"Master Jiujin, I'm going to the Li Zapo Hotel to entertain guests tonight, how can I not get up?"
"Why should I go?"
Tang Qing replied angrily.
This Shanghai aunt is in her forties and likes to listen to operas. She came here more than ten years ago with a contractor from Shancheng.
Although she has lived in Shancheng for so many years, she still dresses in the old Shanghai style.
The foreman was away on construction projects all year round, and the Shanghai aunt had nothing to do, so she reported to the People's Barber Shop every day.
"Yo yo yo, what did Nong do? Why is Yiwu Qingnong so mad at Ala?"
Although the Shanghai aunt blamed Tang Qing, she still had a smile on her face. She knew that Tang Qing would not really get angry.
Tang Qing rarely got angry, and he had never blushed with a customer in the barber shop, including the neighbors who came here to sit around.
I don't know why, but Tang Qing is in a very bad mood today, it can be said to be extremely bad.
When I woke up in the morning, I accidentally broke the teapot I used to brush my teeth, and there was a scratch on my hand.
Hands are as important to a barber as a pianist's hands or a surgeon's hands.
This is what Tang Qing's father said.
Tang Qing's father was also Tang Qing's barber master. His father taught him the art of barbering before he officially retired.
Tang Qing had used the teapot for brushing his teeth for more than ten years and was reluctant to throw it away.
When Tang Qing was a student, things were very simple. When he graduated from high school, his classmates gave each other farewell words and gifts.
The gifts are written in their own little notebooks, including heroic words and daily blessings...
The gifts are small things within ten yuan, a pen, a music box, a photo album, a small ornament...
At the graduation ceremony, the class monitor collected all the notebooks and gifts with messages written on them, packed them into a large cardboard box, and shuffled them, while the students lined up to receive them.
Some students received small notebooks and gifts that happened to be written and given by their favorite classmates, and they couldn't help but cheer!
Some students received small notebooks and gifts that happened to be written and given by classmates with whom they usually had small holidays or who didn't talk much. At this moment, they accepted it happily, and the small barriers disappeared.
Some students received the notebooks and gifts they wrote and gave as gifts, and shouted that they seemed to be the only ones who were kinder to themselves in this life.
The notebooks and gifts Tang Qing received were all Li Li's.
The classmates made a fuss and asked Tang Qing to read out the message from Li Li's notebook.
Li Li warned Tang Qing that if she dared to read it, she would be crushed into pieces and eaten alive!
Tang Qing naturally didn't dare. Until now, no other classmate knew what Li Li wrote in her gift letter.
Tang Qing always carried a small notebook with her. In the past, even her husband wouldn't let her read it.
Li Li's gift was a small enamel teapot, with a branch of blooming wintersweet on the white cup body, which was bright red and eye-catching.
Tang Qing originally treasured the small teapot as well as the small book, but after all, the small teapot was fragile and relatively large, making it inconvenient to carry around.
Later, Tang Qing simply used the small teapot as a toothbrushing cup and used it for more than ten years.
After the teapot slipped and broke in the morning, Tang Qing ignored the bleeding on his fingers and spent two hours repairing the teacup with glue.
Tang Qing originally went for a run on Lutei Mountain every morning, regardless of wind or rain.
This morning Tang Qing didn't even eat breakfast. After filling up the small teapot, he hurriedly came to the store while looking at the Deer Ti Mountain.
Yan City was built on Lutei Mountain, and Tang Qing's family was at the foot of Lutei Mountain.
Lutei Mountain is the mother mountain of Yancheng. Legend has it that a sika deer was injured by an arrow and ran here. It bled excessively and was dying.
An old man on the mountain rescued the sika deer and the three young deer in its belly.
The sika doe and three fawns were inseparable from the old man from then on, and they stayed at his grave until the old man passed away.
Now, there is a sculpture of a sika doe on the top of Lutei Mountain with three fawns under her knees. Tang Qing must circle these three times when running.
"Master Jiujin, you're just nibbling carrots in the restaurant instead of having a big dinner at the hotel?"
After dinner, the butcher came to Tang Qing's barber shop to talk nonsense as usual.
Barber shops are usually more lively after dinner, especially in the summer. It is so comfortable to sit in the shop with the air-conditioning blowing in and chatting.
"Pig-butcher, please don't open and pick up the pot you want!"
Auntie Shanghai winked at the butcher.
"Green vegetables and radish, rich in nutrients!"
Tang Qing bit off half a pickled radish strip as he spoke.
"Master Jiujin, are you angry?"
Auntie Shanghai was a little confused. When she came in, Tang Qing couldn't even touch her butt.
"Angry? Who am I angry with?"
Tang Qing took the last bite of rice, stood up and went to the sink to wash the dishes.
Under normal circumstances, Tang Qing's lunch and dinner are all served in the store. She opens the door at eight in the morning and closes at eight in the evening, staying in the store for twelve hours.
"Aunt Shanghai, it seems that you don't know Master Jiujin yet. Although she is a woman, she is very rich and her emotions are not easily written on her face."
Carpenter Wang slowly walked into the barber shop.
"The carpenter of Nongga King is trying to be mysterious again. Nonghao, please go test the characters and see how they look!"
"Hey, Auntie Shanghai, my elders are really good at reading Chinese characters and reading faces!"
Carpenter Wang's father and grandfather were indeed famous fortune tellers in Yancheng. He was the number one fortune teller in fortune telling, fortune telling, and feng shui.
"How can Nong become a carpenter?"
"The new society must believe in science."
"You are quite enlightened, aren't you?"
"However, there are many wonderful phenomena in nature. Each of us has experienced some strange things at one time or another. These things cannot be explained by normal thinking."
"Wang Carpenter, it's a pity that you are a carpenter."
The butcher interjected.
"What's the pity?"
"You should be a professor!"
"Pig-butcher, don't tell me, if things hadn't happened, I might actually be a professor now."
"Pull me down, you are said to be fat and you have asthma?"
"Pig-killer, let me tell you, the eldest son of the Li family is in the same class with us. If he hadn't copied my homework, he wouldn't have been able to graduate from elementary school."
"Hey, I heard that the eldest son of the Li family really thinks he is a great professor."
"Professor Ga Zhong, it's better to save the money. Don't talk about the bloody fight over the family property. Hu Zhi rushed to the shop to find Master Jiujin and asked for the copper coin for shaving his head!"
"The great professor rushed to the shop to ask for the money for shaving his head? Aunt Shanghai, what's going on? It was Master Jiujin who wanted to ask for it. It rained so hard that night that Master Jiujin went to shave Mr. Li's pubic head. They should give Master Jiujin
Is it profitable?"
"Allah doesn't know the details of that event. Anyway, I asked Master Jiujin for some money."
"Master Jiujin, did Li Cheng really come to the store and ask you for money?"
Carpenter Wang came over and asked Tang Qing.
Tang Qing was still washing dishes and chopsticks at the sink.
"Do you know Li Cheng?"
Tang Qing asked Wang Carpenter.
"We played together when we were wearing crotchless pants, and later we went to school with him, but he has been out for more than 30 years, so we probably don't know him anymore."
"Wang Carpenter, Nong said that Nong and Yi went to school together? How old is the age difference? Yi wears straight clothes and has well-polished leather shoes, so she can look in the mirror. Alas, Yi looks like fifty years old at most. He looks like Nong, a little old man!
"
"Aunt Shanghai, please don't interrupt. Master Jiujin, this Li Cheng, don't look at him. He is a big man, but his mind is smaller than that of you women. It's better not to have anything to do with him."
"I have nothing to do with him."
Tang Qing washed the dishes and went straight to the door of the store.
"Then what does he want from you?"
Carpenter Wang chased him to the door of the store.
"It was originally their family's money."
Tang Qing stood at the door of the store, looking at the pedestrians coming and going.
At this time, the street started to get lively. The old people who had had dinner early took advantage of the heat to subside and went out for a walk. The middle-aged people had just gotten off work and hurried home. The children who had no adults to take them to and from school shouldered their schoolbags and played all the way. They were not in a hurry to go back.
Home.
When there is no business, Tang Qing likes to stand at the door of the store and watch the people coming and going, and never tires of it.
"Master Jiujin, I'm not too talkative. It's better for you to have less dealings with the Li family, including Li Li."
"I told you I have nothing to do with them!"
"Then why are you still involved in their family affairs?"
"I don't!"
Tang Qing turned around and returned to the store.
"Oh, if you don't listen to my advice, you will suffer a loss sooner or later!"
Wang Carpenter looked at Tang Qing's back and shook his head. He did not go into the barber shop anymore, but put his hands behind his back and walked slowly towards the embankment of Shanxi River.
Carpenter Wang no longer does carpentry work and runs a large furniture store, which is quite large.
Perhaps due to family reasons, Wang Carpenter studied the "Book of Changes" all day long, making himself just over sixty years old and as skinny as an eighty-year-old man.
Carpenter Wang mysteriously told his aunt in Shanghai that after the Li family shaved their pubic heads, Tang Qing would suffer financial losses.
This financial disaster is coming so fiercely that Tang Qing can't hide even if he wants to!