Chapter 463: Impermanent Things, Colorful Voices (1)

sound.

Sound waves are generated by the vibration of objects, propagate through media and can be sensed by humans or animals.

The sound of wind, rain, animal barking, human conversation, music, noise...

Hearing is a vast world.

This world is not independent. It is connected to more feelings under the reception and processing of the most complex sense organs, the brain.

So the howling cold wind makes people shiver involuntarily, the tinkling of spring water and the chirping of birds in the forest make people relieve their fatigue, as if they are in the spring scenery, leisurely and comfortable.

Sound is a medium and a power.

So, what about emotions?

Why is laughter so contagious and makes people laugh, and how does crying resonate with people's hearts?

Going one step further, intense emotions can be perceived through sounds, but can abstract emotions be reflected in sounds?

able.

They are nowhere to be seen in Qiao Yu's ears and eyes.

…

Seventeen years ago, the town hospital.

The baby girl wrapped in swaddling clothes lay quietly in the woman's arms, breathing weakly.

"No. 14——"

The previous patient walked out of the clinic. The woman stood up with the baby in her arms and hurried in.

"Doctor! I am, I am No. 14..."

She carefully put down the swaddling clothes, and the doctor in a white coat stretched out his hand to look into the baby girl's eyes.

"Tell me, what's wrong?" the doctor asked.

The woman murmured, her face pale and haggard.

"Doctor, she can't see..."

I kept my eyes closed for two weeks after I was born. When I finally opened them, I didn't respond to any gestures in front of my eyes. I just stared blankly ahead.

After listening to the description, the doctor's expression did not change. He only made a few casual remarks about science. Then, he took out the instrument to test the light response, and then frowned.

The baby girl's eyes were open, round, clear and translucent, but lifeless.

"Huh?"

The doctor tried carefully and asked a few more questions about daily diet and genes. The woman's answers were vague, and the doctor's brows became more and more frowned.

"It's strange, there is nothing wrong with her eyes." He showed a puzzled look. "The eyeballs are well developed and the eyelids are not ruptured... In this way, you can take the child to do fundus angiography and OCT."

The woman's already pale face changed, and she whispered "Okay".

The doctor opened a few orders and pointed to the payment window. The woman took a few thin pieces of paper, her fingertips trembling.

She picked up the baby girl and walked quickly to other departments without paying the money immediately.

"What's wrong with the child?" asked another kind-looking female doctor.

"I, I don't know..." the woman said softly, "she always cried when she was just born. She cried so loudly that I couldn't coax her. I could only wait for her to stop crying, and then she would cry again after a while... ...After a few days, I stopped crying or making any noise."

There was a hint of reproach to the young mother in the female doctor's eyes, but she held the baby in her arms without saying anything.

"Are you breastfeeding? Don't be hungry."

"Hey, hey." The woman said hurriedly.

"Your child is weak." The female doctor said while doing some simple examinations. "Which hospital was he born in? How many pounds does he weigh? Did you bring the report sheet from the physical examination?"

The woman lowered her head, and a strand of withered hair fell from her ears.

She said nonchalantly: "She was born at home... No, I didn't do a physical examination."

The female doctor immediately put the baby down.

She glanced at the woman warily, her eyes turned around her clothes, and her voice lowered: "Go for a physical examination quickly. The child is less than two months old. How can we not do a good examination?"

The woman bowed her head and said yes, took a few thin but extremely heavy orders, and hurried away with the baby girl in her arms.

She walked straight out of the hospital.

The baby was quiet in her arms, neither crying nor fussing, like a warm, small doll.

It was late spring, and the oncoming wind made people feel chilly all over. The thin woman hugged her child, wrapped her coat tightly, bowed her upper body, bypassed the road, and walked forward step by step.

Across the street, she heard the drunken laughter and curses of regular customers, and her figure immediately shrunk even smaller, like a rat walking through a sewage ditch, hunched over and trotting.

As the night grew darker, the orphanage's sign came into view.

The woman placed the baby's swaddling clothes on the ground outside the door and took off her coat.

The cold wind blew up her exposed shoulders and chest, causing a layer of goosebumps, which made the burn scars from cigarette butts, bruises and red and swollen whip marks more conspicuous.

The woman shivered and was about to put her coat over the baby girl, but hesitated. After a full ten seconds, she cried and wrapped her clothes back around herself.

As if arriving, she left in a hurry.

…

"When you came here, you were just a little bit older." The dean's grandmother flipped through the roster and recalled, "When you were a child, you were as good as you are now. You fed me whatever you wanted, and you didn't make any noise. You just didn't like to sleep, and your eyes always kept turning. Open it, and it will spin around at the slightest sound."

Five-year-old Qiao Yu is sitting on a small bench, with a fair face, big eyes and long eyelashes, and a well-behaved expression, like a beautiful doll in the window.

She likes to sit next to her grandma. Grandma's words are bright yellow and red, bright and beautiful, and also smell of rice.

Several children were running over chasing each other outside, patting the window glass.

"Qiao Shantao! Qiao Shantao! Come out and play!"

The sound made Qiao Yu shrink subconsciously. She stood up, walked over, and said softly:

"I don't, you guys are so noisy."

"What did you say? I can't hear you!"

Through a layer of glass, the child on the other side shouted loudly.

"Oh, don't take her with you, she talks like a mosquito!" The little girl who was following the boy in the lead tugged on his sleeve, "Hurry up! Throw the sandbags!"

"No, I want to play with her!" the boy said loudly, "She's pretty!"

The little girl stamped her feet vigorously and glared at Qiao Yu.

"Hmph! Mosquito fish!" she shouted at her in a sharp voice.

The cold, mud-like color hit Qiao Yu's ears.

She shivered in pain, took two steps back, turned around, ran back to the dean and sat down, with her back facing them.

"The complainer!!"

The little girl shouted again, "The accuser! The accuser! I'm so annoyed!"

Qiao Yu shrank in pain and wrinkled his face.

"Grandma, grandma." She breathed in and whispered intermittently, "My ears hurt..."

The dean's grandmother took Qiao Yu's hand, brought her to her side and patted her on the back gently.

"Okay, go and play by yourselves."

Then, the dean walked to the window and said to the children, "Qiao Yu is not feeling well. Can I play with you from now on?"

"She knows how to pretend to be sick!"

The little girl cried aggrievedly, and her cries were loud.

Complainant! Pretending to be sick! It was as if someone was bullying her!

"Hua Ling, you are so annoying. It makes you so loud when you cry!" The little boy looked confused.

Do you want Qiao Shantao to come over and play with you or not? You little girls are so weird!

"You think I'm noisy too!!"

Hua Ling cried and yelled, turned around and ran away.

It’s so annoying! It’s so annoying! It's all the mosquito fish's fault! She is so disgusting!

Qiao Yu curled up and got under the dean's grandmother's desk, covering her ears, pressing her back against the partition, and her limbs twitched from time to time.

It hurts, it hurts.

I really want to die.

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