This article is reprinted from China News Weekly
Near the Spring Festival, Zaizai's parents were still delivering food to the neighbors, but unlike the previous few days, they finally took off their airtight protective clothing, and there were a few more New Year goods in the basket.
Zaizai is 14 years old this year and lives a happy little life with his parents in Xi'an. At the end of last year, the epidemic in Xi'an suddenly broke out, Zaizai's father Ren Xiang became a head of taocai vegetables, in the days of shortage of anti-epidemic materials, after receiving property support, he and his wife prepared protective clothing, masks, gloves, disinfectants, etc., insisted on delivering vegetables to the door for fifty or sixty neighbors in the community, and the sensible Zaizai also took the initiative to give his parents a hand in addition to learning.
Essays written by Zai Zai (partial)
Not long ago, with the orderly return of production and life in Xi'an, Zai Zai used an essay to record the experience and feelings of delivering food with his parents in 30 days. After the composition was sent to the circle of friends by parents, neighbors praised it.
Recently, we also had a chat with this family.
For 30 days, they insisted on delivering food to their doorstep
Zai Zai said that he used to think that the epidemic was very far away, and watching it from TV and listening to it from his parents and teachers only felt that it was a very heavy thing. When he was isolated at home, looking at the empty road and the quiet community, he realized for the first time that the epidemic was so close to him.
In their neighborhood, for a while residents were isolated at home, and as the food was slowly consumed, he felt the trouble of food shortage for the first time. On the second day of the online class, he heard his parents say that there was not enough food stored at home, and on the third day, he found that the food at home was different.
"Except for the fact that I eat a piece of steak as usual, my parents only eat one vegetarian dish, and there used to be three dishes. Mom and Dad said I was growing up and eating more. But the sensible boy fed the meat into his mother's mouth.
His parents told him that many neighbors faced the same troubles as they did, and every day everyone was talking about how to buy more dishes. At that moment, the little boy's heart was touched. When the dishes sent by the government were distributed, he saw the smiling faces of his family and imagined the smiling faces of his neighbors.
After a few days, things changed. He found that his father suddenly received a phone call and rushed downstairs, and when he returned, he shouted "deliver the food and deliver the food" before he entered the door. It turned out that it was the driver who picked up the vegetables who delivered the dishes. The family was very excited that day, because during that time, almost no dishes from other channels could be delivered.
That day, after dinner, the couple sat down to discuss carefully whether to continue to deliver food to the door, and Zai Zai found that his parents were also worried but did not flinch. "At that time, my parents said that since TaoCai can send vegetables, we can also send dishes to everyone, and it is safer for one person to go out than a group of people to go out." Tsai Was Touched by his parents' decision and was very supportive of their delivery of food.
The dishes bought by the neighbors on the Tao Cai cai, Ren Xiang and his wife will sort them in advance
The Tsai family set up a distribution station in the living room of more than 40 square meters in the home. Every day, Ren Xiang and his wife and other drivers arrive at the door of the community, pull the goods home, and then sort and pack according to the orders placed by the neighbors.
In the past, there were only 20 or 30 households in the community to use Taocai dishes, when Ren Xiang informed everyone in the group that they could go to Taocai to buy vegetables, the group buying community suddenly increased from more than 40 people to more than 190 people, and the amount of goods doubled. Many elderly people will not use taocai dishes, and the couple will teach them or directly help "grab vegetables".
"Taocai vegetables can be delivered to the goods in time, the quality of the dishes is good, the price is also fair, and the group says that Taocai vegetables solve big problems, but the only drawback is that it is more difficult to grab." Ren Xiang said. Every night at 10 p.m., they will interact with everyone in the group to "grab vegetables", and slowly the neighbors have also explored a set of "vegetable change methods" - whoever does not grab it will change with another family, who is missing something, and other neighbors even take the initiative to send out stored grain.
Every night, the couple will spend an hour sorting out the documents, and before the goods arrive for delivery, they must also make a clear note of whose home and whose family exchanged the goods. Looking at the busy figure of his parents, especially his mother was always tired and had waist pain, zaizai was very distressed, so he took the initiative to help sort in his spare time.
The boy helps sort the items
In this process, ZaiZai experienced the hardships of his parents. He said: "Although my parents are not great people, they have been doing great things in our community, and I am very grateful to those who are struggling in the front line, as well as those who have helped their hometowns." ”
Heart-wrenching "Building 6"
As the head of the Taocai cuisine team, Building 6 once made Ren Xiang very worried. Their neighborhood is divided into north and south districts, separated by a road. Among them, two cases in Building 6 in the North District have been confirmed.
Ren Xiang's family lives in the South District, and going to the North District to deliver food will face great risks. "As soon as I talked about Building 6, I felt a pang in my heart. But after consulting with my wife, we reached an agreement, did a good job of protection, and insisted on sending. ”
Every time they go to the North District, they will control the number of times they go out, transport all the goods back and forth once or twice, each time filling a pull cart, Ren Xiang pulls in front, his wife pushes in the back, and every time they come home, they are sweaty, like a bath.
Zaizai said his parents never let him go to the North End, and considering his mother's poor resistance, his father insisted that he be responsible for the delivery of Building 6 alone. "He wears protective clothing every time, wears several layers of masks, the security guard brother presses the elevator floor, he goes up alone, think about it is quite scared, but my father came back as calm as a normal person, handsome!"
In Building 6, Ren Xiang has been worried about a young man who is studying for graduate school, because he can't cook, he hoarded some instant noodles, and he saw that there were two packs left. "I feel bad at the thought of himself at home, and his parents must be worried in their hometown." Ren Xiang said that when he later delivered the supplies to his door, he was particularly excited, and stuffed a pack of cigarettes from the crack in the door, Ren Xiang stuffed it back again, he pushed it out again, and Ren Xiang stuffed it back.
Building 6 also has a special neighbour. This family originally lived with a husband and wife, and when the epidemic came, it was just in time for parents to visit relatives and children on vacation, and two people became five people, but five dishes could only be reduced to two dishes. They "looked for vegetables" everywhere, and when Ren Xiang delivered the dishes after placing an order for vegetables, the family was sad and stretched.
Neighbors in the group exchange shopping or cooking experiences
Later, as the epidemic situation improved day by day, the materials gradually became sufficient and the dishes increased. "At the beginning, everyone was concerned about whether the dishes were enough, whether they could grab it, and they ate potatoes and cabbage, cabbage and potatoes, and then everyone slowly began to eat hot pot and snacks. Young people are also slowly learning to cook and exchange practices in groups. Seeing this good situation, Ren Xiang couldn't help but be excited in his heart.
Today, with the efforts of medical staff, volunteers and everyone including Ren Xiang's family, Xi'an has survived the epidemic and has begun to restore normal production and living order in an orderly manner.
"The guy in Building 6 has gone home, and his parents don't have to worry about it." Ren Xiang said happily.
Guard your neighbors for a good year
In the past few days, a snow has quietly landed in Xi'an, adding a bit of joy to the upcoming Spring Festival.
The people of Xi'an have also taken to the streets, some in long lines to eat a long-lost meatball peppery soup, and some have begun to be busy hoarding goods for the New Year.
Zai Zai wrote in the essay: "I don't have to do nucleic acid every day, we are living a three-dish life again, my mother said that the neighbors have long begun to eat hot pot, and I will soon be able to run and jump on the basketball court." ”
Ren Xiang also truly felt that the atmosphere was different. "In the past, it was 20 or 30 orders, and now I can send up to 60 or 70 orders, and what I used to buy were all daily vegetables, and now everyone has prepared meat for dumplings for the New Year."
What makes Zaizai's mother feel relieved is the growth of her son. She said: "My baby has really grown up and knows how to take responsibility. ”
After this "epidemic", ren xiang's family also deeply felt the trust of their neighbors, and Taocai vegetables also became a platform for the trust of neighbors. As the number of orders increased, Ren Xiang became busier, sometimes even delivering the goods until ten o'clock in the evening.
Some of their neighbors took the initiative to come to help, and some neighbors invited them to dinner. Everyone said that they had built a "family-style mobile supermarket" for the community.
Through the wind and snow, the hardest time has passed. The footsteps of the Spring Festival are getting closer and closer, and Ren Xiang and his wife are ready to continue to deliver dishes to everyone and guard everyone for a good year.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Qin Hong Text Editor: Dong Siyun Title Image Source: China News Weekly Photo Editor: Shao Jing
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