50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 573 The Era of Universal Hair Perms

On the morning of the 26th, Sun Zhiwei rode his bicycle to take Yang Guihua back to Yangjia'ao. After returning, he went shopping with two women.

Yes, when the women go shopping, he's in charge of carrying their things.

Actually, he's not like other men who are afraid of shopping with their wives; what he's afraid of is getting bored while waiting.

For example, right now, two women were strolling around when they walked into a hair salon. Before he could even react, the two of them were already sitting on a machine.

He looked around again and saw that the huge hair salon was packed with people. Two rows of machines filled the entire room, and dozens of women were getting their hair permed inside.

I don't know when it started, but curly hair is now in fashion.

At first, only some fashionable women started to curl their hair, but later not only young women started to curl their hair, but even grandmothers and older women started to perm their hair.

Inside the barbershop, women of all ages had countless clips in their hair before sticking their heads into large pots to steam them – a truly spectacular sight.

It's not just hair salons that are getting perms; because there are so many customers, hair salons are overwhelmed, and even hair-cutting stalls on the streets and alleys are starting to have perm machines.

They say three women make a drama, but nowadays there are no smartphones, and women can't move around when they're getting their hair permed.

Those with a more artsy or literary bent might bring a magazine to read, but most people don't bring anything, so they can only chat.

A group of girls, women, and older women who didn't know each other—at this moment, no distinction of status existed between them—all chatted familiarly with the people next to them about strange and unusual things happening on the street.

As they chatted, Sun Zhiwei, who was waiting nearby, became one of the topics of conversation.

The middle-aged women were very open-minded, and it looked like they were about to start telling dirty jokes. Sun Zhiwei could only flee the barbershop in a sorry state, leaving behind only the laughter of a group of women.

He clearly heard it; Tong Jiajia was the one laughing the loudest inside, and even his usually cutest little daughter was secretly laughing beside her.

Sun Zhiwei took a breath outside the barbershop and made up his mind that he would teach Tong Jiajia a lesson when he got home that night. He told her not to think she was so great just because she had held two weddings.

A few hours later, the three of them returned to their yard with bags and packages, only to find that the front door was open.

Sun Zhiwei immediately opened the spatial portal, which then enveloped his home.

Although the crackdown over the past few months has yielded immediate results, there are still many stubborn people out there, and we cannot let our guard down just because the streets have been quieter recently.

As a result, he saw his eldest son starting a fire and cooking in the kitchen.

That's true. It's already past 12 o'clock, and there's no one at home. He's hungry, so he has to cook for himself.

When the three entered the house and saw Sun Aiguo, Sun Zhiwei, as a strict father, naturally had a cold face.

But Tong Jiajia and her daughter didn't care about any of that. They immediately rushed over and turned him over to check if he was injured or anything.

Sun Zhiwei had already checked with his X-ray vision and found that not a single hair had fallen out, so he was quite relieved.

In fact, ever since he wiped out the area south of Laoshan last time, there has been no fighting on the northern front, and the monkeys have been particularly well-behaved in that area.

The monkeys' losses have been reported back by the intelligence officers stationed there. The monkeys' northern front troops have lost more than 20 men, and billions of rubles worth of military supplies have been buried underground.

The Japanese were already stretched thin with their forces fighting on three fronts: China, Cambodia, and Thailand. In many places, female soldiers made up more than 30% of the total force. The 20 troops that the Japanese lost this time were originally intended to organize a major offensive, so most of them were veterans.

However, Sun Zhiwei wiped them all out in one fell swoop, which was a serious blow, and even the other two battlefronts, which were already unstable, began to falter.

As for those military supplies, most of them were provided by the Russians, but now the Russians are also at war, and with their economy declining, the annual aid has begun to decrease proportionally.

This large batch of supplies was what the monkey family had saved up for several years, but it was all gone in one go.

It's truly remarkable that the Monkey family didn't collapse after all these terrible tragedies piled up.

The final result was that the monkeys managed to organize another 10 new soldiers and establish a new defensive line dozens of kilometers behind the border, and began to defend with all their might.

The scouts discovered that more than half of the new recruits were women, and there were even child soldiers among them, which reassured the leaders.

With no fighting on the front lines and most of the troops' rotation period coming to an end, they began returning to their respective units. Sun Aiguo could finally use the vacation days he had accumulated over the years.

So when the troops arrived in Beijing halfway through their retreat, the regimental commander told him to let the deputy company commander take the troops back, while he himself went back to take leave, saving himself the trouble of going back and forth.

That's why Sun Aiguo suddenly appeared at home ahead of schedule, and a peaceful and harmonious New Year began.

In the punishment battle that night, after Sun Zhiwei's unfortunate defeat, he had no choice but to resort to his trump card to divert Tong Jiajia's attention: the marriage problems of their twin children.

The two will be 23 years old in August, but so far, neither of them has shown any signs of dating, and Sun Zhiwei is starting to get a little anxious.

That's how parents are. They strictly forbid their children from dating when they're in college, but as soon as they graduate, they start pressuring them to get married. Even if Sun Zhiwei is a time traveler, he can't escape this.

After he brought up the topic, Tong Jiajia also began to worry.

It's not a big problem for boys to get married later, but the legal marriage age for girls is 20. Sun Hongying is almost 23. If we don't find a way soon, she'll be stuck with a bad relationship.

However, Sun Hongying has a carefree personality and doesn't care about this at all, so Sun Zhiwei has to start thinking about arranging blind dates for his children.

He didn't have any connections in this area either. None of the people he knew had young men or women of suitable age in their families, so in the end, this arduous task fell on Tong Jiajia's shoulders.

There's not much Sun Zhiwei can do; he just has a lot of money. In recent years, the number of people going abroad has been increasing, and the sale of courtyard houses in the city has gradually begun to rise.

Sun Zhiwei plans to take advantage of the current low prices and prepare a courtyard house for each of his two children as their wedding home.

He had been looking for suitable housing for several years. He only wanted a yard with clear property rights and no tenants, but this condition was not easy to find.

Since returning this year, he has received several messages saying that he will start looking at houses all over the city after the three-day Chinese New Year.

Finally, we found two courtyards on Fuyou Street.

Those were two adjacent courtyard houses belonging to the two brothers, both of similar size with three courtyards and 32 rooms in each courtyard.

Both courtyards were returned to their owners a few years ago; they had been requisitioned by the street administration before, and were relatively well-preserved.

(End of this chapter)