Chapter 115. Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
Lin Yi never expected that a book stall would pop up in this small and roundabout place. Judging from the appearance, it was still an old stall, because the people walking around quickly gathered over and picked up the stall and said something to the stall owner.
When Lin Yi walked over, only the little black dog who had eaten his bread barked at him twice. The others ignored him. Everyone was looking through the old books on the book stall and immersed in the fun of book hunting.
Looking around, the book stall looks small in size from a distance, but when it comes, it is filled with books and magazines. Most of the magazines are fashion-based, such as "Rui Li", "Men's Gang", and some local magazines published in Shenzhen, such as "Shenzhen Youth", "Special Economic Zone", "Women's Newspaper", "Female Newspaper Fashion", "New Life", "New Story", "Manager", "Information Technology Age", "Real Estate Zongheng", etc.
Interestingly, most of the squatting male comrades like to look at the "Men's Gang" on the covers, which are sexy actresses wearing and revealing their figures, and even talk to each other, discussing their figures and figures, saying whether there is 33d in front, and whether the best ratio of hips and waist circumference is a golden ratio, which is exactly the opposite of the scene where men in mainland cities avoid reading such books or secretly reading them at book stalls. This shows the degree of spiritual and cultural openness of the locals...
In addition to these colorful and eye-catching new and old magazines, the most popular books on the book stall are literary books. Unlike some book stalls, which are messy and have everything. This book stall seems to be specially prepared for literary enthusiasts, but like the "Old Paradise Bookstore", most of them are foreign classical works, such as "The Crusade", "War and Peace", "Tess", "Quiet Don", "Anna Karenina" published by the People's Publishing House. There are few traditional Chinese classical literary works. At least Lin Yi scanned it and there was nothing except five or six books "Three Words and Two Shots".
However, for people like Lin Yi who are keen on book hunting, when they see a book stall, there is better than nothing. Since they encounter it, they should take a closer look.
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Lin Yi thought of this, just as he was about to squat down, he saw a middle-aged woman riding an electric bike with a myopia mirror, staring at these books far away. He increased the electric door and rushed in. When he was about to reach the book stall, he braked suddenly and the front wheel of the electric bike was staggered by three centimeters, so he didn't hit Lin Yi's body, which made Lin Yi sweat.
Experts are among the people, and you can go to the acrobatic troupe for this driving skill.
The middle-aged woman wearing glasses saw that she almost hit someone, so she quickly got off the bicycle and freed her right hand to support her myopia glass that was slightly crooked due to the sudden brake. She smiled at Lin Yi embarrassedly.
Lin Yi was embarrassed to be stern. After all, he was older than him and was still a woman, so he could only "look back and smile".
The woman put on a bicycle, squatted down quickly, carefully picked up the literary books on the bookstall, and said politely to the stall owner: "There are so many literary books today."
The stall owner was a man in his thirties, with a thin face, a smile, and his small eyes were shining, and he looked very smart. When he saw a woman asking questions, he smiled in an accent from another place, "Of course, these are all collected by me this week."
After hearing the conversation between a woman and a stall owner, Lin Yi understood that this book stall was a mobile book stall and liked to fight guerrilla warfare with the urban management here. The stall owner was very good at selling books and knew how to pick places. He knew that there was a used book store not far away and was very famous. Many people bought books in the bookstore. He used to like to sell books at the bookstore when he received them, but the bookstore owner was very stingy and often killed the price. The stall owner thought that it would be better to set up a mobile stall nearby to make some quick money and spend money.
Unexpectedly, when his book stall was launched, his business became popular. Because the price was cheaper than the "Old Heaven Bookstore", it attracted many book lovers to come and search for books.
The little black dog next to the stall owner is his most loyal ally. Every time he goes out to set up a stall, he will first run out to explore the way. When he encounters an urban management patrol street, he will bark. It is not easy to raise a dog in Shenzhen. It requires a license and also needs to be vaccinated. The stall owner has nothing, and it also belongs to a "black household registration". Therefore, people and dogs are more determined to take the guerrilla route and immediately leave when they see the inspection.
Today, I finally got a free time to set up a stall. The stall owner immediately took out all the new books I received last week and wanted to sell them a lot.
The woman chatted with the stall owner while flipping through the old books on the book stall. Soon, she picked six foreign literature books.
Lin Yi gave a look, namely "Selected Lyric Poems in Shelley", "Gadfly" by Ellie Voynich, "Selected Merime's Novels", "Selected Caldwell's Novels", "Blood and Sand" by Ibanes, and Stendhal's "Bama Monastery".
These books are all genuine books published by the People's Literature Publishing House in the 1980s. The pages are yellow and the appearance is about 85 years old. The covers are printed with the library seals, which are obviously collections.
The stall owner seemed to be very familiar with this woman, with a total of six books, saying that she originally wanted to sell 10 yuan per book, which was 8 yuan per book, totaling 48 yuan.
The woman replied sincerely: "Come on, will you give you 45 yuan?"
The stall owner blinked his shrewd little eyes and replied readily: "Okay, the deal!" Then, while helping to load books, he said to the woman briskly: "I am willing to sell these books to you real readers cheaply. Every time I sell one, I feel very happy. Although we sell books on the street stalls, we spread the knowledge of books to the society, which is the contribution. This day has not been in vain, although I have never read books since junior high school..."
The woman seemed very happy, which shows how eloquent the stall owner was.
The woman got up and left after buying the book, and her position was immediately occupied. She was a student-like girl with short hair with ears and ears, tall, big eyes and temperament. She actually held a disc of the Rolling Stones in her hand.
Seeing the CD in her hand, Lin Yi blurted out without thinking: "Once you let me start, I won't stop."
The girl turned her head and looked at Lin Yi in surprise, smiled at him politely, and said excitedly: "Do you like Rolling Stones too?"
"No, I like Shi Yin very much. This is a sentence from Shi Yin's computer." Lin Yi answered embarrassedly. He didn't know what evil he had just gotten, so he blurted out and couldn't help but blush after thinking about it.
"Who is Shi Yin?"
"Shi Yin is a mentally ill patient, a patient, a person with a very unique personality in the TV series "The Silent Witness". His favorite book is "The Beat Generation"." Lin Yi replied without thinking.
"I haven't read "The Silent Witness", but I've read "The Beat Generation", a very good book."
What Lin Yi unexpectedly expected was that the girl actually recited in front of Lin Yi with deep affection: "They were poor, worn out, and their eyes were deep. They were dazed in the darkness beyond nature in the cold water apartment, smoking smoke. They floated over the city, meditating on the jazz music, and stayed asleep all night. On a large charred black field, there were a large group of dead soldiers who had already petrified. The silent eyes were as dark as ebony. Looking at the endless horizon, with the patience that had been with millions of years ago and fear, waiting for this never-rise dawn..."
After the recitation, she told Lin Yi that this was a short section of the work of Bruce, the representative writer of the Beat generation.
Lin Yi said you know a lot. The girl laughed and said that her teacher college here specialized in foreign literature.
Lin Yi and the girl were having a cordial conversation, but the stall owner was unhappy and flopped. I was a book stall, not a small park for dating, and I was also chanting poems and writing poems. So I interrupted Lin Yi and the girl and said, "I'm sorry, two children, if you don't buy books, just let me give it to the old man behind you to see what you want to buy." He spoke very politely, with dissatisfaction in his eyes.
Lin Yi observed his words and knew that he had delayed the business, so he smiled apologetically. The girl stuck out her tongue and turned her head to Lin Yi and said, "There is nothing I want here. There is an old bookstore in front. Do you want to go and have a look?"
When Lin Yi heard this, he picked up the book bag and showed it to her. The plastic bag contained the logo of "Old Paradise Bookstore".
The girl shrugged: "So you have been there. The foreign language documents there are very good. I'll go and have a look first, and beg you." She said goodbye to Lin Yi cordially.
When he saw the girl leave, Lin Yi felt lost for some reason. He had been searching for books for so long, and most of the time he saw were uncles and uncles. It was rare to meet a girl of similar age as him. After talking for a few words, he separated again.
Lin Yi has always pretended to be mature, but after all, he is a kid in his early twenties, and the blood of youth is still flowing in his blood--
The girl left, Lin Yi squatted down to take books again. The stall owner looked gloating, as if he was saying that your little girlfriend had left, and the breakup was really fast. He smiled and said to Lin Yi: "Have you bought books in that old bookstore? That store specializes in slaughtering people. A book was sold at a sky-high price. If you like to buy books, you will come to me often in the future, the price will be absolutely cheap."
Lin Yi smiled and didn't answer. He looked at the bookstall's expensive goods that had been flipping through many times.
There are always rewards when he put in his efforts. At least after reading it, he was surprised to find that under a "Rui Li" magazine, the carefully named one is the representative work of Marquez, a Colombian magical writer - "Hundred Years of Solitude".
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Chapter completed!