(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Day and night of Chengdu "Brother Coffee" accidentally trapped in a closed area
China News Service, August 3, Chengdu
Author Chen Jing He Shaoqing
A green iron fence runs across the intersection of Tianfu 2nd Street in Chengdu, and the originally unobstructed area is divided into two spaces inside and outside.
Standing inside the green fence, Chen Junyu, who works in a coffee shop on the Second Tianfu Street in Chengdu, saw a colleague wearing a mask, waving to him, and sending clothes and snacks from a distance through a gap of about 3 meters wide.
On the outside of the paper bag containing the clothes, "We are family" was written in a black pen, and a bright smiling face was drawn on the side.
On July 27, Chengdu added 3 new cases of new coronary pneumonia.
On the morning of the 28th, Chen Junyu just came to the coffee shop to work for less than one hour, and he saw it in the work WeChat group that because of the need for epidemic prevention and control, the coffee shop where he worked was listed as a closed zone.
The lockdown will last until August 10.
"Although my residence is only 5 minutes away from the coffee shop by bike, it happened to be outside the closed zone." Chen Junyu recalled that after first knowing that the vicinity of the coffee shop had become a closed zone, he calmed down quickly and paid attention to the epidemic situation. Calculate the supplies.
"There is only coffee to drink in the shop, cakes can be kept for 2 to 3 days, and there are no toiletries."
The first to help Chen Junyu was Liu Min, a customer who worked in the nearby Sichuan Symphony Orchestra.
After discovering that Chen Junyu was accidentally stranded, she and her husband brought Chen Junyu hot meals and a change of clothes.
Later, colleagues also brought him toiletries, small blankets, 84 disinfectant, alcohol, masks and other necessities.
The news that Chen Junyu was accidentally trapped in a coffee shop gradually spread through two WeChat groups of nearly 800 customers.
Someone "feeds" him mango and passion fruit; some people think that it is uncomfortable to sleep on the sofa in the coffee shop every day and tell him "I still have a room in my house"; some people take the initiative to send out an invitation "It's not convenient for you to take a shower here and go to my house." .
In order to prevent the epidemic, Chen Junyu allowed only one customer to enter the store at a time, and the rest of the customers waited in line outside the store.
When he is busy, he often works continuously for more than 5 hours without rest.
"In the past few days, everyone, everything, and every word can make me feel warm. As a stranger, Chengdu is my second home." Chen Junyu introduced that the coffee shop where he works is The only coffee shop in the nearby closed zone, being able to provide coffee to community residents at this time made him feel "a sense of accomplishment."
While being cared by others, Chen Junyu also helped others in his own way.
Recently, the temperature in Chengdu has remained high. Chen Junyu specially made cold coffee and sent it to the police and medical staff working under the scorching sun.
"You see the truth in adversity. I think after the epidemic, the relationship between people has become closer." In Chen Junyu's eyes, mutual assistance is the norm in the closed zone.
There are also many heart-warming little things like the "Coffee Brother" in Chengdu, which have been staged in different lockdown areas in China.
An ordinary citizen living in isolation on the Second Tianfu Street in Chengdu worked with his neighbors to adapt and compose the song "Nine Times on the Second Tianfu Street" to pay tribute to the front-line staff in the fight against the epidemic and the humorous and optimistic Chengdu citizens.
The material for this song's MV was all spontaneously provided by people in quarantine at home. There are orderly queuing lines, temporary football teams under quarantine, and community workers waiting for the materials to be received late at night.
August 3 was the seventh day that Chen Junyu was trapped in the closed area.
After the coffee shop closed in the evening, Chen Junyu picked up a low chair and walked to sit outside the coffee shop, listening to music in the night breeze.
He said that although he was extremely exhausted after a day of work, he felt satisfied inside.
After unblocking, what he most wanted to do was not to rest, but to stay and continue to make coffee.
"So many people help me, I want to make a good coffee to reward everyone." (End)