As soon as Huang Dan and Chen Shi arrived outside the studio, they saw Shen Liang stumbling out of the studio. His face was pale and he looked terrified, as if he was followed by a group of ghosts.

“Shen……”

Huang Dan only made a sound, and the person had already run away.

Chen Shi withdrew his arms holding the youngster, frowned and said, “Why are you in a daze, if I hadn’t stopped you in time just now, you would have been knocked aside by Shen Liang.”

Huang Dan looked back, but couldn’t find Shen Liang’s figure. He ran very fast, and he was afraid.

“Did Shen Liang not go back last night?”

Chen Shi walked into the studio, “Whatever he does is not my concern.”

Huang Dan followed him in and found two people inside, so he asked, “What’s wrong with Shen Liang?”

Those two are lovers, and happened to be the at the time when the relationship was the strongest, so strong that as long as you were there, even squatting in the toilet, they would not feel smelly.

Hearing Huang Dan’s question, they both stopped biting their ears. There is a look of shock and amazement on their face, they were frightened by something.

The boy shook his head, “I don’t know, when we came in, Shen Liang was fine, just now he suddenly smashed his drawing board, and even tore up the painting in his hand, it was all on the ground, torn into many pieces of paper.”

Huang Dan lowered his eyes and saw a lot of shredded paper scattered on the ground. He took his foot, bent down and picked up a small piece of paper that he had stepped on. It was an eye. When he looked over, that eye was also looking at him, which was a bit weird.

These were not the eyes of the model last night, Huang Dan was sure of that.

He remembered that the model’s eyelids were loose, the corners of the eyes were wrinkled, and the eyeballs were cloudy, while the eye in his hand was full in shape, with dark eyeballs and clean whites, revealing a bright and clear look, which was the state only in childhood.

A little familiar, whose eyes are these……

Zhou Jiaojiao? No, her eyes match the shape of her face, round, who could it be? Shen Liang?

A certain thought crossed his mind, and Huang Dan immediately went to look for his own painting. The face on it had not been replaced, and It was still in the original position, that is, the model last night, not only him, but everyone else including Chen Shi’s paintings were good.

What’s going on?

Huang Dan frowned, rubbing the eyes in his hand with his fingertips. Could it be that only Shen Liang’s own painting had strange things happen last night?

He asked the couple, “When you came here in the morning, the door of the studio was open, and Shen Liang was inside?”

The boy said, “Yes, I saw that Shen Liang’s eyes were very red, so I asked him what’s wrong, and he said that he didn’t go back last night, and he drew all night.”

The girl leaned towards the boy with lingering fear, “At the beginning, Shen Liang was talking and laughing with us. He was in a good mood at the time, but then he suddenly went crazy, like a ghost, his eyes were wide open, his face was bloodless, and his body was still shaking. It’s really scary.”

Huang Dan’s mind was running fast.

Shen Liang didn’t act as a model last night, and found someone to replace him. He didn’t leave the studio, but chose to stay and stare at the painting, wanting to know what happened the previous few times, whether it was a human or a ghost hiding behind.

Will he be targeted like Xia Wei and Lin Mao?

In the second half of the night, when Shen Liang was sleepy, he tried hard not to sleep by himself, and tried his best to hold on, with a high degree of concentration, staring at the paintings on the ground without blinking.

At dawn, Shen Liang found that everyone’s paintings hadn’t changed at all. He felt that he was thinking too much, and everything was man-made. Even if he couldn’t be sure who the other party was, he was still very happy.

When the couple came, Shen Liang was precisely relaxed at that time, thinking that Xia Wei and Lin Mao’s death had nothing to do with human faces in painting, so he chatted and laughed with them.

As for why Shen Liang suddenly lost his mind, it was because he discovered something.

Looking into the eyes in his hand, Huang Dan had basically finished his reasoning, and now he was just a little bit close to finding out what it was that alarmed Shen Liang.

A voice suddenly came from behind, “What are you doing?”

Before Huang Dan could respond, the eyes in his hand were taken away, and he heard Chen Shi say, “This is Shen Liang’s eyes.”

He was about to speak when he heard Chen Shi’s next sentence, “Shen Liang drew it himself.”

That tone was not doubt, but determination, a statement.

Huang Dan was stunned for a moment, he took the eye back, put it in front of his eyes and carefully looked at the line above the eye, “Why are you so sure?”

Chen Shi brushed the broken hair on his forehead, and blinked at him, “Guess.”

Huang Dan，“……”

He couldn’t even tell if it was Shen Liang’s eyes, let alone see the other party’s painting style in such a short period of time.

Chen Shi said with disgust, “Don’t pinch that scrap of paper, you’ll end up with pencil dust on your hands.”

Huang Dan came back to his senses, “You didn’t make a mistake?”

Chen Shi twitched the corner of his mouth, showing a confident arc, “How could I make a mistake.”

Art students will more or less observe other people’s facial features, a subconscious behavior. Chen Shi is particularly prominent in this aspect, besides, he also painted Shen Liang in the studio of the school, a total of two times, they were posted on the wall as a model painting, and he can see it when he goes to the studio, he has an impression.

The most important point is that Shen Liang’s eyes are more beautiful, like glass beads. As far as Chen Shi is concerned, he likes to draw those kinds of eyes, and he can draw a good effect without much effort.

Huang Dan asked, “Then can you tell when Shen Liang painted this?”

Chen Shi said, “Yes.”

Huang Dan waited earnestly for the next article.

Chen Shi is handsome, and his smile is even more charming, but the words in his mouth deserve a beating, “I won’t tell you.”

Huang Dan’s mouth twitched, “I want to know.”

Chen Shi raised his chin, “Then do as I said, first throw away the scraps of paper, then wash your hands with soap, and then come to me.”

Huang Dan obeyed obediently, and he quickly returned to Chen Shi, “I’ve done everything.”

Chen Shi had the urge to scratch the youngster’s chin.

The studio is a house divided into three rooms with wooden boards. The space inside is the largest and holds the most miscellaneous items. In the middle, there is only room for five or six people to put down their easels and paint. Near the door, two groups of still lifes were placed, barely enough to hold the painting utensils of two or three people.

Right now, there are only Chen Shi and Huang Dan inside, and the lovers don’t know where they went to be lovey-dovey.

When Chen Shi came to his senses, a finger had already hooked the youngster’s chin, his breathing was stagnant, and he scratched gently with his fingertips.

Huang Dan was itchy from being scratched by him, “Take it easy.”

Chen Shi couldn’t hear it, and he continued to scratch.

Huang Dan pressed his hand, “Tickle me later, let’s get down to business first.”

Chen Shi’s eyelids were closed, and his eyes fell on the hand that the youngster was holding on, “Just drew it not long ago.”

Huang Dan paused, “From where did you see that?”

Chen Shi turned the hand over and held the youngster’s hand and rubbed it in his palm, “Line.”

Huang Dan immediately understood that If you have been drawing for a while, the lines drawn by the pencil will have blurred traces. Even if you don’t take it out to look at it or touch it with your hands, it still can’t stop the tendency.

But the line above that eye was very clear and sharp.

In the last world, Huang Dan took the job and did it at home. The man lay down in front of the computer to watch it, saying that he was an uncouth person and couldn’t understand it. In this world, he can draw better than him.

He pursed his lips, feeling a sense of continuity, a continuation of world after world.

Chen Shi smacked his lips in his mind, they both are same menfolk, his hands are so rough, there is nothing to discuss, but why are the youngster’s hands soft and tender? When he looked up, he found that the other party was in a daze again, looking a little sad.

“What’s wrong?”

Huang Dan looked at the person in front of him when he heard that.

The gaze was indescribable, Chen Shi’s bones were numb from being looked at, he touched his face, and smiled teasingly, “Being fascinated by Gege?”

Huang Dan didn’t speak.

The smile on Chen Shi’s lips was stiff. He was stunned at first, then he was at a loss, “You don’t want to cry, do you? Zhang Shuran, try crying if you dare. Don’t cry!”

Huang Dan pouted, “I’m not going to cry.”

Chen Shi was slightly taken aback. He closed his eyes and looked again. The youngster’s eyes were dry, as was his face. He wasn’t crying. Was the sad expression on the verge of crying just an illusion?

Huang Dan withdrew his hand, “I’m going to do important things now, so don’t disturb me.”

Chen Shi rolled his eyes.

He was still wondering, when he saw the youngster bent down to pick up the shredded paper on the ground, “This is the important thing? Are you kidding me?”

Huang Dan picked it up piece by piece, “Don’t talk.”

Chen Shi didn’t agree, “There’s a broom outside the door, just sweep it casually, besides, you’re not on duty today, why are you……”

Huang Dan stood up straight and kissed him on the lips.

The whole world fell silent.

Huang Dan picked up all the shredded papers he saw. Others were coming, and he had to get things done before then.

After a while, Huang Dan squatted on the ground to look at the two paintings he had sorted out. It was strange that except for the face, other parts were exactly the same.

One is the model’s face, and the other is Shen Liang’s face, both made by the same person.

Huang Dan shifted his gaze to the second painting.

Chen Shi also looked over, “No matter how narcissistic a person is, it’s impossible to draw an exact picture of himself. Even if he copies a photo, he won’t copy the exact.”

Huang Dan understands the truth, the face in this painting are so realistic, as if…… it was pulled directly from Shen Liang’s face.

Very weird.

This is what made Shen Liang lose his mind.

If it were Huang Dan, and saw the same face as himself, he would be shocked too.

Huang Dan said, “What do you think is going on?”

Chen Shi said nonchalantly, “Who knows, you can ask him when he comes. However, with his nature, even if he said it, it would be a lie.”

At this moment, a person leaned over, “What are you doing?”

Before Huang Dan could stop it, Zhou Jiaojiao grabbed the shredded paper on the ground, and the faces he put together with great difficulty were all messed up.

Zhou Jiaojiao squinted her eyes, “Shen Liang?”

She laughed happily, “It’s Shen Liang, Shuran, this is Shen Liang’s face, he refuses to be a model anyway, isn’t he still being painted?!”

Huang Dan asked, “Can you recognize it?”

Zhou Jiaojiao smiled and nodded, “Yes, Shen Liang’s eyes are different from others.”

Huang Dan felt that what Zhou Jiaojiao said was different, it was not the shape of the eyes or the color of the pupils, but something else.

The next moment, Zhou Jiaojiao threw away all the shredded paper, blowing it everywhere, being stepped on and kicked by other people who entered the studio, and floating into the trash can……

Huang Dan helplessly watched Shen Liang’s faces scattered in the studio in pieces, and he couldn’t get them back.

Zhou Jiaojiao suddenly gasped, “What is this?”

Huang Dan glanced for a moment, and saw that the piece of paper that Zhou Jiaojiao held up had the word liang on it, and the date on bottom.

He took the fragment from Zhou Jiaojiao’s hand, turned to ask Chen Shi, “Is it Shen Liang’s sign?”

Chen Shi was sharpening his pencil carelessly, and raised his eyelids, “Yeah.”

Huang Dan said while watching the change of expression on Chen Shi’s face, “So, Shen Liang stayed in the studio last night and didn’t go back. He just drew another picture according to the model, but he didn’t know what method he used to paint the face as himself, and signed his name at the same time?”

He said to himself, “Why did Shen Liang tear up two of his paintings then, smash the drawing board, and run out in such a panic?”

Chen Shi put the sharpened pencil on the stool, and took another sharpened pencil, “Don’t worry about the other’s business, just draw your picture well.”

Huang Dan said, “I’m a little worried.”

Huang Dan didn’t hear what Chen Shi said, so he asked him to say it again.

After removing the sawdust that fell on his legs, Chen Shi didn’t raise his head, “I said, everyone has their own destiny.”

Huang Dan immediately brought his face closer to Chen Shi’s eyes, trying to see his expression and what was in his eyes when he said this.

Chen Shi didn’t avoid it, just showed it to him, and secretly blew on his face, with a faint smell of tobacco, “Hey, have you seen enough?”

Huang Dan only saw how handsome he was, but nothing else, and was very disappointed.

Chen Shi heard the youngster’s sigh, the blue veins on his forehead twitched lightly, “Why are you sighing without any reason?”

Huang Dan thought, my task has not been completed yet, and things are very troublesome, and I can’t even sigh if I want to.

Chen Shi finished sharpening the second pencil, spread out the drawing paper and drew one of the still lifes on the table, “Draw quickly, finish drawing early, leave early, don’t dawdle.”

Most of the people in the studio came, and the remaining half either couldn’t come because of class, or were too lazy to come, Shen Liang’s seat was empty.

Huang Dan was absent-minded and couldn’t draw any more. He touched the pencil that Chen Shi had sharpened for himself, and said abruptly, “Do you believe in ghosts?”

Chen Shi was arranging the lines, and the rustling sound continued, “I don’t believe it.”

Zhou Jiaojiao suddenly interjected, “Then we are the same, I don’t believe it either.”

Huang Dan said, “I think there is a ghost.”

Chen Shi doesn’t draw by feeling. Every time he sketches, he clearly understands why he draws like that. He rarely makes mistakes, but he made a very low-level mistake a second ago. The line drawn on the paper doesn’t fit. “Give me the eraser.”

Huang Dan found it and handed it over.

Chen Shi erased the lines drawn mistakenly, “You have enough, right?”

Huang Dan picked up the thermos cup on the stool to drink water.

Zhou Jiaojiao took a look and reminded, “Shuran, that’s Chen Shi’s cup, you took it by mistake.”

Huang Dan said, “I didn’t bring any water.”

Zhou Jiaojiao snorted and stopped talking.

The atmosphere was quite strange, Huang Dan glanced at Chen Shi from the corner of his eye.

Chen Shi noticed it, and he clicked his tongue knowingly, showing a look of disgust, “Alright, you can drink all the water in my cup, but wash it with detergent when you go back.”

Huang Dan said, “Okay.”

Zhou Jiaojiao muttered something, “Shuran, I have mineral water, do you want to drink it?”

Huang Dan says no.

He was not pulled away by the diverted topic, and went back, “I had a dream last night. In the dream, I dreamed of a ghost, floating and walking, without a face.”

Chen Shi made a mistake again. He squeezed the eraser until it was deformed, and also wiped the vase on the paper dirtily. “I dreamed that I became a billionaire. Can it count?”

Huang Dan, “……”

He continued, “My dream was very real. I touched a ghost, which was sticky. It spoke to me, but I couldn’t hear it clearly. I could smell the stench coming from its mouth.”

Zhou Jiaojiao put her hands on her stomach, shook her shoulders and laughed, her body was still twitching, “Shuran, stop talking, I’m going to die from laughing.”

The other people around laughed when they heard it. People die when they die. What ghost is there? It’s really funny. It’s just a dream. It’s no big deal.

Huang Dan’s eyebrows twitched, is it funny? Normal people hear it, even if they are not afraid, they will get goose bumps, or feel disgusted, right?

He held the pencil and turned it around. The people in the studio were very courageous and big-hearted.

Living in Supernatural area 120 where there are more ghosts than people, it is very likely that there are ghosts watching you when you are sleeping, eating, or shopping, but you still blindly believe that there are no ghosts, and they don’t know if they are lucky or unlucky……

Shen Liang didn’t show up all morning.

Huang Dan didn’t finish painting a still life. He went back to the small courtyard, and when Chen Shi went to another house to exchange coals, he stood outside Shen Liang’s house and knocked on the door, and there was no response for a long time.

Qi Fang next door opened the door and came out, “He came back, and then went out again.”

Huang Dan looked over and saw that Qi Fang was wearing a black leather jacket with a gray sweater inside. He was dressed casually. He was tall, muscular, and energetic. His beard didn’t seem to change, it was still the same length.

“You seem to have very few classes.”

Qi Fang laughed like a joke, “That’s because my class time overlaps with your time spent in the studio, so you have that illusion.”

Huang Dan said, “When did Shen Liang leave?”

Qi Fang thought for a while, “It’s past eight o’clock.”

Huang Dan was thoughtful, if Qi Fang didn’t lie, then Shen Liang came back from the studio, stayed in the room for a while and then left, maybe to take some important items and go on a long trip.

“Did you see what he was carrying?”

“Coincidentally, when he came out, I happened to be fetching water at the sink.”

Qi Fang said, “He only had a backpack on his back and nothing else. He hurried outside, as if rushing to reincarnate. He didn’t answer when I called him.”

Huang Dan turned his head, and then turned back, “You play the guitar at night, but Shen Liang can’t seem to hear you.”

Qi Fang said wrongly, “I haven’t played it recently.”

Huang Dan looked at him, “I’m talking about before, not only Shen Liang, but also the people who rented the house behind didn’t respond.”

Qi Fang smiled, “Some people sleep very lightly and wake up when there is any movement, and some people fall asleep, as if they are dead, and they don’t even know when there is an earthquake.”

He snorted, “My classmate is waiting for me to eat, I’ll go first, let’s talk later.”

Huang Dan looked at the back of Qi Fang leaving, and then looked at the closed door in front of Shen Liang’s house. His head hurt a little, and he felt a foggy feeling.

When Chen Shi came back, he changed the red-hot coal, and after adding a coal, he put the teapot on it to boil water, “Damn it, it’s so troublesome to change the coal. We won’t change it next time. Let’s burn it ourselves.”

Huang Dan thought that it was more troublesome to burn it, he found a few fragments in the original owner’s memory, the coal was not lit, and it was still a mess, with snot and tears all over his face, did it once, regretted it once.

Chen Shi washed his hands in the basin, “Go dig in the rice and see if the persimmons are ripe.”

Huang Dan went to pick it out, and felt it too, but it was not ripe, so he changed the topic and said, “Shen Liang is not in the house.”

Chen Shi pulled a blue towel off the rope, wiped his hands and face casually, “Why do you care about him? If you have time to lose your head on this, do some English questions for Gege.”

Huang Dan said, “You write it yourself.”

Chen Shi sighed, “You have no conscience, you worry about other people’s affairs all day long, but you don’t care about my life or death. It’s a shame that I share the bed with you every day, use my shoulders as your pillow, and buy you candy. And give you a warm bed.”

Huang Dan, “Bring it.”

Chen Shi immediately went to the table to get the English note book.

In less than fifteen minutes, Huang Dan finished all the topics on one page, and he took off his clothes and pants and went to bed for a nap.

Chen Shi held the book in one hand and looked up the meaning in the dictionary in the other. After a lot of hard work, he finally flipped back and compared it with the answers above. The result made him look extremely embarrassed.

“Zhang Shuran, you didn’t need to take the road of art, did you?”

The youngster has fallen asleep.

Chen Shi walked to the side of the bed, and after a pause, he bent his back, put his hands on both sides, and stared at the youngster. He approached slowly in a mysterious way, and stopped when he was an inch away from the two lips.

“Classmate Zhang Shuran, I officially inform you, you kissed me this morning all of a sudden, and I want to ask for the return, double.”

When the words fell, Chen Shi closed his eyes and pressed the youngster’s lips. He maintained this movement, thinking in his heart that it was already longer, not to mention double, and he could retreat, but he didn’t, and instead pressed the tip of his tongue against the youngster’s lips to open the youngster’s lips and teeth.

The person kissed could not catch his breath, and Chen Shi came back to his senses. His face became hot, and he took a few steps back, walking back and forth in the room with a guilty conscience, feeling that he was so stupid, “He likes me, and I like him too, what’s the matter with kissing a few times?”

Thinking of this, Chen Shi glanced at the youngster’s lips, and after a few seconds, he leaned forward again.

Huang Dan frowned, “It hurts.”

Chen Shi relaxed his strength, he kissed the youngster, and the kiss gave a lingering taste, it was himself who was unlucky.

The five-finger girl’s workload has been very heavy recently, and she is already unable to do what she is supposed to do.

When he appeared in the studio in the afternoon, Huang Dan had a small slit on his mouth, which looked like he had been bitten. Others would not come to ask any questions when they saw it.

Except Zhou Jiaojiao.

When Huang Dan was asked, he could only say that he was careless when eating.

Zhou Jiaojiao looked deeply aware, “It happened to me too, when I was eating, I suddenly bit myself, and it hurt to death.”

Huang Dan breathed a sigh of relief.

He opened the paint box, “Shen Liang didn’t come in the morning, and I’m afraid he won’t come in the afternoon either.”

Zhou Jiaojiao scratched her face, “I heard that something was wrong when he left in the morning, who knows what he did, hmph, it was easy for him to think that it would be fine to find someone to replace him, how could it be, sooner or later it will be his turn .”

Huang Dan tilted his head, “Why is it his turn?”

Zhou Jiaojiao picked the nail polish on her hands several times, “Be a model, otherwise what else is it? Shuran, are you okay?”

Huang Dan shook his head, “It’s fine.”

Zhou Jiaojiao said in a low voice, “Shuran, you were a bit scary when you were silent and stared at me just now.”

Huang Dan, “Really?”

Zhou Jiaojiao nodded, “Really, don’t do that in the future.”

Huang Dan agreed.

Zhou Jiaojiao pursed her lips in Chen Shi’s direction, “He’s here, you’ve talked to me a lot less.”

As soon as Huang Dan unscrewed lake blue and was about to get it into the small grid, he heard Zhou Jiaojiao’s voice, she was very close, and there was a sweet smell of candy when she spoke, “Shuran, do you like him?”

With a flick of his fingertips, a large piece of lake blue fell to the ground.

Zhou Jiaojiao yelled, and went to put the clean lake blue on the top into the small grid of Huang Dan, “The dirty bottom can’t be used, if you don’t have enough, I have it over there.”

Huang Dan said it was enough.

Zhou Jiaojiao said, “Shuran, don’t get me wrong, what I mean by liking is the kind between you guys. I think you are very close to Chen Shi, even closer than you were to Lin Mao.”

Huang Dan’s temples twitched slightly, it seemed that he and Chen Shi had to be more careful outside.

Just when Huang Dan thought something happened to Shen Liang, he came back.

Shen Liang had a new haircut, wore new clothes, and changed to a new drawing board. He has smiled all over his face without any gloom, as if he had changed into a different person.

Huang Dan looked at Shen Liang with strange eyes, the other party was not dead.

This is so weird.

Before Xia Wei killed herself, she had no face when she was a model twice. Lin Mao had his face changed before he fell from the building. How could Shen Liang be fine?

Could it be that he had found out the key to the matter during the few days of his disappearance and saved himself from danger?

Sensing Huang Dan’s gaze, Shen Liang said with a smile, “Shuran, why, you seem surprised that I’m back?”

Huang Dan said nothing, “We and the teacher were very worried about you these days.”

As soon as Shen Liang put his hand on Huang Dan’s shoulder, he was pushed away by Chen Shi who came back from washing the palette.

Huang Dan observed quietly.

Shen Liang didn’t get angry, he joked, “Chen Shi, you and Shuran just share a room together, and he doesn’t belong to you, why are you so nervous?”

Chen Shi’s lips were straightened, “What are you talking about?”

Shen Liang said, “Just kidding.”

Chen Shi said coldly, “Who the hell wants to joke with you?”

Shen Liang shrugged, “Sorry.”

Huang Dan’s brows were knit together, normally, Shen Liang’s expression was already cold, and he would also be eccentric, but now this is completely different.

A person’s temperament can change, but it shouldn’t change so completely, right?

Huang Dan secretly said to Chen Shi, “Shen Liang is a bit strange.”

Chen Shi was smoking a cigarette, “Well, he looks like he’s survived a catastrophe.”

Yes, it was that feeling, when Huang Dan pinched his fingers, even if Shen Liang knew something and found something, he would not tell anyone, his mouth was very tightly sealed, and it was impossible to pry open the gap.

After Shen Liang came back, the studio was the same as before, some people were busy practicing, and some people were doing boring things to pass the time.

On the fourth day after Shen Liang came back, a girl suddenly fainted.

Huang Dan recognized that she was a girl from No. 1 Middle School in the city. She was in a similar situation to Zhou Jiaojiao. Her mother would often come to accompany her. Usually she moves closest to Shen Liang.

That girl’s drawing is also good, and Shen Liang is a good match.

There was chaos in the studio, Teacher Zhang went up to see the girl, and others surrounded her.

The girl was unconscious.

Shen Liang sent her to the hospital with the other two boys.

The girl woke up and found that Shen Liang was still there. She said gratefully, “Shen Liang, thank you this time.”

Shen Liang said, “You’re welcome.”

His tone was very gentle, “Pay more attention to your body.”

The girl’s face flushed slightly, “Well, I will, and you too. We agreed to take the entrance exam to the Academy of Fine Arts together.”

Shen Liang smiled, “Yes, agreed.”

The girl fell asleep.

Shen Liang stayed in the ward until the girl’s family came, and he greeted politely before leaving.

Not long after, it was the girl’s turn to be a model.

Huang Dan looked up, and found that the girl’s facial features were not very beautiful, far less stunning than Xia Wei’s. But the advantage is that the skin is fair and flawless, the more you look at it, the better it feels.

Apart from Huang Dan and Chen Shi, the sketchers were Shen Liang, Zhou Jiaojiao, and three other men and a woman.

During the break, the girl would go to Shen Liang to see his paintings. The two talked and laughed, very ambiguous.

The next day, in the painting drawn by the sketchers last night, the girl has no face.

Huang Dan’s eyelids twitched, and he was stunned. Isn’t the strange thing only happening to Xia Wei, Lin Mao, and Shen Liang? Why would anyone else be involved?

Chen Shi touched the position of the face and said it wasn’t an eraser.

It was the second time Huang Dan heard Chen Shi say that. The first time was in an Internet cafe, when Xia Wei showed him the photos she had taken, and that was what he said.

“It’s not an eraser, how did you know that?”

Chen Shi’s eyelids were half closed, and he said in a vague voice, “It’s not painted at all.”

Huang Dan bent over and approached, “What?”

Chen Shi did not repeat, but pointed to the position of the face, “Touch here.”

Huang Dan reached out to touch it. He had touched it a few times before, but just like this time, he didn’t find anything special, just the feel of paper.

Wrong!

When the pencil draws on it, it will leave traces, and there will be a subtle feeling after being wiped by the eraser, and it will not be invisible at all. That area is like new paper that has not been drawn on.

This can happen, unless the face is not drawn when drawing.

Huang Dan immediately denied his conjecture, “Impossible, I drew it myself, I know very well, why is it like this?”

Chen Shi lazily agreed, “Yes, why is that?”

Huang Dan glanced at him, “Do you know something? For example, is there a ghost in the studio? When we sketched, the ghost was making trouble? Put the face on the drawing board and not allow us to draw?”

Chen Shi moved his eyes away from the painting and turned to the youngster, “I think you need to go out and have some northwest wind.”

Huang Dan said, “I don’t want to have it, I would have a headache.”

Chen Shi stood up, hugged him like a buddy and left the studio, leaving the noise and discussion inside behind.

When Huang Dan returned to the studio, the painting was destroyed.

The reason was that Shen Liang was the last one to leave last night, and he forgot to lock the door, so that people could take advantage of it.

The girl accepted his apology, and the relationship between the two was not affected at all.

Huang Dan looked at Shen Liang.

Zhou Jiaojiao also looked over, and snorted coldly, “What is there to be proud of?”

Huang Dan, “Huh?”

Zhou Jiaojiao wrinkled her nose, “Didn’t you see that, Shen Liang’s smile is so brilliant, he hasn’t even chased the person to get hold of, ok? I don’t know if there is something good to be proud of.”

That’s not what Huang Dan wanted to hear.

That’s all Zhou Jiaojiao said, nothing else.

After that incident, the girl came to the studio to paint, and she got closer and closer to Shen Liang. Her mother occasionally followed, and nothing unusual happened.

It was cold, Chen Shi said that he would copy in the house, Huang Dan didn’t go to the studio, so he moved a chair and sat in the yard to draw sketches.

There was the sound of the door being pushed open behind him, accompanied by a series of footsteps, “The painting is quite good.”

Huang Dan is painting the pool in the small courtyard, “You get off the class?”

Qi Fang held a book and a mobile phone in his hand, “Don’t mention it, the old professor didn’t take roll call today, if I had known, I wouldn’t have gone, the classroom is freezing cold, I’m about to freeze like a street dog.”

Huang Dan turned around and found that he really looked like he was frozen, “In fact, winter is better than summer, and summer is more difficult.”

Qi Fang disagreed, “No, winter and summer are hard, I like spring, it would be great if it was spring all year round.”

Huang Dan said that some cities are like spring all year round.

Qi Fang showed yearning, “I plan to find a city like that after I graduate, and I won’t change the land afterwards, just live there forever.”

Listening to him, Huang Dan didn’t draw a few strokes with the pencil in his hand, his fingers were numb from the cold.

Qi Fang put the book in the room, and he came out after a while, standing next to Huang Dan with great interest and watching him draw.

When Huang Dan heard what Qi Fang said about the bright and dark parts, his eyes flickered, “You know how to draw?”

Qi Fang grinned, “I don’t know, my Jie does. When she draws, I watch from the side and know a little bit.”

Huang Dan asked casually, “Your Jie studied painting?”

Qi Fang said yes, “She has loved drawing since she was a child, and she drew cartoon villains in every textbook. Later, she applied for an art major. Her dream is to be a freelance artist and draw wherever she goes.”

Huang Dan sighed and asked again, “Is your Jie working?”

Qi Fang said not yet, “Graduate next year.”

Huang Dan was thoughtful.

Graduating next year, so now a senior student, “In the internship unit?”

Qi Fang seemed to have changed his mind, he didn’t want to talk to Huang Dan about his Jie anymore, so he changed the subject, “Where’s Chen Shi? Went to the studio?”

Huang Dan said, “He’s in the house.”

Qi Fang put both hands in the pockets of his coat, “Student Shen next door to me hasn’t come back? He borrowed my water bottle and hasn’t returned it to me yet.”

Huang Dan said, “He went out.”

“I think he’s very busy these days, but you’re going to have an exam soon, and the single entrance exam is very important.”

Qi Fang sneezed, his chin retracted into the collar of his coat, “Speaking of which, why are you painting in the yard, are you not afraid of catching a cold?”

Huang Dan was waiting for him. Fortunately, there is a little harvest.

The wind got stronger, so Qi Fang returned back into the room. Huang Dan was too cold, and couldn’t stay any longer, so he moved the chair and left.

It snowed at night.

This is the first snow this year, full of gentle feelings and sweetness.

Huang Dan huddled under the blanket listlessly.

Chen Shi made dinner, a pot of porridge with green vegetables and lean meat. The meat he bought in the vegetable market in the wind and snow, cut into small cubes and threw it into the pot. After dinner, fry the rest with salt and pack it up to cook and eat later.

After working for a while, Chen Shi fetched water from the yard and entered the house. His hair and clothes were covered with snow. He patted and said, “Get up quickly, if you don’t eat anymore, the porridge in the pot will become stuffy.”

Huang Dan put on a sweater and wool pants under the blanket, and sat by the stove with his messy hair.

Chen Shi lifted the lid of the pot, “Look, look, look, the porridge is already cooked, and you’re going to stay on the bed when I tell you to get up!”

Huang Dan didn’t care, “Let’s eat, as long as it is edible.”

Chen Shi snorted, “You’re not picky.”

Huang Dan said, “No other choice.”

Chen Shi’s face twitched, it was true, in this environment, if he was still picky, he was out of his mind, so he went to get a big bowl of porridge for the youngster, almost all the diced meat was in it.

Huang Dan took two bites, and the taste was not bad. He saw that there was chili in Chen Shi’s bowl, and he heard the sound of the other party eating very crispy, so he couldn’t help but put a piece in his mouth, “It’s so spicy.”

Chen Shi’s eyes darkened, “Retract the tongue.”

Huang Dan’s tongue stretched out for so long that tears from the spiciness came out.

Chen Shi bit off that section of tongue.

Huang Dan groaned in his mouth, and he shivered from pain, and the bowl was almost unstable.

Chen Shi pinched his chin and wiped off the saliva, “Crying after eating chili peppers too, really can’t help you.”

Huang Dan cried and said, “It’s too spicy.”

When Chen Shi saw the youngster crying, the blood all over his body rushed to one place, he gulped his saliva, and tried to divert his attention by pulling the toilet paper.

Huang Dan blew his nose in front of Chen Shi.

Chen Shi didn’t think too much of it, he watched too much, he put the remaining half of the pepper in the youngster’s bowl in his mouth, and frowned, “Why is it so spicy? I ate several peppers and it wasn’t spicy.”

Huang Dan threw the toilet paper into the trash, “Some are spicy, some are not.”

Chen Shi couldn’t listen to whether it was spicy or not. His eyes were full of the youngster’s appearance, eyes were red, the tip of nose was red, lips were red and moist, so cute, he wanted to take a bite, he swallowed, “You closed your eyes.”

Huang Dan closed it.

His lips softened, and he opened his mouth slightly to let the other person in.

Chen Shi made the other person cry, it was not enough, he wanted to bully and bully again, but unfortunately now is not the time, “It turns out that the book is right, kissing is really addictive.”

Huang Dan’s mouth was bitten off, and his face was covered with tears from crying, and he didn’t want to talk to him now.

Chen Shi grabbed the tissue paper from the side, “Gege, I, is hard, you say, what’s to be done?”

He swears, saying this was really just a joke, there was absolutely no dirty intention, the five-fingered girl was ready to enter the battlefield.

When Chen Shi’s three souls and six spirits were all back in place, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Any cigarette couldn’t compare with it at all, the past half an hour was the real joy. God knows how much endurance Chen Shi had to use, not to put down his weapon and surrender when he was just given a head by the youngster for the first time.

Otherwise, he will be laughed to death.

Huang Dan went out to rinse his mouth, and came back covered in snow. He stuffed his cold hands under Chen Shi’s armpits to warm them, and there was a cry in his voice, “It’s your turn.”

Chen Shi was coldly shivered, and when he heard the youngster’s words, his facial muscles twitched, waiting for him here, “Ok, ok, ok, give you a head, give you a head.”

In less than ten minutes, Huang Dan was lying down, his limbs were weak, as if he had just run 800 meters and wanted to sleep.

Chen Shi pushed back the sweaty hair on the youngster’s forehead, and flicked it with his fingers, “Zhang Shuran, when you turn eighteen, shall we play a game of stick figures?”

Huang Dan fell asleep, “Ummm.”

After a while, Huang Dan rubbed against the bed, reached into his clothes and scratched his back, “I’m itchy, I want to take a bath.”

Chen Shi leaned against the outer bed and lit a cigarette, holding bedtime reading materials and English textbooks in his hand, “Go tomorrow, I want to wash it too.”

Huang Dan asked, “How much is it per person?”

Chen Shi said three yuan.

Huang Dan said, “Expensive.”

Chen Shi flicked the ash to the ground, “There’s a bathhouse nearby.”

Huang Dan thought for a while and said, “Qi Fang has a room in the dormitory, why don’t we go to his dormitory to wash?” He wanted to see Qi Fang’s classmates, hoping to get some information.

Chen Shi was very displeased with Qi Fang, “I’d rather spend six yuan than find him.”

Huang Dan pulled the quilt back, leaving his head outside, and asked Chen Shi to scratch his back.

Chen Shi scratched it, and threw the bedtime reading at the end of the bed. He smoked a cigarette and lay down under the quilt, hugging the warm youngster.

When the alarm clock rang, Huang Dan and Chen Shi were still lying on the bed.

After more than ten or twenty minutes, Chen Shi lifted off a corner of the quilt and got out of bed. He put on the thick sweater, took the jacket and put it on, then went to pull on the jeans, pull the zipper, and sat on the bedside to put on cotton socks, “You still don’t get up, how long are you going to sleep?”

Huang Dan poked his head out, eyes sleepy, “Is it still snowing?”

Chen Shi opened the curtains to have a look, and continued, “That shoe of yours comes unglued, the insides are wet, and they haven’t been dried on the stove. You are wearing mine today. They are a little too big, and the insoles are turned upside down for you.”

Huang Dan yawned, “Is the faucet frozen?”

After Chen Shi put on his socks, he took a pair of cotton shoes from under the bed, “I don’t know, I’ll go out and have a look later, it’s okay if it freezes, last night I fetched two buckets of water before going to bed, it’s enough.”

He stood up, and the youngster was still on the bed, “I’ll count to three, if you don’t get up till then, I’ll go outside and squeeze a snowball to wash your face.”

Huang Dan said, “Go brush your teeth and wash your face first, and leave me alone.”

Chen Shi played a rogue, “No, I want you to brush your teeth and wash your face with me.”

Huang Dan stretched out his hand from under the quilt.

Chen Shi saw the meaning of his action, and his heart was pounding, “What are you doing?”

Huang Dan said, “Hug.”

Chen Shi stared at the youngster who was acting like a spoiled child to him, did not blush at all, and still looked serious, which was amazing, “How old are you, you still have to hug when you get up? Don’t I always get up by myself?”

That’s what he said, but he bent down and approached, put his arms through the youngster’s armpits, and carried him out of the bed.