Today is the fourteenth day of the lunar calendar, the Ghost Festival of the lunar calendar.

Lao Jia Tou was also at the scene at the time, it was a scene that he would never forget, Chu Meixin hung herself on the high beam of the dormitory, she was obviously prepared, her clean face, even her hair was just washed with hot water from school, and some of her hair was not completely dry.

She even used her small pocket money to buy a beautiful dress and a lipstick. She wanted to leave this world clean and beautiful—even though it was so unfair to her.

It can be seen that she has carefully applied makeup and traced her eyebrows, thin and curved; A pair of eyes were tightly closed, and the lips were exaggerated, some too red to look like ...... Blood. The expression on his face was full of resentment, as if he was cursing the world.

She wore a red dazzling dress, a red hat, a red scarf, red socks, and even her favorite red slippers. Like a freshly blooming red rose, the sensitive and fragile flower has not had time to bloom to its fullest, and it has relentlessly withered in the rainstorm of jealousy and the cold wind of human indifference.

Old Jia Tou took a step back, his heart was cold, he felt a tremble in his body, and the scene in front of him reminded him of an old legend that everyone in their generation knew: the resentment in a person's heart reached the extreme, and if she made a vicious curse on Halloween and hanged herself before midnight, then, the curse would take effect.

Obviously, Chu Meixin may have known this ancient legend from her grandmother.

On the cold night of Halloween, the girl quietly washed her hair and face, sat down in front of the mirror slowly, drew thin eyebrows, painted red lips, combed her long black hair, put on a bewitching red dress, and after making a vicious curse to her other self in the mirror, she hung herself on a beam and chose death.

What is the curse? Nobody knows.

The school was very taboo about this matter, so it was dealt with hastily, discussed it with the mayor, and blocked the news. Many people on the outside world, including some teachers at the school, didn't know what was going on.

The school arranged the girls in the class to another dormitory, and the original dormitory was sealed off as a temporary warehouse. It is now dormitory 404.

But what happened next caught the school off guard, almost every month or two, at night, a few girls went crazy in the 404 dormitory, they danced and said with frightened faces that Chu Meixin came back to find them, long hair, blood-red clothes, open scarlet lips to read love poems to them.

In the end, the school had no choice, so I had to arrange for the monks in the temple on the nearby mountain to do a few rituals, and listen to the sound of Ula Ulla's chanting and the sound of knocking on the wooden fish chime in the quiet campus, which was very funny (I really don't know if there was a class in the materialism class at that time). But in any case, it was somewhat useful, and the campus calmed down for the time being.

Later, the school arranged the boys' dormitory for new students here, which is our dormitory.

After listening to Lao Jiatou's narration, Meng Yunzhixiang and I fell into the ice cellar, and our bodies were cold.

The flames in the furnace were angry, sending out blue flames, whirring upward, as if trying to burn this indifferent world.

After a while, Lao Jia Tou sighed, as if he was still immersed in it: "It's really pitiful, alas......" He couldn't go on, and two lines of hot tears slowly flowed down his cheeks; I thought of Shangguan Jiazi's situation, so I asked Lao Jiatou: "Then what our classmates saw is really Chu Meixin's ghost?" Lao Jia Tou did not answer.

After ten minutes of silence, Lao Jia Tou looked up at us with bloodshot eyes, and said softly, "I'm going to 404 once." "We were shocked and wanted to say something, but we couldn't.

Lao Jiatou put on a cotton coat and came out with us; It was midnight, there was no moon in the sky, no stars, it was pitch black. Entering the courtyard of the dormitory, opening the door, we arrived at the door of 404.

The door of 404 opened another crack, as if someone had just entered and forgot to close it. Meng Yunzhi and I stopped and stood at the door in disbelief. Lao Jia Tou also stopped, looking at our frightened eyes, Lao Jia Tou said softly: "You guys wait here, I'll come out in a while." We wanted to show that we weren't scared and went in together, but when we looked at the crack in the door of the black hole, we couldn't help but swallow the words that came to our mouths.

Lao Jia pulled his collar, "squeak~" pushed open the door and walked in, and the door closed silently again. We stood outside the door, the cold wind howling, digging hard into our collars. We were wrapped in cotton clothes, but we still couldn't resist the overwhelming cold, and our whole body was cold and swishing.

We held our breath to hear something going on, but all we could hear was the whirring wind screaming in our ears.

After about ten minutes, it was still quiet. Anxious, we couldn't hold back any longer, and when we were about to muster up the courage to kick the door open, "squeak~", Lao Jiatou pushed the door out, we walked up and were just about to speak, he waved his hand, signaling us not to make a sound. Lao Jia Tou turned around and walked out, and we silently followed him.

Back at the residence, Lao Jia picked up the wine glass on the table, took a few sips, and sat down.

We also sat down and looked at him silently, and for a long time, Lao Jia Tou sighed and said, "Don't ask me what I see, I won't say it." But you don't have to be afraid anymore, she won't be in dormitory 404 after 12 midnight today. ”

Then he seemed to say to himself: "People, ugly human nature, to hurt others is to hurt yourself, why bother? Lao Jia Tou suddenly seemed to remember something, he got up and fumbled for a photo from under the desk, handed it to me, and said, "In the second row, the fourth one on the left is Chu Meixin."

Sure enough, Chu Meixin's appearance is very ordinary, but she is smiling in the photo, and she looks very innocent and kind, I really can't imagine how she spent her time after receiving so much unfairness. If she is alive, she should be a college student, probably undergoing more professional studies, and maybe many years later, she will be a new star in the music industry.

I handed the photo to Meng Yunzhi and said casually to Lao Jiatou: "She should be very sincere to people, and she even looks so kind with a smile." Lao Jia was startled, looked at me for a long time, and said hesitantly: "I remember that she didn't smile in the photo," Meng Yunzhi also said next to him: "Yes, you are dazzled, her expression is very serious!" ”

A chill came to my heart, and I hurriedly snatched the photo from Meng Yunzhi, and sure enough, Chu Meixin stood there very seriously in the photo, where was there any smile? I don't think I was dazzled ...... just now.

Could it be that Chu Meixin smiled just now? A gust of cold wind shook the withered yellow branches, and slammed the glass on the window, like a man rushing in eagerly, and like a woman's laughter.

After being silent for a long time, I handed the photo to Lao Jiatou, who still carefully placed it under the desk, and the photo was shrouded in the shadow under the desk.

In the dark, none of us saw it, Chu Meixin in the photo grinned again, what did Lao Jia Tou see in the 404 dormitory that night? Nobody knows.

The winter sun warmly shone on the ground of the campus, warm, and some unknown small red flowers were stubbornly opening in the corner of the dormitory against the residual snow, painting a bright color for the cold winter of Xiao Killing, which made people's hearts gush out a little moved. Would the flower of life, if it were not for jealousy and the indifference and viciousness of human nature, grow undefeated?

The new semester has begun, and students are returning to school one after another.

Ni Chaohong came back the day before the start of school, and when he returned to the dormitory, an unusual smile often appeared on his face, and I quipped, "Boss, what's the good thing?" Share it: He smiled and said, "It's nothing, I dreamed last night that my girlfriend from my music class sang to me." I said casually: "It's really not seen for a day, like every three autumns!" But I don't think I've heard you talk about girlfriends before! One day I went to the music class to take a sneak peek, what is her name? ”

Ni Chaohong had a trace of bitterness on his face, opened his mouth to reveal his white and bright teeth, smiled bitterly, and said softly, "Chu Meixin." ”

(End of 404 dormitory)