60s Splendid Life

Early the next morning, Lu Jin and Mrs. Qin went to the tofu workshop to take a look. The main body of the house was built of bamboo, surrounded by asphalt, and the roof was planned to be paved with thatch. Covered with a layer of asphalt, needless to say, the service life of such a house will not be too long, at most it can only be used for three or two years.

The main reason is that Lu Jin feels that there is a big safety hazard in using such a house as a tofu workshop. Asphalt and bamboo are flammable materials. They have to burn firewood to cook soybean milk every day. It is easy to light up the house if they are not careful. up.

But there are a lot of houses like this in rural areas now. Many families who can’t afford to build a house temporarily use bamboo to build a house, and surround it with a layer of asphalt outside, so that it can’t be blown by wind and rain, and the whole family lives inside.

So now that the economy is limited, it is already very good that their tofu workshop can be built, so there is nothing to be picky about.What Lu Jin thought was that after their tofu shop made money, they would build another more solid house next to it, which could be used temporarily.

After coming here to see it, he still made a suggestion, "Ma'am, let's build the stove outside and build a shed outside. If we have more people to work in the future, we can be active outside. Wait a little longer After a month or two, the weather will be hot, and it won't be so hot if we light a fire outside."

"What you said makes sense, so I'll go and tell them." Aunt Qin felt that Lu Jin's words made sense. All housewives who have cooked at home know how hard it is to cook in summer. Not to mention that when they make tofu and boil soy milk, people will have to guard the stove all the time. It’s okay in winter, but when the weather is hot, it will be unbearable if you stay by the stove. It can be cooler.

So Mrs. Qin went to the working men to discuss this matter. It was just a matter of spending some bamboo and a few pieces of asphalt. Everyone agreed to build another shed outside and build the stove outside.

After being busy at the entrance of the village for a while in the morning, Lu Jin did not forget to take the children to have their hair cut. When the two children came back from school, he took a few children to the entrance of the village to have their hair cut before they had lunch.

There is a barber in their village. When he does not go to other villages to cut people's hair, he will set up a stall under the tree at the entrance of their village. All the adults and children in the village who want to have their heads shaved come here.When I came here in the morning, I knew that the barber didn't go to the outer village today, so Lu Jin brought their children to find the old man to have their hair shaved.

Not long after February [-], most people in the village had their heads shaved, and there were not many people shaving their heads at this time.When they came, the barber was still talking to other old people in the village under the tree. When he saw them saying that he was going to shave his head, he got up and asked, "Who wants to shave his head? Sit on this chair." superior."

It is said to be a small stall, but it is actually a chair and a small box for shaving under the tree.

"The four of us need a haircut, Chenchen, go first." Lu Jin pushed his younger brother Lu Haochen over, and asked the child to sit on a chair and have his hair cut.

Lu Haochen could only obediently sit on the chair.

"What kind of shave is it going to be?" The shaving master's surname is Li. Li's surname is a foreign surname in their village. The old people of his generation in the village call him Lao Li, and the younger ones call him Master Li. The young children all called Grandpa Li when they saw him, and no one in the village didn't know him.

Master Li is also quite old, in his 60s and almost 70 years old, with gray hair, he is an old man who looks a little thin and hunchbacked.Old Master Li learned how to shave people's hair with his master since he was 12 years old, and he started as a teacher at 15 years old. He has been shaving people's heads in the village for more than [-] years. All the children in the village who are full moon have their heads shaved for the first time. Yes, the old people go to him to have their hair shaved for the last time when they leave this world. Usually, adults and children in the village like to ask him to have their hair shaved. This barber master has decades of craftsmanship, which is also quite good.

Old Master Li picked up a washed-white bib hanging on the back of the chair, shook it, wrapped it around the neck of the child sitting on the chair, and stuck it with a clip at the back.

"Just shave it shorter and shovel it into a small crew cut." Lu Jin said.Anyway, the weather is getting hot, so it's easier to shave your hair shorter. Most of the men in the village, whether they are adults or children, have short haircuts.The few children in their family have not shaved their heads when they came back from the village, and their hair has already grown long.

"Then just shovel it straight." The teacher took out a comb and a shovel, first combed the child's hair with a small comb, and then began to push it from the front to the back with the hair clipper.

At this time, the masters who shaved their heads still used the old-fashioned clippers. Men shave their heads very well. They use the clippers to shovel from the front to the back. After a few back and forth, the hair will be flattened, and the speed is quite fast. It's time for a cup of tea to shave.

Sitting on the chair, Lu Haochen felt an iron object pushing back and forth on his scalp, and after a while his scalp felt cool, so the master who shaved his head took the bib tied around his neck Open, took a towel and wiped his neck for him, and let him get up.

"Okay, get up, who's coming next." Old master Li shaves people's heads with one hand, which is quite neat. He took off his bib and shook his hair, and called the next person to shave his head. Without rest.

"Sister, go, let's cut it shorter, the hair is too long to wash, just leave some to tie it up." Lu Jin knew that girls love beauty and long hair, so he didn't have to force the little girl to do it. He cut his waist-length hair short to look like a little boy, of course because he thought girls would look more like girls if they had longer hair.

Lu Qinglian didn't have any objection to this, she sat on a chair and let the master cut her hair.

"This hair is quite long. I'll cut it off for you, and you take it back and keep it for yourself." The old master touched the little girl's hair, tied it with a rope underneath, and cut it in the middle with scissors. The long hair that came out was tied up for the little girl to hold, and he took the scissors and trimmed it for the little girl.

When she got up from the chair, Lu Qinglian showed her little bundle of long hair to her brother, "Brother, look at my hair."

"Well, you can take it home and put it away. Will our little treasure come next?" Lu Jin glanced at the long hair in the little girl's hand, and asked the child in her arms.Seeing the child nodding, he put the child on the chair.

Fortunately, the children in their family didn't have much resistance to shaving their hair, unlike some children who had to be pressured by several people to shave their hair well.

At this time, many adults like to shave their children's hair and draw two Fuwa hairstyles, that is, leave a peach shape in the front and shave the rest.It's just that Lu Jin thinks that kind of hairstyle won't look very good after the hair grows out, so he still thinks it's easier to deal with it with a crew cut, and it's easier to change to another hairstyle in the future.

After the child finished shaving, he himself sat down and shoveled a crew cut. Needless to say, his entire scalp felt refreshed after shaving.

At this time, the price for a haircut is also very cheap. The four brothers and sisters only paid a few cents after shaving four heads.After giving the money and thanking Old Master Li, Lu Jin took the children of their family back home for lunch.

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Two days later, the house at the tofu shop was almost finished, even the stove outside was finished, and the shed was being built, and it would take another day to finish everything.At this time, the stoves in the countryside were all earthen stoves, which were made of mud and straw mixed with water, so they had to be dried for a day or two after they were built before they could be used.

The people in the village knew that their village was going to open a tofu shop, and everyone was very happy. If they wanted to eat tofu in the future, they could go to the tofu shop in the village to buy it.

Pork is expensive and hard to buy these days. Many people can’t eat meat a few times throughout the year. They eat vegetables and radishes every day. Although tofu is also vegetarian, it’s better than vegetables. If you eat vegetables every day, if you can have a bite of tofu once in a while, It can also improve the food at home, so most people still agree with opening a tofu shop in their village.Only a few people made sarcastic remarks in the back, saying that who would buy any tofu shop.

But when it comes to opening a tofu workshop, it is absolutely necessary to arrange people to work. Now the members of the village are counted according to their work points. Compared with working in the field, they must go to the tofu workshop The work became easier, so when some people heard that their village was going to open a tofu workshop, they thought of finding a job for their family members in the tofu workshop.

So in the past two days, a lot of people went to Captain Lu, asking whether the tofu shop wanted to hire people, and wanted their children to do things.

Employment is definitely necessary, but since Captain Lu has handed over this matter to the Women's Federation, that is to say, Director Qin of their family, it is not easy for him as the captain to intervene, let alone he does not plan to intervene. Otherwise, it was given to this person and the other person didn't have it, so when he found the person who came here, he said that he would not be in charge of the tofu shop in the future, and pushed the person to the director of Qin's woman.

So when people came to her, Aunt Qin knew that Captain Lu must have pushed people to her. She was not afraid of offending these people, and told everyone the situation clearly, "The people who work are full of hands. It has been arranged, and all the women in our village are hired to work, so that it will not delay the production of our team."

"Now the tofu shop is still small, so we don't need a few people to work. If our tofu shop grows bigger in the future and needs manpower, I will find people in our village." This is also what she discussed with their team leader. The production inside cannot be delayed, so the first thing that comes to mind when recruiting people to work in the tofu workshop is that the women in the village who do not work in the fields can spare half a day to work in the tofu workshop without delaying the work at home. If the work points are less, there are more women who are willing to do it.

Aunt Qin has been the women's director for many years, and she has always been a bachelor commander. Now that she finally has some power, the first thing she thinks of is the women in her village, and find a job for the women. .The men want work, yes, go to Captain Lu and a few small captains to arrange for them.

So all these people who went to the Qin women's director returned without success.