There is a story of painted skin in the Qing Dynasty's "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai", and the content is like this:

There was a scholar surnamed Wang in Taiyuan, who went out early in the morning and met a very beautiful woman at the age of fifteen or sixteen, so he fell in love. He saw that the woman was alone and embarrassed, because he coveted the woman's beauty, so he promised to provide her with convenience, and secretly took the unknown woman home, hid it in his secret room, and had a husband and wife with the woman. In this way, after many days, Wang Sheng told his wife, who was afraid of causing unnecessary trouble and persuaded him to send the woman away, but Wang Sheng refused, and no one else knew.

One day, Wang Sheng met a Taoist priest outside, and the Taoist priest said that he was surrounded by evil spirits, and he was afraid that his life would be in danger, and asked if he had provoked evil spirits. Wang Sheng didn't believe it, and tried his best to argue with the Taoist priest that the woman was definitely not a ghost, and then left unhappily. But at the same time, he himself had doubts about the woman he met by chance.

After returning home, Wang Sheng found that the doors and windows were locked by the woman from the inside, so he quietly climbed over the wall into the courtyard and crept through the window to peek. At this time, he discovered that the young and beautiful woman turned out to be a green-faced, fanged-faced evil ghost. The demon, with a colored pen in his hand, was drawing a human skin spread on the table.

When it had carefully traced the human skin, it picked it up and draped it over its body. In an instant, the terrifying demon turned into a beautiful young girl. Seeing this, Wang Sheng was so frightened that he crawled out of the wall like a dog, and went to look for the Taoist priest in a panic. It's a pity that after the Taoist priest did it, the evil ghost was reluctant to throw away the food that fell into his mouth like this, and he still dug out Wang Sheng's heart and liver.

At the end of this story, the author Pu Songling commented: The world is so stupid! It's a monster, but it's a beauty. What a fool! It is clearly a word of advice, but it is regarded as a lie. Heavenly Dao cycle karma, it's just that those stupid and confused people are unwilling to realize, it's really sad!

Similarly, the story in the second volume of the book, --- Painted Skin, will also tell a case related to beauty, and the content is still full of bizarre and weird. Here, I will first answer a question from a netizen. Someone once left a message asking themselves, is the story you wrote true? Or is it made up? I can only answer like this: when the fake is true, the truth is also false, there is no place for inaction, and if there is any similarity, it is pure coincidence!

After the investigation of the case of the Continuing Evil Gate garbage station, the new case began when my lover Xiao Wenhui and I went to the 13th Institute to send a commendation banner and return the jade plaque.

On that day, we sincerely invited everyone to go to a restaurant with a good reputation on the Internet to have a big meal, the tower man did not come to participate under the pretext of something, and the other people of the thirteen institutes, Lin Qihan, Mu Ruoyan, Shi Fan, and Tang Ming all appeared on time, and everyone was very satisfied with the meal and chatted very happily. After the meal, Lin made a request to me very carefully, that is, I hoped that I could consider joining the Thirteen Institute.

Because, according to the current relevant state policies, the 13 institutes directly under the Central Theater will implement unified management of public institutions, that is to say, their funds need to be budgeted, audited and accepted, the report of each operation needs to be approved and reported, all materials need to be coded, recorded and classified management, and it is also necessary to do a good job of internal and external liaison work with the offices of major universities.

These demands made them desperate for an administrative coordinator, and Lin Suo first thought of himself who had worked with them. While thanking him for the opportunity, I am also thinking about other practical issues.

If I accept the job of the 13th Institute, Xiao Wenhui and I will continue to face the situation of separation between the two places, and the nature of the work of the 13th Institute is special, what kind of danger will be faced, no one knows, the intensity and pressure of the work can be imagined. However, if you can work in the 13 schools, you can not only save many people who should not be harmed, but also have a college establishment, and the problems of children's schooling in the future will be easily solved.

To be honest, I, Jiang Xiaolou, am so big, compared to Xiao Wenhui and those astronauts with lofty ideals, I am not a person with great ambitions and dreams. Many of the choices made and many things that were insisted on were just for the sake of survival, not out of heartfelt love and affection. I have never seriously thought about any of my talents or preferences.

I think life is all about listening to my sister. But now, my sister is dead, and I can no longer rely on her to live. Growing up as soon as possible, and understanding and thinking about philosophical questions such as "why do people live" as soon as possible may be the most important thing for you to think about in front of you. After all, life in the world is not only about living, but also about living, and you have to be responsible for your own life.

After thinking about it, I didn't immediately answer Lin Suo's proposal, and begged him to agree to give a reply in a week.

I need time to really think through a lot of issues, face my future life, and don't want to sell my life because of a school district spot or a seemingly stable contract. My sister's death is another reminder that life is too short, and every day when I don't dance is a disappointment to myself.

As for the magical jade plaque, Lin Suo still insisted on not going back, and he asked me to continue to wear it on my body at all times. He said that what he gave to someone was never justified in asking for it back. The gentleman said that it is difficult to chase the horse, and if you send it, you will give it, and it has nothing to do with whether it is valuable or not, and I don't want me to return it because I feel indebted.

What's more, will the rat mutant virus on Zhao Gang's body completely disappear because of the death of his mother? Or how long will the mutant virus survive? and so on, no one has a clear answer, and it is impossible to give a positive answer. Therefore, continuing to wear the jade tag will be a safer and longer-lasting protection for me.

After thinking about it again and again, I realized that what he said was indeed right, so Xiao Wenhui and I didn't insist too much, but we were a little more grateful to Lin Suo in our hearts. In the following week, Xiao Wenhui and I chatted seriously for a long, long time, thinking a lot, and after careful consideration with each other, I finally made a decision to join the thirteen institutes and become one of them.

February 24, 2018 was my first day at 13 Institutes. But this day was full of waves and not calm at all. At 9 o'clock in the morning, he stood in the new office of the Thirteenth Institute, waiting for the Lin Institute to arrange the task. But at this moment, Lin Suo's office was filled with fierce quarrels.

"What are you and I? Or she's gone! Or I'll go! A woman's high-pitched and angry voice floated out.

"Can you hear me finish? Things are not what you think! Amo, he doesn't understand the situation! Lin Suo's voice was doing helpless persuasion.

"I don't care, let her go! Let's go! It's all excuses! Even if Ah Mo didn't understand the situation, how could the white jade heirloom chain be worn around her neck? You know what that necklace means! ”

The woman raised her voice to a decibel level, almost ranting and shouting and questioning, loud enough to resound throughout the office.

"I'll go, Sister Lou Lou, you're not talking about the necklace around your neck, are you? What is the origin of this woman? ”

Mu Ruoyan, who pretended to be working seriously and was actually eavesdropping, suddenly stood up, still looking like he loved to talk and laugh. She hugged my waist with her left hand, pointed to Shi Fan not far away with her right hand, and whispered to the other side to ask questions. It's a pity that her question was not answered, and Shi Fan continued to work with his head down indifferently without saying a word.

Seeing this, Ruoyan, who was straightforward, looked a little annoyed, she dragged me forward a few steps, raised her right leg, and kicked Shi Fan's stool, almost kicking the nerd off the chair.

"What's in it? I saw that you checked the information of Baiyu, and I didn't want to tell you the origin of that woman! She pouted disappendrovingly.

"Shhhh Eldest sister! Be quiet, gossiping about leaders is a capital offense! ”

Hearing Mu Ruoyan's words, Shi Fan hurriedly raised a finger and pouted on his mouth, and motioned for us to be quiet.

"Pretend, you pretend again!" Ruoyan raised her leg neatly and kicked the chair, shaking Shi Fan from side to side.

"Okay, you're your aunt! I'm scared of you! She is the famous Chinese musician Ling Jing, Lin Suo's fiancée! He graduated from the Harvard Conservatory of Music with a master's degree and also received a master's degree from the Harvard School of Economics. Here's a photo of her on social networking sites, with countless crazy fans, see for yourselves! ”

Shi Fan put his precious computer in front of our eyes, and a beautiful and aggressive photo came into view. The woman in the photograph has a perfect figure, appearance and temperament, as well as a mouthful of white and neat teeth and the brightest smile, she seems to be wrapped in infinite happiness and joy, as if she is an angel left by God on earth, so beautiful that there is no defect, and it has nothing to do with the roar in the room at this moment.

"Shi Fan, you climbed over the wall again? That's beautiful, isn't it? The most beautiful woman I've seen before is Sister Xiaolou, but she won't give people a huge impact like her, looking at her photos is a spike! God is so eccentric, why am I so ugly? Ruoyan danced and continued her shouting.

"Shhhh Hush! Let you look at the photo not look at the URL! Besides, Ruoyan, you're not ugly, I think you're better looking than her. You, Sister Xiaolou, Ling Jing, the three of you are not the same style, there is no comparison, anyway, I think you are good-looking! ”

Hearing Ruoyan say these words, Shi Fan immediately spoke out to comfort her, although the sweet words of the science man's upright have always been disliked, but there is a down-to-earth sweetness in that kind of sincerity, it seems that Xi Shi is the truth in the eyes of the lover, but I don't know Ruoyan, who is very arrogant, does he know that Shi Fan likes her?

"You can't eat grapes and say grapes are sour! If this woman is willing to like you, you will immediately think that she is the most beautiful! If Yan doesn't eat Shi Fan's set, he replied dissatisfiedly.

"No, I'm telling the truth. There are several reasons for this, first, the other party is not the type you like, and no matter how beautiful you look, it is useless. For example, rabbits will only think that rabbits are good-looking, not turtles. Second, more important than appearance, I think the three views and personality, she and myself will definitely not be the same kind of person, I don't want to lose myself. Third, interesting is not the same as beauty, and the lack of interesting beauty is like a paper flower, and it is necessary to get tired of it over time! ”

Shi Fan, who has always spoken upright, is an endless analyst, his superiority as a genius, always disappears without a trace in front of Ruoyan, maybe this is love, and when you really get closer, you will find that in fact, everyone is mortal.

"Okay, don't discuss these things for now, help me analyze whether their quarrel is because of this jade necklace, right? Why do you still pull out the heirloom? ”

Although Shi Fan's analysis is reasonable and well-founded, it makes me appreciate the rationality of science men even more, and I do agree that beauty without wisdom is a disaster, just like a man who has not departed from low-level interests It is impossible to appreciate a skinny woman. However, at this time, place, and before this situation, it seems that the question that the three of us should discuss most quickly should not be what Shi Fan said, but why did they quarrel? Fearing that he would harm the pond fish, he quickly changed the topic and asked everyone to help analyze and find the key points.

"Bang!"

The door of Lin's office opened, and the angry Ling Jing rushed out wearing a suede French retro dress with dark red flowers, and the pair of black "Chelsea boots" on her feet stepped on the floor loudly, making a rhythmic sound of "kicking", which made her even more incredible. She looked more beautiful, tall and thin than in the photo, but there was no happiness and peace in the photo, but a little more proud and irritable.