"This shared kitchen is to provide a platform for cancer patients and their families who come to Xi'an to seek medical treatment. They cook on their own, and every penny they save is life-saving money. Tasting the taste of home in a foreign land can also give them the strength to

Xinhua News Agency, Xi'an, January 5 (Reporters Li Hao and Zhang Bowen) "The meal is here, eat while it's hot, thank you for your hard work!" Xu Kai, wearing protective clothing, handed 130 love meals to the epidemic prevention staff, said "Come on", and then a truckload of love meals continued to drive towards the next delivery place.

Xu Kai is a photographer born in the 1990s. In May last year, he founded a public welfare "anti-cancer kitchen" - Deshan Love Shared Kitchen. "This shared kitchen is to provide a platform for cancer patients and their families who come to Xi'an to seek medical treatment. They cook here and every penny they save is life-saving money. Tasting the taste of home in a foreign land can also give them the strength to fight against the disease."

htmlOn January 5, Xu Kai, founder of Deshan Lovely Shared Kitchen, distributed masks to volunteers. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Bowen photographed

After this round of COVID-19 outbreak, when Xu Kai learned that some anti-epidemic workers could not eat hot meals, and some outsiders stranded in Xi'an due to the epidemic could not eat on time, he asked his friends to arrange the meal. On December 27 last year, the "anti-cancer kitchen" became the "anti-epidemic kitchen", delivering free meals to front-line workers in epidemic prevention.

After many days, the long-lost fireworks wafted again in the courtyard. Walking into the "anti-cancer kitchen" separated by the Shaanxi Provincial Cancer Hospital, more than a dozen volunteers were busy doing their best, side dishes, cooking, coordination and packaging, and they had a clear division of labor and orderly manner. "The green mountains are the same as clouds and rain, and the bright moon has never been two towns." A white wall in front of the stove was once full of gratitude messages from cancer patients, and now there is another poem of encouragement.

htmlOn January 4, volunteers packed food in Deshan Lovely Shared Kitchen in Yanta District, Xi'an. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Bowen photographed

scrambled eggs with tomatoes, stir-fried pork slices with zucchini, and stewed noodles... Although the steaming love meal is a simple home-cooked meal, it is the most delicious thing in the world in the winter when the epidemic hits. In the first love meal of the New Year, Xu Kai and the volunteers made dumplings specially.

"We now mainly deliver meals to ambulance escorts across the country who support Xi'an, medical staff who do nucleic acid sampling, some patients in tumor hospitals, and postgraduate entrance examination students stranded nearby. We can deliver thousands of food every day, and now we have sent more than 10,000 servings." Xu Kai said that at the beginning, the team had only 5 people, and many enthusiastic citizens contacted and joined after they found out. Now there are more than 30 people in the team.

htmlOn January 4, in Yanta District, Xi'an City, volunteer Chang Lin delivered the food to an ambulance driver responsible for transporting nucleic acid test samples. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Bowen

took the lunch box full of food, quickly sealed the cover, packed four boxes and put them into the bag and sealed them. Li Qiuyan, who just graduated from college last year, is a member of the team. She packed it skillfully, "Every link is faster, so that front-line staff can have hot meals." On Li Qiuyan's protective clothing, the word "Lu Yao" is written, "The road to fighting the epidemic is long and long, but we will definitely work together!" Li Qiuyan said.

was originally expected to spend 3,000 yuan a day, but in fact, it cost 5,000 yuan a day. Xu Kai also felt great pressure, but what surprised him and surprised him was that caring people and companies kept sending vegetables and other supplies to help the "anti-epidemic kitchen" persist. "These supplies were sent by a 66-year-old sister, and I was particularly moved." Xu Kai pointed to the bags of rice and vegetables piled up high in the yard.

htmlOn January 5, volunteer Li Guang shared the kitchen supplies in Deshan. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Bowen

What moved Xu Kai was that the Weiguang Rescue Team, which participated in the anti-epidemic epidemic in Wuhan in early 2020, drove to deliver supplies twice.

htmlAfter delivering meal late at night on January 1, Xu Kai passed by an ambulance gathering point and saw ambulances from all over the country supporting Xi'an. He was instantly moved, so he recorded the video. "Huludao, Liaoning, is awesome. Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, Zashi Dele..." In the video, Xu Kai introduced and expressed his gratitude to everyone in less standard dialects based on the place of the license plate number.

The fireworks in the world are the most touching of the hearts of ordinary people. Like Xu Kai's team, there are many restaurants in the ancient city of Xi'an every day to deliver loving meals to the front line of the fight against the epidemic.In Fengdong New City, Xixian New District, veteran Zhang Fangxiu began to deliver free meals to medical staff in nearby hospitals after the restaurant was closed; Xi'an Xiaoyang Barbecue Restaurant provides two meals a day to overcome difficulties together...

has a little hot and shines. In the curling smoke rising from the love kitchen, people watch over each other and wait for spring to come together.