Chapter 28 Section 1

1995 It was a bit muggy and rainy. Click, click, click... click, click... Xiaofen stood behind Sister Juan, secretly observing Sister Juan's way of cutting hair for customers through the huge mirror. "Your scalp is a bit red, do you often stay up late?" Xiaofen gently grabbed the woman's head, her hands were covered with sticky foam. "Red scalp can tell you often stay up late? Yes, I go to bed late recently." The woman casually watched the variety show "Dragon Brothers and Tiger Brothers" on the small TV on the table, and half-closed her eyes comfortably.

"Is it because of work that I go to bed late?" Xiaofen said casually, her eyes still fixed on Sister Juan's sharp knife skills. Sister Juan's movements are very fast, one knife after another, as if there is a spring between the two blades, the knife light bursts out, she really deserves to be the fastest hand in the barber shop.Hair fell all over the floor. "Well, if you can't finish the work in the company, you can't deal with customers if you do it the next day. But there are children at home and you can't work overtime, so you have to take it home and continue to do it."

"It's a shame that I can't report overtime pay!" As soon as the conversation started, the woman talked endlessly about the dilemma between family and work. Xiaofen's cavities overlapped one after another, her fingers skillfully controlled the foam to a certain amount, and her fingertips pressed on the woman's scalp in a moderate manner, sometimes increasing the force, and sometimes resting her fingers by pushing the foam. The hair has been clean for a long time, but washing the hair is definitely not the point. It is the "sincerity of washing the hair" that makes the guests feel that the scalp is treated seriously.

After graduating from a nearby business job, she has been in this semi-family barber shop for almost a year. To put it bluntly, her job is a hair assistant, and she is actually what everyone calls a shampoo girl. A pair of hands have to wash at least twenty heads every day, which is difficult for outsiders to understand. Car wash workers can wear gloves to protect their hands, but Xiaofen's hands are soaked in chemicals—no matter how mild the medicine is, the chemical It was just chemicals. After washing for a day, the skin on Xiaofen's fingers was wrinkled and astringent, and her wrist was so painful that she almost had no energy to turn the key inserted into the hole when she got home.

If it weren't for having a dream, this job would be untenable. "Is there anything else that needs to be strengthened?" Xiaofen likes this line of dialogue the most, which means that "this head" has come to an end. "No." The woman was very satisfied with Xiaofen's hair washing, and also very satisfied with her chat with Xiaofen. "Thank you, then let me flush the water for you." Xiaofen turned on the faucet and poured the water on the woman's hair along the palm of her hand: "Is this water temperature okay?" "Can."

"thanks." Thank you for this job. It takes three months for a hair-washing girl to become a designer, and three or five years at a slower time. Xiaofen has self-knowledge. She has been a very ordinary girl since she was a child. Everything she does is ordinary, neither good nor bad. Since the process of becoming a designer can be fast or slow, and she is so ordinary, this kind of person who washes and flushes her hair every day There is probably another year to go, right? Originally, it was impossible for a barbershop to not have a hair washing girl. If someone cuts it, someone has to wash it. Since I am the most junior employee in this shop, this kind of errand naturally falls into my hands.

It’s just washing your hair, washing your hair all the time, washing your hair non-stop. After all, it’s very boring. Even the dialogue with customers has become a part of the work routine, and washing your hair is like dismantling the same hair over and over again. Factoring math problems. After shampooing and washing her hair very proficiently, she can treat the guests submissively without using her head at all. Xiaofen couldn't help but use two things at once, wanting to secretly learn how her seniors cut their hair through the mirror. "What a pair of eyes" seems to be the only way for every apprentice.

Steal a little bit a day, and I still have sweet homework to do when I go home after closing. The homework is one plastic head after another.Xiaofen will remember the knife skills in the hands of her predecessors, while watching her dreams dance briskly on the head of the dummy who can't complain. Repair here, cut there, the dummy head responded with a faint smile, as if in affirmation. Starting from the little hair-washing girl in this small barber shop, practice hard and work hard, and one day I will have the opportunity to pick up the scissors to do the latest hairstyle for a big star, all big designers Isn't that how it all started?

"Then let me blow it up for you!" Xiaofen picked up the hair dryer and pressed the switch with a smile.