Chapter 519. Couple of living treasures

This sweep, for a collector of Lin Yi's level, can be said to have spent a lot of money, and bought a lot of rare books. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info books are materialized cultural carriers, which are themselves of economic value, especially rare books, rare books, cultural relics and artworks, and the reason why books and periodicals are worth collecting mainly lies in the significance of their editions. What's more, in Lin Yi's view, the appreciation potential of the Republic of China version is large, the market prospect is broad, and "leak detection" often occurs in the immature class, and it is a good time to invest in books and periodicals in the Republic of China.

Seeing that he had gained a lot, Lin Yi lifted the bookbag, feeling that he had almost shopped it, so he was ready to walk the bookstall again, and if there was no harvest, it would be over.

With such a thought, Lin Yi came to a larger bookstall, and when he saw this bookstall, it turned out to be a merger of two bookstalls, and the two stall owners, a man and a woman, seemed to be husband and wife.

At this time, the woman left the bookstall to buy water, and only the man watched.

The man is five big and three thick, and at first glance he is the kind of man who can bear hardships and stand hard work. Seeing Lin Yi looking at his bookshelf, he said, "Take a look, which book in the book I give you cheaper." ”

Lin Yi nodded, said thank you, and then looked at the bookshelf.

Most of the men's bookstalls are ordinary books, big road goods, and nothing valuable. There are bad and good books on women's bookstalls, as well as thread-bound books, Republic of China books, and some old calligraphy and paintings.

Just as Lin Yi swept past the man's bookstall and looked at the woman's bookstall, an old woman walked over with a basket.

When the man saw the old woman, he hurriedly stepped forward, handed over his chair and said, "Mother, didn't I tell you not to come out, how good it is to stay at home, you have to come out to turn this temple fair." ”

The old woman was black and thin, and at first glance she was a person who had suffered, and she said, "I am alone at home, and I am in a hurry, so I might as well come out and walk around." Then he glanced at the woman's stall, "What about your wife, where has she gone?" ”

"I went to buy water."

"What kind of water to buy, I brought you boiled water from home---" said as he pulled out a large plastic water cup from the basket.

The man took the glass and said, "Just leave it here, you can sit down and rest first." ”

"Okay, I'll rest for a while, I'm quite tired from going up this mountain." As she spoke, the old woman took out a box of cigarettes from her trouser pocket, and when she pinched it, it turned out to be an empty box.

The man looked at it and hurriedly asked, "Mother, is there no smoke?" ”

The old woman replied with some embarrassment, "Yes! ”

"Then I'll buy you a box!" As soon as the man finished speaking, he saw that his wife came back and took a bottle of "Master Kong" mineral water for one dollar.

When the woman saw him, she asked, "Why are you going?" ”

"Buy a box of cigarettes for my mother." The man said casually.

At this time, I saw the woman glaring at the man fiercely with her pair of big goldfish eyes. The man pretended not to see his wife's eyes and left to buy cigarettes.

It didn't take long to see the man come back with a box of "scattered flowers" for three yuan, and casually took out one of the boxes of cigarettes, handed it to his mother, and then took out the lighter in his pocket and lit the cigarette for her. He immediately said to his mother, "Keep this cigarette too!" Anyway, it's cheap, only three dollars a box. ”

Seeing that the woman reacted very quickly, she could see at a glance that when the man took out the box of cigarettes, the lid of the cigarette box was open, and she secretly said in her heart: "This dead ghost must have done something in the cigarette box." So when she saw that the man asked his mother to put away the cigarettes, she didn't do it anymore, so she snatched the box of "scattered flower" cigarettes that the man bought, and immediately pinched them on both sides of the cigarette box, and the horse's feet inside were revealed. Reaching out to the cigarette case, he took out three hundred yuan with two fingers, and then put it in his trouser pocket.

Then he threw the box of cigarettes to the man and yelled at him, "Is this a three-dollar cigarette?" It's 300 yuan! Still playing this trick with me, you're still a little tender! ”

The man was also annoyed, and said: "I stuffed some money, our mother helped us take care of the children, and helped with housework, I should honor her!" ”

The woman didn't expect the man to dare to reply, so she became even more fierce and shouted: "This day is simply impossible." Do you know how hard it must be to make money these days? Today, Zhang Luo has been selling books all day, and the money for setting up a stall to sell books is less than 300 yuan, you are good, you will stuff in 300 at once! Our family is now eating has become a problem, after eating this meal without the next meal, you are willing to give, earn it yourself! ”

As soon as the man heard what his wife said, he immediately turned into a turtle with a shrunken head, and he didn't even dare to let out a fart. I can't say the bitterness in my heart, I dare to be angry but I don't dare to speak, who makes his bookstall have no business, and it all depends on his wife's bookstall to support it. Besides, although he is a gentleman, but in the house, in the bookstall inside and out, inside and out, before and after running, it is indeed his wife who is busy working alone, and he is at best just a small part-time worker who fishes for three days and dries nets for two days. Alas! How can a man not bow his head under the dwarves?

The man is a wreck, and he has no face. His face was flushed, and he wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into. Stick your head in your crotch and never show your head again.

The old woman looked at her son's nest, and hurriedly said to the woman: "Everyone has a scripture that is difficult to read, and I am not short of this money." It's only natural to help you take care of the children, who made me his grandmother. I don't have money to smoke, so I smoke less, which is better for my body. As for the two of you, just live in harmony, don't quarrel anymore, and don't let me make any contradictions, others don't look good at jokes. After speaking, he glanced at Lin Yi, who was flipping through old books in front of the booksstand.

When Lin Yi saw the old woman's eyes, he smiled at her kindly. The old woman nodded, and said to her son, "Well, it's not too early, I should go back, and I'll have to cook for the child later...... What are you going to do, do you go back and eat together, or do you want to buy something to eat here? ”

The man said, "Let's deal with it here." ”

The old woman said: "Don't deal with it, your body is important--- you two can eat whatever you want, the money is inexhaustible, don't break your body." Okay, without further ado, I'm leaving---! ”

Seeing that his mother was really about to leave with the basket, the man said with a guilty face: "Mother, I'll send you to the old man!" So saying, he hurried to help the old woman.

"No, let's rest! Just these few steps, my body is still strong. The old woman said and left the used book stall.

The man was about to send him off, but one of the guys was dragged by the woman vigorously, and then he shouted at him with his waist crossed; "What to send, haven't you seen anyone buying books at the bookstall anymore! It's hard to do anything, right? Cut! Take a rag and wipe all those books! ”

Although Lin Yi didn't want to listen to other people's quarrels, the couple's voices were too loud, and it was difficult not to listen.

At this time, a few people came over to watch the excitement, flipping through the books, chattering, and talking about the living treasure couple.

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It turned out that the woman's name was "Qin Sanxi", and the man's name was "Li Gangban". This Qin Sanxi can be regarded as a capable woman, but in the past nine years, the private company she worked for went bankrupt due to improper management. Qin Sanxi was also unemployed. At first, he was able to live by his husband. At that time, her husband Li Gangpan was working as a scaffolding worker at a construction site. Although life is said to be incomprehensible to reach out for clothes, and open for food, it is rich and expensive. But it's not a problem to be well fed and clothed. It's a pity that the good times don't last long, and the world is unpredictable. When her husband Li Gangban was working on the construction site once, because he did not fasten his seat belt, his foot slipped, and he accidentally fell off the scaffold more than ten meters high, and injured his waist, and his body bones could no longer be "steel plates".

Later, although the contractor of the project compensated him tens of thousands of yuan, it was only enough for conservative treatment. Qin Sanxi wanted to ask them for more money and go to the big city to see her husband well, but the foreman turned his face and refused to pay her medical bills on the grounds that he had not signed the contract at that time. Qin Sanxi didn't move, he couldn't stay in the hospital. I had to take my husband home and raise him. Later, my husband's illness was cured, but when my waist was injured, the sequelae left behind could never be removed. As soon as it rains and cloudy days in the waist, the pain is unbearable, and even the kind of thing between husband and wife is the same, and the quality has dropped significantly.

Later, I heard that a small factory in the south sold a waist protector, so Qin Sanxi mailed money and bought a pair for her husband, just to make a mental balance; But in the end, the illness was not cured, and there were a lot of foreign appearances. In the summer, the one-foot-wide waist guard that Li Gangban wore was exposed through the undershirt, like a martial artist's "Divine Power Vitality Bag" tied around his waist, how funny it was.

Later, in order to make a living and for the sake of their children, the couple had no choice but to follow a relative to learn to collect waste. I didn't understand it at first, but once I was born, I was cooked twice. Slowly, I got the hang of it: the old books that I collected for one dollar and one pound can be sold for several dollars after one is sold. The capital is not only out, but also with a turn. The rest is all earned by doing.

Later, I learned that the profits of books were considerable, and sometimes they could sell for hundreds or even thousands of dollars a day; Besides, a person can't be busy, and they simply don't collect the scrap, so the couple concentrates on buying and selling used books for a living.

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After listening to these stories, Lin Yi couldn't help but wonder, it turned out that this couple was also an old man who sold old books. couldn't help but remind Lin Yi of Wang Heizi and his wife, who used to set up stalls in the God of Wealth Temple to sell old books.

But soon Lin Yi thought that since the couple was so knowledgeable about old books, it seemed that it was impossible to pick up the leaks. However, Lin Yi was still a little reluctant, because he had already taken a fancy to some of the books on this bookstall at this time, and he liked them very much.

And that set of books is a set of ninety-five grades, one edition and one printing in sixty-one years, and a set of eleven copies of "Taiping Guangji"! (To be continued.) )