Yiyang, Hunan relatives and friends of 16 people isolated diary
meal to eat 40 dumplings popular live life to share
The quarantined relatives and friends gathered together to make buns, and the children also participated.
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Several children read books together.
A total of 16 people (some of whom appeared on the scene) of Cai Ting's family and their friends and relatives were quarantined.
On the evening of August 10th, in the Bojinhan Palace Community in Yiyang City, Hunan Province, Cai Ting’s "family of sixteen" gathered in the living room. Together with community staff, they lit birthday candles, sang birthday songs for her niece, and shared the birthday. hapiness.
Since July 29, Cai Ting's family, together with visiting relatives and friends, 16 people have been quarantined here.
Cai Ting shared the laughter and laughter of this huge family through live video, making the family an internet celebrity.
Cai Ting said that although it was an accidental isolation, it was also a rare opportunity to reunite with her family.
The day of unblocking is coming soon, when Cai Ting's family can walk out of the house, she plans to "have a taste of Mala Tang, and then a fan."
Sudden isolation
Cai Ting has just moved to Platinum Palace for more than a year. Six people live in a 128-square-meter house.
Cai Ting and her husband are hospitable. There are more than a dozen sets of dishes and chopsticks at home. They often call friends to be guests, and they all get together and lively.
Cai Ting said that her cousin Cai Ye's family lives in Kunming, Yunnan. Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, the cousin's family has not returned to Yiyang for more than a year.
On July 28, taking advantage of the summer vacation, the cousin took her two daughters back to Yiyang to visit relatives.
It is rare for a cousin to go home. Cai Ting called her cousin, her cousin and her two cousins, and also called her friends to go to the house for a party.
At around 11 o'clock in the evening on July 28, the cousin took the child to Cai Ting's house.
A total of 16 people, 10 adults, 6 children, stayed at Cai Ting’s house after dinner.
According to the "Yiyang Release" news, on the evening of July 28, Yiyang City received a call from the Changping Branch of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau to inform them about the positive results of the new coronavirus nucleic acid test in the returnees to Beijing.
After investigation, the returning personnel lived in the Bojinghan Palace community in Heshan District during their stay in Beijing from July 23 to 25.
The Bokingham Palace community immediately implemented closed management.
Cai Ting woke up at about 9 o'clock on the 29th, before she had time to look at her mobile phone, her husband told her, "The community is closed and we can't get out."
Cai Ting thought her husband was joking with her, so she only believed the notice of the property in the owner group.
Before her cousin's family got up, Cai Ting ran to her cousin's room and told her that the community would be closed for management.
Cai Ye bought a flight ticket back to Kunming on July 31, and planned to go to work on August 1. The plan was completely disrupted, "I was really scared, and the whole person was a little bit blinded."
Cai Ting comforted her cousin and prayed that there would be no confirmed cases.
However, in the early morning of July 30, Yiyang newly reported a new case of new coronavirus nucleic acid test positive, who lives in the Platinum Palace community.
Starting at 0:00 on July 31, the second and seventh buildings of the Platinum Palace Community have been designated as medium-risk areas, and the community will be closed and controlled.
Eat 40 buns in one meal
A three-bedroom and two-living house with 16 people living in it was very crowded.
Cai Ting said that when they go to bed at night, the children and women sleep on the bed, and the men make do with the sofa or on the floor. “All the bedding and sheets are taken out.” Every morning, everyone gets up on a staggered peak and uses the toilet in turn.
When the community just closed, Cai Ting's relatives and friends delivered rice, vegetables and other materials to the door of the community, and volunteers from the epidemic control point delivered them to the door.
A friend brought 7 large bags of food, and volunteers used electric carts to take the elevator upstairs.
With the advancement of prevention and control work, an online shopping platform has been opened. Residents can purchase vegetables and food materials online, and then community volunteers will send them upstairs.
The community also prepared free watermelons for residents to deliver to their homes.
"One watermelon in each family, depending on our family, gave us three." Cai Ting said.
Cai Ting started a live video broadcast at home to introduce netizens to the isolation life of a family of sixteen.
The short video of the family eating breakfast attracted attention, "16 people ate 40 buns", which made their family an Internet celebrity in the Platinum Palace community.
During the live broadcast, many netizens were concerned that if so many people are isolated, will they become a mess?
Cai Ting said that at the beginning, the house was really chaotic.
"Fortunately, there is a mother here. She takes care of our daily life and is also our'commander-in-chief'." Cai Ting's husband is good at cooking and serves as the "chief chef", while others cooperate with washing vegetables and washing dishes.
The locals in Yiyang are used to "worry noodles" in the morning. During the quarantine period, the conditions are limited. Cai Ting's family changed to eating noodles for breakfast and laughed at themselves as "low-matched rice noodles."
Different birthday
Cai Ting said that during the quarantine period, adults' main tasks were cooking and coaxing children, and the main tasks of the six children were playing.
The older children take the younger ones to play games in the house, holding push-ups and high-leg raises.
Because the children have playmates, they don't clamor to go out, and play together at home.
"There will be a child complaining in a while, this one ignores the other. The brain is buzzing, it's all the child's voice."
In order to pass the time, in addition to the live broadcast, Cai Ting also organized her family to record short videos.
Five big men practiced Avalokitesvara in the living room, "After more than two hours in line, all kinds of mistakes, everyone is laughing." Cai Ting also organized her family to sing together, "It's more lively than the Chinese New Year."
The isolated video full of laughter and laughter attracted many netizens to like it.
The short video account, which originally had only a dozen fans, rose to more than 20,000 followers within a few days.
August 10 is the 8th birthday of Cai Ting's niece Beibei.
Starting in the morning, Beibei has been looking forward to her birthday cake, and after a while she will ask when to eat the cake.
Although she was in quarantine, Cai Ting also wanted to celebrate her child's birthday, but she contacted many cake shops and was unable to deliver it.
Cai Ting and her family have been comforting Beibei and promised to buy her a cake for her birthday after she was lifted from isolation.
The local media learned that it was Beibei's birthday and coordinated to order a birthday cake, which was delivered to the door by volunteers.
Everyone lit birthday candles and sang birthday songs.
"I didn't expect to have a birthday cake, the little girl is very happy." Cai Ting said, being able to celebrate the child's birthday in this way is sure to become a rare memory for her.
After the quarantine is lifted, you have to be a fan
In addition to the residents, a group of renovation workers are also isolated in the community.
On the morning of July 29th, Lu Jianglang and his brother-in-law went to the Bokingham Palace community to install doors and windows.
Hearing the news of the closure of the community, it was too late to leave.
Like Lu Jianglang, there are 18 decoration workers.
The property coordinated a centralized isolation point, temporarily erected wooden beds to provide bedding, and arranged for decoration workers to stay.
Later, considering the risk of centralized isolation, with the consent of the property, the decoration workers such as Lu Jianglang went back to the decoration room for isolation, and went to the centralized isolation point to take their body temperature and receive food every day.
"With a bed, bedding and electric fan, life is not a problem. But at the beginning, I was a little anxious. If I didn't work every day, I would have to spend 40 to 50 yuan to eat. The psychological pressure was relatively high." Lu Jianglang said.
As the enclosure and control work in the community stabilized and the community provided free food for the decoration workers, the mood of Lu Jianglang and several decoration workers also stabilized.
During the isolation period, Lu Jianglang and Cai Ting learned that they were both isolated in the community through short videos taken by each other.
Cai Ting followed Lu Jianglang's video account and asked them what daily necessities they lacked.
On August 6, Cai Ting sent the steamed buns packaged by her family to the isolation point and asked Lu Jianglang to give it to the decoration workers.
Cai Ting said that the flour and fillings of the buns were all sent by the local media, and she wanted to share these with the decoration workers who were isolated in the community.
After this time of getting along, Lu Jianglang and Cai Ting and other owners became friends, and they agreed to have a dinner together after the isolation was lifted.
Cai Ting felt that although it was an accidental isolation, it was also a rare opportunity to reunite with her family.
Since my cousin settled in Kunming, it is difficult to spend such a long time together. "The Spring Festival hasn't been so long."
Cai Ting said that after the end of the quarantine, she must re-plan a trip to visit relatives for her cousin.
"In addition to visiting the old man, I also want to take her to taste Mala Tang, and then a fan."
Beijing News reporter Nie Hui