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I saw the corners of her mouth upturned, two big watery eyes winking innocently at the shopkeeper, her little face smiled like a trumpet flower, revealing a mouth of little white teeth, and shouted sweetly: "Uncle, are there old books here, new books should be very expensive, we can't afford them, I want to see if there are suitable old books." ”

The shopkeeper's originally indifferent face, under this nirvana of killing old and young, also has a slight crack, but it is not easy to change too obviously, and only pointed to the innermost corner, "The old book is over there, although the book has been used by others, the content is not less, so it is not cheap." ”

Xie Yujiao didn't care how cheap the boss said, anyway, it couldn't be wrong that old books were cheaper than new books, so she smiled and said to the shopkeeper, "Then I'll find out if there is anything that can be used." He put the empty basket that the old man was carrying outside the door, and pulled the old man to the old book.

"Okay, look for it slowly, and please be careful with your care." The shopkeeper gave a non-salty and indifferent instruction, so he didn't care about the old and the young, and sat back at the counter.

"Got it, uncle." Xie Yujiao answered loudly and whispered to her grandfather, "Grandpa, why does this boss treat books as if they are gold and jade objects for fear of bumping into them, I haven't broken those old books before, is his book made of tofu?" ”

"Okay, books are originally expensive items, and there are a few families in ordinary people who can afford to buy books, one is that no one is literate, and the other is that books are too expensive."

Although the grandfather and grandson spoke quietly, the boss also heard it clearly, and couldn't help but glance at the little girl who pouted a few more times.

"Hey, there is even this book," Xie Yujiao saw a book of words she was familiar with in a row of old books.

"What's wrong?" The old man was impatient to read books when he was young, and he didn't have the opportunity to touch books in the past few decades, so he didn't know how the little girl was startled again, so he hurriedly asked.

Xie Yujiao took the book "The Story of the Grass House" off the shelf, flipped it twice, and said to the old man: "I have read this book at my grandmother's house, it is my grandmother's dowry, it should be decades ago, how can I still see it on the market."

"Old books, it should also be that people have read it and think it's useless to keep it, so they sell it" The old man never reads the book of a boudoir woman, and he doesn't know what the book is about, thinking that since it is a book, it can't break free from the love and hatred of Miss Scholar, etc., it doesn't make much sense, so he just throws it away and concentrates on finding the book about medicinal herbs that the little girl said.

Xie Yujiao also said 'um', put the book back in its place, and continued to rummage and pick it up, but in the end, she didn't see any books about medicinal herbs.

The only book is still the "Soup Song" of medical enlightenment found by the old man.

She took the "Soup Song" and walked to the counter and asked, "Uncle, how much is this book?" ”

The boss of "Three hundred copper plates" glanced at the book in Xie Yujiao's hand, and blurted out the price

In fact, what Xie Yujiao really wanted to buy was a book about teaching people to identify medicinal herbs, and this "Soup Song" didn't have much effect, so she asked sweetly: "Uncle, do you have any books on identifying herbs?" ”

"Identifying herbs?" The shopkeeper didn't expect that the grandfather and grandson, who looked poor, not only could read and write, but also understood medical science, so he put away his thoughts and said gently: "There is a book in the new book "Medicinal Properties of Common Herbal Medicines", but it is more expensive."

After that, the shopkeeper walked to a row of bookshelves and took out the books, Xie Yujiao took them and looked at them briefly, this is not the book she wants, but there are fewer types of herbs, only a hundred.

"Boss, how much does this book sell?" Xie Yujiao asked with the book in her hand a little tangled.

"Two taels of silver"

"Two-two? Grab money? Xie Yujiao hurriedly stuffed the book into the shopkeeper's hand, "This has accumulated a layer of dust, I don't know how many years it has been placed, and it is still so expensive." Although she wanted this book very much, when she heard that it actually cost two taels of silver, she jumped up all of a sudden, and naturally she didn't care about selling cute and cute, and her voice was much higher.

I thought to myself, is this a book? This is simply gold and jade, today so many good medicinal materials can only be sold for more than one or two, such a thin one costs two taels of silver, no wonder ordinary people can't afford to read, books can't afford to buy, how can they read.

"Forget it, don't, just this one" Xie Yujiao took the old book in her hand and handed it to her grandfather, who saw that his little granddaughter had finally found a book that was a good one, so he naturally wanted to sell it, but he was a little hesitant when he heard the high price of two taels of silver.

The shopkeeper of the bookstore naturally saw that the grandfather and grandson did have the intention of buying books, so he said why books were so expensive.

The two of them also know that there are very few ordinary people who can afford books, and there are naturally even fewer who are literate. This "Commonly Used Herbs Discrimination Analysis" is of great help to people who practice medicine, and it is also the person who wrote this book to spend a lot of effort to achieve this book, don't look at the few types of herbs recorded in it, but these are all necessary for ordinary pathology, and not only for a variety of herbs to do a detailed pharmacological analysis, but also fine hand-drawn maps of various herbs, so that people can see at a glance. In this way, books are naturally available to those who need them, and two taels of silver are really not expensive. ”

Xie Yujiao also knows that the pen, ink, paper and inkstone in this era are expensive items that only rich families can afford, but when it comes to buying them with their own money, it is a different matter.

"Forget it, it's too expensive, and we're also poor people, so we really can't afford it. Grandpa, let's just want this "Soup Song"

bargained in the bookstore, and in the end, it was the old man Qu who bought the two books "Commonly Used Medicinal Herbs and Herbal Analysis" and "Soup Song" at a price of one or two or eight yuan, and also asked the shopkeeper to send a stack of rice paper to cut the remaining corners. Because he didn't have much money, he couldn't afford to buy a brush or an inkstone, so he had to wait until the next time he came to town.

Just when Xie Yujiao shouted 'Grab money' just now, a group of officers and soldiers riding tall horses happened to pass outside.

When the leader of the midterm heard this "grab the money", he seemed to be a little familiar, but he only glanced sideways at the bookstore, and continued to drive forward without stopping.

When he had walked a little way, he couldn't help but look back again.

I saw a thin old man coming out of the study house with a basket on her back, and a little girl in a water-blue cotton jacket behind her was limping with a cane.

He recalled in his mind that there were no such two people among the people he thought he knew, so he left it alone and continued on his way.

"Grandpa, this book is too expensive, how can you buy it, look, the more than one or two silver we just got today have been spent, not to mention, even the money you brought for emergency has been spent. You don't plan to plan for the future......" Although Xie Yujiao said that the book she liked was sold, she couldn't help but feel distressed when she thought of the silver she took out.

That's the flower for the grandparents and grandchildren for nearly half a year.