In winter, the Huguo Temple is covered with snow, and with the lively flow of people coming again, the temple fair market, which was originally much quieter, has become noisy again. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Lin Yi and Lao Cao turned back to Huguo Temple again, and most of the vendors guarded their stalls, and then they began to eat. Some bought wine and drank a few sips while eating a boxed lunch to warm up their bodies. Some people who have made a lot of money will not treat themselves so badly, but ask for a few stir-fried dishes, specially let the restaurant people deliver them, and then eat them with chopsticks in front of other stall owners, and the mouth is very loud.

The lazy sun, around one o'clock in the afternoon, quietly showed its face, making a trace of warmth rise on the white snow.

"Wow, I didn't expect the weather to be so nice today!"

"Yes, if the weather is good, the temple fair will be more lively, and we will be able to sell a little more."

"But I heard that there is a fear of selling in the afternoon, and it is estimated that many people will be attracted to it."

"Afraid of what? The auctions are all good, and the ones that can afford to buy are very few, so we don't have to worry! ”

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"Brother, what's that, can you help me look at the stall when the auction starts?"

"Think beautifully. I'd like to find someone to look at the stall. ”

"Yes, this auction is very difficult to come across, and no one wants to miss it."

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"I heard that this time, all the three big guys took out treasures to shoot!"

"yes, we can get a glimpse."

"I'm looking forward to it!"

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It stretches all the way to the north of the Huguo Temple cultural play stall, crowded with people. There are also those who sell old photos, wine bottles, old watches, old records, old tea jars, old awards, Chairman Mao's medals, and semiconductor radios.

Lin Yi browsed these used book stalls, and saw that the old books on these stalls had almost been stripped away, and even some of the seventies and eighties were almost gone, which showed how fierce the battle for books was in the morning.

In fact, in the past, when searching for old books, you could occasionally find a famous collection of books, or autographed books; Now in the second-hand book market, many vendors sell them in bundles. On the surface, it is gratifying, but when you think about the stories behind it, you can't help but be speechless. Just the story that Lin Yi heard, a bookseller bought a professor's little nanny and stole the professor's lifelong treasure collection; Before his death, a bibliophile instructed his children to donate books to the library, but after the old man died, the children sold the books to Panjiayuan in installments and batches. In a certain magazine, an editor-in-chief who was about to retire, because of some personal friendships, disposed of many writers' books in the reference room to the scrapyard at one time, and the "friendship" who had been waiting there for a long time quickly received them all......

Lin Yi also had a lot of gains in the morning, so he lost the mood of Taobao in the afternoon, and instead took a mobile phone to take pictures of the stalls in Huguo Temple, occasionally asking the booksellers who set up the stalls. Some reckless booksellers don't let them shoot, they may be embarrassed and a little shy, what are you doing, brother? Lin Yi had no time to be reasonable, and always waved his hand to answer that you are good. He didn't let him shoot, he pretended to look elsewhere, secretly estimated that he was aiming at blind shooting. There is a reckless man holding a number plate on his chest, as if he has watched too many American prison escape blockbusters, and secretly envies the group of smart prison escapees who can do anything, and they are demonstrating a parody show. There was also a gentleman who must have come from out of town, and he was tired of traveling and sitting, smoking and taking a nap. The book is his, sit and lie down with him, just hope he doesn't overeat raw turnips.

Although leisurely taking pictures and waiting for the auction to begin, Lin Yi still watched and listened to all directions, and couldn't help but come forward to take a look at a good book when he saw it.

Recently, Lin Yi has been very interested in Chairman Mao's calligraphy, some people say that Taizu's calligraphy is unique, some people say that it is not good, and there are different opinions. However, Lin Yi has practiced Wang Duo's calligraphy and cursive, and he still understands some of the spirit of cursive, so he feels that Taizu's calligraphy is absolutely majestic, and no one can come out of it, so he hopes to find a large volume of Maoti calligraphy.

But I didn't find it when I looked around one after another, and I gradually became a little discouraged. Later, I found two volumes, the small volume is not ideal, and it has been bought by a middle-aged man, and it is said that it cost 300 yuan. The two books were sealed in clear plastic bags and printed in the 70s. Lin Yi asked for the opinions of middle-aged people, and only took it out and glanced at it. I remember that Panjiayuan Ancient Book House has two volumes of line-bound books, which are still small 16 open, priced at 1980 yuan.

When Lin Yi was wandering, some booksellers noticed that he was taking pictures with his mobile phone, and immediately recommended a copy of the Houdundun Republic of China version of "Photography Instructions", as well as advertisements, but the price was 2,400 yuan.

When I'm wronged, huh? Lin Yi just smiled, he didn't buy it because it was too expensive.

Another black-looking and thin boss next to him greeted Lin Yi and said: "You don't need to buy that kind of book for mobile phone photography, you can buy a good camera for thousands of yuan!" ”

Lin Yi saw that he was telling the truth, so he handed over a cigarette and chatted with him.

Then the boss said that he opened a second-hand bookstore in this Huguosi market, and there is no problem with many old books in ancient and modern China and abroad if they want to remake them, just go to shoot. And immediately took Lin Yi to have a look.

Lin Yi followed him, and sure enough, he soon arrived, and he opened a glass door in the hall, and inside there was a huge old Tianle brand floor-standing radio, on which were stacked dozens of paperback copies of "The Words of the Golden Vase Plum" photocopied by the Hong Kong Taiping Book Company.

Lin Yi is very keen on the collection of "Golden Vase Plum", but if you look closely, they are all pirated, and many of the spines are glued, and it is okay to look at it, but it has no collection value.

Looking around, there are old comic books, some old Japanese books and old photos, and there are a lot of interesting old propaganda posters on the walls of his bookstore, which are covered with plastic film, which looks very modern.

The black and thin boss felt that Lin Yi seemed to be interested in these propaganda posters, so he showed him a precious 2-carat old painting from the 50s, "The Legend of the White Snake --- Stealing Fairy Grass", which told the story of Bai Suzhen stealing fairy grass. The New Year's paintings are very well preserved, very quaint and characteristic of paintings in the fifties, and the authors are the famous Jin Xuechen and Li Mubai, not the one in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", but the great painter Li Mubai.

It is rare for a painting from the fifties to remain so perfect, and according to the owner, there are only a handful of such a quality that can be considered a treasure among treasures.

Lin Yi saw that the boss was so enthusiastic, and carefully identified the authenticity of the old painting, because many counterfeiters now like to imitate some of these precious pictures. The result of the identification was that it turned out to be true. So Lin Yi asked about the price, and the boss said that acquaintance is also fate, and he took 800 yuan.

In fact, Lin Yi has always liked this kind of old age painting, as long as he meets someone he likes, he is willing to spend as much as he wants.

Dig out the money and pay the bills.

Seeing Lin Yi so refreshing, the boss was also very happy, so he chatted with Lin Yi, saying why he wanted to open these bookstores, because he liked to read books since he was a child. At that time, the family also had money and bought a lot of good books, but unfortunately I didn't understand it at that time, and many of them were borrowed. You know, it was the 70s, it was a chaotic era, and most of the books borrowed by buddies in those years would not be returned, except for those of the opposite sex, perhaps because of the drunkard. In fact, it is a joke to say that back then, it was not so much borrowing books as asking for books and cheating books.

The boss said that when he was in junior high school, the secretary of the Youth League branch in the class came to his house and mobilized him to write the application for the league, and then borrowed "Red Sun", "Journey to the West" and the line-bound version of "Strange Tales from Liaozhai". When he borrowed it, he swore to pay it back, but he didn't return it for a long time, and his father was very unhappy, and repeatedly urged him to ask for it, but he himself was embarrassed to speak. Once I went to the same school and couldn't speak, when the classmate had diarrhea, pulled a few pieces of yellowed paper under the bed, and flew to the dry toilet in the hospital. He sat down for a while, and gradually became more and more uneasy, and mustered up the courage to lift the mattress on the bed to see that his precious books had been dismantled by the grandson and made into toilet paper, and spread out on the reed mat. I was very resentful and helpless and walked away. Later, I realized why the grandson covered his hands with a mattress while he was tearing the paper. This person later became the head of the credit section of a bank.

According to the words of the bookstore owner, the books he borrowed back then were enough to open a second-hand bookstore, such as "The Biography of Wanxiaotang", "The Complete Works of Chen Meigong", "History of Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy", "Selected Masterpieces of Western Ethics", "Sunny Day", "Li Zicheng", "Home Cooking", "What Do You Want", "Sixty Years of Changes", "Water Margin", etc., all of which were borrowed and never returned.

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The boss is definitely a rare chatter, maybe he is used to dealing with people when he usually sells books, and he will talk endlessly when he has the opportunity. No, as soon as I finished talking about the history of my borrowing books, I started to talk about the history of selling books again.

said that they sold books in the past, and what they were most afraid of was that someone would follow the book, Lu Xun and Guo Moruo may excuse themselves when they were young, and they once wrote articles to steal books, and they are not stealing in Japan. As a result, countless descendants found an excuse to follow the book, and there were many neat female middle school students, looking at the beautiful and beautiful appearance, hurriedly stepped into the bookstore, the thief's eyes slipped around, the cover of the cover, the start, while the shopkeeper was caught off guard, quickly and secretly groped for a few books and stuffed them into the waist and pulled out their feet, and ran away after going out. Some are not scholars, and they take out the door and sell them for money to sell their own snacks to eat. In addition, I am afraid that some people who have no quality and do not pay attention to hygiene, greasy twist black oily dirty hands, similar to the coal accounting shop smashing honeycomb coal, before turning the page into the stinky mouth dipped in spittle, immediately there are stain marks on the white book, it is not easy to sell, and you have to lose money to deal with it. Some books are cold goods, and they are 10 or 8 years old on the shelves, and they are all yellowed when they are dusty. The difference in quality is not easy to sell, it doesn't matter, get a piece of water-ground fine sandpaper, pinch the book tightly and polish the edge a little, and it will be as smooth as new immediately, and it is no problem to pretend to be a new book for a layman.

The bookstore owner said it with a sloppy mouth, but Lin Yi listened absent-mindedly, looking at the time from time to time, thinking about when it would be three o'clock, which can be said to be like a year. (To be continued.) )