Under the leadership of Principal Li, Lin Yi and he came to the library of the first primary school. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

When he saw this library, Lin Yi thought at first glance that he was in the wrong place, an old tiled house that was dilapidated no matter how he looked at it, and there was a big plane tree in front of the door that had been blown down by the wind and snow.

The branches and leaves of the sycamore tree made a rustling sound in the cold wind, as if to tell Lin Yi, a visitor, that it had been guarding this library here for many years, and now it was finally tired and collapsed.

"Alas, this tree is old, but unfortunately it was eaten by insects three years ago, and I didn't expect it to break as soon as the wind blew not long ago. I was going to put it together and ask the carpenter to make a few tables and chairs, but the moth was so bad that the middle was empty, and the carpenter said that it could only be used as firewood. Li Weimin said as he stepped over the plane tree, took out the key and opened the door to the library.

Lin Yi followed him and asked, "Is this house old?" ”

"It was built during the Cultural Revolution, and there were no good red bricks back then, and all the bricks and tiles were used, but this thing is also strong, otherwise it would have collapsed."

As he spoke, the door had been opened, and Lin Yi felt that it was dark in front of him, as if he had entered a cave.

Li Weimin fumbled with his hand on the wall, snapped, and turned on the light bulb.

Suddenly, the entire library was presented in front of Lin Yi.

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Before seeing this library, Lin Yi was full of all kinds of speculations and fantasies about this place.

There are several large bookshelves, and no matter how bad they are, there are several rows of bookcases, whether they are bookshelves or bookcases, which are filled with all kinds of old books.

But everything in front of him completely shattered Lin Yi's illusions.

Is this a library?

There were no bookshelves, no bookcases, just a few mottled desks, and the desks were filled with a large pile of tattered old books, and on the ground, there were some old books that fell everywhere.

Li Weimin's expression was a little complicated, and he bent down to pick up the old books that had fallen on the ground, patted the dust on them, and then put them back on the desk. There were about a dozen of those desks, and the books lay on top of them. Just on the edge of the desk, there are small slips of paper with the classification of the books written on them.

Looking around, on the wall of the room, there was a lonely post: "Books are the ladder of human progress" --- Gorky.

Other than that, there is nothing.

On the right side of the library, there was a pile of cement and bricks, which looked like masonry work, because a window on the right had just been opened, and bright light was shining in.

Li Weimin saw that Lin Yi was looking around, so he said, "It's too dark here, so I asked someone to open a window, making a mess on the ground." ”

Lin Yi smiled and said, "Can I just take a look?" ”

"Of course, you can." Li Weimin doesn't think there's anything to see here, as the principal of the school, he has been to this library a few times, although there are many good books, but they are all dirty, or they have been bitten by rats, for him who likes new books and likes to smell new books, these books are inconspicuous.

In fact, as a scholar, this is also the biggest difference between Li Weimin and Lin Yi. What can make Lin Weimin excited is the "possessiveness" of new books, and what can make Lin Yi excited is the "desire to pick up leaks" of old books.

If books are compared to women, then Lin Yi is rescuing the "dust woman", and Lin Weimin is marrying a "woman from a good family".

However, as a book lover, Lin Weimin was still very ashamed to see the library he took care of, so he said: "Originally, these books should be kept well, but the current situation of the school is ...... Alas! If there is no place for students to take classes, how can such a library be maintained? To put it mildly, the affairs of the living are not good, so how can they have time to take care of these old books? A sigh.

Lin Yi understood his difficulties and picked up a book casually, but it was a children's book "Learning from Lei Feng's Good Example" in the seventies. Look at the other one, which is also from the seventies, but it is a red book of "One Hundred Thousand Whys".

Lin Yi flipped through it a few times, but unfortunately it was not a set, there were only the third, fourth, six or seven copies, and the quality was still very poor, obviously, they were all about to be turned over.

Lin Yi knew that this set of books, the Cultural Revolution version of "100,000 Whys", should be published by Shanghai Publishing House, a set of 21 volumes, including 14 red books in the front and 7 blue books in the back. This set of books has a huge print run, and there was a time when it was hotly fried, and a version of about nine products can be sold for almost thousands of yuan; Now the price has fallen, and the price code of the large complete set is around 600 yuan.

Lin Yi continued to look through, but this time he found several Lu Xun Xiaobai books published by People's Literature in 1973, namely "Wind and Moon Miscellaneous", "Just Collection", "Two Heart Collection", as well as "Hesitation" and "Scream".

At that time, the "Lu Xun fever" ignited the whole country, and basically everyone with a little bit of culture read Lu Xun's works, because this is a literary reading hand-picked by the chairman, and invisibly, Mr. Lu Xun was put on the "altar".

This set of small white books basically has Lu Xun's head on the cover, which is simple and simple and generous, so it is deeply loved by book collectors, basically as long as you like to collect books, there will be a few of this kind of cheap Lu Xun works in your home. In the past, this kind of book was easy to collect, and it was often possible to buy it for two or three yuan at a second-hand book stall--- except of course the super-thick "Extra-Collected Collection"; But now, because there are more people who like old books, it is difficult to see them at the bookstalls, and even if they do, they are in very poor condition, and if you want to collect 24 large complete sets in one go, you have to spend some effort and silver. For example, on the Internet, such a set of books with good quality has now been fried to more than 300.

In fact, when it comes to Lu Xun's works, we have to mention "Lu Xun's complete set".

Since the beginning of the Republic of China, Lu Xun's complete set has been published one after another, such as---

The Republic of China edition of "The Complete Works of Lu Xun", the first edition of the 27th year of the Republic of China in 1938, a full set (20 volumes and 20 volumes) red cloth hardcover, 1 volume of the book "Complete Works Addendum Continuation" a total of 21 volumes, and the online price is as high as 23---000 yuan now.

The 1973 edition of "The Complete Works of Lu Xun", a kind of book, a full set of 1 --- 16 volumes, hardcover + book clothing + rubber sleeve in 1973 one edition and one printing, now the price is as high as about 3,000 yuan.

The 1981 edition of "The Complete Works of Lu Xun", 32 open, hardcover edition, 16 complete sets, one edition and one printing, now the price is as high as 1800---2500 yuan.

If you add the previous set of "little white books" with more concise content, these are the four very important versions of "The Complete Works of Lu Xun".

Fortunately, Lin Yi soon found three copies of "The Complete Works of Lu Xun" from 1973 on another table full of old books, but unfortunately, the condition of these three books was so bad that it was estimated that they could only be sold for scrap.

However, what made Lin Yi wonder was how this kind of primary school library could be stuffed with so many highly educated Lu Xun works? Can children understand it?

But soon Lin Yi was relieved, it is estimated that these old books are all left over after the Cultural Revolution, and the school is in financial difficulties, and it is impossible to add new books, so he has to let the children gnaw on these "tomes".

It seems that in order to verify Lin Yi's conjecture, Li Weimin said: "These books haven't been changed for almost ten years, and few children like to read them, just like we were at that time, all of them were hungry and thirsty." ”

Lin Yi shook his head in his heart, where is this why children don't like to read, but can't understand it, if this room full of books is "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf", or "Ultraman", "Armored Warrior", it is estimated that the library will be lively like a restaurant.

Times have changed, and so have children's tastes.

But what doesn't change is the library and the books in it.

Looking at this, Lin Yi has already made too many assumptions about the ordinary old books here, there is no way, the quality is too poor, either it is tattered, or it should be thrown into the scrap yard, for him who collects old books, it is really not of much value.

So, Lin Yi asked Li Weimin a question he wanted to know the most at the moment--- "Where are the thread-bound books you said?" ”

He basically went through all these books, but he didn't see any wire-bound books, which couldn't help but be strange. (To be continued.) )