Don't ask me when it will snow.

I haven't been able to buy anything lately.

for example, buy a transparent mobile phone shell, but there are two small white spots like dandruff on the back, which can't be wiped off and can't be scratched off. You don't like it no matter how you put it on a black phone.

another example is to buy a bra, the color is the right size, but the line on the lower edge of the buckle is a little hard, and after putting it on, it feels like a disobedient label on the back.

it is troublesome to return and exchange goods and then cut the mark. No, it's a bit of a pity to abandon it.

facing a sky blue woolen coat on my computer, I never dared to press the Buy button. But if I step into the mall with my legs open, my legs will get weak when I think about it.

I don't like shopping, and I'm not keen on famous brands.

so I became a regular customer of a foreign trade clothing store across the community.

what this foreign trade clothing store sells is not foreign trade goods. At most, it is an imitation of some styles in Dongmen, South Korea. The style is fashionable and the quality is not satisfactory. Fortunately, the price is reasonable.

It is without a doubt that petite evening dresses are fundamental requirement in all affairs. Our stylish options are gentle on your pocket.

but the clothing store owner always dresses like a socialite who is ready to attend a cocktail party or a noble party.

when I met her in rows of cheap clothes, I was always unconsciously respectful to her for no reason.

the socialite took me by the hand. "here, I have recently bought a new batch of goods that are especially suitable for you."

she led me straight into the fitting room, opened a door inside, and saw a completely beautiful new world.

A big-name handbag on Duobag emits an aggressive glow under the wall lamp. The glass case is locked with designer sunglasses, belts, necklaces, and watches. On the two rows of clothes hangers next to the wall are all kinds of big brands of the new style of the season. Coats, shirts, and dresses, to name but a few. It's like a mini starlight world.

the socialite quickly pulled off a camel tweed coat from the hanger and gave it to me. "this brand is not common in China. The style is classic and implicit, let alone the quality."

I weighed it knowingly.

"you should be embarrassed, just go back and remove this trademark." She gave me a smirk. She has already figured out the psychology of a guest like me.

but I'm a little upset. She unexpectedly let me buy so many fake East Gate, today just let me enter this secret A goods new world.

"I'm all acquaintances. I'll give you a 20% discount. Three thousand will count you as 2400." There is a famous store on Taobao, taking the goods with me, bragging about what brand they are, what a small amount of fabric with the same batch of fabrics, bullshit. This brand of overcoat costs more than two thousand pounds each in British department stores, and can something worth more than two thousand yuan compare with two thousand pounds? But what I can assure you is that the workmanship and style of this fabric will not be lost at all if you buy it back for more than 2,000 yuan. Now any brand on the street, isn't there one or two thousand overcoats in winter? You must know what grade those clothes are. "

she sat on a scarlet high chair, and for a moment she looked like the queen of all sentient beings.

I paid the bill obediently.

she helped me remove the label on my collar without a trace.

at the last minute of going out, I muttered, "Why didn't you show me these good things before?" It made me buy so many pieces of goods that didn't even cut the thread. "

she smiled again: "there are a lot of shady things I have done." It will take a long time. Shall we proceed step by step? "

although I am still unhappy, I am satisfied with my coat. I can't even say the style of the fabric, so I broke the coat pole in my wardrobe the next day.

socialites also live in my neighborhood. They used to nod to each other, but now they can walk the dog arm in arm as if we had become accomplices in some secret.

on this day, the socialite was running askew along a pebble road in a pair of Jimmy Choo, that could not be distinguished from the real one. While running, he shouted to me, "Lele!" Happy! Help me get rid of the girl and don't let it get wild in the water! I just sent him to the pet store to take a bath this morning! "

I hurriedly looked for the girl, ran to get a pair of dirty sneakers and stepped on the lively dog rope, and finally caught the excited little bitch.

"this dead kid." She took the leash from me. I couldn't tell whether she was talking about the dog or me for the moment.

"I have a manicure shop card that is about to expire. Will I take you to have a manicure tomorrow?"

tomorrow is Sunday, so I said yes.

I'd like to deal with socialites.

she exudes a temperament that has been lively and fragrant, and her troubles seem to be tens of thousands of kilometers away from her.

the lady of the manicure shop and the socialite seems to be old acquaintances. As soon as we meet, they yell at each other, honey, put their arms around each other's waist. After this routine etiquette among women, the landlady arranged for two little sisters with quick hands and feet to wash our feet and grind our feet and set up a face to teach several new employees a lesson.

Mingyuan leaned her head on the sofa, her eyes closed, and let the little sister grind the soles of her feet with dead skin. If there seems to be no land, she slowly said to me: "speaking of it, she is still my classmate when I was studying in England."

I was quietly surprised. Is it true that a socialite has studied in England? is it true that she is a miserable daughter?

"at that time, we shared an apartment in St. Albans and took the train to London for classes two days a week. Now, when you think about it, it's the golden age of our lives. "

my little sister began to color our toenails, and each stroke was smooth and neat.

"then why are you both doing these small businesses now?" I can't resist curiosity.

the landlady suddenly smiled at me from a distance. My heart almost missed a beat, and the socialite responded with a natural and sweet smile on her face. I do not know whether it is because of the years or circumstances, she looks more vicissitudes than the socialite.

"she is six years older than me. The reason why we went to England at that time was somewhat different. "

the girls sat back on the stools, and the socialite patted me on the back of my hand and continued to close her eyes. Unexpectedly, I saw a colleague from the TV station enter the store with a new handbag from a big name hanging from his wrist. It was a false greeting, and I quickly closed my eyes and pretended to be blind.

the story of London ends with the smell of nail polish.

later, when the socialite got new, she always sent me a message as soon as possible. I bought a little more or less, after all, as an intern in a TV station, countless pairs of eyes looked at you, and it was impossible to wear those sets of black, white, and gray back and forth in a week.

but more often, after the clothing store closes, I stay in that dazzling secret room to chat with the socialite.

Today, she got a bottle of champagne out of nowhere and clinked glasses with me flushed.

"36 birthday!" She looked ahead, poured a glass of wine down her throat, and then closed her eyes contentedly, even with crow's feet: "now two 18-year-old girls are growing in my body."

"Happy 18th birthday, both of you!" I hastened to kiss ass.

"When I was eighteen, I did wine promotion in the hotel. One day, a man came in. He looked at my face and said to me, Miss, I'm afraid you won't have a marriage in your life. I'll meet you. I smiled at him: if you dare to say such mean words, why don't you buy more of my wine? That day, he bought eight bottles of my most expensive whisky. Then I followed him for eight years and never expected him to give up many other lovers to marry me. Do you think this is a self-fulfilling prophecy? "

I'm afraid the socialite has read some books in Britain, otherwise, a woman who came from a foreign wine promotion wouldn't know any self-fulfilling prophecy.

"What happened next?"

on such a cold night, perhaps the most suitable thing is to get yourself drunk to recall the past.

"later, when I got older, I couldn't hope to follow him. I felt that I should read some books and cultivate some real skills. I'm afraid it would be unreliable to rely on men for the rest of my life. The so-called knowledge changes fate. When I was young, I didn't read the book, so I imagined that I could still change it today. "

"you're right, too."

"wrong!" She laughed. "in fact, it's just that I think it's decent and fun to study abroad. Now some people can afford me." After going to England, I only know how to spend money and buy clothes. After staying in Britain for three years, I saved more than 20 cases of clothes and came back with 100000 yuan for luggage alone. "

"that's not bad, at least you can learn some taste."

she stopped talking, and the lipstick imprinted prominently on the champagne glass. Two locks of hair were draped wet on the brow as if they had just passed through from a previous life.

"at that time, I was somewhat restless in England. I had several lonely lovers. When he knew about it, he cut off my financial resources." Later, when I got down on my knees and begged him, he changed his mind and took me back to my country. Soon after he returned home, something happened to his company, and we went to Hong Kong and stayed in the hotel for at least a year. The wind relaxed a bit, and he hurried back to the mainland to test the situation, but he was still caught, and he probably won't come out for the rest of his life. I fought with him, and what I left behind was more than 20 cases of clothes. "

in this room, we all become silent.

"then I sold them all and squandered them for a while. It was only then that I found that the money was spent so quickly and opened this clothing store while there was still a bottom. You can't be reduced to spending that money and selling yourself. "

"so the owner of the nail salon.". "

"at that time, I jumped my feet to study abroad. She was old and the financier didn't want it. Under the pretext of sending her out to study, it was tantamount to banishing her. Men spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to buy themselves cleanliness. When she comes back, there will probably be no catcher. Such women, accustomed to a comfortable life, will inevitably go that way, and then until they can't do anything, save a little capital, set up a shop, and start a business, most of them are like this. It costs a lot of money to open such a big nail salon in the mall. "

when we finished drinking, we put out the lights, got out under the shutter door, and helped each other home in the cold wind. She pressed my shoulder as heavy as two people. Then she suddenly grabbed my down jacket, squinted, and asked me, "you.". When are you going to wear that woolen coat I sold you? "

I was drunk, too. I tilted my mouth and smiled, "wait for it to snow." In the days after

, I continued to sit in the TV station, receiving data from the weather station every day, editing manuscripts for the anchorman, and spending the rest of my time staring at satellite cloud images. When I went to the bathroom, I met with other anchors, and they all asked me carelessly and enthusiastically, "Lele, when will it snow this year?"

my grandfather used to be the old leader of the station, and my family is all trying to make me a weather forecast anchor in the future. I don't have much confidence. In TV stations, anchors naturally have to fight openly and secretly, even if it is to broadcast a weather forecast. I'm not good at this kind of fighting for love and beauty.

if she were a socialite, she would have the courage to become the head of the TV station. I always think so.

and there has been no snow this winter.

MorningIn the spring, my family finally lost heart to my plan to be an anchor. "or can I just be a location reporter and run for political news?" Grandpa more or less hates iron without becoming steel.

"you don't want to study abroad for another two years. She now belongs to someone who doesn't know what she can do. How could she have any sense of crisis when her family spoiled her like this and could not starve to death after all? Not to mention ambition. " Dad finally cut in. He is always cold, but he is reasonable in every word.

I thought of the socialite again. If I go to study in England, I can ask her what to wear in every season in Britain, and which city is the most beautiful and comfortable.

but I have moved back home now. She no longer lives in the same neighborhood with her. At the end of the internship at the TV station, the family returned to the house I rented near the unit.

I haven't seen her for a long time.

but now at least there is Wechat.

her current Wechat moments are updated frequently, and many things are sold in the moments. The socialite told me cheerfully that she also participated in the activities during the Singles Day holiday and ended up selling things worth 50,000 yuan a day.

"I used to buy something for 50,000 yuan without blinking an eye, but now I feel tears in my eyes when I sell it for 50,000 yuan." She sighed at me on the other end of the phone.

"shall we go out for coffee this weekend? I don't do it on TV anymore. We rarely see each other, and I want to talk to you about ideals and life. "

"Hello!" She said yes. But I know she has become very busy now, spending her day talking business with people on Wechat with her mobile phone in addition to Rest. The foreign trade clothing store has been deserted because of carelessness, but her business is getting better and better.

on weekends, I took a taxi to a cafe not far from her shop that we used to go to.

I saw her across the street from afar in the cold wind.

she stayed motionless in a cashmere coat with a half-new Louis Vuitton shell handbag on her arm. No one would think that the Manolo Blahnik on her feet was fake.

the green light came on and I walked towards her. She smiled and kicked the shoes on her feet as if she knew what my eyes meant.

after sitting down in the cafe, she pretended to be angry again: "Don't laugh at me. I don't have a good education and I didn't sell myself. It's not easy today."

"will you sell if the price is good?" Now our friendship has reached the point where we can make jokes freely.

"maybe." She tilted her head and stroked her fluffy hair. "but you don't know, the lower you go, the more barbaric the competition for survival becomes." Among the girls who make chickens, many are prettier than female stars. People like you and me, even if we want to go into the meat business, it's not a very good price. "

she put me with her to make assumptions, and she couldn't tell whether it was more stimulating or flattering.

"regardless of how proud it seems to be sitting here now, it is that no matter how ordinary it is, there is dignity, and there is also some knowledge and thought. But if you sit in a nightclub or massage parlor, there's nothing left. It's only worth 800 yuan a night. "

"I can't drink my coffee when I say such a traffic jam." I pushed the mug on the table.

but she smiled and patted me on the back of my hand. "all right, that's it. Do you think the coat I'm wearing today looks good?"

"it's good. I can't tell it's fake at all."

she threw a napkin at me leisurely, "what a fake!" I just went to the department store to buy it, to see you. "

she giggled in the silhouette coat as if the whole person was shining.

clothes are most likely to give people the illusion that they can become another person and live another life.

A girl who wears brand-name high heels and a coat and puts on a brand-name handbag can naturally raise her neck and can no longer make it difficult for herself to squeeze the bus and subway. Many girls turned around and went the other way.

but the socialite didn't.

in the words of a socialite, although she also does something that she can't see, she has never lied to her customers that it is true.

I spat at her: "you are just poor and flirtatious, hungry and happy." If you still love famous brands so much, why not just find a man to keep you? It's not like you don't know how hard it is to make your own money. "

the socialite sighs, "Xi Bao is common, but the posture is not often."

it turns out that she still watches Yi Shu.

"I spend money on this dress because I also want to go out for a few more years. I can't wear fake goods abroad, can I?"

"go out again? You didn't buy enough clothes at that time? " I still teased her, though I suppressed joy in my heart.

"But you can't sell fake goods all your life, can you? Now I've finally made some money. I've gone out to read some books and learn design. Maybe I can come back and be a small brand in the future. "

she has more ideals and ambition than I do.

"of course, it would be even better to find a boyfriend as a backing." She bit the coffee spoon and grinned again. No one can see that she is 36 this year.

"I have been living in poverty a few years ago. To tell you the truth, I can only pretend to make money in my mind." Poverty is terrible, and I don't want to rely on others. At that time, if there were not dozens of cases of clothes to sell, otherwise I would have to sell my body. Only now, when we are a little better off, can we have the heart to think about something we don't have. "

"wouldn't it be a pity to stop doing business?"

"who will put down the business?" She glared at me. "I used Wechat to get new in London, so the delivery is still in China." I always have a clear conscience about the quality and price of fake goods. I don't want to do it. I don't want to. "

I believe that. Once when I went to the store to look for her, I met the TV anchorwoman I had met at the nail salon. She had too many worries to put forward two large bags of things and quickly stuffed them into the trunk of a taxi at the door.

nowadays, the rich and the poor can no longer be reflected by their clothes.

A face covered with glossy and chloasma may have been smeared with top cream in the morning, the crumpled GUCCI satchel on the shoulder is not fake, and the big jewel on the finger is real. On the contrary, for those starlet models who have even made an appearance on TV, the PRADA in their hands may have been bought from Taobao WeChat Store.

"over the past few years, I have also accumulated some contacts when dealing with factories. If you go out for a few years, you can expand your interpersonal circle a little bit. There used to be people who didn't know anything and didn't learn anything, but now I've grown up a long time ago. Didn't I say that? I am two eighteen-year-old girls, eighteen-year-old girls, always feel that they must have a future, the road ahead is endless. "

"maybe we can rent the same room and go to school by train in the future."

I wonder if I will have a golden age, too.

"and then grow another eighteen years old." The socialite smiled.

when we got out of the cafe, we found that it was already snowing.

there was no weather forecast for snow before. But I went out and wore the coat she sold me.

We walked slowly on the deserted road, only feeling ourselves in a movie.

with tears coming out of nowhere, she stared at me and said, "it's like a dream."

I wrapped myself tightly in the feathery snow.

she looked up at the sky and turned around slowly.

and dreams cannot be predicted.