Han Xiaowu was busy until more than nine o'clock in the evening before going home, taking off the disposable protective clothing and disinfecting it, and hanging it outside the door like this, because he would have to wear it tomorrow.

Zhang Mei doesn't need to ask what he is busy with, because he replies to the owners' questions in the group from time to time, and even many owners who live close to the intersection send photos and videos of him and Li Xiaohui accompanying the patient to wait for the bus at the intersection to the group.

Seeing his worried appearance, Zhang Mei felt distressed for a while, and didn't want to keep his distance from him like before, so he greeted him and said, "Hungry, hurry up and wash your hands, wash and heat up the lunch meal." ”

"What about you, what do you eat?"

"I ate, instant noodles. ”

"You can't always eat instant noodles. ”

"It's okay, I've always liked instant noodles, and besides, I ate a lot of snacks. ”

"Okay, I'll go wash my hands first. ”

It's not that Zhang Mei didn't want to help him with hot meals, but he was worried that he was infected with the new crown virus before, and he was afraid that he would get better but the virus was still there, so he stood at the bedroom door wearing a mask and looked at him and asked, "Xiaowu, the group said that someone died in Building No. 4." ”

"Well, an eighty-three-year-old lady. ”

"Is it COVID?"

"I don't know," Han Xiaowu glanced back, thought about it and said solemnly: "Only those who have worked in civil affairs, public security and the community know how serious the aging of the population is." Not to mention a big city like Hanwu, even a small county town in Anhai, every two or three days, someone will go to the community to issue a death certificate. This is just a normal death at home, not a death in the hospital. I heard that the funeral home was very busy, and even had to queue up to send the body to cremation during the New Year. ”

"Are you saying that even without COVID, funeral homes are busy?"

"Hmm. Han Xiaowu turned off the faucet and said helplessly while wiping his hands: "The hospital is afraid of cross-infection and does not dare to admit ordinary patients, resulting in many patients who may not be able to be rescued even if they are sent to the hospital in time to die at home. ”

Thinking of the group chat record he had just seen, Zhang Mei asked: "Whether it is infected with the virus or not, but the person is dead after all, why not arrange a car to send the body to cremation?"

"One is that the funeral home is busy, and the other is that the car can't be arranged. Secretary Jiang is thinking of a way, she said, noon tomorrow at the latest!"

"What about the fever patients?"

"Beds are being sought. ”

"I heard that there are people in the community who go to make trouble every day?"

"Do you need to hear about this, everyone has posted the video to the group. People want to be hospitalized and need beds, but what can the community do?" Han Xiaowu walked into the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, took out the leftovers from noon, and said dejectedly: "Secretary Jiang and Li Xiaohui are about to collapse, I have only been working for two days, and I am about to collapse." Those people are really pitiful, their today is probably our tomorrow, we really want to help them, but we can't do anything, we really feel helpless. ”

The more Zhang Mei thought about it, the more uncomfortable he became, and asked with tears in his eyes: "The whole country is supporting Hanwu, so many doctors and nurses have come, why are there no beds?"

"There are too many debts, and no one knows what to do in the face of such an epidemic, and all kinds of medical supplies are in short supply during the Spring Festival. There is no plan, no preparation at all, and it is normal to cause such chaos now. It'll be fine in a few days, it will always get better. ”

"What do you mean by owing too much?"

"The medical facilities and medical capacity have not kept up with the development of the city, how big was the Han Wu before, how big is it now, and how many people are there now? Not only the Han Wu, but other places are estimated to be similar. The community where I used to work is next to the People's Hospital, and the 120 command center is downstairs in the community, and I know best how busy the People's Hospital is. If the epidemic breaks out in Anhai, Anhai will collapse as well. ”

Han Xiaowu thought about it and turned around and said, "It's not just medical care that owes debts, but also education. I don't know about Hanwu's side, but I know a little about Anhai's situation, from kindergarten to high school, there are more than ten or twenty classes in one grade, and fifty or sixty children in one class. I can't sit in the canteen at noon, so I can only stagger the time to eat. ”

Zhang Mei subconsciously asked: "Patronizing the construction of buildings and selling houses, but supporting facilities such as medical care and education have not kept up?"

Han Xiaowu nodded and didn't say anything more.

The epidemic is spreading, the number of infected people is increasing, there is no hospital, there is no medicine, there is no sense of security, the residents are in a panic, and the mental pressure is far greater than the physical pressure of the community workers who have to face all this every day. Although Han Xiaowu is not a formal community worker, he is also physically and mentally exhausted, and he is no longer in the mood to joke, and the whole person has become extremely dull like Secretary Jiang and Li Xiaohui.

Zhang Mei watched him quietly finish eating, and it wasn't until he got up to clean up the dishes and chopsticks that he choked up and said, "Xiaowu, if we can escape this catastrophe, we must live well in the future and cherish every day." ”

"That's what I thought, too. Han Xiaowu thought about it and cheered up again and squeezed out a smile: "Wife, we will be fine, we will definitely be fine." ”

"Well, I'm still waiting for you to propose," Zhang Mei wiped his tears, looked at him with a smile and said, "Life must have a sense of ritual, and the proposal in the video that day doesn't count." ”

"Okay, let's do it all over again, wait...... When the epidemic is under control, and when Hanwu is unblocked, I will go buy rings. Han Xiaowu was not afraid of being infected by her now, but was afraid that he would infect her with the virus on his body, so he didn't bother to wash the dishes, so he quickly took out a new mask and folded it in half, and then put it on.

Zhang Mei knew that he was uncomfortable, so he pretended to be relaxed and asked, "Where are the flowers?"

"Wife, is it okay to buy the imitation one? You know, I can't stand the smell of roses. ”

"Proposing with fake flowers, this is too perfunctory. ”

"Then I wear a mask and hold real flowers?"

"It's even more unseemly to wear a mask, forget it, you better use fake flowers. ”

As he was talking, a WeChat prompt sound came from his mobile phone.

Han Xiaowu looked down, and it turned out that someone was in the owner group again.

Thinking that Li Xiaohui had already gotten off work, the neighborhood center was unattended, and no one answered the announced phone, so he hurriedly entered his mobile phone number, and then asked in the group: "Hello, what is the matter?"

Aite's owner didn't reply, but called directly: "Are you Xiao Han in the community?"

"Yes, I'm a volunteer in the community Han Xiaowu, Auntie, what's the matter with you?"

"Why don't you deliver food to my house next door?"

Han Xiaowu reacted and hurriedly explained: "Auntie, the love vegetables are donated by the caring enterprises that are sent by the superiors and connected with the community, and the quantity is limited, and the distribution is mainly aimed at the needy people. There are no low-income households in our community, so the number assigned to our community is even smaller, and only a few elderly people living alone and people with disabilities have. And there are not many in the family, just three or four catties of vegetables and a few radish. ”

"Why don't you do more?"

"We also want to do it, but we can't!" In Li Xiaohui's words, there are rich people who can live in this community, Han Xiaowu really can't figure out that there are owners who want to take advantage of this small advantage, he looked up at Zhang Mei, and then said: "The community next door is an old community, there are many elderly people, and there are many families with financial difficulties, so there are more love vegetables." If you are in financial difficulties and really need it, then report the building number and room number, and I will help you apply with the community tomorrow. ”

"I'm not financially struggling, I mean this. All over the country are supporting Han Wu, and vegetables and meat are being delivered to us one by one, and I want to ask where the vegetables and meat have gone?"

"Auntie, all parts of the country are supporting our Hanwu, but do you know how many people we have in Hanwu? Where the vegetables and meat donated from various places go, I am just a volunteer, I really don't know. Not only do I not know, but I guess the community doesn't know, if you want to know, you can call the mayor's hotline or the relevant departments to consult. ”

"I've beaten it, it's either that I can't get through, or I can't tell one, two, three, four, I really don't know what you people are doing all day!"

"Auntie, isn't it just a little dish? Otherwise, the community is collecting donations, and many caring owners are also donating vegetables, and I will help you get a dish tomorrow." ”

"No, I have everything at home, I just want to tell you about it!"

"You're right, we have a lot of work that we don't do and we're trying to improve. ”

"That's pretty much it. ”

"Thank you, Auntie, for your understanding. ”

"Wait. ”

"Auntie, what else do you have to do?"

"Building 4 is dead, you know?"

"You know, we've been there in the afternoon. ”

"Did you die of pneumonia?"

Han Xiaowu realized that the female owner on the other end of the phone was not because of the order, nor because of anything else, it was likely that she just wanted to talk to someone, and said helplessly: "I know, we went there in the afternoon." I heard from relatives that the deceased did not have a fever or cough before his death, and he should not have died of new crown pneumonia. ”

"Like an old lady?"

"Yes, it's eighty-three years old. ”

"Eighty-three, it's also a long life. ”

Han Xiaowu was really in no mood to chat with her, so he asked cautiously: "Auntie, if you don't have anything else, I'll hang up first, otherwise there is something else to do, and the phone can't come in." ”

"Okay, hang up first, and I'll look for you when I have something. ”

"Thank you, Auntie. ”

As soon as his words fell, Zhang Mei smiled bitterly: "The mobile phone numbers have been sent to the group, don't think about Ansheng at night." ”

"There are people around me who have been diagnosed, there are several suspicions, and someone died in the afternoon, everyone is very panicked, if you can't find anyone on the phone, you will be more scared, more helpless, more panicked. ”

"My mom wasn't worried at all, you know what she told me today. ”

"What did you say?" Han Xiaowu asked curiously.

Zhang Mei said embarrassedly: "She asked me for your parents' mobile phone numbers, not only called but also added WeChat, and videographed with your parents and your parents." At night, there is also a 'cloud toast', a sip of a family, not to mention how happy it is. ”

"That's a good thing, aren't you happy?"

"Happy. ”

"I'll be happy, I'll wash the dishes. ”