Source: CCTV
Suichuan News on September 4 (reporter Wang Yifan, correspondent Xiao Chusheng, Liu Zugang) "Master, can this shoe be repaired?" ”
"Can make up, the glue is not used, you have to hand it on the line."
But when he saw the shoemaker put the shoe on his knee, he pulled the bottom out with great force, turned around and took out a small steel knife, cut the upper of the shoe, wrapped the hemp rope with a hook drill, and tied it in a tight circle with a wire at the opening. With a little force, the thread immediately disappears deep into the upper.
The shoemaker's name is Xie Liansheng, famous, the son inherited the mother's business for 36 years, cloth shoes, rain shoes, leather shoes, and even slippers are also supplemented, because of the fine and beautiful craftsmanship, strong and durable and little famous.
"Grinding people" do delicate work
Since the spring of 1984, every day, Xie Liansheng has carried out the door, one is a shoe repair machine, the other is a wooden box, containing nylon thread, nails, glue, and waste tire skins. Some distance from home, the flat shoulders switch back and forth on both shoulders, and fine beads of sweat will appear on each forehead.
Recalling that in those days, Xie Liansheng just sat down at the stall next to the former Quanjiang Tax Office every day, supported the machine, and some people dressed in simple clothes came one after another with shoes, cloth shoes, sandals, liberation shoes, adults, children, the elderly, brushed clean, with mud, up and down the glue, the toes are broken, the soles of the shoes are worn out, each family is a big bag.
Xie Liansheng's hands and feet are sharp, the shoe repair machine is under his fiddling, the flying needle is threaded, quite obedient, forward, backward, left, right, start, stop. To change the heel, he first compared the size on the waste tire skin, then cut it with a large shear, took out a few shoe studs, "ding" a few times, and then used a file to grind along the edge, and there was no repair trace at all.
For the sake of his family's livelihood, Xie Liansheng left the stall at five or six o'clock in the morning and closed the stall at eight or nine o'clock in the evening, and worked fifteen or six hours a day. On hot days, the sun bakes. On a cold day, a cold wind strikes. In the event of rain, only a large piece of plastic paper is used to cover it. 20 years ago, he had a herniated lumbar disc and had difficulty walking when he was severe.
Among the more than a dozen shoe repair stall owners in the county, Xie Liansheng was the most "rubbing", others could do it in a few minutes, but he wanted more than ten or even twenty minutes. Sometimes, the customer handed him the shoes full of mud and dirty smell, and they were willing to take them, never abandoning them. When others have an emergency, he will cut in a line and quickly make up for others.
Xie Liansheng said that the craftsmanship should be honest and sincere, and the heart should be at ease, and we should not be too drilling into the eyes of money, and we should never be sloppy in dealing with customers. Because of this, the shoe stall business has been very stable and the reputation is good.
Mending shoes has both pain and pleasure. Relying on good craftsmanship, Xie Liansheng married his wife and gave birth to children one after another. Now, the son is serving in the army and marrying and having children, and the daughter is studying outside, and the whole family is happy. Xie Liansheng also bought real estate and stores by hard work.
The happiest thing is that there are talk and laughter among peers, and their happiness is harmonious, and it rarely happens to grab stalls, compete for business, and make unhappy things.
Idyllic years see vicissitudes
As the saying goes, a tube of peeping leopard. Xie Liansheng said that even he, a small ordinary person, can see the changes in the country and the progress of society from the shoes.
Look at the shoe repair tool, initially pure handmade, hook drill, scissors, glue, hemp rope, then a mill, file, and later, added a 20-30 yuan hand shoe repair machine. Nowadays, it is 200 yuan and 300 yuan / table, and the quality of shoes is much improved.
Look at the types of shoes, initially liberation shoes, rain boots, sandals, to the 90s of the last century, leather shoes, boots more, and gradually on the grade, into the new century, tourist shoes are also more, the price from dozens of yuan, to hundreds, thousands of yuan a pair of famous brands. Nowadays, people pay more attention to fitness, and different grades of sneakers are becoming increasingly popular.
See how much it costs. In the 1980s, the pair of shoes was 5 points, 1 corner, 2 corners, 5 corners, up to 1 yuan. In the 90s, the shoe repair machine repaired 5 corners of small holes, 1 yuan for large holes, and 5 yuan and 10 yuan / pair for brand cowhide shoes. Nowadays, repairs only charge 1 yuan at a time, and the most expensive (including repairing the sole) is 25-30 yuan.
Look at the payment method. In the past, only cash was collected. Nowadays, xie liansheng's booth is also pasted with Alipay and WeChat payment QR codes. Mobile phone voice prompts from time to time: "WeChat to the account of 5 yuan!" Alipay arrived at 5 yuan! ”
Look at the gender of the customer. Most women, accounting for about 65%, they love beauty, but also know how to maintain the family, can make up for it, can repair it, but love beauty will never be discounted.
Looking at the age of customers, most of them are between 50-70 years old, they have suffered too much, they have been tired, they have experienced going to the mountains and going to the countryside, and they are used to thrift and thrift. Hundreds of yuan a pair of shoes are broken, repaired and can be worn for several years, and they are reluctant to throw them away.
Integrity holds up the ship for ten thousand years
Craftsmanship depends on the fact that there are often "repeat customers".
In Daping Village, Caolin Town, 20 kilometers from the county seat, Guo Sixing, a 97-year-old retired cadre who had participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, has been patronizing Xie Liansheng's shoe stall for more than 30 years. The shoe was broken with a small hole, and he asked Xie Liansheng to make up for it. Buy a pair of sock soles, but also ask Xie Liansheng's opinion. Large and small, as long as it is related to the shoes, Guo Sixing will find love for this "old friend".
It turned out that one morning 30 years ago, Guo Sixing, who had left retirement and was keen to care about the growth of the next generation, was going to a school in the county to make a traditional education report. Unfortunately, the leather shoes he had just bought were taken off, which made him very embarrassed, who had always paid attention to his appearance.
Helplessly, Guo Sixing went to mend his shoes for the first time and happened to come to Xie Liansheng's booth. With a strong slow, fine, fine, and accurate skill, Xie Liansheng spent a full 20 minutes to glue his shoes steadily. Since then, this pair of shoes has not been damaged for several years, leaving a deep impression on Guo Lao, who has formed a fate for more than 30 years because of the "shoes".
Of course, mending shoes will also be scolded and angry. Once, a middle-aged female customer brought a shoe with a high heel and a little crooked to repair. When Xie Liansheng drilled the hole, he accidentally drilled the shoes and was scolded by the customer to the point of bloodshed, and finally, he lost 50 yuan before he stopped; sometimes, the customer took the shoes with a slightly worse quality, but the quality was better, at this time, Xie Liansheng only had a share of the loss. Although the number of times is not much, let me understand: which line is difficult to do, and the door craft is not easy.
Some people can't help but ask, with the advancement of science and technology, can such a business as shoe repair continue? Will it be lost? Are the descendants willing to inherit the mantle?
In this regard, the cheerful Xie Liansheng affirmed: "If there is a consumer group, there will be operators!" No matter how rapid the society develops, his generation will work until he can't move, and someone will definitely take over the "gun." He believed that shoemakers also had spring.