"Help me pick out some books, there's a market this weekend."

"This weekend?" Liu Min pulled Zhao Mingyang's sleeve, "Is the Shanghai Book Fair starting?" ”

"No, the time of the book fair is from August 15th to August 21st, but since the Shanghai Book Fair was officially renamed the Shanghai Book Fair in 2004, there are various activities such as Shanghai for citizens to participate in every July and August.

"Yes, so please help with the senior and Liu Min to choose some books."

Following the words of the seniors, I once again invited everyone to choose books together.

"Okay, I'm also willing to help, but I don't know if there are any special requirements for the selection of books? For example, what age group is more likely to come to the market? Do you want to pick some books or textbooks? ”

I have to praise Liu Min for thinking more thoroughly than me, and I don't seem to have thought about these questions well.

"It's a community market this weekend, and I guess there will be more kids, so it's okay to pick up some children's books, but ......"

"But there aren't any children's books in the bookstore." Beans added.

"Children's books are not easy to classify, such as ancient poems are very suitable for children to read, and science fiction, such as Le Guin's "Legend of Earthsea", and Tolkien's fantasy, are all suitable for children to read."

Senior Ming Yang said as he concentrated on the bookshelf looking for the "Legend of the Earthsea he just mentioned", and soon found it on the bookshelf.

"Where is Tolkien's book Lixia?"

Zhao Mingyang seems to be keen to help choose the book.

I pointed to the bookshelf by the window, "Some of the fantasy ones are here, and some of them are in the study next door." ”

Soon, Zhao Mingyang found Terry Pratchett's "Saucer World", Louis Sepúlveda's "The Cat Who Taught Seagulls to Fly", Randall Munro's "WHAT IF", David Macaulay's "The Secret of the Movement of Everything", Feng Zikai's "Comic Ancient Poems", "For Children", and Thelma Lagerloff's "The Adventures of Niels Riding a Goose" from different places on the shelves......

In a blink of an eye, Senior Ming Yang selected more than 30 books.

"In addition, Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales are well-known fairy tale books, all kinds of versions can be brought to the market, and martial arts will also be bought, all of which are familiar to everyone, and you can bring some books with more editions and a relatively high repetition rate in bookstores, for example, I saw that there are three or four "Classic of Mountains and Seas" here in Lixia, and there will be more people who buy this kind of book, because everyone is more familiar with it, and there are books such as "Orphans of the Fog", everyone has heard of some of them."

"Yes, yes," Liu Min agreed with Senior Ming Yang's suggestion, "In the market, if you choose some books that most people are familiar with, it will save a lot of trouble." ”

"Trouble-free?" I don't understand.

"Yes," the senior stopped his work of selecting books and sat at his desk with a copy of Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", "If it is a book that everyone is familiar with, it is easy to buy, and secondly, Lixia does not need to introduce the content of the book to everyone." ”

"In that case, isn't it familiar to everyone because you have bought it?" I asked again.

"It's different, although many books are well-known by many people, not everyone has bought and read them, such as "Water Margin", "Journey to the West", "Romance of the Gods", everyone knows these books, but not all of them have read the original books, when you see these books in the market, you will have a sense of familiarity, and then turn two pages casually, and then you may buy them."

I gradually understood the meaning of the senior, his logic is to choose some familiar books, at least more than half of the books in the entire bookstall are more popular and popular, so that it is more beneficial to sales, so that it will not be sold and taken to the market in vain.

The logic of the senior's book selection is completely different from the two methods that my grandfather said, and it is the third method, which I classify as - selecting books according to familiarity.

Books that most people are familiar with are better suited to be sold in the market.

On the same day, Liu Min and Senior Zhao Mingyang helped select more than 100 books, and Douzi also picked a few according to his preferences, a total of 150 books.

Liu Min is still interested in collecting grid books, and I also gave her a copy that day.

Douzi sneered and said, "Lixia will lose money like this." ”

I confidently responded to his concerns, "No, no, as long as someone wants to buy second-hand books, as long as someone sells them to us for resale, I won't lose money, I can't make a fortune, but I won't lose money." ”

Facts have proved that Mingyang's method of selecting books is correct, most of the students from the community market are students, and most of them are primary school students and junior high school students, stepping on slippers and pulling their parents or following their grandparents and grandmothers, there is no purpose in coming to the market to stroll, there are two rows of stalls on the way home, just look at it and go home.

The geographical advantage of the community market also lies in this, the garden promenade is good for enjoying the shade, the stall people will not be exposed to the scorching sun, and the pedestrians are more willing to walk to the shade for a while, and buy a copy to take home when they meet something they like, everyone is happy.

Except for mosquitoes a little more...... Douzi went home halfway to get toilet water, and in other aspects, the community market gave me a good feeling.

Although the community is old, the geographical location is extended in all directions, and the two camphor trees outside the central garden pull advertising banners, "the fragrance of books into the community".

When I lived in Puxi, I never participated in this kind of good community market, and it is not that the community in Puxi does not do such activities, probably because the original place where I lived did not have such a large community, only a dozen households, similar to the old-fashioned Shikumen, so such community activities are not common.

Opposite our stall is a stall selling ink, inkstones, brushes and rice paper, a table of 60 by 1 meter neatly placed several inkstones, brushes standing on the pen stand, the owner of the stall is about the same age as me and Douzi, maybe a year older, not more.

The complexion is as white as the clouds in the summer, clear and clear, and the hands are beautiful like the girl's house, but the girl's hands are mostly soft and boneless, slender and jade, and his hands look like the hands of young people, hidden in them, and are growing.

If it appears in martial arts, it must fit the sentence - the bones are strange, and they must be a rare martial arts wizard.

People don't practice martial arts, they practice calligraphy.

The younger children seemed to be more interested in calligraphy, and when they passed by the stalls, they saw someone writing like this, and they couldn't walk anymore.

His handwriting was also unexpectedly beautiful, and when business was sluggish, I watched him write with Douzi, and two or three hours passed.