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Chapter 20 is it a woman

She said that "life is a gorgeous robe", and she wrote it magnificently. She said: "Even when a heartless woman talks about her 'last year's brocade jacket', she is still very affectionate." The writing is lingering. She said: "In the past, people worked hard for a lifetime, and what they did gradually covered the dust. When the descendants hung the clothes, they shook the dust off and danced in the golden sun. , that is the sweetness and safety of camphor, like the happiness that is clearly remembered, sweet and melancholy, forgetting the sorrow." The writing is bleak and resentful.

Ever since I saw a photo of Aileen's locker room, full of gorgeous clothes, it seems outdated now, and I was deeply surprised and envious.I read that there was a time when Aileen went shopping by herself with a small vegetable basket every day, and I didn’t think she was poor. Didn’t Su Lizhen also buy wontons with a thermos every day?Poverty and indifference are sometimes a sentiment. The demure and elegant Aileen would fiddle with her cheongsam, Qianqing jacket and Japanese floral cloth on sunny days.The sun shines on her face so finely.She squinted slightly, smiled, and smiled lightly and contentedly.The leaves on the tree were shining with golden emerald light. She looked at it for a while and sighed faintly.

Cheongsam was her favorite, until she died, she still wore a red cheongsam.It was also this ochre-colored cheongsam that made her death less bleak—this woman was bright and strong from beginning to end.After much deliberation, I can't think of a woman who loves the cheongsam as much as she does.This kind of knowledge, if you are not careful, becomes sick. Ailing said: "I am neither beautiful nor have any special features. How can I attract others' attention if I don't rely on these ostentatious things?" She also said to her younger brother in similar words: "If a person has no special skills, it is best to be I think it is better to be a special person and do something special than to be a mediocre person and live a life of idleness and obscurity. Everyone knows that there is such a person, whether others are Good or bad, but fame comes with it.”

These words are half-truth and half-false, so I only regard them as evidence of her inner innocence, but I don't quite agree with the point of view of this sentence itself. It is unwise for a woman without personality to flaunt herself in any way. The more flamboyant she is, the more vulgar she appears.A woman can be without beauty, but not without personality.For example, Ai Ling may not be called a peerless beauty, but she has her own flavor. "Worn in an ancient-style knee-length jacket, with super wide body and large sleeves, water-red silk, bordered with extra-wide black satin. There is a curling cloud under the right lapel—maybe it's wishful thinking." Such a gorgeous and decadent woman How can you be a non-special woman?How can you wear it, raise your hands and raise your feet to ooze out the smell?This fancy-dressed woman, like her words, indeed added a touch of color to Shanghai at that time.

In "Changing Clothes", Aileen said: Chinese men's lives are much more free than women's, but clothes are just the opposite. Based on this alone, I don't want to be a man. People like Ailing who are not good at talking, "clothes are a language, a pocket drama that you carry with you", can see your own life.
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