I saw that in the tightly sealed glass case, an ancient book with a "butterfly suit" was lying quietly on the silk brocade.

Books are like women, and women are dressed in bat suits, cool suits, and bikini suits, so it is not uncommon for books to have "butterfly suits".

In fact, butterfly binding is a special method of thread-bound book binding, which Lin Yi had only seen in books before.

It turns out that long before the advent of engravings, most of the books were handwritten or copied. The persecuted people copied and recorded a book by hand, whether it was a book of 1,000 words or a book of 10 million words, they were all meticulous, and they were criticized for copying mistakes, and most of them had no manuscript fees.

This kind of writing or copying can be written down one paper after another without any restrictions. They are then joined, rolled up to form a reel, or folded to become a warp fold.

After the appearance of engraved books, in order to adapt to the requirements of a large number of engraving and unified binding, according to the middle seam of the page, the side printed with the text is facing inward and folded in half, and then the middle seam prevails, the pages of the whole book are aligned, and the paste is adhered to another wrapping paper, and finally the binding form of the book is cut into a book. Books bound into volumes with "butterfly binding" are like butterfly wings flying and fluttering when they are flipped over, so they are called "butterfly bindings".

Generally speaking, there are fewer ancient books bound with butterflies, and the ones with beautiful bindings are especially precious, and collectors have clouds: butterfly outfits, spread their wings and fly their wings to soar, regardless of the quality, and the price is geometrically thoughtful. It means that without considering the condition, the butterfly-bound thread-bound book is very expensive.

Next to her, Sun Xiaomei was careful, and when she saw that Lin Yi was interested in this ancient book, she said with great interest: "Brother Lin, don't underestimate this ancient book, although it is a little worn, it is the treasure of our teahouse, and it is the woodcut "Tea Classic" of Hua's Baichuan in the Ming Dynasty, which has been four or five hundred years ago...... This treasure was bought by our boss for almost 100,000 yuan from other places, and when I bought it, people didn't sell it, and I don't know how many good things our boss said, so they ceded the ......" between the words is very precious, but more is sighing, maybe in her opinion, she really can't see how such an old book can be worth so much money.

Lin Yi reads a lot of books, and he knows a little bit about the knowledge of the "Book of Tea".

"The Book of Tea" is the first tea book in ancient China written by Lu Yu in the Tang Dynasty, and it is also the world's first special work on tea, divided into three volumes and ten chapters, a total of more than 7,000 words, involving the origin of tea, tea-making tools, tea-making process, tea tasting utensils, tea brewing methods, tea appreciation and other aspects, which has a great influence on tea art in later generations.

There are many surviving versions of the Book of Tea. From the Song Dynasty to the Republic of China, there are more than 60 kinds of "Tea Classics" that have been handed down from generation to generation. However, which existing version of the "Book of Tea" was published at the earliest, and there was little knowledge in the academic circles in the past, so there is no conclusive conclusion. However, a recent scholar has carefully compared more than 50 existing versions of the "Book of Tea" at home and abroad, and confirmed that a Song carved Baichuan version of the "Book of Tea" now in the Department of Rare Books and Ancient Books of the National Library of China is the earliest existing "Book of Tea", which was engraved in the ninth year of Xianchun in the Southern Song Dynasty, 731 years ago. She used this "Book of Tea" to compare the Japanese Imperial Household Book Mausoleum Department Baichuan Edition, the Ming Dynasty Fahrenheit Baichuan Edition, and the Republic of China Taoyuan Scenery Song Baichuan Edition, etc., and you can see the original appearance of the Song Baichuan Edition, and you can see the changes and origins of later publications.

The Song Dynasty version of the "Book of Tea" is hidden in the national map, can not be obtained, then the Ming Dynasty Fahrenheit Baichuan is undoubtedly the most expensive treasure, in fact, even the Japanese and carved copies are rare, it is said that in a recent large-scale auction there is a book from Japan and carved "The Book of Tea" was auctioned at a high price of tens of thousands of yuan. In comparison, the price of the "Book of Tea" in the Ming Dynasty is not impossible.

Lin Yi looked carefully, and Guo Zixing next to him encouraged: "Xiaomei, don't just talk about not practicing, such a good thing is just to see how enjoyable it is through the glass, why don't you take it out and let our little brother have a good time...... He is a real fan of old books, as long as he sees an ancient book version, he can't move his footsteps. ”

Guo Zixing's words are half-true, although Lin Yi likes old books, most of them are worthless old books on the stall, and where have he come into contact with any ancient book versions. This old Guo bragged that he didn't pay taxes, and he just pushed Lin Yi to the side of a bibliophile. Lin Yi couldn't tear down his cowhide in person.

The reason why this high-value ancient book "The Book of Tea" is placed in such a conspicuous place is that it is originally prominent. According to the meaning of the owner of the teahouse, this thing looks like the teahouse is high-grade, with connotation, culture and taste. The four-hundred-year-old "Book of Tea", where does this kind of thing exist, even if it does, it is a fake.

So the boss explained, as long as there are guests who want to see, try to meet their requirements, by the way to promote our teahouse, of course, look at it carefully, must not be damaged.

Because of this, Sun Xiaomei also has a pair of keys to open the glass cabinet. She took this key with her when she went to work, and handed it over after work, and the handover work was done very well, and the security work was even tighter.

At this moment, at the instigation of Guo Zixing, Sun Xiaomei had already taken out the key to open the glass cabinet, and it was too late for Lin Yi to stop it, not to mention that he was really curious about what this ancient book was like.

"Be careful, don't break it." Sun Xiaomei carefully handed the ancient book "The Book of Tea" to Lin Yi, and couldn't help but whisper.

Lin Yi nodded, with a solemn demeanor, holding the tattered ancient book like a treasure, and turned the title page with great difficulty, only to see that it was written: "The Book of Tea", written by Tang Luhong; The preface to the tea scripture, written by Tang Pi Rixiu -- according to the "Zhou Li" wine righteousness, the four drinks are debated, and the third is called pulp. and the position of the pulp, for the king's six drinks: water, pulp, liquor, cool, medicine, and alcohol, and enter the wine......

Just when Lin Yi was looking through it carefully, a rich fragrance of tea suddenly overflowed from this ancient book, leisurely penetrating into Lin Yi's nose, and then that familiar and refreshing feeling permeated his whole body.

Holy, come again?

Lin Yi remembered last night's "Wu Song Fights the Tiger" that he almost drained the essence of and almost burped, and wanted to put down the ancient book in his hand, but he was a little reluctant, and finally his heart darkened, and he raised the book slightly, blocking the sight of Guo and Sun next to him, and then comfortably felt the smell of tea...... Slowly, these breaths are inhaled and melted into one.

Originally, after Lin Yi inhaled the aura of the book, the essence of the whole book began to slowly integrate into his body, at this moment he only felt an indescribable itch in his nose, Lin Yiqiang resisted the urge to rub it with his hands, and closed his eyes tightly.

If anyone could see that there were two small wisps of green smoke fluctuating back and forth in his nose, but it was only a few seconds before he retracted into Lin Yi's nose and disappeared.

How did Guo Zixing and Sun Xiaomei know that Lin Yi was greedily ingesting the tea fragrance overflowing from the ancient book, and thought that he was reading it seriously. Especially Guo Zixing was even more surprised, and said in his heart, could it be that this guy really understands the ancient book version, but he underestimated him?

In fact, Guo Zixing instigated Sun Xiaomei to show Lin Yi this ancient book is not without deep meaning, his meaning is very simple, let Lin Yi know that there are only 100,000 things in the past few hundred years, and you still want 1 million for your 50s sketches, is it a bit of a dream.

But the current situation has made Lin Yi a little unfathomable, and Guo Zixing is a little undecided.

……

I don't know how long it took, the fragrance of the book dissipated, and Lin Yi found that he had regained his smooth breathing, and all the visions that had just happened were gone.

The tingling sensation of the nose has disappeared, replaced by an indescribable pleasure, like doing a comfortable sweat steam in the sauna to clean all the greasy body, and like drinking a bowl of cold sour plum soup in the summer, refreshing, cold, and refreshing. The cool breath coming from his nose made Lin Yi feel fluttering and not like he was in the world.

"Ahem, Brother Lin, this book is good, seeing that you read it so seriously, what must you have gained?"

An ethereal voice that seemed to be far away woke Lin Yi from his intoxication, instantly knocked Lin Yi back to the ground from the clouds, and opened his eyes reluctantly, Lin Yi was startled by Guo Zixing's big face full of question marks.

Looking at Sun Xiaomei next to her, she was looking at herself with her eyes blank, her hands stretched out in the air, and she made a posture of receiving books at any time, looking like she was afraid that she would damage this precious ancient book.

Seeing this, Lin Yi hurriedly returned the ancient book in his hand carefully, and then said to Guo Zixing: "This book is good!" ”

There are four words in total, and the meaning is profound.

Guo Zixing and Sun Xiaomei glanced at each other and understood the meaning that this book is very valuable, so it is good; But I didn't know that Lin Yi had a deeper meaning.

Sun Xiaomei seemed to have a treasure here, holding the dilapidated ancient book "The Book of Tea" of the Ming Dynasty in her hand, carefully putting it back in place, and then locking the glass cabinet very carefully, dragging the lock, seeing that it was okay, the lock was very tight, so she took a deep breath, and the sideburns on her forehead were even sweaty.

Guo Zixing looked at his watch, the time was almost up, but the person he wanted to introduce to Lin Yi had not yet arrived. Alas, women, there is always a temper of the eldest lady, and it is inevitable that she likes to be late, but she can't always take Lin Yi around, so let's go back to the private room.

Thinking of this, Guo Zixing beckoned Lin Yi upstairs, and Sun Xiaomei also said that the private room upstairs was very comfortable, and she would arrange a good waiter to serve them.

Guo Zixing quipped: "You can serve today, what kind of waiter are you called." What's the matter, can't you serve people when you become a lobby manager? ”

It turned out that Sun Xiaomei had only been promoted to manager for a few days, and she used to do service, Guo Zixing said this, she was not annoyed, she just said that she would wait to see if there were many guests, if not, she would personally go into the private room to pour tea and water for Brother Guo......

Seeing that she was so knowledgeable, Guo Zixing was embarrassed to tease her again, so he smiled and went upstairs with Lin Yi, but they didn't know that not long after they went upstairs, in the well-guarded glass cabinet, the ancient book "The Book of Tea" was slowly drying up and aging......