The tricycle driver of the world

Many years ago I opened a noodle restaurant in S-City R Town, and when I was in the shop, I did reception work. Someone passed by outside and looked at the store, I estimated that he was going to eat, so he tiptoed and gestured to get up, if the pedestrians were looking for a place to eat, they would probably come in along with my welcome, this trick was my invention, almost tried and tested. When the guest came in, I gave him the menu, and when he ordered it, I shouted inside: a few pieces of a copy. Then sit back and wait for the next person; or if the guests finish eating and the workers are busy, I also help clean up the table. Probably, that's it.

But business didn't get better, and a lot of times, I was bored to guard the shop, and bored to look at the tricycle driver on the other side. The tricycle is the main means of transportation in R Town, electric, and comes and goes with a smoke kung fu.

There are four tricycles opposite my shop.

When the goat was just born, it also had a beard, and the newborn monkey was also wrinkled, and he really looked like a full-term monkey, not to mention the skinny monkey, the deep sunken eyes, the protruding mouth, plus the old face of the old bitterness, messy hair, living like a full-term monkey! The short sleeves on the body with painless abortion advertisements have become like paper on the wall. Deformed slippers, pick up the rags will not look at the second glance. This tricycle driver, Jing Hou, sat upright, reclining, sitting backrest, sometimes legs on the cushion, sometimes feet on the ground, sometimes squinting eyes, sometimes looking ahead, sometimes looking east and west, sometimes staring at the ground. When he wasn't yawning, his mouth was always muttering, and his face was always muttering, like the frozen soil of the harsh winter. It was hard to see an acquaintance, very happy to say hello, the identity is comparable to him, and will go over to pat people's shoulders, sometimes not patting, palms in the air an arc, the face is still very humble with a smile. Finally there was business, come to a car, the eyes of the light, lowered the head slowly turned the front of the car, stepped on a foot, a cigarette left. My eyes were still fixed on that place, as if the tricycle hadn't gone, and there was the monkey-like old man on the car!

The other tricycle driver, much like an old eunuch who was raised in the deep palace, looked at it from a distance, and it was very uncomfortable to fear. The flesh of the body is like sticking to the body, wet and answering, and the color is like bleaching unsuccessful. The other person was tall and big, his face was very large, but his mouth and eyes were very small, and his little squinting eyes seemed to be very deep in the world, as if there was a very deep water, and he would not be able to hide a lot of poisonous knives in it, and if I were a child, I would avoid him from a distance. Opposite the fruit seller was his relative, the stall owner's son, who often held him in his hand, drilled in his arms, put it on the seat of the tricycle, and played with a smile on his face. But if this child ran to his naughty, or disobeyed his intentions, his eyes narrowed, although the eyes were still very small, the child shrank into a ball, involuntarily, silently retreated, looking at this old man in a frog's pants, I really sighed, he is really like an old eunuch who was raised in the deep palace!

The third coachman, the Lord of Ben Iv! Very thin, look at the belt, it seems to be tied twice around the waist, small head and small face, facial features are also too small, piled in a piece, really crowded ah! A garlic nose protrudes in the middle, which is an embellishment in plain and unprovoked. He also didn't talk much to people, whether it was passers-by or nearby coachmen. But silence is not necessarily gold, his business does not seem to be very good, half a day no one cares, he constantly turns his head around, as if to mobilize the five senses to look together, look east and west, look for a long time, the mouth involuntarily opened, for a long time forgot to close, long, hanging in mid-air!

This fourth new recruit, whom I knew, had a storefront on East Street. The year before he rented the storefront to others, but people did not rent it when they were not well managed, he painted the storefront and prepared to rent it at a high price, but no one wanted it, and then the rent fell and fell, or no one cared, so he had to do some business, sell some drinks or something, and make a small fuss. He had some spare time, so he bought a three-wheeler and started as a coachman. He is the most exquisite dressed among the coachmen, never wearing advertising short sleeves, the usual glossy short sleeves are put in the straight pants, revealing 80% of the new belt, the pockets of the jacket, there are always bumps and bumps, probably smoke. He often stood at the side of the car with his waist crossed, as if he had come out for sightseeing, and like the beginning of the leadership of the car, the round head and round face were two small and very energetic eyes. But the spirit is not long, when you can't stand it, your eyes are also listless, blinking, and you start to get jerky! The mouth couldn't help but yawn, the legs were not as strong as before, moved to sit in the car, lit a cigarette, and in the smoke, half-dead looking at the silent passers-by!

Their three wheels are lined up in a row, and the front is the feng shui treasure land, and the streets and alleys are full of people. In general, the front guest has a supplementary position in the back, there is no need to compete, and the feng shui takes turns. It's their unwritten rule. To abide by the rules, it must not be squeaky, you can't ask in front of the guests, you are in the back of the head, even if you spit out lotus flowers, it will definitely cause quarrels, and even a big fight. However, guests often do not play cards according to the routine, not to sit in the car in turn, but to sit which one you want. As a result, those in the front of the line do not necessarily have business, and it is not certain which one has customers in the back. At this time, the one in front of you can't hate, the legs are on people's bodies, and they can't be tied to their own car seats, and the visitors can't be proud and proud. In general, in this case, he would grin, but soon he would close it quickly, his eyes would flash, and soon he would cover it with his eyelids, asking where the guest was going, his hands and feet were numb, and he slipped away in a moment. It's all a rule.

They stayed here, yawning for days. You may wonder how they don't play cards and whipp eggs, four is not just right? But it is not surprising that the egg is good to kill time, but once you come to business, it will be too late to throw cards. Guests don't come in order, they have to work on other aspects. Always pay attention, the eyes should be pointed, see far, see accurately, look at the people who have passed, whether they are carrying resistance on their hands and shoulders, whether they are women and chicks, whether they are drunks, whether they are fashionable young people or have just come out of the gambling shop with seven points of joy, and so on, and so on, and so on. This kind of concern cannot be expressed to the others. Be unconscious, yawn from the corner of your eye, and look out of your fingers when you lie on the front of the car. You also have to be alert to listen, and you can hear the movement of the car in the gap between the pedestrians. With the search to listen and see, you can't say hello, that would be bad rules. To greet is not a normal person to speak, only a little "chewy-to-squeal" from the throat. The most important thing is to hand over the eyes, lift the head to pass, the eyelids are raised high, the face is also tightly stretched upwards, this exaggerated gesture, guests will generally understand, lift the pants legs on the car, shout "go", a transaction is appropriate.

So you can't just look at their surface to judge who has a good business. Those who are flowing, those who shrug their heads, those who frown and frown, those who have fierce eyes, those are all superficial, and they are secretly competing. Once the business comes, the face is full of smiles, the corners of the eyes are affectionate, the throat is also moist, ready to whisper softly with you, the limbs and five bodies are instantly active, go over the handlebars, pull the handbrake, and the throttle is a dozen galloping away.

Years later I left S-City r-Town, and whenever I was bored, I sometimes thought of the four coachmen. Oh, I don't know if there are tricycles in R Town, and I don't know if the price has been reduced. Oh, yes, the starting price is five yuan, more than one kilometer is counted.