12. Rheumatism and insects
The girl was about twenty meters away from me, and if I hadn't known that the condition on her body was the same as An Xusheng's, I would probably have thought that the dense black spots on her arms were just moles.
The girl didn't seem to care about the vision in her arm, and she even poked her finger into the hole in her arm, which seemed funny to her, but it seemed to me to be a disgusting act, and I felt uncomfortable to look at.
"I know it's a hole, don't poke it." I couldn't take it anymore, so I stopped it.
The girl was quite obedient, she immediately stopped poking the hole, lowered her sleeves, and continued to look at the weeds in the yard and giggle.
"What's your name?" I tried to talk to the girl.
"My name is Lin Lin." The girl replied.
"Do you know when you started getting these holes in your arms?"
"I heard my mom say that it was like it was from birth, that these holes were in my nostrils, and I breathed through them." After saying that, she deliberately took a deep breath.
"Then when you went to school before, you had a hole in your arm and was not seen by your classmates?" I continued.
"No, I only had holes in my body before, and then I only had holes in my arms, so my mother won't let me go out."
"What about bugs? Why are you afraid of bugs? ”
When she heard the word "bug", Lin Lin's whole body was obviously shocked, and the smile that had been hanging on her face before suddenly disappeared, replaced by a look of horror.
I hurriedly waved my hand and said, "Forget it, don't think about this, let's talk about the doctor who came today, do you know who he is?" ”
Lin Lin's mood turned quite quickly, and the horror on her face disappeared as I changed the topic, and then she pursed her lips and said unhappily: "I hate that person, every time I see him, I have to get an injection, it hurts a lot, but my mother said that if I don't get an injection, I will be bitten by insects, so I can only get a shot, but it still hurts very much, so I hate him." ”
The content of her answer had nothing to do with my question, it was just that she said everything she wanted to say.
I patiently repeated my question again, and this time Lin Lin replied to my question: "He is a doctor, and he has always come to my house to see me since I was very young. ”
"Did he tell you what kind of disease you have?"
"I don't know, my mother said I seem to have rheumatism, but I'm not wet at all, it's dry, and it often cracks."
That's not rheumatism, there is no kind of rheumatism in the world that makes people full of holes. As for the cracking that Lin Lin said, it was probably because there were too many holes on the body, which caused the skin to dehydrate, so it cracked.
"Your mom isn't home now?" I turned the conversation back to Lin Lin's family.
"She's out to buy groceries."
"Where's your dad?"
"He's at work and won't come back until late at night, but I hope he doesn't come back all the time, and when he comes back, he'll scold me and lock me up, not wanting me to show up in front of him."
I was just about to continue asking, but Lin Lin suddenly looked back at the room nervously, and then waved at me and said, "My mother is back, I'm going to close the window, goodbye uncle." After saying that, Lin Lin also returned to the house and closed the window tightly, and the entire courtyard returned to its previous silence.
Although I didn't say a few words to Lin Lin, I also got some important information from her words.
First of all, the cellulosis on Lin Lin's body seems to have been from her birth, at first there were few holes, and they only appeared on the body, but as she grew older, those holes began to spread to the body, which will make people's bodies lose water and crack, it is estimated that because the wind will drill into these holes in the body, so people will feel cold, and they must wear sweaters to keep out the cold on hot days.
Then, people with cellulosis seem to have hallucinations, a hallucination related to bugs, I'm not sure if it's a hallucination, maybe those bugs exist, but they exist in a way that is not visible to ordinary people, like the wasps on the honeycomb boy An Xusheng.
Maybe what Lin Lin saw were insects living in the underworld, and the holes on her body were the nests of those underworld insects.
So who is the strange doctor who comes to Lin's house every week to give Lin Lin injections?
He wasn't supposed to be a ghost, but it was very suspicious that he was wrapped tightly on a hot day, and I even suspected that he might have those holes all over his body as well.
He gave Lin Lin an injection, maybe not to make the bugs that harassed Lin Lin disappear, but to make Lin Lin not notice those bugs, so that the bugs could nest and settle on Lin Lin with peace of mind until Lin Lin was killed by these bugs.
After the sun completely set, Qiao Wei also immediately used the soul summoning technique in the house, and An Xusheng finally appeared in front of us again, as soon as he was on the road, he immediately opened the conversation box and told everything he knew about Lin Lin, it seems that he has not been idle during the day.
According to An Xusheng, Lin Lin couldn't cry or breathe when she was born, and the hospital felt that the child had no hope of being rescued. But at this time, a mysterious strange person appeared, and he pierced two holes in Lin Lin's stomach, and as a result, these two holes were like noses to breathe instead of Lin Lin and save her life.
This was originally a thing to be happy about, but as Lin Lin grew up day by day, the people of the Lin family couldn't be happy. The holes that kept Lin Lin's life in the first place began to increase on Lin Lin for no reason, and Lin Lin was always inexplicably afraid.
At first, the Lin family didn't know what Lin Lin was afraid of, but it wasn't until Lin Lin knew the word "bug" that the people of the Lin family knew that Lin Lin had always been afraid of bugs, but the bugs she was afraid of were invisible to everyone.
The people of the Lin family couldn't see the so-called worm, but An Xusheng could see it.
When An Xu was living, he was also troubled by those bugs, and those bugs still did not leave him after his death.
Among the many insects, what scares An Xusheng the most is not the flying insects that nest on him, but a millipede with many legs, that kind of insect is a bit like a centipede, but An Xusheng doesn't think it's a centipede, that thing is much longer than a centipede, like a snake with countless legs. The bugs would sneak into the holes in Ahns' body after he fell asleep, swim around them, and eat the nesting wasps in his body.
The huge itch of those feet crawling on An Xusheng's body, and the crunch of millipedes chewing wasps, used to be An Xusheng's nightmares, but with the end of his life, those pains disappeared together, and now when he saw those insects again, he no longer felt fear, but more kind.