Chapter 7 Part Five: The experience of dealing with blood-sucking worms

Wearing shorts in summer, people often ask me why there is no leg hair on my feet?Men's lower legs are more or less hairy, but rarely smooth and hairless.The answer is: to be bitten by mosquitoes like this.Those who heard it naturally didn't believe it, how could mosquitoes bite off the leg hair! Under normal circumstances, of course not.However, the entire leg was full of lumps after being bitten by mosquitoes, and there was no antipruritic medicine, so I had to scratch hard to relieve the itching, until the skin was covered with lumps, and the mosquitoes were merciless, biting those again Dense lumps, lumps on the lumps, can reach three or four layers, scratch until the legs are more than twice as thick, the skin is rotten and heals, and when it is rotten, there is no skin left, and the hair will not be attached. Naturally, over time, the foot hair also disappeared.

I have been to two places with the most mosquitoes in my life, one is the northern part of Anhui Province, by the Hongze Lake, and the other is the grasslands of Inner Mongolia. How many mosquitoes are there in those two places?If you use a curtain, no matter what color the curtain is, if you shine a torch in the middle of the night, the curtain will be black, because the curtain is full of mosquitoes. It was only after dark that the mosquitoes first appeared. In the wild, swarms of mosquitoes could be seen flying around like smoke, making astonishing noises.Absolutely no exaggeration, when you open your mouth to speak, if a swarm of mosquitoes happens to pounce on you, you can take a mouthful full of mosquitoes, and you can't spit it out.

The mosquitoes on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia are not too fierce, but the mosquitoes on Hongze Lake are really fierce. Wearing a pair of single pants will bite you all over the body, and there are too many mosquitoes, unless it is dark, hide in the Don't go out in the smoked hollow, or shrink in the mosquito net, otherwise, you can't help but be poisoned by these small, dead insects. And in that kind of situation, the process of fighting against mosquitoes, as the spirit of all things, is really a terrible failure. I am willing to give one-tenth of the blood in my body as food. I just hope that when it is full, it does not leave venom, which makes the skin red and swollen, and itches so much that it hurts the heart and lungs.But such a surrender letter is of no use at all, and the mosquitoes will not accept it at all.

Blood-sucking insects that are milder than mosquitoes are lice. There are many types of lice, and those that live on the human body alone include head lice, body lice, and pubic lice.The strange thing is that they all look the same, but they have their own territory. The river water does not interfere with the well water, the head lice do not suck blood on the body, only on the head, and the pubic lice never go beyond the thunder pool, only on the small Activities on the ground. Lice suck blood and are relatively mild.The ancients said: Don't worry about debts, and don't itch if you have lice. This is really the case.

One winter in northern Jiangsu, I was basking in the sun with a few people. I felt warm. I took off the cotton pants I had worn for several months and shook my hands. The lice fell like snowflakes. There were at least thousands of them. But it doesn't feel itchy.The fellow said: Lice suck blood, no matter how many lice there are on the body, there must be a louse king, and the louse king acts as a biter. Biting and itching, there is only one place. This statement is naturally doubtful, but it is true that there is no corresponding increase in red bumps on the body. Lice are the laziest of blood-sucking insects. Living in the north for a few years, the northerners have learned a lot of things. There is one thing that they can't learn even by beheading.The fellow in the north was basking in the sun, stretched his hand into his cotton-padded jacket, squeezed a few lice in his hand, put them in his mouth one by one, bit them, and crushed one, making a slight thud.It is said that after biting the lice, a little plasma will flow out, which is delicious and beneficial.I really dare not try it, I would rather let the lice bite than bite the lice.

Among the blood-sucking insects, fleas are also a terrible kind. They are as small as millet, black, and their bodies are very hard when squeezed. They can jump several meters in one jump. There are many in Subei. After being bitten by it, The red bumps last for a long time, with mixed pain and itching, but they are very difficult to catch. When you see it attached to your body, you can pat it with five fingers. I also caught a few and put them in a transparent box, and the crackling sound was endless all day long. It was the sound of it jumping around and bumping into the box. It was so energetic that no other creature could match it.

Among all the blood-sucking insects, the most fearful and tyrannical one is the gadfly. The gadfly looks like a fly, but it is as big as a thumb and as thick as cowhide. Among them, I was bitten by a gadfly only once at the bank of the Subei River, on the thigh near the waist. There was a red lump the size of an egg, which lasted for months. There was a small hole at the top of the lump, and yellow water kept flowing out. Then there are the leeches, the snot-like things that aren't even bugs.Once when I went to the paddy field, when I got up, I mistakenly thought I was wearing boots.Obviously went down barefoot, what's going on?

When I looked carefully, I saw that the calf was covered with leeches, black and gray, and was desperately sucking blood. At that time, it was not for fear, nor for fear, nor for nausea, but just felt an inexplicable thing. As a person who is an advanced creature , how can it be so useless, because of howling and crying, leeches are possessed, and they can't be torn off. Fortunately, Tanabe was prepared, there was a large bucket of salt water, and after his feet were soaked in salt, the leeches came off one after another, twisted and wriggled, really I shudder when I think of it!Don't tell me that the countryside is cute, there are too many scary things in the countryside, all kinds of poisonous insects, even non-poisonous insects, are enough to make people frightened.