Ask for trouble (short novel)

Guo, have you had breakfast yet? Asked his wife.

Guo Huaiying said after eating.

Did you heat the bread on the table in the microwave?

There is no Guo Huaitan rate to say.

Didn't I tell you yesterday? When the bag of bread was brought in yesterday, I found that the mouth of the bag was open and asked you to heat it up before eating it. Why didn't you listen to it? My wife began to count Guohuai.

The meaning of her wife is very clear, she is worried about the open bag of bread ordered online and delivered by the delivery man. To be on the safe side, sterilize at a high temperature before eating, just in case. It can be seen that my wife is very dissatisfied with Guo Huai's dismissive attitude.

At first, Guo Huai thought that his wife's reaction could not help being a little allergic. After that, he quieted down and thought about it, and his mood began to rise in a trance. Why should a well-sealed food bag be packed? Will be opened, obviously due to negligence or human operation. What exactly is the problem? In this special period of national epidemic prevention, the emergence of such a problem has to make people worry and fear!

Generally speaking, bakery food is subject to strict inspection procedures, and such problems are unlikely to occur. It is likely that the problem lies with the delivery man. if the delivery man is infected with asymptomatic pneumonia, can the food he touches not infect others? It makes people shudder to think of this!

However, Guo Huai quickly denied this hypothesis. as seen on the Internet and the media, Shanghai, as an international metropolis, has scientifically and rigorously put in place measures for the prevention and control of the epidemic, set a benchmark for the whole country, and achieved preliminary results, and the number of infections in various districts has dropped significantly. There is a stipulation in Shanghai's "guidelines for Defense and Prevention and Control of Residential areas": the isolation requirements for property mobility service personnel who return to Shanghai shall be strictly implemented, and there will be no abnormal circumstances at the end of the isolation period before they can go to work. In other words, the delivery men are all qualified personnel who meet the requirements.

But think again: recently, according to relevant experts, some asymptomatic infected people, the longest incubation period of the virus up to 27 days before being diagnosed. It is unknown whether the delivery man will belong to this kind of person. As a result, the heart that was laid down just now was instantly mentioned in the throat. I really regret not listening to my wife. Won't it be all right if I heat it in the microwave before eating the bread? It is said that the virus can be killed at 58 degrees, and with a microwave of 1500 degrees, the virus must be killed in 30 seconds. It is useless to regret now, if the infection may also endanger the family!

Because I have been immersed in this kind of fear and regret for several days, I am depressed and unable to lift my spirits. In front of the family, but also pretend as if nothing had happened, this kind of torture is really hard to say!

The father's abnormal mood was seen by his careful son Guo Qing. When Guo Huai came back from work that day, Guo Huai said nothing. Guo Qing asked with concern:

Dad, you look a little ugly. Is something wrong with you?

No, no Guo Huai is evasive and hesitant to speak.

Guo Qingjue noticed that his father must have something difficult to say, so he invited Guo Huai to the inner room. After being serious and considerate, Guo Huai told the whole story of his distress.

Hey, I thought it was a big deal, but that's why I was upset about it. Guo Qing said, patting his father on the shoulder before his father finished his words.

Guo Huai was a little confused about his son's words.

Dad, this is my fault! So Guo Qing told the whole story.

That morning, I had gone downstairs to get ready for work. I was informed by a phone call that the vegetables, eggs, milk and food ordered online the day before had been delivered to the No. 1 gate of the community, and asked me to pick it up quickly (logistics service personnel were not allowed to enter the district during the special period). When I got to the pick-up place at Gate 1. I happened to meet Master Zhang, who came to take over. I know that Master Zhang and his family live in the nearby Phoenix Community. I heard that his daughter is a nurse in the infection department of the first Hospital in the city. This time, she joined the Hubei medical team to go to Wuhan, and her son-in-law was busy with his work. A pair of grandsons are cared for by his wife and Master Zhang. Recently, the situation of prevention and control in the community is tight, and many items have been added to the security work of the community: taking the body temperature of the people entering the community, registering the basic information of foreign personnel, assisting defense personnel to disinfect the public facilities of the community, and so on. His family is busy at both ends of the community, and Master Zhang often comes to work before he has time for breakfast. Lao Zhang and I are from the same hometown, so I pay more attention to his situation.

Master Zhang, you haven't had breakfast, have you? I have bread here. Then he opened the mouth of the food bag and asked him to pick it up.

Thank you! I ate. Master Zhang, hold my arm.

So I didn't insist. At this time, the manager of the company called and said that he had something urgent to call me and asked me to come right away. I quickly called home and asked my mother to pick up the goods at door one. That was the way it happened. Because I was in a hurry to get to work, I didn't tell my mother about it on the phone, which made you suffer so much. After that, father and son laughed heartily. Make the family in the living room confused?

Shanghai, March 5, 2010