When he was in school, Lin Yi clearly remembered what his teacher said, "In a socialist society, people are equal, and there is no class distinction." After www.biquge.info school in the pen "Fun", Lin Yi struggled in society, and at first believed that this sentence was true. But the fact is that people are divided into three, six, nine and so on. When you're a waiter, you can't offend customers, and when you're a security guard, you still can't offend guests. The person pulling the cart on the street is a grade, and the person driving a car is a grade. People who farm in the hot world are one level, and those who pay to go to the gym to exercise are another level.

To put it bluntly, this is a hierarchical society, and those who say that everyone is equal are either fools or liars; Those who believe that everyone is equal are either idiots or imbeciles.

Lin Yi is not an idiot, nor is he an imbecile, so he clearly knows what he needs, compared to the words "everyone is equal", he clearly remembers what his mother said, "Your money, his money, put it in your pocket is your own money!" ”

Therefore, Lin Yi asked Hai Baichuan for one million very casually.

Didn't you say you wanted to hire me, yes, take a million first.

For Lin Yi to ask for it so explicitly, Hai Baichuan was a little distracted, in his heart, he may have regarded Lin Yi as a young man with a literary atmosphere, high-end interest and noble pursuit, but this young man instantly became "love money like life", which made Hai Baichuan a little stunned.

Fortunately, this is Hong Kong, Hong Kong itself is a capitalist money society with all evils, Hai Baichuan was stunned for a moment, and immediately said: "Okay! ”

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One million is not too much, but not too little, Hai Baichuan is not unaffordable, but as a businessman, he is definitely the kind of master who does not see rabbits and does not scatter eagles, before Lin Yi can get 1 million, Hai Baichuan Hai's boss is that Lin Yi must hand over this Wang Duo poem manuscript in his hand to them for auction.

Before this, Lin Yi had already known the trickiness of this, it was nothing more than that the New Century Company took the poem manuscript and arranged a reserve price to start the auction, and then desperately speculated, and found himself to raise the auction price until it broke the "historical record" and "shocked Hong Kong", even if it was successful.

The whole process is "left hand to right hand", and the New Century Auction Company has nothing more than to pay some publicity money, but what it has gained is a good reputation of "breaking historical records".

Lin Yi does not suffer a loss, the poem manuscript is still his own, and it can also be stored in the new century, and he can collect interest every year, in addition, there is a position with an annual salary of one million.

So in the next two days, Lin Yi let go of everything and enjoyed the life of traveling in Hong Kong to the fullest, and didn't care how to toss his own poems here in the new century.

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When mainlanders come to Hong Kong, they all have a lot of wonderful fantasies at first, thinking that Hong Kong is a paradise. In fact, when I really arrived in Hong Kong, I realized that this is actually an old city, the Xiangjiang River is not too big, the high-rise buildings are not too high, the famous Admiralty Square, Times Square and Shanghai, Nanjing and other big places shopping areas are almost the same, or even inferior to the mainland.

The only thing Su Xue, Xu Dashao, Yue Han, Wang Zhen, and Jiang Dong and others can do is to find something that interests them to do.

Xu Dashao went to find the legendary man's paradise "Big Rich", Su Xue went to buy duty-free goods, perfumes, clothes, brand-name bags, and the three old men coincidentally went into the supermarket to buy baby milk powder and diapers.

Lin Yat's only goal is to --- Hong Kong second-hand bookstore.

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First of all, Lin Yi patronized the second bookstore after his selection, second only to "Xinya Bookstore" of "Shenzhou Used Bookstore".

New Asia Bookstore is also very famous on Hong Kong Island, having been established in 1968. The owner, Su Gengzhe, is a scholar and is said to be good friends with Chen Zishan, a mainland bibliophile. The bookstore is located on Sai Yee Street in Mong Kok, and Lin Yi visited it and found that most of the books sold were mainland books, and he was a little disappointed. However, if you pick carefully, you can still find some books that you like.

When Lin Yi was shopping for books, Mr. Su's mother was taking care of the counter and didn't see the legendary Boss Su. So Lin Yi picked up some Hong Kong and Taiwan editions, and also bought Boss Su's book "Yu Dafu Research - A Pathetic Review in the History of New Literature", as well as a copy of Mu Runsun's "Notes on the History of Zhai Manuscripts" published by the New Asia Research Institute in 1959, it is said that this New Asia bookstore has some relationship with the New Asia Research Institute. Their ancient books are now put up for auction and are generally not put on display.

Coming down from the New Asia Bookstore, the watercress pedestrian street was crowded, which made people feel a little trance.

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In Hong Kong, the search for books is non-stop, and the third bookstore is Practical Bookstore.

The Practical Bookstore is located in a building in the Yau Ma Tei civilization, and when Lin Yi went to buy books for the first time, he didn't understand many of the rules, for example, when you went there, you had to tell the old man who was guarding the door to go to the Practical Bookstore and he would open the door for you.

The shopkeeper, Mr. Long Liangchen, is 95 years old, he usually falls asleep on the chair, Lin Yi can't bear to wake him up and chat with him, it is estimated that he can't talk about anything when he is awake, he can only chat with the little girl who watches the store. Fortunately, Lin Yi was handsome and gentle, and after chatting a few words, the little girl in Hong Kong took the initiative and even asked Lin Yi when he had time to be his tour guide. Seeing the little girl's hazy eyes, Lin Yi knew that it was going to be bad, and he was here to buy books, not to pick up girls. So he iron-hearted rejected her kindness. The little girl's eyes changed from hazy to complaining, but Lin Yi was helpless, presumably the little girl has been working in this bookstore, and she was chained to this cage...... Alas, forget it.

Lin Yi found Qian Gang's "Old News Reporter" in this bookstore, because he saw on the Internet that the mainland version was abridged, and he saw the Hong Kong version at the bottom of the bookshelf over there, and he was a little happy. I am even happier to buy the signed copy "Yanhuo Prose Collection" given to the poet Li Qing by Yanhuo (Pan Yaoming), and also bought Professor Xiao Si's "Hong Kong Story" and "Hong Kong Literature Walk", Zeng Minzhi's prose collection "Listening to the Waves", and I still have some gains.

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The fourth stop of Hong Kong Book Search, Meixin Library.

The bookstore is located on the sixth floor of a building in downtown Mong Kok, and when Lin Yi went, because he didn't copy down the address, he still asked the neighborhood to find it. The store is very cozy, there are sofas for people to sit and read, and there are a lot of books, Lin Yi bought Yu Shiying's "Chen Yinke's Poetry and Interpretation of His Later Years" and other books there, but he didn't chat with the boss. Later, Lin Yi saw a self-reported article by Zheng Guangwen, the owner of Meixin Bookstore, on the Internet, and knew that he was also a book lover, because he liked to buy books, so he simply opened a second-hand bookstore, combining his career and hobbies, and reading books in his own position when he was fine, but it was a question whether he could continue to operate in a place like Mong Kok.

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In this way, three days passed in the blink of an eye.

Just when Lin Yile was frantically shopping for books in Hong Kong, there was a major earthquake in the Hong Kong auction industry.

The rising rookie in the auction industry, the "New Century Auction Company", presented rare treasures--- Wang Duo presented Tang Ruowang Jinyan with the original manuscript of the poem!

After the appraisal of several experts and scholars, this poem manuscript was born in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, and it is a volume of poems written by Wang Duo for a foreign missionary to China.

John Tang arrived in China in 1622 and, at the request of Xu Guangqi, was recruited by the imperial court to participate in the revision of the calendar bureau, beginning his 38-year service in the Ming and Qing dynasties of China. In the first year of Kangxi, after 18 years of work in Guan Qintian, John Tang was finally awarded the title of Guanglu doctor, and was able to use a first-class top belt and embroidered cranes to make up for it, becoming one of the Europeans with the highest official rank in China in history, and was one of the very few distant ministers who were awarded three generations and grace.

Wang Duo surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in Nanjing in the second year of Shunzhi, and arrived in Beijing with the Qing army general Duoduo. Or because he heard that his old acquaintance John Tang had taken over the Qingqin Heavenly Prison in December of the previous year, he decided to give a handwritten book as a gift, and the content was to choose four poems of seven words and rhythms that he gave to John Tang during the Chongyu period. Although the purpose of his writing is never clearly stated in this manuscript, Wang Duo was ill and poor at the time, and he clearly hoped that this old work would remind the upstart Tang of their previous friendship and help him.

However, the above is not the point, the focus is on the "story" of the poem itself, according to Wang Duo himself, "Mr. Daowei (Tang Ruowang, the word Daowei) learned through the heavens, raised more mysteries, and convinced him to be the dragon elephant among the people." A book was stolen from Zeng, and it was written again, and now it is framed, and then it is enshrined to atone for the loss of it......."

The so-called "book here again, framed today" is a precious collection in the calligraphy and painting world, the famous "Gift to John Tang's Poems", and the original poem manuscript that was stolen is undoubtedly the "original poem manuscript" that is about to be auctioned!

Therefore, when the news of the imminent auction of this volume of "Manuscripts of Poems on Brocade Silk" came out, it immediately caused a sensation in the entire collecting world, whether it was Hong Kong, the mainland, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and even the United States, the United Kingdom, France and other countries and regions.

It can be said that this time, the New Century Auction Company, relying on the magic weapon of this volume of poetry manuscripts in its hand, dropped an atomic bomb on the collecting world, causing an unprecedented earthquake.

In just three days, the hotels near the New Century Auction Company were basically full of guests, and even the slightly more upscale hotels were also booked.

The bigwigs who received the invitation to the New Century Auction were all waiting for it, thinking about how to get this treasure at what price. Calligraphy and painting lovers who are not qualified to participate in the auction all dig out their hearts to get an invitation, the purpose is very simple, just to take a look at this rare treasure.

As the holder of this treasure, Lin Yi was still leisurely rummaging through the books he had found, maybe for him, these things were the real treasures, but at this moment, knock knock on his door. (To be continued.) )