My Courtyard Refuge

Haircut

===Section 82===

In the evening, there was an extra steamed lobster on the dinner table, and the adults didn’t eat it. One was given to Ma Lingling and the twins.

Seeing that her father was pitiful, Lele broke off a large pair of pliers and put it in her father’s bowl, so happy that Xu Dong ate a bowl of rice.

Early the next morning, at Xu’s mother’s urging, Xu Dong drove his mother to the grain store.

In order to celebrate the Spring Festival, a batch of reserve pork was urgently dispatched to distribute welfare to all citizens.

The seven members of Xu Dong’s family received a total of two and a half catties. This was due to the fact that they had many children, so they received such preferential treatment.

On the side of Xu’s father and Xu’s mother, there are only three or two.

Even though they came early, there was still a long queue at the entrance of the grain store. After all, there are good and bad pork. Fat meat is definitely more popular than lean meat.

“I didn’t expect to be late!” Mama Xu sighed, patting her thigh.

“Mom, do you want to visit other grain stores?” Xu Dong asked.

Xu Ma waved her hand: “No need, other places are probably the same, you go back first, this place is not easy to park, I just go to line up by myself.”

Xu Dong tried a few words of persuasion to no avail, and finally drove away.

After queuing for more than an hour, Mama Xu finally bought pork. Three catties of meat cost 150 yuan in total. The official meat is really a conscience price.

As soon as he came out of the grain store, a young man approached him, opened his mouth and asked, “Auntie, do you sell pork? I’ll charge you a high price.”

Madam Xu shook her head: “Not for sale.”

“One thousand and one catty, auntie think about it?” The young man didn’t give up easily.

“Don’t think about it.”

Mother Xu was unmoved, the family was not short of money, how could she sell the meat for thousands of dollars.

Especially after experiencing the meat selling incident at the beginning of the year, she subconsciously developed an instinctive rejection of Xiaonian.

The young man sees that Madam Xu has a firm attitude, and is planning to find another target, do not want to be stopped.

“Handsome, wait a minute.”

After receiving a call from his mother, Xu Dong came to pick him up again.

Mother Xu looked at her son who was walking towards her, feeling a little confused.

“Third, what are you doing? Our family doesn’t sell meat.”

Xu Dong explained with a smile:

“Mom, I didn’t say sell meat, I just want to buy some meat back.”

When the young man next to him heard this, he immediately shook his head frantically: “Sorry, I don’t sell meat here.”

“I’ll offer one thousand and three, any part of the meat is fine, don’t you think about it?” Xu Dong offered the price directly.

The young man immediately hesitated, he had already found a new home before he came, and the other party offered a return price of 1,250 yuan, which was 50 yuan lower than the person in front of him.

But that guy and he are good brothers, and there are other business contacts between the two of them. It seems that it is not worthwhile for a mere fifty yuan.

Xu Dong saw that the other party was already moved, so he raised the price again: “It’s 1,500 yuan, if you can’t do it, forget it, just pretend I didn’t say anything.”

Hearing the high price of 2,000 yuan, the young man directly threw the “brotherhood” into the sea, and led Xu Dong and Xu Ma out of the crowd.

After turning and turning, they finally came to a van. A woman in her twenties was sitting in the driver’s seat. Judging from their appearance, they should be siblings.

“Xiao Zhong, who are these two?”

“Sister, they are here to buy meat, no matter what kind of meat, it is 1,500 yuan a catty.” The young man explained.

The young woman nodded knowingly, and opened the car door directly. There were two large foam boxes in the car, and when she opened one of them, there were pieces of frozen meat inside.

“I have a total of seventy-eight catties and three taels here. How much do you want?”

Xu Dong waved his hand:

“I want them all, let’s make a price!”

The young woman took out her mobile phone and quickly calculated the price: “The total is 117,450 yuan. If you erase the 400 yuan, you can pay 117,000 yuan.”

Mama Xu wanted to bargain, but was stopped by Xu Dong’s eyes. After all, it is a seller’s market right now, and the prices are all agreed in advance, so further bargaining would easily irritate the other party.

After the transaction, the mother and son returned home with two big bags of pork.

“Grandma, what did you buy?” Ma Lingling came over and took a big bag from Madam Xu.

“Yeah, it’s so heavy.”

Madam Xu replied with a smile: “I bought dozens of catties of pork. Now our family will not be short of meat for Chinese New Year. Grandma will fry fish balls for you this afternoon.”

“Okay, I haven’t eaten fish balls for a long time.”

…

After putting away the pork, Mother Xu asked her youngest son to take the children to have their hair cut.

The barber shop is not far away, only more than 300 meters away, and it takes less than ten minutes for a few people to walk there.

There are quite a lot of people in the barber shop, but the barbers are also very fast, with an average of two to three minutes per person.

the reason is simple.

Since last year, because of the weather and lack of water, or simply because the water bill is too expensive, many people simply shaved their heads.

Of course, this bald head is not the standard bald head, the main thing is to use an electric fader to push it. After pushing it, it takes at most a cigarette.

Only a few women who love beauty, or housewives who don’t need to go out to work, and those who don’t lack money at home, will choose to continue to grow long hair.

Take the people around Xu Dong as an example.

Both Xu Ma and Yang Lina have long hair, and they rarely go out during the day, and the house has air conditioning, so they usually wash their hair every three or four days.

Occasionally, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law will wash their hair together when water is in short supply.

As for the twins, according to the unified requirements of the school, the two have no choice but to wear big bald heads every day.

Maybe it’s been a long time, and the two of them have gotten used to it, and sometimes they think it’s good to be bald.

At least I don’t have to comb my hair every day, and I can sleep an extra ten minutes in the morning.

At the power company, the three female colleagues, including Xiang Xin, a young man who always loved beauty, also had the same bald head.

Fortunately, there are police caps. As long as it is working hours, the three of them basically can’t take their caps off their heads.

After waiting for less than half an hour, it was the turn of Xu Dong, Ke Ke and Ma Lingling.

All shaved their heads bald, and it took less than ten minutes in total.

The barber shop does not provide hair washing service, just simply blow it with a hair dryer, if you want to wash your hair, you have to go home and wash it.

Xu Dong paid the bill by scanning the QR code with his mobile phone. It costs three yuan for the first person and fifteen yuan for five people, which is quite cheap.

The reason why the price is so low is not only the shorter haircut time, but also the low threshold of the entire industry. In theory, everyone can become a hairdresser as long as they buy an electric pusher.

The low threshold aggravated the involution, which directly led to the collapse of haircut prices.

Back home, Xu Dong first helped the two sisters, Ke Ke, to wash their hair.

The process is very simple, just apply some shampoo, grab your hair casually, and then rinse it off. It takes less than five minutes before and after, and you don’t even need to blow dry it. It saves a lot of trouble than before.

As for Xu Dong’s side, the speed is faster, and it can be washed in just over two minutes.