Whenever she sees the yellow and red signboard of "Da Chou Hair Salon", Xiaomei can't help but feel sick in her heart.
This fat and greasy woman is disgusted with all young and coquettish women.
Her husband was seduced by such a woman, and the owner of "Big Ugly Hair Salon" was also such a woman.
Yet she couldn't avoid seeing the sign unless she hid in her haggis shop twenty-four hours a day.
Her haggis shop is located next to the "Big Ugly Hair Salon". Strictly speaking, it is the "Big Ugly Hair Salon" that is opened next door to her haggis shop because she opened it first.
Her haggis shop has been opened in this small town for ten years, from when she was twenty-five to thirty-five this year.
Last summer, Xiaomei discovered that her husband had an abnormal relationship with the female owner of a women's clothing store, the predecessor of "Big Ugly Hair Salon". They often flirted with each other when she wasn't paying attention.
She didn't live in the store at that time, so she went home at night.
Her family lives in a rented house outside the back wall of the town primary school less than a mile away from the store.
Before going to bed one night, Xiaomei's husband said he went out to use the toilet and didn't come back for a long time. She felt suspicious, so she went to the public toilet outside the hospital to look for him with a flashlight.
She didn't dare to enter the men's room, so she swung the flashlight in, causing the person squatting inside to curse impatiently, "Are you looking for shit to eat?"
She called her husband's name several times, but she didn't hear her husband's response. She only heard the man who just scolded her say maliciously, "Come in, I'm the only one in there, just right!"
She was stunned for a moment, then ran towards the women's clothing store.
Sure enough, outside the dark window of the women's clothing store, she heard her husband's laughter and the owner of the women's clothing store shouting.
She didn't say anything at the time, but quietly opened the door of her haggis shop and took out an aluminum basin and a rolling pin.
She first used the U-shaped lock on her store door to lock the two glass doors behind the fence of the women's clothing store, and then used a rolling pin to knock the aluminum basin with all her strength. While knocking, she yelled in panic: " There is a fire, there is an earthquake, comet is hitting the earth..."
The quiet and peaceful town is even more silent at night. The sound of clanking first triggered the chaotic barking of more than a dozen dogs.
The laughter and shouting in the women's clothing store suddenly stopped, and then someone came and opened the door. However, after taking off the lock inside, they discovered that there was another lock outside.
Xiaomei's husband opened the door a crack and recognized Xiaomei. He begged, "Xiaomei, please don't do this. Please listen to my explanation. It's not what you think...
Xiaomei didn't listen to him and knocked on the aluminum harder. Pen shouted: "There's a fire, there's an earthquake, there's an atomic bomb..."
That night, almost everyone in the town witnessed the adultery between Xiaomei's husband and the owner of the women's clothing store, including the husband of the women's clothing store owner, a famous man. A thin man named Tieshu.
The result was that, in full view of the public, amid the enthusiastic cheers and symbolic exhortations from the onlookers, Xiaomei tore the pretty pink face of the owner of the women's clothing store into shredded fish-flavored pork, and Tieshu almost tore Xiaomei's husband into pieces. Chopped into haggis.
Later, Xiaomei and her husband divorced, Tieshu also divorced his wife, and Xiaomei's husband married Tieshu's wife.
Two families were separated and reorganized into one family, leaving a skinny bachelor and a fat widow.
The women's clothing store closed down. The owner of the women's clothing store, who had a few scars on his face, and her beautiful husband, who was beaten to a point of lameness, moved back to the village.
The numb Tieshu continued to run his car repair shop, but he had to get himself drunk every day.
He became thinner, his cheekbones were convex, his eye sockets were sunken, his eyes were cloudy and dull, and he walked top-heavy.
Xiaomei, who is like a bucket, continues to run her haggis shop, but she lets her ten-year-old son live in the school, vacates the house outside the back wall of the town primary school, and lives in the shop.
bought a folding bed . It folds up and stands in the corner during the day and unfolds it at night.
In order to satisfy the appetites of her husband and son, her family used to eat other meals, but now she is too lazy to make them again, so she uses local ingredients and has three meals of haggis for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The haggis served to customers has soup and water, but the haggis eaten by myself is dry and thick, without even potatoes, it is all meat.
Mix it with fried chili until it turns red, and just suck it until you burp.
If she goes to bed late one day and the contents of her stomach are digested in advance, she will have to replenish a bowl temporarily.
So she is getting fatter and fatter, she is simply a urn of water.
Her face is round, big and bulging, her eyes are squeezed into slits by the shiny fat, and her originally beautiful long eyelashes are covered by thick eyelids, leaving only a short tip.
The people in the town continued to be busy with their own affairs. They discussed the explosive affair for a while, and after comforting the lost Xiaomei, they soon lost their enthusiasm for it. .
The town is very small, with only one asphalt street running from east to west, using a stone arch bridge to cross with a north-south river. The east end of
Street leads to the county seat where urban people live, and the west end leads to the village where rural people live.
There are about a hundred families in the town. Most of them have rural registered permanent residence, but they basically do not farm.
Because they have very little land, they don't need to farm. The bungalows on both sides of the street belong to them. They can easily make ends meet by doing some small business or renting out the house.
And most of them are very old, and the younger generation has gone to the city to develop.
Those who don’t farm are relatively free.
They are more leisurely and are interested in everything in the town.
Their interest came and went as quickly as it came, so when the renovation of the Big Ugly Hair Salon began, they took notice.
They asked Mrs. Gao for information.
Wife Gao is the landlord of Da Chou Hair Salon and also the landlord of Xiao Mei Haggis Shop.
She is an old lady in her seventies. Her husband passed away a few years ago, and her five children have also moved to the city.
However, Mrs. Gao could not completely satisfy people's thirst for knowledge. She said that she only knew that the person who rented her room was a pretty, quiet and fashionable woman in her twenties. She said she used to live in the county town. Those who open barber shops, and others are not very clear.
Wife Gao said: "I am deaf and have a poor memory. I cannot hear clearly what I remember, and I cannot remember what I hear clearly."
People asked her what the woman's name was, which village her family was from, and whether she was married or not. She couldn't even tell.
People complained about her with a little disappointment, saying that she rented your house, how could you not ask her name?
Didn’t you see her ID card ?
Wife Gao said, I am illiterate, so looking at her ID card, isn’t it like a blind dog looking at the stars?
People say, then you should make a copy of her ID card and keep it, otherwise what will you do if she runs away?
Wife Gao said, she has paid me rent for two years, why am I still afraid of her running away? It's better to run away. If I run away, I can still rent the house to others, but she can't run away with my house on her back.
People didn't believe that the woman came from the county town. Only country people have always gone to the prosperous city, and no city people have ever gone to the remote countryside. It's not easy to make money in the countryside.
She must be from some village, and it is a village below this town.
People went to consult the two workers who renovated the Da Chou Hair Salon, but they didn't get any more useful information than from Wife Gao.
People asked the two workers, what did you call her?
The two workers said, call her beauty.
This further aroused people's curiosity. It seems that the woman is indeed beautiful.
People don't know what their purpose is for asking so hard. Most of the things they do and most of the words they say often have no purpose. They are just pure hobbies, like smoking and drinking.
The decoration work was carried out in an orderly manner. The woman seemed to be very at ease with the two workers and never came to inspect or supervise their work. This made people more and more eager to see the woman, as if their hair had grown unreasonably. It's too much.
The young people in the town didn't seem to pay much attention to Da Chou Hair Salon. However, the female owner of Chunxia Barber Shop at the east end of the bridge came over to take a look, curled her lips with hostility and contempt, and left.
Xiaomei is the one who pays more attention to Da Chou Hair Salon than anyone else.
This house has been empty since the women's clothing store moved away.
Xiaomei hated that woman, she hated Wujiwu, she hated this house, and then she hated Wujiwu and the person who was going to rent this house.
Xiaomei also hates Mrs. Gao. As a landlord, she actually ignored or acquiesced in others having an affair in her house. She only pretended to complain for Xiaomei after the incident, saying, "I realized something was wrong between them."
Xiaomei cursed in her heart, you should have died long ago!
If she had told Xiaomei earlier, maybe things would not have developed to that point.
Xiaomei thought about punishing Mrs. Gao by checking out, but it was not easy to reopen a store. Not only would it increase costs unnecessarily, she might also lose many old customers.
She could only give up.
But she can punish Mrs. Gao through other more powerful methods.
The reason why this house facing the street cannot be rented out for more than a year is because of Xiaomei's unknowing and secret operation.
Anyone who wants to rent this house must go into Xiaomei's haggis shop next door and ask about the situation, such as how the house is, how the landlord is, whether there are many customers, whether the business is good, etc.
Xiaomei's answer was always that the house was in poor condition, with thin walls and no heat or sound insulation. It was extremely hot in the summer and extremely cold in the winter. You could hear the next door farting clearly; the landlord had a bad temper. The quality is so bad that when your business is good, they will take advantage of it and raise your rent. There are so few customers that you are lucky enough to not starve to death but still want to make money?
Xiaomei said angrily: "I fell into her trap and paid three years' rent at a time, otherwise I would have moved earlier!"
Most of the people who want to do business in the town are honest and responsible farmers. This kind of thing is often more trustworthy than trustworthy. After making a decision, I don't dare to take the risk.
Xiaomei just pushed away several groups of tenants, but the elderly and demented Mrs. Gao didn't know anything about it.
However, Xiaomei still miscalculated. She didn't expect that the woman would rent the room without asking her, and hired two workers to start decorating it.
When the bright signboard of "Big Ugly Hair Salon" was put up, Xiaomei felt quite unhappy, but she had nothing to do.
She is powerless to change this established fact. She can only actively participate in people's speculation and discussion about the "beauty" in order to guide the direction of public opinion.
Her most effective move was to reveal a "shocking secret" to Chunxia.
Chunxia is the female owner of Chunxia Barber Shop in Qiaodong.
Xiaomei mysteriously told Chunxia that the woman who opened the Dachou Hair Salon used to be a hairdresser in the county. She rented a shop in a small alley near the train station. It was a hair salon on the surface, but she actually did that. For fifty-one things, two hundred can cover the night, and two thousand can cover the month.
Chunxia immediately became interested and asked how did you know? Is this reliable?
Xiaomei said, I have two aunts and younger brothers who work at the county police station. He came to town yesterday to do some business and stopped by my place to have a bowl of haggis. He recognized the Dachou Hair Salon at a glance as the prostitution shop they had taken away some time ago. Den, he said that the words and patterns on the signboard were exactly the same as the den they removed. The woman was detained by the police station for half a month. Seeing that she could no longer survive in the city, she ran to our town.
After Xiaomei finished speaking, she said meaningfully: "Watch your man, don't let her cause trouble."
Finally, she solemnly told: "Don't talk about this matter everywhere!"
Chunxia said with sudden realization. , let me tell you, our barber shop is called a barber shop, or a hair salon. How do you call it a hair salon? A hair salon in town is not a good place to be.
asked again, what is her name?
Xiaomei didn’t make this up beforehand, and she couldn’t make it up either.
then thought about it and said, how can people like them have names? They are all stage names, and her stage name is Da Chou.
Two or three days later, rumors about the "past and present life" of Da Chou Hair Salon spread in this tiny place. The woman who was given the stage name of "Da Chou" became a household name before she even showed up.
People's curiosity has been heightened again.
This kind of thing is not new in cities, but it is big news in rural areas.
The idle men gathered in a group, looking at the Dachou Hair Salon from a distance and whispering, all of them blushing and fascinated.
The worried women gathered in another group, also looking at the big ugly hair salon from a distance, talking loudly, criticizing and gnashing their teeth.
Xiaomei was a little uneasy at first, but she felt relieved after she asked some people, "Who did you listen to?" and got an answer of "They all said so."
She also quickly joined the discussion.
She said to the women, I am the biggest victim.
Women say, you don’t have a man, what are you afraid of?
Xiaomei said, how can I do business if she does it day and night?
The women said with a bad smile, then the men would have to wait in line at your house for a bowl of haggis. After they are full, they can work. After finishing the work, they have no energy, and they have to have another bowl of haggis. Your family's Business is better than before, just wait and count the money! This is called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to draw the water, and the buildings near the water get the moon first.
Xiaomei couldn't help but think, it would be great if that was really the case.
At this time, she hoped that everything her fictional aunt and brother working at the county police station told her was true.
If she benefits from this, she is willing to forgive the hypocritical Gao Laopo'er, and is willing to cooperate sincerely with Da Chou for mutual help and win-win results.
After the decoration of Da Chou's hair salon was completed, and the two workers left for two days, Da Chou came to the town again.
This was her first meeting with the residents of the town except Gao Laipoer.
It was afternoon, and the whole street was covered with shade.
A shuttle bus from the county seat to the village stopped when it passed the Dachou Hair Salon. At the same time, the whole town also stopped. People stopped all actions and words and turned their attention to the shuttle bus.
Xiao Mei also stood at the door of her haggis shop, narrowing her eyes and looking at the shuttle bus.
The automatic door of the shuttle bus opened, and a slender woman walked out.
The driver also got out of the car from the other side, went around to open the suitcase next to the wheel, got in with his upper body and unloaded the luggage.
Several large and small bags and boxes were cleared out and piled randomly on the asphalt road. Then the driver got in the car and the car drove away.
Xiaomei heard the woman say thank you to the driver.
Her voice was sweet and sweet, making Xiaomei's neck shrug involuntarily.
At this time, the people in the town immediately guessed that this woman should be the ugly woman who had recently made the whole town's men and women sleepless, because she was indeed, as Mrs. Gao said, "a pretty, quiet, and fashionable woman." of".
She has long hair and fair skin. She wears a pair of sunglasses and carries a small red leather bag in her hand. She looks like a real city girl.
The most striking thing is that she is wearing an unbuttoned white shirt, revealing a black camisole underneath, and her lower body is wearing a miniskirt that cannot even cover her thighs, which is also white.
This kind of dress seems to reveal her occupation, at least rural women don't dress like this.
She walked to the door of Dachou Hair Salon, took out the key from the small red envelope and opened the door. She went in for a brief look, and then came out to move her luggage.
She moved the easy-to-carry bags back into the house first, but there were two large cardboard boxes left, which she couldn't move.
She grabbed the tie on the carton with both hands and tried to drag it back, but the curb about ten centimeters above the road stopped her.
She straightened up and looked at the people in the distance, but people did not understand her request for help, and instead turned their eyes elsewhere.
She turned around and saw Xiaomei standing at the door of the haggis shop.
She said, "Sister, can you help me?"
Xiaomei then realized what she was doing, said "Oh" twice, and hurried over to lift the carton with her.
However, Xiaomei did not concentrate on carrying the carton. She stole a glance at Da Chou from time to time.
Face to face at a close distance, she saw that Da Chou's face was white and thin, so thin that no texture could be seen, while her own face was dark and thick, with the smell of haggis exuding from every pore.
This shocked her so much that she helped Da Chou move the two cartons into the house. After Da Chou said thank you, she, who is usually well-spoken and likes to be lively, felt a little uneasy.
She oohed twice, then silently returned to her haggis shop.
Da Chou began to clean up the room. People in the distance could see Da Chou's busy figure through the glass and the open door.
They came back to life and regained their movement and language functions, but the women's eloquent talks turned into whispers, and the men's whispers turned into stares.
There is a trace of unrest in the calm air.
As night fell, Da Chou walked into Xiao Mei's haggis shop.
She looked tired, her hair was tied up in a damp and messy mess on her head. There were a few streaks of sweat on his face, and there was dust on the tip of his nose. The clothes were still the same, just a little messy and a little dirty.
Da Chou first thanked Xiao Mei again for her help in the afternoon, then said a few polite words such as "we are neighbors and will take care of her in the future", and then asked Xiao Mei, besides haggis, what else does your store have?
She said she didn't like haggis and couldn't smell the bad smell.
This made Xiaomei feel a little unhappy, but she couldn't let everyone in the world be like this.
She explained with a smile that the haggis smelled a bit unpleasant, but it tasted delicious and became more flavorful the more you chewed it. It was comparable to the seafood eaten by southerners. Isn’t seafood also fishy and smelly? It has high nutritional value and is good for the stomach if eaten regularly. I'll give you a bowl, you'll know after you taste it. My haggis is famous in our town. Many people from the village came here on motorcycles to have a drink.
Da Chou smiled sheepishly and said, "It's not that I don't think the haggis you made is bad, it's just that I really don't like it." Is there anything else?
Xiaomei immediately stopped smiling and said coldly, only haggis!
Da Chou let out a disappointed sound and turned to look across the street. There was a small restaurant there, and the light inside reflected the words "Fish-flavored Shredded Pork" and " Kung Pao Chicken " on the glass.
She seemed to swallow her saliva, and quickly turned around, smiling sheepishly at Xiaomei, who had a frosty face.
She probably felt a little bit sorry that she had to take care of other people's business after getting help from Xiaomei in the afternoon, so she said, let's have a bowl, a small bowl.
Xiaomei did not become happy immediately because she knew that the other party was not her long-term customer.
She turned back to the kitchen, took out an aluminum pot of pre-cooked haggis from the freezer, used a kitchen knife to pry up a piece and threw it into the pot, and added half a bowl of water.
While the water was boiling, she peeled a potato, cut it into thin strips, and threw it into the pot.
When a bowl of colorful haggis was served in front of Da Chou, it was completely dark.
Occasionally a car or motorcycle passes by on the street, and then it falls into silence.
The darkness made the words on the glass of the small restaurant across the street more vivid, which made the hungry big ugly swallow again.
Then she frowned, picked up the chopsticks and pulled the mutton offal and potatoes cut into strips in the bowl.
She ate some potato chips first, then frowned, put aside the lamb intestines and lamb tripe steak, carefully picked up a piece of lamb liver, hesitated, and stuffed it into her mouth.
Her lips were tightly closed, and her cheeks were moving slowly. It took her a long time to swallow, like a toothless old lady eating.
This made Xiaomei very disgusted. She cursed in her heart: Pretending to be X!
However, Da Chou smiled and said, it really tastes good!
However, she took a few bites and then put down her chopsticks and said she was full.
Then she talked enthusiastically with the indifferent Xiaomei and exchanged names.
It turns out that her name is really Da Chou.
She said that she was ugly when she was a child, and her parents called her ugly because she was the eldest in the family.
She changed her name after going to school, but others still liked to call her Da Chou.
Later, when she opened a barber shop, she used the name Da Chou, so that even strangers called her Da Chou.
Da Chou paid the bill and went back to his store.
Xiaomei shouted at the door, took the leftover haggis from Da Chou back to the kitchen, filtered out the soup with a strainer, picked out the remaining potato strips, rinsed the internal organs with water and poured them back into the freezer. In aluminum basin.
While Xiaomei was washing the dishes, Tieshu came in.
The frustrated man ordered a bowl of haggis and a bottle of white wine as usual.
When Xiaomei brought the haggis and white wine in front of him, he smiled as usual and touched Xiaomei's fat ass through his pants.
Usually when no one else is in the store, he always touches her.
During the period after they divorced their respective spouses, Tieshu repeatedly proposed to Xiaomei while drunk that he should treat others the same way they treat others, but Xiaomei rejected him every time.
"They are like that, we are like that, let's take revenge on them!"
"We are divorced, who are you going to take revenge on?"
But Xiaomei doesn't really mind that Tieshu takes some harmless and ambiguous actions towards her, either scolding or laughing and scolding her. Done.
Probably out of sympathy under the same circumstances, she sometimes even deliberately condoned his behavior, neither catering to nor rejecting, allowing him to be satisfied for a short while.
But today was different. Today she was in a bad mood.
When she saw Da Chou, she couldn't help but think of Tieshu's wife; when she saw Tie Shu, she couldn't help but think of her man.
This pair of bitchy men and women are her sworn enemies and enemies.
She took out a chopstick from the chopstick holder and hit Tieshu's wrist hard. Tieshu felt pain and hurriedly retracted his hand, bared his teeth, gasped for air, and showed a mean smile.
She glared at him again, gave him an angry and serious look that said, "Please be more respectful," and turned back to the kitchen.
He began to eat and drink, a mouthful of haggis and a mouthful of wine, blowing on the mouth of the bottle.
While eating and drinking, he said to the door of the kitchen, "Xiao Mei, let me tell you a story...
Tieshu is keen on collecting all kinds of dirty jokes.
These dirty jokes are not told to others, only to Xiaomei when no one else is around in the haggis shop.
He would come here almost every night to eat a bowl of haggis, drink a bottle of white wine, and tell some dirty jokes.
The people mentioned in the dirty jokes he heard did not mention names or surnames, just a man and a woman. When he told it to Xiaomei, he replaced the hero and heroine with himself and Xiaomei.
Although Xiaomei always scolded him for being immoral, a bastard, and a donkey, and sometimes she would throw a greasy rag over him unexpectedly and hit him, she always had a smile on her face and was never really annoyed. .
Today, when Xiaomei heard that he had inserted her into the story again, a senseless anger suddenly arose in her heart, but she held it back just as she was about to explode.
She walked to the kitchen door, leaned against the door and said, "Don't tell me, you should tell her."
She pointed to the wall between her shop and Da Chou Hair Salon.
She probably enjoys hearing this more than I do.
Tieshu was startled, who is she?
reacted immediately, you mean, that woman is here?
He stood up and ran to the door, stuck his head out and looked over there, came back and sat down and said, it's really here.
lowered her voice and asked Xiaomei, do you think she really did that?
Xiaomei said, wouldn’t you know if you go and confirm it? Don't you, an old bachelor, just need that? Besides, it's so cheap, fifty-one times, two hundred for the night, and two thousand for the month.
In fact, Tieshu is not old, he is five or six years younger than Xiaomei.
"老 bachelor" is just a customary term used by local people, which means contempt and teasing.
After Tie Shu finished his haggis and drank wine, he actually went to Da Chou Hair Salon, but to Xiao Mei's disappointment, he came out after a while.
When he was in the big ugly hair salon, Xiaomei put her ear against the wall and couldn't hear the wonderful show she expected. She only heard the buzz of clipper , occasionally mixed with a few words between the two. Simple conversation.
After Tie Shu came out of Dachou Hair Salon, he walked towards his car repair shop. With the light from the glass, we could see that his original messy hair like weeds was gone, replaced by a short and long hair. Spiritual crew cut.
It turns out he just got a haircut.
coward! Xiaomei cursed in a low voice.
What makes Xiao Mei even more disappointed is that the arrival of Da Chou did not cause much disturbance in this peaceful town. She runs her hair salon step by step from sun up to sunset.
Whenever a customer came into Da Chou Hair Salon, Xiao Mei listened with special attention, but she did not hear what she wanted to hear.
Not to mention the female customers, the male customers did not have the guts to make such a request to Da Chou. They left after getting their hair cut.
These customers are basically from the rural areas below, and most of them are not aware of Dachou's "special services".
Xiaomei once asked an old bachelor living in the town, "Didn't you go next door to have some fun?"
The old bachelor said, I had a haircut, but nothing else. She didn’t ask me if I wanted other services, and I didn’t dare to say.
Xiaomei said, do you think doing that kind of thing is the same as selling haggis, clearly marking the price and standing at the door shouting? You have to take the initiative to speak up, because people are afraid that you will report it.
Later, the old bachelor really talked to Da Chou and even touched Da Chou's thigh. As a result, Da Chou kicked him out with scissors.
The old bachelor later said: "Fortunately, I ran fast, otherwise I would have been killed by her!"
Afterwards, the big ugly posted eight bright red characters on the glass: There is surveillance inside, please respect yourself.
With the old bachelor’s lesson and the warning of the eight-character policy, the men in the town who had evil intentions towards Da Chou were deterred. The legend of Da Chou is still circulating in the small town, and they say that Da Chou has "become a good person".
This disappointed the men and relieved the women.
Some young women who love beauty began to go to Da Chou Hair Salon one after another. After all, Da Chou's skills were not to mention. Her permed hair was beautiful, fashionable and long-lasting, much better than Chunxia's.
These women walked into Da Chou's hair salon. In addition to getting haircuts, they also spoke highly of and praised Da Chou's brave behavior in resisting the pervert.
They said, yes, just do it like that, you did a good job!
A woman who knows the law said, yes, stabbing him to death is considered self-defense and not illegal!
A woman who is not too concerned about the excitement said, yes, you should always keep a butcher's knife!
As for whether Da Chou had prepared a butcher's knife, no one knew, but I had never heard of any man acting frivolously towards her.
Those usually vulgar and savage men always sit respectfully and upright when they go to Dachou Barber Shop to get a haircut, and they speak politely. From time to time they say a few polite words that are rare for rural people, as if they have become cities one by one. of white-collar workers.
For a time, the atmosphere of the entire town was unprecedentedly harmonious.
What disappoints Xiaomei most is that Tieshu, who used to have three meals a day in her shop, has not come for a long time.
He often passed by her shop, but he didn't come in. He was heading to the Big Chou Hair Salon.
Xiaomei discovered that this down-and-out man who was usually unkempt has slowly turned into a radiant and handsome young man.
His face and body are not stained with oil stains like in the past, but he always puts on a clean white half-sleeve shirt and a pair of lean jeans after repairing the car.
His face seems to have been painted with skin care products, making it bright and shiny.
's eyes that had become cloudy and demented due to years of alcoholism also regained their sight.
He has also gained a lot of weight and no longer looks like a stick.
One night, Tieshu walked into Xiaomei's haggis shop again.
He sat on his chair with the same respect as men in the town when faced with a big ugly, and said in a dignified voice, Miss Mei, a bowl of haggis, thank you!
He no longer teased Xiaomei with words or touched her like before. This made Xiaomei a little uncomfortable, just like the haggis had forgotten to put in some important condiments and lacked flavor, but Xiaomei couldn't take the initiative to remind her. He pinched his butt.
When Xiaomei brought a bowl of haggis and a bottle of white wine to him as usual, he pushed the bottle away and said, I stopped drinking.
Xiao Menahan said, can a dog change to eat shit?
Tieshu blushed and said, Da Chou said drinking is bad for the body, and she hates men who drink.
This made Xiaomei feel a sense of unknown jealousy in her heart.
She asked, why don't you come and eat haggis?
Tieshu said, Da Chou said that eating out every day was too expensive. I thought it was right, so I just cooked my own food every day. I'm really tired today, so I came here to deal with it.
Xiaomei gritted her teeth secretly and cursed in her heart: Bitch!
You must know that Tieshu’s annual investment in her store is quite a lot.
She realized the danger. If Da Chou said this to every customer, her store would probably close down soon.
Her hatred of big ugly people has entered the conscious stage from the spontaneous stage.
Tieshu didn’t tell Xiaomei any more of the dirty jokes he was good at, and quietly finished his meal, paid the bill, and left.
said another polite phrase before leaving: Goodbye, little sister!
Xiaomei panicked for a moment, chased to the door and shouted, "Wait a minute."
Tieshu stopped and turned around to look at Xiaomei doubtfully.
Xiaomei said, you haven’t told a story yet today.
Tieshu smiled in embarrassment and said, I used to speak without restraint and disrespected you. Sister Xiaomei, don't mind, I won't do it anymore.
Xiaomei said, I don’t mind.
She lowered her head as low as possible and lowered her voice as low as possible, but she was sure Tieshu could hear it.
She said, don’t you want to take revenge on them?
Her heart was beating wildly, her head was buzzing, her blood was surging, her body was numb, and her face was on fire.
She seemed to feel that Tieshu was approaching her step by step. She was ready for his hug or something else, but she didn't wait for his response for a long time.
She slowly raised her head and saw that Tieshu had walked away, his back blurred in the night.
Since then, Tieshu has never walked into Xiaomei’s haggis shop. Even when he wanted to go to Da Chou’s hair salon, he would avoid the entrance of Xiaomei’s shop.
In this way, Xiaomei's only ally is Chunxia, who runs a barber shop in Qiaodongtou.
However, when Xiaomei went to Chunxia Barber Shop again, she saw that Chunxia had taken down the sign and vacated the house. Two workers were eradicating the last remnants of the house as a barber shop.
Chunxia stood aside, watching all this blankly.
Xiaomei shouted in shock, Chunxia, what are you doing?
Chunxia sighed and said, business is not good, I want to change my career.
said and glanced west of the bridge.
I can't help it. She is young, beautiful and seductive. I can't do it, so I have to admit defeat.
Xiaomei said no, you should find a way to compete with her! I will also help you publicize it. Anyone who comes to my shop to eat, I will let them come to your place to get a haircut. Besides, she is her business and you are your business. She is a foreigner, and you are a local who keeps your home. You own the house. You don’t have to pay rent, and you can wear her to death!
Chunxia sighed and said nothing.
Xiaomei asked, what are you going to do when you change careers?
Chunxia said, I haven’t thought about it yet, let’s talk about it later.
After some time, Xiaomei went to Chunxia's place again, and she saw that Chunxia's shop had put up its sign again.
This signboard is large and bright, with green grass and a few goats painted on it. The five shining golden characters sting Xiaomei's eyes: Chunxia Whole Sheep Feast.
Xiaomei's heart skipped a beat and she hurriedly ran into the store. Sure enough, she saw that Chunxia had transformed the barber shop into a restaurant. There were more than a dozen sets of brand-new tables and chairs neatly placed on the floor, and she had opened up another room of her own home. The house is very spacious, with two separate rooms.
Chunxia and her husband were standing on chairs and pasted a huge spray-painted cloth on the wall.
Xiaomei shouted loudly as soon as she entered the door, Chunxia, what are you doing?
Chunxia was startled, her body shook and she almost fell off the chair.
She turned around and saw Xiaomei, her expression a little unnatural.
She said, I can't think of anything good to cook, so I'll just open a restaurant. I don't have to take care of my head every day, I have to eat every day, and food is the most important thing for the people.
Two tears rolled out of Xiaomei's eyes, and she said sadly, you came to target me and steal my business after being defeated by others? I've been so kind to you, how can you repay kindness with hatred?
Chunxia hesitated for a while and then became confident. She said with a thorn in her tone, where are you from? Where did I steal your business? There are not ten but eight restaurants in the town. Are they all trying to steal your business? Why don't you shut them all down?
Xiaomei said, I don’t care if you open a restaurant, but why do you insist on selling haggis?
Chunxia said softly, where do I sell haggis?
Xiaomei walked over, slapped the haggis pattern on the spray-painted cloth and said, isn't this? this is not? Look, your haggis is cheaper than mine. I sell it for sixteen and you sell it for fourteen. Are you deliberately trying to prevent me from living?
Chunxia said vehemently, it’s not like I only sell haggis.
She pointed condescendingly at the various patterns on the spray-painted cloth and said, isn't there stewed lamb, spicy lamb trotters, and sheep heads dipped in garlic? There are also many kinds of stir-fried dishes! You see, mutton stir-fried with green onions, mutton with cumin, braised mutton, and mutton braised noodles, aren’t they all there? My store is called Whole Sheep Feast, and of course everything on the sheep is sold. My haggis is not the main thing, I just sell it as a side dish.
Xiaomei's sadness finally turned into a hysterical howl, but I specialize in selling, and I rely on this to support our mother and daughter! Chunxia, you are such a cruel and evil woman! So bad! From the front to the back!
Then her sadness turned into anger, and she pulled the spray-painted cloth from the wall that was not firmly attached.
Chunxia, who was pressing her hand on the spray-painted cloth, was knocked off the chair. She let out an ouch, but luckily she didn't fall.
Chunxia's husband didn't fall off the chair, but he jumped down immediately.
He looked down at the folded inkjet cloth, then raised his head and stared at Xiao Mei with his round eyes, clenching his fists tightly, and breathing heavily.
Xiaomei was crying while pointing at Chunxia and cursing vaguely.
Not to be outdone, Chunxia also pointed at Xiaomei and shouted back, "Am I bad?" Am I bad or are you bad? Are you nice to me? What are you doing to me? What is your intention in spreading rumors about Da Chou in front of me? Who's the fucking worst? Let me tell you, Big Chou came to see me, but I didn’t betray you, and you still gave me this trick...
Xiaomei has stopped. After all, she is not reasonable about this matter fundamentally, and she is not sure. Da Chou has not approached Chunxia, but she is certain that if she continues to make trouble, Chunxia will definitely betray her, and her situation will be even more isolated.
She covered her face and ran back to her store whining.
A year later, Da Chou and Tieshu got married.
During this year, Da Chou's hair salon was booming, and Tieshu's car repair shop was booming.
The most amazing one is Chunxia. Her Whole Sheep Banquet Restaurant was so popular that she opened a bigger restaurant while the iron was hot, specializing in catering weddings and funerals for local people. The wedding of Da Chou and Tieshu was held there. held there.
On the night of the wedding, many people in the town attended.
Originally, Da Chou also sent an invitation to Xiao Mei, but Xiao Mei didn't go. The protagonist of the wedding and the owner of the hotel were both people she didn't want to see.
Moreover, over the past year, her business has been deteriorating. She is so poor that she can hardly afford to pay for the food at her son's school. How can she still have the leisure and money to join in the fun?
The fireworks, music and the noise of the guests added some vitality to this lifeless town, but made Xiaomei's haggis shop even more lonely and deserted.
Xiaomei, who was restless, wanted to close the door early and go to bed, but there was a customer in the store who came and sat down since dark and refused to leave.
This sixty-year-old bachelor who was almost stabbed with scissors by a big ugly man is famous for his slovenliness, and his body always exudes a choking musty smell.
Xiaomei had already shown her dislike for him, but he still sat there unmoved and kept talking about Big Chou.
He ordered a bowl of haggis and a bottle of white wine.
The haggis has been eaten long ago, the white wine has not yet been drunk, and the story of the big ugly has not yet been finished.
The old bachelor said that Da Chou was not from the city at all. She was a native of the countryside, and her hometown was in a village not far from this town.
She didn't study well since she was a child, so she went to the county town to make a living at the age of eighteen.
When she was working as an apprentice in a barber shop, she met a rich old man who was older than her father.
The old man funded her to open a barber shop.
She followed him secretly.
Later, the old man's wife discovered this. The savage and aggressive old woman came with a group of relatives and friends and smashed up Da Chou's barber shop and beat her black and blue.
The old man didn't want to divorce his wife, but he still remembered his friendship with Da Chou. He secretly gave Da Chou some money and asked her to leave the county.
So the big ugly came to this town. Xiaomei has heard of this version of
for a long time. It is said that this version was first spread by Chunxia.
Chunxia said that this was what Da Chou told her personally, and Da Chou really changed his mind.
So Xiaomei was not interested at all in the old bachelor's chatter at this time, and what's more, he spoke incoherently.
He kept talking and smoking, making the whole room full of smoke.
Xiaomei protested with a violent cough, but the old bachelor didn't know what was going on and kept talking and smoking.
Xiaomei could only issue an eviction order: Uncle, you see it is getting late. I am really tired today and want to go to bed early. Can you make it easier? You can leave this half bottle of wine with me, or you can take it away.
The old bachelor stood up without feeling satisfied. He took out a hundred yuan from his pocket and handed it to Xiaomei.
When Xiaomei was giving him change, he suddenly hugged her, pushed her into the corner, and kissed her mouth with a smelly mouth.
Xiaomei was completely unprepared. She was terrified for a moment. She tried her best to push him away, but she was not as strong as him.
His mouth made her stomach churn, and she could only turn her mouth away.
She gasped and said, uncle, don’t do this!
The old bachelor couldn't kiss Xiaomei's mouth, so he kissed her face. Her face was covered with his sticky saliva.
He said tremblingly while kissing her, "Xiaomei, have mercy on my uncle. He has never touched a woman in his whole life. I know you want it too..."
Xiaomei threatened him and said, "I will scream if you do this again." People!
But this did not scare the old bachelor who was drunk and lustful. He was still kissing Xiaomei's face and talking vaguely.
Xiaomei was about to call when she heard the old bachelor say, "You sell leftover haggis in this shop. The whole town dislikes you, but I don't dislike you!" Xiaomei's heart suddenly became cold to the core, and she didn't scream out.
One of Xiaomei's arms was wrapped around the old bachelor's neck, and she still held the old bachelor's one hundred yuan in her hand.
She looked at the red one hundred yuan, and then looked out the window.
She saw a bright firework exploding silently in the dark night sky.
Her ears and eyes were temporarily disabled.
She suddenly said: "I want a hundred!"
After she said this, even she was surprised. She felt that she was no longer herself.
The old bachelor stopped attacking her, was stunned for a moment, and then started laughing.
OK, you don’t have to give me change.
Xiaomei said, no, I want another hundred!
The old bachelor thought for a while, gritted his teeth and said, OK, I'll give it to you!
He took out another hundred yuan from his pocket and handed it to Xiaomei.
Xiaomei took the money and let out a long sigh of relief.
After breathing this sigh of relief, she felt calm.
She pushed the old bachelor away, went over to draw the curtains, locked the door, and then unfolded the folding bed standing in the corner and placed it between the two tables...
The small town was still the same small town, and Xiaomei was still the same Xiaomei, It's just that Xiaomei changed her haggis shop into "Xiaomei's Hair Salon".
The door of the small hair salon is always closed and the curtains are always drawn.
People in the town rarely see the outspoken fat woman anymore, but they can often see some rustic rural men sneaking into the hair salon, sneaking out after a while, and then hurriedly Went away in a hurry.
People asked Mrs. Gao about Da Chou's current situation, and Mrs. Gao said: "What did you say? I can't hear, I'm deaf!"
Text/Efo Song
