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The old man seemed to be a little anxious, and drove the tractor away, so that Lin Yi had to remind him to slow down.

The old man said, "It's okay, I'm familiar with thieves here, and I can drive home with my eyes closed." ”

Before he finished speaking, the tractor collided with an old sow, and the old man was startled, bared his black teeth and smiled embarrassedly, and said, "It's too stupid, this pig is too stupid." ”

Lin Yi said, "If it's almost there, why don't I get out of the car." ”

"What's the matter, do you think I'm driving well?"

"No, I have a backache."

"Oh, I'll slow down."

……

The old Han's house is the kind of common farmhouse courtyard, red brick house, big iron gate, and big locust trees planted inside.

There is no "blind old woman" in his family, only a daughter in her thirties.

Seeing that the father brought the stranger into the house, the girl asked what was the matter. The old man said that he bought books, didn't we sell a batch of them before, and I would show him some of them at home.

The girl was busy making tea for Lin Yi, and Lin Yi said that she didn't need to be too busy, just take a look and leave.

The old man began to get busy, and entered the house, ping-pong. Because it was someone's residence, Lin Yi was embarrassed to go in, so he waited outside. After a while, there was no movement inside, Lin Yi turned around, and saw the old man open the curtain and took out a letter of thread to load the book.

Lin Yi saw it and hurriedly stepped forward to pick it up.

At first glance, Lin Yi was stunned, he originally thought it would be a good book, but it was a photocopy of "Ancient and Modern Miscellaneous Dramas" and "Selected Miscellaneous Dramas" in one letter and eight copies.

This letter was photocopied in the early fifties, to be precise, "miniature", a little smaller than the original size, the paper is quite exquisite, first with jade button paper, and then in the compilation felt that it was too wasteful, so the quality of the rice paper was used, after all, the country had difficulties in the special era, and the book should be a little more frugal, including five volumes of "Ancient and Modern Miscellaneous Dramas", and three volumes of "Selected Miscellaneous Dramas".

If you remember correctly, this set of books was also compiled by Zheng Zhenduo, because there are beautiful "prints" in many meta-miscellaneous drama versions. As a "fan of the first edition of paintings", how could Zheng Lao let go of the compilation of this set of books.

It's just a pity that this set of books is too huge, and the unified name is "Guben Opera Series", with a total of 120 volumes in four episodes and eight kinds.

Such a letter in front of me is not very valuable and does not belong to the category of rare books, but it is also possible to get a glimpse of the "original appearance" of woodcut prints in the Yuan and Ming dynasties through these photocopies.

Lin Yi casually flipped through the "Selected Miscellaneous Dramas", basically each volume has seven or eight beautiful illustrations, the characters of those illustrations are rounded and lifelike, and they have the style of Ming Dynasty figure paintings, which is also very eye-catching for Lin Yi, who likes printmaking art.

Lin Yi finished appreciating the prints, and then carefully studied the contents of the two sets of books, in which the preface said: "Selected Ancient and Modern Miscellaneous Dramas" ("Willow Branch Collection", "Yanjiang Collection"), edited by Ming Mengcheng Shun, and published by Ming Chongzhen (56 kinds of miscellaneous dramas). It is worth noting that Gu Qu Zhai's "Ancient Miscellaneous Drama", Meng Chengshun's "Willow Branches" and "Yanjiang" 2 episodes, gathered in the collections of each family, have to be matched into a complete volume, which is enough to add color to this collection.

Lin Yi doesn't study much about miscellaneous dramas, but he roughly knows the value of this series of books, and if you trade online, one is about 80---300 yuan.

Why is there such a spread?

The main thing is whether there are beautiful prints in it!

To put it more bluntly, there are not many people who study miscellaneous dramas now, and there are not many people who can understand miscellaneous dramas, and the reason why people love this set of books is because there are exquisite Yuan and Ming engravings in this set of books.

Therefore, the value of this kind of miscellaneous drama series is determined by the number of prints in the book.

Like the eight volumes of this letter in Lin Yi's hand, there are more than 70 prints in total, which can be said to be a rare printmaking material, which can be described as illustrated and illustrated, in a very fashionable phrase, called very "immediate vision".

No way, with the development of science and technology, most people have become "visual animals", and this is the main reason why all kinds of "calligraphy and painting" are popular in the collection of old books.

In fact, this is not only the case in China, but also abroad, where oil paintings and illustrations are sold more expensively than diamonds. For example, the English poet William? A rare original edition of Blake's illustrated poem, which sold for $370,000 last year, was written and printed in 1789 and illustrated by hand, entitled "Song of Innocence." According to the winner, "I have those paintings in the ......"

As a lover of old book collections, Lin Yi sometimes can't figure out what is going on.

Celebrities rely on their faces to eat, and old books make money from prints.

Okay, I don't want to think so much, Lin Yi feels that no matter what, after such a trip, he can't go back empty-handed, if he can, he will buy this set of books.

……

While Lin Yi was carefully pondering this set of thread-bound books, the old man was also pondering Lin Yi carefully. He saw that Lin Yi was dressed very well, no matter how he looked at it, he looked like a person with status, and the things he brought were also big bags and small bags, and his tone of voice and attitude towards people were not ordinary people.

If you are not an ordinary person, you must be a rich person.

The old man came to a conclusion.

Then the old man began to ponder again, how much should he ask Lin Yi for? Looking at him, he seems to like this set of books, and I like this set of books very much, and there are a lot of beautiful pictures in this set of books, and the characters look so good.

He said that the books I sold were sold at a loss, and they were worth tens of thousands, so this set of books should also be worth some money, right?

The old man doesn't understand books, he is afraid of losing money if he sells them again, and he wants to sell the books and make a fortune in his eyes.

As a rural person, he didn't expect gold to grow in the valley, he didn't expect golden carp to pop out of the small river ditch, he didn't expect his things to be sold for more money.

It is not easy for the common people, and it is even more difficult for the old farmers.

The slightest hope, they will expand several times to fantasize, and this is also a disguised self-comfort and anesthesia.

So when Lin Yi asked the old man, do you want more money for this set of books, the old man did not hesitate to stretch out a slap: five thousand!

Lin Yi was a little dazed, not because he was frightened by this little five thousand, but because of the old man's hot eyes, it seemed that today's set of books had to be sold for five thousand yuan, otherwise you wouldn't even want to leave.

Lin Yi could only smile and explain to the old man that this set of books was photocopied, not the original woodcut, if it was a woodcut, not to mention 5,000, even if it was 50,000, it was worth it, and said that this set of books could only cost 2,000 yuan at most.

As soon as he heard this, the old man immediately shook his head like a rattle, and stretched out his slap again--- five thousand!

Lin Yi never thought that he would meet such a stubborn old man, and it was useless to say anything to him. He didn't understand, he couldn't listen, and he recognized two words in his eyes: five thousand!

In the end, Lin Yi couldn't help it, so he asked, "Why do you have to sell it for 5,000 yuan?" ”

The old man pointed to his daughter and said, "For her." ”

Lin Yi realized that the woman's waist was a little thick, and she should be pregnant, so she said, "Your daughter is going to get married?" ”

The old man looked helpless, "Where to get married, the wedding date will have to wait until the Spring Festival." ”

Lin Yi wondered, "It's just over the Spring Festival, so why don't you wait a year?" When the children are almost a year old, they will get married at that time, isn't it to make people see jokes? ”

"You don't know that most of the people in our village have gone to the city to work, and only come back for the Spring Festival. If you have a wedding now, there will be no way to receive the gift. I have sent so much gift money out, I can't just go down the drain, it would be too much of a loss. This is not the first case for me, if you want a joke, let people laugh at it."

After the old man finished speaking, he said to Lin Yi again: "Don't think I'm greedy for money, there's no way to do it." I asked you for 5,000 yuan to take care of her...... My daughter has a big belly, and I can't be a father who doesn't care about anything, right? It's hard to be someone's father! A sigh.

Lin Yi was silent.

In the end, he gave 5,000 to the old man, and 2,000 books to 3,000.

Before leaving, the girl wrapped the boiled eggs for Lin Yi, and then smiled embarrassedly.

It was still the old man who drove the tractor to send Lin Yi back, and on the way back, the old man sang a big opera all the way, and his gong-like voice was high-pitched and desolate---

Gift money, what a simple custom it was, when did it change its taste? Have times changed, or have people changed? Isn't it a kind of sadness of the times that the original good blessing has become a heavy burden?

When Lin Yi arrived at the entrance of the village, the old man drove the tractor and left.

Watching the tractor slowly disappear on the path in the distance, Lin Yi turned around and walked towards home, and his originally heavy heart was immediately startled by the lively scene at the door of his home---

I saw that the originally deserted door was full of people, and everyone was waiting for him in line, as if welcoming the returning hero. (To be continued.) )