Speaking of which, Lin Yi is also an old player. He is no longer a "novice" in Taobao books. He doesn't know any price code or market conditions.

A hundred years of loneliness with such a good appearance costs at most 100 yuan on the old book website, but the stall owner in front of him directly costs 28 yuan, which seems to be treating himself as a "chicken".

Seeing Lin Yi being stunned, the stall owner thought that his offer was scared, so he said with a smile: "Your book is different from those, it is a print book, which is precious! Look at this cover, this design, this binding, and many people are collecting this kind of book. This is called cover control."

"Cover Control" Lin Yi certainly knew that many bookworms and bookworms who like to learn books care about the cover of a book. For example, the covers that are not designed by master "Zhang Shouyi" are not accepted, and books that are not decorated by famous artists are not accepted. Only famous, beautiful, and visually strong books, such as Wang Zengqi's deep pillows, supper flowers collection, and Zhou Shoujuan's flower collection, so that books can get their eyes on and become their dishes.

However, it would be even more difficult for the stall owner to know the "cover control".

The stall owner deliberately showed off and talked a lot of nonsense, then said: "Like this hundred-year-old loneliness, if it is placed in the old bookstore in front, you will have to twist my head off and see the appearance. This paper is not comparable to the new book now. It is either the paper is bad, or the spine is broken. Spend more money to buy a satisfactory one. What can you do? A good cigarette, a few burgers, at most you can have a McDonald's meal. You can buy a book in the blink of an eye. You can take it home to read it. Learn cultural knowledge and understand customs and favors. This is what you can earn!"

Lin Yi was completely convinced. This stall owner was not an ordinary person. He pretended to be a pig and ate a tiger. After saying so much, he felt a little embarrassed even if he didn't want to buy this book.

For the first time, Lin Yi felt like he was defeated. However, Lin Yi would not just be a sucker, let alone this book is not enough, and he does not collect such "prints".

Seeing that Lin Yi seemed not very "enthusiastic" about this book, and just now he kept saying that "no 281 cents can be lost", he took the initiative to lower the price and finally sold for 150 yuan.

It’s not good to buy books. As long as you make a price with the other party, you have to buy it, otherwise you will be very embarrassed. This is the case in Lin Yi now. He regrets what the price he made with the stall owner just now. He doesn’t really want this book. But there is no regret medicine in this world, so he had to take out two pink Grandpa Mao helplessly, hand it to the stall owner unwillingly, with a smile on his face and a voice: "Thank you."

The stall owner was so beautiful that he grinned. He took the money and looked at the sunshine, distinguished the authenticity, and then quickly found Lin Yi 50 yuan, and then took the initiative to introduce, "There are many valuable books here. If you like, read it, just like this one, I will give you some cheaper."

Lin Yi was speechless, it was cheap. If someone sold 100, you would sell 150. If you killed it once, I am not really a sucker.

So he smiled and said, "I bought too many books, I'll do it next time."

The stall owner is even more intimate, "What are you afraid of if you have too much? Knowledge is power. Knowledge is wealth. You are storing strength and wealth. With these foundations, you will sooner or later become rich."

Seeing that the stall owner started to squirt again, Lin Yi was afraid that his head would get hot and he would go in, so he was about to get up and leave. At this time, the little black dog next to the stall owner began to bark at him again, staring at his black eyes, as if saying, don't leave, look for a while.

The stall owner patted Xiao Hei Dog's head and said to Lin Yi with a smile, "It seems that you are such a good customer. Xiao Hei likes you, so I welcome you to read it again. There are many good books!"

If this was not a dog but a person, Lin Yi even thought they were acting as a double act. The dog was too smart and knew how to "urge the owner to worry about what he was anxious about". He was about to leave, but he couldn't move. It was not that he was really moved by the loyalty of the dog, but because Lin Yi saw that there was a large fruit box under the feet of the stall owner's motorcycle, and in this box there were some old books that cost three yuan a copy.

Before, Lin Yi was only concerned about reading books on the book stall, but he didn't pay much attention to the inside of the box. Since the stall owner and his dog were so "enthusiastic", let's take a look.

Thinking of this, Lin Yi walked over, squatted down, and began to look through these used books.

After a brief look, most of these books are outdated children's books, or some old books on real estate marketing. Not to mention the goods, they are simply garbage that no one wants. Their quality is too bad and they are ragged. I feel uncomfortable when I look at it.

Just when Lin Yi was very disappointed and felt that he had not found anything after so much effort, his hand that reached under the box actually found a book with a colorful cover. He took a closer look and found that it actually said Li Zicheng was written on the cover.

Is Li Zicheng not a set of eight books? Why did he only have one book? Lin Yi was unwilling to give up and touched it again. He then took out four of Li Zicheng's same version. When he saw that it turned out to be five books, the first volume was top and bottom, and the second volume was top and middle.

Lin Yi was a little stunned because he had been shopping for so long and had never seen this version of Li Zicheng in the old bookstore in the bookstore. The color cover was bright but not tacky. The covers of the upper and lower volumes were bright red Chuangwang Banners, and the covers of the upper, middle and lower volumes were dark green Chuangwang Banners, which looked unique. There were very beautiful color page illustrations inside, but the font was still in simplified version. Look at the copyright page, and it reads: Published by Sanlian Bookstore Hong Kong Branch, 1979, one version and one print.

This is actually the Hong Kong version!

To be honest, Lin Yi is very familiar with Li Zicheng's historical novel. He was unemployed and at home, and he read many books when he had time. Among them, he read Zhang Juzheng from Xiong Zhaozheng first: When he was reading Xiong's book, he felt that as the winner of the Contradictory Literature Award, he wrote very well. Later, when he read Li Zicheng from Yao Xueying, he suddenly felt like he was climbing Mount Tai and was a small world.

This book is very good. In short, the whole book is magnificent and vigorous. It is called Li Zicheng, but it ends the writing in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. However, for Lin Yi, what I am most impressed so far is that this book describes the harmony between politicians. Although it is already murderous, it still has a lot of fun to talk to each other.

The dialogues about the characters are particularly vivid. The personal officials, military generals, and peasant army leaders have their own characteristics. The long dialogues between civil officials are ancient and have a great charm of the times. However, the leaders of the rebel army will quote some folk proverbs from the time, which is very consistent with the characters in the book.

In addition, the description of war is also very unique. For example, when the third attack on Kaifeng, 500 farmers were caught and forced to deliver food to the government army. At that time, the city was besieged for several months, and there was very little food. After capturing these farmers, Hao Yaoqi said that the food was insufficient now and the farmers could not stay and killed them directly. Li Zicheng directly agreed. Later, after Tian Jianxiu persuaded him, he knew that these farmers were helpless in delivering food to the government army. He agreed to save his life, but ordered each of them to cut off one hand and let them go. Although Tian Jianxiu felt that it was inappropriate, the two of them were no longer as loyal as before and could not persuade them again. As a result, these farmers returned to Kaifeng city and were all killed by the government army.

In addition, Mr. Yao did not hesitate to use large texts to reflect the overall pattern of history through the portrayal and description of small cultural relics. What impressed Lin Yi the most was the fate of Zhang Chengren, Li Xianglan and his wife and their family and their neighbors Wang Tiekou, Huo Pozi and others when they surrounded Kaifeng City for the third time, which made people feel very sad.

Before reading the breaking of Beijing City, I saw the panic in the Forbidden City, and I felt so moved that I could hardly sleep.

Overall, after reading the novel, I can truly experience the cruelty of war and the changes in the entire late Ming Dynasty.

Due to many reasons, this book seems to be rarely mentioned in the current literary history. However, Mr. Yao devoted himself to sharpening his sword for 40 years and completed this masterpiece, which is enough to be passed down to later generations. Lin Yi personally feels that it is truly the pinnacle of Chinese historical novels since the May Fourth Movement.

In the history of literature today, there are not many versions of this set of books, mainly two versions: People's Literature and Chinese Youth. The most famous of them is the 1977 Chinese Youth Edition. This version has three volumes and eight volumes, divided into hardcover and paperback.

The most common one is paperback, which is also printed in a relatively large volume, including one, two, or even eleven, which shows how large the sales were.

One of the paperbacks printed without color illustrations, eight sets of them are worth 120 yuan with color illustrations, and those worth 300 yuan with hardcover with color illustrations, up to 1,600 yuan.

In addition, on July 1, 1963, the Youth Publishing House published the first volume of Li Zicheng, a set of two books, and a set of 32 books. It was a version and printed with color illustrations. The cover was different from the later version. It was a cover and illustration made by Wang Xuyang and Ben Qingyu. It only printed 30,000 copies. Now the price of the top 95 product with good quality is as high as 1,200 yuan.

According to the logic of the above version of Li Zicheng, these five books and one set of three Hong Kong versions, Li Zicheng with color pictures, is definitely worth collecting.

It’s just a pity that the taste is a little weaker, especially the sky and edges of the book have been eroded by the dust deposited by time, which is a bit worn out.

When you play with old book collections, you can play with age and content, and you play with the same quality as you like. Unless it is a rare rare book, it will be greatly reduced in terms of value.

Lin Yi sighed a little. He finally came across a good set of books, but unfortunately he had a bad taste. He flipped through the books casually and thought about whether to buy them. At this moment, one of them, a page of paper fell from Li Zicheng.

Lin Yi was quick-witted and quickly picked up the page of paper in his hand. When he took his eyes, he saw that it was a letter written in calligraphy, which was written to the editor-in-chief of Sanlian Hong Kong Branch. The signature seemed to be "Yao Xueying".

At this time, Lin Yi's brain was buzzing, and he felt a little out of control. He quickly took advantage of the inertia of his thinking and put the letter paper back into the pages.

The letter paper is very thin, just a simple page, sandwiched in a thick book, and if you don’t read it carefully, you can’t see it at all.

When he thought of the amazing letter from Yao Xueying just now, Lin Yi's heart was beating so wild. When he was impulsive, he wanted to take out 15 yuan to buy this Hong Kong version of Li Zicheng.

Just as Lin Yi was about to stand up and go to this stupid action, his heart suddenly twitched and he secretly shouted: No. The lessons learned from the past failed book buying told him that if he passed by recklessly, he might be able to detect clues by this frightened bird, causing him to lose his horse and miss this letter treasure that has not been seen in a thousand years. In the end, he would have to end up missing the situation that he would rather miss than meet him.

Thinking of this, Lin Yi hurriedly implemented the next countermeasure. The solution was very simple, which was to pick up five old books and compile them into ten, which distracted the owner of the book seller.

This method worked very well. The stall owner saw that Lin Yi spent three yuan a book at once and bought so much waste paper. He was so excited that several of his nose bubbled out. His small eyes flashed with joy. He hurriedly said to Lin Yi: "Don't look at these books as bad as they are a little old, but they are all good books. The knowledge contained in them is not discounted, what are these books?" The stall owner said, and pulled out the five books that Lin Yi deliberately placed underneath.

Seeing the stall owner's action, Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat and then he hung up. He thought, "No, he was discovered." Now he can only pray for God's blessing so that he did not discover the secrets in the book."

The stall owner took the Hong Kong version of Li Zicheng, looked left, right, then read the book, then looked at Lin Yi, and finally shook his head, but did not go through it.

Lin Yi pretended to be calm and squeezed out a smile to ask him: "What's wrong? Isn't this set also cost three yuan per book?"

The stall owner then said, "No, I'm wrong. This set of books is a good book. Although the taste is a little different, it is a historical masterpiece, Yao Xueying's masterpiece, and I don't know why it was stuffed into this box." His eyes rolled and he said to Lin Yi: "Of course, if you really want it, I won't ask you for more money. Just give this set 50!"

When Lin Yi heard this, his heart fell to his feet and said with a smile: "Okay, 50 is 50." He said, and reached out to pick up the book.

The stall owner laughed and handed him the book without hesitation.

Lin Yi was even more relieved and handed over 50 yuan and said, "Help me give me a bag."

The stall owner was stunned, looked at the ten broken books that Lin Yi had just been preparing to cover up, and asked, "What about these?"

Lin Yi smiled, revealing his snow-white teeth, and said, "With this set, I won't want those!"

Lin Yi left with two large plastic bags of used books.

Behind, the stall owner sat on the stool and touched the little black dog's head with his hand, and was very happy.

Boy, I thought you were so good. When you found out the set of Li Zicheng's eyes, I knew you like this set of books. Originally, three yuan, I will make you ten yuan. If you don't kill anyone, you will kill! Boy, you are a little more tender when it comes to Taoshu!

Wow! The little black dog is also barking happily. To be continued.

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