This female barber is very skilled

Chapter 9 Tang Qing Goes to the Cemetery

"The shop is closed in the afternoon, and it will open normally tomorrow."

Tang Qing closed the store door after lunch, and hung up the notice board.

The sentence Wang Carpenter slammed down angrily last night made Tang Qing not sleep well all night.

"If you don't listen to my advice, you will suffer sooner or later!"

Lying on the bed, Tang Qing thought over and over again about what Carpenter Wang said.

"You can't deal with them!"

Still can't make friends?The set is so deep and the mouth is still stubborn!
But you can't blame me, can you?
Our Tang family has been in touch with the Li family for generations. From our ancestors, the Li family only accepts our Tang family to cut their hair for them.

But he is one of the largest households in Yan City, and you are just barbers.

I know this well myself, except for the Li family's haircut, I don't ask any questions about anything else.

Why don't you ask questions?Then why are you pretending to be a good guy to participate in their division of property?
This is also a last resort.

As a last resort?

Yes, there are instructions from the ancestors: the top of the head should not be sloppy, and the haircut is the human heart, human emotion, and the relationship between people!
If I hadn't participated in it at the time, and hadn't lied that the family property would be shared equally among the three, I guess the old man wouldn't be able to survive today.

Okay, okay, you are amazing, you Tang Qing is not what you used to be, and you have become a famous celebrity in Yancheng!
It's a bit too much for you to say that, why do I want that title?
Then why are you?Oh, I see, you are trying to curry favor with that Li Zapo!

I please her?I lied to please her?Didn't you see her look at that time, wishing to devour me alive!

Hmph, don't think that I don't know the little things in your heart.

What's wrong with me?

You pretend, pretend...

I'm not pretending, I want to go to the bathroom...

Tang Qing talked in sleep with her dead husband all night in a daze.

Although this marriage was arranged by his parents, Tang Qing didn t hate him either.

As the saying goes, a one-night couple with a hundred days of grace, the ordinary she and the ordinary him have lived together for more than three years, and they are relatives, members of their own family.

For some reason, since he shaved his genitals for Mr. Li, Tang Qing's dreams are full of dead husbands, and Li Li's shadow has never appeared once.

Tang Qing was terribly disappointed when he learned that Li Li hosted those "caijiao" and the neighborhood committee director Liu, police officer Xiao Wang, and lawyer Gao at the big hotel last night.

It's not that she couldn't have the big meal because she wasn't invited.

Tang Qing is not used to the dishes in the big hotel, but he still likes strips of green vegetables and radishes.Besides, it's uncomfortable to have so many people sitting around a table eating and drinking.

Tang Qing didn t know why he was disappointed, but he began to hate Li Li a little anyway.

Li Zapo, what's so great about you?

It's wrong for you to monopolize the family property by yourself, even though Li Zhong and Li Cheng are not human!
Isn't it good for the three people to divide the family property equally?From now on, we will remain as a family in harmony.

Li Zapo, I don't want to try to curry favor with you!You never looked at me in the first place!

If you look down on me, just look down on me, I am still me, I should do this or do this!
After Tang Qing came out of the barber shop, he thought wildly all the way, and unknowingly came to Master Li's tomb.

Today is Master Li's "first seven".

Yancheng has the custom of making "seven" for the dead. Counting from the day of death, seven days are a "seven".It is said that after the "May [-]th" is done, the dead will really bid farewell to their loved ones.

Master Li, forgive me, I also closed your eyes to make you feel at ease.

They are so noisy, you are not annoying, I am annoying.

I really can't figure it out, the three of them are not short of money, why are they so fussy?

Master Li, Li Li has you as her father in her heart, otherwise she wouldn't be so sad, and she wouldn't just want your old house without other property.

Master Li, rest in peace. I will come to see you again during the holidays. You live very close to my family.

After Tang Qing paid homage to Master Li, he came to sit down in front of his husband's tomb.

Both Li Ye and Tang Qing's husband are buried in Xishan Cemetery, not far from each other.

Alas, sitting in the store feels slow these days, but it goes by so quickly, you have been gone for almost three years.

Don't worry, my son is fine, but he often asks about you, why did you suddenly disappear?
I don't know how to answer him, I can only smile.

I can't laugh?

why?
Oh, you said I look uglier when I laugh than when I cry, so it's better not to smile.

In fact, I don't want to laugh, and I don't think there is anything to laugh about.

Hey, how do you say I want to laugh so much?

How many times did I laugh out loud in the dream?
Nonsense, is it possible?

Alas, you come again!
Even if I laugh out loud in my dreams, it's not because of her.

What does her divorce have to do with me?

didn't you see it?
In order to divide the family property, the inside and outside of me who testified are not human beings.

You support my testimony like that?

real or fake?

……

On summer afternoons, Tang Qing was the only one in the entire cemetery. She sat quietly in front of her husband's tomb until the sun set.

"Huh? Why is there no sound at all?"

In the twilight, Tang Qing came directly from the cemetery to the old house of the Li family.

Seeing the quietness of the old house, I felt a little strange.

It stands to reason that today Li Ye's "first seven", his relatives should buy a table of wine and food for him in the old house, burn some paper money, and pay homage to his dead souls who have not gone far.

Tang Qing pushed open the concealed door and walked into the old house.

The old house was entered three times inside and outside. First, it was a tunnel paved with cobblestones. Walking on it, the sweaty body immediately took it in.

Tang Qing looked in. There was no light in the hall and the main room inside, and it was so dark that he couldn't see if there was anyone.

Why is it so quiet?
Tang Qing has been to the old house countless times, but it is the first time it is as quiet as today.

It's quiet, surprisingly quiet.

It's quiet, it's creepy.

"Cough cough cough..."

Tang Qing stood in the tunnel and coughed a few times. This was not to embolden herself, she was not afraid, but to remind the people inside that someone had come in.

The door was not locked, which meant that someone must be inside.

The old house was still silent and silent.

Tang Qing continued to walk in, and it got darker as she went in. She could only grope forward based on her memory.

When she was young, Tang Qing came to the old house with her father to cut hair for the Li family members on a regular basis. After learning the craft, Tang Qing came here by herself. She was as familiar with the old house as the Li family.

The Tang family has been cutting hair for the Li family since Tang Qing's grandfather, until the death of Master Li a few days ago, without interruption.

"Ouch!"

Tang Qing tripped over something, and a dog ate shit and fell to the ground.

"Who? Who are you?"

Tang Qing fumbled on the ground for a while, and found a foot, a person's foot.But no matter how much she asked, there was no response.

"Master Li, today is your 'first seven', I came here with good intentions to pay homage to you, you can't do this to me?"

Tang Qing wanted to get up from the ground, but she was unprepared for the fall, and the fall was not light, and she couldn t get up all at once.

"Master Li, there is no fragrance to guide you and no candles to illuminate you in this 'First Seven'. You have been wronged, but you can't hit me on purpose."

The older generation does not understand science, saying that lighting three pillars of fragrance can lead the way for the dead soul and guide him home.

"Clap!"

With the sound of the switch, the hall of the old house is as bright as day.

Tang Qing had difficulty adapting to the strong light all of a sudden. She shook her head, blinked her eyes, looked up, broke out in a cold sweat, got up from the ground with a grunt, and sat down on the ground again.

Tang Qing saw Master Li wearing a straight black suit and sitting on a Qing-style chair with a screen back at the top of the hall.

This Qing-style screen-back chair has a long history and is a three-screen armchair. People in Yancheng call it the "Taishi Chair".

It is said that after Mr. Li's grandfather won No.1 in the provincial examination, the county magistrate specially rewarded him.

Tang Qing didn't dare to approach this chair when she was a child. It was so dark and shiny that she was afraid. When passing through the hall, she always walked around it, and her little hands couldn't help but squeeze her father's big hands tightly.

Later, when Tang Qing became an adult, he came to cut Master Li's hair alone. He always closed his eyes when he passed the hall, still afraid of looking at that old chair.

Tang Qing also habitually closed his eyes when he passed the hall tonight, and then fell.

In fact, it was pitch black at that time, and it was the same whether it was closed or not.

But at this moment Tang Qing thought that she was punished because she closed her eyes and ignored Master Li's existence, and fell so hard.

Now that Tang Qing is sitting on the ground, he still dare not look at the chair, let alone Mr. Li sitting on the chair.

"Master Li, I told you at the cemetery this afternoon that I lied for your own good, for the sake of the two big brothers and Li Li, otherwise, would you be able to go to the grave with peace of mind? Can the siblings still be a family?"

Tang Qing sat on the ground and bowed his head to explain to Master Li. After a while, there was no sound, and he continued:

"Master Li, I really wronged Li Li this time, but I said that for her own good. It's better for her to be wronged than to be gossiped by outsiders, right? You still have to earn the money yourself. She is still young and so capable. She will definitely let you rest assured!"

(End of this chapter)