Three Sisters Married is a short story by Wang Zengqi.
The original text of Three Sisters Married:
All three sisters have families. My sister promised to be a shoemaker, my second sister promised to be a barber, and my sister promised to sell sugar.
The cobbler has several pockmarks on his face, and people in the street call him the cobbler. He carried the burden of a cobbler under the eaves of the "Ganshenghe" tea shop in East Street. The facade of "Ganshenghe" is very spacious. In addition to a counter, two broken white stones standing vertically on both sides are piled with wooden signs engraved with black paint-one reads "Time Cake" and the other reads "Man-Han Banquet". Besides, there is nothing, and it doesn't matter at all to put the burden on the assistant cobbler. Every morning, the shoemaker opens the door, picks up a broom with a long handle, cleans the shop, and then sets up a burden under the "Man Han Guo Bo" and starts to shine shoes. He is a man of wit. You can walk fast and pick up shoes quickly. I saw him shine the awl on his hair twice. An awl pierced the upper sole, and two pairs of wax threads guided by bristles passed through it. After a while, both of them had a stitch. The tune is smooth, even and compact. When he licks his shoes, people often look askew. Shoes are not interesting at first, but the shoemaker's shoes are very attractive. Maybe what you are good at is beauty. Because of his quick hands, the shoemaker can buy more pairs of shoes a day than other shoemakers. Not only fast, but also good. The stitches are fine. The last tree is home. It's not easy to go out of shape on your feet. Therefore, his business is very good. So the title of "cobbler" fell. When people make shoes and ask servants or children to send them, they always say, "Send them to the shoemaker."
There are several other cobblers in this street, for fear of sending them by mistake. The pockmarked face became his symbol. What's his last name? It seems that the surname is Ma.
When the second girl's husband's surname. The old man is called Shi Fuhai. He opened a barber shop named "Master Hai Ji". Shaving your head is an "inferior person", and the Spring Festival couplets posted in his shop every year are "first-class occupations, top-level occupations". From the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty to the founding of the Republic of China, people cut their braids. His shop mainly shaved their heads and was called "hot water sharp knife". Like all old people who shave their heads and wait for letters, Shi Fuhai is good at picking ears from the sun and pounding his back. After shaving my head, I rubbed the customer's back with two fists and slammed it on the "lazy tendon" behind my shoulder blade-punching and dragging, which was really "full harmony". He is also good at treating stiff neck. I fell asleep on the pillow and walked in with my neck crooked. When Fuhai put your head on his arched thigh, he held it up with both hands, and then "click" it straight! In old age, the barber is half a trauma doctor.
I don't know why this place has such a tradition. Most people who shave their heads are also trumpeters. Fuhai is also a trumpet player when possible. He blew suona, his cheeks bulged with two round bulges, and his face was flushed. He can also "enter the song". It seems-he is the only drummer in this city, or he is the only one who is good at this thing. When people hold a funeral, it is necessary to start the "June 7th", and after the "first sacrifice" and "Asian sacrifice", there is the project of "entering the Song Dynasty". "Let's enter a song!" The person who presided over the ceremony shouted. When Fuhai holds a water chestnut drum, it is accompanied by two double flute drummers. Sing a tune. Quci is older than Kunqu Opera, and its content is "Immortality Taoism", lamenting the impermanence of life, with the legacy of "Autumn Record" and "Boldness", probably Sanqu in Yuan Dynasty. Shi Fuhai himself didn't know what he was singing, but he still sang emotionally, and his heart was sour.
Times have changed, and Shi Fuhai is a bit too much for this one. People who shave their heads are not so attractive without "water and hot knives" The health department publicizes that it is unsanitary to pick your nose and ears every day. Not many people know how to enjoy rubbing their backs and pulling lazy muscles. Shi Fuhai suddenly became a slow-moving old man.
Shi Fuhai has two sons. People with low self-esteem will not avoid their fathers. The eldest son is called joy, and the younger son is called joy. Dafu can keep up with the trend. He redecorated the faded Ten Fu Hai Ji. The walls of the doors and windows were painted cream, and three large glass mirrors four feet high and two feet wide were added. There are two long and narrow picture frames between the three mirrors, inlaid with magnetic blue and silver wax couplets. Please ask Dr. Wang Houji, who is good at calligraphy, to write a pair in thick ink:
He also bought "Night Paris" perfume and "Stancom" hair wax. A "fan" made of white cloth was installed on the ceiling. It was pulled by a pulley, told Joy to sit down, and pulled the rope of the "fan" one by one, which made the barber feel "cool and Xu Lai", which was very refreshing. In this way, Shi Fu Hai Ji flourished again.
Dafu also learned to play the trumpet. All the people who play the flute are skilled. I don't know how colorful plumage and Snow White's Legacy can be circulated in this place, such as Inverted Paddle, Broken Bridge and Cut Indigo Flowers. Ordinary people don't sing, most of them are young children who have a haircut, a bath, a pedicure, a tailor and tofu. At night, they often gather in the "sea of time and happiness", singing songs and playing the lute with rich bullets. There are many people listening outside Shi Fuhai.
The third girl, Xu's family is a little bitter. Her surname is Wu, and the villain is Wu Yifu. She is a posthumous child. There are only two people in the family, an old mother, walking on tiptoe. Mother and son live together. The mother is very kind and the son is very filial. Wu Yifu is a very clever person. He started selling sugar at the age of fifteen: selling sugar is different from selling sugar. He sells "sample candy" instead of ordinary art candy and peanut candy. He learned a craft from a martial uncle: he can melt sugar and pour it into a mold to make gifts of Fu Lushou Samsung, God of Wealth and Kirin of different sizes. Two feet high and five inches short, with vivid lines and clear eyebrows; You can also add some color to the sugar, and you can blow out all kinds of melons, peaches, pears, apples and bergamot without a mold. Just like the real thing, the most beautiful is pumpkin: golden yellow melon, green pedicel, and a pale yellow melon flower.