Where did Lin Yi know that his bookstall had picked up a leak, and almost caused a "family world war". Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In fact, the biggest charm of shopping for old books is "picking up leaks", which is also the most addictive thing for countless book buyers.

No matter how rich and wealthy you are, as long as you can rely on your eyesight and ability to find good books and pick up small leaks at the used book stall, it is better than anything else.

How to say it, this feeling is very wonderful, people who don't play old books don't know, people who play old books will feel the same way, for example, Lin Yi once knew a big boss, himself is the CEO of a construction company, and there are absolutely too many assets to count, but he just likes to go to the old book stall to buy old books, every time he picks up 10 yuan and 8 yuan of leakage, he happily shouts for people to drink and celebrate, a meal does not cost hundreds, and he can't get down at all. Perhaps for him, what he cares about is not more money or less money, but the feeling of --- sense of accomplishment and satisfaction that he can easily win by relying on knowledge.

At least at this time, Lin Yi felt very satisfied, and the unhappiness of being fired from the company had already been swept away.

Keep wandering---

Soon, after visiting five or six antique shops, Lin Yi finally saw a store with wire-bound books. The books were neatly stacked on the transparent glass counter, and it looked like the boss had a very precious look at them.

At this moment, Lin Yi feels that he is a hero who saves the wind and dust, and those thread-bound books are the beauties who are bound, and it is his responsibility to save them from the sea of suffering.

"Boss, help take out those thread-bound books and take a look." Lin Yi put his hands behind his back and said kindly.

The shopkeeper --- a white and fat old man, who was polishing jade by hand at this time, and when he heard Lin Yi's voice, he raised his head, pulled his glasses down, took the cloudy triangular eyes, looked at Lin Yi carefully, and said, "What, interested in old books?" ”

"yes, I don't have any hobbies, I just like to collect old books." Lin Yi said with a smile.

"This hobby is good, it can both appreciate and grow knowledge--- my grandson would be like you, he only likes to play cards and drink all day long." As he spoke, the old man got up slowly, found a rag and wiped his hands, then walked to the counter, took out the thread-bound book below and handed it to Lin Yi.

"These are slightly more expensive, and some are slightly cheaper." As the old man spoke, he got up again and took out a stack of thread-bound books from the counter, and said to Lin Yi: "Look at these, these are cheap and in good condition, if you want them, they cost thirty yuan a copy." ”

Lin Yi took a look, but it was some new imitation of the line-bound books, each volume is a thin book, including "Push Back Map", "Plum Blossom Easy Count", "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon", and "Jade House Instructions" and so on. The paper is bad, the binding is frivolous, and this kind of thread-bound book is basically the wholesale price of eight cents a book in some workshops that make fakes, such as the Stone Buddha Temple.

Lin Yi didn't break it, so he smiled and said, "Forget about these, I'll take a look at these in my hand." ”

Seeing that Lin Yi was not interested in fakes, the old man took a look at Lin Yi more. You must know that those who play with thread-bound books and ancient books are basically older people, and it is rare to be as young as Lin Yi, so the old man took these fakes to sell, but he didn't expect that people would not accept them.

Looks like a connoisseur.

The old man didn't dare to underestimate Lin Yi anymore.

"Okay, then you can take a look first and see if there is a suitable one." The old man doesn't talk much, he has been in business for so many years, he sees people very accurately, he is also very shrewd in business, and he knows how to figure out people's psychology, so he has a nickname called "Old Fox" in this industry.

Lin Yi looked back at the thread-bound books in his hand, which were basically fragments, either missing the upper volume, or missing the lower volume, or missing the front and back covers, roughly the woodcut book "Compendium of Materia Medica" at the end of the Qing Dynasty, "Jingyue Quanshu", "Qianjinfang", and "Yinhai Subtlety", etc., and then the lithographs of the Republic of China period "Explanation of Typhoid Fever", "Materia Medica", and "Yizong Jinjian", etc., are almost very common ancient medicine books.

Today's Lin Yi can be said to be a used book tycoon in the industry, and he used to love thread-bound books, but since he has seven or eight thousand thread-bound books, his taste is high, and ordinary thread-bound books are really not eye-catching.

Just when Lin Yi was about to give up, suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he saw a thin blue book pressed under these thread-bound books.

What book is this?

Lin Yi was curious, so he picked up the book, and when he looked closely, it was a thin collection of translated poems, and when he looked at it again, it turned out to be Liang Zongdai's translation of the French poet Valéry's "Narcissus"!

"Narcissus Ci" --- the most accomplished translated poem of the Republic of China! Lin Yi had heard of this book countless times. In Lin Yi's favorite book reading notes, there is an introduction to this book---

Valéry was a great French poet during World War II, but because he defected to the French puppet regime supported by Hitler, he was sentenced to death by the great General de Gaulle, the president of Free France, after the end of World War II.

Why?

Because anyone who has dabbled in translation knows that translating poetry is the most difficult, and the form can only be achieved occasionally, and sometimes even touching the content, and in some places it is equivalent to re-creation.

Even the author of the poem could not escape the same fate as the author of the poem, and the great German and French poet Rilke once recounted his creative experience. In 1924, he was inspired to complete a poem in German, but after putting down his pen, the original French words continued to linger in his mind, so he rewrote it in French, thinking that the translation would be sufficient, and the result was not only a different poem, but also a different theme.

The difficulty of translating poetry can be seen. However, the unique musical rhythm and beautiful format of poetry have a charm that cannot be achieved by prose. Therefore, many people are brave and brave on the road. In the history of Chinese translation, Liang Zongdai is one of the pioneers. If there are famous works of translators, then Liang Zongdai's famous work is the French poet Valéry's "Narcissus", which he translated when he traveled to France in the twenties of the last century.

At that time, the Chinese translation of Western poetry was still in its infancy, and some people translated it hard and literally, and as a result, Chinese was Westernized, such as reading the Book of Heaven; Some people paraphrase the text fluently, but often deviate from the original meaning of the author. It's rare to see a masterpiece in between. The appearance of "Narcissus Ci" at this time is refreshing. The translator is so attentive to the original, so vividly written and written, that when the translation is good, the Chinese and French are so integrated that it is hard to believe that it was written by a young man of 24 years old who has only been studying French for two or three years.

After the translation was published in the "Novel Monthly", it caused a sensation in the literary world. Since then, Liang Zongdai has never tired of it. However, after decades of writing, he has not stopped writing, but he has not translated many poems. This is because he is a perfectionist, never tired of translating, and it is not an exaggeration to describe him as "tempered and tempered".

It can be said that Liang Zongdai worked hard to climb the peak of poetry translation, coupled with his natural poetic temperament, and finally reached a realm that people who stayed at the foot of the mountain and sighed could not imagine. So much so that his translated works during the Republic of China have basically become hot rare and ancient books.

For example, this "Narcissus Ci", in 2010, the market price of this rare book of poetry is about 2,000 yuan (nine products), and most of them are the first edition of the Republic of China in 26 years and three seals, if it is the first edition of the Republic of China in 20 years, the price will reach a high price of 23---000 yuan, the reason is that the first edition of this poetry collection is extremely rare, and it can be said that there is no market.

Lin Yi had already collected a lot of new literature books of the Republic of China, and of course he understood the specific price of this book, so he carefully looked at the copyright of the book: issued by Zhonghua Book Company, the real price of the national currency triangle, the third edition in March of the 26th year of the Republic of China - unfortunately, it is not the first edition.

Then Lin Yi scolded himself for being insatiable, it would be very good to be able to see a three-edition one, so why blindly pursue the first edition.

Now the most important thing is, how to buy this book---

……

When Lin Yi was flipping through these thread-bound books, the old man also looked at Lin Yi with triangular eyes through reading glasses, figuring out Lin Yi's psychology.

Lin Yi suffered a loss in the "ghost market" last time, and when he saw the book he dreamed of, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and finally was cheated for 30,000 yuan. This time, he learned it, so he held back directly, pretending to inadvertently re-press the "Narcissus Ci" under other thread-bound books, and then picked out three thread-bound books that looked slightly better from them, and asked the old man: "Boss, how do you sell these books?" ”

The old man took the book and looked at it, and then said, "This one is 300, this one is 400, and as for this one, --- 600."

Ruthless enough, the market price of this kind of ordinary-level thread-bound book is at most one or two hundred yuan, and the old man has doubled it all. It looks like it's hard to pick up a leak in an antique shop. However, the more difficult it is, the more challenging it is, not to mention that Lin Yi's ultimate goal is not these books.

So Lin Yi pretended to be very distressed and scratched his head and said, "Can you have less?" ”

"Can't!" The old man replied very simply, "These are all medicine books, and they all have great practical value." ”

"Oh, that's it---" Lin Yi pretended to be humbly asking for advice, "but these books are in poor condition, and they aren't worth that much money, right?" ”

The old man sneered and said, "You don't understand this, last time I had a guest here, he also liked a medicine book, but he was too expensive and didn't want to buy it, and finally he was bought by another person, and I heard that later that person sold a prescription in that book for 20,000 yuan!" ”

"So, young people, when you collect books, you have to collect those that have practical value, such as this ancient medicine book, or old recipes for cooking, and then collect those feng shui looks...... This kind of book is a treasure, maybe there is a secret recipe in it, and you will develop when you meet someone. ”

I have to say that the old man's words are very tempting, and he may have been fooled and stunned when he put it on others. However, Lin Yi is a master here, and he is also a little dizzy on the surface, nodding frequently at the old man's words, but he is about to laugh out loud in his heart.

The old man was right, there were some books that were very valuable, but those were basically rare medicine books, or ancestral recipes, and most of them were "manuscripts". In ancient times, the rules of practicing medicine were unique skills, which were passed on to men but not women, and not to outsiders, so these secrets were not engraved, but taught orally, or copied by hand.

Like the three thread-loading books in Lin Yi's hand, "Jingyue Quanshu", "Seeking Truth from Materia Medica", and "Compendium of Materia Medica", they are basically very common, and they do not belong to the category of secret recipes at all.

At this time, Lin Yi pretended to be hesitant, grabbed his scalp and said, "I really like these three books, but it's a pity that I didn't bring so much money---

The old man glanced at him, "How many do you bring?" ”

Lin Yi smiled secretly in his heart and took the bait.

So he said, "It's only about 100 yuan." ”

The old man immediately said, "That's not good, it's too far away." He was about to put away all those books, and said, "If you don't bring so much money, you should say it earlier, it's not a waste of effort." ”

Lin Yi looked very embarrassed, so he said, "Then can I pick a cheaper one." ”

The old man glanced at him, then put the books down again, "Then you can choose." ”

Lin Yi was embarrassed to pick and choose, and finally picked up the very thin book of "Narcissus", and said, "Just this one, it should be cheaper if it is not a medicine book." ”

The old man took "Narcissus Ci" and flipped it, it was very thin, it was still from the Republic of China, not too old, so he said: "This book is at least 100, you take it." ”

Lin Yi was secretly happy in his heart, it seemed that the shopkeeper didn't study the books of the Republic of China very much, and he didn't know what the new literature of the Republic of China was---

Just when Lin Yi thought that the overall situation had been decided, and was about to pay for the checkout, take the book and leave, a voice said: "I want this book, 200 yuan!" ”

Damn, who is it, there is a beard cut off halfway?! (To be continued.) )