"Then I really can't help it, I don't greet you well, you take care of it. Boss Luo smiled and arched his hand again.

In fact, he wished that the cream man would not buy it! The cream man was obviously a master of rare books, and if he ordered it so clearly, how could he ask for a price? But he couldn't explicitly not sell it, and that would be a joke.

It's best if he lets it go himself.

Although the cream man pointed out the actual situation of this set of books, Boss Luo argued a few words at the beginning, but the cream man didn't mind too much as if he was just talking about things.

"Okay, forget it. I spent some time reading this set of books just now, and some of them haven't been read yet, so I'll check them out again. With that, the cream man walked in again.

Yu Yao then went to the innermost area.

Lin Fengcao is also here, holding a set of books on education at Zhonghua Book Company during the Republic of China.

Yu Yao roughly swept it, the rare books here, the earliest is the Ming Dynasty carving, and there are some re-engraved Song carvings, the quality is worse than the set just now. Song Keben's name is too loud, and such a thing can't be fooled, just sell it for a small profit.

Qing Dynasty engravings and Republic of China engravings account for the majority. It's such a small shop, it's not bad.

Yu Yao was excited, but Lin Fengcao looked at it seriously, so he picked up a group of old photos from the Republic of China.

There are a total of ten old photos in this group, reprinted in black and white, and an envelope is also printed, with the words "old photos of Shanghai and Haihai" printed.

This group of old photographs reflects some scenes of Shanghai and Hai in the 40s, including high-rise trams, the Bund wharf, parking lots where rickshaws and taxis gathered, road builders at work, noble ladies' teahouses, and private shops and stalls.

There is also a picture of a teenager in shabby clothes eating at a square table full of hairy crabs.

In the forties of the last century, prices in Shanghai and Haihai soared, big merchants hoarded and lived in strange, and poor families could not afford to eat rice, so they could only rely on eating hairy crabs to satisfy their hunger.

Time has passed, and today's hairy crabs are not the same as they were back then, and many of them were wild back then, and they were easy to catch.

After looking through this set of old photos, Yu Yao flipped through a stack of advertising paintings from the Republic of China period next to him.

These advertising paintings are indeed old things, old prints from the Republic of China, mainly advertisements for tobacco, alcohol and daily necessities.

There is an advertising painting printed with the heroic pattern of Cao Cao and Liu Bei's green plum cooking wine, and the name of this wine is actually called "Han Dynasty Cooking Wine".

Yu Yao also found an advertising painting drawn by Zhou Muqiao for the British American Tobacco Company, the main picture is an ancient mansion scene, mainly women, with a month card below, and only the lower left and lower right corners are the advertising signs of the cigarette box.

Zhou Muqiao was a painter in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, and later settled in Huhai, good at fine brush painting, his paintings still have a certain value, but printed advertising paintings are another matter.

Yu Yao flipped through more than a dozen advertising paintings, and suddenly found a line-bound ancient book, which was not thick, and was sandwiched in the advertising paintings.

Yu Yao picked it up in his hand, this is a volume in the "Anthology".

"Selected Writings" is the earliest existing collection of poems and essays in China, which was compiled by Xiao Tong, the son of Emperor Wu of Liang in the Southern Dynasty, and was selected from the pre-Qin Dynasty to the Southern Dynasties for nearly a thousand years, more than 700 literary works by more than 100 literati, involving a variety of themes, a total of 60 volumes. Because Xiao Tong called "Zhaoming" after his death, it is also called "Zhaoming Anthology".

The volume that Yu Yao picked up contains volumes 34 to 35.

Since the Southern Dynasties, there have been many engraved editions of the Anthology. The volume that Yu Yao picked up did not have an official engraved date number.

However, on one side of the title page of the book, there is a collection caption and a vermilion seal. Zhu Yin's four-character inscription is like a two-character name with "collection of books"; Yu Yao is not familiar with this name, which is normal, and there are more people who can collect this book.

However, the caption states that this is a "Jiaqutang inscription".

Jia Qu Tang is very famous.

With Yu Yao's eyesight, after looking at and scrutinizing, from the white cotton paper used to print the book, as well as the level of engraving, the degree of antiquity, after a comprehensive judgment, it can be determined that this is the Jiaqutang engraving in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty!

This kind of hall number engraving is naturally not an official engraving. However, some of the hall names are owned by the literati, with deep accumulation and exquisite engraving, which are not under the official carving, and some even exceed the level of the official carving.

For example, this Jiaqutang.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a famous bibliophile and engraver named Yuan Ji (Jiong), a native of Suzhou. The Yuan family has a history of collecting books for 100 years, and has dozens of sets of various editions of "Anthology". Among them, the Southern Song Dynasty Guangdu Pei's publication is the most sophisticated, this publication is a combination of two editions, involving six Tang Dynasty ministers who participated in the annotation, and they are also scholars, so it is also called "Six Ministers' Annotation Anthology".

Yuan Chu hired an engraver and spent 16 years reprinting this set of Southern Song Dynasty publications.

This set of engravings of Jiaqutang in the Ming Dynasty is often called the "Six Anthologies" alone.

The Jiaqutang inscription of the Ming Dynasty is completely based on the original edition of Pei's publication in Guangdu of the Southern Song Dynasty.

In other words, it can be called a first-class high imitation. Therefore, in later generations, some people took this set of engraved books, removed the packaging brand and the place with the hall number, and sold them as Southern Song Dynasty engraved books.

Qianlong was once "deceived".

In the history of the engraving of the "Anthology", the Pei edition of the Southern Song Dynasty Guangdu is second to none, and it is rare and valuable.

The Jiaqutang engraved book "Six Anthologies", although the amount of inheritance is relatively large, but a complete set is also rare, with a value of more than one million. If it is stamped with a royal or celebrity collection seal, it is even more expensive.

It's a pity, there is only one here, and it's not the first volume, although it can be worth 120,000, but this Boss Luo must also know how to do it, although I don't know how he missed it in the advertising painting, but take it and ask the price, it is estimated that there is nothing missing.

Just as Yu Yao was flipping through the book, the cream man noticed it, and generally slowly leaned over to read it, and finally leaned on Yu Yao.

Yu Yao smiled and stepped aside.

He took the opportunity to answer, "This gentleman, excuse me. Where's your book? I've been looking at this store for two or three hours, and I haven't found it. ”

"Inside the advertising painting. Yu Yao responded.

"Thank you!" The cream man immediately flipped through the advertising drawing again, and also flipped through the vicinity, but found nothing.

"You don't have to turn it over, I guess it's just this one, if there are others, it's not easy to miss. Yu Yao saw that he was very polite, and added another sentence.

The cream man smiled and asked carefully, "Are you sure you want this book?"

"What do you want?" asked Yu Yao.

"This ······" The cream man wanted to speak and stopped.

He didn't say anything, Yu Yao didn't answer, and turned to look at Lin Fengcao, who was comparing two books with two books in his hand.

The cream man hesitated for a while, and finally spoke, "I have already collected more than fifty volumes of this engraved copy of this set of books, and there are only a few volumes missing, among them, it happens to include the two volumes in this volume in your hand." ”

"Isn't that it, you can say it if you want!" Yu Yao smiled lightly.