Chapter 17: The barbershop is in a bottleneck
After school on Monday, Jiaxin packed her schoolbag, left school, and went to the barbershop! As soon as she entered the store, Jiaxin felt wrong, the master Song was obviously unhappy, and the senior sister Xu Xiaochen was also full of sadness!
"What's wrong?" Jiaxin put down her schoolbag, looked at the two of them and asked.
Xu Xiaochen shook his head: "There are four people in the store today, all of them are cutting their hair, and they don't even have a perm!" One of them had a big fight with the master because the master didn't cut out the effect he wanted, and it was hard to hear! ”
If this continues, this store will close sooner or later. Jiaxin walked up to Song Qingqing, leaned over and asked, "Master, do you have any plans?" ”
Without waiting for the master to speak, Xu Xiaochen took over and said: "Master, let's reduce the price, we are cheaper than other stores, these days, who still can't get along with money." Isn't it the same as making money for customers? ”
Song Qingqing obviously didn't have an idea, she also wondered, her store is also well-known in this county, in the past few years, even the county magistrate is his guest, I don't know why overnight, the guests all ran away,
"So what if the price is reduced and there are no customers yet?" Song looked at Xu Xiaochen lightly and asked.
Jiaxin has not spoken, still remembering that in the previous life, when she encountered such a problem, the master was also worried, many times, she didn't want to admit that her skills were outdated, Song Qingqing's barber shop was once a sign in the barber industry in this county. But in just a few years, she was left behind by the new trend, of course she was unwilling, and she couldn't understand why she had come to this point! She would rather condemn the customer than face up to her own shortcomings, obviously because her technology can no longer keep up with the public's aesthetics. It wasn't until a few months later that the master figured it out and offered to study, and at that time her shop was in turmoil and almost closed! It hit her hard.
Senior sister no longer speaks, she is a primary school graduate, she has not seen anything in the world, what she sees and hears is nothing more than everything that happens in this county, her thinking is lagging behind, and it is already very good to be able to come up with a trick to reduce prices!
"The price reduction can only last for a while!" Jiaxin looked at the two people in front of him and said: "It's like I'm a customer, today I saw that your store has reduced the price, greedy for temporary profits, I can come, but if the technology is still not up to par and can't achieve the customer's expected effect, then I'd rather spend more money to go to a store with better technology!" Over time, the reputation of our store will be even worse! Seriously, that's undoubtedly worse! ”
"Master, with all due respect, in the final analysis, the technology in our store is not recognized by the public, men's hairstyles are only simple flat heads, perm hair is still a few traditional hairstyles, and hair dyeing is only a single black, master, have you ever visited the newly opened shops, have you seen where their advantages are over us?"
"I haven't been to see it!" Song gently stroked his forehead with one hand and whispered, "I don't want to see it!" ”
"Don't you dare?" Jiaxin asked her. She is afraid that after reading it, she will be even more unable to accept her current situation.
Song Xiaoxiao was about to speak, when he saw a boy standing at the door: "Do you want to cut your hair?" Lad. Song walked gently towards him.
"Yes, but I want Lu Jiaxin to cut it for me!"
When Jia Xin heard this, she looked up and saw that Shao Cong had already walked towards her, his face was as cold as a playing card.
Xu Xiaochen looked at Jiaxin, her curiosity was bursting, she lowered her voice and asked, "This is your object, right?" ”
Jia Xin frowned: "What kind of elephant, classmate!" After speaking, let the senior sister wash the hair of the guest.
Xu Xiaochen washed Shao Cong's hair, and after washing him, he was led to Jiaxin, but she was very familiar with the excuse to do something else.
Shao Cong was angry with Jiaxin, angry that she didn't know what to do, angry that she regarded all his kindness as a donkey's liver and lungs, for a whole week, she ignored him, and ran away first after school every day. Several times he tried to say that he wanted to cut his hair, but before he could say anything, she was gone. So he didn't say hello to her, didn't say hello, and came directly to the store to find her!
Jia Xin asked expressionlessly, "Is it just like you?" ”
Shao Cong looked up at Jiaxin in the mirror: "Don't, I'm too ugly, you cut me a beautiful one!" ”
Jiaxin's eyes met Shao Cong in the mirror, and he observed carefully, Jiaxin was a very serious person, just thinking about how to meet the customer's requirements, so he never looked away, but Shao Cong was a little uncomfortable stared at by Jiaxin like this, his face was slightly red, he took the lead in lowering his head, pretending to have no intention of looking away!
Jiaxin thinks that the boy in the mirror looks good, she had this recognition when she first saw him, but now she looks more standard, I am afraid that such a boy will not be ugly in any haircut!
"With a round face, hard hair, and good looks, you're very suitable for board inches." Saying that, Jiaxin has already begun to help him shave his head: "This hairstyle highlights fashion, has temperament, and is also very easy to take care of!" ”
Shao Cong didn't understand these slightly technical terms, and he had the right to say that Jiaxin was praising him. So purse your lips and laugh non-stop! Jiaxin's scissors roamed around Shao Cong's head, both flexible and lightweight, Shao Cong had thought about such a scene, and when he saw her cutting his aunt's hair for the first time, he thought about it like this.
"It's in your ears, don't move!" Jiaxin gave him a vaccination in advance, "Don't bow your head and raise your head for a while!" ”
After speaking, Jia Xin gently pinched Shao Cong's ear with her left hand, and carefully handled the hair directly above his ear with a clipper in her right hand. But why did he feel a strange feeling in his heart now, as if he had been struck by an electric current?
Jia Xin's hands are very soft, her fingers are slender, she uses her index finger and middle finger, Shao Cong feels that her heart has become soft. All the anger disappeared for a while, and he felt that this girl really had magical powers.
People with hard hair are more textured and heavier than people with soft hair, and the effect of cutting out is already good-looking, plus Shao Cong's face, it is really charming to all beings!
Jiaxin stared at the person in the mirror for a few seconds, felt that her face was a little hot, and then realized that it had been cut.
"Wow, that's so pretty!" The senior sister stood aside, she didn't read much, and she couldn't think of any words to describe what she saw.
Song stood aside lightly and nodded with satisfaction: "It's really good, sometimes the barber and the customer have to achieve each other, if it were me, I wouldn't be able to cut such an effect, but if the customer is someone else, I guess I can't support this hairstyle!" ”
This is high-level, which not only praises Jiaxin's skills, but also praises Shao Cong's appearance!
Jiaxin was a little embarrassed, Shao Cong also came back to his senses and quickly got up!
After cutting Shao Cong's hair, the time was about the same.
Song said softly to Jiaxin, "You go back early!" There shouldn't be any customers left. ”
Jiaxin originally wanted to talk to the master about the bottleneck in the development of the store, but since the master said so, she could only go back first. She didn't write a word of her homework today.
So he packed his schoolbag, said goodbye to Song and Xu Xiaochen and left. Shao Cong was behind her, just five meters away, unhurried.
He didn't think about anything, but it was getting late, he wanted to send her back to his residence, anyway, Jiaxin didn't object, he thought that he wouldn't say anything along the way, and he left when he saw her enter the alley, but he didn't expect that before he walked three hundred meters, Jiaxin turned around and asked him: "Are you going to follow me all the time?" ”
Shao Cong also stood there, not taking a step forward, he said, "It's not safe for you to go back alone!" ”
"It's not even seven o'clock! It's okay, you can go back quickly! Jia Xin walked towards him as she spoke, and when she stood in front of him, she continued: "I had a bad attitude that day, and I apologize to you." ”
Shao Cong was flattered, it turned out that this girl would apologize to others, but she was not just blindly hard-mouthed, so she pursed her lips and smiled: "I'm not angry now, but I was really angry that day." ”
Although Jiaxin is trying to reduce the damage of rumors to Shao Cong, she has also thought about it a lot in the past few days. She didn't know the pain of giving her heart but being trampled on, just like she once did to Wei Kang! So it was precisely because she had a deep understanding of that feeling that she regretted what she said, and because she felt the pain with her, she mustered up the courage to apologize to Shao Cong!
"Shao Cong..." This is the second time Jiaxin has called him like this, although she has been at the same table for so long, but she does not often call his name like other classmates, always replacing it with some tone words, and he can receive it as soon as possible.
"Huh?" Shao Cong looked at her and waited for her to continue.
"Although what I said that day was a bit excessive, no matter how tactful I said, my meaning will not change, do you understand?"
"So you still think I'm just an outsider, even if we have a relationship like my aunt, you will think I'm just a nosyman?"
Jiaxin sighed lightly, she knew that it was too bad to say this, even if they didn't have the relationship between them, they were still at the same table!
"I really appreciate your help to me. But you should have heard the discussion about me in the class recently, and you have seen how ugly it is. I'm afraid you don't understand the sinister truth of people's hearts, but I don't want to pull you in, so many mouths, so many rumors, I can bear it alone, but you can't. If they know that my retreat has something to do with you, the three of them will become tigers, and people will be terrible, do you understand? ”
"So, are you saying those things to protect me?" There was a fire rising in Shao Cong's heart.
"There's no question of who you want to protect, I just don't think you deserve this!" Jiaxin turned around and walked farther and farther step by step.
Her ears were full of the unseemly words that Mu Xiaofen and the others said, she didn't care, but it didn't mean that she didn't listen.
They said: Lu Jiaxin must have been the little wife of those rich men outside;
She seems to be a different person now, she is very arrogant every day, and there must be someone behind her;
If she doesn't want to live in school, it must be convenient for her to fool around outside;
Maybe I've been harmed a long time ago!
I didn't expect good students to become like this...
In those voices, the people who hate her say schadenfreude, and those who don't care about her are naturally just a lace news, paying attention to real-time dynamics. And most of the people who care about her are disappointed that they hate iron but not steel!
Watching Jiaxin turn and disappear, Shao Cong felt that his feet seemed to be heavy, and he couldn't lift them, so he stood like that for a few minutes before he turned around and left, but with a smile on his face!