Folk Stories About Corpse Burning

Chapter 126: The living put on the makeup of the dead

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Now that I no longer have Zhang Xiaoxue and Zheng Jun, I don't feel any pain, and it seems that I feel relieved all of a sudden. However, I know that as long as I am in the crematorium, something will happen, just like every day in life, many things keep happening, and they are things that cannot be changed.

Old Liu, the tower keeper, tell me about the corpses in Liandi Chi County.

That day, because the makeup artist looked quite similar and had too much work to do, he couldn't make it in time, so he put the two dead bodies on a makeup bed and made an appointment to meet at the Dali Hotel at twelve o'clock. As you know, it's not easy for a chemist in the crematorium to find a partner. No one knows that he is with the burned dead, even though he makes a lot of money.

He will not miss such an opportunity, maybe it will work.

Unexpectedly, when he finished putting on his makeup, he found the two dead people's hands were tightly clasped together and could not be separated. Both dead people were in their twenties, a man and a woman. This was called a ghost love affair, which was the most undesirable thing to happen.

In the old morgues, the dead were kept separate.

The boy got angry and went to find his master immediately. When the master heard what he did, he was so angry that he slapped him in the face and then ran to the dressing room. When he saw what he saw there, he was stunned.

The hands of the two deceased seemed to be grown together. If you want to separate them, you have to cut off one of their wrists. There is no choice. You can't put them both into the furnace. If you do that, the dead will be burned in even more trouble. What's more, if the family members get to know about this, wouldn't it be a matter of life and death

The door of the dressing room was locked and the master was sitting there smoking. He stood in the corner, sweating profusely. No matter what, he had made a huge mistake, and the master told him this. He thought that since the person was dead, there would be no possibility of any movement, including holding hands. That was impossible. He had never encountered such a thing before because he had been in the crematorium for too short a time and had experienced too little.

The master stood up and took out the corpse knife from the makeup box. This kind of corpse knife is used for major makeup. It is used when a person has lost his human form after a fall or a car accident. He walked over slowly and cut off the man's wrist, and then cut off the woman's wrist. At this time, he found that the flesh of both hands had grown together.

"Help me."

The master took colloid and made two prosthetic hands, then painted them. This work took more than two hours. When he looked at the two hands again, there was no trace of real people at all. He looked at them in amazement, he had not expected that the master had such means. He swore to learn from the master in the future, but the master did not give him such an opportunity. Because he was ugly, he ended up in the crematorium, but no one was willing to take him. He has lived in this tower since that day.

I was stunned. It turned out that Old Liu was telling his own story.

He originally thought that this matter was over, but he didn't expect that a strange thing happened not long after this incident.

This young makeup artist was driven to the Ashes Tower and had to guard the tower. He thought it was just a punishment and that he would have to go back to put on makeup soon. He liked putting on makeup.

Unexpectedly, he was so lucky. He missed the blind date that day and did not go. The next day, the matchmaker found him again and made an appointment. He seemed to be in no mood, but when he met the girl, he was stunned. The girl was too beautiful. He thought it was impossible. The matchmaker frowned. The boy's mother asked the matchmaker to introduce him to the girl and took the introduction fee. Of course, this introduction fee was two times higher than others. Fortunately, the boy earned a lot in the crematorium and was not short of the two dollars.

After the meeting, the boy didn't act like a good person at all. He knew that was impossible. The people introduced to him usually had some problems, otherwise no one would be willing to introduce him to someone.

Master Liu's story sounded quite tragic, and it made me sad.

This boy must have done good deeds in his previous life. The girl actually came to the tower to find him the next day and brought him lunch, which she made herself. She was willing to chat with him. He was so surprised that he was a little overwhelmed.

From that day on, he and she fell in love. He never dared to ask her why she liked him, because he was afraid that she would run away. They actually got married, which he could never have imagined. But he could never go back to the dressing room, because the girl turned out to be the daughter of the director. He was furious, but he had no choice but to stay here, and he still stays here.

After they got married, they had no children. They wanted to have children, but they didn't. He could never forget to put on makeup. His makeup box was in the tower, and every day after the people who stored the ashes left and he had time to calm down, he would draw on paper. But the results were never satisfactory and he never had that special feeling.

Later, he secretly ran to the morgue, found corpses and put makeup on them. He only put makeup on one corpse a day for fear of being discovered. He fooled people like this for three years. He was happy during these three years. The only pity was that he had no children. The woman also loved him very much.

Later, the woman discovered his actions and told him to put on makeup for her.

Every day after getting home from get off work, after dinner and a few days of chatting, she would lie on the bed and put makeup on him. At first he was reluctant, thinking it was unlucky and that no living person would put on dead person makeup. But his wife insisted. She didn't want him to run to the morgue in the middle of the night as it was a bit too scary.

He started putting on makeup once a day, and his wife never got annoyed. He was touched, and he was really good to this woman.

He also secretly consulted other masters, and even had the opportunity to peek at the dead after they had put on makeup, or go to the farewell hall, casually, and no one took him seriously. Later, he created a Liu-style makeup method. After he put on makeup, the dead looked like a sleeping person, with no difference.

Later, their daughter was born. They were happy and excited. However, in the second year after their daughter was born, he found that his wife had suddenly changed. Although he did not wear makeup every day, when he put it on again, he felt something was wrong. After washing off the makeup, his wife's face looked like a dead person. He was frightened and thought something bad had happened.

He ran to his master's house and knelt down in front of him. His master never forgave him because after cutting off the two hands, he took them home and kept them. He was worried that the two dead people would come to him for them one day, or that he would come to him for them when he went to another world. So he kept them. But he never expected that one day, the two hands in the box actually moved.

In the middle of the night, the box made a noise. His master came out to see that the noise came from the box. His master was sweating and hesitated for a long time before opening the box. There were two hands. There was no flesh on the two hands, only bones. They were still connected together in the bag, pulled together. They were knocking on the box. The moment he opened it, the two hands jumped out and ran away. His master looked at them in amazement, knowing that he might be in big trouble.

But this incident passed and nothing happened until the next spring. One night, someone knocked on the door. His master opened the door and was stunned. He ran back with his hands, jumped onto the sofa, and gestured something. His master couldn't understand and became panicked. It took him a long time to calm down. He remembered the gesture of the two hands and ran away after gesturing with his hands.

His master did not sleep all night and felt that the movement was like that of a deaf-mute. So he found an old neighbor who had a deaf-mute child who could gesture. As soon as he gestured, the old neighbor recognized it and told him that there was a grave on the north slope of Longgang Mountain and a grave on the south slope, and they should be merged together.

He immediately understood that this should be the grave of two people, where the bodies were cremated and buried.

He went there in a hurry, and as expected, he didn't know which grave to move and put them together.

He didn't know the families of these two men, and in the end he didn't care about them anymore. He moved the men's graves and put the urns together.

The matter was settled, but his master's left hand has been useless since then, and it has to be held like a chicken claw.

This time, his master had calmed down when he saw him. After he told him about this, the master was also shocked and took a long time to speak.

"Eat whatever you want."

This is too harsh.

"Why?"

"If a living person puts on dead person makeup, that's courting death. If a dead person puts on living person makeup, that's courting ghosts. You put on makeup for so long, you're lucky you didn't die."

"I beg Master to save her with my life."

"The Yin Qi has accumulated too much. There is no chance. You don't have to think too much. It's impossible."

He never expected this to happen. He cried his heart out, but there was no way out and he had to accept the reality. He looked for help from many people, but no one could solve the problem. As expected, half a year later, his wife died. Old Liu started crying when he talked about this.

I didn't expect such a thing to happen. A man wanted to put on makeup but was not allowed. He was so obsessed with it, but he just had no chance. His wife begged the director, but the director never forgave him. Not long after his wife died, the director retired due to a serious illness, and they never met again.

I said nothing and drank the wine.

"Xiaozhe, am I wrong about this?"

I shook my head.

"But I killed my wife."

"Don't think too much. If you knew, you wouldn't do it."

"But there is one thing I don't understand. Why does she like me? I am so ugly, and I am a refiner and makeup artist."

I was confused and couldn't figure this out.

“Maybe this is what love is.”

"Yes, that's what love is. This is true love."

Old Liu wrote all his makeup techniques in three diaries. He took them out and handed them to me.

"This is for you. I have stopped wearing makeup since my wife died."

"this… "

"You keep this, it's useful, but it's useless to me. You're a makeup artist now."

I took it and put it aside carefully.

I stayed with Old Liu until the eighth day of the New Year. Liu Yang came five times, each time to deliver things. Liu Yang works as a laboratory technician at the Chiyang County Water Conservancy Bureau.

When I went to work on the ninth day of the first lunar month, the manager told me that I had been assigned another person and asked me how I had offended Zheng Jun. I didn't tell him.

When I entered the office, I saw a man sitting there. I saw that he was new, a young man in his twenties.

"Master Ke, right? I'm Ren Qiang, and I'll be learning makeup from you from now on."

"oh."

I just said "Oh", which surprised Ren Qiang a little.

"Master, this is a greeting gift."

I think this guy is a bit slippery, not my type.

I ignored him and changed my clothes, and he also changed his clothes.

"When you get to the makeup room, shut your mouth and stand aside to watch. It takes twenty days to watch the makeup. You just watch like this for these twenty days."

Since you are learning from me, I have to tell him, even though I don’t like it.

We entered the dressing room, and the boy didn't seem afraid at all. Only when I pushed the dead body in did he get a little nervous.

“It’s the first time I’ve seen a dead person.”

"Shut up."

I got angry and he shut up. (To be continued)