Love canteen to help the elderly The days are more comfortable

The boiling pot of tea was steaming, and the 67-year-old Liu Ziheng gently blew the rim of the cup, took a sip of tea, and hummed a small song along with the long drama played on TV. When lunch time came, he turned off the TV, sealed the stove, got up and headed outside.

In the winter, the temperature had already dropped below zero, and Liu Ziheng returned to the house to drape the newly issued cotton clothes in the village on his shoulders. Just out of the door, I met Lao Zhang who walked to the middle of the road, and the two of them talked while walking, all the way to the village committee. "What's the good dish today?" I smell the aroma outside! "Originally, the village opened a love canteen, where the elderly over the age of 60 can eat here for free, get sick or have leg and foot inconvenience, and also manage to deliver meals."

Opening the curtain, Liu Ziheng looked through the window and saw Zhang Yinfang, a "veteran" who was cooking, waving an iron spoon to serve a meal outside, "Cabbage fried meat, tomato scrambled eggs, vinegar-boiled potatoes, staple rice." "Between questions and answers, the meal was served.

Ten people sat around, Liu Ziheng and the old people in the village ate with relish, "The rice is soft and sticky, the meal is delicious, salty and suitable." Hearing the praise of the old people, Zhang Yinfang smiled and closed her mouth: "Not enough in the pot!" ”

"Before putting it aside, how dare you think?" Liu Ziheng's family lives in Chitan Village, Min County, Gansu Province, once, more than 60% of the village was poor households, about 30% were elderly, Liu Ziheng accounted for both, the income was meager, and life was inconvenient. After the battle against poverty began, Chitan Village vigorously developed the Chinese herbal medicine industry and opened a bee breeding cooperative... Multi-pronged, Chitan Village took off the "poor hat" in 2020, and now the village's collective income has reached 100,000 yuan.

Relying on the cultivation of Chinese herbal medicines, cooperative dividends and pension subsidies, Liu Ziheng's annual income is now more than 10,000 yuan. The money was enough to spend, but when it came to the meal, he was still worried. Why? troublesome! Liu Ziheng's wife died early, and after his daughter got married, he was the only one left in the family, "It is not easy to fry less dishes, and more dishes cannot be eaten." I'm alone, and I often make up steamed buns with tea. ”

In July 2020, Chitan Village, which has lifted off poverty and removed its hat, built a love canteen, hired Zhang Yinfang, a poverty alleviation household, as a chef, and had two meals at noon and evening every day, and all the expenses were paid by the village collective economy, which not only allowed the elderly to eat enough, but also let the elderly eat well.

"The conditions in the village are getting better and better, and it is really convenient to eat with someone to manage!" Liu Ziheng said, "Usually there is a headache and brain fever, and the telephone contact with the village doctor can also send medicine to the door." Every three to five, the doctor still came to sit and talk at home, and his mood was better. ”

Nowadays, Liu Ziheng lives comfortably, drinking tea and walking in the morning, playing chess and chatting with neighbors in the afternoon, taking blood glucose and measuring blood pressure in the village clinic, and regular free physical examinations. "The past days were bitter, now the days are sweet, and the blessings in the future cannot be enjoyed!" Liu Ziheng said with a smile.

Author: Zhao Shuaijie, a reporter of this newspaper

Source: People's Daily