Chapter 188. Goodbye "Golden Vase Plum"
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Lin Yi's eyes shifted from the beautiful old wall charts and old paintings on the wall, and saw that the entire bookstore area was about 50 square meters, and there were six large bookshelves on all four walls, and the bookshelves were all very old solid wood bookshelves, bulky, wide, and able to withstand heavy things, and at the moment they were filled with all kinds of books, roughly estimated to be no less than 10,000 volumes.
Seeing so many books, Lin Yi's heart became more and more hot, and he said in his heart, there will always be some valuable ones with so many books.
Lin Yi is a stubborn book pover, and he is also a master of old books, if when he first entered the industry, he still needed to carefully check old books, then now, he doesn't need to.
Roughly scanning the bookshelves, Lin Yi could almost confirm how valuable these books were.
Divided into categories, the Hong Kong version of martial arts novels accounts for about 30 percent, what Gu Long's, Jin Yong's, Liang Yusheng's...... However, the quality of those books is not very good, at most about seven or five grades, according to the principle of Lin Yitao's books, unless it is those extremely rare editions, the quality of the books must be strictly controlled, because only books in good condition have great collection value. The reason is simple, no one will collect some tattered old books that have little value.
Lin Yi took out a copy of "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch" and flipped through it, and found that these books should be "rental books". Because the title page of many martial arts books has the rental date written on it, and some even have a seal--- "The Book Tearer Yan Jiajia".
Originally, Lin Yi was still interested in these martial arts novels, but when he saw this cursed red seal, he directly dispelled his thoughts.
Just as Lin Yi shifted his position and was about to go to another bookshelf to look through, there was a commotion around him, which alarmed him.
At this time, there were not too many people in the entire bookstore, only two old men were looking through old books here, and in addition to that, there was an old woman in her fifties, who must be the wife of "Ah Shuibo".
The bookstore business in Macau may be really difficult to do, and the old woman does not care about the business of the store, and sits on a chair by herself and takes a needle and thread to embroider "cross-stitch", this craft is very popular among mainland women, but I did not expect to be seen in Macau.
Because of the distance, Lin Yi didn't know what she was embroidering. However, I heard that the current "cross-stitch" is very powerful, and there are oversized "Great Wall" and "Jinling Twelve Hairpins" embroidered in the mainland, and one piece can be sold for 70,000 or 80,000 yuan.
Look at the two old men who dig for old books, one is fat and the other is thin, which contrasts with each other, like the fat and thin head in "The Legend of Deer and Ding".
During the period, the two seemed to like a few books, but unfortunately, the shopkeeper Ah Shui Bo went out, and the old woman who embroidered "cross-stitch" has always been "the maid takes the key---- is not in charge", although the book is weighed in the hands of the two, they can't buy it for a while, and they are unwilling.
The thin old man pinched the book in his hand, secretly glanced at Lin Yi, who was browsing old books, and then whispered to the fat old man in Cantonese, "Why don't we hide it first?" (Why don't we hide it first)? ”
The fat old man naturally echoed it, of course, he also glanced at Lin Yi quietly, and saw that Lin Yi didn't react, so he was relieved.
In fact, many people who like to buy books have basically done something like them. That is, when buying books, the boss who can call the shots is not at home, and he is afraid that these good books will be taken away by others, so he finds a place to hide the books first, and then take them out to trade after the boss comes back next time.
It's just that these two little old men are too sneaky, which makes Lin Yi curious.
As I said just now, there are a total of six large bookshelves in the bookstore, and the books on the shelves are divided into four columns of books, and unfamiliar people Leng Ding is unrecognizable. Conceited: With the cover of a dilapidated book, the four books will be fine.
didn't know that his actions were all seen by Lin Yi.
The thin old man was almost seventy years old, and at this moment the old man stood on tiptoe and threw the two books vigorously towards the top of the shelf. The other one is less than 32 pages, the thick hardcover book is hidden somewhere, and the remaining two have landed on a high place, one of which is a 16-page book that looks like coated paper, showing a little face in the hiding place, and he jumped up several times, as if doing "cheers", and he could not make the book by hand. After that, he seemed to pick up something casually, and tried to slap it upward, and after a few "smacks" in his mouth, the book was completely hidden.
The fat and thin two were satisfied, looking at each other and smiling at the same time. The laughter of the two, in Lin Yi's opinion, may be a little stubborn, if the child steals food, I don't know if it will be the same laugh.
Finally, the thin old man clapped his hands and summed up the act in standard Cantonese, with a total of two words: "it!" ”
The fat old man glanced at Lin Yi again very vigilantly, observing whether he had any special actions and whether he had seen their collection of books......
Lin Yi made a stupid look, still browsing the book in his hand as if no one was around.
Seeing this, the fat old man blinked his little eyes, and then he was relieved.
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"Sister-in-law, let's go back first, and wait for Ah Shui to turn over and then talk, you are busy, don't start talking. (Sister-in-law, let's go back first, and come back when Ah Shui comes back, you are busy, you don't have to get up.) The two of them said hello to the old woman who was guarding the shop, and then they left with their hands behind their backs and with a smile.
As soon as the two of them walked on their front feet, Lin Yi swooped on his back feet and came to the "library" of the two.
There's no way, Lin Yi's curiosity is too heavy, I really don't know what treasure book the two of them have found, and they have worked so hard.
Lin Yi first found out the four books hidden by the fat old man, and the four books were hidden behind a pile of tattered old books so "idiotically", and they were easy to find.
When he found out and looked at the title of the book, Lin Yi was stunned---
The first book, "The Science of Sexuality", is written in traditional Chinese at the bottom of the cover, "This book is a popular book that introduces the science of sexuality, which describes the science of sexuality in Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Japan, Australia, the Soviet Union and other countries since the nineteenth century, and provides relevant information on international science." ”
The second book, "Aesthetics and Gender Culture", says, "This book makes a factual analysis and pertinent explanation of the relationship between beauty and sexuality from the perspective of scientific reason, including 7 chapters on human beauty and biological instinct, gender roles and aesthetic modalities, and gender culture and aesthetic consciousness in China and the West." ”
The third book, "The Book of Sexual Health", and the fourth book, "Chinese Strange Sex Skills". These two books are pirated copies, and they are pirated books from the mainland.
Among them, "Sex Health Classics" should be published by Northwest University Press, the author's name is Changqing, it is estimated that it is a pseudonym, and the content is to stew the ancient Chinese sex health mess into a pot, what Taoism, Tibetan, and the novels of the past dynasties, tinkering together.
"Chinese Strange Obscenity Skills" is a high-selling book, it sold hot in the mainland that year, it is said to have sold millions of copies, the author is "Luo Xuanji", and the content is really "Strange Obscenity Skills", what "Burmese Bell", "Mr. Horn", Taoism picks up what and what, all of them are put together.
After reading the four books that the fat old man stole and hidden, Lin Yi couldn't help but sigh, who said that fat people don't like to study, look at what books this fat man hid, he is really old-hearted.
Lin Yi was not interested in such books, so he hid the four books in their original places, just waiting for the fat old man to come down and excavate them.
Lin Yi turned around and began to look for the books hidden by the thin old man again. I have to say that compared with the fat old man's simple collection of books, the thin old man's collection of books is really difficult to find.
Fortunately, Lin Yi was tall enough, and took a small bench, so he easily found the two books he had hidden from the top of the bookshelf, the one with 16 sheets of coated paper turned out to be "Coloring Picture Medicine Dietary Therapy", and the other one was "Nine Methods of Ancient Food Supplementation". The content is basically about how to cook ingredients and nourish qi and blood, and unlike those books in the mainland, these two books have very detailed food calorie measurements, which seem to belong to the "combination of Chinese and Western" style.
If you remember it well, it seems that the thin old man also hid a thick hardcover, but Lin Yi didn't find it for a while. However, after Lin Yi carefully searched for the place where the thin old man had stayed, he soon found it.
I thought it was also a "medicinal diet" or something, but when I took it out and looked at it, I was surprised, Nima, it turned out to be --- "Golden Vase Plum"!
(To be continued.) )