The eight day old lady only charges 2 yuan for haircuts in the neighborhood.
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80 year old Xuchang old man who runs her in Jiefang Road and Xinxing road in Jiefang Road, Xuchang "Lao Zhong Qing barber shop", for more than a decade, haircuts for generations of people in the neighborhood have been charging 2 yuan. A few days ago, Cai Ruiyun was named "China's good man list". In November 2016, he was honest and trustworthy.
Xuchang Jiefang Road and Xinxing road rendezvous to south 100 meters, there is a single shop without signboard, 10 square meters of house although simple and shabby, but a few decades ago famous here, this is the 80 year old Cai Ruiyun old "old barber shop".
yesterday, the reporter came to the old barber's barber shop, the furnishings in the shop turned like time, and a black old iron pot on the coal stove was hot, with a pot rack on the side of the stove, white towels in the basin, a mirror with a light and slight crack on the yellow wall, and a row of old and old mirrors. A haircut tool, scissors, pusher, and comb, the rusty old rotary chair is the most valuable thing in the store. This is 30 years ago the couple bought 300 pieces to make the customers comfortable.
no sign, no advertising, Cai Ruiyun's store is so inconspicuous, but customers are in an endless stream, mostly because of her 2 yuan barber price.
Cai Ruiyun is 80 years old. The ancient town of Yuzhou, Xuchang, was 23 years old and learned to cut hair. The master was her husband. At that time, she worked in the Xuchang flue-cured tobacco factory, her husband worked in a state barber shop under the jurisdiction of the Xuchang city transportation company. Because of the shortage of people in the barber shop, Cai Ruiyun was seconded to the barber's barber shop and learned his hair for two years. Until 1986, Cai Ruiyun and her husband retired, so the two old men built a iron house in the southern part of Jiefang Road and opened the "old middle green barber shop".
when the shop opened, the haircut was 5 cents a day. Later, the iron barn was replaced by the current Street store, and the haircut was 2 yuan at a time. Over the past decade, the rent has gone up a lot, but the charging standard has not changed. In 2012, when his wife died, Cai Ruiyun took the husband's razor and continued his career.
"I do not expect this to be rich, that is, it is convenient for everyone. If I go up, I don't feel good. " Cai Ruiyun said. Now the haircut, less than ten yuan, more than dozens of yuan, a lot of people advise her price rise, but she is not willing, "hairdresser is also exercise for me, I 80, ears do not deafness do not spend, are dry work out." In
2015, Cai Ruiyun was named "positive energy endorsement" by the Propaganda Department of Henan Provincial Committee and the provincial civilization office, which was named as the ten "positive energy spokesperson". With the spread of CAI Lao Tai's deeds in the media, there are good people who say, "at the age of 80, they need to work hard to make money, and how unfilial sons and daughters are." Cai Lao Tai told reporters that her monthly pension is enough for daily expenses, and that all 6 children have jobs and are filial piety. She just wants to contribute to society as much as she can.