China News Agency, Ganzi, September 8th, title: 72 hours after the Luding earthquake: In the fireworks, there is no lack of confidence in Moxi
China News Agency reporter Wang Peng
In the rainy season, it rained lightly in Moxi Town, and the surrounding mountains were shrouded in mist.
In the drizzle, the steam of the large pot of rice at the placement site rose, and the fragrance of rice wafted faintly.
On the 8th, it has been more than 72 hours since the earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 in Luding, Sichuan, and the epicenter of Moxi Town is a scene of hot life.
As of 8:00 that day, the earthquake had killed 82 people, including 46 people in Luding County, Ganzi Prefecture, and 36 people in Shimian County, Ya'an City. Another 35 people lost contact and more than 270 people were injured.
On September 8, in Moxi Town, Luding, Sichuan, local villagers took out their own rice, flour, grain and oil to spontaneously prepare meals for earthquake rescuers.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Lang
For those in the epicenter, life went on.
Walking on the streets of Moxi Town, villagers can be seen everywhere setting up stoves to cook large pots of rice, and supply the rescuers for free.
The ingredients come from nearby residents, bacon, vegetables, live chicken, beef... extraordinarily tempting.
"Have you eaten yet? Come and eat!" Peng Xiaomei, a villager from Shanshu Group, warmly invited a reporter from China News Agency.
At noon that day, she took out more than 60 catties of bacon at home and made a good bacon and winter melon soup, repeatedly emphasizing, "Now we have no other strength, we can only do small things."
In this tourist town, shops have resumed business.
Several restaurant noodle restaurants have written "Free Meal".
Zeng Xianying, the owner of the fruit shop, put out grapes, bananas, and apples, and sold them while giving them away.
The hotel of He Yongjun, a villager of Shanshu Group, was evaluated as "available". From the second day after the earthquake, 24 rooms will receive rescue teams free of charge.
After the water and electricity were restored, it became one of the few places in the town where you can take a hot bath, and rescuers came to wash away the fatigue of the days.
On September 8, in Moxi Town, Luding, Sichuan, local villagers took out their own rice, flour, grain and oil to spontaneously prepare meals for earthquake rescuers.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Lang
Although he is suffering from a disaster, He Yongjun's characteristic of being "never tired of eating" is manifested in He Yongjun. In the afternoon, he and the villagers cooked several home-cooked dishes for the rescuers: fried bacon with garlic sprouts, fried pork with garlic sprouts, fried lotus white with soy sauce, Cold folded ears.
After the earthquake, workers and tourists were stranded in Moxi Town. From the 7th, the town opened an emergency line to Kangding.
Bie Yaozu, a 72-year-old tourist from Chongqing, got into the car on the 8th. "I feel like an arrow now, and I want to go home quickly." During the two days in Moxi Town, the old man had been a volunteer at the resettlement site.
The playground of Ganzi Vocational College is the largest resettlement site in Moxi Town.
At 16:00 that day, there were still villagers who were transported over.
More than 90 villagers from Gonghe Village trekked the mountain road for more than two hours, and were escorted by rescuers.
"You can feel at ease when you come to the resettlement site." Villager Liu Kaiming said that there are still some villagers in the village, and they will come out one after another in the next few days.
The living conditions of the resettlement sites are also gradually improving.
In the afternoon, 63 mobile toilets arrived one after another.
The water trucks roamed back and forth on the streets, and the villagers picked up buckets when they needed them.
There is no shortage of confidence in the town at the moment.
Zhang Dingzhong, a villager of Shanshu No. 2 Group, said that seeing the relief supplies continue to come in and continue to be distributed, his heart is still very warm.
Of course, he is also worried. Many villagers made money from tourism reception in the early years, and took out loans to expand B&B hotels, but now many of them have become dilapidated houses.
"In the ten or twenty seconds of the earthquake, many people's lives have been changed." Zhang Dingzhong's words were heavy, but he added, "As long as people are still there, no matter what happens in the future, we believe in the government."
The house of Feng Wanying, a group of villagers in Daping Village, collapsed, and the whole family lived in the resettlement site. "I used to watch the earthquake news on TV, and it really hit me and felt the warmth of the government." She mentioned a detail to the reporter - the former For two days, the overworked forest firefighters took the initiative to give up the limited tents to the common people. "They are just 20-year-olds, and they also have parents..." She cried.
At the playground resettlement site of Ganzi Vocational College, Qingqing Children's Paradise is full of children's paintings.
5-year-old Yang Xinyu drew a crooked rainbow. When the reporter asked why, she shyly said, "The rainbow is beautiful."
Maybe the little girl hasn't learned to "see the rainbow after the wind and rain", but in the eyes of volunteer Wu Yi, there is hope under the children's clumsy brushes.
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