Chapter Ninety-Eight. "Pirated books" everywhere
On the way back to the antique city, Lin Yi went to a nearby restaurant to buy a spicy tofu, hot and sour cabbage, and also bought five catties of cold beef and eight roast goose legs, and a bottle of good Fenjiu, which cost almost 300 yuan.
When I returned to the antique city, I saw what Huang Jiaotou looked like when he left, and what he is still like now, still sitting on the bricks, guarding the bags of books that Lin Yi bought, with a straight face, not squinting.
Lin Yi put the food in front of him, disposable chopsticks, disposable wine glasses, opened the meat and vegetable dishes, poured fragrant Fenjiu, one word: "Eat-!" ”
Then, the "stone statue" of Huang Jiaotou moved.
Lin Yi didn't have much appetite, but Huang Jiaotou was swept away, and soon, all the meat and vegetarian dishes bottomed out, and a bottle of Fenjiu was all drunk.
At this time, Huang Jiaotou said: "There is not enough wine." ”
Lin Yiwan, while cleaning up the dishes, said with a smile: "I can't let you get drunk, if you're drunk, no one will help me carry the book." ”
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At this point, it's around two o'clock in the afternoon.
The vendors who originally ran out to eat were killed again, and those who had nothing to do to eat at home and wanted to pick up treasures also returned to the antique city one after another.
Compared to the morning, the antique city is not so crowded, but it is also much more crowded than usual, and it still looks lively.
Lin Yi made a phone call with Lao Guo and Cao Yidao, and these two guys were still eating in the restaurant, listening to their tone, they were not comfortable eating.
didn't wait for them, Lin Yi was going to sweep the used bookstall one last time, and if there was nothing to gain, he was ready to go home.
When he came, Lin Yi took advantage of the stall on the left side of the road to buy books, and now he starts shopping from the stall on the right.
Maybe it's because the good books in the morning are all taken away, and what is left on those bookstalls is basically some pirated books that don't go into the stream, like Chinese and foreign classics, the four famous books, everything.
Most of these books are published by some irregular wild publishing houses, such as Qinghai Publishing House, Inner Mongolia Publishing House, Yuanfang Publishing House, and Gansu Publishing House, which have the most pirated books, and they are also known as the "four masters" in the piracy industry.
Lin Yi glanced over, and saw that the stalls in front of him were full of pirated copies of "Three Words and Two Beats", "Liao Zhai", "The Collected Works of Zhang Ailing", "The Three Musketeers", "Jane Eyre", "Lady Chatterley's Lover", "The Thorny Bird", "The Count of Monte Cristo", ...... This kind of book, only those customers who like to read books and like to pick up cheap will buy it, two or three yuan a book, throw it away after reading, and don't care. Therefore, these pirated books are also very easy to sell, for the stall owners, the purchase price is only a few cents, and if they can be sold for two or three yuan, they will make a profit, and occasionally sell for ten or eight yuan, which is a big profit.
However, there are some pirated books that are very "cheating", which can make many stall owners lose their money, such as another stall, almost all of them are "cheat books", such as Wei Hui's "Shanghai Baby", Jiudan's "Crow", Ye Zimei's "Last Love Letter", Wang Yuewen's "Chinese Painting", "Provincial Painting", "City Painting", "District Painting", "Street Painting", "Family Painting", "Male Painting", "Female Painting", Yan Zhen's "The Water of the Waves", South Korea's "That Boy is So Handsome", Rowling's "Harry Potter" series, etc......
These pirated books are different from those four famous books, Chinese and foreign masterpieces, no matter what the book, as long as it hangs the gimmick of a famous book, it will never become outdated. These books belong to short-term hot speculation books, the movie is popular, the book is a big seller, and as soon as the heat passes, no one reads it on the street.
Therefore, whether it is selling genuine books, pirated books, or second-hand books...... Every line has its own doorway, and if you can't touch the threshold, you will only lose money.
Of course, in addition to making money by selling pirated books, it can also cause a lot of trouble, such as now, there is a problem with the bookstall that Lin Yi just got off his feet.
The one who caused the trouble was a little girl, and the stall owner was a pockmarked woman who sold pirated books.
It turned out that it was rare for there to be a gathering in the antique city today, and it coincided with the weekend, so the little girl ran to the used bookstall here to buy books to read.
Because of her greed for cheapness, the little girl bought seven or eight novels in one go at this hemp women's stall, all of which are some world famous novels, such as "Jane Eyre", "Pride and Prejudice", "Red and Black", "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and so on.
The hemp woman was also ruthless, and asked the little girl for ten yuan for a book, saying that these books were all good books, and almost one in the Xinhua bookstore cost thirty or forty.
The little girl didn't understand this, and thought she had picked up a bargain, so she took out eighty yuan, took it all, and when she got home, she opened it like this, and she was dizzy, there were too many typos, and even the heroine "Jane Eyre" became "Tube Love......
What else do you think about this?
The little girl was in the flourishing period of her "literary hobby", and she couldn't bear the outrageous books she bought, so she took back the bookstall to return the books. The hemp woman said that she would not give anyone back. The little girl was excited all of a sudden, picked up the pirated book that she wanted to return, and hit the hemp woman's face hatefully, impartially, and hit the hemp woman's pockmarked face hard. This can make the hemp woman anxious, and she stepped forward to fight with the little girl.
After all, the little girl is a little girl, where is the opponent of the hemp woman, after a few rounds, she is already at a disadvantage. Just when the little girl was about to be unable to resist, she didn't expect her to be in a hurry and shouted: "My dad is a policeman!" "I don't know if the woman was shocked by this shout, or if my father was a policeman. The beating hand suddenly slowed down, and the little girl took the opportunity to get a few old punches back in the face of the hemp woman.
At this time, the fat son of the hemp woman happened to come back, the fat son was about the same age as the girl, and he was also a bastard, and when he saw that his mother had suffered a loss, he rushed forward and shouted: "You dare to hit my mother, wave his mallet-like fist, knock the girl to the ground with one punch, and shout in his mouth: "You dare to hit my mother!" Don't say that your dad is a cop, even if your dad is the president of the United States, it's not easy to do. ”
At this time, the girl saw that she couldn't beat the fat man, mother and son, so she simply lay on the ground and rolled and cried.
For such a farce, many people watch it with relish, but Lin Yi doesn't have this kind of mind, no matter who is right or wrong, it is really boring to do this kind of thing in front of the bookshelf.
So Lin Yi directly skipped this bookstall and headed forward, ignoring what was going on outside the window, and only researching the "old books" he was interested in; At the same time, not far away, there was also a person who was "studying" him with interest.
Who? An old connoisseur who specializes in old books and antique jade, and a stall owner nicknamed "Golden Million".
Before, Lin Yi bought "A Hundred Flowers Blooming" very boldly, which aroused people's eyes, and those stall owners who didn't take him seriously and didn't serve as a dish set their eyes on Lin Yi, all of them hoping to meet Lin Yi and slaughter him.
This "Golden Million" is one of these stall owners. Since the nickname is called "Golden Million", I know that this product is very good at doing business, often he can sell things that others can't sell, others sell things at a low price, he can sell them at a high price, others always press the goods in their hands, he always presses money in his hands, in short, his trading and luck have always been better than others.
Therefore, when Jin Million saw Lin Yi wandering around to his stall, he made up his mind to serve this "sheep" well.