Author: Chivalry
Nowadays, as long as you go out of the house, you can see barbershops large and small everywhere, now called a hair salon, it is very convenient to make a hair, ranging from tens of yuan to thousands of yuan.
In the 1960s and 1970s, in my small county, there was only one barber shop (state-run), and people often had to wait in line for a haircut. We call it shaving the brain shell (harmonic sound), and the villagers want to shave the brain shell, but they have to wait for the shaving master to come to the village, and shaving a brain shell is about 1 dime.
The shaver who came to our village was a 20-year-old young man who called a dog picker. At that time, the villagers' nicknames liked to call cats and dogs, and it was said that the names were easy to feed. Pick up the dog, every once in a while, pick up the dog tall, white and clean, Sven, although the blue clothes are patched with nails, but it is clean and neat.
Every time the dog picker came, he injected a dose of stimulant into the village, and he went to the open space in the village and ripped open his throat: "Shave the brain shell Oh..." The villagers seemed to hear the gathering number, and they came out of the house and came to pick up the dog.
"Hey, pick up the dog, it's been so long to come, and if I don't come, I'll have to comb my braids." "Hey, pick up the dog, don't come again, Jade Flower will run with others." Villagers, you say a word, I laugh at picking up the dog.
And the women: some take the soles of their shoes to take in, some take sweaters to knit, some hold the child to join in the fun, when the child in their arms cries, the woman has no scruples to undo the blouse, take out the tits and stuff them into the child's mouth, making the dog very embarrassed, quickly twist the head away. And they were more and more chattering, talking non-stop, and from time to time bursts of laughter. The hilarious scene is like rushing to a temple fair.
The picker who picks up the dog's shaved head is a shelf with a stove in it, a charcoal fire burning in the stove, a basin of warm water sitting on the stove, towels, scraper cloth, etc. hanging on the shelf, and a box at the other end, with three small drawers, respectively, for shaved heads, scissors, faders, scrapers, etc. This is how the saying "shave your head and pick a hot head" comes from.
I saw that the dog picked up with simple tools such as faders, scrapers, scissors, combs, etc., ten fingers moving, the movements were sharp, left and right, up and down. Tools take turns, "click, click", "brush brush brush". The villagers seemed to be enjoying a wonderful percussion performance, and a strand of hair fell down. After a while, from long to short, the face is new, and the exquisite craftsmanship tells the villagers, in fact, it is not all difficult to open the "head".
Picking up the dogs is like a trick, one by one: "Sitting down is unkempt, getting up is a white-faced student." The villagers who watched were stunned and issued a "sigh" exclamation, "Wow, pick up the dog, you are so good at such a young age, no wonder Cuihua likes you so much." The dog blushed embarrassed, lowered his head and smiled shyly, revealing two rows of snow-white teeth.
At this time, Cuihua led her little brother to stand not far away, and she has been watching the dog pick up, picking up the dog from time to time and smiling at Cuihua, understanding each other and tacitly agreeing. Cuihua was shy and embarrassed to come forward, because the villagers always joked about Cuihua. Cuihua waited for everyone to leave, and then led the little brother over to shave his brain.
Picking up the dog remembered last year, that day Cuihua came with the little brother to shave the brain shell, the little brother just wanted to sit down, she came to the same village Uncle Li, she hurriedly asked the little brother to get up and let Uncle Li shave first, Uncle Li said unkindly: "You come first, or the little brother shave first." "Uncle Li, it doesn't matter if we wait a while, you are old, you shave first", Uncle Li could not resist her kindness, said "thank you Cuihua", and sat down to shave his brain.
The dog looked at the jade flower girl, spoke in a voice as beautiful as a lark, and was as kind as a bodhisattva. After helping the little brother shave his brain, he secretly looked at the jade flower, about 18 years old, small and exquisite, with good features, two small braids on her head, wearing a white shirt, showing fresh and pure, there are two small dimples on the face, perhaps the reason for working in the field to bask in the sun, the skin is a little dark, but this does not affect her beauty, but like a lovely black peony.
Eyes looking at the jade flower, picking up the dog's heart beating faster, blood rushing upwards, this feeling has never been felt before. I thought: Isn't this the good girl I'm looking for? Could it be love at first sight? When Cuihua handed him a dime, she panicked and said incoherently, "This time... Forget it, let you... Waited so long." "How about that", Cuihua said, put the money on the shaved head box, led the little brother to turn his head with a red face and ran away.
Picking up the dog's eyes widened, watching the Cuihua sisters and brothers, until there was no shadow before he eased up, quickly packed up the pick, three steps and two steps, stumbled like a drunkard to the house, all the way full of cuihua's shadow. As soon as they arrived at the entrance of the village, they shouted loudly "Mu Ma, Mu Ma", and the villagers looked at the pick up dogs inexplicably and wonderfully: What is wrong with this, usually so quiet, why is it so crazy today?
The mother heard her son's hoarse shouts, and rushed out of the house in fright: "Pick up the dog, what's wrong?" What happened? Picking up the dog and seeing his mother, he picked the picker and said excitedly, "Mu Ma, Mu Ma, I have a crush on the Cuihua girl in LiJia Village, quickly call someone to give me a kiss."
After listening to the words of picking up the dog, the mother's heart was put down, and the pity helped the dog pick up the dog to wipe the sweat on his head: "You are a dead cub, yelling and screaming scared to death, it turned out to be a li family girl, I thought the jackal was chasing you, well, my son's favorite girl, must be a good girl, I will go to ask Liu Matchmaker, tomorrow morning to take you to the Li family to propose."
That night, picking up the dog and thinking of going to Li's house tomorrow to propose to him, he was both excited and nervous, and he couldn't sleep all night in bed.
Early the next morning, picking up a dog carrying a piece of pork and a package of peach shortbread, he nervously followed Liu Zhongbo and walked towards Lijia Village, half an hour to Lijia Village. Cuihua saw the shy face of picking up the dog and quickly hid in her room, while Cuihua's parents warmly welcomed them into the door, took the things in the hands of the pick-up dog, and invited them to sit down and drink tea.
As soon as Liu Zhongbo sat down, she gushed out her intentions. Unexpectedly, Cuihua's parents very much agreed with this family affair, picking up dogs with good character and good craftsmanship, and there were all the people in ten miles and eight townships. Picking up the dog, the happy heart almost jumped out of his chest, and he kept rubbing his hands with his head down, and his mouth kept saying, "Thank you uncle and aunt, I will definitely be good to Cuihua."
Cuihua heard the conversation outside in the room and was immediately overjoyed. Cuihua, like the other girls in the village, has long developed a love for picking up dogs, but the girl's family is embarrassed to confess. Cuihua has been refusing to be kissed by others, waiting for this day, today to pick up the dog to take the initiative to propose to kiss, it is really happy to fall from heaven, the Jade Flower is happy and broken, a person hiding in the room, humming a small song, jumping and jumping.
It really is: "The body is without color phoenix wings, and the heart has a sharp edge." Finally, the heavens are willing, and the shaver hugs the beauty!