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Arabian Nights works as a body makeup artist for China students in Australia.

Mike's appearance and brain are out of proportion to his age. There is a hint of sadness in his calmness, and he always talks with a cigarette between his arms. This post-80 s boy is afraid to tell people about the more than 1000 days and nights he studied in New Zealand. He said it was the greatest wealth in his life experience, but few people knew it. "I can't give my parents what I want."

Mike grew up in Beijing with his grandmother, and his parents worked in Hong Kong and Shanghai respectively, so it is rare to meet him twice a year. As early as childhood, Mike asked his grandmother suspiciously if he was born to his parents. In his own words, "(parents) gave me nothing but money, but they couldn't give me anything I wanted." Growing up in such a family environment made him independent, rebellious and indomitable. He learned to make up his own mind about everything, and once he made up his mind, no one could turn him back.

There is almost no reason to go abroad, perhaps just to prove myself to my parents. Mike, who studied law in Jilin University for one year, stubbornly chose to drop out of school. I went through the formalities of studying abroad and left all the money in my bank card to my grandmother who was sick and lived alone. In June 5438 +2003 10, Mike boarded a flight from Hong Kong to Auckland alone, with $20,000 in his pocket from his mother at the airport. To his surprise, he never went back after this trip. While working in a restaurant in 2005, Mike received a phone call from his family and was told that his grandmother had passed away. For him, perhaps the closest attention has since disappeared.

Working crazy to earn tuition.

In New Zealand, Mike began to study psychology at the University of Auckland, and obtained a master's degree after graduation. The total tuition fee exceeds NZ $654.38 million. Mike is also particularly proud that he has never spoken to his family after going abroad for so many years. However, after paying the first tuition fee, he clearly realized that not only did he have to work to support himself, but the tuition pressure behind him was overwhelming.

Mike still remembers that his first job was washing dishes in a cafe. This store didn't recruit foreign students, so he couldn't bear to wait outside at 6: 30 every morning. After waiting for six days, the boss was finally moved by his persistence. I delivered pizza, cut meat at a butcher's shop, delivered newspapers everywhere by bike at four in the morning, cleaned a mansion by the sea and smoked a "carpet that can never be sucked up". Mike is willing to do anything, but these are just enough to make ends meet.

It was in 2004 that he entered the funeral industry as a body makeup artist. In his sophomore year, he was chatting with his friends. He heard that a classmate works in a funeral home, and it seems that he can earn 30 yuan an hour. He was worried that the tuition fee would not be settled, so he quickly asked his friends for help. At first I thought it was just vacuuming, sweeping the floor and doing some simple peripheral work, but I didn't expect to be asked to mend my body. For 54 yuan's cash income every hour, Mike began to live with the dead every night for three years.

I don't care what I hear.

From then on, Mike began his career as a makeup artist on the funeral home floor with the appearance of an ordinary townhouse. Every night 10: 30 to 4: 30 the next morning, under the cold blue and white shadowless lamp, he was busy facing the bodies alone. Wash the five senses and trunk with liquid medicine, wipe the secretion with hydrogen peroxide, and apply foundation, blush and lipstick to the face of the deceased. This is all the work.

It is false to say that you are not afraid. A person in that environment, any trouble is chilling. The whistle of the wind blowing through the glass and the strange cries of drunkards outside the building are creepy. No matter what you hear, finish and leave. Mike hates cell phone ringtones. In an unusually quiet room, the ringtone of the mobile phone is infinitely amplified. Every time Mike subconsciously looked down to see if the bodies had opened their eyes, for fear of "waking" them. Later, Mike put an external amplifier in the funeral home. When he was working, he turned it up and stopped thinking about it. Listening to enthusiastic classical music and opera, Mike thinks it will give him strength. Until now, his favorite songs are not popular songs that all his peers like. Only Bach, Beethoven and Pavarotti are always on the CD.

When he was sleepy, Mike climbed to the roof to smoke. Think about the past days, think about my closest grandmother. That is, from then on, Mike began to smoke, and gradually began to smoke.

"The heart is full of strength."

This kind of work lasted three years. Three years later, he submitted his resignation after earning enough tuition. Mike said that he would never do this job again, not because he was afraid. On the contrary, in the dead of night, he even felt more natural in the morgue. At first, he would deliberately downplay these experiences with his friends, but some people were afraid that someone would not understand, and finally they simply stopped talking. A lot of emotions are piled up in my heart, and there is nowhere to talk.

But Mike really needs to be fired. He wants to go back to his normal lifestyle. The heavy psychological burden is beyond his capacity. While working in the funeral home, Mike tried to fantasize about the stories of those cold bodies and record them one by one. I wrote a lot, most of them are kept, which is also a memorial to him. Mike said that he was lucky to study psychology and know how to self-guide, otherwise he would "either insist or be crazy".

This experience is a precious life experience for Mike, and he became more mature and calm when it happened. Whenever encountering difficulties, Mike always tells himself, "I am not afraid of the dead, but also of the living?" Mike said that when life experiences become more and more abundant, "the heart will be full of strength."

Postscript of interview

The interview with Mike was outside a corner coffee shop in downtown Sydney. He came to Sydney two years ago, intending to get an identity first. In the second half of this year, he will go to the Australian National University to study western art history. He said he wanted to write something, but he didn't know whether he could support himself by it. The documentary can't be written. Many things are not old enough to understand. Just write a novel. Tired of drifting overseas in a few years, I returned to China to open a hotel in Lijiang and have a leisurely rest for a few years.

Finally, the topic returned to his family. After a long walk, Mike said that he still yearned for a normal family life. He slammed the last cigarette butt into the ashtray and looked at the traffic around him, as if to himself, "After all, parents are still parents, and sons are still sons."