The Tender Beauty is Sweetly Doted in the 20th Century Novel!-Chapter 281 - 279: You Can’t Earn Much Washing Hair, Right? I Heard You Still Have a Son to Support?
Ye Xiaotong’s business lasted for two weeks, but it just couldn’t continue.
She was consistently losing money.
The problem was she couldn’t figure out a way to attract customers to buy her cold dishes.
Every day was a loss, and in the end, she couldn’t stand it anymore, so she shut the shop door, planning to think of another way.
If it went on like this, she couldn’t even make ends meet, so what was the point of doing business?
She had less than thirty yuan left; what should she do?
If she had known, she wouldn’t have rented this lousy store!
The rent was ridiculously high!
And the business wasn’t good at all!
Those customers must have found out that the store had changed hands, so they deliberately didn’t come to buy her stuff.
Otherwise, why would He Chen’s braised food business do so well while she couldn’t sell hers and kept losing money?
Moreover, after Yang Xiumei left, Wu cried and fussed every day, and Ye Xiaotong felt she was about to be driven mad.
She now regretted renting the store to do business, feeling like she was going to lose all her money!
After staying at home for a few more days, she really couldn’t think of a way out, so she had to look around to see if she could find another line of work. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚
But who would be willing to share their business secrets with a stranger?
Ye Xiaotong hit a wall everywhere, and no one was willing to give her any advice.
She tried hard to recall what was popular in her past life at this time, and she finally thought of hairdressing!
It was the first year that starting a business had become popular, and after the first batch of entrepreneurs succeeded, many others followed suit, but she couldn’t stand her ground among them.
Because she had no support and no help!
But hairdressing was very simple!
And she only needed to buy the tools once, and each haircut afterward would earn her pure income, with no unsold goods or losses!
However, opening a hairdressing store wasn’t easy.
Although she had a store, she didn’t have a big mirror, chairs for customers, or hairdressing tools, and buying all these would cost more than her thirty yuan!
It would be better to apply to work at someone else’s store, become an apprentice, and then start over with the wages and savings earned.
Action followed thought.
Ye Xiaotong, carrying her child, went directly to a hairdressing shop she had her eye on.
The shop had a large sign, and the space inside was big, with four large mirrors and four chairs!
The name was impressive too, called "Haircut King"!
If she could work in such a big hairdressing shop, she would surely learn many skills.
However, because Ye Xiaotong needed to bring her child to work, the boss didn’t want her.
But the boss seemed to pity her, saying that if she could solve her child problem and not bring the child, she could work there.
Ye Xiaotong was delighted and immediately thought of Yang Xiumei, who had just returned not long ago.
And since Wu was born, it had been Yang Xiumei who had taken care of him, and he cried less with her!
Thinking of this, she immediately rushed back to the village.
Yang Xiumei had already stopped sharing a bed with Ye Guoqiang.
Anyway, both daughters were married off, and Ye Xiaotong wasn’t living at home, so she stayed in Ye Xiaotong’s room.
When Ye Xiaotong returned home with her child to ask for her help, Yang Xiumei was initially very disappointed, blaming her daughter for being unfilial, but Ye Xiaotong, with tears and a runny nose, managed to soften Yang Xiumei’s heart.
Yang Xiumei followed Ye Xiaotong back to her shop.
This time, Ye Xiaotong worried that if she wasn’t nice to Yang Xiumei, she might get mad and go back home, so she specifically bought some nice food on the day Yang Xiumei came.
That finally put Yang Xiumei in a good mood.
Now that the child problem was resolved, Ye Xiaotong went back to the hairdressing shop the next day.
The shop’s boss was a very fashionable woman, who sympathized much with Ye Xiaotong’s situation and even offered her a salary of four yuan a month.
Because she was an apprentice, four yuan was quite a lot.
After all, female workers in factories earned only about eight to ten yuan a month, so the woman giving her four yuan a month and teaching her skills was very generous.
Ye Xiaotong was very grateful and started her first day of work that day.
The Haircut King’s business was excellent.
There were many customers coming for haircuts every day.
There were two people in the shop responsible for haircuts, one was Wang, the boss, and the other was Wang’s son, Wang Gang.
Although Wang Gang was unattractive and short, his hairdressing skills were quite good, and Wang said that after she got familiar with washing hair, Wang Gang would teach her hairdressing skills.
With Wang’s promise, Ye Xiaotong was very diligent on her first day of work.
But she had never washed anyone else’s hair before, so she either accidentally got water in the customer’s eyes or messed up the water temperature, and each customer had a different acceptable temperature, which made many of them unhappy.
Ye Xiaotong was worried about being fired on her first day, but Wang patted her shoulder and told her that all newcomers make mistakes and to remember them and practice well next time.
This moved her tremendously, and that night Ye Xiaotong even carefully washed Yang Xiumei’s hair.
Yang Xiumei, having lived most of her life, had never had her hair washed by her daughter, and after working a day, Ye Xiaotong was so considerate that she came back to wash her hair, Yang Xiumei was deeply touched, even gave Ye Xiaotong a yuan, telling her not to be mistreated.
Ye Xiaotong was also moved.
She hadn’t expected her mother to still care for her despite her mistreatment.
Ye Xiaotong decided that when she opened her hairdressing shop, she would never let Yang Xiumei down, and she would make sure her mother lived a good life too.
In the following days, Ye Xiaotong’s hair-washing skills improved, and customer complaints decreased.
Everything seemed to be moving in the direction she envisioned.
However, one day, a particularly sleazy customer showed up.
Initially, Ye Xiaotong just thought the customer was ugly and kept staring at her legs, but she didn’t think much of it and washed his hair as usual.
But midway through the wash, the customer suddenly touched her thigh.
It was summer, and her clothing was light, and washing hair in the back of the store was hot, so Ye Xiaotong was wearing a relatively thin dress.
The customer touched her thigh and then retracted his hand; by the time Ye Xiaotong reacted, she couldn’t catch him and had to swallow the loss.
But after the first time, the customer quickly reached out and touched her a second time!
This time, Ye Xiaotong was on alert and quickly caught the man’s hand.
But the man suddenly laughed, not afraid of her complaining, looking at her with a devilish grin.
"Washing hair doesn’t earn much, right?"
"I heard you have a son to raise? That must cost quite a lot each month, right?"
"Spend one time with me, and I’ll give you a yuan."
"How about it?"
