"Why don't you turn off the lights in that house!" This is his brother-in-law Zhao Gang yelling at Lin Yi in the bedroom.

Hearing this roar, Lin Yi, who was lying on the bed with his legs hanging on the edge of the bed and a book in his hand, reluctantly put down the book he was reading, and then extinguished the light.

The bedroom was dark.

And this darkness made Lin Yi rarely calm down, and he had time to think about many things.

In fact, after returning from the luxurious teahouse, Lin Yi went into the house and then took out the book from the bedside to read.

This is a very thin and inconspicuous book, but it is the first note about buying books at a used book stall that Lin Yi bought at a used book stall not long ago.

This book is written by a writer who is not very famous, this person seems to be poisoned by books, and he feels very uncomfortable when he doesn't go out to buy old books every day. The content of the author's writing of this book is very simple, basically an interesting story of his more than ten years of searching for old books in the used book stall, rain or shine, and the story also involves some lace anecdotes of many famous writers, such as the famous Lu Yao and Chen Zhongzhong.

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In March 1983, Lu Yao's novel "Life" won the second National Novella Award, he called his younger brother Wang Tianle to report the good news, saying that he had no money in hand, and the travel expenses to Beijing to receive the award were not enough, and he urgently needed his younger brother's help to find a way, Tianle borrowed 500 yuan, rushed to Xi'an Railway Station to buy a ticket on the spot, and sent Lu Yao to the train to Beijing.

Eight years later, in March 1991, "Ordinary World" won the third "Mao Dun Literature Award", and when Lu Yao told his brother who was interviewed in Fu County, Yan'an, the brothers on both ends of the phone did not speak for a long time, and their feelings were very complicated. Then Lu Yao said that he didn't have enough money, and he needed his younger brother to borrow a sum of money for his idea to go to Beijing to receive awards and buy books, etc., in desperation, Tianle knocked on the door of the office of Feng Wende, then deputy secretary of the Yan'an Prefectural Party Committee, and listened to Tianle's words to shock the deputy secretary, and he went out to find 5,000 yuan. On the day he left Xi'an to go to Beijing to receive the award, Tianle rushed from Yan'an to Xi'an Railway Station to send the 5,000 yuan he was carrying directly to Lu Yao, and said to Lu Yao: You don't want to win any awards in the future, it's easy to say anything about RMB, if you win the Nobel Prize in Literature, you need foreign exchange to go there, I can't get it!

Lu Yao only said one sentence: It's literature! I entered the train station without looking back.

Chen Zhongzhong is a simple Guanzhong person. Before "White Deer Plain" came out, he was dressed like a contract foreman who went to the countryside to work in the city. It is said that whoever asks him for gossip, he will receive him, but if he disagrees, he will pick up people, and he will not be polite, it is still a phrase: go, go, hurry up, (I) still have something to do, and if someone comes, the wolf will escape. At that time, Chen Zhongzhong's cigarettes were inferior cigarettes with extremely strong flavors. Chen Zhongzhong said, damn, we don't have any money, is it cheap to smoke this rotten cigarette, it's a lot of energy.

On May 25, 1988, Lu Yao relied on his super willpower and insisted on creating the final creation of "Ordinary World" with his super willpower, and he insisted on creating the final creation of "Ordinary World", when he wrote the last chapter, his hands spasmed, and he soaked in hot water for a long time before regaining consciousness, and the last punctuation mark on the whole calligraphy and painting, he stood up and threw the ballpoint pen out of the window almost as a conditioned reflex without any control, and then cried.

On the 25th day of the lunar month in 1991, after six years, the creation of "White Deer Plain" was completed. Chen Zhongzhong recalled: When he finished the sixth origin of the ellipsis after the last punctuation mark, his two eyes suddenly went dark, his mind was blank, and he fell into a state of unconsciousness, leaning back against the sofa with his eyes closed, as if tears were pouring out......

Chen Zhongzhong is luckier than Lu Yao, after the advent of "White Deer Plain", he became famous, compared to the royalty income and the high consumption of his love of smoking cigars, Chen Zhongzhong once said frankly that what really made him "get rid of poverty" was the adaptation copyright fee brought by the adaptation of film and television dramas, but he was still dressed as a contract foreman, and his dignity was all in his heart and in the depths of his soul.

Once, a high-ranking official condescendingly said to him, why don't you write after "White Deer Plain"? You have to experience life, you have to learn the spirit of the speech, you have to go deep into the masses, and you have to go deep into the masses.

Chen Zhongzhong only replied with one sentence: You know a hammer!

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The reason why Lin Yi likes these two writers is very simple, their attitude towards money, worldliness, literature, and books.

In addition, no one would have imagined that in this book, Chen Zhongzhong, who couldn't afford to smoke well, had his cloth hardcover, which only printed 2,000 copies of "White Deer Plain" in 93 years, had been fried to 1,500 yuan in the used book market; Lu Yao, who couldn't even afford a ticket, his 1986 hardcover edition of "The Ordinary World" Part 1 (three volumes) was as high as 3,000 yuan in the used book market.

How many packs of good cigarettes is this?

How many tickets is this?

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Lin Yi used to think that he was very literate, he liked to buy some classical classics and foreign classics, and read "Journey to the West", "Water Margin", "Dream of Red Mansions" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" at a young age; I like to watch "The Red and the Black", "Notre Dame de Paris", and "How Steel is Made", which are difficult to remember...... But how much of those books did he really understand? How much does it help him to be in such a world?

In the end, what made him understand was-

In 1985, the 16-page book, the book mouth was painted with gold, and the special hardcover edition of "Water Margin" with famous stickers was now sold for 6,800 yuan in the used book market; "Journey to the West" can be sold for 10,000 yuan; "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" can be sold for 15,000 yuan, and "Dream of Red Mansions" is as high as 21,000 yuan.

It's unimaginable, but it's true.

The same content, the same story, the same text, but with a world-different price.

You can buy a set of four famous books for a few dozen yuan on the street, just because of the special edition, from 85 to the present, in just over 20 years, the price has skyrocketed hundreds of times.

You don't understand the world of old books.

The price of used books is even more unpredictable.

If it was the stamp market that was popular before, then it is the second-hand book market that is now on fire.

And now, these big secrets have appeared in this thin and inconspicuous book notebook, and at this point, Lin Yi finally knows what he has to do.

Books are money,

Money is books.

Money is also an equivalent,

It is equal to the golden house of incense car beauty.

Some of the things I once hoped for could be obtained through guò books.

One million, once an unattainable number, is now within reach.

As long as he is willing, he can even directly sell that set of drawings to Lu Feiyan at a low price, from a non-writer to a worth of hundreds of thousands.

But Lin Yi didn't do this, because he understood the value of the sketch in his hand, and he understood Lu Feiyan's eagerness to get it, of course, the most important thing is that the wonderful fusion of Tong Guò today and the ancient book "The Book of Tea" made Lin Yi know that old books also have life.

They are not just books, they have their own history, their own stories, their own values.

This set of drawings is at least one million.

Because this is its value, no one is missing.

Lin Yi had no reason not to respect it, so Lin Yi decided to keep its high price no matter what, even if it was pressed in his hands, he couldn't sell it.