Chapter 131: Nanjing Barber Shop

On Saturday, at about 10 o'clock in the morning, Don Juan got up and sat down in a rather old roadside noodle shop in Lijiapo.

At the entrance of the store, there is a group of people who are also elderly, chatting around, and the tone is so high, and it is very lively. While waiting for the flour to be served, Brother Huang was a little bored, and pricked up his ears to pay attention, planning all the small men in their house.

One said that it was in Jiarun Department Store, and he was transferred to Guangdong to develop the market a few years ago, and he said that he would come back after 2-3 years, but now the company is unwilling to let him go back to the headquarters; In order to solve this matter, he and Gu Yuejing's boss called him directly, and Gu Yuejing asked him to take ten days off a month to come back to visit relatives, and his annual salary was increased by 100,000 yuan, but in the end, his grandson in the house still refused to do it.

A whisper said that he was a cub in the house, and it turned out that Amazonas, the largest company in the United States, and the American devil offered him an annual salary of 1.8 million US dollars, and he refused to stay in the United States, and insisted on coming back to reimburse the motherland; I heard that he was engaged in it all the way with Ma Yun, and Ma Daxia agreed to give him 5% of the shares.

A second cub in Shenzhen, she said that she seems to be the deputy director of the miscellaneous industrial and commercial bureau, earning 8-900,000 US dollars a year...

Don Juan thought to himself, alas, you old comrades, consider how small I feel when you sit on the sidelines?

For a moment, he felt that he was too incompetent compared to himself, and immediately cleared his mind again: a dignified civil servant, eight or nine hundred thousand, or dollars... She was embarrassed to personally expose the cub's corruption and bribery.

I don't know which of these seniors is true, so he won't be too lazy to listen to it, for fear that listening to it again will affect his appetite for noodles.

"Back to back, buy bits and pieces; Carry the waist and buy chili peppers; Hanging hangers, street walks ......"

Suddenly, an old man was teaching his grandson to hum a ballad in Xingcheng dialect, and the whole alley was full of the smell of the market and the joy of ordinary life.

In the days when we were growing up, the city was rapidly reborn before it had time to grow old.

To understand a city, it is necessary to open its folds, Beizheng Street, Xia Lijiapo such alleys are its folds that have survived the wind and rain, which day has been bulldozed, the city is young, but there is no trace of time.

Sometimes I can't help but wonder, if cities also have souls, will those cities that have not been able to achieve cultural precipitation still have the same soul as before?

Don Juan was scribbling on his face, and there were two parishioners at the table next to him.

Hua pajamas talk about the frothing thing, probably to say, my daughter never goes clubbing to nightclubs to watch dog blood dramas online, works very well and hard, has a high salary, and buys all kinds of clothes and bags with our parents.

Another red pajama guest was stunned when he heard this, and said with envy and jealousy on his face:

If only half of the girls in my house were obedient to you, and now she can't sleep and is hungry, so I will send me, a mother, to help her serve a bowl of noodles.

Later, the vermicelli from the red pajama listener came, so he packed it away first.

Not long after the red pajamas left, a sleepy-eyed young girl, wearing bloated green pajamas, walked over with slippers, "Boss, make a bowl of shredded meat powder, put less oil and monosodium glutamate."

The flower pajamas who made a speech in front of him said to Meituo: "Ghost sister paper, I slept in the dark yesterday, oh style just got up......"

Brother Huang glanced at it, and at first glance, it was two girls, and he wanted to laugh a little. This is really a set in front of the face, a set on the back, talking about people when you see people, and talking about ghosts when you see ghosts.

The Xingcheng cousins in the market are so open-mouthed, vain and exaggerated, don't take it too seriously, you will find that this is also the cute side of their human nature.

Don Juan was in a good mood today, and made an appointment to see Jiang Wanxia at noon and accompany her to go shopping and buy things.

After eating the powder, he was going to get a haircut first, of course, it was the Nanjing barber shop he fixed, the only remaining Republic of China fan in Star City.

He followed his old man here to cut his hair when he was young, and he was used to it. The Nanjing barber shop that opened in the 30s of the last century is also a year-old friend of many old Star City people.

A cloud, women's male hair, shrimp style, churros style, big back...... These terms, which are unknown to young people today, are exactly what the masters are good at, and they are also the unique memories of the previous generation.

Mingxing Star City is located in the inland of central China, why not directly call it Star City Barber Shop, but call it Nanjing Barber Shop. Very simply, Nanjing was the capital at that time, and the country's fashion atmosphere was only the capital, and the Nanjing barber shop certainly seemed more high-end and high-grade, and it could better arouse the taste of the fashion family in Star City; It's similar to the current name XX Beijing World Hotel, New York Hotel.

The Nanjing Barber Shop was neither opened by a person from Xingcheng nor Nanjing, but by a person named Liu Wenzhou from Yangzhou, Jiangsu. In 1935, he took the lead in raising 20,000 silver dollars to open Nanjing Hairdressing Co., Ltd. at the intersection of Qingshiqiao Street (now Jiefang Road), which is famous for its spacious store, novel equipment and strong technical force.

It's a pity that within a few years of the good days, he encountered the Japanese war of aggression against China, and it can't be said that Boss Liu is the personal life, the general environment at that time was like this, and the country's fortune was like this. In 1938, a famous fire ushered in the Star City, and Star City was burned down as the only ancient city whose ruins remained unchanged for more than 2,000 years. Editorial at the time: "In the past 30 years, Star City has flourished in material and human resources. Among the cities in the country, it is rich and rich, and Star City is the first place. A hundred years of creation, a pitiful torch. ”

The shop was destroyed in a fire and rebuilt, and in 1946 it was expanded to a three-story building, employing more than 50 people, and hiring technicians from Shanghai and Wuhan. It also introduced American electric scissors, hood hair dryers, chemical perms, shampoo soft soaps, and horizontal shampoo trays from **. Shape the most popular shrimp style, butterfly style, outer lotus leaf style, and various hairstyles at that time.

His son Liu Yinglong personally greeted the guests, pulled the door, took the coat and hat, installed the seat, handed over the hot towel, and said goodbye and thanked him when he left; The customer has received rave reviews, and the daily turnover is 8,000 silver dollars. How hot do you think about this business, investing in such a store is only 20,000 silver dollars, and basically the turnover will come back in 3-4 days, and the popularity should be higher than the current Star City fashion hair brand store "Pretty Baby".

Although today's "Nanjing Barber Shop" does not have the glory of the past, it is still a signboard; To this day, it is also the only barber shop in Hunan that sends hairstylists to national embassies abroad. There is a poster on the wall at the entrance of the store, which shows some of the hairdressing technicians sent by Nanjing barber shop to Chinese embassies abroad over the years, with a total of more than 80 person-times, and there are currently 2 hairstylists in the U.S. embassies and consulates.

It was Master Hu who gave Don Juan a haircut, and in recent years, Brother Huang has been looking for him, and the two have a more tacit understanding and are more at ease. The reason why Brother Huang liked ** at the beginning was that he not only had good hair cutting skills, but also could chat, and he was not bored at all after dozens of minutes.

Master Hu asked Don Juan while cutting, knowing if the Chonglie Pavilion on the Tianxin Pavilion opposite. Brother Huang scratched his head for a long time before remembering which pavilion it was. The pavilion is sixteen pillars and arches, build the octagonal rest on the top of the mountain, the stone steps have guardrails, and there is a plaque of "Chongde" in the pavilion.

Master Hu asked, "Do you know which one is written on the plaque?" ”

Don Juan said, "Then I've studied it, I've been to Tianxin Pavilion many times, and I haven't paid attention to these things." ”

Master Hu laughed, "I know that you don't like to read since you were a child, and you only like to look at beautiful women with a pair of eyes, and these calligraphy couplets don't stop at the corners of your eyes." ”

He went on to say that these two words were inscribed by Chiang Kai-shek himself, and they meant "remembering the noble merits of the martyrs." The word "Chong" on this plaque is a little less, and the word "De" is less horizontal, which is Chiang Kai-shek's copying of Ouyang Xun, one of China's four major regular scripts, and Ouyang Xun, a native of Xingcheng, wrote "European style", not sticking to the original character strokes.

Don Juan said, "I thought you were so researched, it seems that your own calligraphy level is at the expert level"; Master Hu smiled and said, "Experts can't talk about it, it's okay", Brother Huang felt more and more that Master Hu was a hermit.

When he came out of the barbershop, he was very clear and pleasant.