Chapter 71: Meteor Garden
When Lin Zi finished handling the housework at hand, I could only hand over control of the TV to her, and accompany her to watch the recently popular Taiwanese version of "Meteor Garden".
Recently, like most girls, she has been frantically chasing and watching "Meteor Garden" broadcast by Jingtv, and she can't enjoy watching one episode, and then watching the replay, and then she feels that the TV station is too slow, and she can't enjoy watching it episode by episode, so on Friday, Lin Zi simply went to the store downstairs to rent a disc to watch.
In order to watch the disc, she told her family that she accompanied the leader on a business trip to Beijing, and she hid in the rental house for two days on the weekend and didn't go out. I said that no matter how much you like to watch handsome guys, you can't sleep without sleeping, you don't need to work so hard, right?
She said that I also wanted to taste it slowly, but when I rented it, Boss Ma said that there were other people waiting to see it in the back, and it had to be fast, and it would add 5 yuan per disc for a day. Wow, this is too dark, so I might as well buy a set of disks and keep them at home.
On Sunday morning, the proprietress of the DVD rental shop came to us and asked how many episodes we had watched, because at this time, "Meteor Garden" had been fried into "fried chicken" on the Internet, and some people in the back were in a hurry to ask for it, so they took away some of the discs we had watched, and urged us to finish the rest quickly when we left......
I asked her who she liked the most among the four handsome guys, and she said that she liked all of them, and I was a little angry at this answer. I said that you women are also so careful, and it's okay, but when we men are said to be flowery turnips in the future, my guilt will be less.
Lin Zi is the kind of person who is very engaged in watching TV, and saw Shancai and Daoming Temple kissing for the first time in the play, "Shancai: Your face is dry and red like a monkey's buttocks?" Temple: You're not the same! She will also blush and heartbeat, and at this time I will hold her and learn the dialogue of the play and say: "Come, fragrant one, and there will be no less piece of meat, just like a foreigner greeting".
She liked to close her eyes when we were ashamed during that time, and I suspected that she wanted me to wear an F4 mask, so I had to imagine myself that I was one of them.
On Sunday afternoon, she was still immersed in the tangled relationship between the people in "Meteor Garden" and couldn't extricate herself; And I'm not as male and female as the great Caesar or Han Wu, nor is I as good as Longyang, I have no interest in beautiful men, and I don't have any hobbies for "sauerkraut and green flowers".
It's sunny outside, and instead of being a superfluous person in the house, it's better to go out for a walk and cut your hair by the way.
I like to go to a bright barber shop on this street, it's a real old shop, old barber chairs, old ceiling fans, old mirrors, old wall clocks, old barbers, old customers. Pushing open the old wooden door and entering the store, it is as if you have stepped into the 50s and 60s.
In the old store, everything that is grabbed is "antique", and the scissors are the domestic famous brand "Double Arrow" brand purchased in the early 60s of the last century. A cowhide hanging on the wall always reminds me of the scene where the head shaver "sharpened his knife" on it.
In a corner, there is also an electric ironing machine that has long been made ancient, people who have watched the old movie "Rolling Red Dust" may have the impression that the Yuefeng in it is permed with this kind of machine, a big thing similar to a pot lid hangs dozens of long wires, each wire is connected to an electric clip, and the hair is hung up by such a large handful of wires. I remember that my mother had a perm when she was young, and she used to have such a look.
The most eye-catching are the two iron swivel chairs side by side in the middle of the house, with a white base, a black hard leather face, and a head cushion in the back of the chair, each weighing nearly 100 pounds, and most of the paint has fallen off, but it is polished very smooth.
There is a rudder-like turntable under the seat, which makes me feel very familiar, and when I was a kid I used to tinker with it and spin it around when I was a kid in the barbershop.
The master in the store is surnamed Liang, and everyone calls him Uncle Liang. Listening to Liang Bo, the two swivel chairs were purchased in the 70s of the last century, made in Shanghai, and each cost 320 yuan, which was a year's salary for ordinary young people at that time, and the average family could eat a pound of pork a day for a year.
Liang Bo is actually the owner of this shop and the chief barber, responsible for shaving his face and haircuts; His wife, Aunt Ma, is the financial director and is also responsible for washing her hair; The master also brought an apprentice, and the three of them worked together to cover all the business in the store.
Liang Bo actually took over his father's class, Lao Liang is also a barber, he worked on this street in his early years, at that time the bright barber shop was still private, in the 50s of the last century, a public-private partnership was established after the establishment of a cooperative, and then changed to a state-run enterprise, and then 90 years Liang Bo contracted, and has now completely become his individual and private.
Today's store is only half of the original area, and the other half is rented out to a Changdejin City Powder Restaurant, and the income is still very good.
It stands to reason that at this age, Uncle Liang can retire and spend his old age in peace, but he just can't be idle, he can't bear to do this craft all his life, and he can't let go of some old customers. Some of these elderly customers, after experiencing the two acting hairdressers, have long become old friends and become a habit in each other's lives.
The old man's craftsmanship is good, and the business is naturally good, and there are a few others in front of me who came first. I grew up thinking that the craft of barbering was quite interesting, so I stood behind Liang Bo and watched him shave a middle-aged man with a stiff beard that looked difficult to deal with. He first used a hot hand towel for a moment, then swung the sharp razor over the old cowhide, applied soap foam, and then took the razor in his hand as sharp as a quick knife to cut rice and wheat, and in a moment all the corners and corners were cleaned up.
I want to learn a craft, and when I get old, I open a small mom-and-pop shop with Lin Zi to pass the time, while singing the children's rhyme when I was a child, "The old man of the barber shop, card and click, with a pair of scissors in his hand, click and click!" It's not bad to serve the people on the one hand.
On the swivel chair next to me sat a woman who was reading a shabby "bosom friend" magazine, with the kind of perm curls on her head that the charter woman used in "Kung Fu", and she saw me in the mirror, probably thinking that I was staring at her like a monster, and gave me a few rolls. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Zhonglin, the "flower of famous generals" of the national army in southern Chu, was also stared at by a woman in the barber shop, also on the street, and the woman's name was Wang Yuling.