Market Book

The market has been in existence for three hundred years, and words have bones. Chenwu is an abandoned village at the outermost edge of Shuxu. The wooden door is always closed, and a string of silent copper bells hangs under the eaves. The people who keep the ruins live in the firewood shed at the end of the village. They have no names and no tongues. The villagers called him "the mute dog". There is only one thing the mute dog does every day: use a carving knife to carve the random words of the children in the village on pieces of dry wood. It's not a record, it's a "seal". Because the rule of the book market is - unwritten words will rot in the wind, and rotten words will lead to "silence". Silence is something whose shape is invisible and only the sound of chewing can be heard. They eat words, and they also eat the people who say them.