Ma Yuan smiled and nodded, "You are really a good cousin, you care so much about your cousin." ”

I smiled at a little bit.

"I just happened to have a new batch of books on the second floor, if Mr. Zhang is interested, he will go and see it." Ma Yuan took a sip of the purple sand teapot and looked at me with a smile.

My heart immediately tightened a lot, "Okay, thank you Boss Ma for recommending." ”

As I said that, I turned around and was about to go upstairs, but he suddenly stopped me again, "Mr. Zhang, has you been in trouble lately?" ”

I was stunned, turned to look at him and asked with a smile, "What trouble can I have, except for dealing with all kinds of inspections every day and thinking about how to do a good job in the hotel's business." ”

Ma Yuan shook his head slowly, "It's not a business trouble, it's something else." ”

His eyes were staring at me, and despite the smile on his lips, it still made me shudder in my heart, the uneasiness of being seen through, this old fellow was now sharper and sharper, he seemed to know a lot of things, but he was forcing me to admit it myself.

I put my hands in my pockets and looked at him, and teased, "Boss Ma seems to be able to tell fortunes, so okay, you can calculate for me what kind of trouble I will encounter in the future." ”

I deliberately threw him a sleeve, but he didn't get into it.

"Hahaha......" he let out a hearty laugh, "since Mr. Zhang is not in trouble, then go and read a book." ”

I cursed in my heart, nodded and turned around to go to the second floor.

Every time he went to a key place, the old fox began to play Tai Chi, avoiding the important or directly changing the topic, but I think he was not because he was weak in his heart and did not want to continue, but deliberately put a long line to catch a big fish, he probably expected that I would be impatient to tell him, and this created a kind of suspense that seemed to be able to hang my appetite, but I was not the person, he thought wrong.

In the morning, there was no one on the second floor, so I walked alone in front of the bookshelves and looked through them carefully.

Sure enough, there are a lot of new books added here, some are very new, some are old, it should be second-hand books or more hand-held books, the last time I was looking for books here, I went through all the books, except for the omission of my memory, I think I remember 90% of the books here.

But this time, it's obvious that I haven't seen a copy of it, which also makes me secretly amazed, the books on the second floor are like a sea of smoke, and every time it will give me a different feeling, it may be that this is deliberately designed by the other party. I hadn't been here for a while, and he had brought so many new books.

Usually there is no clerk to guard the bookstore for him, and I don't know where he has so much time and energy, scattered to look for books in various places, the last time he mentioned to me that some books are from the people, he is alone, and I don't know what the channels for him to buy books are.

Plunging headlong into the stacks of books, I was immediately drawn in, and before I knew it, more than an hour had passed.

Just as I was about to leave, my left arm suddenly touched a bookshelf next to me, and a book was knocked to the ground, and I quickly bent down to pick it up.

It was a somewhat yellowed art bound book, and I turned it over to see that it read "Published by Tongwen Publishing House in 1948" on the cover.

The name of the book is "Painting", the cover is a little wrinkled, exuding a complex smell, and the smell of the book has almost been covered.

This book is indeed very old, and it has been through many hands, so it should be mixed with the smell of a mixture of human matter.

I quickly flipped through the whole book, there were Chinese paintings, oil paintings, drawings, I was not very interested in art, I felt that it was nothing after a few pages, this was just a collection of other people's works.

When I was about to put it down, my eyes suddenly swept to an ink painting, I quickly turned it, but I didn't know which page it was, the book was more than 80 pages thick.

I was very excited, and I just glanced over and saw that there seemed to be a person wearing a hat on the ink painting.

My breathing became a little short, and I flipped back page by page, and soon I saw the ink painting on page 46, and I was immediately creepy.

There is a man wearing a hat and a robe, slightly hunched over, and that person is wearing a pair of straw sandals under his feet, just like the fish seller I saw that day.

Although the costume on his body is not particularly obvious, it can still be seen roughly, just like the fish seller.

He was standing on his knees in a field like a wheat field, with a mountain in the distance behind him, which was obviously not in winter, but the name of the painting was actually "Cold River Snow", and the author also borrowed the poem "Cold River Snow" in the upper left corner.

The author did not have a signature, so the editor used the word "anonymous" below.

I looked at the person in the painting carefully, and the more I looked at it, the more he looked like a fish seller, with a huge hat, a thick coat, and a slightly slumped body, just like the fish seller.

The book was published in 1948, could it be that the fish seller traveled back in time, or was the work deliberately designed?

Thinking back to Ma Yuan's meaningful words just now, he asked me to go up to the second floor to read the book, as if he wanted me to read the book, but Ma Yuan has always been very mysterious, just like the last time he asked me to come up, and then accidentally discovered "The Legend of Sunrise Ida".

I immediately took the book downstairs and walked to the cash register with a pretended indifference.

Ma Yuan was reading a book, I walked over, he raised his head and looked at me, "Picked?" “

"Boss Ma, where did you get this book? The 1948 one is indeed a bit far away. ”

"Is 1948 far away? I still have miscellaneous books from the Ming and Qing dynasties here! Ma Yuan said with a smile.

"Boss Ma is really amazing, books of any era can be found, I think this book is quite interesting, it is a collection of art works from all over the world, where did I find this book?"

Ma Yuan squinted his eyes slightly and smiled, "Where there are books." ”

I blinked, "Did Boss Ma go and get it personally?" ”

"No, someone else bought and sold it to me."

"Who's that? Can I get to know him? I asked with a smile.

Ma Yuan didn't shake his head or nod, still with a mysterious smile, "It's a person who has books, someone who is willing to sell me books." ”

I'm a hooligan, I secretly spit in my heart.

"Hahaha, Boss Ma is really humorous, I'm just curious to ask, how can I get such a long-ago book, I don't want to steal business with you, don't get me wrong."

"Of course, I won't mistake you for stealing business from me, after all, the profit from selling books is really not worth mentioning compared to making a hotel, how can Mr. Zhang make such a small amount of money."

"What's more, I'm not the kind of person who sells books, others see me as a very uneducated and vulgar kind of person."

Ma Yuan shook his head, "That's not it, you don't need any culture to sell books, you just have to be calm and willing to wait for a good book, a good story." ”

His tone made my heart tense for a while, there was something in it, and he wanted to hint at me something or a white provocation?

I coughed and cleared my throat, "Boss Ma, can I buy this book?" “

"Of course you can buy it, as long as you think the price is reasonable, just take it with you."

"Boss Ma is so refreshing."

"Wasn't I happy before?" The other party asked rhetorically.

I smiled and didn't speak, and took out my wallet, Ma Yuan doesn't have mobile payment here, and he maintains the traditional habit of receiving cash.

"Boss Ma, how much is this book?"

"1000 pieces." When Ma Yuan said this price indifferently, I was secretly taken aback.

It's not unreasonable to spend 1,000 yuan to buy a 1948 book, it's just that I'm surprised that Ma Yuan can open his mouth to bid, instead of saying that the book won't sell and only give it to me like last time, since there is a price, then everything is settled.

I smiled and counted out 1,000 yuan and put it on the cash register.

Ma Yuan still looked at me directly, his eyes made me feel like I had fallen into the abyss, inexplicably flustered and unconfident, I was trying to fight against his gaze, but in the end it seemed to be defeated, it was a pair of confident and experienced eyes, I may still be too tender, so I can't fight him, so I can only turn into an embarrassed and polite smile.

"Mr. Zhang, you are quite strange, or you always have something to say in front of me."

"What do you mean by that?" I asked, pretending to smile nonchalantly.

"You said you don't like these things, you don't know about them, you don't know them, you don't interest them, but you still bought two books that you don't interest in, Mr. Zhang is probably a little haggard by something recently, right?"

The old guy went around and around and started poking me in the soft underbelly again.

I put away my wallet and coughed, "Since Boss Ma can see that I am entangled and entangled in some things, then Boss Ma, please give me some guidance." ”

Ma Yuan smiled, put the money in the drawer, and began to sip the tea slowly, as if he hadn't asked that sentence just now.

I suddenly remembered that I was patronizing to find books for myself, and I forgot to bring them back to Wang Haitang.

"Oh, I almost forgot to buy a book for my cousin, Boss Ma, where is the romance that the girl reads, please recommend it."

Ma Yuan stretched out his finger and pointed over there and said with a smile, "The leftmost part of the third bookshelf is all the newest. ”

"Okay." I smiled and walked over there, and soon picked up three girl romances on the bookshelf that I thought were pretty good.

When I paid the money, I found that Ma Yuan was selling according to the price at the back of the book, and he didn't even discount two cents.

"Boss Ma, then I'll leave first, and I'll come back another day to read your newly purchased books."

"Always welcome." Ma Yuan said with a smile.