People Who Can Hear

After Chen Mo drowned at the age of nine, he suddenly understood how animals spoke - cats said they wanted to go out, birds said they were cold, and dogs said they were hungry. He took these words seriously, but the whole world thought he was crazy. He was collected, used, inherited, forgotten, protected, expropriated, exterminated, copied - every pair of hands wanted to close the audible door on him. He squatted all his life and opened doors all his life: opening the door for cats, opening the door for birds, opening the door for children who could hear, and opening the door for everyone who squatted down. The darkness pressed down layer by layer, and he opened the door layer by layer. Until one day, he finally lost hearing. But he was still squatting. The door is always open. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.