After the professor was entangled for a moment, he said, "Why isn't the price written on it?" ”

I explained with a smile, "Our family is not used to writing prices on books. ”

"Your family?" Professor Lin narrowed his eyes thoughtfully.

The sun shining directly through the camphor tree on the dark green hardcover book in the professor's hand reflects a kind of "no one and no self" leisurely.

I was a little stunned, so I chatted with the professor about family matters, "My grandfather has been running a bookstall for many years, and he never allowed me to write the amount on the book, nor was he allowed to use the label, saying that the glue has been glued for a long time, and the label with the price is combined with the book. ”

"I've heard about this habit from a bookstall owner before, and it was many years ago."

"Well, probably a lot of people have similar habits."

The professor seems to be a master of buying books, and a bunch of reasons are just to be able to buy books at a low price, what kind of stains and the like, it is normal for such an old book to have a little stain, not to mention that it was already like this when we received this book.

I'm afraid it's just for bargaining.

Maybe it's because I sometimes subconsciously do this in order to get the book I want at a low price at the bookstall that I think about the professor's mind like this.

I think it's really a little bit of a villain.

Finally, the professor asked about the price.

“100。” I say

The corners of my eyes twitched slightly behind the lenses, and I thought to myself, this is not expensive, it is really not expensive, it is not expensive at all.

"Then let's buy this copy of "Mozi Leisure" together, how much does it cost to add it together?"

And this trick? Professor Lin is really hidden, and he is a master of buying second-hand books.

"This book is the 1954 edition of Chung Hwa Book Company."

The corners of Professor Lin's mouth twitched, "Yes, but although this book was published in 1954, it is sold everywhere, isn't it?" ”

The edge of the lens flashes with starlight, as if a seed from a tree and the metal frame pass by.

The professor's eyes brightened, and I couldn't help but hang my head, "That's true. ”

"So, this book is about 30 yuan, I have two copies at home, and I can buy another one, and it's okay not to buy it."

Douzi pulled me to his side, put it to my ear and said, "Is this professor bargaining?" ”

June, summer, noon, already hot, beans breathe with hot moisture, I rubbed my ears with my hands, my heart can no longer count......

"Okay, the professor wants these two copies, right?"

"Wait a minute."

The professor was not in a hurry, and unlike the cautious at the beginning, the professor's eyes went back and forth in the stacks of books, like a pair of aquatic plants and rockeries in the fish tank, and a goldfish familiar with the way.

The eyes are getting bigger and bigger, and the problem of myopia seems to have disappeared.

"Tales of the City, a good book, a good book."

Beanzi turned his face sideways to look at me.

I smiled, probably embarrassed.

"Do you know what's hidden on the back cover of this book?"

"What?"

Several students on the side approached Professor Lin, glanced at the back cover, and shook their heads.

"It's Liang Sicheng."

The professor raised his eyebrows and asked, "Who said that?" Who was it just now? ”

Several girls looked towards Douzi together, "Professor Lin, it seems that he said it." ”

"Yes, you can see it at a glance, you have read this book!"

Professor Lin's words can be regarded as a compliment, at least I see that the happy girls who were originally chatting with Douzi now have a little admiration in their eyes when they look at Douzi.

Douzi pulled my sleeve innocently, and I immediately complimented Douzi a few words.

"This senior, a 2018 graduate of Tongji University."

"It turned out to be Tongji, no wonder."

Professor Lin was in a happy mood and had already picked up three books in his hand, but his eyes were still on the bookstall and refused to leave.

"Is that all there are books? Are there any others? ”

"The professor doesn't know that this Lixia senior sister runs a second-hand bookstore."

The schoolgirl advertisement is well played and authentic.

The professor's eyes lit up, "No wonder, it makes sense." ”

Me: Reasonable? The main thing is that it's cheap.

"I don't know where the second-hand bookstore is?" Professor Lin asked.

"In Pudong." Beans replied.

"Pudong? I don't think there are any second-hand bookstores in Pudong. Professor Lin looked troubled.

"Well, the bookstore is small, small." I was embarrassed to explain, inexplicably weak.

"Very good, very good, I live in Pudong, if only there were more second-hand bookstores in Pudong, now, there are fewer and fewer small bookstores, and the second-hand book market in the Temple of Literature is not as lively as it was at the beginning of the century."

Professor Lam reminisced about the old days, and it seems that he was also a frequent bookseller.

"In the past, there were people queuing up at three or four o'clock in the morning, and people's enthusiasm for reading at that time was really high, and there were many, many second-hand books, every time I went to the Temple of Literature with the mood of treasure hunting, and found one or two books I liked, which was a few days of joy."

Professor Lin is right, and my grandfather also said that people's enthusiasm for buying books in the past is comparable to people's enthusiasm for shopping for books now.

"So how much do these three books cost?"

After chatting for a long time, I wouldn't offer a price, so I ended up selling three books for 150 yuan.

Professor Lin scanned WeChat and added a group, and the girls around him were very happy, as if the professor directly allowed them to pass the exam.

When the stall was about to close, two seniors who graduated a few years ago came, saying that although they graduated, they would still come back to see the final market when they had time, which was also their own hard work.

"Could it be that the final market was initiated by the two seniors?"

Seeing that I was amazed, the senior smiled and said: "Actually, there was a market more than ten years ago, but at that time there was no name [final market], we just made the original market more standardized, which can be regarded as a feature." ”

"Yes, yes, you can always buy good things at the three-day market."

The seniors are handsome and polite, if they haven't graduated yet, what else can they do with Zhao Mingyang.

"Liu Xiaozhou, this stall is your favorite bookstall right."

"Well, I saw it just now, there have been a lot of people picking books, and I'm not embarrassed to come over."

Liu Xiaozhou? That's not ...... Liu Xiaozhou, the best debater of the year?

"Senior Xiaozhou? Are you Senior Xiaozhou himself? ”

I must have been incoherent, and Beans said that my whole neck was red at the time.

Senior Xiaozhou is a legendary student of the school, who has participated in the debate competition, if you join the strange saying, maybe it is another Huang Zhizhong and Chen Ming.

It's a pity that Liu Xiaozhou doesn't like to be lively, and has been committed to public welfare since returning from studying in the UK.

"A bookstore?"

Liu Xiaozhou suddenly asked, and my thoughts returned to the earth, and it became the normal Lixia on weekdays.

"Ah, the bookstore? How do seniors know? ”