Bai Xin was very tense, holding her breath and staring intently at Li Mo’s mouth, her ears seemingly unable to hear anything, seeing only Li Mo’s mouth moving.
And Bai Zhi, with a faint smile at the corner of her mouth, was listening slowly, while Wu Wa was holding Bai Zhi’s hand all the time.
Li Mo had been holding the results for a while and just couldn’t believe them.
When Bai Xin found him and said she wanted to have this check done for her niece, he was shocked. How could someone suspect that a needle had been stuck inside?
An embroidery needle, no less. How could it be possible, and when he saw the girl, Bai Zhi, she could run and jump, she seemed so well-behaved, the only issue being she looked a bit skinny, possibly malnourished.
But when the results came out, he felt as if his entire understanding of the world had been refreshed.
"Bai Xin, Bai Zhi’s test results, in this case..."
Bai Xin started to zone out, clutching her clothes very tightly.
It wasn’t until Bai Zhi’s voice echoed that Bai Xin came back to her senses. She marched over, snatched the x-ray film, but she could only see bones; she couldn’t make sense of the rest.
She genuinely couldn’t understand it, no matter what she did; she just couldn’t. She looked anxiously at Li Mo.
"Tell me quickly, what is going on here? What’s the situation? There’s nothing wrong, right? My Xingxing is completely normal, isn’t she? Tell me, is she?"
Bai Xin looked at Li Mo anxiously, rattling on in a torrent.
Li Mo took back the film, and actually, his prolonged silence was indicative of a problem. If there were none, he would have interrupted Bai Xin by now.
Li Mo grabbed Bai Xin’s hand, looking at her very seriously and began speaking word by word.
"Bai Xin, Bai Zhi needs to be hospitalized."
It was this simple sentence that caused the x-ray film in Bai Xin’s hand to suddenly drop.
Bai Zhi’s mind was filled with one thought: as expected, no wonder.
No wonder the original owner had such a deep-seated fear of needles. The body was so resistant because of that.
"How can this be, how can this be?"
Bai Xin could not accept the results; it seemed impossible. How could Bai Da do this.
"How could he be such an inhuman person!"
Bai Xin was trembling with anger, picking up the film again.
"Tell me where to look, what to do now, what to do? Li Mo, tell me!"
Bai Xin was in a panic, her tears already falling. Her heart was spasming with pain, hurt beyond words.
"Hospitalization, surgery, but I don’t know how to proceed with the surgery. We have to wait for my master to return, but what I need to tell you is, look at this film, at her knees. One side with five needles, the other side with six, and on the arm, there are five needles, six on the shoulder, all in the crevices of the bones. It shows that the person who put them there did so intentionally. Bai Zhi doesn’t feel the pain, not because it doesn’t hurt, but because she doesn’t know, or rather, she’s become numb to the constant, faint pain."
Bai Xin turned around and looked at Bai Zhi, who for some reason was still smiling at Bai Xin.
She walked over and extended her hand, carefully wiping away Bai Xin’s tears, and then spoke with a touch of disdain.
"Auntie, you look so ugly when you cry, don’t cry. It doesn’t hurt; didn’t Uncle Li Mo say they can be removed?"