Intern journalist | Wang Tingting
"Who has salt?" Can you share my points, the stew has no salt. ”
"I bought a few packets of salt, you take one."
In the community closure management under the influence of the epidemic, there have been some qualitative changes in the neighborhood relationship that used to be independent and free, and in those apartments dominated by young people, the neighborhood relationship is closer.
At 5:00 a.m. on March 28, Xia Bin's apartment officially ushered in the sealing and control management. Located in Xiaotang Town, Fengxian District, on the southern outskirts of Shanghai, the apartment brings together young people working in Shanghai who used to travel between Fengxian and Pudong, Jing'an or Xuhui and now have to work from home.
In the WeChat group with more than 300 tenants, Xia Bin can see someone "asking for help" from time to time, and these help messages can be as small as an onion, a battery and a pack of paper towels, as large as rice cookers, induction cookers and so on.
These inconspicuous materials in the past life are now particularly precious during the sealing and management period.
The choice to ask for help is involuntary. For most young people, after getting used to convenient and efficient express logistics and takeaway delivery, they are not good at "being prepared", but more believe in "instant satisfaction". Therefore, when the real closed management comes, not many people can achieve sufficient materials.
But it is also in this blockade that the value of the neighborhood has once again returned to people's vision, and it has also proved that in the community relationship composed of strangers, the individual is not an island.
Here, these former strangers live in the same building, in the same neighborhood, perhaps from different provinces and cities, with their own dialects, different ideas, and different values. But they all have the same emotions: love and life.
On April 2, the apartment housekeeper finally got tired of sending epidemic prevention information to each resident one by one and decided to set up a group. It was also on this day that the group had the first help message "Does someone have a lot of cooking oil, there is no oil at home", and in less than a minute, someone adite him, "I have, add me WeChat." ”
Table salt placed on the windowsill.
On the 5th day of "staying at home", Li Xiang also decided to ask for help for his three cats in the WeChat group with the mentality of trying it out. "Do you have cat food, my cat is starving to death", the text appeared on the screen only ten minutes, her cat got another brand of cat food as she wished.
Even if there has been no positive infection in the building since the beginning of the sealing control, and even if there are no close contacts or sub-close contacts, for the sake of safety, the residents in the sealing control still need to keep a distance from others, "non-essential non-contact". Therefore, Li wanted to get the cat food on the ground in front of the door of the other floor, but he could not meet the person who helped him.
In the special period, although government materials, group purchases, etc. can generally meet people's daily basic diet, they cannot cover a specific garlic, a bag of salt, nor can they provide people with a roll of paper, a box of toothpaste, and even for those who do not have the conditions to cook, those who just need materials such as rice, noodles and vegetables have become less demanding.
Place a rice cooker in the aisle.
With the increasing demand for help in the group, there are more and more people who take the initiative to help, such as "Is there any need for syrup tofu?" "Yesterday's rice, which neighbor needs to send you" "I have extra paper to put at the door of 1207, need to pick up" "There is also a cabbage can also be sent", "Do you need celery, tomatoes, I have stock to share" and so on...
Zhang Fang would make a few more meals every day at noon and put them into bowls or plates of different sizes. Just ask tentatively in the group, and someone will respond with "I want" and "I want to eat", and then she will cover the meal and put it in the elevator or on the windowsill of a certain tenant who has made an appointment with her neighbor.
The epidemic is still continuing, the day of unsealing is facing uncertainty, and recently the WeChat group has begun to frequently appear in the WeChat group to express different levels of anxiety about daily necessities.
"Most people don't have enough food at home, some people don't have drinking water at home, and some people are in urgent need of some standing medicines, office supplies, etc.", so Li wants to suggest that everyone exchange supplies, put the things that the other party needs somewhere agreed, and when the other party takes the items, put the things that the other party needs by the way.
The apartment housekeeper vaguely felt a little uneasy.
In her view, "staying at home" means that they cannot leave the room door for the rest of the time except for doing nucleic acid, and there is a certain risk in the residents to go out to exchange supplies without permission, even if there is no contact with each other.
Thus, the material exchange table should come at the right time.
Every morning, each household can coordinate the materials to be exchanged between the two sides, and then fill in the form, and then the volunteers will be responsible for the transmission in the afternoon of the same day. The premise is that the goods must be the necessities of life.
A material exchange table dated April 8 shows that the exchange of goods covers toiletries, fruits and vegetables, kitchen utensils, snacks and other categories.
Apartment material exchange table for April 8.
In this WeChat group with 371 people, Liu Ze belongs to the more active one. Cooking wine, white vinegar, hot pot base, cigarettes, etc., he has never disappointed, "while helping others, but also close the distance between each other, why not enjoy it." "There is no shortage of supplies, and after giving away the supplies, he often unexpectedly harvests a dinner.
Xia Bin only gives and does not change. But whenever anyone in the group asked for help for supplies, he was the first to see if he had any excess, and in the case of ensuring that he would not affect his life, he tried to help these people who lived in the same apartment as much as possible, and in just half a month, he sent out tissues, rice cookers, glue and salt.
"Some people are still very difficult and have no preparation for anything." Xia Bin told Interface News that he is a "conservative" and will buy anything in advance. In these days of sealing, after work, he likes to flip through the group messages, "In case the other party needs something, I just have it." ”
The sharing of materials provides an opportunity for these young people to continue to communicate and interact. At least it is clear that their "social isolation" from each other is gradually broken, starting from reciprocity between private individuals to resonance between communities, and radiating like ripples to a wider range.
Since the epidemic situation is not yet clear, it is simply a pleasure to be bitter, and it is better to be happy alone than to be happy.
At 6 p.m. on April 10, an online music campaign launched by the apartment unleashed the emotions of young people. Before the event, a volunteer in the apartment declared, "The people in the first building are on the windowsill, and the people in the second building are watching from their balconies. "The apartment stewards, store managers and volunteers started the live broadcast in a vacant space between one or two buildings for a period of one hour.
Live online concerts.
This is the first group music event in the apartment since the sealing.
Inexperienced, they did not have a decent sound or microphone in addition to accepting the inappropriate venue, and the small speakers that usually deliver information about the epidemic to tenants were just put in handy.
The group solitaire who counts the purchase of materials is taking on the responsibility of the tenant's song, such as "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky", "The Sea", "Tomorrow Will Be Better", "Red Sun", "The Sun Never Sets", "Mt. Fuji" and nearly 40 songs, of course, these songs were not sung in the end.
In order to make the atmosphere more harmonious, many people removed the lantern strips hanging in their rooms, swayed along the windows or balconies, and sang along. "Singing very well, expressing the love and desire for freedom", someone left a message in the live room.
After Zhou Huajian's "Friends" is sung as the ending song, they will continue to "stay at home".
After that night, the content in the WeChat group began to involve some days after the unblocking, such as someone going to the gym together after the unsealing, playing tennis and badminton, etc., and building a new group "Nest Feather Altar". In Liu Ze's view, the first thing to do after unsealing is more likely to be to meet everyone to get a haircut together.
The emotional connection between neighbors has been fully demonstrated during the epidemic. Because, even the most independent individuals seem to have a hard time avoiding the tricky "current troubles" and cannot predict the help they will need one day, and when everyone faces them together, some difficulties will be solved.
(In the text, Xia Bin, Li Xiang, Liu Ze and others are pseudonyms)