Shun Network - Ji'nan Daily reporter Cao Yaxin
from the south of the black tiger spring on the ladder, a few steps can be seen in a corner of a corner Stalls: repair cars, shoes and zippers. Li Zhaolin, a vendor, keeps watch here every day. Even if business is cold, he never absences.
Li Zhaolin is fixing shoes.
Li Zhaolin was 58 years old, with silvery silk in his thick hair, and the tools at the feet of his feet, who saw the change in the 23 years from youth to old age. And he is also in this corner, looking at the old street old house, became the appearance of today's metropolis.
repairing old stalls is becoming more and more rare in today's streets. Li Zhaolin said, they are probably the last batch of street repair workers.
footwear factory staff and shoe repair master
3 square meters stall firmly stick to 23 years
Li Zhaolin's stall on the stone platform of about 3 square meters next to the big iron gate of the old district of Taiping Street, south mouth of Taiping Street. A house on the south side blocked some glare in the spring afternoon. On the wall of the house hung the old leather jacket that Li Zhaolin had taken off while he was working. Beside him, there were still a few simple children's chairs with color cartoon. Repair cars, shoes and zippers. Li Zhaolin's stalls are small, but they have all kinds of things.
shoe repair, it's Li Zhaolin's business. He was originally a worker of a shoe factory on the side of Daming Lake. He had been ill for a year, and his body was not as good as before. I wandered around the street and saw people doing this job. I did not seem to be tired when I sat there. I wanted to learn a craft. I didn't expect it to be used. Li Zhaolin said that the shoe factory in 1995 was poor and he was a free and uncontrolled temper, so he decided to resign and find the place to set up shoes for 23 years.
my family lives in chessboard District, which is close to home. There is something urgent to take and things will be home soon. Li Zhaolin received everything in the iron box on the old tricycle behind him. The top of the iron box is full of narrow and different tyres, and the next two layers are all kinds of hardware accessories, glue, rubber soles. The iron door is painted with red paint on one side and the other is to tell the customer to take the phone by the Mark pen.
although time is free, Li Zhaolin thought he could not get tired of it. His fingers and thumbs were especially rough, and his skin was covered with deep and shallow cracks, and his manicured nails were still unclean, and a new wound was red and red.
can you see that I am a disabled person? "Li Zhaolin asked with a smile. It turned out that a part of his bicycle had been mashed up in his left eye in the last few years, and the seemingly normal eyes were actually almost blind. No wonder the labels on the left mirror of his old mirror were not tearing.
from the hard work to 3 single
the morning before lunch at 10:00 a.m. to the 3 work: a young lady passing the baby cart, looking for him to fix a 85 year old old man who has not a slippery zipper on his satchel to bring a pair of old cotton shoes. Please ask Li Zhaolin to put another shoe on the bottom of her shoes. A 60 year old woman brought her children's sports shoes to stick some leather off their shoes. From the booth before the road to chat with Li Zhaolin, there is one from time to time.
search for some cluttered old iron boxes and take out a piece of rubber covering the sole, Li Zhaolin said, in the past 23 years, the price of a piece of rubber has turned three or four times. It's less. Li Zhaolin is very glad that this corner is not rent, otherwise it can not be maintained at all.
Li Zhaolin pry open the glue jar and skillfully use a disposable chopstick to smear the glue on the worn soles and the tailored leather, waiting for the glue to dry for 10 minutes, and he carefully sticks the pair of children's sports shoes. This is the old street old customer, I sometimes do not collect money, even if the material cost is high, I still keep the original price, the original can earn five yuan, now earn two or three, change a sole has been 15 yuan. Li Zhaolin said, he used to stand up, to earn more money to support the family, and now only enough to eat one person, this morning, the three jobs, the money earned is enough for lunch at noon, and more than a lot of money when you make a lot of money.
the shoes were full in the past, and I could not finish it and take it home and do it. Now, it's very few of the bike or the shoe repair. Li Zhaolin said he obviously felt bad business, which was two years ago. Almost all of the elderly people are looking for him now. He said that shopping online is so cheap and convenient that it doesn't look like a pair of leather shoes for so many years. Dozens of dollars to buy a pair of shoes, young people who will spend money to repair it?
Li Zhaolin stretched out his feet. The leather shoes on his feet were the ones who didn't want to repair it directly. I looked at the shoes so well that I changed the sole and wore it all the time.