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I have been engaged in the self-organization of the visually impaired and the massage industry for the blind, and I have had in-depth observation and contact with the visually impaired group, and found that in addition to the images of the visually impaired group such as "inspirational", "helped" and "disadvantaged group" promoted in the traditional media, there are other aspects that cannot be evaluated. Therefore, I am writing this non-fiction work as a witness, hoping that people can understand the common humanity of minorities and inspire readers.
Lao Jiu, who is desperate to make money, in addition to buying cigarettes and looking for women,
He won't even buy himself a new set of clothes,
He said that he would do it in his own power,
Take care of your family, take care of your brothers,
Therefore, he took the hard-earned money earned every month,
all gave to the happy brother's family,
and relatives who occasionally look for him to fight the autumn wind,
In order to prove that he can not only live after being blind,
You can still live a worthwhile life.
1
At two o'clock in the morning, a motorcycle crossed the silent highway, turned into a downhill intersection, and stopped in front of the shop with the blind masseuse Lao Jiu parked in front of the lights-out shop. His toes touched the ground, his thin body had a fulcrum, and he spun back, stepped out of the back seat, followed by a woman, and also jumped out of the back seat.
In the darkness, the padlock and the glass door clanged, and then Lao Jiu opened the door, walked into the store, and turned around to hang the lock. The woman raised her hand, and outside the door, the motorcycle driver nodded, and the car turned around, roared, and disappeared.
"It's so dark, where's the light?" the woman paced down the dark hall, her high heels clattering.
"Don't shout, come with me. Lao Jiu lowered his voice, dragged the woman through the hall, and led her into the third massage room.
The sliding door opened and closed, and the white light tube in the room cast a halo on the floor of the hallway through the ground glass. There was a rustling sound in the room, and the wooden massage table creaked. At first I heard three or two laughs, the laughter gradually faded into silence, and then silence is better than sound...... In the silence, the woman suddenly became annoyed and shouted, but her mouth seemed to be blocked by something, and her speech was slurred. Immediately after, the classic Apple phone ringtone rang loudly: "He doesn't wear a condom, what do you say?!" the woman said dissatisfiedly to the chicken head on the other end of the phone. "I'll give you some more money, don't be so excited. Lao Jiu coaxed with his usual procrastination and natural Hunan accent. The woman ignored him, listened to the instructions on the other end of the phone, and said "uh-huh" a few times, I don't know whether it was a compromise or a negotiation. There was silence in the room for a moment, and then there was the sound of a woman humming in disguise......
In less than five minutes, the self-buckled belt head dragged out a string of "click" sounds, the sliding door opened, and Lao Jiu walked into the bathroom opposite the No. 3 massage room and turned on the faucet. In the second half of the night, the water pressure is surging, and the sound of flowing water can be clearly heard in any corner of the massage parlor with a duplex structure. Under this background voice, the woman made a phone call and told the driver over there: "It's over, come and pick up someone."
This person who came back with a woman in the middle of the night to solve a physiological problem is called Lao Jiu, and he is my colleague.
In 2014, we worked part-time at the same massage parlor. This shop was opened by a Hunan woman, because she had been blind for a period of time many years ago, and knew that it was not easy for blind people to find jobs in this society, and she was also engaged in the service industry, so she and her cousin jointly opened this blind massage shop.
In addition to Lao Jiu, there are several other masters in this shop: one surnamed Wang, who loves the Internet and is friends with the boss for many years; one surnamed Zang, who is fat and prodigal, is a netizen of Master Wang; one surnamed Yao, who loves to gossip about other people's affairs when he has nothing to do, and is the only female technician in the store; and I, who is also a netizen of Master Wang, came to this store through his introduction, which is the first time I have come to the city of Guangzhou.
After coming to this shop, I found that the male technicians were all singles, and the female technicians were mostly married women who were dissatisfied with married life and came out to create economic freedom.
Many blind people find it difficult to find a suitable partner to marry because of their physical disabilities, and they become "old singles" after staying up, and Lao Jiu is a veritable old bachelor. A native of Yongzhou, Hunan, he worked as a blaster and worked in a quarry before he became blind. After accidentally injuring his eyes during a quarrying operation, he underwent eye removal surgery, leaving two hollow eye sockets, so he joined the army of blind masseurs in order to support himself.
He has the characteristics of all down-and-out bachelors: he likes to brag in front of his colleagues, habitually sells miserably with the people around him, picks on himself, is horny and thirsty for the opposite sex, in addition to dealing with call girls, he doesn't let go of the little daughter-in-law who has just arrived in the store to help clean and cook.
Lao Jiu, who is desperate to make money, in addition to buying cigarettes and looking for women, refuses to even buy himself a new set of clothes, according to his words, he has to take care of his family and take care of his brothers according to his own ability, so he gave all his hard-earned money every month to his happy brother's family, as well as relatives who occasionally find him to play the autumn wind, so as to prove that he can not only live after being blind, but also live a worthwhile life.
2
After the resignation of the last cooking aunt, the boss Ah Yan has not been able to recruit a new aunt for a period of time, because her salary is lower than that of other owners. When she was considering whether to raise her salary and then go to the agency to recruit, Brother Zhou, a motorcycle driver who often delivers meals to our branch, recommended his daughter-in-law to the boss to come over to help.
Brother Zhou's daughter-in-law's surname is Yu, in her thirties, usually women of this age would rather go to work in the factory than be an aunt who cleans and cooks, unless a higher salary is offered, but Brother Zhou said that she is willing to accept the salary of an ordinary aunt and help in our store.
The boss was a little puzzled at first, but after hearing Brother Zhou's sincerity, he asked him to call someone over first.
The next day, Sister Yu came to see the worker, and at first glance, her image was quite delicate and clean, and her dress was simple, just like a simple young woman. But after a few questions and answers, the boss somewhat understood why people were willing to come to take this job.
may have been moved by compassion, but she still decided to keep Sister Yu and try it for a month before talking.
When the masters of the massage parlor first contacted Sister Yu, they found that her words and deeds were a little abnormal, although her hands and feet were intact, neither deaf, nor blind, nor dumb, but when she communicated with people, she seemed a little sluggish and lacking in IQ, but she was not mentally retarded. After everyone knew that she had a mental disability, they finally understood why she was willing to come over and do this low-paying job, and it was indeed difficult for her to find other jobs in this situation. is also a fallen person at the end of the world, and the blind masters can understand her difficulties very well, and quickly accepted such a new colleague.
The work content of the store is to buy groceries every day, cook two meals at noon and in the evening, clean in the morning, wash the massage cloth in the washing machine in the afternoon and take it to the balcony to dry. Although Sister Yu's head is not very bright, she can still cope with these simple tasks, and she will adapt to this job after two or three days.
On this day, she went to the market early in the morning to buy today's ingredients, and after coming to the massage parlor, she opened the back door, got the key at the front desk, went up the stairs outside the door to the second floor to open the kitchen door, put down her things and locked the door again, and returned to the first floor, ready to clean the hall and massage room. But when she re-entered the back door and passed by Lao Jiu's single dormitory, Lao Jiu stopped her.
Awakened by the hot weather, with a soak of urine in his bladder, Master Wang slowly walked down from the collective bedroom in the attic, ready to go to the bathroom downstairs to solve it, but heard Lao Jiu at the back door promising benefits to Sister Yu. Halfway up the stairs, he stopped his steps, and he didn't continue to go downstairs until Lao Jiu half-pulled and half-hugged Sister Yu into the single dormitory and screwed the door lock.
For several mornings in a row, Lao Jiu's room was not calm, not only Master Wang knew, but also the fat man Master Zang and the mouthy Po Yao in the store noticed it.
One day at noon, Sister Yu was not there, Lao Jiu was also on the clock, and the masseurs were making lunch in the kitchen and discussing this matter.
"Did you hear that in the morning? downstairs...... Downstairs that ...... Hmph, haha...... "Master Yao is ashamed to say it." "Isn't it just sleeping together, there's something to say. Master Wang couldn't get used to her look like she wanted to gossip and was still pretentious.
"Hmm...... Cough...... cough cough...... "Master Zang made a serious look while swallowing the rice, and straightened his huge belly. "Say whatever you want, don't chirp. "Master Wang can't get used to his hypocritical appearance of being a decent man and a gentleman. "I've heard it too, it's not the first time. Master Zang was loaded, pointing at Sang and scolding Huaidi, but he didn't dare to mention half a word of Lao Jiu.
Master Wang listened impatiently: "One is willing to fight, the other is willing to suffer, what do you care?" "But people have intellectual problems, isn't this bullying?" Master Yao said sympathetically. Master Wang was silent. "This person, people are doing it, the sky is watching......" Master Zang buried his head and muttered, and poured half a pot of rice into his stomach after speaking.
Lao Jiu was proud, but in less than a month, the boss didn't know whether he felt that Sister Yu was reluctant to work, or found out about her and Lao Jiu's reluctance, or dismissed her. Brother Zhou was still delivering food to the branch, when he came to receive the food delivered in the past, he bumped into Lao Jiu in the kitchen, he greeted him as usual, but Lao Jiu smiled so loudly, hurriedly answered, turned around and left, and was very embarrassed.
Brother Zhou didn't know what was going on, but he didn't think much about it, although the boss didn't leave his daughter-in-law, he also understood the difficulties of the boss, and he didn't complain, he still continued to deliver food to others. Ignoring Lao Jiu's abnormal reaction, he went downstairs with his food and rode his small motorcycle.
Lao Jiu came to the door of the store, lit a cigarette, squatted on the side of the road, listened to the sound of the motorcycle motor in the distance at the back door, and smoked silently. The cars and pedestrians hurrying in front of you seem to be the existence of another world.
3
The bullshit in the massage parlor is still staged, and a week after Sister Yu left, there is still no new cooking aunt in the massage parlor, and the boss personally cooks for the chefs for the time being.
That night, after dinner, Master Zang answered a phone call, and then he was a little restless.
The boss cleaned the wok, locked the kitchen door, and returned to the cashier downstairs, where he saw Master Zang spinning around in front of the cashier, looking preoccupied.
He heard the boss open the drawer, put down the key, pushed the drawer up again, and started to play with the phone, after a while, he embarrassedly came to the front of the stage, grabbed the table and told the boss that his girlfriend was coming over the next day, and came in a hurry, and couldn't find a place to live for a while, and asked the boss if he could let his girlfriend live in the store.
The boss was silent, thinking that it didn't matter much if he just stayed for a few days. So I asked him a few words about his girlfriend slowly, and when he saw that he was still honest, he nodded in approval.
Zang Fatzi's girlfriend's surname is Tao, and she is also a masseuse. When she first arrived at the store, she was wearing a knee-length white skirt, big braids, and a large suitcase.
On the first night, Master Zang didn't dare to let her sleep in the massage room, and the women's bedroom was not cleaned up, and Master Yao lived in it, so she and his girlfriend were squeezed together, and Master Yao was probably not happy. So, on the first night, Master Zang arranged her to her bed.
The men's bedroom was originally a semi-open attic, with a bed near the staircase where Master Wang lived, and a bunk bed on the left and right sides near the railing, with a two-meter-wide aisle in between, and curtains hung on the periphery of the two beds, barely blocking some of the beds.
Zang Fatzi and Master Tao slept together on the left bed tonight. There are luggage on the top bunk and under the bed, and two adults of one hundred and eighty pounds are pressed on the lower bunk, and if they move one at will, the bed frame will also make a sound. In the first half of the night, everyone was safe, and in the second half of the night, there was some movement in the dormitory.
Usually, at this point, Master Wang will finish his supper, put on his headphones, hold the keyboard and lean on the bed and start surfing the Internet, and tonight is no exception. In addition to the sound of clattering and beating, Zang Fat's bed frame swayed rhythmically, and although the restrained wheezing was an understatement, the weak bed board was barely supporting, which could withstand the shock of more than 300 catties. As if to not disturb this harmonious serenade, the crisp key tapping has become low and gentle.
Master Tao still has a little eyesight, and the next morning, she took Zang Fatzi out shopping and bought some daily necessities. After the two returned, Zang Fatzi enthusiastically introduced her girlfriend to her colleagues in the store, so that she and everyone could get to know each other.
At noon, the two were like "newlyweds", and they went out to eat together again. Seeing that people were in and out of pairs, at the dinner table, Master Yao said to Master Wang: "Eh, I didn't expect that Zang Fatzi's virtue could still find a girlfriend, what is the origin of this woman?" Master Wang pouted: "Cut, what kind of girlfriend, it's this old boy's romantic debt." ”
When Master Yao heard him say this, he immediately became energetic: "Hurry up and tell me, what's going on?"
In fact, long before Master Tao came to find Zang Fatman, Master Wang had heard Fat Man mention this woman.
Master Zang is a native of Zhanjiang, Guangdong, and has attended a junior college for acupuncture, and is half of the blind masseurs with a high degree of education. After graduation, he was full of spirits and ran to many cities, as far as Shandong, as far as Luoyang, Henan Province, in the Central Plains.
He has worked in many cities, and he is also active on the YY chat room platform, with a good mouth and a bright singing voice, he has not only gained a little popularity, but also captured the hearts of many lonely women. Female netizens appreciated his talent, and female colleagues were moved by his sweet words. Some women who are dissatisfied with their married life, or lonely women who are tormented by feelings and marriages, often get his comfort, and when they come and go, they breed a secret relationship between men and women with him. And this Tao master is one of the heroines of his many relationships.
The two were originally a dewy couple who met on the way to work, but they knew that Master Tao was very unsatisfactory after marriage, so they wanted to find a chance to get together with their former lover again. When Master Zang suddenly received the news that Master Tao was coming to join him, the bits and pieces of the past, tender like water, couldn't help but come to his heart. The man's face and the fiery heart made it difficult for him to refuse Master Tao's tenderness. Even if Master Tao defected this time, it was a complete runaway.
The two met before Master Tao got married. After marriage, Master Tao had a daughter, but she didn't know what unbearable torture marriage brought her, so she was willing to hide from her parents and husband and escaped without hesitation.
Hearing that she was a married woman and a daughter, Master Yao sneered: "So that's the case, then this fat man is not afraid of his husband chasing him and beating him?"
"It's too late to be afraid of this immoral thing now, and I'm excited. Master Wang said with disdain.
Although Master Zang was elated, she couldn't get rid of Master Tao's hesitation and panic, and for the first three days, her mobile phone always suddenly exploded. Sometimes she would keep her phone ringing and ignore it, and sometimes she would pick up the phone uneasily, run to the door quickly, and negotiate with the person over there in a low and excited voice.
The boss did not delve into the reason for Master Tao's departure, she is also a woman, and she may be able to feel the same way if she is a woman.
The boss saw that she wanted to get along with Master Zang for a long time, and there was a shortage of female technicians in the store, besides, it was always not the case to let a woman live in the men's dormitory. The boss looked at Zang Fatman's face and proposed that she stay and work, not only to live in the women's dormitory, but also to let herself have more income, otherwise if she lived for nothing, how could Zang Fatman's little salary withstand the expenses of the two. The boss was kind-hearted, and Zang Fatzi and Master Tao also knew each other, so the two agreed after discussing it.
With an official identity, Master Tao moved into the women's dormitory. Master Yao was not happy, and complained to other colleagues behind his back, but he was also an employee in the store now, and he had to squeeze with her if he was unhappy. Master Wang has always been calm, no matter whether there is other chanting and singing at night, it will not affect his mood of surfing the Internet.
The summer heat is coming, and because there is no air conditioning in the bedroom, the long night is so hot that everyone can only get up and count mosquitoes. And the figures of Zang Fatzi and Master Tao are most afraid of this kind of hot weather, which is hot all night like a roast pig in a steamer, and they are covered in oil. So, after proofing in the massage parlor, he and she ran to the massage room downstairs and closed the door to "blow the air conditioner".
Since Sister Yu left, Lao Jiu has been somewhat restrained, and has never shown a high-spirited look. It may be that his heart is calm and naturally cool, even if the weather is very hot, he still looks calm and calm, and never runs to the massage room at night to blow the air conditioner.
That night, even though he heard some indescribable movements, he pretended to be indifferent and advised himself: the mind is calm and cool...... The mind is calm and naturally cool.
Compared with other colleagues, Lao Jiu felt self-pity and self-hurt in his heart. As if in response to his long sigh, the cold moonlight shone through the skylight and gently fell on the floor of the single dormitory.
4
In the massage parlor, it can be said that Master Wang is the most popular among women, probably because his techniques are soft and in place, and his facial features are still a little handsome, and female customers often come to order his clock.
But even so, he had encountered something particularly troublesome.
One day, when Master Wang was halfway up the clock, he suddenly ran out with a black face, and said angrily to the front desk: "Change someone to press her, I can't press it." He threw down these words, and went upstairs on his own, like a powder keg about to explode.
The boss was a little puzzled, and before he walked to the door of the massage room, the guest pushed the door open and said to the boss: "There is something to go first, don't press it." The female customer was dressed decently, had short haircuts, and looked capable, but she couldn't hide the embarrassment and shame in her tone.
The boss saw something strange, but she didn't say anything, nodded silently, led her to the front desk to settle the bill, and watched her leave. The boss also knows such a woman, but the other party did go to the wrong door and found the wrong person. The reason why the blind masters are willing to take such a low commission and don't go out to do something out of the ordinary is because they still have arrogance and dignity in their hearts, and they are not willing to sell everything they have like the young lady in the color field.
At noon, when everyone was eating, Master Yao casually asked Master Wang, "Why did you have such a big fire today?" ”
Master Wang was not in the mood to joke with her, and said with considerable contempt: "Fuck, massage just massage well, your hands are too dishonest, you always touch and touch, and you touch a yarn! Master Wang looked ashamed and angry. Master Yao unconsciously held the rice bowl and laughed, her open mouth sprayed rice grains and spittle stars on the table, she said while laughing: "Other women also have needs, and you men are not the only ones who can enjoy special services." ”
"If you want to find special services to go somewhere else, is she blind or what, come to us to find special services, what's wrong with this!" Master Wang reprimanded loudly with his neck supporting the green tendons.
"Cut—you took advantage of it and said that. Master Yao booed him.
"What the can you call taking advantage?!" Master Wang pouted, with a disgusting expression.
Lao Jiu laughed on the side: "It's not good for a woman to touch you, I want people to touch it, no one wants to touch it." Master Wang laughed angrily, and washed it with a rice bowl, too lazy to take care of them. Behind him, Master Tao and Zang Fatzi looked at each other silently, and she picked out the pork from her rice bowl and put it in the bowl where he served the soup.
It may be that Master Wang committed the peach blossom robbery this year, and every three or five female guests did something to him, and he couldn't bear any of them when he was clean and self-conscious, and he blasted away one after another. On the one hand, the boss felt funny, but on the other hand, he felt helpless, after all, the lost guests are the lost money.
5
In autumn, Zang Fatzi's spring is not over yet. After paying his salary at the end of the month, he plans to buy a new microphone so that he can shine in his online talent show, but Master Tao disagrees. Now, both of them are in charge of their money.
The two first argued, then had a cold war, and then, one day, Master Tao quietly resigned from his boss and left the massage parlor with his suitcase on the same day. During lunch, Master Yao found that Master Tao was not on the table, and asked Zang Fatzi if she was leaving, but Zang Fatman was silent and did not express any opinion on her departure. The other masters felt the heaviness of the atmosphere and remained silent.
A week later, Zang Fatzi also submitted a resignation application with his boss. At the end of the month, he and Master Wang had a supper together, which was a farewell before leaving. The next day, he packed his bags and left the massage parlor.
Half a month later, because Master Yao was always beaten down by guests, and she often didn't comb her hair, didn't wash her face, and didn't pay much attention to personal hygiene, after many reminders were ineffective, the boss had no choice but to dismiss her.
As the weather cooled, business began to slump, and many customers were reluctant to come for massages after discovering that there were no female technicians, which made the store's income much worse than before.
The decline in customer flow not only worried the boss, but even Lao Jiu began to sit still, and often went to other stores to inquire about the situation. Everyone knew that he wanted to change jobs.
The massage parlor, which had a thriving business before, has gone through a period of gathering and dispersing in just one spring and autumn. Those who are proud and those who are unsatisfactory will eventually pass the test of time. Passion, desire, after burning out, empty things are a light sigh of human non-existence. Just like the Buendía family in "One Hundred Years of Solitude", loneliness is the root knot of all happiness and misfortune, or the biggest mystery of life.
Master Wang still works in that small massage parlor, wandering alone on the Internet late every night; Zang Fatzi has not met Master Tao again, and is still looking for it on the way to work; Lao Jiu, after all, can't get rid of the great loneliness, and continues to take call girls in the night when he can't calm his mind and be naturally cool, and at the same time asks people everywhere to introduce people who are suitable for starting a family; Master Yao is still keen on other people's gossip even when he goes to other massage parlors; and I, after two years of doing it, also left there, and I have the heart to jump out of the lonely circle of blind massage.
In fact, I understand that even if those of us who come out of the blind massage parlor can't see the road clearly, our hearts still yearn for sunshine, flowers, wonderful scenery, and a life that is not lonely.
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