Hong Kong Comprehensive: Who said that those who practice martial arts have no money?

Chapter 138 Happy, Diao Lan, Duan Yingfeng
Orchid Electrical Development Shop.

"The boss hasn't gotten up yet, so you can take a look first."

Xinxin hugged the enamel basin with her right hand, and while talking, she quickly packed away the towels used by the customers in the store.

Ah Quan looked around the store with curiosity like a baby.

"Is this your first time calling Fapu?"

Xinxin asked with a smile.

Hair salon, a trendy barber shop.Compared with the washing, cutting and blow-drying in traditional barber shops, electric hair salons can provide services such as perming and hair dyeing, which are very popular among urban beauties.

"Yeah, I used to go to barber shops, and they didn't have these novelty things."

Ah Quan nodded and looked at what looked like hair on the chair.

"This is a wig, worn on the head." Xinxin said.

".is that so?"

Ah Quan hesitantly took the wig and put it on his head. His short hair suddenly turned into long golden wavy shoulder-length hair.

When Xinxin saw this, he couldn't help but smile: "Brother Quan, this is for women."

"Oh"

Aquan looked back and saw his long hair shawl in the mirror. He was startled and quickly took off his wig.

"Ha ha."

Xinxin's eyes curved into crescent shapes and she smiled even happier.

Ah Quan scratched his head in embarrassment. Seeing the girl's happy smile, his face froze and he subconsciously said: "Xinxin, you are really cheerful."

"I used to hear people say that the most important thing for people is to be happy. If you are not happy about something, your life will be very tiring."

The girl tucked a few stray hairs from her forehead behind her ears and said solemnly, with a serious look on her face.

"Brother Quan, I see that you seem to be worried a lot. This is not good. If you smile more, you will feel much better. Look at me, although I have a gambling dad, I have to go to school, and I have to work a few jobs. Work. But as long as you have hope in your heart, you can face life calmly."

At the end of the sentence, the girl clenched her white fists as if to cheer herself up.

Ah Quan did not answer, thinking over and over again what the girl had said. His heart was shaken, and he unconsciously murmured:

".Maybe you're right."

The girl packed the towel and didn't notice the look on A-quan's face.

"Come on. I'll help you."

After a while, Ah Quan came back to his senses, rolled up his sleeves and hurriedly stepped forward to help.

"Brother Quan, please help me wash these towels and dry them. I'm going to be late for school."

Ah Quan scrubbed the towel and agreed cheerfully without raising his head:

"Of course it's no problem. You go to school and leave this to me."

"Thank you, Brother Quan. When I get out of school, I will bring you a piece of sugar cake."

The girl said happily, stood up and hurriedly ran out of the store.

Ah Quan raised his eyes and watched the girl's back disappear outside the store, grinning unconsciously.

He suddenly realized that he felt much happier after just spending a few hours with Xinxin.

He seems to be smiling more than before.
Shaking his head, Ah Quan put away his thoughts, put his right hand into the basin, fished out the towel, held both ends, and twisted his arms into elbows.

The squeezed water dripped down the arm into the basin.

And so on, until the last towel is wrung out.

At this time, the sound of high heels came from the store.

Ah Quan left the shampoo room and was met by a woman walking in, covering her cheek.

The woman's hair was pulled back into a bun, wearing a colorful sleeveless blouse, blue jeans, and a pair of black high heels. She looked like a 60s urban beauty.

It should be the boss that Xinxin talks about.

Ah Quan looked at the woman, opened his mouth and said hello: "Good morning."

The woman looked up, and her eyes suddenly lit up. She thought she was a customer entering the store, and walked over with enthusiasm.

"boss"

Without waiting for Ah Quan to speak, she pulled him over and walked to the chair next to him.

"It's my first time calling Fapu."

As she spoke, she pressed Ah Quan onto the chair.

“Although this is my first time calling a hair salon, I’m not here for a perm.”

Ah Quan tried his best to explain, but before he could finish speaking, the woman had already quickly applied foam to his upper lip.

Immediately, words like fried beans rang in Ah Quan’s ears:

"You don't want to get a perm? You can also wash your hair, get a haircut, and shave your beard. Now, let me wash your hair and massage it for you first. Your beard will be shaved clean and refreshing. The whole package only costs two yuan, which is very cheap. Yes."

As she said that, the woman took the red scarf on the side and tied it around Ah Quan's neck.

But Ah Quan jumped up when he heard the price mentioned by the woman.

"What did you say? Two dollars?!"

"Isn't it a good deal?"

The woman took the shampoo on the side and poured it on Ah's fist.

Looking at the woman washing his hair, Ah Quan said helplessly:
"Miss, I think you are really mistaken. I am not here to cut your hair. I was introduced by Xinxin to help you look after the store in the evening."

Before the words were spoken, the enthusiasm on the woman's face instantly subsided, she grabbed a fistful of A'quan's hair and bit her silver teeth.

"What did you say?"

"It hurts, let go."

"You're not here to pretend to be cool. Why didn't you tell me earlier? How dare you come to show me off?"

"You didn't even wait for me to finish."

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The woman didn't speak, snorted coldly, let go of her hands, turned around and grabbed a red towel to wipe her hands.

"You're crazy, you crazy woman."

Ah Quan held his head with both hands and grinned in pain.

After a while, he looked at himself in the mirror with his head full of foam, opened his mouth and asked:
"Where to go for a head start?"

"Wow, you still want to rinse your head without money. Water is free of charge."

The woman pointed outside: "If you want to take a shower, just go to the public water pipe outside."

Ah Quan buried his head and prepared to walk out, but was blocked by a woman.

"Don't even think about leaving without giving me money. Even if I don't charge you two yuan, you still have to pay me one yuan."

Ah Quan looked at the aggressive-looking woman with her hands on her hips and muttered:

"Who is this? Washing, cutting, blowing, and massaging. You didn't do anything. How can you collect a piece of it?"

"The landlady's name is Diao Lan, so she is naturally making things difficult for others!"

As the words came, a short-haired woman wearing gray cloth walked in with a smile.

"So your name is Diao Lan. No wonder you live up to your name."

Ah Quan looked at the woman standing in front of him, refusing to give in, and said helplessly:
"Okay, I'm afraid of you. You can wash my hair for me and I'll give you the money."

"If you have money, take it out as soon as possible."

Diao Lan put on a smiling face.

"Come on, I've just finished washing my hair and ask Mrs. Bi to take you to her husband's place to help you find a job."

Ah Quan interrupted her:
"Xinxin asked me to come to your store to apply for the job of looking after the store at night?"

Hearing this, Diao Lan looked A'quan up and down and said in an exaggerated tone:
"Wow, aren't you? The salary for looking after a shop at night is very low. As a man, of course you should earn more. You can work during the day and look after the shop at night."

"I came to the Walled City to find someone. I don't have time to work during the day." Aquan said quickly.

Hearing this, Diao Lan looked at him angrily, with his hands on his hips and a harsh tone.

"You can tell by your appearance that you don't have much money. Where will you get the money if you don't work? You're using it as an excuse to find someone. You're not an old man. You won't be looking for someone while working." Aquan opened his mouth to refute, but remembered that there was nothing else in his pocket. Li An lent him the 200 yuan, but he was penniless and was speechless for a while.

"What are you doing standing there in a daze? Come over here and attack me. You still want me to treat you?"

Diao Lan spat and turned to look at the woman beside her who was covering her mouth and laughing softly.

"Sister-in-law Bi, take him to your husband's house later and help him find a job."

"No problem, Diao Lan."

Ten minutes later, Ah Quan and Bi Sao walked out of the hair salon.

Seeing Ah Quan's sad face next to her, Mrs. Bi couldn't help laughing.

"Don't be angry. In fact, Diao Lan is hard-spoken and soft-hearted, otherwise he wouldn't have thought of asking my husband to help you find a job."

"I know, Xinxin told me about it. There's just something about that."

Ah Quan replied somewhat gloomily.

"A bit aggressive." Mrs. Bi smiled and took over his words.

Ah Quan immediately said: "Sister-in-law Bi, I didn't say that."

"But you have to know, in the Walled City, how can a woman survive in the Walled City if you don't act more aggressively?"

Sister-in-law Bi was silent for a moment and said.

The two walked out of the alley and walked along Longjin Road.

Ah Quan looked around, and out of the corner of his eye, a dozen people gathered in front of the shop on the right caught his attention.

"Sister-in-law Bi, why are there so many people around over there?"

Mrs. Bi followed his gaze and looked over.

Said somewhat uncertainly:
"It seems like we're recruiting people?"

She thought for a while and then said: "However, this shop has been closed for many years. My husband said that it used to be owned by the Chaozhou Gang. It was smashed several times by people from the hometown association and then closed."

Ah Quan took over:
"Would you like to take a look? If you are really recruiting people, wouldn't it mean that you don't have to cause trouble to your husband?"

"It's better not to do it. It will be troublesome when the fellow villagers come over."

With that said, Mrs. Bi was ready to greet Ah Quan to leave.

At this time, a young man wearing a short-sleeved shirt walked out of the shop.

"Sister-in-law Bi, you are my friend. Please wait here for a moment while I go over to take a look."

Ah Quan's eyes lit up, he said something to Bi's wife, and walked towards the young man standing at the door.

"Li An." Ah Quan shouted from a distance.

When he walked up to Li An, Li An said with a smile:
"So coincidental?"

"Yeah, I didn't expect that we would meet on Longjin Road."

Ah Quan nodded, stood at the door and glanced at the messy shop.

"This is."

"Oh, I'm looking for a shop to do some business."

Li An replied casually, looked at him and said, "Have you found a job yet?"

"Not yet. The proprietress of the store where Xinxin works asked Mrs. Bi to take me to her husband's place to see if I can find a job."

"That's just right. I'm just about to recruit two people here."

"You haven't even done this in the store."

"First, find a few workers to tidy up the store briefly. We also need help with the decoration later. We must recruit two people in advance. It just so happens that you are looking for a job again. Isn't it just right? Well, let's talk."

Li An raised his eyebrows: "You don't want to come to my store to work?"

Ah Quan pondered for a while and smiled: "How could that be?"

"That'll do."

Li An looked at the woman in cloth standing on the street looking over.

"Aquan, you go and inform that Sister-in-law Bi first."

at noon.

Ah Quan threw the rag into the murky bucket in front of him, straightened up and took a deep breath.

"Come on, let's eat."

Li An and Li Jianjun came over with food boxes and placed them on the wooden table that had been cleaned before.

Ah Quan and two workers came over, saw the food almost covering the entire table, and said with a smile:
"It's so rich, I'm hungry just looking at it."

"Eat more when you're hungry."

Li An pulled up a wooden stool and sat at the table, picked up the bowls and chopsticks and started eating.

"No need to be restrained, just feel free."

After finishing a bowl of rice, Li An asked intentionally or unintentionally:

"By the way, Ah Quan, do you have any clues about the person you're looking for?"

"No, I don't even have time to look for it. During the break after dinner, I'll go ask."

Ah replied without raising his fist and buried his head in wolfing down the food.

Li An said seemingly casually:

"There is strength in numbers. What is the name of the person you are looking for? We can help you find him if we have time."

Ah Quan's heart moved: "Zhaoxia, a ten-year-old girl, 15 years have passed and she should be 25 years old now. I don't know if she is still in the Walled City."

Ang Lee pondered: "Fifteen years is indeed a long time. Things and people have changed, and those who should have moved have also moved away. Most of the people in the walled city now are new immigrants who have crossed the sea and come to Hong Kong in recent years."

Hearing this, Ah Quan's face looked a little sad.

Li An seemed to remember something and said, "However, I know there is a dental clinic that has been in the walled city for a long time. It should be fruitful to ask about it."

Ah Quan looked at Li An with some surprise.

"Really?"

"Of course it's true."

Li An nodded, put a piece of barbecue into his mouth, and said hello:
"Eat first, and I'll take you there after you're done."

Ah Quan buried his head in devouring it, finishing it in two or two bites, wiping the corners of his mouth, and quietly waiting for Li An to finish.

Seeing Li An put down his bowls and chopsticks, he couldn't wait to stand up.

"Can I go now?"

Li An glanced at Li Jianjun and the others who had already finished eating, and nodded.

"Well, let's go."

When walking around the Walled City in the morning, Li An paid special attention when he passed Duan Yingfeng Dental Clinic, so this time he took Ah Quan to the dental clinic, which was a familiar journey.

Since he promised Fatty one month to oust the hometown association, Ang Lee naturally wanted to speed up the plot of the Walled City Heroes.

You don't have to end up killing the fellow villagers yourself. Wouldn't it be better to leave it to the descendants of the two Bajiquan masters to kill the enemy with your own hands?

All Ang Lee needs to do is to control the overall situation and prevent things from going astray. While planning the fortunes of the three of them, he can just wait for Yang Zhuluan, the biggest villain in the iron shirt, to appear.

In fact, sometimes, Li An also feels that it is cruel to bear all the hatred on a woman named Huaman.

There is no reason to wait for a woman to bear the humiliation and complete her revenge before telling her brother that her father was wronged?
There is nothing wrong with letting Ah Quan and Duan Yingfeng face each other earlier.

After walking along Longjin Road for a while, he turned into an alley. After walking for about five or six minutes, Li An stopped in front of a shop.

Rather than saying it is a shop, it is more like a residential building. The house is just cleared and used as a shop.

Duan Yingfeng Dental Clinic.

Looking at the big red characters on the wall, Ah Quan suddenly remembered the young man he met last night who practiced Baji Quan.

Li An pushed open the door and walked in, followed by Li Jianjun and Ah Quan.

The young man wearing a white coat and hunched over to see the customer's teeth also raised his eyes and looked over.

(End of this chapter)