Eliminator

Chapter 148 Lanling Ghost Mask (1) Mask Family

The earliest role of masks was to get close to animals when hunting. Later, with the development of time, mask culture split into various types.The earliest masks formed were the Nuo god masks in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and later masks were used by actors to decorate and killers to cover up their identities.

The Hua family is the largest mask factory in Lincheng. Their ancestors have specialized in making masks for more than a dozen generations. In their heyday, they used to be mask manufacturers for the imperial court.It's just that masks are used less and less now, and the most common use is to make some children's toy masks.

Huawei has been restless recently.

One thing is because one of their biggest partners has terminated the cooperation, and the other thing is that a thing handed down by the ancestors has been lost.

With the development of masks to this day, the income has been unable to make ends meet.The Hua family used to be a big family in Lincheng, but now they can barely take care of the family.The Hua family has a piece of real estate in Lincheng, which was left by the ancestors of the Hua family. Both of Hua Weide's sons once lobbied their father to let him sell it and develop other businesses.But Hua Weide insisted on making masks. This is an industry left by the ancestors. How can it be lost if it has been passed down for more than ten generations?
It's a pity that the two sons and the father's ideas are running counter to each other.

Every weekend, Hua Weide would come to the Hua Family Ancestral Hall for a while.There is also a keeper of the Hua family ancestral hall, who is Hua Weide's cousin A Ming.

A Ming has been a mask worker all his life, and has never married a wife and started a family. He has been following Hua Weide all the time.After retiring from the mask factory, he volunteered to guard the Hua Family Ancestral Hall.Hua Weide and A Ming grew up together, and they have a good relationship.Every weekend, he comes to the Hua family ancestral hall, besides offering incense to his ancestors, he also accompany A Ming.

However, this weekend, he and Amin discovered that the masked god statue in the ancestral hall was missing.For a long time, the masked idols have been enshrined separately in the hut behind the ancestral hall, because the idols are ancestral items, and there is a secret unknown to outsiders, so few people go there.

At first, Hua Weide suspected that it was his two sons, but later found that the two sons never returned to Lincheng.He analyzed it with Amin, and finally Amin said a name hesitantly.

Huafeng.

"Isn't he dead? How could it be him?" Hua Weide couldn't believe it.

Amin explained in detail how he found the missing statue that day.

That night, Amin heard movement behind him, so he got up and went over to take a look.It turned out that there were some bumpy footprints on the ground, and he followed those footprints to the back, which was the Hua family's ancestral grave, and those footprints stopped in front of a small gravestone.That tombstone belongs to Huafeng.

When Amin returned to the hut, he found that the statue enshrined inside was gone.

"But this can't be called Huafeng, he has been dead for three years." Hua Weide still shook his head.

"Do you still remember how Huafeng died back then? I think this is a bit strange." Amin said in a low voice.

Of course Hua Weide knew how Huafeng died back then. Huafeng can be said to be the most outstanding mask maker among the descendants of the Hua family.It's a pity that he has been doing research on other masks, and the one he has done most is the Nuo God mask.Nuo god masks were used for sacrifices in ancient times, and some evil things were found for the materials, so the Hua family never made them.

But Huafeng liked those things since he was a child, and secretly made a lot of them.

Huafeng's parents died in a car accident when he was a child, and Hua Weide has always taken care of him.Hua Weide hated that iron could not be made into steel, and locked Huafeng up, but Huafeng committed suicide and left some things at the scene.Those things were all used by Huafeng to make masks. When Hua Weide died, he hung those things in the room. Those masks of different sizes and incompleteness hung densely all over the room. Those who collected the body were shocked.

Hua Weide couldn't imagine that Huafeng, who had been dead for three years, crawled out of the tomb, and then went to the back of the ancestral hall to steal the statue.That statue is a taboo for the descendants of the Hua family. Before his death, his father told him that no matter what, the statue should not be passed on to the outside world, otherwise it will cause a big mistake.

After the statue was lost, Hua Weide immediately reported the case, but unfortunately the police station did not take it as an important matter, because the statue is neither an antique nor can provide valuable proof.

Huawei couldn't sit still tonight.He came to the ancestral hall again and wanted to discuss it with his cousin A Ming.Unexpectedly, when I came to the ancestral hall, there were no lights in the ancestral hall.

The ancestral hall enshrines the spiritual tablets of the ancestors, specially lit with ever-burning lamps.

How could it be gone?
Hua Weide yelled a few times, but did not hear Amin's answer.He picked up the flashlight and walked in.

The stabbing pain was dark, dozens of spiritual places of the ancestors of the Hua family were densely pasted together, and the ever-burning lamp in front was smoking, as if it had just been extinguished not long ago.

Hua Weide shook around, found the power switch, and walked over to turn it on.Suddenly someone caught him at his feet. He scanned with a flashlight and saw Amin lying on the ground, covered in blood.

"Amin, what's wrong with you?" Hua Weide immediately helped him up without turning on the light.

"Hua, Hua, Huafeng." Amin said a name intermittently.

"What's wrong with Huafeng?" After Hua Weide helped A Ming, he groped for a while and turned on the light.

The light flickered and came on.

Hua Weide saw another person on the opposite side. That person was wearing a coat and a peaked cap, and he wrapped himself up tightly.

"Who are you?" Huawei looked at him warily.

"The statue is lost. I'm sorry for the Hua family." The man spoke.

"You are Huafeng?" Hearing that person's words, Hua Weide couldn't help blurting out, remembering what A Ming said just now.

"The curse has started and it can't stop. Tell me, where is the mask?" The man ignored Hua Weide, but took two steps forward and stretched out his hand.

Only then did Hua Weide see clearly that the man's hand was not a human hand at all, but a skeleton hand with white bones all over it.

"Who the hell are you?" Hua Weide was startled, and stepped back.

"Where's the mask? Give me the Lanling mask?" the man yelled.

Lanling mask?Hua Weide heard the other party's request clearly, but soon, he shook his head, "No, no, there is no Lanling mask."

"Give it to me." The man suddenly moved to Hua Weide's side, and grabbed his neck with his hand.

"No, no, don't." Hua Weide shook his head vigorously, because his neck was stuck, his breathing began to become short of breath.

"Give it to me." The man emphasized his tone and twisted hard, breaking Hua Weide's neck.

Amin, who was underground, saw the scene in front of him, his body froze, and he didn't move.

The light shone on that person's face, he walked in front of Huawei, turned his bony hands around Huawei's face vigorously, took off Huawei's face, and then stuck it on his own face...

(End of this chapter)