It took some time for Mencius to get the army to agree to move freely.

This is not to say that Meng Zitao does not pay attention to his own safety, he is really in public, and he is a character who does not cause trouble, what danger will he encounter, then how unlucky he is.

After visiting some stalls, Meng Zitao took a fancy to a few books that were out of print or about to be out of print, but except for one that was of great interest to him, he did not buy any other books. The reason is also simple, there is no place to put it after buying it.

After walking for a while, Meng Zitao was about to look at the books on a bookstall when suddenly, with the flicker of his eyes, he noticed something flying towards him.

Meng Zitao was also quick-eyed, and hurriedly stepped aside, and saw a thread-bound book, brushing the tip of his nose, and flew over, fortunately, he reacted quickly, otherwise it would have hit his head.

It's just that Meng Zitao was not hit because of his quick reaction, and a walking passerby next to him didn't have such luck, and was directly hit in the face by the book.

"Oops! Who smashed me with a book!" The passer-by rubbed his aching face that was smashed by the book, looked at the book on the ground, and couldn't help but curse in the direction where the book was flying.

Meng Zitao also looked in the direction where he threw the book, and then he was a little surprised, because he saw an acquaintance, Liu Lijin, an ancient book merchant who he met in Jinling and picked up a leak at the other party.

At this time, Liu Lijin was confronting a thin man in his twenties and thirties, and shouted loudly: "What's the matter with you, why are you throwing my books?"

The thin man said with a hideous expression: "You have a reason to sell fakes? I will not only throw away all your books, but also burn them!"

As he spoke, he took out a lighter, and as soon as the words fell, he turned on the lighter, and then wanted to throw the lighter on Liu Lijin's bookshelf.

Liu Lijin was shocked by the thin man's sudden behavior and broke out in a cold sweat. Fortunately, an old man next to him reacted quickly, snatched the lighter from the thin man's hand, and extinguished the fire.

The uncle persuaded bitterly: "Young man, don't be impulsive, you burn it happily, in case something happens." It's you who is unlucky. ”

"You don't have to worry about this, I don't believe I can't cure him!" the thin man was unmoved. I also wanted to take the lighter in the uncle's hand, but when I saw that the uncle insisted on refusing, I immediately became angry, pointed at the uncle and said, "Old man, I warn you, don't meddle in your affairs!"

Although the uncle was very angry at the indiscriminate indiscriminate nature of the thin man, he still persuaded bitterly: "Young man, what's the matter. You can sit down and negotiate a solution, like you, it doesn't help to solve the problem at all. ”

"You won't give it to me!" the thin man yelled with a dark face.

At this time, the passer-by who had just been hit in the face by the book walked quickly to the thin man's side, and smashed the book he had just smashed on the thin man's head.

"Oops! Oops! Why are you smashing me!" the thin man was smashed by passers-by.

The passer-by didn't let him go, and chased after him and smashed: "Little rabbit cub." How dare you smash me! Ahh

I saw passers-by chasing the thin man. In the blink of an eye, he couldn't see the figure, Meng Zitao couldn't help but shake his head and laugh, it's really a wicked person who has his own wicked grinding.

However, it didn't seem that this matter should be over, so Meng Zitao walked towards Liu Lijin.

"Brother Liu, hello. Meng Zitao said hello to Liu Lijin, who was a little at a loss.

Liu Lijin was surprised: "It turned out to be Brother Meng." I said how did you get a little familiar with it just now, why did you come to the business capital?"

Meng Zitao smiled slightly: "I'm here to participate in an exchange meeting, by the way, what happened just now?"

Liu Lijin first expressed his gratitude to the uncle just now, and then said with a wry smile: "I don't know what's going on." As soon as he came, he said that I was selling fakes, but I was here for the first day today, and I had never done his business at all. ”

Meng Zitao said: "What about before?"

Liu Lijin said: "I have always been in Jinling before, but it is not necessary that he ran from Jinling to Shangdu to settle accounts with me, right?"

"Then he must have recognized the wrong person. Meng Zitao said.

"It's the only explanation, it's really a disaster!" Liu Lijin shook his head with a wry smile.

The uncle said: "In this case, then you better avoid the limelight, the young man I saw will come later." ”

Liu Lijin thanked the uncle for his kindness and said, "This matter must be solved, otherwise this business will not be able to be done." ”

What Liu Lijin said also makes sense, if the matter is not solved, the thin man will definitely come over, and he will not want to do business in the antique city.

Since this is the case, the uncle reminded him a few words and left.

Meng Zitao knew each other because of the size of the two, so he stayed to see if Liu Lijin had received any good goods.

"By the way, what about the book he threw away just now?" Meng Zitao suddenly had an idea, the other party wouldn't have taken a fancy to Liu Lijin's book and did it on purpose, right?

Liu Lijin waved his hand: "That is a lithograph bound book from the Republic of China, just one book, it is worth dozens of yuan, and it should be fed to the dog." ”

Meng Zitao nodded and said with a smile: "Brother Liu, do you have any books worth recommending?"

Liu Lijin said: "Most of them are placed in my friend's place, and I only have a box of Jinling version of the "Compendium of Materia Medica", but the quality is a little different, I don't know if it suits your liking." ”

When Meng Zitao heard that it was actually the Jinling version of the "Compendium of Materia Medica", he immediately said: "Of course I am interested, please show me." ”

Liu Lijin asked Mencius to come to him, and then opened a box beside him, only to see that there was an old ancient book in it, which was the "Compendium of Materia Medica" he said.

The "Compendium of Materia Medica" must be known to everyone, but as a masterpiece of traditional Chinese medicine, after the completion of this book, Li Shizhen tried to publish it in many ways, but was rejected due to financial or market reasons.

It was not until 1590 that Li Shizhen visited Wang Shizhen again to ask for a preface, and Wang Shizhen called this book "broad but not complicated, detailed and important, comprehensive to the end, straight to the deep sea, the subtlety of real reason, and the general canon of things".

Because Wang Shizhen's evaluation was extremely high, Hu Chenglong, a bookseller in Jinling, decided to publish it, which lasted four years and was known as the "Jinling Edition". After the advent of the "Jinling Edition", the social response was strong, so there were three most representative copies of the later generations.

However, although the reprint surpassed the "Jinling Edition" in terms of engraving quality, there were many omissions and mistakes in the content.

In the end, the Jinling edition of the "Compendium of Materia Medica" became the most faithful original work of Li Shizhen among more than 100 editions, and has important historical and academic value.

Moreover, this version is quite rare among the people, and it is precisely because of this that Mencius attaches great importance to it.

Meng Zitao was just about to check the books, when he saw the army running over with a few books, and he was relieved to see that Meng Zitao was fine.

Meng Zitao smiled: "Dajun, you don't have to be so nervous. ”

The army said expressionlessly, "You said light. ”

Meng Zitao smiled, and then carefully read and counted the books one by one, and finally found that this set of Jinling edition of the "Compendium of Materia Medica" has a total of fifty-two volumes, all of which are quite complete, but they are really not flattering.

There are not only many mildew spots caused by the preservation environment because the environment is too humid, but also a lot of insect bites and other traces, and there is even a lot of more than half of the content affected by this, and there are many who are affected by half or one-third.

All in all, the preservation is relatively good, and it doesn't affect reading too much, not even a third.

Meng Zitao said very regretfully: "There is no problem with this set of Jinling books, but the preservation is really poor!"

Liu Lijin shrugged his shoulders and said: "No way, the master doesn't know the value of this set of "Compendium of Materia Medica" at all, so he just piled it up in the warehouse, fortunately, the box was quite sturdy at that time, otherwise, this set of books would have been destroyed long ago." Brother Meng, I don't know if you still want it?"

Meng Zitao nodded and said: "Yes, although it is not well preserved, but it is also rare to get the Jinling book in the end." ”

Liu Lijin smiled: "Then you can give 30,000 yuan." ”

Although the quality of the full set of books is indeed not very good, but in the end, it is the Jinling book, and there are several books that are still in good condition, and the price of 30,000 yuan is not expensive at all, so Meng Zitao directly agreed.

After paying the money, Liu Lijin helped to pack Meng Zitao, and at this time, the management of the antique city came over with a thin man with some bruises on his face.

The thin man pointed at Liu Lijin and said, "It's him, he sells fakes!"

Liu Lijin was also angry when he saw the thin man talking nonsense: "Don't spew blood, I just came today, what kind of fake are you selling, ah!"

The management asked Liu Lijin to give him the relevant bills, and asked the surrounding vendors, confirming that Liu Lijin had indeed arrived today.

Faced with this result, the thin man pointed at everyone and said, "Definitely not, you are all in the same group!"

The managers were a little upset, didn't they talk nonsense with their eyes open, and said, "You said that you bought things from him, can you show evidence?"

The thin man stiffened his mouth and said, "My dad said this is what he bought!"

"Then call your dad!" said the administrator angrily.

The thin man said loudly: "My dad died, and he was by the fakes he sold!"

Hearing this, the people around him were a little stunned, it seemed that this thin man was stimulated, so he was a little indiscriminate.

When Liu Lijin heard this, he had to say patiently: "This brother, I know who encounters this kind of thing, and they feel uncomfortable, but we also have to be reasonable, I didn't sell things, you can't force me to say that I sold them, right?"

However, the thin man was not reasonable at all, saying, "It's not you who sells it, but it has something to do with you, otherwise why is it not someone else here but you?"

For such a powerful conclusion, everyone was speechless, and a thought also popped up in Mencius's heart, this guy can't be a fool, right? )