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In my parents' villages... they told me had fucking parasitic worms that creep up and will bit you and suck your blood and like feed off of your blood... I mean you don't even see them coming when you're busy working. And I was told that it's very painful.
Like ew, that's all I need to hear and I instantly hate rural areas forever. It's why everyone in China wants to go to cities for work, farming is horrible. Also no machineary like the US has, it's all manual.
Are you talking about leeches?
No idea. It was just described to me, not named. Not sure if my grandmother even had an education during that era of China, she was born just a few months before the PRC was proclaimed