"Why aren't your room turning off the lights yet?" This is my brother-in-law Zhao Gang roaring at Lin Yi in the bedroom.

Hearing this roar, Lin Yi lying on the bed, his legs hanging down on the edge of the bed, and holding the book in his hand, reluctantly put down the book he was looking through, and then turned off the light.

The bedroom is dark.

But this darkness made Lin Yi very quiet and had time to think about many things.

In fact, after returning from the luxurious and grand teahouse, Lin Yi got into the house and took out the book from the head of the bed to read it.

This is a very thin and inconspicuous book, but it is the first note about buying books at the old book stall that Lin Yi bought at the old book stall not long ago.

This book was written by a not-famous writer. This person seemed to be poisoned by books and felt uncomfortable if he didn't go out to search for old books every day. The old books at home were like mountains, but he still kept his life away. Because of this, he was often angry with his wife, and even his son's marriage was delayed. The content of the author's book was very simple. It was basically an interesting story about him picking old books in the old book stall for more than ten years. The story also involved many gossips from famous writers, such as the famous Lu Yao and Chen Zhongshi.

...

In March 1983, Lu Yao's novel "Life" won the second National Novella Award. He called his younger brother Wang Tianle to report the good news, saying that he didn't have a penny at hand, and he couldn't make up enough travel expenses to receive the award in Beijing, so he urgently needed his younger brother's help. Tianle borrowed 500 yuan, rushed to the train station to buy tickets on the spot, and sent Lu Yao on the train to Beijing.

Eight years later, in March 1991, "Ordinary World" won the third "Mao Dun Literature Prize". Lu Yao told his younger brother who was interviewing in the county that he had not spoken for a long time and was in a complicated mood. Then Lu Yao said that he had no money and needed his younger brother to raise a sum of money for him to go to Beijing to receive the prize and buy books and other things. In desperation, Tianle tried his best to borrow 5,000 yuan. On the day he went to Beijing to receive the prize, Tianle rushed to the train station again and delivered the 5,000 yuan he had in his arms directly to Lu Yao, and said to Lu Yao: Don't win any award in the future, it's easy to say. If you win the Nobel Prize in Literature, you need foreign exchange to go there, I can't do it!

Lu Yao only said one thing: "Damn it, literature!" He entered the train station without looking back.

Chen Zhongshi is a simple Guanzhong native. Before the publication of "White Deer Plain", he dressed like a contractor who went to work in the countryside. It is said that no matter who is idle, he will receive him, but if he doesn't say anything, he will chase people. He is never polite, and he is still the phrase: Let's go, hurry up, and if I have something to do, the person who comes will run away in a panic. At that time, the cigarettes Chen Zhongshi smoked were extremely smelly inferior cigarettes. Chen Zhongshi said, "Mom, we don't have money, is it cheap to smoke this bad cigarette, and it's so energetic."

On May 25, 1988, Lu Yao relied on his super willpower to race against the disease and persisted in creating the final creation of "Ordinary World". When he wrote the last chapter, his hands spasmed and soaked in hot water for a long time before he recovered his consciousness. He stood up and threw the ballpoint pen out the window without any control, and then cried loudly.

On the 25th day of the 1991 lunar month, after six years, the creation of "White Deer Plain" was completed. Chen Zhongshi recalled: When he finished marking the last punctuation mark - the sixth origin of the ellipsis, his eyes suddenly became dark, his mind was blank, and he fell into a state of ignorance, with his back against the sofa, and tears seemed to emerge...

Chen Zhongshi is lucky than Lu Yao. After the release of "White Deer Plain", he became famous. Compared with royalties income and his high consumption of smoking cigars, Chen Zhongshi once admitted that what really helped him "get out of poverty" was the adaptation copyright fees brought by film and television adaptation, but he was still dressed as a contractor, and his dignity was all in his heart and soul.

Once, a rich man said condescendingly that he, why didn’t you write after "White Deer Plain"? Are you short of money? If you lack money, you can speak---

Chen Zhongshi only replied one sentence: You know a hammer!

...

The reason why Lin Yi likes these two writers is very simple: their attitude towards money, their attitude towards secularity, literature, and books.

In addition, no one would have thought that in this book, Chen Zhongshi, who could not afford to smoke a good cigarette, had his hardcover book on cloth, which only printed 2,000 copies in 1993, had been hyped up to 1,500 yuan in the old book market; Lu Yao, who could not even afford to buy a ticket, had his first part of the 1986 hardcover version of "Ordinary World" (three volumes) in the old book market, which was as high as 3,000 yuan.

How many packs of good cigarettes are there?

How many tickets are this?

...

Lin Yi used to think that he was very literary and liked to buy some classical classics and foreign classics. He read "Journey to the West", "Water Margin", "Dream of the Red Chamber" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" at a young age; he liked to read "Red and Black", "Notre Dame de Paris", "How is Steel Tempered" which are difficult to remember... But how much did he really understand in those books? How much help does it help him in such a world?

In the end, what he understood was---

In 1985, the book was 16, and the book was made of gold and a special hardcover version of "Water Margin" with famous painters. Now it can be sold for 6,800 yuan when it was sold for the old book market; "Journey to the West" can be sold for 10,000 yuan; "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" can be sold for 15,000 yuan: "Dream of the Red Chamber" is as high as 21,000 yuan.

It's hard to imagine, but it's a fact.

The same content, the same story, the same text have a world of difference.

You can buy a set of four classics on the street for a few dozen yuan. Just because of the special version, the price has soared hundreds of times in just over 20 years from 1985 to now.

You don't understand the world of old books.

The price of old books is even more difficult to predict.

If the stamp market was popular in the past, then the old book market is popular now.

Now, these huge secrets appear in this thin and inconspicuous Taoshu notes. At this point, Lin Yi finally knew what he was going to do.

Books are money,

Money is a book.

Money is also an equivalent.

It is equal to the golden house of beautiful women in fragrant cars.

Some things I once hoped for can be obtained through book trading.

One million, once a distant number, is now within reach.

As long as he is willing, he can even sell the drawings to Lu Feiyan at a low price, from being uncivilized to being worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

But Lin Yi did not do this because he understood the value of the draft in his hand, and even more so that Lu Feiyan could not wait to get it. Of course, the most important thing is that through today's wonderful fusion with the ancient book "Tea Classic", Lin Yi knew that it turned out that old books also had life.

They are not just a book, they have their own history, their own stories, and their own value.

This set of drawings is at least one million.

Because this is its value, no sub can be left behind.
Chapter completed!