Text: Willow in August
Figure: From the network
Because of the epidemic in Shanghai, many elderly people living alone have entered people's vision, and their situation is worrying.
In recent days, every night after 9 o'clock, the smell of coal in the residential building where I live has become clearer and stronger, and it lasts until midnight.
Residents exclaimed in the owner group and asked the management office to quickly investigate, and the management office did not dare to be careless, and no abnormalities were found after a comprehensive inspection.
The next day the smell reappeared, and everyone panicked. The management office notified the owner to suspend the use of gas first, and immediately contacted the gas company. The staff came to the door to check, and there was nothing unusual.
On the third day, the smell struck again, and when there was no way out, some owners speculated whether a resident's water heater was malfunctioning. The owners called on everyone to check on their own.
On the fourth day, the smell was still the same, and after the smell began, the property staff and the owner's representatives began to knock on the door from the first floor, explaining their intentions and checking the water heater.
After many efforts, finally found, it turned out to be a water heater failure in the home of an elderly family living alone on the 16th floor, the old man was sick, it is estimated that there was a problem with the sense of smell in her nose, and she did not smell an abnormal smell.
On the 16th floor, this resident, everyone calls her "Huang Jie", is a celebrity in our place.
Huang Jie is famous, first, because she has a particularly excellent son, and second, she herself has a cheerful and cheerful personality and likes to travel.
Huang Jie's son is a bully, after graduating from Tsinghua University, he went to the United States to study for a doctorate. Staying in the United States after graduating with a doctorate is a small achievement.
Huang Jie's son not only learns well, but also plays piano and sings first-class.
Huang Jie's son got married in the United States and found his sister-in-law. The appearance, size, and talent of the sister are far inferior to Sister Huang's son, and Sister Huang does not like it, but the marriage is likely that the parents will not be able to get the child in the end, not to mention that they are still in a place where the mountains and rivers are far away.
After marriage, he had two children, a man and a woman.
When the daughter-in-law gave birth, Sister Huang had not yet retired, and the mother-in-law took care of her for a while, because the father-in-law was not in good health, and the mother-in-law returned to China.
When the grandson was eight months old, the daughter-in-law's father was seriously ill, and the daughter-in-law had to return to China to take care of it, and the child was not taken with her.
The son called Sister Huang and asked Her to come to the United States to help with the child.
The son is in the ascending period of his career, and the son has encountered difficulties, and Huang Jie is definitely obligated. Sister Huang went through the early retirement procedures and went to the United States alone, and Sister Huang's husband stayed at home in China.
Huang Jie has been with children in the United States for nearly a year, she is really superhuman, two babies, one three years old, one eight months, alone, buying vegetables, cooking, cleaning up the room, with a baby, busy, although tired, but happy in the heart.
When the daughter-in-law took care of the family affairs (the daughter-in-law's parents died one after another) and returned to the United States, Huang Jie returned to China.
After a few years, Huang Jie's husband suddenly fell ill, and her son rushed back to see the last side, and her husband died.
Huang Jie is alone in China, often goes out to travel, runs at home and abroad, and has gone to Antarctica.
Friends asked Huang Jie why she didn't go to the United States to enjoy the joy of heaven, and she said that she liked the country and was lively.
Friends asked her what to do when she got older? She said: She had already thought about it and would go to a nursing home in a few years.
Once she went to Mexico to play, and stopped by the United States to see her son, and the grandchildren thought she was a new nanny.
Once again, the daughter-in-law had to go to Europe for two months, and it was Huang Jie who was obligated to go to the United States to take care of her grandchildren.
The day after the daughter-in-law returned home, Sister Huang set off to return to China.
Three years of epidemic, tourism has become a luxury, fortunately, Huang Jie likes to raise flowers, she spends her free time to cultivate flowers, the home has become a sea of flowers, and the flowers everywhere you look are eye-catching.
But people always have times when they are sick and weak, the weather changes, and they don't cover the quilt at night, and they catch a cold. A person, took medicine, dizzy, bad smell did not feel, water heater failure can not be found, fortunately there are neighbors to help troubleshoot, to avoid an accident.
In the week of the epidemic control in Shenzhen, in order to ensure that every household completed the nucleic acid test, volunteers registered family members at home. (Previously registered in the community)
Found a lot of elderly people like Huang Jie living alone, helped them into the owner group, there are people who do not understand in the group to ask, neighbors are very enthusiastic, soon someone will answer.
Buying vegetables online, Hema and Meituan once set up stalls in the residential area on the eve of opening, and the sales staff helped download the APP and taught how to place orders by hand.
The basic life is solved, and the mental state can only be regulated by oneself. (Fortunately, the time of sealing and control in Shenzhen is not long)
There are many elderly people living alone like Huang Jie, children study abroad and settle down, although the children's economic conditions are good, but they are basically because they are not adapted to life abroad (language barrier, loneliness, family conflicts, etc.), choose to return to China.
When the epidemic in the United States was serious last year, Huang Jie was so anxious that she could not go to see her son, and her son could not return to China. She can only video with her son when he is free. Every time she finished calling, she felt that her whole body was hollowed out, but if she didn't call, she would miss her children and grandchildren very much.
She regretted it even more whenever she saw the old man downstairs playing with her grandchildren. Huang Jie also often complained that it was useless for her son's ability to be good, and when he was older, the child was not around. As she grew older, she became more spiritually lonely.
The sons and grandchildren of other elderly people in the community often come to visit them. His son was far away in the United States and would not be able to return home once in years. That kind of mental loneliness is really torturous.
At that time, his son's academic career has always been cloaked in the aura of "learning bully", which has brought him great glory. Later, Huang Jie strongly supported her son to study in the United States and worked and settled there.
But the envious eyes of others eventually faded with time.
Now the neighborhood is saying, "Is your son still in the United States?" "Suddenly let Huang Jie's heart be full of mixed feelings." She didn't know what life would be like in a few years, when she was too old to move.
Now, under the epidemic situation, Huang Jie is alone in China, even if her son loves her again, but the distant water cannot save the near fire.
Even if you go to a nursing home later, if you don't have children to visit, the aunt who cares for you inside will look at it differently.
Whenever talking about her son's studies, achievements, and the cuteness and wisdom of her grandchildren, Huang Jie must gush endlessly; but when it comes to going to the United States to see children, buying a house, etc., Huang Jie must not say a word, so left and right...
Some people who have settled abroad seem to have westernized a lot, abandoning the fine traditions of the Chinese people. Children who are out of the air and fly far should look back at their parents who live alone.