Chapter 540 Hey - dont say it yet!(1/5)
"Comrade, do you want a haircut?"
As soon as Li Xuewu's family of three entered the door, they were stopped by the waiter at the door.
She looked at Li Xuewu and Gu Ning and said, "You have to buy a ticket for a haircut first."
The rule of most barber shops is to pay first, and there are ticket sellers in the shop.
Customers can wait in line after buying tickets.
Xidan No. 1 Barber Shop is divided into men's and women's departments. There are long rows of chairs in the waiting area, but there are not many people at the moment.
But there were already quite a few people in the hairdressing chair, and it was obvious that Ben had come early.
There are thirty or forty barbers in the barber shop, and the total number of employees is more than fifty.
The lesbian selling tickets at the door pointed to the price list behind her and signaled Li Xuewu to buy the tickets first and then wait.
In later barber shops, there were teachers such as TONY, and titles such as gold medal hairstylists. In fact, they also existed at this time.
But at this time, they are called first-level technicians, second-level technicians, and barbers.
In fact, it is the level of technicians in the factory, except that people with better skills have higher professional titles.
The prices are the same regardless of the level of technicians, which still reflects socialism.
The name of the No. 1 Barber Shop in Xidan is not for nothing. The Jiaodaokou Barber Shop costs 150 cents for men and 350 cents for women.
Here? Double--!
Let's put it this way, if you make more than 30 yuan a month, you wouldn't dare come here to get a haircut.
It’s okay to come up with new ideas during the holidays, otherwise you can just keep two large bowls at home on weekdays.
At this time, mushroom heads, pot lid heads, and big heads are popular, and two large bowls are just right.
Otherwise, there are not that many people who come here to get haircuts despite the crowds of people on the street.
Li Xuewu actually just wanted to accompany Gu Ning to get a haircut, but Gu Ning was afraid that he would be impatient, so she persuaded him and bought two tickets.
His 30 cents and Gu Ning's 70 cents were exactly one dollar each.
They earn thirty yuan a month, and a haircut for the couple only costs one yuan, so the whole family will be hungry today.
You said haircuts here are expensive? But the waiter selling tickets said that there are no more than 300 people allowed on any given day.
It opens at eight o'clock in the morning and can be busy until dark.
In the past, the master would use scissors to cut my hair, and my fingers would be broken by the end of the day.
It was several masters in the barber shop who studied the electric clipper stubble operation method, which improved work efficiency and reduced labor intensity.
This method has also been imitated and learned by all barber shops across the capital.
"We have many cadres here, but few young people."
The waiter could tell that Li Xuewu and Gu Ning's status was unusual, but after all, they were both young people, so how could they be unusual.
However, the child in the male customer's arms made her look at it a few more times.
She is not blind, so she can naturally see that this child is not of Chinese blood.
But listen, the male customer and the female customer are a couple, and neither of them are foreigners. How did this child mutate?
She was surprised, but she didn't ask, let alone make random inquiries.
There is no shortage of special people in these forty-nine cities. In the past, we could often see big cadres in the store.
Ma Lianliang, Zhang Junqiu, Bai Yang and other literary and artistic figures also often visit.
"If you want to get a haircut, you have to avoid celebrating the holidays. There are many weddings during the holidays or May Day and National Day, and we will be too busy."
The conductor was a talker and handed the tickets to Li Xuewu and Gu Ning, reminding them where to wait faster and where they could choose their hairstyle.
Li Xuewu smiled and thanked the other party, then walked in with Gu Ning.
As soon as they arrived, there were already customers coming to the door, otherwise it would be a popular place.
"It's really not cheap. I didn't catch Master Zeng when he came on Saturday, otherwise I would have paid for it for just a dime."
"Let's change our hairstyle again. Don't you get tired of having this same hairstyle all the time?"
There were many masters in the women's department and there were many seats. As soon as they sat down, someone came to invite Gu Ning to come over to have her hair washed and haircut.
Li Xuewu kept in mind what he was here to do, hugged Li Shu and sat behind Gu Ning's seat.
"I think a hairstyle is pretty good. You don't have to think about how to comb your hair when you get up in the morning."
He started getting this thunderous haircut in the south. At that time, he had to squat in the hospital for three months and his hair covered his ears.
After the job change procedures were completed, the first thing I did after coming out of the hospital was a haircut.
He doesn't understand what hairstyles are popular in society anymore. He has been in the army for three years and there is no hairstyle to speak of.
Li Xuewu told the hairdresser that he would help him get a haircut that he wanted.
He just wanted to make peace with what he has come and live happily in this era from now on.
It turned out that the barber shop's master had a fashionable heart. The movie "Young Generation" was being shown at that time, so he gave Li Xuewu 37 points.
In fact, it is not just this movie, this hairstyle appeared in many movies such as "Secret Drawing", "Thunderstorm", "Yangcheng Hidden Whistle", etc., which were released in the same year.
You said that young people in later generations chase stars and imitate their idols’ hairstyles, and this era is the same.
Most popular hairstyles are inspired by the protagonists in movies or impressive characters.
There was a period of time when it was particularly popular to split the middle part, which is a 50-50 split with a big knife. The typical one is Xu Zhimo.
Later, people like Captain Jia ruined this hairstyle, and now no one has it.
"Most gay men like things that are simple and convenient, while lesbians want things that are beautiful and generous."
The barber wore a white sleeve and put a white scarf around Gu Ning who came over with a smile.
He looked at Gu Ning in the mirror and asked, "Comrade, what kind of haircut do you want?"
Now all that's left is haircuts. In the past, they could also get perms in this shop, with the kind of fashionable curls.
Later, when I studied at a university, they were all dismantled.
But Gu Ning doesn't have a perm, she thinks it's hard to take care of her hair and it doesn't look good.
"The sideburns and bangs are a bit long. Let's cut the back a bit shorter."
Gu Ning discussed with the barber: "I need to tie it up when I work. It's too long and inconvenient."
"I understand, your hairstyle shouldn't have been cut in our shop, right?"
The barber smiled and said: "Is it on the east wind side?"
"Yes, it's in the east wind."
Gu Ning didn't expect the barber to have such good eyesight. He glanced at the barber in the mirror and said, "I haven't had a haircut in a long time."
"Then give it a haircut like this."
The barber is a very neat person. He only needs a few words to confirm the haircut and then gets busy with a wooden comb and scissors.
Li Xuewu patiently coaxed his daughter to sit back and wait while answering her a hundred whys.
Li Shu looked at the barber shop curiously from the moment she entered it.
She had never seen anyone else cutting their hair, even herself, and Liu Yin did it with scissors while she was asleep.
You see, at home, she gets very lively when there are a lot of people around her, and she won’t even let her talk.
But here, with her little mouth pursed and her big eyes blinking, she just waited to sit with her father for a while before she started talking.
I couldn't stop talking about this, what is this, what is that.
Li Xuewu patiently talked to his daughter, not paying attention to the strange looks from other people in the waiting area.
The reason why I took Li Shu out to play today was to let her see more of the outside world.
It is also a world with parents.
As Li Shu grew up, the doll's features became more and more obvious and became more and more special in this era.
Li Xuewu had no way to teach her how to deal with this kind of gaze. He could only help her get familiar with it and get used to it slowly.
There was no one sitting on either side of them where they were, and everyone started sitting away from them.
Even the barber glanced over from time to time, listening to the doll calling the young man daddy.
Of course, Li Shu also has mixed-race characteristics, which makes everyone who looks over from time to time wonder in their hearts how complicated this family is.
Either the child belongs to a man or a woman and belongs to a reorganized family.
No one thought that this child was not theirs. In these days, who would be so stupid to raise a foreign child.
But they don't know that foreign countries were not taboo when this child came.
A child's inner world is sensitive. When she realized that the people around her looked at her differently than usual, Li Shu's mouth stopped.
She looked timidly into other people's eyes, but those people's eyes often avoided hers when they touched hers.
To be continued...