There is a small hill behind the school, and on the slope of the hill there is a small wood, and at the edge of the grove, there is a dilapidated log cabin.

The woods were once contracted to a man who used the hut to look at the forest. For unknown reasons, the contractor abandoned the woods, and the cabin was abandoned here, and after the wind and rain, the cabin was full of holes and crumbling.

In the evening of that day, a heavy rain suddenly fell, and the door of the cabin was pushed open with a "creak", and two drenched rain-shelterers rushed into the cabin in embarrassment, stirring up the dust that had been precipitated for a long time.

Zhang Bo and Zhao Cheng were students at that school. The two of them had a more lively personality, and after class, they couldn't stay in school, so they came to catch hares on the hillside. Who knows, the hare was not caught, but caught up with a heavy rain, and the two had to hide in a wooden hut to avoid the rain.

Seeing that the rain was getting heavier and heavier, the two of them were worried: the school was still a long way from here, and it was impossible to go back in the rain.

The two of them sighed at the same time, trying to clean up the messy wooden house and make room for a rest. At this moment, a figure suddenly appeared in the rain.

The figure was very vague in the rain, and strangely enough, he was not in a hurry at all when the rain poured down. When the figure approached, Zhang Bo and Zhao Cheng found that this was an old man in his fifties, and when they saw the clothes on his body. Zhang Bo and Zhao Chengdu were taken aback.

Both of them have experienced funeral rites, and they know that when the dead are buried, they will wear a unique shroud, and the person in front of them is wearing a shroud. What made the two of them even more uneasy was that the shroud on the old man's body was worn-out in color, as if it had been worn on a dead person for a long time.

Zhang Bo was more timid, and as soon as he saw this strange old man walking to the door of the wooden house, he couldn't help but take two steps back.

Although Zhao Cheng felt uneasy, he still asked politely: "Old man, you are also here to take shelter from the rain?" ”

The old man's withered face did not have a trace of expression, but he nodded slightly, and slowly walked into the wooden house, where he lay in a corner of the wooden house as if no one was around, and did not move.

Although it was late in the evening, the heavy rain brought the night earlier, and the cabin was dark.

Zhang Bo felt that something was wrong with the old man, came to Zhao Cheng's side, and was about to speak, when Zhao Cheng suddenly stopped him with a solemn expression, and stretched out his hand to point to the floor.

Zhang Bo looked down and saw that it was like earth. It turned out that the floor was covered with dust, and when the old man entered the door, he left a series of footprints on the ground. Strangely, all of these footprints are only half of the footprints of the forefoot.

In other words, the old man walked on tiptoe!

Isn't wearing a shroud and walking on tiptoe in accordance with the characteristics of a ghost? At this time, the two people finally decided. This is a ghost, and I don't dare to stay in the cabin anymore. The two men gritted their teeth, rushed out of the wooden house, and ran in the direction of the school.

As soon as they ran a few steps, the two couldn't help but glance at the wooden house behind them, and this look made them even more frightened. It turned out that the wooden wall where the old man was lying had a big hole, and the old man's face was facing this hole. I saw that the old man was using a worn-out makeup pen to apply white powder to his dead wood-like face, and his whole face had already been painted white. And between the old man's lips, there was a little bit of blood-red paint.

The makeup on the old man's face is surprisingly similar to the ancient feminine beauty makeup!

Zhang Bo and Zhao Cheng could no longer suppress the fear in their hearts, and they hurriedly fled regardless of the rain and muddy roads.

There was a small bridge in front of it, and the river under the bridge was originally not much, but after the collection of rainwater, the small river turned into a raging river. When he ran to the bridge, Zhao Cheng slipped under his feet, screamed, and rolled over and fell into the river......

"Do you know what happened?" Zhang Shuisheng stared at Liu Meng with a solemn face.

Liu Meng couldn't help but sigh, Zhang Shuisheng and he were classmates, and the two of them shared a house outside the school. That night, Liu Meng was sleeping soundly, and was suddenly woken up by Zhang Shuisheng, which was enough to make Liu Meng angry. Who knows, without warning, Zhang Shuisheng ignored Liu Meng's feelings, and opened his mouth to come to such a ghost story.

Liu Meng was bold and didn't think Zhang Shuisheng's story was anything terrible, but he still asked lazily: "What happened later?" ”

After Zhao Cheng was drowned, the body was transported to his hometown, and according to the customs of his hometown, when he was buried, relatives and friends had to go to pay respects to his remains. That day, Zhang Bo also went, it was his turn to go to the coffin to see Zhao Cheng for the last time, Zhang Bo only glanced at it, his eyes suddenly widened, and then, he screamed in horror - guess what he saw? ”

Liu Meng rubbed his eyes: "What did he see?" ”

Zhang Shuisheng's face suddenly became strange: "He saw that Zhao Cheng lying in the coffin had beauty makeup painted on his face!" What really scared Zhang Bo was that when Zhao Cheng was dying, his face was obviously terrified, but Zhao Cheng in the coffin had a smile on his face! However, what scared Zhang Bo even more was still behind, and when he screamed, he took a step back. As soon as he stepped back, he bumped into a person, and subconsciously glanced at this person, who knows, just one glance, Zhang Bo went crazy on the spot! ”

Liu Meng's tired nerves suddenly perked up, and then he became interested: "How could Zhang Bo go crazy, who did he see?" ”

"What he saw was the old man he saw in the cabin! It turned out that the old man was among those guests! ”

It seems that the story is still very long, Liu Meng's interest was extinguished, and now he just wants to sleep well. So, he became impatient: "Wait! Don't tell it, it's just a story. You pulled me up in the middle of the night just to tell me a story? What does this story have to do with me, I ......"

Zhang Shuisheng's face changed, and without waiting for Liu Meng to finish speaking, he suddenly picked up a mirror on the table and put it in front of Liu Meng.

Liu Meng couldn't help but look at himself in the mirror, and then, with a scream, he jumped off the bed, his eyes widened in disbelief - his face in the mirror was actually white, as if someone had been coated with a layer of powder, and there was a little blood-red paint in the center of his lips.

Liu Meng's face is actually painted with the makeup of the beauties in the story!

At this moment, Liu Meng's sleepiness disappeared, and he was sweating profusely in an instant. He finally understood why Zhang Shuisheng told him that story, that night, he went to bed early, and just after he fell asleep, someone ...... No! When Zhang Shuisheng knocked on the door, the doors and windows of the bedroom were closed, and it must not have been someone who painted beauty makeup on Liu Meng's face. It is very likely that a ghost broke in and painted beauty makeup on Liu Meng's face.

Zhang Shuisheng noticed something, so he knocked on the door and came in, and after seeing the beauty makeup on Liu Meng's face, Zhang Shuisheng couldn't help but tell the story about beauty makeup. Thinking of this, Liu Meng asked in a trembling voice: "Shui Sheng, before you knocked on the door and came in, you knew that something would paint beauty makeup on my face?" ”

Zhang Shuisheng shook his head: "No! A week ago, I knew you were wearing beauty makeup on your face! ”

Liu Meng was stunned. He suddenly thought of a strange detail - the two moved out of the school dormitory two days ago, and when they moved outside, Zhang Shuisheng told Liu Meng not to tell his roommate that he was sharing a house with Zhang Shuisheng. Liu Meng just felt a little strange about this request and didn't think much about it. Until something strange happened now, he finally thought that maybe Zhang Shuisheng's request had a lot to do with the strange things he encountered.

Zhang Shuisheng suddenly took out a note from his pocket and handed it to Liu Meng.

Liu Meng picked up the note and looked at it, and recognized that it was the handwriting of one of his roommates: "Liu Meng, I think Zhang Shuisheng is a little weird." In the past two days, at three or four o'clock every night, Zhang Shuisheng will come to your bed and keep touching your face. I don't know what he's in a thousand, you'd better ......"

Seeing this, Liu Meng's back was numb, and he looked at Zhang Shuisheng in horror.

Every day at three or four o'clock, Zhang Shuisheng will touch his face, what is going on?

Zhang Shuisheng still sat there quietly.

Liu Meng felt weird the more he looked at him, and he didn't know when, his back was already covered with cold sweat

This note was obviously written by the roommate to Liu Meng, in order to make Liu Meng be careful of Zhang Shuisheng, because Zhang Shuisheng's behavior of "touching his face" was too weird. But I don't know why, this note did not reach Liu Meng, but went to Zhang Shuisheng.

"W-What the hell is going on?" Liu Meng looked at Zhang Shuisheng vigilantly.

Zhang Shuisheng smiled bitterly, his face became grim, and said: "To tell you the truth, a week ago, at about three o'clock in the morning, I got up easily, and when I passed by your bed, I suddenly found that your face was painted with beauty makeup. Just when I found the beauty makeup on your face, a figure jumped out of the window, but I still saw it - this figure is Zhao Cheng's ghost! ”

Could it be that the story told by Zhang Shuisheng is a real thing, why did Zhang Shuisheng know Zhao Cheng? Liu Meng was confused and continued to listen.

"Zhao Cheng's ghost painted beauty makeup on your face, which is definitely not a good thing, because Zhao Chengcheng died after seeing the beauty makeup on the old man's face. Thinking of this, I took the courage to gently wipe off the beauty makeup on your face with a damp cloth......"

Hearing this, Liu Meng suddenly realized. When Zhang Shuisheng wiped his face, the roommate who wrote the note happened to wake up, saw this scene, and mistakenly thought that Zhang Shuisheng was touching his face.

"In the next two days, Zhao Cheng's ghost didn't seem to be willing to give up, and every time he painted beauty makeup on your face, I didn't tell you for fear of scaring you. It's just that every time it's finished, I'll erase it for you. However, I know that this is not the way to go, so I want you to avoid Zhao Cheng's ghost, so I propose to you to rent a house outside the school. Zhang Shuisheng sighed, "I helped you wipe your face, and I accidentally saw it by that roommate." He thought I was acting weirdly, and on the day you moved out of the dorm, he wrote that note and put it in your luggage. I found the note when I was helping you pack your bags, and I was afraid of attracting too much attention from that roommate, so I begged you not to tell anyone that you were sharing a house with me......"

Liu Meng felt real fear, it turned out that it was not the first time that his face was painted with beauty makeup by Zhao Cheng's ghost.

What exactly is Zhao Cheng's purpose? Of course, Liu Meng couldn't figure this out. What made him even more puzzled was that since Zhang Shuisheng was afraid of scaring Liu Meng, why did he choose to tell what happened tonight? Liu Meng couldn't help but express his doubts.

Zhang Shuisheng did not answer Liu Meng's question, but asked abruptly: "Do you have any diseases such as rhinitis, is your sense of smell normal?" ”

Liu Meng was stunned for a moment and shook his head suspiciously.

Zhang Shuisheng seemed to have gotten a satisfactory answer, and nodded with a wry smile: "That's right." Actually, these days, I have always had a question in my mind. The powder used by Zhao Cheng's ghost to help you make up has a strong fragrance, and even if I wipe your face, the smell will still remain on your face. However, every morning after I wiped your face, you didn't smell the smell. The more I thought about it, the more strange it became, until this morning, it occurred to me that there was only one possibility for this to happen - that smell you encounter every day, and you are used to it, so it can't attract your attention! ”

Hearing Zhang Shuisheng say this, Liu Meng realized that there was indeed a fragrance on his face, and this fragrance he would smell on a person almost every day during this time.

Liu Meng sat on the bed in despair.

"You should get the idea, right? The reason why I am telling you the truth today is because I have found the whole truth. Zhang Shuisheng sighed, "This morning, after I figured out the fragrance problem, I skipped all the classes and followed you to all your elective classes. And in a psychology class, I noticed a girl who is very close to you - this girl is called Qin Wen, her face is always painted with heavy makeup, and her body exudes that strange fragrance! ”

Qin Wen is Liu Meng's object of admiration, and her face is always painted with heavy makeup, and Liu Meng is interested in psychology classes precisely because of this girl. The two confirmed their relationship more than a week ago, which basically coincided with the time when beauty makeup appeared on Liu Meng's face. In other words, this strange incident is likely to be related to Qin Wen.

Liu Meng couldn't believe it, he picked up the phone with a trembling hand, and wanted to call Qin Wen to ask the truth. As soon as he picked up his mobile phone, Zhang Shuisheng stopped him: "No need to call, Qin Wen is here." ”

As he spoke, Zhang Shuisheng opened the bedroom door. I saw a girl sitting quietly in the dim living room. The girl's face was coated with a thick layer of white powder, which in the dim light looked like a dead corpse.

It turned out that after Zhang Shuisheng found out that the beauty makeup was related to Qin Wen that day, he followed Qin Wen after class in the evening. I followed it until the night when I found out that Qin Wen was actually wandering around the neighborhood where Liu Meng rented a house. In the middle of the night, Zhang Shuisheng was surprised to find that Qin Wen actually changed into a shroud and entered Liu Meng's bedroom through the outside window.

After Qin Wen changed into a shroud, Zhang Shuisheng painfully realized that this Qin Wen was actually an old acquaintance of his. He no longer felt scared, but entered the room, stopped Qin Wen before Qin Wen left, and then knocked on the door of Liu Meng's bedroom......

Liu Meng opened his mouth wide, walked over to Qin Wen in the living room step by step, and asked in surprise, "Qin Wen, you, why are you here?" ”

Zhang Shuisheng sighed and said with a painful expression: "Her real name is not Qin Wen, but Zhao Cheng......"

Liu Meng was stunned.

"The name Zhao Cheng is easy to mistake for a boy's name, but in fact, this name belongs to a girl." Zhang Shuisheng said while pointing to Qin Wen, "Today, when I saw her and followed her, I never saw her face clearly, until she changed into a set of shrouds, and this set of shrouds belonged to Zhao Cheng." Only then did I understand that the so-called 'Qin Wen' is just Zhao Cheng's pseudonym - Xiaocheng, after so many years, it's time for you to tell me the truth......"

Qin Wen raised her head suddenly, her eyes were already full of tears: "Beauty makeup is a spell used to avoid death, and this spell originated in the Tang Dynasty. There was a beauty in the Tang Dynasty who was deeply favored by the emperor, but. The emperor indulged in Gentle Township, gradually abandoned the government, and finally provoked a mutiny. The rebellious generals had only one request, that is, to execute Yang Meiren, who was in trouble with a red face, and the emperor had no choice, so he gave her a 'silver bell and gold hanging' in tears and hanged her on a big locust tree.

Later, the rebellious army retreated, and the emperor was very sad and wanted to recover Yang Meiren's body. Who knows, when I went to the locust tree, the body was gone, and I saw four big characters written in paper ash under the locust tree: 'I see pity! It turned out that after Yang Meiren hanged herself, Yin Cha came to ask for her life, and when she saw Yang Meiren's beauty, she couldn't bear to let her die, and after leaving these four words, she let Yang Meiren return her soul. This is just the surface of the story, in fact, the truth is that there is a charlatan who deeply admires Yang Meiren, and before Yang Meiren hanged herself, he used special rouge gouache to paint her with beauty makeup. Beauty makeup is a way to avoid death, and it really brought Yang Meiren back from the dead. Later, the warlock took her across the East China Sea to an island nation and lived a secluded life. The only bad thing is that once the beauty makeup is removed, Yang Meiren will die again and have to wear makeup all the time, and the women of that island country compete to emulate this makeup, which has become a unique culture there.

"Later, the spell of this beauty makeup was passed on to my grandfather's generation." Qin Wen turned her gaze to Zhang Shuisheng, "That day, when we were sheltering from the rain in the wooden house, the old man in a shroud we met was my grandfather. I don't dare tell you the truth because you know that my grandfather is dead, and I'm afraid to scare you. ”

Liu Meng looked at Zhang Shuisheng in surprise, and then he thought that Zhang Bo in the original story was Zhang Shuisheng in front of him. However, in the story, isn't Zhang Bo already crazy?

"I was afraid that you would recognize it as my grandfather, so I took you into the heavy rain, but who knows, but I accidentally drowned in the river......" Qin Wen wiped her tears and continued to narrate, "That day, the reason why my grandfather went to the wooden house to take shelter from the rain was because the beauty makeup on his face was washed away by the rain. Beauty makeup has a disadvantage, that is, once another person uses beauty makeup, the person who painted beauty makeup before will be killed by a misfortune - only one living dead person with beauty makeup is allowed in the world. When my grandfather saw me die, he sacrificed himself and painted me with beauty makeup, and from then on, I changed my name and surname and lived the life of a living person. Until one day, I fell in love with someone ......"

In Qin Wen's sad expression, she suddenly squeezed out a warm smile and looked up at Liu Meng.

Zhang Shuisheng met the old man next to Zhao Cheng's coffin back then, and he was afraid of wave after wave, and finally couldn't bear it anymore and went crazy. Later, when he recovered from his illness, his family asked a Mr. Yin and Yang to change his name for him, and the name he gave him at that time was "Zhang Yongsheng". But the word "eternal life" was too public, so he cut a stroke on the word "yong", and the name became the rustic "Zhang Shuisheng".

The old man turned out to be Zhao Cheng's grandfather, and after he took off his beauty makeup, he appeared in front of the coffin, which should have been before he hooked his soul. Thinking of this, Zhang Shuisheng couldn't help but smile bitterly.

At this time, Liu Meng and Qin Wen looked at each other, and their hearts were sad and happy. Qin Wen just said that she fell in love with someone, and this person was obviously Liu Meng.

However, what is the relationship between falling in love with Liu Meng and painting beauty makeup for Liu Meng?

Another person painted beauty makeup, and the person who painted beauty makeup before would be seduced by the yin - thinking of this sentence, Liu Meng's face changed suddenly.

Qin Wen smiled sadly: "The reason why I put on heavy makeup is to cover the beauty makeup on my face." But the person I love will see the beauty makeup on my face sooner or later, and when the time comes, he will no longer love me. Only then did I realize the pain of being a living dead, and I was destined to never get the love of this person when I wore beautiful makeup. What's the point of living like this......"

Liu Meng's heart sank, and he finally understood that Qin Wen painted beauty makeup on his face, indicating that he was "dying for you". Only in this way can the pain of never being able to love each other be relieved. He hurriedly took a step closer to Qin Wen and said with tears streaming down his face, "You're thinking wrong!" Whatever you look like, I'll be with you......"

At this moment, a pair of pale hands stretched out from the darkness behind Qin Wen and grabbed Qin Wen. Qin Wen's face still had the joy of getting Liu Meng's confession, but it was too late, and those hands suddenly pulled Qin Wen into the darkness.

Liu Meng screamed in surprise and pounced, but in the darkness, where was Qin Wen's shadow? He frantically rushed into the bathroom, wanting to remove the makeup from his face and let Qin Wen come back. However, deep down, he knew in his heart that Qin Wen would never come back.

Liu Meng returned to the living room in despair.

When he looked up, Liu Meng's eyes suddenly widened - he saw Zhang Shuisheng with his back to him, using the makeup box left by Qin Wen to paint on his face in front of a mirror. Then, Zhang Shuisheng turned around and put on beauty makeup on his face.

"Shuisheng, what are you doing?" Liu Meng's eyes widened in disbelief.

A strange smile appeared on Zhang Shuisheng's pale face: "Do you know why I am so desperate to know the truth? Because I have terminal cancer and am dying, I want to solve the biggest question in my mind before I die. Who knows, but because of this, I have an unexpected gain, and with beauty makeup, I don't have to die. And as the last one who painted beauty makeup, you can only accept the fate of being hooked by the yin, it hooked Xiaocheng's life, and it shouldn't have gone far......"

Zhang Shuisheng didn't say any more, because he had already seen that the strange hands appeared again and grabbed Liu Meng.

Liu Meng suddenly let out a miserable laugh like relief: "Qin Wen can die for me, who are you living for?" ”

People who live with beauty makeup are destined to stay away from others forever and be lonely all their lives. Is this way of living really "living"?

In the empty living room, a loneliness more terrible than death hit Zhang Shuisheng's heart. Zhang Shuisheng sat there stunned, thinking about Liu Meng's words repeatedly, and gradually, the look on his face changed from fear to despair.

He looked like a lifeless corpse...