I'm waiting for you in the wind and snow

Chapter 9 Stalls

Before Yang Sisi's car arrived, she had already honked her horn in the distance. When she got closer, she opened the car window and waved her hand at me. Then I walked towards her and asked, "You How did you find it here?"

"I can't tell you that, anyway, if I find you, you have to be willing to admit defeat."

I smiled in my heart, wishing that she would throw herself into a trap so that I would not have to go to her, so I replied: "It's okay if you don't say anything, but you'd better not ask me too much."

"It's not too much, it's not too much at all, I just want to ask you for a little help."

"Tell me what you want me to do."

Yang Sisi twitched a bit, and said, "You treat me to dinner first, and then accompany me to the ancient city to set up a street stall in the afternoon..."

"Setting up a street stall! My child, who forced you to be like this?"

Yang Sisi looked at me with a sad face, and replied: "Can you stop making sarcastic remarks, don't you know who forced me?... Besides, I don't think it is a shameful thing to set up a street stall. On the contrary, it can It allows me to feel all aspects of society intuitively, it is a way to go deep into the front line of life, and I can see the good and the bad at a glance."

"Pull it down, setting up a street stall will almost make you a great cause for thousands of years!"

Yang Sisi smiled...

I asked her again: "Tell me, what do you want to sell at the street stall?"

Yang Sisi quickly opened the trunk of the car, and then said to me: "A friend of mine, who specializes in selling these ethnic clothes in the ancient city, yesterday she and her friend went to Thailand for a trip, so she gave these clothes to me. She said, I can get a commission of 20 yuan if I help her sell one... I thought about it, this is a good thing, but I heard that there are so many urban management in the ancient city, and they always catch us small businessmen, so I thought about it Get someone to help you."

"If I do this for you, it's a gang crime!"

"Why did the words turn sour as soon as they got into your mouth? This is obviously teamwork, okay? If I want to hold these clothes alone, I will definitely be arrested. If you join my team, it will be different, Look at your long legs, if you don't do some sneaky things, you will be sorry for your parents who gave birth to you so hard!"

"Can I spit on you?"

Yang Sisi leaned back in fright, covered her face with her hands, and replied, "Why are you so disgusting... You are all from Shanghai, so you should support my business!"

"Great business!"

……

In a small noodle restaurant in the ancient city, Yang Sisi and I sat opposite each other. The egg noodles she ate, and the shredded pork noodles I ate, were shabby.I finally couldn't bear it and said to her: "You said that you don't want to be a good daughter, why do you have to go to Dali to live such a life of low status?"

"I think it's only in Shanghai that I've lost my place! Last time, a few students held a reception. They said it was a reception, but it was actually a personal show. The men showed off their car keys and famous watches, and the women showed off their purses. Show off all the equipment... I was carrying a 300 yuan bag, and someone said to me: Sisi, you can’t carry such a bag when you go out to socialize. If you have no money, tell me , I can lend you one, anyway, I have many such bags..."

I smiled, and Yang Sisi continued: "I can't listen to other people's grotesque running on me, so when I got angry, I took my dad's card and went to the shopping mall downstairs to buy a Hermes limited edition. I feel elated... But when I think about it carefully, I am actually not much different from those people. They are hypocritical and money-worshipping, and I am nothing more than a rich second generation who relies on my parents to earn face. In essence, I am a moth who has made no contribution to society. So after that, I hated that circle even more! I especially want to find a comfortable place to live the life I like, and Dali is pretty good."

After Yang Sisi finished speaking, she put a spoonful of millet pepper in her noodle bowl to relieve her anger, and then asked me: "I asked you many times, but you didn't tell me, why did you leave Shanghai? ?”

"There is no hope."

"90.00% of the outsiders in Shanghai don't see hope, but few really dare to leave, so I don't think the real reason for you to leave is definitely not seeing hope."

I stopped my chopsticks and looked at Yang Sisi, and she also looked at me expectantly, but I didn't know that this was really a painful past that I didn't want to share with others.I don't want to talk about Wang Lei with anyone, I just want to bury her tragedy deeply in my heart, and then turn it into a motivation to motivate myself to live well.

Yang Sisi finally lost the patience to wait, she waved her hand and said, "Hey, you are really boring, you are too careful to suffocate yourself to death!"

"The troubles of adults are too scary. I'm afraid to tell you and scare you to death."

"Hey, then you better stop talking, your death is better than mine!... The troubles of adults are really scary!!" Yang Sisi gave me a disdainful look after speaking, and then used her chopsticks As if venting, he poked the rice bowl twice.

……

If you don't set up a stall, you don't know how fierce the competition in this industry is.In the ancient city, peddlers like Yang Sisi who sell famous ethnic costumes in the form of running around can meet one as many as 50 meters away.Whenever someone shouted, "The urban management is here," they would disperse, and then look for another place without urban management, and continue to do this kind of small business to earn a living.

Within an hour, Yang Sisi and I had been kicked out twice, and we had nowhere to escape. We fled to National Highway 214. This is not a place where we can do business, but finally no one cares about it.Yang Sisi and I sat under the shade of a tree, she was not discouraged, she fanned herself with her hands, and said: "Although I was very disrespectful by those urban management, I still sold two sets of clothes...hehe , a net profit of 40 yuan!"

I glanced at her and replied: "Go to the small shop across the street and buy me a bottle of water, I'm dying of thirst."

"This is hard-earned money, can you stop being so extravagant?!"

"You share with me, it also contains my blood and sweat."

Yang Sisi kept the handful of odds and ends in her arms, and replied in a fanatic manner: "You think beautifully, you came to sell clothes with me because you were willing to gamble and lose, and have you yelled for me for a long time? Feel free to speak up." To commission!"

"There is no credit, there must be hard work, and buying a bottle of water is not enough."

"No, next time you come out, bring your own boiled water, and don't spoil the fruits of my labor."

"There will be no next time. It's better for us to stay away from each other forever... I found that as long as I get in touch with you, it will be unlucky!"

Just when Yang Sisi and I were haggling over everything, Tie Nan rode his unlicensed motorcycle out of the intersection of Yeyu Road, and bumped into me suddenly, he was not surprised, he probably just spent a whole day in the ancient city with nothing to do. An old oily mess.

I threw him a cigarette, but after he lit it, he looked at Yang Sisi beside me, and asked with a smile, "A pretty girl, your girlfriend?"

"Look at your eyes, how is she worthy of me?"

As soon as I finished speaking, Yang Sisi raised her hand and slapped me on the back of the neck. While I was protecting it, she laughed... Amidst my laughter, she cursed: "You're all going to die soon! Elderly, can you show some face? Just grab someone on the way and come over and ask, is it because I am not good enough for you, or you are an old and disrespectful person who is not good enough for me!"

"I was wrong, I am not worthy of you, I am not worthy of you..."

Only then did Yang Sisi stop, but kicked me again the next second, making Tie Nan tremble in fright, and then sighed to me: "You're quite a girl, where did you get it?"

"Don't mention it, it's been a history of blood and tears since I met her...Have you ever seen a man who is rushing to three times, being kicked out by a group of urban management in the ancient city?...Really, once Thinking of what happened just now, the heroism in my heart is hit!"

Tie Nan laughed, but Yang Sisi replied disapprovingly: "If I were you, I wouldn't complain like that, because you have to thank me well, if I didn't give you such a chance, when will your old bones be tempered?" For a moment... To be a human being, it's better to be a little bit energetic. You look like a fugitive when you just started running. You almost looked straight at the eyes of the girls on Renmin Road... That's amazing, two people The wall that is one meter high can be jumped up with a "swish", and it is so agile to find a dog!"

I was just about to run back, but Tie Nan suddenly looked in the direction of the city gate and said, "You two probably have to "swoosh" again, there is a car of urban management over there."

Yang Sisi and I looked up, it was really not Tie Nan joking, I just felt that my guts were broken, I carried the bag of clothes on my body, and then dragged Yang Sisi to the opposite street.

I only heard Tie Nan shouting from behind: "Go back tonight, let's have a drink and bring your girlfriend with you."

Yang Sisi replied: "Drink your sister, I'm not his girlfriend... Let's talk about it after we save our lives."

……

After selling in secret for a long time, Yang Sisi's business was doing pretty well, and she sold a total of ten pieces. I said it was because of the peak season, and it might not be easy to sell in the future, but she insisted, yes. She herself is passionate and good at marketing.

Whatever the truth, the day's business ended in a fright, and I put the rest of the clothes back in the trunk of her car, then sat in the shade by the side of the car and lit a cigarette.

Yang Sisi came over and was finally willing to buy me a bottle of mineral water. I unscrewed it and drank half of the bottle in one go.At this time, she took out another box from the bag at hand and handed it to me, saying, "Hey, it's for you."

"what?"

"Take it apart and have a look."

I opened it, and inside the box was a marionette with a very delicate shape. Looking at it, I was in a good mood.

Yang Sisi said to me again: "I know you are bored by yourself, so I bought a small thing to relieve your boredom... So, please smoke less." Cigarettes, and then thrown into the trash can at hand.

She didn't need any words of thanks from me, and took out her mobile phone the next moment, as if she was chatting with someone.And I was a little dazed... It seemed that no one had reminded me to stop smoking for a long time.

I suddenly thought of Lu Jia who had gone far away, and I suddenly wondered whether she had ever really loved me. She never seemed to care about my smoking.All she cares about is whether I get a promotion or a raise, but I have let her down all these years...

In a trance, Yang Sisi suddenly patted my shoulder, then squinted her eyes and smiled: "Someone wants to invite us to a big meal tonight, do you want to go?"

"your friend?"

"All I met in Dali were a bunch of poor friends. They didn't dare to say the word "big meal" easily... Besides, they invited you on a special trip, and I just followed behind to enjoy the glory."

(End of this chapter)