"No, no, I haven't paid it yet."

Ah Xiang quickly restarted the electric fader and buzzed his hair. While pushing, she apologized: "Sorry, brother, what you said just now makes sense. I was ignorant before I knew it."

Li San laughed and said, "Haha, I thought the buzz cut would be like this."

"Brother, the business in the store is really as you said."

Axiang pushed away the part from the temples around her ears, then picked up the sponge from the table and rubbed it.

"They are usually the ones who patronize me. Some of them become repeat customers and will bring their own sisters over. I have only seven people passing by and cut hair like you, Big Brother, and I have only opened it now. To be honest, I still want to serve you."

"Everyone comes is customers. Don't care about what they have done. The most important thing in serving is attitude. Be equal to your heart and soul when getting along with them, so your business will naturally become more and more prosperous."

"Ah, you said the same as Chen Feng." A Xiang was very surprised.

"Yeah?"

"Well. She said that people from several streets would rather not go to the shop on their street to salons and come to me, just because they felt that staying in me was like a normal woman who wanted beauty. She would not feel that she was so unbearable and was more relaxed."

"This shows that you have never looked down on them from the bottom of your heart." Li San said.

A Xiang carefully trimmed his hair with a comb in one hand and scissors in the other: "Haha, I was actually quite disgusted at the beginning. I always felt that if I hadn't had enough money, I wouldn't have come here to open a shop. I despise them at first, and I looked down on them from the bottom of my heart. I felt like they were scolded, "stinky bitch" and "slut. But after a few months of getting along, it was really not what I thought."

"What do you think they are?"

A Xiang frowned slightly and sighed: "Oh, their lives are actually hard, and it's not easy!"

She paused, "Some of these alleys came to Shanghai from the countryside in the past 990s. At that time, there were few places to work, and they were blind and laid off. They didn't know anything and could do anything when they first came. If they had no recommendation from their fellow villagers, they might not be able to find jobs anywhere. To be honest, they were not as lucky as I did. As soon as they entered the city, they met noble people and gave them a good job."

"According to a sister, when she first entered the city, she cleaned dishes and chopsticks in a restaurant. From day to night, she washed her hands until she had peeled off her skin. She only had twenty a day. In addition, there was another one, which seemed to be sewing and repairing in a clothing factory. It took fourteen or five hours a day to work overtime a day. As a result, the salary she earned was only one-third of the city. And once the city was recruited, they would definitely be the ones who replaced them."

Marrying a husband, having a child, facing the loess and facing the sky, such days have long lost interest for some women in the countryside.

Like men in the village, they were tired of the countryside, tired of the slow life that had been seen all the time, yearning for the city, and their minds were full of the urge to enter the city, even if they had no capital, skills, and education. But when they thought of the bright lights and wine in the city during their daydream, the desire drove them out of the countryside regardless of everything.

But when both feet stepped in, they were lost in the streets and alleys, and they would only wander around.

It was very embarrassing to wander around. They originally yearned for the richness of the city, but after entering the material siege, they realized that they did not have their own seat. They realized that a bite of rice in the village was so expensive that they could not afford it in the city. The dream of wearing gold and silver could only be completely broken. The most important thing at the moment is survival.

Survival forces them to look for food like mountain dogs wandering into the city streets.

After going around, they may have been hungry for several days, or they may have been tired of eating the trash can, and from watching over the abyss where they cannot see hope, finally reaching despair and being discouraged. They will inevitably go crazy under the temptation of a trace of flesh and blood fragrance, not caring whether the meat is poisonous.

"It is not easy to enter the city in the countryside. You have to swallow the pain that you can see and invisible." As strong as Li San, he felt inexplicably sad. He said in a heavy tone for a long time, as if he said it to A Xiang, or as if he said it to himself.

"The one who impressed me the most among them was a man named Xier. She was twenty-six or seven years older than me. She came to the Shanghai Stock Exchange six years ago and brought a child. Her child was very cute, but she was weak and hard to support her. The money she earned from ordinary jobs was not enough to see a doctor. Later, she started doing that. For a while, when I opened it, she would always discuss part-time jobs with me when I was free to wash my hair and give me a piece of it."

"Later I found out that the five dollars she earned in washing her hair a day was her daily meal, four dollars bread, and a bottle of tap water. A few days later, I never saw her again. At first, I thought she had too much time to live, but when people from the welfare home came to take the child away, I realized that she had killed her husband in the countryside and fled to the city. She was caught a few days ago, and when she was caught, she was diagnosed with AIDS."

Ah Xiang's nose "hissed" and sucked out her snot, and she said sadly with her trembling lips.

"Actually, her husband should be killed. Her husband is just a gambler. He does nothing in the village and is idle. He only knows how to gamble. He often goes home and beats her if he loses the bet. After the bet, he sells the things at home at a low price and continues to bet. In less than a year, he can't pay back his debts. The creditor comes to his house and he actually wants to use her to pay off the debt with her children. Finally, Xier couldn't bear it anymore, so he took a pack of rat medicine and put it into his wine bottle and killed him, and ran into the city."

After the story was told, she burst into tears. Axiang raised her hand and wiped the tears that fell with the back of her hand. She choked and said, "Brother, it's really not easy for them to fuck her. It's not easy for me to fuck her. Because of Xier, I feel that fucking them is not necessarily dirty, but the world is too dirty."

When Li San heard every bit about them, he remembered Aunt Li who supported him. Although she had never been to the city to suffer, she had already suffered enough in the village. They were both women and suffered in difficulties.

He was sympathetic to this and silently murmured the Heart Sutra that Aunt Li often recited: "Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, when he practiced the deep Prajna Paramita, saw that the five aggregates were empty and he survived all sufferings."

"Of course, not all of them are reluctant. It's better than chatting with several days ago. They all said that it's better to do this business, no need to work or work overtime, the money is easy and quick, and the money is more profitable. If you have good luck, even if you become a mistress, you will still be a good person, and you will be rich and spicy, wearing gold and silver. Bah! I look down on you from the bottom of my heart, although I had this idea at the beginning."

A Xiang looked like he hated her incompetent and said in a sad tone: "When I was in Sister Zhao's shop, there were always people like this coming to hair salons. Every time I saw them dressed beautifully, they were made of famous brands on them. I envy them and had such a life without doing anything. Fortunately, Sister Zhao woke me up and said: 'Don't look at their current scenery, they exchanged for their whole life, it's not worth it at all.' She asked me to learn crafts with peace of mind and live a down-to-earth life."

Life is colorful, gray and dark, and darkness is also color. Li San pondered for a while and thought to himself: "Everyone has the right to choose, but not everyone has several good options. It is only bad, and even worse."

Crack, scissors move, hair falls, and a pile of hair accumulates on the haircut.

A Xiang stopped and carefully examined Li San's hairstyle. She looked back and forth three times, put down the comb and scissors with satisfaction, grabbed the brown-yellow sponge, and wiped the broken hair that fell on the bridge of the nose, ears, and back of the neck.

"Now think about it, their lives are not like life. If you waste your money, how long can you eat this meal? Besides, if they don't do well and are prone to getting sick, the sick girl will be ruined for the rest of her life." When A Xiang thought of the disease she had seen, she took a breath without feeling cold.

Looking at her short-sized self through the mirror, her facial features are more and more prominent. Li San couldn't help but admire Shen Qingman's aesthetics and Axiang's craftsmanship: "It's so good to cut."

While dismantling the scarf, Axiang smiled in a vague way: "The owners of the two stores I have worked praised me for their good skills, so I have the confidence to open a store by myself. Besides, the business will be ruined, and at worst, I can go back to work."

She shook her hair and let the piles of broken hair fall to the ground, "Brother, go and lie down, I'll wash it."

Li San lay on the bed of shampooing hair, looked her face and asked, "Have you ever thought about recruiting workers?"

While scrubbing his head, Axiang said proudly: "I want to hire a female worker. Recently, many people have come to make perm, and many sisters in the alley have helped introduce them. More and more people are coming. I am the only one who washes and perm hair, so I can't be busy."

"You can try to recruit a female apprentice like Xier."

A Xiang laughed brighter and brighter: "I have recruited one and I will come to work these days. I want to test her for a while, and when I pass the exam, I will take it and teach her skills."

"If you recruit the first one, you can recruit the second one. If you recruit more, it means that the business will be good. Sooner or later, the store will be opened bigger and bigger. Ah Xiang, if you do this, you will not only make money, but also do good deeds like your sister Zhao."

The scene depicted by Li San made Axiang so happy that she couldn't stop talking, but she said modestly: "How dare you think of such a thing? Brother, what I want now is to earn back the capital as soon as possible."

Looking at the face of her age, A Xiang felt that he was not only calm and gentle, but also chatting with him made people feel a kind of equality that is rare in the huge Shanghai market. This equality does not come from the equality of origin, career, and status between the two, but from Li San's words and deeds. Every move contains a kind of tolerance, a kind of kindness to others, and a kind of compassion for the world. These may be the extraordinary that A Xiang could perceive from him.

"Brother, welcome to come again next time."

"must."

After these two words, Li San pushed the door out. He was once again shrouded in the colorful pink light in the alley. The crooked shadow followed him and then learned that he stopped under a street light outside the alley, imitating him to look up at the light in the city.

The shining light was dazzling, like the strong light in the scorching sun, which not only made everyone dizzy, but also made the eyes of women from the countryside look dark. They longed to integrate into this city, like earthworms breaking through the ground, enviing the brightness of the stars. But they should not rush around, especially they should not regard the darkness leading to the abyss as a road.

It is an unfair road. If you go step by step, you will only sink deeper and deeper. If you make mistakes again and again, what you find is not the brilliance of the stars, but the darkness of the night. But the mistake has come to this point, how can you return to it if you look back!

The sky is full of stars and the sky is full of brilliant, and the earthworms disappear at the bottom. What is the end of life? It becomes so miserable?

The next day, the sun shone in the city and flies entered, and it gave birth to a nest of eggs
Chapter completed!