Chao News client reporter Yang Yunhan
Yesterday, Zhejiang officially entered the meteorological winter, as soon as the winter is deep, the temperature in many places plummeted.
Today is the second day after the cooling, according to the "Zhejiang Meteorology", the lowest temperature in Hangzhou today is -1.6 °C.
In such extremely cold weather, are you huddled under the covers and reluctant to leave the air-conditioned room?
But for the takeaway guy who rides an electric car around to run orders, this is a relatively busy time of year again.
This morning (17th), the Chao News reporter came to the Hangzhou Meituan Distribution Gucui Road site located at the east gate of Wulian Dongyuan, West Lake District, to record the hard work of the takeaway brother in low temperature weather.
Photo by reporter Yang Yunhan
At around 9:40 a.m., although the sun was shining, the air was still bitterly cold. At the gate of the site, the Chao News reporter met Xiao Chen, a rider in his 20s.
Xiao Chen is from Heze, Shandong Province, and has been working as a food delivery rider in Hangzhou for less than 10 days. He started work on time at 10:30 a.m. every day, and didn't have a short time to go home until 1:30 p.m. to finish the first delivery peak, and then rest for an hour or two, and then continue to deliver orders, until 8 or 9 o'clock in the evening, before going home to rest.
"Yesterday, I probably delivered more than 40 orders a day. Xiao Chen said that maybe it was the relationship between the first two days that began to cool down, and the orders were indeed more than the previous days, but compared with the changes in orders, he was more impressed by the low temperature in Hangzhou, "The temperature is not as low as in our hometown, but I feel that the wind is much more biting, is Hangzhou like this every year?"
During the conversation, more than 10 takeaway guys stopped their electric cars in front of the station one after another. They were all the same as Xiao Chen, wearing thick gloves. Some of them wore cotton hats in their helmets, wind deflectors in front of their cars, and knee pads tied to their knees to protect them from the wind.
"I lost my knee pad before, and yesterday afternoon I was riding my bike, and when the wind blew, my legs were shivering from the cold. Lao Wang, a 36-year-old rider, said that for this morning, he specially changed into a pair of thick pants.
Lao Wang, a native of Luoyang, Henan Province, came to Hangzhou from his hometown for more than a month and has been working as a rider in the station. After the recent cooling, I ran an average of 30 orders a day. "It rained two days ago, and there were a lot of lists, and the two peaks at noon and evening basically didn't stop. ”
Hearing the reporter ridicule Hangzhou's winter as a "magic attack", he felt very vivid.
Before 10 o'clock, the stationmaster Liu Lu returned to the site with a lunch box. The lunch box is filled with steaming steamed buns, soy milk and tea eggs, which he prepares for his riders.
Photo courtesy of the interviewee
"Let's go to the morning meeting first. Liu Lu put down the lunch box in the station, and when he saw that the riders were basically there, he took everyone to the side of the boat race road and had a morning meeting. In addition to tidying up and cleaning lunch boxes, the content of the morning meeting is mainly related to traffic safety. After the morning meeting, he told everyone to have breakfast: "The weather is cold, eat some breakfast and then go online, today's buns, soy milk, tea and eggs are full enough......"
The little guys who wiped the lunch box Photo by reporter Yang Yunhan
Xiao Chen and Lao Wang tied the lunch box to the electric car, returned to the site under Liu Lu's greeting, and after gobbling up breakfast, they hurriedly jumped into the car and started to deliver food.
Hurry up and eat some little buddies and set off Photo courtesy of the interviewee
At this moment, only the reporter and Liu Lu were left in the station.
Liu Lu is 25 years old and a native of Luoyang, Henan. He came to Hangzhou in March 2021 as a takeaway brother, and came to Wulian Dongyuan as a stationmaster in June last year, and this year is his third year in Hangzhou.
At his site, the delivery area is mainly in the three streets of Wenxin, Gudang and Cuiyuan in West Lake District, and there are less than 30 delivery people in the station. It is divided into three shifts every day according to the personal wishes of the delivery staff, like Lao Wang and Xiao Chen, they belong to the middle class, with the largest number of people; in addition, there are morning shifts and evening shifts, the morning shift starts at 7 o'clock in the morning and is delivered to 1:30 p.m., and then goes online in the evening; the evening shift is online at 11 o'clock at noon, mainly delivering lunch, dinner and supper, at the latest to 12 o'clock, of course, if there are special circumstances, it may be until early morning. "There was a takeaway order last night, because the buyer could not be contacted, and it was not delivered until half past one in the morning. ”
Rider Xiaoxia reporter Yang Yunhan photo
At around 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the rider Xiaoxia parked the car, carried a bowl of packaged noodles in his hand, and opened the sliding door of the station.
Inside, he pulled out a chair and sat down in the lounge area by the door, ready to bury his head in lunch.
"More than 10 orders have been delivered in the morning. "For the morning's performance, Xiao Xia is basically satisfied.
Xiao Xia is a post-00 generation, who has been in Hangzhou for less than 3 months, and is an early shift rider in the station.
His first takeout order of the day happened at around 7 o'clock in the morning, not long after he got up and went online - a user ordered breakfast at a bun shop on the platform. Fortunately, the address for picking up and delivering the food was not far from his residence, so it took him less than 10 minutes to complete the task.
As soon as this order was delivered, the second order came one after another...... In this way, he sent out 5 orders one after another in one morning, and he was so busy that he couldn't leave the ground, and he ate his breakfast at nearly 9 o'clock.
"Today was fine because it was the weekend and there weren't many people buying breakfast. He said that if it is a working day and the white-collar workers in the office building go to work, there may be one or two more orders. "I should be able to complete more than 10 orders in the evening, and strive to complete 30 orders today. ”
The reporter noticed that Xiao Xia wrapped herself tightly, not only wearing four or five clothes, wearing thick gloves, but also wearing a windshield mask on her face. Xiao Xia said that this is the "standard" for his daily food delivery.
"I'm on the morning shift, and the temperature difference between day and night is big in this season, and it's always cold in the morning, so I can't go out if I don't wear it like this. Xiao Xia explained that he felt okay for the temperature in Hangzhou today, "It didn't rain today, and the wind was not as strong as yesterday, so it was a little better." ”
As he was talking, the stationmaster Liu Lu walked over, holding two pieces of warm baby in his hand, and handed them to Xiao Xia: "Come on, I'll give you a good thing, when you go out in the morning, stick it on the soles of your feet, and it will be effective soon." ”
The colder the weather, the heavier the rain and snow, the more orders will be received, and accordingly, the workload of the takeaway brother will be greater. "It rained and cooled down in the first two days, and the station could produce 700~800 orders a day, an increase of 15% compared with last week. Liu Lu said that those who deliver food earn hard money.
However, Liu Lu also said that he felt that the citizens of Hangzhou could also understand the hard work of the takeaway brother, "Two days ago, a lot of people called our riders and asked them to deliver them slowly on rainy days, which is also very moving, Hangzhou is really a warm city." ”
Chao News reporter learned that in the case of cold wave and special rain and snow weather, in order to ensure that riders can deliver orders safely, Meituan Distribution Hangzhou has activated an emergency mechanism, and has taken measures such as increasing order delivery subsidies, extending delivery time, and eliminating overtime bad reviews for orders in bad weather areas, so as to help riders reduce delivery pressure, reduce worries, and let riders deliver meals with peace of mind.
In addition, in the past half month, Meituan's special delivery and crowdsourcing sites in Hangzhou have also begun to distribute new handlebar covers, knee pads and other cold-proof and warm materials, and at the same time, the distribution sites have also increased the frequency of providing riders with warm meals such as dumplings, dumplings, soup and bone broth during breakfast, afternoon tea and supper, so that riders can eat hot meals at the station in addition to delivery.
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