Putian female writer "Night Detective" old town blind massage shop
Photo: Chen Qiuqin
"Massage" is a more sensitive word, massage shops have sprung up in cities, and some indecent events often occur." Blind Massage Shop" is one of the collaterals, what kind of world does the blind massage therapist live in? Will a blind person touch it like a blind person touching an elephant? Or are they in the dark and have a pair of bright eyes? Following "A Putian Female Writer Who Came Out of a Mountain Nunnery", with a sense of doubt and curiosity, Chen Qiuqin slowly entered the world of blind tuinars.
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After nightfall, on the recommendation of a friend, I went to the blind massage shop on Victory Road in the old town. This massage shop has been operating on Victory Road for many years. The owner of the massage shop is a slender blind woman in her thirties. There are a number of male tuinars under their hands.
Friends said that this massage shop is quite popular with women because the massage therapist can't see anything, which makes people feel safe. Although we couldn't see it, before we entered the door, the hostess immediately stood up to greet us.
Blind people are particularly sensitive to sound, and can identify our location by the sound of footsteps alone. The hostess was greeting us warmly and I even doubted she could see it.
Items and price lists were posted on the wall and the hostess let me look at the selection. After settling on the project, she arranged for me to have a male tuinatrist.
Tuinars are also putians. He was wearing a red long-sleeved shirt and a mask, and the whole person was clean.
The tuina made me lie on the bed, and I smelled the sun on the sheets.
I couldn't help but sigh, "You guys are very clean here." ”
The speaker has no intention, the listener has a heart. The other party quickly explained: "I don't know, I can't see." I have a hospital identification that is a first-degree visual impairment. ”
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The gimmick of a blind massage shop is the blind person, and customers have doubts about the identity of the massage therapist from time to time.
"I was born blind, and I was born unaware of the black and white of the world. I'm the underworld boss! ”
His black humor eased the slightly awkward atmosphere. Tuina officially began. His hand pressed against my spine, the force passing through my fingertips, and I grinned in pain. After about ten minutes, the pain slowly turned into a feeling of relief and relaxation.
"Your spinal strain is piling up over the years. Localized muscle stiffness. I'll open up the bloodline first. Remember, don't sleep too high on the pillow. ”
He explained the techniques of tuina, saying that the tuina technique seems simple, but in fact it requires strict requirements for the position of acupuncture points in the human body.
"You are a blind massager, how do you accurately grasp the acupuncture points?"
He immediately retorted, "How can a clear-eyed person be accurate?" Do acupuncture points depend on looking? Can it be seen? ”
I felt the communication between each other, because of the gap between one pair of eyes. He should have noticed this, and then asked me slowly:
"Do you often see blind people?"
03
Do I often see blind people?
When I thought about it, I realized that I had hardly seen a blind person on the street in all these years. In the past, when living in the countryside, you could still see blind people on crutches. Later, when I moved into the city, I saw only the blind road, not the blind people.
I suddenly realized that I didn't know anything about blind people, and I couldn't see the lives of blind people.
I told him exactly what I was thinking. Perhaps because of my sincere tone, he introduced me to the life of a blind man.
"Except for not seeing, everything else is pretty much the same. We also play with our mobile phones and chat with WeChat. ”
"Playing with your phone?"
On International Day for the Blind, blind players operate their mobile phones during the competition. Xinhua News Agency data map
"Yes." He was sure. Many mobile phones are now loaded with accessibility features, so blind people can also play mobile phones through speech recognition. General online shopping, ordering takeaway, alipay is not a problem for blind people.
"It's hard to cook and travel."
Because of invisibility, blind people must have understanding and strong independent ability to learn many things. He takes cooking as an example, there are too many details of the ingredients including the cooking process that need to be confirmed repeatedly, and every cooking is a test.
"In the past, I was always busy when cooking, and I often failed. Now you can use your mobile phone to order takeaway, and the problem of eating will be solved. ”
As for travel, the blind massage therapist told me that he spends three months a year on travel.
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Blind Tour Group Source: Network
Traveling blindly sounds like a fantasy.
"Are you going on a tour?" You are blind, how do you see the scenery and the world? I turned and looked him in the eye. His eyes had indeed lost their luster, like glass that had been sucked hot in winter.
He let out a contemptuous laugh, as if mocking my ignorance.
"What blind people learn when they travel is hearing, touch, smell. Spring came, everything recovered, I smelled fresh flowers and grass, and felt the refreshing air. ”
"I climbed the Great Wall with my feet, touched the brick walls of the Great Wall with my hands, listened to the tour guide's explanation, and felt the wisdom of the ancient working people. Some things cannot be touched, you can only rely on your own imagination, you imagine what it is, what kind of state you have reached. ”
Blind man climbs the Great Wall Photo: Network
He paused, pondered for a moment, and continued: "Of course, I prefer to have dictated images and reading subtitles, and there are still few areas such as oral images and reading subtitles in China. ”
The lack is more than that. The hardware facilities for blind travel in large cities are quite perfect. In small cities, most of the blind lanes are useless, some are crooked, some are truncated in the middle, and even occupied as parking spaces. These are realities that cannot be changed in the short term.
"So you don't see blind people on the street."
05
He crackled like a poured bean and said a lot of words. I suddenly understood him a little. Blind people are not the mune we think they are. In a world that has lost its light and shadow, there are sounds and touches that nourish their hearts. They are also active in their inner world and equally passionate about life.
His palms were tutting on my back. I suddenly cared a little bit about a question:
"How do you grasp and feel about women during the massage?"
"You mean how to grasp sensitive parts of women, right?"
His bluntness overwhelmed me. I really regret asking such a question. He didn't care, and explained no one around:
"It's about ethics. Every profession has its own work ethic, and everyone should consciously abide by their own work ethic. We have breast massage and abdominal massage, which I generally don't do, of course, there are many customers who strongly ask me to do it, and I will do it. Women in modern society pay great attention to the health of breast massage and abdominal massage. I used to do more of this in Xiamen, Fuzhou, and occasionally in Putian. ”
He only explained "grasping", and I continued to ask with a stiff scalp: "What about the feeling?" ”
"Blind people basically only feel for blind people."
I can't understand it too well.
06
"True love needs equality."
Blind people who cannot look at their lover also do not like to be watched by their lover. He boldly explained to me the worldview of the blind, in fact, because of the difference in senses, blind people rarely interact with normal people.
Most blind people are only willing to make friends with blind people. Similarly, blind people only fall in love with blind people and get married.
"Blind people are human beings and need to live with dignity." He said most blind people want to be treated equally, but society will always take extra care of them. Sometimes care can also sting self-esteem.
I am reminded of the movie "Untouchable," which tells the story of friendship between Philip, a rich man paralyzed by an accident, and Dale, a poor young man who takes care of his life. Dale is not a qualified nanny and often makes mistakes, but Philip insists on choosing Dale because he is not deliberately treated as a disabled person.
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Special groups need dignity more than caring.
"Then are you married?" I asked.
"Not yet, I've been in a relationship a few times, a little blind, and each time it ended in failure. Every time I love her, she has someone else in her heart. People I don't like, but they are determined to take care of me, how can the world be so ridiculous. Sometimes I think about it, forget it, and I will settle down and live a good life. But really walking together, but can't get up, prefer to be single, life is only a few decades, how can you send yourself away? Go with the flow. ”
In the troubles of love, blind people are the same as ordinary people. Love can cross everything, and the troubles of love can also cross everything.
How to solve the problem, the blind man said that it depends on music. He would sing when he was sad. Other blind people also attend blind parties, where everyone plays crazy and vents their inner depression.
Speaking of this, he suddenly shut up. I wanted to ask again, but he told me that the tuina was over.
I think he probably closed the door to me. I lost the opportunity to learn about the blind party, and could only imagine, in broken words, through imagination, a group of blind people writhing their bodies, screaming and reveling in noisy music.
But I can never see all this with my eyes, just as blind people cannot see our world.
The hostess sat alone on the couch
I left the tuina shop. The air on Victory Road in January was wet and cold, and I craned my neck in my collar. Two women walked in front of them, talking and laughing, and the traffic on the street shot out dazzling white lights. What had just happened quickly became blurred, and I thought it was like passing by.
So I walked away without looking back and went back to my own life.
About the Author:
Chen Qiuqin, pen name Qinqin, is a native of Putian. One foot into reality, one foot into the illusion, words light up dreams. Words are her lover, inseparable, unable to extricate themselves.