Chapter 79: A New Profession
(a)
In the barbershop. The young barber asked, "Is it really necessary to cut off such a good hair?" "Uh-huh, the girl nodded.
I remember one time, she also went to the barber shop to wash her hair, and the junior student rubbed her hair in the basin, like seaweed in the water, never dyed, just natural jet black.
The young man rubbed it for half an hour, saying that he had rarely seen good hair.
The thick black hair had been her mark. It covers the upper half of her back, and those in the back will see the back of the front with cloudy sideburns, very delicate, wearing a floral dress with suspenders, and the sides of the black hair show the shaved shoulders and thin arms of a young girl.
She is not dressed up at all, and she has no money to wear branded clothes, just the beauty of a natural young girl.
Thinking that in the future, I will be busy with work and may not have time to take care of my hair. What's more, cut off your long hair, you should always look smart!
The barber shop looked at her long hair with some pity, which was black and thick, cascading down to her shoulders, and the barber had not seen such natural jet-black hair for a long time.
Looking in the mirror, the seaweed-like long hair fell to the ground with the Titicaca scissors, and finally turned into a short ear-length hair.
Seeing herself in the mirror, there are a few strangeness, but it will soon get used to it, she told herself. "I've got a job." This currently occupies her whole heart.
"Do you want to take this hair back with you as a souvenir?" The barber looked at the hair all over the floor and felt distressed.
"No, you don't." She shook her head, "Even if you have to pass, just hurry up, you don't need to be nostalgic." ”
(b)
When I get up in the morning, I wash my hair in the small bathroom. Through the window, she saw the morning glow. The rose-like morning light was laid on the side of the sky cut by the window. The clear glow jumped on the glass of the window, and the water of the basin was in the waves. The repeater was playing in loud English.
In this early morning, Chang Xia forgot about his wandering and poverty. All that was left was such a beautiful morning. The golden morning is like playing a bright violin.
Cross the hill and run onto the road. The asphalt road in the early morning resembles a wet thick braid. The bus came by whizzing. After getting on the bus, the bus seems to be driving on a wide water. This bright and moving morning gave her a hint, like an insect playing an erhu song with its antennae, heralding the arrival of a clear time and space.
Chang Xia remembered that when she was a little more than twenty years old, she was still in the town, as white as the thin paper that Tang Guo peeled off. Autumn mornings, carrying brown shoulder bags out the door. Although it was a slightly cold air in autumn, he was still wearing a thin floral skirt with a white knitted sweater on his upper body, and the corners of the skirt swayed slightly in the wind.
Silvery autumn skies. As the white pony passed through the gap, she seemed to see its clear white tail. In the rippling autumn light, she felt like she was floating. A little lonely, a little empty in the arms of the silver sky. Now, she lives in another city. I'm about to enter a new career.
(b)
The rain was down, a gust of wind blew over, and the umbrella hula turned back like a blowing river leaf.
The clothes on his body were wet, especially the trouser corners, which were almost up to his knees. Wrap it on your legs coolly and wet. The rain came down like a huge railing. There were hardly any pedestrians in the rain, only the speeding buses almost passing by and splashing a torrent of rain.
Chang Xia thought about going back, changing the clothes on his body, and waiting for the rain to stop before coming out. If you think about it, it will take two or three hours, and you won't be able to complete what you need to do as planned.
Go ahead, drenched in the rain and soaking wet.
Cold, indescribably uncomfortable. I vaguely thought, go back and forget it. It's almost an instinctive reaction to avoid discomfort. You can't run ten pharmacies, not to mention, at this time, it is when the pharmacies are sparsely populated, deserted, and the salesperson is lazily approaching the counter, yawning boredly.
But when I think about it, at this time, if a representative of the manufacturer goes in, puts away the wet umbrella, and greets them with a smile, a heartfelt welcome smile will rise on their faces, instead of the indifference and annoyance of many people.
When pharmacies are sparsely populated, other representatives have reason to rest comfortably. But Chang Xia no, she spent her childhood and adolescence in the rural fields, and insisted on reading books under the heavy labor of the fields, and she developed a high degree of self-discipline in her life.
The white, pink skin like apricot petals has become like an old eggshell yellow under the ravages of poisonous light and wind and rain. Colleagues soon discovered Chang Xia's fierceness that was not commensurate with the weakness of his appearance.
Soon in the branch, she became a proud figure. Colleagues in the hospital team secretly commented on her as a beautiful and capable OTC supervisor.
The hospital team is in a meeting, Manager Dai is the face of rain and thunder, and the provincial manager has a cloudy face, as if he has cut off a corner of the rainy and thundering sky and pasted it on his face, clearly a stubborn boss.
Everyone gathered around the conference table and bowed their heads uneasily. But the provincial manager admonished him like this: "If you are all like Chang in charge, I won't worry about your group." ”
When the meeting was dismissed, the dejected fellows poked their heads out of their compartments, and saw the dark figure of the old Dai slightly hunched camel carrying a black brick-like briefcase, and it was conceivable that the car in the underground compartment would start in a while.
Chang Xia was coming in from outside, her hair wet on her face. As soon as I put the bag on the table, I lowered my head and wrung the cuffs that were wet on my legs.
After running to the pharmacy, she went back to the office to write a summary of her work. A colleague known as "Professor Wang" pulled her: "Director Chang, teach us the secret, why does Lao Dai praise you so much, so that our hospital team has more and more no status in his heart." ”
The girl smiled: "How can there be, I am just working hard, such a heavy rain and running outside, how can I be like you, one is better than the other." ”
The girl continued to twist the corners of her pants. The wet clothes are like slippery snakeskin, sticking to the cold skin, which is very uncomfortable. In front of me, the scenes of the past surfaced, and the tip of my heart still hurt faintly. If you are like her, you have experienced such unemployment and such a situation, and everyone will cherish the job in front of you very much.