more than 1300 residents, a day to eat and drink, how much vegetables and grain and oil needed, rely on more than 10 community grid members, which can be sent over? In addition, the grid members also have to organize nucleic acid sampling work. What to do? Du Maorong, director of the Neighborhood Committee of the Party Branch of the Crescent River Community where the Waterfront Huating is located, said: At that time, they thought that they would rely on the grid staff to send it over, but when they transported it, they found that not to mention more than 10 people, or more than 10 people, could not guarantee that the residents' daily necessities could be delivered in time.
Liu Mingming, who sits at home, believes that the government must have a way to supply long-term materials, but at present, everyone, including themselves, must solve the current problem of eating and drinking. He consulted with his wife and organized a volunteer team to purchase daily necessities for everyone and send everyone upstairs. His wife's words reduced his enthusiasm by half: Shops and supermarkets are closed, where do you go to buy such a large amount of vegetable grain and oil? Even if people can sell it, how to send it over?
I found a supermarket that supplied me, but the manager thought I was a liar
On the evening of the 9th, Liu Mingming turned over the WeChat group for more than an hour and found the shopping WeChat group of several vegetable shops and shops, but these merchants were either closed because of the epidemic or could not be delivered by hand. Just when he was at a loss, he found in the group of Gushang Lianhua Supermarket that the supermarket was still operating normally, there were fresh vegetables for sale, and the supermarket was only a few hundred meters away from the community. He quickly asked in the group if he could deliver it to his door? The clerk gave him the phone number of the store manager Fu Xianchang in the group. He hurried over.
At this time, Fu Xianchang was unloading with the remaining 9 employees. Due to the epidemic, more than half of the employees of the supermarket were sealed at home, and as the store manager, he and the employees did the hard work. Don't look at Fu Xianchang is 50 years old this year, and lifting a sack is no slower than a young man in his 20s, mainly due to the experience of joining the army when he was young. Fu Xianchang said that when he first received a call from Liu Mingming, he thought that the owner of the small vegetable shop wanted to buy goods from him because of the difficulty of wholesale vegetables. At that time, the supplier of Gushang Lianhua Supermarket obtained a green pass in Jinnan District for the first time, the purchase channel was guaranteed, and the supermarket has always set the price of vegetables very low, as a means for supermarkets to absorb customers. Small grocery stores buy their dishes and sell them at a higher price. On the 9th day, Fu Xianchang had received several phone calls from such "cheating" dishes, all of which he recognized and refused.
On the phone, hearing Liu Mingming's needs, Fu Xianchang repeatedly confirmed the purpose of his grocery shopping, when he learned that Liu Mingming was a teacher at Nankai University, this time looking for him, but also simply wanted to help the residents of the sealing community, Fu Xianchang said that he needed to ask the supermarket owner, and then reply to Liu Mingming. In fact, Fu Xianchang wanted to check on the Internet whether this Liu Mingming was a teacher at Nanda University. Fu Xianchang said that he has been working in the commercial system since he retired from the army, and he has been working in the supermarket for more than 20 years. As a result, through Baidu search, he really found Teacher Liu's information: an associate professor at the School of Marxism at Nankai University. Fu Xianchang quickly called Liu Mingming back and decided to cooperate with him to deliver food to the residents of Huating on the waterfront.
But the first question immediately came: Who pays for the supermarket first? Because supermarkets have strict financial regulations, payment must be made at the same time as the receipt. Let the residents not see the goods, pay, obviously it is not feasible, then it needs to be advanced, who will pay?
If you want to do this, you have to organize it and who pays in advance. Liu Mingming said that at the end of the year, due to the results of scientific research, he had just received a bonus, so he had some savings, he told his wife, he planned to advance first to try, if you really can't afford to pay, then think of other ways.
The problem of payment is solved, the next is the problem of delivery of vegetable varieties, obviously personalized purchase does not work, you want an eggplant, I want a cucumber, which will bring great difficulties to side dishes and settlement, Fu Xianchang store is not enough, Liu Mingming delivery is also particularly difficult. Therefore, the two discussed and offered residents options in the form of a package. They designed vegetable groups, fruit groups, cooked food groups, large meat groups, and seasoning daily necessities groups. Every afternoon, Fu Xianchang sent Liu Mingming the price of the next day dishes, and Liu Mingming designed the varieties and weights of each group by asking the residents about their needs. Residents in the group solitaire, which group is needed to register under the corresponding column, Liu Mingming counts the number of each group needs, every night to send to Fu Xianchang, after Fu Xianchang received, organize employees to weigh and pack, and then play the price of each group per bag, Liu Mingming directly according to the total price of payment. Every day at noon to deliver dishes, after delivery to the door of the community, Liu Mingming ran errands to send everyone upstairs, residents received the dishes, directly scan the code to pay Liu Mingming.
The process was smooth, so it quickly began to dry.
Small food delivery team: difficult start, frequent situations
On the evening of the 9th, Liu Mingming quickly released news in the owner group, telling everyone that he organized a group purchase of vegetables and some daily necessities, and those who needed it could add groups. After the news was released, less than 100 people joined, and he named the group "Temporary Group for Waterfront Life Support". After designing each group of dishes and product types, there are more than 30 requests. At this time, Liu Mingming's wife Wang Jie reminded him that if he sent more than 40 pieces of goods alone, how long it would take to say, it would be a problem whether his physical strength could keep up. Most of the waterfront Huating community is a 6-storey to the top of the building, there is no elevator, the first floor and the second floor are better to say, if the fourth floor is more, it will definitely be no play. Liu Mingming thought that he needed volunteers. He explained this situation in the group, Tianjin Electronic Information Vocational and Technical College Jiang Jian, Xinanli Beijing Technology Co., Ltd. General Manager Jiang Landi, freelancer Ren Zhanghui applied to join, at this point, including Liu Mingming's two sons, including the community life material support volunteer team was established.
The emergency chapter under the epidemic situation must also comply with the prevention and control requirements. Du Maorong, director of the Neighborhood Committee of the Party Branch of the Crescent River Community, sent them protective clothing, N95 masks, rubber gloves and disinfectant alcohol, and asked the grid members to cooperate.
At 1 p.m. on the 10th, the 30 daily necessities purchased for the first time by the Waterfront Huating Community were delivered by Fu Xianchang in a private car, and Fu Xianchang put the goods at the door of the community, and liu Mingming's team of five people went door to door with the printed collection code.
The first two homes sent by Liu Mingming are on the 5th floor, carrying more than ten pounds of goods, running these two orders, Liu Mingming is already breathless, coupled with the fact that the protective clothing is not breathable, he is sweating. When he was sent to a big mother's house, the price of the commodity receipt was 36.8 yuan, and the big lady said to Liu Mingming: Now the epidemic can't go out, everyone is not easy, you earn less, wipe a piece, just give you 36. Liu Mingming was stunned at that time, and the eldest lady regarded him as a door-to-door vegetable seller. He quickly explained to the eldest lady that he was also an ordinary community resident, that is, to help everyone buy vegetables and solve difficulties in life, and the money for setting vegetables was paid by individuals. The big lady who figured it out was particularly embarrassed, insisting on giving 50 yuan, which was a thank you, of course, Liu Mingming finally received 36.8 yuan.
From 1 p.m. onwards, five people were delivered until after 3 p.m., and although it was cold, everyone had sweat on their faces. Liu Mingming sent the most, a person sent 10 copies, he admitted that in the past 10 years he has not had such a large amount of exercise, that night, Liu Mingming ate a lot.
In the evening, Liu Mingming just reported the number of dishes required for the 11th to Fu Xianchang, and a resident called Liu Mingming, who wanted to complain about the lack of two pounds in the vegetable group, a total of 6 dishes, the receipt showed the total weight of 8 pounds and 4 two, and finally he weighed, less than 2 two. When Liu Mingming heard about this situation, he quickly asked other residents who ordered dishes, many of them were missing 1 or 1/2. Liu Mingming was anxious and quickly called to question Fu Xianchang.
At this time, Fu Xianchang was working with employees to prepare vegetables according to the number of portions that Liu Mingming had just sent. In fact, the supply of necessities including vegetables in the city, including jinnan, is already following suit. Hearing Liu Mingming's questioning, he only thought that he was packing at night, immediately weighing and printing small tickets, and then putting these goods in the preservation warehouse, the next day at noon to send over, which after more than ten hours, although the vegetables are not not fresh, there will still be water evaporation, so everyone's dishes will be lacking scales.
Fu Xianchang quickly apologized in the group and promised that the next day's dishes would be more for everyone to make up for today's losses, and he would weigh the orders before delivery in the future to ensure that the portions of the dishes were only a lot more.
The more orders you place, the more you lose
On the 11th, the number of residents who ordered the dishes increased, a total of 44 servings, so Liu Mingming and the five of them climbed the stairs more, from more than 1 p.m. to nearly 5 o'clock. After 5 people sent the last household found that there were 4 barrels of oil, 4 bags of rice unclaimed, they quickly opened the table of last night's statistics, it turned out that when solitaire in the group, there was a resident who received 5 times of oil and 5 times of rice. Liu Mingming quickly called the family. Answering the phone is Uncle An, Uncle An is 72 years old, he said that he just learned to use WeChat, at that time did not know how, has been thinking that there is no point, just ordered a few times, the family is him and his wife two people, to so much can not eat. Uncle An admitted his mistake one by one, saying that he was too stupid, and Liu Mingming quickly comforted Uncle An, saying, Our family has a large population, even if I buy it. So, he and his wife tiredly carried these oil and rice back home, in fact, Liu Mingming's family is a Shandong person, usually eat very little rice, the family counts his parents a total of 6 people, plus two barrels of oil he bought before, a total of 6 barrels, it is estimated that he will not be able to eat until this time next year.
On the 12th, the number of residents who set the dish exploded, reaching 70, and more and more residents joined the group, from less than 100 to more than 300. Liu Mingming analyzed that one is because the dishes they sent two days ago are of good quality, the price is reasonable, and they are guaranteed to be delivered, everyone spreads word of mouth, the popularity of their team is played out, and the other is that when the No. 8 community is closed, the goods in the home tun are almost eaten, and they are in urgent need of replenishment. But 70 copies, according to the experience of the first two days, the five of them had to be sent to the night, even if they could keep up with their physical strength, they would delay the purchase of vegetables and residents to eat, right? Liu Mingming quickly called Du Maorong, secretary of the community party branch and director of the neighborhood committee, and asked her for help. After Receiving the request for help, Du Maorong quickly squeezed out manpower for Liu Mingming and sent 4 volunteer boys to help deliver dishes together. After a busy afternoon, at 5:30, they finished their work.
But after returning home, Liu Mingming found that the money he received and the money he paid to the supermarket were not matched, and he lost more than 200 yuan. Their way of receiving payment is that everyone takes the paper printed collection code to charge, Liu Mingming said, it may be that some places have a bad signal, did not sweep, and residents do not know. Wang Jie comforted her husband and said that it is inevitable to serve everyone and suffer some losses. Therefore, after ordering more than 70 copies from the 12th, Liu Mingming lost money every day from tens of yuan to one or two hundred yuan, and the daily advance payment for supermarket goods also increased day by day, and at most he needed to advance five or six thousand yuan a day. Liu Mingming jokingly told everyone that thanks to being a teacher, if he did business, he would not be able to die.
The sinking cadres came, and the food delivery service was on the right track
The situation began to improve from the 17th, because the volunteers of party members and cadres organized by the city arrived one after another, on January 14, the Organization Department of the Municipal Party Committee dispatched 1,000 party members and cadres to support the epidemic prevention and control work in Jinnan District, and on the 18th, 2300 party members and cadres were drawn to support. The manpower was rich, and Du Maorong, secretary of the community party branch and director of the neighborhood committee, generously assigned seven or eight young men to assist Liu Mingming in delivering vegetables, and the grid members of each building could also free their hands and come to help together. Now, Liu Mingming no longer has to climb the stairs to deliver vegetables, his job is to dock with the supermarket, after the goods are delivered, mark the house number that needs to be sent, and calculate the account. Liu Mingming said that in the past few days, he has relaxed a lot, and his account has not lost any more.
On the morning of the 19th, a large tent was set up at the gate of the Huating community on the waterfront, and the tent was written on the temporary service point for the guarantee of living materials, and Liu Mingming knew that Tianjin Food Group entered the sealing and control area and control area of Jinnan District, and made every effort to ensure the supply of daily necessities such as vegetables and grain and oil for residents.
Since the 19th, Liu Mingming's number of orders has dropped significantly. On the 20th, there were only 10 orders. He said that the "regular army" came, everyone's life was more secure, the less my work proved that we were closer to defeating the epidemic, and when everyone no longer needed us, our lives returned to normal. But Liu Mingming plans to permanently retain the WeChat group of "Waterfront Life Security Temporary Group", he said, there are nearly 500 people in the group at present, that is to say, this community with more than 1300 residents, every household has a representative in this group, even after the epidemic, everyone has any difficulties can still be raised in the group, and everyone wants to solve it together.
Recently, many community residents praised him on WeChat Weibo and thanked him, in this regard, Liu Mingming himself ridiculed, before as a teacher, in addition to teaching scientific research and writing papers, I don't know what else I can do, this time I know that I can also "sell vegetables". As a political science teacher, I often talk about collectivism and core values in the classroom, and this time it is a practice that should be done.
(Reporter Liu Zhao; Editors Han Zhen and Gu Ying)