Chapter 110 Haircut

In the evening, there was an extra dish of steamed lobster on the dinner table. None of the adults ate it. One was given to Ma Lingling and her sister, and the other to the twins. read

Seeing that her father was pitiful, Lele broke off a large tong and put it into his father's bowl. Xu Dong was so happy that he ate an extra bowl of rice.

Early the next morning, at Xu's mother's urging, Xu Dong drove her to the grain store.

In order to celebrate the Spring Festival, the authorities urgently dispatched a batch of reserve pork to provide welfare to all citizens.

Xu Dong's family of seven received a total of two and a half pounds. This was because they had many children, so they received such preferential treatment.

Xu’s father and Xu’s mother only had three taels.

Even though I arrived early, there was still a long queue in front of the grain store. After all, pork has its pros and cons, and fat meat is definitely more popular than lean meat.

"I didn't expect it was too late!" Xu Ma patted her thigh and sighed.

"Mom, do you want to go to other grain stores?" Xu Dong asked.

Xu's mother waved her hand: "No, it's probably the same elsewhere. You can go back first. It's not easy to park here. I'll just queue up by myself."

Xu Dong tried to persuade her to no avail, and finally drove away.

After waiting in line for more than an hour, Xu's mother finally bought pork. The total cost of three kilograms of meat was 150 yuan. The official meat was really a good price.

As soon as I came out of the grain store, a young man came up to me and asked, "Auntie, do you want to sell the pork? I'll charge a high price."

Xu Ma shook her head: "I won't sell it."

"A thousand and a pound per catty, auntie, will you consider it?" The young man did not give up easily.

"Don't think about it."

Xu's mother was unmoved. The family was not short of money. How could she sell the meat for thousands of dollars?

Especially after experiencing the meat selling incident at the beginning of the year, she subconsciously developed an instinctive rejection of young people.

Seeing that Xu Ma was resolute, the young man was about to find another target, but he didn't want to be stopped.

"Handsome guy, wait a minute."

After receiving the call from his mother, Xu Dong came to pick her up again.

Xu's mother looked at her son walking towards her, feeling a little confused.

"Third brother, what are you doing? Our family doesn't sell meat."

Xu Dong smiled and explained:

"Mom, I didn't say selling meat. I just want to buy some more meat."

When the young man next to him heard this, he immediately shook his head wildly: "Sorry, I don't sell meat here."

"I'll pay you a thousand and three, and any part of the meat will be fine, won't you consider it?" Xu Dong directly set the price.

The young man hesitated immediately. He had already found a buyer before he came. The recycling price given by the other party was one thousand two hundred and fifty yuan, which was fifty yuan lower than the person in front of him.

But that person was a good brother to him, and they had other business dealings with each other. For a mere fifty yuan, it seemed a bit unreasonable.

Xu Dong saw that the other party was already interested, so he increased the price again and said, "The price is one thousand and fifty. If it doesn't work, forget it. Just pretend that I didn't say anything."

Upon hearing the high price of two thousand yuan, the young man threw his "brotherly love" into the sea and squeezed out of the crowd with Xu Dong and Xu Ma.

After twists and turns, we finally came to a van. There was a woman in her twenties sitting in the driver's seat. Judging from their appearance, they should be siblings.

"Xiao Zhong, who are these two?"

"Sister, they are here to buy meat. No matter what kind of meat, it costs 1,500 yuan per catty." The young man explained.

The young woman nodded clearly and opened the car door. There were two large foam boxes in the car. When she opened one of them, there were pieces of frozen meat inside.

"I have a total of seventy-eight pounds and three ounces here. How many do you want?"

Xu Dong waved his hand:

"I want them all, you can tell me a price!"

The young woman took out her mobile phone and quickly calculated the price: "The total is one hundred and seventy-seven thousand, four hundred and fifty. If you erase the fraction of four hundred yuan, you can just give it one hundred and seventeen thousand."

Xu Ma still wanted to make a counteroffer, but Xu Dong stopped her with his eyes. After all, it was a seller's market now, and the price was agreed upon in advance. Any counteroffer would easily anger the other party.

After the transaction was completed, the mother and son returned home with two large bags of pork.

"Grandma, what did you buy?" Ma Lingling came over and took a big bag from Xu Ma's hand.

"Yeah, it's so heavy."

Xu's mother smiled and replied: "I bought dozens of kilograms of pork. Now our family will not be short of meat during the New Year. Grandma will fry fish balls for you in the afternoon."

"Okay, I haven't had fish balls for a long time."

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After putting away the pork, Xu Ma asked her youngest son to take the children to get their hair cut.

The barber shop is not far away, only more than 300 meters, and a few people walked there in less than ten minutes.

There are quite a lot of people in the barber shop, but the barbers are also very fast, with an average of one person every two to three minutes.

the reason is simple.

Since last year, many people have simply shaved their heads due to weather and water shortages, or simply because water bills are too expensive.

Of course, this bald head is not the standard bald head. The main thing is to use an electric clipper to push it. It only takes a cigarette at most.

Only a few women who love beauty, or housewives who do not need to work, and whose families are not short of money, will choose to continue to grow their hair long.

Take the people around Xu Dong as an example.

Xu Ma and Yang Lina both have long hair. They rarely go out during the day, and their homes have air conditioning. They usually wash their hair only once every three or four days.

Occasionally when water is scarce, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law will wash their hair together.

As for the twins, according to the school's unified requirements, they had no choice but to wear bald heads every day.

Perhaps it was because they had been used to it for a long time, and sometimes they felt that baldness was good.

At least they didn't have to comb their hair every day, and they could sleep for ten minutes longer in the morning.

At the power company, three female colleagues, including Xiang Xin, a young man who always loved beauty, also had bald heads.

Fortunately, there were police hats, and the three of them basically kept their hats on during working hours.

After waiting for less than half an hour, it was the turn of Xu Dong, the sisters Keke, and the brother and sister Ma Lingling.

Everyone had their heads shaved, and it took less than ten minutes in total.

The barber shop did not provide shampooing services, but simply blew them with a hair dryer. If you wanted to wash your hair, you had to go home and wash it.

Xu Dong used his mobile phone to scan the code to pay the bill. It cost three yuan for one head and fifteen yuan for five people, which was very cheap.

The reason why the price was so low was not only because the haircut time was shortened, but also because of the low threshold of the entire industry. In theory, as long as you buy an electric hair scissor, everyone can become a barber.

The low threshold aggravated the internal competition and directly led to the collapse of haircut prices.

After returning home, Xu Dong first washed the hair of the two sisters.

The process was very simple. Just apply some shampoo, comb it casually, and then rinse it clean. It took less than five minutes. You didn't even need to blow dry it. It was much easier than before.

As for Xu Dong, it was even faster. It took more than two minutes to wash.