Chapter 29, an action comic
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"You want to buy these books?" Helen's eyes widened. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info "All of them?"
Tang Wen nodded and smiled at her. Hang up the sign with Boss Li that is temporarily closed. Count them one by one.
"Hey, Sky, Don might be crazy! He's just bought a roomful of used books, well, old Chinese books..."Helen simply took out her phone and called Tang Tang.
Tang Wen pursed his lips helplessly, took the phone and said, "Sister, bring a few thousand dollars in cash when you come." I don't have enough cash on me. Also, sister, you'd better drive here..."
Boss Li took out a few cardboard boxes from the small storage room of the bookstore, which had been flattened. The two men propped up the cardboard boxes again, and each one of them was put into the box according to a different category.
"Whew, I can't see it, there are so many. A total of 1,139 copies!So, brother, I'll wipe the thirty-nine for you, and you can just pay for 1,100 copies!" Boss Li sat on the pony, loosened his collar, and said panting.
"Okay, but you'll have to wait a minute, I'll pay you the cash directly." However, Brother Li, are you sure that's all there is to it, right?" Tang Wen looked back at this small shop of more than ten square meters.
"Hey, that's not right. You wait, I'll go to the storage room and take a look..."Boss Li remembered something, and as he said that, he got up and got into the narrow wooden compartment.
"Why do you buy so many of these books?" asked Helen, leaning over and poking his finger at him.
"I'll tell you when I go back. Tang Wen smiled mysteriously. In fact, he wasn't sure how much of a value these old books were, or even if they were. After all, what he bought had already been picked by others for a few days, and the rest was picked up. Those who first came to pick up books must have a better understanding of the second-hand book market.
The collection of used books, especially comics, seems to have become popular from abroad. And the approximate time is these two years. But what exactly is the most valuable book, and what kind of book is popular. He wasn't impressed at all. So taking advantage of this second-hand bookstore to make a move, I simply packed all the books and went back to pick them up slowly. As long as a book is worth it, his investment of a few thousand dollars will be paid back.
"Hey, little brother, there's a little box of foreign comics. Do you want to?" said Boss Li, who bowed over and took out a small box of dusty books from the storage room.
"Foreign comics? Okay, it's not bad for that. Tang Wen thought about it and replied.
"Then when you settle the bill, add another twenty to me!"
Because it took a lot of time for the two to pack up their books. Soon Tang Tang's phone call came in and asked where they were?
Tang Tang came over and paid the money, so she took Tang Wen with an unkind face and moved seven boxes of books and the last small box of American comics to her car.
Her car is a third-hand American Ford, which can be regarded as a muscle sports car. But it's also two seats. More than seven boxes of books were piled up in the trunk, not to mention, but also in the co-pilot's seat.
Tang Wen had to prepare to take the subway back with Helen.
"Let's go back and pick and choose, maybe there's a surprise?" he said with some excitement. He went to take Helen's hand, but Helen was unmoved.
"Huh, what's wrong?"
"Do you remember what we came out for?" Helen looked at him unpleasantly, her gray eyes squinting with a murderous look.
"Oh, yes, we should go buy hot pot ingredients first..."
The two walked to a Chinese supermarket in Chinatown, and in addition to a few hot pot bases, they bought a bunch of boxed tofu, bean skin, meat rolls, green vegetables and other ingredients.
The two of them finally returned to their apartment just in time for the rush hour in New York.
"Huh, why hasn't my sister come back yet?" Tang Wen took out a bottle of beer from the refrigerator, opened it and took a few sips. It was found that there were only two of them in the house.
"Eighty percent of it is a traffic jam, right?"
Tang Wen was a little uneasy, and was just about to make a phone call. I heard the sound of the car parking downstairs. Looking down from the kitchen window, it was Tang Tang driving back.
"You come down and move up by yourself!" Tang Tang raised his head and glared at him. A man went upstairs empty-handed.
"Looks like I'm going to take over your living room. Tang Wen shrugged and looked at Helen.
"It's okay, you haven't told me yet, why did you buy them?"
"This is an investment!Help me check the auction of used books on the Internet!" Tang Wen pushed the door and went downstairs.
"Investment?" Helen tilted her head and went to the kitchen to move the induction cooker into the living room.
"Stinky boy!" Tang Wen came up with the book and was slapped on the shoulder by his sister.
He was a little glad that his sister and they lived on the second floor, but if they lived on the upper floor. Unless there is an elevator, it's a huge physical project!
Even on the second floor, it took him more than thirty minutes to bring up seven or eight boxes of books. Lay down against the fireplace in the living room.
When the last box was brought up, Tang Tang was looking at the first few boxes. After looking at it for a long time, I didn't see a reason, so I frowned and asked, "Are you sure someone wants these things?"
"Well, Helen should have been worth some money when she first flipped through the West Chamber. It seems to be a line-bound book of the Republic of China. It's rare..."Tang Wen said as he washed his hands in the bathroom.
Smack, smack...
Helen banged on the table with her chopsticks and said loudly, "It's time to eat! I'm not a 'every issue' person." After speaking, she skillfully used chopsticks to scoop all the mutton in the pot into her plate. Looking at a plate of bubbling lamb, he nodded with satisfaction and poured some sesame paste and garlic sesame oil on it...
Tang Wen said to his sister funny: "Sister, this must have been learned from you." Even the chopsticks are held far back..."
After eating, Tang Tang and Helen voted two to one to put Tang Wen into the kitchen and let him wash the dishes.
The two of them sat on the sofa and watched without moving, a relatively ugly Chinese, talking in English. Obviously, this is an American show. However, Chinese people are generally scientists and engineers, and there are few talk shows.
Tang Wen didn't have the heart to listen, so he found a dry cloth and carefully brushed away the dust on the small box of American comic books.
"Do any of you want to watch Superman?" Tang Wen looked at the release date of this Superman comic speechlessly, it turned out to be July 2003! Damn, what kind of old book is this? He cursed in his heart, thinking that the end of this book was a burning fireplace in winter.
The two girls were laughing on the couch, not paying attention to him at all.
He had no choice but to continue to pack up the comics, "Well, 20,000 copies in '83? It's useless! This Spider-Man is '88, 10,000 copies." It is estimated that it is also a waste product......"
"Hmm, no, that's all?" Tang Wen scratched his head as he looked at the cardboard at the bottom of the box. A box of forty or fifty copies of American comics, all Superman and Spider-Man. And none of them were before the '80s! The circulation was at least 10,000 copies. This box of twenty dollars is a bit of a loss. How much is it worth selling scrap?
Shaking his head, he put the book away and prepared to put it back. When I reached into the bottom of the carton, I noticed that something was wrong.
"Why is the bottom of a carton still a little elastic?"
He reached down and pressed it against the side, finding that the other side of the cardboard he thought was the bottom was cocked. When I opened it, it turned out to be a comic magazine contained in a translucent document bag!
On the well-preserved cover, it reads in English:
No.1JUNE,1938
ACTION
COMICS
It depicts a superman in a red cloak and blue cloak, holding a green beetle-like car. The people around him are scattering and fleeing...