Chapter 547. The first version of "Goddess"
Who is Lin Yi? I have never seen any rare books, so I don’t expect this boss to come up with any amazing books.
But when the boss took out the treasure, Lin Yi was still stunned when he saw it.
Today he seems to be particularly destined to be a book in the Republic of China. The book he took out was a collection of poems from Guo Moruo in the Republic of China - "Goddess"!
As we all know, Chinese new poetry developed with the "May-4th" cultural movement and the "Poetry Revolution". The cause of liberation of poetry styles began with Hu Shi, and completed by poets from the literary research association who practiced the "literary for life". The establishment of a creative society with Guo Moruo as the banner in 1921 can be said to be "a sudden rise" and turned its attention to "a life full of flaws". If Hu Shi, who advocated the "great liberation of poetry styles", and his "Test Collection" can only be regarded as distinguishing the boundaries between new and old poems; then, what can be called the pioneering and monumental work of the new poetry revolution is Guo Moruo and his collection of poems "Goddess".
As far as Lin Yi knows, "Goddess" is included in Guo Moruo's main poems from 1919 to 1921, with a total of 57 poems in the same preface. Most of them were works by poets when they studied in Japan. Among them, representative poems include "Phoenix Nirvana", "Goddess' Rebirth", "Coal in the Furnace", "Sunrise", "Pen Standing on the Mountain", "Earth, My Mother!", "Tiangou", "Morning Night", "Standing on the Edge of the Earth" and so on. In terms of poetry, it broke through the constraints of the old pattern, created a vigorous and unrestrained free verse style, opened up a new world for the development of free verse after the May Fourth Movement, and became the foundation work of Chinese new poetry.
It is also because of this that in the popular collection of "New Literature" of the Republic of China, this first version of Guo Moruo's "Goddess" is known as a rare book among rare books, and now it costs as high as 30,000 to 40,000. Unfortunately, the first version in 1921 is rare and extremely precious because of its small print volume. This book is not the first version...
With a skeptical attitude, Lin Yi opened the copyright page of the book, and then he was stunned---"Creation Society Series", Taidong's first edition in 1921!
It's really the first version!
Lin Yi's surprised expression caught the eyes of the boss. This boss is also a person who sells books, and he has become a master. When he sees Lin Yi's expression, he knows that this is an expert in new literature, otherwise he would not have read the copyright and the reaction was so enthusiastic.
You know, this book is his "treasure of the stall". It has been half a year since he was in hand and has never been willing to take action. Now that I have something at home and want to buy a car to drive it, I am planning to use this treasure for money.
At first, he was just selling it in his own circle. Unfortunately, the old books were all very good. When he heard the price he asked for, he knew that there was no profit, so the book was still not sold.
If the capital is under the feet of the emperor, there are many rich people. The stall owner was thinking about coming out to try his luck today, and just so happened that Lin Yi bumped into him.
Just as Lin Yi was taking a deep breath, someone came next to him. Seeing him holding a book with a strange look, he asked: "Brother, what are you watching? Let's read together."
Lin Yi smiled and asked him to look at the cover of the book and said, "How about a book worth tens of thousands of yuan?"
The man grinned and said, "Who are you cheating on me--This thing costs tens of thousands of yuan, you can see it yourself!" After that, he felt very clever to leave.
After thinking for a while, Lin Yi finally gritted his teeth and said to Boss Zhou: "This way, I'll give you a price. If you think you can, we will make a deal. If you feel you have lost, then wait a little longer--but it can be said that your book is a good book, and it's reasonable to sell it for 30,000 yuan, but there are not many people who can afford it. It's fate to meet a good buyer for a good book. Otherwise, there is a price but no market, and you can only keep trying your luck."
After saying so much, Lin Yi gave his final psychological reserve, and he said: "Twenty-five thousand yuan!"
Seeing this, the stall owner, Boss Zhou, thought about it carefully. Lin Yi's words just now could be said to be soft and hard, and he used psychological warfare.
First of all, I affirmed that this is a good book, and I affirmed that it could be sold at a price of 30,000; however, it takes a lot of time to meet people. But what Boss Zhou lacks is time. In order to buy a car to drive, he has sold a lot of his favorite things. People nowadays love face. Although he is a street stall, he also wants to drive a car to strengthen his face. Therefore, he is really short of money and is really in a hurry to use money.
As the saying goes, the goods sold at that time are worth it.
Thinking of this, the boss gritted his teeth this week and said, "That's good----the deal!"
For 25,000 yuan, buy a book of the Republic of China.
Those who bought old books and watched the fun were immediately in an uproar. For those who knew the collection of new literature in the Republic of China, it was easier to understand. For those laymen, they found it very strange and incredible.
Therefore, in the eyes of many people, Lin Yi became a "bracket" and the "most fool" of Huguo Temple.
But soon, he discovered that the real fool was them...
Chapter completed!