Chapter 4 The Night Shift Begins
Wake up, wash up, and it's another great day. I packed up my things, ran to the door of the community to buy a drawer of buns, bought a cup of soy milk, looked at the time, it was exactly seven o'clock, and walked to the bus stop to continue waiting for the bus. Liu Jun took advantage of the fact that the bus did not come, and ate the buns in a big gulp, looking at the people next to him while eating. There is a girl in a ponytail and jeans next to her, waiting for the bus at seven o'clock on time every time, and getting off at the district hospital. The 301 bus is coming slowly, and the 301 bus is the only bus I have to Zhiyang Road, and I don't have to reverse the bus.
Liu Jun finished the rest of the buns in two bites, hurriedly got on the bus, and happened to stand next to the girl. A faint fragrance came, and the girl looked at him, but said nothing. Liu Jun immediately straightened his chest and tightened his abdomen, there was no way, he was lying fat in the hospital, and he was too embarrassed by a beer belly, and he almost suffocated himself along the way. However, Liu Jun didn't dare to talk to other girls, and he was not a pervert or a master of love. Just stand next to the girl and watch people get off at the station.
"Aunt Wang, good morning, how about cleaning up the door again?"
Walking into the door of the store, Liu Jun said hello to Aunt Wang from another funeral shop next to him. Although it is said that the peers are enemies, but the relationship between this street is still good, who is out of stock, you can go to the store next to the cost price to get the goods at the cost price of the emergency, and the neighbors around the old man are still very awe, although I don't know why.
"Xiaoyanagi is here, have you eaten? If you don't dislike it if you don't eat, I boiled a few eggs in the house, and I'll give them to you? As she spoke, Aunt Wang went into the house.
Aunt Wang is quite familiar with Liu Jun, and she didn't talk much when she first came. A few days ago, she had a big mouse in the store, which scared Aunt Wang. When he heard this, he rushed over and fought fiercely with the big mouse, and although he did not win a decisive victory and caught the big mouse, he finally expelled him from the store and drove him out of the store.
At that time, Aunt Wang was much more familiar with Liu Jun, and often said hello to him, and would ask if she had eaten in the morning.
"Don't, don't, don't need Aunt Wang, I had breakfast when I came, really, I don't fool you, it's really not polite to you" Liu Jun said anxiously to Aunt Wang while opening the door of the store, for fear that Aunt Wang would really take out the eggs for him.
"That's okay, just tell me if you haven't eaten, you don't have to be polite to your Aunt Wang." Aunt Wang said.
"Okay, okay, Aunt Wang." Liu Jun opened the door of the store and walked in and said to Aunt Wang.
Yoo Joon walked into the store, picked up a broom, swept the floor, and wiped the table. Put some wreaths, burnt paper coins and other things at the door to make it easy for customers to buy. He saw that other shops had put paper at the door, and Liu Jun also moved once, and then, why did he move out, and the old man asked him to move back. He didn't understand what it was, he hadn't touched it, and he didn't understand it. I just heard the old man say that paper piercing people are also particular, you can't tie them casually, you can't buy them casually, you can't burn them casually, it's easy to be taboo.
Most people may think that it is not just paper. In fact, this is also a kind of folk art, you read that right, it is a kind of folk art, like paper-cutting, clay sculpture, painting, etc., traditional folk art. If it is not good, it is the craftsman who eats the food of the dead. This industry has been around since ancient times, some of which are exquisite, taboo, and more. If the old man hadn't told Liu Jun, he really didn't understand this, after all, he was a socialist three-good young man, why did he care about this.
For example, the paper figures you have seen, I don't know if you have observed them carefully, these paper figures have not drawn eyes. Why didn't you draw your eyes? Because of folk rumors, paper figures with painted eyes will come to life. In fact, it's not that the paper figure is alive, but that the eyes are drawn, and this paper figure is equivalent to an ownerless person, easy to be taken advantage of by lonely souls and wild ghosts.
For example, the color of the paper man, this is also very particular, and the paper man is generally a boy and a girl. The so-called red men and green women, boys have to use red, virgins have to use green, this can't be mixed, mixed and wasted. Many people want to ask, what color is used in paper buildings and paper buildings made of paper sports cars made by many paper tie shops? Hehe, this is embarrassing for the baby, the ancestors didn't think about us so many tricks when they passed on this craft, no.
Some people with better conditions will also burn paper cow paper horses, which is also particular. There is a word called "taking office", everyone has heard it, that is, the living people think that the dead man went to another place to take office, so it is the paper horse that is burned. As for why did the woman burn paper cows? The rumor is that there are two points, one is that because the woman does a lot of housework, laundry, boiled water, cooks, etc., and wastes a lot of water, she is afraid that she will be punished by water when she goes to the underworld, so she burns a paper cow to help drink water and reduce the punishment. The second is that I am afraid that the woman will be tired there, and the cow is humane and can help.
Whether you believe it or not, these are the rules handed down by the older generation, exquisite, there is always some truth, and this industry will not change easily.
The paper at the door of the store, don't move it casually, let alone destroy it at will, because the one at the door is basically booked by others, and it is destroyed, and it is easy not to get into trouble, not to mention, at least you have caused trouble to the paper shop.
Liu Jun was making paper figures in the store, and the old man walked in with a stagger, looking like he was hangover and drunk too much and didn't wake up. Do you think this bad old man is a master? Have you ever seen a shaky master?
"Little rabbit, you didn't go back from work yesterday, have you seen Mo Li? You will be on duty with Mo Li at night in the future, learn something from her, and usually sleep in the store. The old man said drunkly.
"Why, I put up with it without a vacation, and you still want me to work 24 hours a day? Are you called Li Papi? I don't do it! Liu Jun said angrily. The old man said that his surname is Li and his name is Qingfengzi. What is this old man thinking, working 24 hours a day, and dying, for money? Even if you can sleep in the store, you don't do it.
"Salary plus a thousand" The old man said calmly.
"Don't do it" is a joke, is this a matter of money or not, life, you have to combine work and rest, when can you make money. Liu Jun replied with a resolute attitude, while thinking, "In ancient times, Tao Yuanming didn't bend his waist for five buckets of rice, and now I have someone Liu who doesn't work the night shift for a thousand yuan, wonderful." ”
"Salary plus three thousand!"
"No way, it's not about money."
"Salary plus four thousand! That's 10,000 a month. The old man squinted.
"I think, Mo Li is a beautiful girl, it is really not convenient to look at the store by herself at night, in case there are so many people with bad intentions, she is a girl, it is too dangerous. I decided, and I will also help with the night shift in the future. What do you look at, old man? I'm not doing this for money, I'm thinking about Mo Li's safety, I'm a man, and I should be tired and hard. Alas, in this society now, there are not many promising young people like me who think about other people everywhere. "Liu Jun himself admires himself a little.
"Hehe," the old man said speechlessly. This little rabbit cub is really shameless, I really can't fool him without adding money, and it's too difficult for me to accept an apprentice, old man. This kid doesn't have any foundation, and his roots are not good, so his character is even more worrisome. If it weren't for the inheritance left by the ancestor who chose him, I wouldn't have thought of accepting such a thing as an apprentice.