After we followed the team in, we found that this large factory building was originally a canteen for employees. There were endless fixed plastic tables and chairs inside, but some of them had become crooked due to the earthquake. The visual impact of entering the canteen hall was quite spectacular.

I was calculating how heavy more than 100 lunch boxes would be and whether I could lift them. If they spilled, wouldn’t that be a big mistake? Food is so precious nowadays! But when I entered the kitchen, I breathed a sigh of relief and saw volunteers pushing a food delivery cart. It turned out that we didn’t have to carry them upstairs separately! We could just push the cart.

The dining carts were made of stainless steel. Each one was larger than a baby crib and had partitions inside. I estimated that one cart could hold hundreds of lunch boxes. Some of the volunteers at the cafeteria were packing the vegetables and rice, while others were placing the packed lunch boxes into the dining carts. I thought to myself that their work was much harder than ours.

Seeing that they were short of manpower, we also joined in the work. Of course, only volunteers wearing vests could help as there were guards with guns guarding the door.

After working for more than an hour, it was almost midnight. During this time, volunteers came one after another to deliver food. Now I know that this base accommodates nearly 100,000 disaster victims. Dozens of chefs have to take turns using spatulas as big as shovels to ensure that the food they made is enough for everyone! I looked carefully at the food preparation table over there. A large pot of shredded potatoes and another large pot of sliced ​​cabbage. After half a day, there were only two stir-fried dishes, one of which was shredded potatoes and the other was stir-fried cabbage. There were layers of rice in the large steaming cabinets as big as several cabinets against the wall.

The whole space was filled with the aroma of rice and shredded potatoes. Some of these people stepped forward to scoop up a spoonful of rice and then two spoonfuls of vegetables, like an assembly line. I and several other colleagues took over the packed lunch boxes and quickly arranged them in the food delivery cart. Small leaders like Sister Li and Sister Zhang were responsible for counting. This food delivery cart could carry at most 400 boxes of lunch boxes, and our 2,000 boxes would require five food delivery carts.

After loading a car, the volunteers pushed it away in order and delivered it to the victims. We had to wait in line up at the back. During this time, we had to help here all the time. The hot and humid air made us sweat profusely. The sweat on our foreheads slid down our cheeks and dripped onto the ground. As time went by, my physical strength was exhausted, but I tried hard to persist. When I was tired, I would rest on the side. I really regretted taking this volunteer job! But the whole family contributed labor, who else could come if I didn't? I wish I had a younger brother.

Finally it was our turn to push the food cart back to distribute lunch boxes to the victims on our floor. It was almost one o'clock in the afternoon when we pushed the food cart out and delivered the lunch boxes to the victims door to door.

When I and other volunteers pushed the dining cart to room 456, my little sister finally saw our dining cart and started to act like a spoiled child and yelled at me that she was starving. Sister Zhang, who was counting, saw that there was one more person in our room and frowned and asked me, "A room is only for four people, how come you have five people?"

I quickly explained that these were my sisters and the old man was my grandfather. We are a family, how can we be separated?

Sister Zhang told me with a grim look that she only ordered lunch boxes according to the number of people in the room, and since there is one more person, you have to order one less box.

I secretly thought she was talking nonsense. Some of the rooms were not even occupied by four people, so there would be surplus lunch boxes no matter how you counted them. She might want to sell the rest at a high price. This old woman must have some right to be so critical of the food.

But he couldn't openly confront her now, so he just lowered his status and pleaded in a flattering tone: "Sister Zhang has a large family with many old and young people, so please be flexible."

I know that if I beg this old woman in front of my sisters, they will look down on me as their eldest brother even more, but I can't just stand by and watch her give only lunch boxes to four people.

Sister Zhang suddenly sighed, her tone was much more harmonious, and she said: "It seems that you have a hard time, forget it, I'll give you one more box, you must remember my kindness!" It turned out that she was playing psychological tactics with me, using both kindness and force. Forget it, I can't argue with an old woman, she just wants me to obey her as much as possible. This is just a trick she played. When I opened a cake shop before, I used this trick on the young men who came to work in my shop.

Finally, there were five lunch boxes left. I let my sisters eat first. After returning the dining cart, I received another lunch box as a reward from the volunteers. The extra lunch box could be saved for everyone to share in the evening.

I returned to the dormitory in a good mood and found that they had not eaten yet and were still waiting for me. My heart warmed and I complained to them angrily: It's so late, you must be starving, why are you waiting for me, eat quickly.

Feicui told me impatiently that it was because grandpa asked us to wait for you to come back before eating, otherwise who would want to wait for you. This girl really knows how to pour cold water on me.

There were only two dishes in the lunch box, both of which were vegetarian. Yuanyuan was very dissatisfied and kept complaining, but she was really hungry and ate up the lunch box without leaving a grain of rice.

While eating my lunch box, I asked Feicui if she had gone to buy soap in the morning.

It would have been fine if he hadn't mentioned it, but as soon as he did, Feicui spat in anger: "Bah, I really want to beat that old Biden in the supermarket to death! How can he charge such a high price? He wants to charge me fifty dollars for a bar of soap, does he think I'm a sucker? And he charges thirty-five dollars for a bottle of a crappy drink that used to cost three or four dollars! Even a bag of potato chips is thirty-five dollars, I think he's taking advantage of the situation!"

I suddenly felt nervous and asked with trembling hands: "Did you fight with him?"

Feicui shook her head, glanced at me guiltily, and told me that we didn't fight but bought all the things she had just been talking about, and spent several hundred dollars of the two thousand yuan.

I was shocked and yelled: You have spent all the money, and don’t you think about what we will do if we have no money tomorrow or the day after tomorrow?

Little sister Zhenzhu interrupted at this time: "Sister Yuanyuan asked my second sister to buy it."

This added fuel to the fire, and I immediately turned to Yuanyuan and asked, "Don't you have a dime with you?" I thought to myself, how could this girl be so greedy without any money?

Yuanyuan pointed at Zhenzhu in anger and told me: Zhenzhu only knows how to talk about others, but she also eats a lot of the potato chips that Feicui bought!

This is really a drama involving three women, and the three girls are never quiet.

Feicui yelled at me angrily, "I can see that the little money we have here will not be enough no matter how much we spend it. We might as well buy them some delicious food now. Aren't the poor disaster victims downstairs still alive? At worst, I can go with you as a volunteer tomorrow. Isn't it okay for me to earn money and food?"

The noise in the room made my head hurt suddenly. My thoughts were pulled into space and I saw the string of numbers on the perpetual calendar. I remember that number was 231 in the morning, but now it has become an integer 230.00. What force is holding me back to look at this number? What is the special meaning of this string of numbers? Why did it decrease at this time? I was really puzzled.

When I was wondering, I was surprised to find that the supermarket space had changed in front of me - two beverage freezers, two meters high and half a meter wide, appeared on the bare wall opposite the entrance of the supermarket. The freezers were placed side by side against the wall, standing steadily, and the freezers were filled with beverages and mineral water! I opened the freezer door and found that the drinks were actually cold, which means that there is still electricity in this space!

Oh my God, I was shocked, and my mind was filled with only one thing: has my space been upgraded?

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