Qingdao News Network, October 11 (Reporter Zhang Xiaonan) "Thank you, children. If you hadn't come and do it for me, I would have spent days doing this myself. On October 8th, in the vegetable field of the elderly in the Guo family in Daxi Valley, there was a busy and joyful harvest scene, and the drivers of the "Sunflower" volunteer service team of the True Love Bus Huan Zhenle, Xue Tongwu, Li Guofeng and Yang Zhongchun were helping the elderly to harvest taro and help the elderly solve life problems with practical actions.
Uncle Guo, 79, lives in the Landong Resettlement Area of Lingshanwei Street, and is a lonely elderly man who has been on crutches due to congenital defects that make it difficult to walk. In his early years, he planted an acre of land in Daxi Valley, planting pumpkins, loofahs, beans, peppers and other vegetables, and the income from the sale of vegetables was also a source of income for Uncle Guo.
In spring and autumn, No. 61 drivers often meet Uncle Guo in the morning to get on the bus at the Chaoyangshan Road subway station, go to the terminal Daxi Valley, and then take the No. 61 bus back from the Daxi Valley station in the afternoon. Every time Uncle Guo returns, he will pull a cart full of vegetables, and when the drivers meet Uncle Guo, they will also enthusiastically help the uncle lift the trolley onto the bus and help the uncle find a good seat to sit down. After getting acquainted, the driver often helped Uncle Guo to do farm work in the field and help the elderly sell, helping him increase his income by nearly 2,000 yuan.
A while ago, when Yang Zhongchun was performing operational tasks, he happened to hear Uncle Guo say that the taro in the field has gradually matured recently, ushering in a bumper harvest. Yang Zhongchun considered that the old man's legs and feet were inconvenient and he had some difficulty in doing farm work, so he took the initiative to say: "Uncle wait for me to find a few volunteers to help you harvest taro together, and this matter is on me!" ”
At around 9 a.m. on October 8, Yang Zhongchun and his party, who had made an appointment with Uncle Guo in advance, came to his vegetable field in Daxi Valley. Volunteers hunched over and carefully dug through the dirt for fear of hurting the taro underground. With the swing of the hoe, the soil was turned over, revealing the plump taro, some people helped to pick up the taro that fell on the ground, and some people helped carry the basket full of taro, and everyone in the field was full of energy, showing a warm scene.
More than two hours later, volunteers helped Uncle Guo collect more than 150 catties of taro. Worried that it would be inconvenient for Uncle Guo to take so many taro to the market to sell back and forth, the volunteers made a loving purchase on the spot, "I want ten catties", "I want five catties", "Give me twenty catties, I will send some to my sister's house", "Xiao Wang of our team said in the group, he also wants ten catties"...... Not only did the volunteers on site buy a large number of them, but the drivers in the group were also actively subscribing, and in this way, the taro harvested in Uncle Guo's field was quickly sold out, helping him increase his income by nearly 500 yuan. There is still a small part of taro left in the vegetable field that has not been harvested, and Uncle Guo plans to leave the seeds for planting next year. In the joy of this year's harvest, the old man is also looking forward to another harvest in the coming year.
The mountain road is uneven, and the people are united, and the sincere service warms the heart. It is understood that more than 2,600 employees of the True Love Bus have carried out volunteer service activities such as loving companionship, love and respect for the elderly, and helped more than 110 lonely widows and empty nesters.