In the past few days, video 8-year-old boy with one arm looks after family who are infected with Covid-19 hit the 1st place on Tik Tok hot list city list with 3.954 million hits. It occupied social media and touched many netizens.

The young caring boy who looked after family in special time, Ben Yuechen, whose nick name is Youyou, is a resident of Hai’an. He has congenital left arm disability, has no left hand or left forearm. A few days ago, the reporter interviewed Youyou’s mother Cai Xiumei on phone.

‘After we were all infected, from the monitor, we found out that he was busy in the kitchen alone, cooking egg tea for us, one for each person.’ Cai Xiumei said that while they were eating egg tea, Youyou cut some fruit and put in a plate, and did not forget to bring the data line.

Cai Xiumei introduced that there were in total 5 people in the family. The elder son, her husband and her were infected with Covid-19 one by one, her mother in law was sick in bed, ‘the video was uploaded on 21 December. On the morning, we were all not comfortable so did not get up to make breakfast.’

Last October, by accident Cai Xiumei uploaded the video of her son skipping rope online, and it was liked by People’s Daily and CCTV.

Cai Xiumei said that apart from sports, Youyou also learnt cooking from her. His best cuisine is fried egg. He can also make tomatoes scrambled with egg. At the start, she was worried the cookers would hurt her little boy and wanted to chop vegetables for him. Later, Cai Xiumei had to be firm with him, ‘there will be harm and difficulties in future path, he has to face them alone.’

By You Lian