The next day, early in the morning.

In the warehouse where Lin Yi placed the old books, two fashionable girls were exposed in their clothes, showing their enchanting figures. They seemed to have not had a good sleep. They were dark circles and kept yawning. When they covered their hands and yawned, the short clothes on them would slip up, and their pink waist and beautiful belly button were undoubtedly exposed.

Old Cao Cao glanced at the two girls with a slash, but he didn't see it clearly yesterday. These two are really sexy wild cats. Whether they are dressed or the smell revealed in every move, it was the first time Lao Cao saw him. His indifferent heart was tickled by the two girls.

The two girls were playing with their phones, as if they felt Lao Cao's obscene gaze, so they glared at him, with long eyelashes and the flow of their eyes. The beautiful eyes were angry and made Lao Cao dizzy.

Unlike the reactions of the two girls, the smart and capable President Qin was wandering around Lin Yi's warehouse with great interest, surrounding the bookshelves, looking at the neatly arranged old books, like a veteran Taobao bookkeeper, patrolling the things he was interested in.

If we talked about it from the beginning, Lin Yi felt that Mr. Qin didn't look like a book lover, and he didn't have the aura of a "book hunter", especially when he was driving a Land Rover and carrying a beautiful woman, he looked like an "old playboy" in his forties; but at this time, Mr. Qin looked at the old books and his expression, which proved that this person was profound in his pride.

Not to mention anything else, his eyes were like a sharp and fierce great white shark, and his cruising position was basically the most potential part of these books, whether it was collection value or reading value.

This is a master.

Lin Yi said to himself.

Unfortunately, Lin Yi underestimated the ability of this Mr. Qin.

After roughly reading the warehouse book, Mr. Qin turned around and smiled at Lin Yi with a playful smile, saying, "Mr. Lin, you are very unauthentic. I heard from Lao Cao that you have hidden a lot of good things. Why didn't you see a single one?"

Before Lin Yi could speak, Cao Yidao had already come over and said with a slanderous face: "Mr. Qin is so smart, you can see at a glance. How can a good baby be placed here? Of course, it is safest to keep good goods at home. Lin Yi, why not take Mr. Qin to your study and let him see your collection as well."

Lin Yi thought he was too talkative and was about to explain, but Mr. Qin said, "So there is something else, so you must go and have a look. Let's go, Mr. Lin, you can't fool me with these goods. No matter how you say I'm from a thousand miles away. Even if you don't want to sell it, it will open my eyes."

Seeing that he said this, Lin Yi stopped saying anything. Yes, you should not be too stingy, although he is really unwilling to sell those rare books of the Republic of China.

...

In the simple and tidy study, Mr. Qin started to look at the collection collected by Lin Yi with his hands behind his back.

To be honest, Mr. Qin did not take Cao Yidao's words seriously. What good things can be found in such a small place? I guess the books Lin Yi hid are just some third- and fourth-rate books of the Republic of China.

However, he was wrong. When he saw Lin Yi's grand and elegant bookshelf, there were densely packed with hardcover "Liangyou Literature" series of books with excellent quality, he was stunned.

As a great master in Shanghai who collects new literature of the Republic of China, Mr. Qin knows many friends who like to collect new literature and is also very clear about the content and value of this set of books.

By the way, in the eyes of traditional book collectors, there were no rare books since the Republic of China. After the rise of new literature, the books published were printed using Western printing. The years have not gone far, and the printing volume is numerous and naturally lacking in detail.

Nowadays, such a vision is no longer effective, and "new rare books" have appeared in new literature publications: "Extraterritorial Novel Collection" is listed as a rare book, which is indisputable. It is the first edition of "Liangyou Literature Series" published in the 1930s. It is no exaggeration to call it a rare book. In terms of the degree of rarity, there are no traces of "Liangyou Literature Series" at hundreds of book and magazine auctions over the past decade? It is not known to the organizer, but the collectors are reluctant to sell it.

The "Literary Friends Literature Series" was hosted by the famous editor Zhao Jiabi, and a total of 44 volumes were published. The so-called rare and rare do not refer to one or two books, but the complete set. This series also has four more "extra-large" books. One of them Ba Jin's "Three Love Classics" was auctioned in 1995 and sold for 2,750 yuan. Now the price has increased by more than ten times. If you want to buy it, you can't afford it without 50,000 yuan. The most important thing is that no one is willing to sell it. Zhao Jiabi's motivation for the initial publication of the series came from "imported products" - "When you have extra money, you will go to several West Bookstores on the Bund on Nanjing Road.

The shelf shows a set of literary books of various names. The bindings are uniform and beautiful, and the price is also cheaper than the original version. The funny thing I like is a set of soft leather hardcover pocket books, which contains nearly a hundred ancient and modern literary classics. The selection of the items is refined and the price is US$90,000 and 50 cents for readers. Each book is compiled and examined in sequence according to the publication.... At that time, the literary books we published were all printed paperbacks on white newspapers. I was wondering, in addition to requiring the beautiful content, should the form of publishing be given to readers a kind of beauty?

In 1933, Zhao Jiabi finally had the opportunity to realize his own idea with the support of Wu Liande, general manager of Liangyou Book Company, and founded the Liangyou Literature Series, which was hardcovered on soft cloth and colored envelopes. The pages were beige dolin paper, and the prices were all from the ocean nine corners, and each book was also numbered in sequence. In addition, a hundred numbered author signatures were issued in advance, which was also an "imported product". Zhao Jiabi was recently

Shuilutaidi took the "001" number of each signature book for himself, which was even more precious and rare. Unfortunately, all of them were lost in the catastrophe. Later, Zhao Jiabi asked the Shanghai Bookstore to complete a set of "Liangyou Literature Series", which was lucky to have one of the numbered signature books of "001", but it was Ba Jin's signature book. The book was dispersed and could not be returned to Zhao. After the disaster, one book survived, and the fate of angelica was endless.

This series of books has been described by book lovers countless times, both back then and now, and has been described by book lovers for their "glorious" bindings, and it is indeed "tangible and stylish". The first edition was divided into soft cloth hardcover and paperback popular versions, and the hardcover version was added with protective or waist protection. After years of washing, most of the existing books have lost protective and waist protection, which damaged the image of rare books. In the 1930s, the book industry was popular to wrap a layer of transparent paper outside the books, which was blurred and added a more beautiful color. There is also such a method for ancient books. It is not difficult to find a "Liangyou Literature Series", but it is a bit difficult to find a book with protective and waist protection. If your library is still wrapped with transparent paper from the past, it is worthy of being prominent.

The collection of books must include things that are difficult to keep the hall. The "Liangyou Literature Series" is the most important treasure for the hall. Especially this series of numbers and signature hardcovers are the rare books that countless new literature enthusiasts dream of.

These hardcover books are generally printed in about 2,000 or 3,000 copies, and some are even smaller, only 1,000 copies, so it is very difficult to collect them. Even if the Internet is extremely developed now, it is very difficult to collect 44 kinds of hardcover friends.

Among the friends Mr. Qin knows, there are only three or four of them. They have a collection of good friends’ hardcover collections, and the rest are basically missing and none of them are complete.

After taking out a book of Zhang Tianyi's "Light of the City", Ling Shuhua's "Little Brothers", and He Jiahua's "Ambiguousness", and after a closer look, Mr. Qin immediately determined that although Lin Yi's series of hardcover Good Friends, although not the kind of rare numbered signature book, it is rare to have first-class quality. The skin has a protective cover and the inner page has a protective paper. It is just four "extra-large" versions, and there is also a book of Mu Shiying's "Black Peony", which can be collected in a complete set. If that is true, according to the transaction price of old books in Shanghai, this set of books alone can be sold for hundreds of thousands.

Of course, for many Shanghai tycoons, these hundreds of thousands are not a big deal at all, but the problem is that the "cultural value" of this set of books itself cannot be measured by money.

Mr. Qin remembers clearly that Boss Wang, the real estate tycoon who owns the signature collection of "Liangyou Literature Series" in Shanghai, showed his collection of hard-dressed sets of good friends, and the people next to him, and himself, all showed a look of surprise and envy.

Boss Wang looked even more proud, as if he, a guy who started his business with melon seeds and developed land, transformed himself into an artistic master of the deep-harmonious new literature and culture of the Republic of China.

In this era, you may be able to buy sports cars, villas, and sexy beach girls with money, but it is difficult for you to get such precious new literature of the Republic of China. The reason is -

The opportunity has not come.

The book has not arrived.

In short, the fate has not come.
Chapter completed!