"Ji Nian, do you want to buy books?" Hu Li curiously squatted down to flip through the old book in front of him and asked.

"Flip through it." Ji Nian smiled, lowered his head and continued to look at it.

It's unrealistic to go through all the books in a short period of time, there are so many old books here. But the palm vitality can only indicate the general direction, and there is no way to be precise, unless you find the book you want, let the palm vitality be swallowed after touching it.

The dense accumulation of old books made Hu Li's head big when he looked at it.

"Boss, how do you sell all the books here?" Ji Nian picked up one of them and asked.

"Everything you have over there is sold for catties, six yuan a catty." The owner of the bookstall, a thin man in his thirties, wearing a gray shirt and a pair of sunglasses, casually replied when he heard Ji Nian's question.

"Six dollars a pound? Can books still be sold by the pound? Hu Li was surprised.

"Do you think it's ancient? In ancient times, any book taken out would be copied and read by countless readers, but now is the era of great economic development, and books are probably the most worthless things. Ji Nian explained with emotion.

"Do you want to buy it?" Hu Li asked.

"Buy." Ji Nian is definitely going to buy it, since the palm of the hand is pointing here, it means that there must be a rare book in these books, and there is nothing else except this reason.

Nowadays, books in this era are not valuable, talking about those modern prints that are all over the street, but if you talk about the only rare book, it is an antique itself, and it must be rushed to buy and sell, as long as you can find a unique rare book from this pile of old books, it is a big luck to pick up a big leak.

Mr. Lu Xun wrote in "Collected Letters? "To Zheng Zhenduo" once said: "The lonely book is important to the world, and the new translation is light." This shows the value of being a one-of-a-kind book.

"Hu Li, I guess I'll have to take some time to look for it, if you get bored, go around the side." Ji Nian said with a smile.

"Okay, then you pick slowly, I'll go over there and have a look." Hu Li was too lazy to flip through the book, so he turned around and walked to a stall opposite.

Ji Nian twisted his neck, stomped on the ground with his feet, and began to look for it energetically. Although there are a lot of old books, since they are within this range, even if they are all turned over one by one, he has to do them.

Under the bright sunshine, a handsome young man in his prime squatted beside the bookstall and took the trouble to flip through old books. He swiped through each one, and then replaced the next, he understood that only when he encountered that kind of lonely rare book, the vitality of his palm would accelerate and spin.

The first row from start to finish, failed.

Second row, failed.

Third row, failed.

……

The bookstall owner looked at Ji Nian who kept flipping through the books not far away, frowned speechlessly, shook his head and didn't bother to pay attention. Anyway, they are all worthless old books, and I don't even know where I got them from at the time, and it's not worth a lot of money to sell them all. If you have the kung fu to stare at old books, it is better to sell more picture books and magazines to make more money.

At the end of the sixth row, just as Ji Nian was about to continue to open the seventh row, suddenly his body trembled slightly, and the fingers that touched a certain book became hot, and the vitality in his palm became a black hole, and the roaring began to devour, and suddenly the wisps of vitality were extracted from an old book.

It's this one, when the vitality of the palm is still not exhausted, Ji Nian carefully pulled out an old book. This is an old book that doesn't show anything unusual on the surface, and the thickness is almost as thick as a Xinhua dictionary, but the writing is quite large.

Just looking at it like this, Ji Nian doesn't know the details of this book at all, but since it can be targeted by the vitality of the palm, I believe it is definitely not simple, so Ji Nian picked it up and looked through it carefully.

After the palm vitality was replenished, it quieted down again, Ji Nian was sure that there was nothing else worth paying attention to here except for this book, so he casually took out a few more books and stood up directly, and raised at the bookstall owner.

"Boss, I have a total of four books here, let's not call them names, I estimate that it will only be three catties, will I give you twenty lines?"

"No problem, twenty is twenty." The bookstall owner said happily.

After the money and goods were cleared, the bookstall owner grinned, revealing a mouth full of yellow teeth.

"Little brother, I see that you are like a cultural person who likes to read, you like old books, don't you? Come to me again in the future, tell you, I'll come in a batch almost a month, maybe you can meet something you like. If you come again, I can give you a cheaper price, and take care of my business more. ”

"No problem, I'll buy it from you next time." Ji Nian said happily.

Bang Dang! Just when Ji Nian was about to leave with the book, there was a familiar scream in his ears, followed by a crisp sound of porcelain colliding, he quickly followed the sound and found that it was Hu Li who screamed on the edge of the stall not far away, and there was a blue and white porcelain vase that bumped the mouth of the bottle at her feet.

Ji Nian hurriedly rushed over.

"Hu Li, are you okay?" Ji Nian grabbed Hu Li's arm and asked anxiously.

"I'm fine, but I was startled by a cat passing by and accidentally knocked over the vase." Hu Li patted her chest with palpitations and explained, it's all because the cat doesn't come sooner or later, and when she turned around, she happened to step on its tail, and then she was startled and knocked down the vase.

"Well, it's fine." Ji Nian comforted.

"Hey, she's fine, but I've got something to do here. I said two, as you have seen, my vase was damaged by this young lady, and I will definitely not be able to sell it. You two are either going to buy it or you are going to lose some money. ”

The stall owner was a lewd old man wearing a sun hat and a goatee, he squinted at Hu Li, his eyes showed a sly light, as long as those who were familiar with him knew that this guy was going to take advantage again.

And in this Maoyan Hutong, when it comes to porcelain, anyone will say, don't deal with this guy if you are idle, maybe you will be sold one day, this is definitely a selfish black-hearted businessman who will do anything as long as he can make money.

For example, now.

"I'm sorry, since this vase was damaged by us, we will naturally pay for it. I would like to ask, how much does this vase cost yours? Ji Nian's eyes moved slightly when he looked at the blue and white porcelain vase, his heart beat uncontrollably, and he asked with a smile.

"This blue and white porcelain vase is not simple, authentic Jingdezhen firing, I tell you, this is the treasure of the town stall on my stall, this is the Song Dynasty..."

Hu Li's brows couldn't help frowning.

The vase is good for her to break, and she is willing to compensate, but this does not mean that you can quote indiscriminately, opening your mouth is the Song Dynasty Song porcelain, this is too ruthless, if that is the case, will you put a piece of Song porcelain at the door?

"You?"

Hu Li wanted to open his mouth to fight back, but was stopped by Ji Nian's outstretched hand, he squatted down and took the blue and white porcelain vase in his hand, interrupted the porcelain Zhang's words, and said directly: "Boss, don't treat us as wronged bosses, the vase is what we bumped and we admit, and we don't pat our butts and leave." Since we are willing to buy it, what else do you want? Do you have to ask for a sky-high price? ”

"Believe it or not, as long as you dare to say that it is Song porcelain, I will immediately go to the market management office to report, let's take it to the appraisal center, if it is really Song porcelain you are talking about, we will buy it as much as you want, but if it is not what you said, boss, if we poke this matter out, can you still do business in Maoyan Hutong in the future?"

"Yo he, I don't see that the little brother is quite good. Okay, since you say so, then I'll be happy, a thousand dollars, and you will take the vase. The boss chuckled in his heart, and then changed his face and said with a grin.

"A thousand yuan is a bit expensive, you are still not honest enough, if I want to say a hundred yuan, you can already buy it." Ji Nian shook his head and sighed.

"A hundred? Is there a bargain like yours? So be it, I'll give you a step, nine hundred. ”

"Nine hundred? Do you think we can take out nine hundred? To tell you the truth, we are still students, have we ever heard of poor students? See, I just bought all the books that are sold by catty. Two hundred, no more. ”

"Students have to be reasonable when they break something, right? I have a good heart, seven hundred. ”

"Three hundred."

"Six hundred."

"One price, five hundred, okay, we'll take it away, if not, we'll go to court."

"Are you really a student? Is there a student like you who can bargain? Okay, just according to what you said, 500 is 500, and it will be regarded as a loss for me. ”

Ji Nian casually put the blue and white porcelain vase on the ground, and said that he was going to get his wallet, how could Hu Li let him pay for it, so he quickly counted out five red bills, and handed them over a little unwillingly.

After taking the money, the porcelain twisted it with a smile on his eyebrows, and after making sure that it was all real money, he smiled.

"Young man, be careful in the future, don't be so careless, do you want me to find a box for you to put it in, you can take it."

"Excuse me, you and I know what is going on with this vase, and it has come into this way, will I really put it at home as an ornament? Sue you, I'll smash it when I get out of Maoyan Alley. Ji Nian glanced at it and said with an unhappy face.

"Hehe, whatever you want, hey, boss, what's your eye, I'll introduce it to you." Porcelain Zhang no longer ignored Ji Nian and the two of them, and immediately turned around to greet other guests.

"Let's go."

Ji Nian said and left with Hu Li, this kind of thing happened, Hu Li's mood became very bad all of a sudden, looking at the vase and not fighting, "That boss is obviously blackmailing us, you really give him money, five hundred to buy a broken vase all over the street, I really want to smash it." ”

"You really want to smash?" Ji Nian suddenly smiled mysteriously.

"Yes." Hu Li nodded without hesitation.

"You come with me."

After Ji Nian finished speaking, he took Hu Li into the distance, turned into a remote and abandoned alley, and then made Hu Li stunned for a moment.