Back at the "Yuelai Inn" where I stayed, the fashionable girl who was originally serving at the front desk got off work and was replaced by a middle-aged aunt wearing a black floral dress.

The aunt didn't know them, and she was really dedicated, so it took a lot of time to make it clear that the three of them lived here, took the key, and entered the house.

On a hot day, Cao Yidao and Huang Jiaotou were all sweating, and they took basins to take a bath.

Lin Yi was also dripping with sweat, but the conditions of this inn were too primitive, there was only one bathroom, and the male and female travelers lined up to wait outside, waiting for the inside to be wiped clean, and then went in.

Lin Yi was born with a habit of cleanliness and didn't want to huddle with these people, so he fetched water, took a basin, and hid in the house and wiped his body with a towel.

Wipe the body with cold water, cool, comfortable, and make people want to moan. After washing, Lin Yi turned on the TV comfortably, blew the fan, ate a piece of watermelon, and saw the treasure appreciation program on the TV, Lin Yi suddenly remembered the camouflage book "On Protracted War" that he bought in the "Chongwen Ancient Bookstore", and felt that the condition of the book was a little too tattered, and it was a precious wire-bound book, and he didn't know if he could repair it with the aura on his body.

I thought of it, anyway, Cao Yidao and Huang Jiaotou were not there, so Lin Yi did it cross-legged, put the broken book in front of him, held his breath and concentrated, exhaled two wisps of aura from his nose, and coiled around the book "On Protracted War" and began the restoration work.

Lin Yi, who had already had two restoration experiences, thought that this restoration work would be easy, but he didn't expect that when he opened his eyes again, the book had not changed at all, it was still tattered, especially the book that Lin Yi wanted to repair, it was still rough and rough, like it had not been cut neatly.

"What's going on, why isn't it working?" Lin Yi was strange, and thought that he was not concentrating enough, so he sat cross-legged again, looked at his nose and his nose, looked at his heart, and exhaled two wisps of aura from his nose.

The aura was like two lively little snakes, circling around the broken book, but it was not repaired.

Lin Yi waited patiently, thinking that as long as his mind worked hard, he would succeed, but ......

A minute passed.

Three minutes passed.

More than ten minutes passed.

The aura emitted by Lin Yi still hovered around the broken book, but he didn't make the next step of repairing.

Lin Yi gritted his teeth, trending towards aura, sweat flowed down his forehead, and the broken book was still there; A gust of wind blew, the pages rattled, Lin Yi, gave up.

……

Fail.

Lin Yi's first restoration of the book failed.

How so?

Lin Yi couldn't figure it out, and took a closer look at the book "On Protracted War", that's right, it's a thread-bound book, and it's an ancient book, well, to be precise, it's red literature.

Compared with the tea sutras and Buddhist scriptures that I have restored before, it seems that this book is a lead copy, and those books are engraved copies.

Could it be that here's why?

The engraving was engraved by the ancient engraving workers with a carving knife stroke by stroke, condensing their blood and sweat, their souls, while the lead copy is not so complicated and laborious.

If you remember correctly, the last two times he repaired ancient books, Lin Yi's mind would involuntarily appear with the figures of those wood board carvers, but this time there was nothing.

Lin Yi shook his head and pondered, there are two possibilities for this matter, first, maybe his spiritual power is not enough, and he can't repair the ancient books for the time being, and second, his spiritual power can only repair the ancient books of the engraved books from beginning to end, and he is immune to other versions.

Of course, Lin Yi didn't want it to be the second reason, in his opinion, maybe one day his spiritual power was strong enough, maybe this problem would be solved.

……

Just when Lin Yi was pondering, the door was opened, Cao Yidao wiped his face with a towel and walked in, muttering: "Your friend surnamed Huang is really a great mallet, I let him in as soon as I went out after washing, but he gave the opportunity to an old lady...... If the beauty still said in the past, after all, heroes love beautiful women, and it is right, but the old lady is almost fifty years old, and there are more folds on her face than the soles of my shoes, and I don't know what medicine Huang Jiaotou took wrong, is there a mother-love complex? ”

"Ahem," Lin Yi felt that this old Cao's mouth was too poisonous, but fortunately this was not heard by Huang Jiaotou.

"Brother Cao, you speak as a snack, that Huang Jiaotou is not an ordinary person, he will tear you up and eat you later, don't blame me."

"Just him? I forgive him for not daring. As he said this, Cao Yidao's voice was lowered by three or four degrees.

Seeing this, Lin Yi was about to divert the topic, but he didn't expect that the book "On Protracted War" that he was wearing was seen by Cao Yidao.

"Hey, what is this?"

Lin Yi didn't hide it from him, "I picked it up from the used bookstore here this morning, how about you help the staff officer?" ”

Cao Yidao saw that it was a broken book, and he was still careless, but when he picked it up and opened it, he was stunned.

Lin Yi took in his expression and said with a smile: "It's not bad, it looks like a 'camouflage book', it should be published in the Jinchaji region." Lin Yi said his guess.

"Goo." Cao Yidao swallowed a mouthful of spit, "Brother, you tell me honestly, is this really your Tao?" ”

Lin Yi nodded, "Yes." ”

"Don't lie to me, why have you caught up with all these good things! Dogs, this is definitely a good thing! Cao Yidaoqing was a little excited, "Your brother and I have been playing with books for so many years, and I have never seen this kind of red camouflage book, not to mention that it is still Taizu's work, two words, absolutely!" ”

Although Lin Yi was very happy, and even a little proud, he felt that he had picked up a treasure, but he still felt that Cao Yidao seemed to be exaggerating when he said this.

Seeing Lin Yi's disapproving face, Cao Yidao said with a smile: "Brother, it seems that you are still a little tender, and you don't understand the true value of this kind of camouflage, especially this kind of 'rough-edged book' Taizu works, the value is even greater." ”

"Rough-edged Ben?" Lin Yi turned over a new word in his mind.

Cao Yidao smiled proudly, "What, you haven't seen it yet?" This is the famous rough-edged book! ”

Lin Yi suddenly realized that the legendary "rough-edged book" was this kind of thing.

……

The so-called "rough-edged book" is a kind of publication version, which generally refers to the bound book or magazine without cutting, so that the book edge is uneven, fluffy, full of a unique natural and simple beauty, very chic. Some "rough-edged books" are cut by themselves when they buy them back to read, which makes readers have a more intimate sense of "rough-edged books". Lu Xun was one of the early enthusiasts and advocates of the rough-edged book.

It is said that in the 30s of the 20th century, books and magazines in the form of raw edges were once a popular fashion and were very popular. At that time, Lu Xun's "Collection of Foreign Novels" was a typical rough-edged book when it was first published. On April 10, 1935, Lu Xun wrote in a letter to Cao Juren: "When the "Outer Collection" is bound to be bound, can you leave me ten copies without cutting edges. I was a Maobian party ten years ago, and my temper has not changed. But if it's troublesome, forget it, and the bindings may not be willing to listen, they are against the burr. On 11 July, Tang Tao published an article entitled "The 'Mao Bian Party' and the 'Social Elites'", in which he said: "I am also one of the members of the Mao Bian Party, and when I buy new literary and artistic books, I often have to pay attention to those that are not cut off.

Looking at the edge of this "On Protracted War" again, it really seems that it has not been cut much, the hair is rough, it was uncomfortable to read before, but it is a kind of simple and primitive when I read it carefully......

A book, looking at its shortcomings from a different angle, can turn into a rare advantage, which is really a bit evil.

It's a pity that Lin Yi has read a lot of Tang Tao's works, and he has also seen records about "rough-edged books" in many book hunting notes and reading notes, but there is a copy in front of him, but he is stunned and ignorant of the goods. If it weren't for Cao Yidao's reminder, Lin Yi probably would still be in the dark, thinking that the edges of this book were too rough to make people uncomfortable to read, and even wanted to repair it with aura - fortunately it didn't work, otherwise, it would have ruined a rare book.

No wonder Cao Yidao can be commented by Xu Haoming as a "second-grade player", he has just entered the first product after picking up a few omissions, and Lao Cao still has some strength, at least in terms of experience and eyesight. Lin Yi is not convinced.

Seeing that Lin Yi was awakened by his own words, Cao Yidao continued to analyze the precious value of this book for Lin Yi.

Generally speaking, the camouflage version of "On Protracted War" has three characteristics:

First, the binding method of this book is not a paperback book that was common during the Republic of China, but a line-bound book, especially the red literature bound in line, which is even rarer. You must know that in that period, resources were scarce, and many books could not even be found on paper, so that a lot of clay paper and straw paper appeared, and the cost of thread-bound books was generally very large, and the workmanship was cumbersome, and it was rarely used in promoting red culture. This line-packed "On Protracted War" can be said to be precious.

Second, looking at the specific content of the book, it seems that no changes have been made to the original text. Comparing the single books and anthologies published after the founding of the People's Republic of China, we can better understand the original appearance of the article. To put it more bluntly, this book is the most original and original work of Taizu's theory.

Third, it is not only a camouflage book, but also a rough book. Rough-edged books or rough-edged books are not cut after the book is bound, so that readers can cut and read page by page to retain their original natural appearance, and the number of rough-edged books is also only a handful, and this alone doubles its value. Therefore, this camouflage version of "On Protracted War" combines the three major characteristics of Mao Taizu's work version, camouflage version and rough edge book, and the number of surviving copies is very small, and its literary value and version are much higher than those of other Taizu works.

After telling Lin Yi about these things, Cao Yidao sighed again, "It's really rare to die-you kid is really lucky, how did you come across such a once-in-a-lifetime good book, if I guessed correctly, the value of this book is at least more than 100,000." A look of envy, jealousy, and hatred.

"Grunt", but this time it was Lin Yi who swallowed and spitted, to be honest, he is not a person who has never seen the market now, and the 3 million Buddhist scriptures can also be treated indifferently, but this broken book that he is not very optimistic about is worth 100,000, which is incredible.

It seems that his knowledge reserve in the search for books is still very lacking, if it weren't for his sensitive nose, I don't know how many good books I have missed, even if I open my eyes, I don't know the goods like a blind man, and I almost spent effort to repair this rare book, which is really funny.

Lin Yi laughed at himself and couldn't help but shake his head.

Cao Yidao misunderstood, and thought that Lin Yi was dissatisfied with his analysis, so he shouted: "Whether you agree with it or not, you have taken two great luck in a row this year, so you have to invite a meal anyway, don't say too much, I won't be comfortable if I don't spend you a thousand or eight hundred." ”

Wine and dine someone?

Lin Yi was not afraid of this, not to mention that he didn't eat the bowl of noodles at noon today, and his stomach was already hungry, so he smiled and said: "No problem, but you have to call the head of the Huang Sect first...... By the way, I still have a friend, so I might as well call it too. ”

Cao Yidao was surprised, "Friend? What other friends do you have here besides me and Huang Jiaotou? Hurry up and get to know each other, all the world is brothers—of course, if it's a woman, it's even better! A cheap smile on his face.

Lin Yiban said with a face: "I'm sorry, he's a gentleman!" ”