Plague Doctor

Congenital bilateral upper limb deletion is a clinically rare congenital limb malformation, mainly due to morphological and structural defects caused by embryonic dysplasia in the early stages of pregnancy.

There can be many reasons, including history of radiation exposure, history of medication during pregnancy, family genetics, marriage of close relatives, effects of environmental factors, etc.

The situation of Lin Mirror is not family hereditary, because Lin family has no family hereditary medical history, Lin Mirror's own sister and brother, cousin, are healthy and normal, no congenital deformities. Nor are Lin Mirror's parents close relatives, nor have they been particularly exposed to radiation. As for the history of medication used during pregnancy, Lin Mirror's mother said she had taken several painkillers that year. I don't know if this is the reason.

More than two decades ago, in an old era, Anfu Village was isolated, and pregnant women were at best given maternity check-ups to the town hospitals.

Besides, there was no prenatal diagnosis or pregnancy medical examination that was so perfect at that time, it was simply difficult to prevent the birth of a child with a malformation.

“Mirror, I was born without a hand... I didn't know yet, it was the nurse who suddenly screamed in amazement and let me see it, let me know it wasn't the child that was replaced... I asked the nurse, hand, where is his hand? The nurse said... he just didn't have a hand...”

The forest mirror family is an old house of less than fifty square meters, built for decades, old red brick exterior wall, black wooden door, green paint faded anti-theft door.

Although there are anti-theft doors, there is actually nothing for such a family to steal. Once the door is forced into the living room, there is a half-height TV cabinet in front of it. Several of the cabinet doors are already too broken to be covered. Pull down there, there is an old TV on the cabinet, and a lot of messy debris.

There is a set of coffee tables and chairs on either side of the living room and a desk and grocery cabinet on the other side.

All these pieces of furniture are old and rotten, either bought and used for years to become like this or used to pick up furniture that was eliminated by relatives and friends.

At this time, Lin Mirror's parents sat on the wooden chairs on both sides of the coffee table. His father, Lin Guowei, had a dark-skinned face and grabbed his head from time to time. His mother, Chen Shengdi, said these words, his eyes were red and wiped away tears that were about to fall.

Both are workers working in local factories, sometimes farming, with low culture, low incomes and a lot of work. Apparently, both are much older than they actually are under the age of 50, like two elderly people.

For today's sudden situation, the whole village alley was sealed off from any investigators in a house, and they were unable to adapt and were disturbed.

“My son, his life is not good...” Chen Shengdi swallowed slightly, “Blame me me for taking a few painkillers while I was pregnant with him... Can you help us find him back? I heard he was begging in downtown Dongzhou...” She suddenly got excited and wanted to kneel down to the floor, "Please...”

“Auntie Chan, sit down.” Gu Jun held onto the middle-aged woman who had lost her child and let her sit back in her chair, while keeping an eye on Lin Guowai's divine colour.

He seems to have caught that dark face, hidden a little confusion and pain...

Before walking into this room, Gu Jun had a bit of a grooming.

One of the first words he heard in the maternity ward from a negative choice voice was: “Those negative choices throw them in the trash can, into the wild, into the sea, or destroy them humanely, or let them die for themselves. ”

If, then the sound is a forest mirror... or it is related to a forest mirror...

“Throw it in the wild”, which is the same as a rumor in the village.

Gu Jun calmly surveyed the surrounding area again. There was a dusty light green old ceiling fan hanging over the living room. Several walls were filled with faded cartoon stickers, New Year's Eve stickers, and some school awards, which belonged to Lin Mirror's sister.

There is also a photo frame on this wall of the coffee table that shows some pictures, and it looks like this has never been a four-person house.

There is no photograph of the forest mirror, no personal photograph, the forest mirror disappeared, as if it had never existed.

But if you're afraid of contact injuries, hiding photos of forest mirrors is no surprise, and in some places customs can even tear apart all the photos of deceased relatives.

“Aunt Chan, can you tell us what happened the day Mirror disappeared? Has anything strange happened before? ”

Gu Jun asked, while keeping an eye on the couple, there are also several investigative colleagues. His old acquaintances Wang Yichuang and Cao Yichuang are all here.

By comparison, he only felt that Wang Yi and others had more investigative experience and skills. They only captured one thing from a micro-expression, and they also judged that Lin Guowai was odd. The more they asked, the more Chen Shengdi said, the more exposed Lin Guowai was.

Between the eyes of the people, there is naturally an inference that flows into their hearts.

Did Lin Guowai abandon his eldest son, Lin Mirror, without Chen Shengdi's knowledge...

But is that really the case...

“No, no, always good.” Chen Shengdi's tears didn't seem to be fake, but also as if he was trying to remember:

“Nothing, everything was fine that morning... I remember cooking porridge in the morning, Mirror's appetite was good, and I drank two bowls... In the afternoon, I went to work in the ground, Sister Brother went with me, Mirror stayed at home to watch TV... When we got back from the ground, we wouldn't see him at home, usually he would go out to play himself, just in the village, we don't have to worry about it from time to time, I still thought he was out to play...”

At the same time, Lin Guowai tightened his face, did not say a word, found a cigarette from his pocket, was about to smoke one, and put it back.

“But in the evening, Mirror didn't come back...” Chen Shengdi said to cry again, "We went out and looked everywhere, in the village, in the fields, to the surrounding mountains, for a few days, the villagers also helped to find, didn't find...”

In fact, Gu Jun has already heard this statement, and the villagers can confirm a large part of it.

It's just the part where you start looking for Mirror in the evening, and nobody can tell you exactly what happened that afternoon.

“I'd like to ask.” Gu Jun said, looking at Lin Guowai, "Uncle Lin, where were you the afternoon Mirror disappeared? ”

Lin Guowei was stunned. He was looked at by Gu Jun, Wang Hui and others. These two seemingly calm eyes seemed to see through all the lies. They were more poisonous than the factory leaders and village leaders that Lin Guowei had seen.

“I...” Lin Guoqiao stopped, his face changed and he tightened again. “I left the city that day and only came back at night...”