Fast forward to the weekend, and I finished tidying up my bookshelves and stood in front of the window waiting for the rain.

The sky soon became overcast, and the low thunder in the distance became the BGM of the gloomy sky, and a few birds and insects were still faintly heard, which made people happy.

Probably this rain may not fall, birds and insects know more about nature's wind, frost, rain and snow, if it rains in a few minutes, this bird's call will not be so pleasant.

At this time, the wind chimes outside the door rang, and there were guests visiting in this hazy weather?

I looked around, and before I could move a step, the guest walked through the small living room to the house.

"I'm here to buy books." As soon as the guest opened his mouth, he explained his intention.

I saw him carrying a large canvas bag with a bundle of red rope wrapped around his hand, and I thought, is this going to buy a lot of books?

The guest looked around, his eyes scanning the bookshelves like a camera, and then he placed the light green canvas bag he was carrying diagonally on the table.

There was a thud, and there was a deep sound as the bag landed on the table.

This bag is not empty, it still contains books?

"Are you the new owner of this shop? My name is Takayama, hello. ”

Mountains?

This man named Gao Shan is about 170cm tall, I can't guess the weight, in short, he is a short man in his thirties, his facial features are very ordinary, with some dusty atmosphere, what are the characteristics......

Gao Shan will squeeze his eyebrows when he speaks, the corners of his mouth will twitch from time to time, and his eyes will blink non-stop.

This strange movement on my face suddenly felt a little familiar to me.

"Ah, I'm the owner of this shop, just call me Lixia."

I waved at him and pulled some books from my canvas bag.

"These are sold to the store, the boss looks at the price."

"Selling books? I have some impressions, do you often go to the Confucian Temple Book Market? I asked curiously.

"Yes, I've been going there, that's where I met Ah Xi at the Confucian Temple Book Market, and then Ah Xi moved to Pudong, and I'm also in Pudong now, are you Ah Xi?"

"Granddaughter." I say.

"It's my granddaughter, that's really unfortunate, I come here almost once or twice a month, and I haven't even seen you."

Although I haven't seen it in a bookstore, I have a slight impression of Takayama, who always carries a big bag and buys a lot of books.

"Look, this is a receipt written by your grandfather, and I have it with me."

As if to prove that he knew my grandfather well, he took out a neatly folded stack of receipts from his side pocket and handed them to me.

"It's all receipts."

"Okay, I'll read the book."

Gao Shan brought a wide variety of books, including "Selected Prose of Wang Zengqi", "Selected Prose of Ji Xianlin", "Selected Prose of Jia Pingwa" and "Selected Prose of Ke Ling" published by Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House, as well as two short classic series of the People's Literature Publishing House, "Father's Tears" and "Sunday", which are the works of John Updike and French female writer Elaine Nemirovsky, respectively.

"I still have a relatively complete set of books here." I took "Sunday" and said to Takayama.

"It's okay, you can just look at the money, these books of mine are all books bought on the market, and second-hand bookstores sometimes sell them for 6 yuan a piece, and you take 5 yuan, and I'm very happy."

"Yes." I thought to myself, although the short classics are not a series that cannot be bought, and there are not many people who have collected two editions of the short classics series like me, and I also have the middle classics on the shelves, but there are several books that have long been unavailable, such as the short story collection "Groan" by the Catalan writer Merse Rodoreda, who is highly regarded by García Márquez, spent more than 80 yuan on the used book online to buy it.

The eagerness to read a book is always unforgettable.

People are also conflicted in their hearts, they are anxious to buy the next book, they hesitate when they see the price, and sometimes they suddenly miss it.

Grandpa said that the purpose of second-hand bookstalls is to make books flow, so that more people can read the books they want to read.

I don't know if this is the answer to the public bookstore, but it is somewhat related, and if the book is too expensive, many people will not be able to afford it, so I won't read it.

"Boss?"

Gao Shan saw that I didn't speak for a long time, so he screamed, I looked up at him, and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I was a little distracted just now, and I remembered some books, so I'll calculate the price and give you the money." ”

"No, no, I'm going to pick up some books to take with me, and I'll use them next week."

"With?"

Suddenly it was pouring rain outside the window, I said sorry again, and ran to the window, the southwest wind direction, the rain fell in from the window, and it was cool and stuck to the back of my hand.

"Wait a minute, that ...... If you want to buy a book, just take a look. ”

"Well, I was hoping to get back before the rain, but now it looks like I'm going to bother here a little longer."

Takayama sat down in the empty seat at the table, took out his phone, swiped the screen with a wink, and then put it to his ear.

I leaned against the shelves and calculated the price at which the books Takayama should recycle.

Books are all good books, but it is true that books like "Ke Ling's Prose" are not easy to sell, although I think Ke Ling's prose is beautiful and meticulous like a fine brushstroke, but young people nowadays rarely read his books, maybe some readers who love Zhang Ailing will read those fragments from "Little Reunion", that character similar to Ke Ling is not deliberately described by Zhang Ailing? There is no way to know now.

The smoke and rain in the alleys in the south of the Yangtze River, the veil that envelops everything like a light veil, is it the warm and cold feelings of the literati or have we misunderstood something?

Breaking away from the author and simply reading the text, in my opinion, I would never deliberately do this, because it is too difficult, and it is really difficult to do.

Takayama said on the phone: "It's raining heavily, so I'll go to the bookstore later." ”

It turns out that he is going to another bookstore, what the hell is this mountain doing?

I'm a little curious, but it's not convenient to ask.

"Is it okay for these books to cost 45 yuan?" I told Takayama the calculated price, and Takayama nodded, "Yes, you have the final say anyway." ”

The corners of his mouth twitched even more when he smiled, and most people would think it was a little weird when they saw it, but Takayama didn't care.

"What's your name?"

Heavy rain, small talk, as if this is how things should be.

"Rixia." I replied.

"Oh, good name, as beautiful as summer, Lixia also likes to read, I heard your grandfather say that the most favorite reading in the family is the little granddaughter."

"Really?"

The cheeks are slightly hot, and my grandfather doesn't know that I have actually had difficulty reading since I was a child, and I probably have been holding a book to overcome this problem, and over time, the people around me have also left the impression that "Lixia was a child who loved to read when he was a child".