Chapter 56: No One Becomes an Island
The two chatted, and they were both amazed by the huge changes in each other, but they didn't expect that ordinary people would achieve so much success.
I haven't seen each other for more than 20 years, everyone has changed drastically, and there are few common memories, and they pay more attention to the topic of the present, about the epidemic, and about the future.
Zhang Xinhuo found out the situation from Manan's mouth and Li Mingming said that most of the people in the community did not have sufficient masks.
Except for some people who go to the supermarket every three or five days, more than half of them can only wait for the nearest street shop vegetable vendor to deliver to the downstairs of the community late at night.
The delivery person will pack each dish with a customer label, and place it on the ground one meter apart, and the owner will follow his name tag to pick up the goods.
The price is definitely a lot more expensive than the big supermarket, but fortunately, you don't have to go out of the community gate.
Now, in addition to the survival needs of people is a big problem, the survival of pets is a more urgent problem.
Whether it is a person who has returned to his hometown from Jiangcheng to work, or a person who has returned to work from other places, the owner has prepared food rations and water for his pet for a week or two before leaving home.
This amount was enough in previous years, and when they returned home, there would be enough food to spare.
But this year, the epidemic came too suddenly, and it is obvious that it will not be immediately braked if it continues to develop as it is now.
It may last for more than a month or even two or three months, what about those pets that are unattended and run out of food?
Manan pointed to the building opposite the window, "Many people can't bring their pets back for the New Year, and this year there is a big problem."
The day before yesterday, there was an owner's pet dog on the twentieth floor who wailed on the balcony all day, touching the hearts of the neighbors.
Under the planning of many parties, the neighbor on the opposite side of the balcony made a feeder with mineral water bottles and clothes poles to feed it every day, and barely saved its life.
It's lucky, but what if the neighbors don't find out? or can't reach it? Or hate pets? I wonder how many little lives will die of disease and starvation in this epidemic. ”
Although Zhang Jinhuo has never kept a dog at home, he has brought military dogs in the army and knows that they are comrades-in-arms and their lives are as precious as human lives.
He has compassion but is helpless about it, there are thousands of injustices in the world, and he has not yet reached the point where everything is injustice and roars.
Talking about the panic about the epidemic, Manan said self-deprecatingly: "Can you believe it? When the epidemic first broke out, I was scared and cried by the virus.
It is said that the richer the person, the more afraid of death, and I don't think that's right at all for me.
I know how to paint, I know music, I want to do charity, I want to travel all over the world, and I want to help more people in need.
But I was trapped in a small 100-square-meter house, like being trapped on an isolated island, with no companions around me and no other shore in sight.
At that time, I kept scrolling through Weibo every day, and all I saw was all kinds of unfavorable news.
I was really scared to see that patients had no place to be hospitalized and could only wait for death at home, and that the funeral home did not have enough cars to pull the corpses.
I'm worried that Jiangcheng will become a zombie city in the American imperialist movie, it's really terrifying.
I'm afraid I'm going to die slowly in agony, and no one will find out if I die in this room and it stinks, and no one will come to collect the body.
That sense of loneliness, fear, and depression can really make a normal person completely collapse. ”
Manan still has lingering palpitations when he talks about his fear of the virus, and the expression on his face has become extremely unnatural.
It is said that artists are lonely, and people like Manan, who are isolated from the world when they are quietly creating, are very terrifying once they are invaded by real loneliness, and the panic in his heart is stronger than anyone else.
He called himself over today, maybe everything is not so important, and even donating protective materials is secondary.
He just wanted to meet himself in person, to relieve the loneliness in his heart, to pull him out of that drowning suffocation.
Under the panic, everyone is an island.
Zhang Xinhuo said: "You receive too much negative information every day, if you can also see the outside world, you will know that the country's 1.4 billion compatriots are working hard, and countless forces are constantly rushing to help Jiangcheng."
Tens of thousands of white-clothed people bravely went against the grain, just to rescue thousands of you from the isolated island. ”
Zhang Xinhuo's feelings as a retrograde are very real.
Volunteers serve the city without pay, batches of materials from all over the country are transported to support the city, the national elite medical team rushes thousands of miles to rescue one province and one city, and major enterprises have crossed the line and cross-border to produce medical protective equipment urgently......
When one side is in trouble, all sides support.
Do your best to protect Jing Chu.
Saturation rescue not only happened in science fiction movies like "The Wandering Earth", which are very Chinese romantic and national, but also really staged in the Jiangcheng epidemic.
The Chinese nation has always been one and will never let any city or place suffer without hesitation.
Such an astonishing move to unite the strength of 1.4 billion people, bringing together nearly 9.6 million square kilometers of materials for ultra-long-distance transportation, can only be done in this land.
No country can replicate it.
If miracles have a color, it must be Chinese red.
We have only one goal to do: not to give up a life, not to let a person become an island.
Manan cleaned up his emotions and suddenly smiled, "One day I was playing and singing my own epidemic song on the balcony, I just wanted to relieve the depression in my heart, but I didn't expect to alarm the neighbors of the three surrounding buildings.
Then the owners of each building launched a petition to hold a "nightly air concert" activity for the community property.
The property in the community connected my signal to the community PA system, so that the whole community could participate in this special concert hosted by me.
From that moment on, our community has changed and become lively, cheerful, positive, and sunny.
We have all broken through the haze of the epidemic and held on to the dawn of the sun together. ”
Manan patted Zhang Xinhuo on the shoulder and quipped, "I'm glad to be a ray of light for someone else's vitality." But you're even more powerful, and everyone will remember you as soon as you appear, and I'm afraid it's hard to think of being famous. ”
It was nearly eleven o'clock in the evening when Zhang Xinhuo left, and when he drove to the gate turnstile, the security uncle who came out of the security booth stopped him.
"Chef Zhang, wait a minute, I have something for you!"
He took out a large box from the security booth, disinfected it, and stuffed it through the window into the passenger seat of Zhang Xinhuo.
Zhang Xinhuo asked, "What is this?"
The security guard said: "The neighbors know that you have sent your own masks to the hospital, so they will give you some of their own protective masks, this family of three and that of five, a total of more than 500 pieces, I hope to help you survive for a while." ”
Zhang Xinhuo's eyes were hot, and he hurriedly covered his face with his hands.
He got out of the car and saluted all the buildings in the community.
On the balcony of the community and by the window, countless owners raised their hands to salute the military salute. Although the action is not standard, it is sincere.
Chef Zhang, you protect Jiangcheng Baiyi with your life, I respect you as a man, and dedicate my meager strength to help you.
Zhang Xinhuo drove straight to the hospital.