Li Weimin was picking up the old books scattered on the ground. Not long ago, when the library was renovating, there were too many broken books. He immediately asked someone to take away a cart and sell scraps. Unexpectedly, there were so many broken ones, which was really a headache.

Just as he was busy, Lin Yi suddenly asked, "Where are those thread-bound books?"

Li Weimin stood up, patted his hands and said, "Lin Yi, why do I feel that you are very concerned about those thread-bound books? To be honest, what you said before is that our school has something to sell, is it just these thread-bound books?"

Lin Yi was stunned, but he didn't expect that he was careful and finally saw through it. This Principal Li Weimin and Li are really smart.

So Lin Yi stopped hiding it and said, "Yes, I actually do business with old books. Maybe you don't know that the prices of old books are very high now, especially those with good quality and rare content, which are possible with tens of thousands or even millions of dollars. Since you have such a treasure here, I think if you take it out for auction, you might be able to save the urgent need..."

He seemed to be afraid that Li Weimin would not want to sell books. After all, the line-bound books are basically ancient books. Lin Yi added another sentence, "I can assure you that the price of auction or acquisition will be very reasonable. If you are not satisfied, I can also introduce you to other auction houses or buyers... In short, everything will be decided by the school if you sell or not." Lin Yi's tone was sincere and not hypocritical.

Li Weimin looked at Lin Yi's sincere appearance and his expression changed a few times. Finally---

"Thank you for being so frank. I believe what you said, it's a pity..." Li Weimin sighed.

Lin Yi didn't understand what a pity, so he heard Lin Weimin say, "Come with me, and you will understand after you see it." As he said that, he saw him walking straight to a wall in the room, pushing it with his hand, and it turned out to be a door, and behind it was another room, no, to be precise, a row of steps leading to the underground.

Lin Yi was surprised, why was this possible?

Looking at Lin Yi's surprised look, Li Weimin smiled and said, "During the time of literary and technological innovation, the whole country mobilized the air-raid shelter to prevent the US Empire from throwing bombs. At that time, the school had just been built, so it dug a basement and happened to be used to put the book, but the inside was very damp, so be careful."

Lin Yi nodded. He also knew these "interesting stories" of literary and artistic rebellion. It is said that whether in the city or in the country, the whole country mobilized to dig holes, which made people pick up hoes when they got off work. Children and adults went to fight together. If you dig the soil and carry the mud, you would almost dig the entire city into Spider-Man's home. In the end, even the planners and initiators of the holes did not know how many "air raid shelters" were underground. Some of the big ones, such as Chongqing, Nanjing, and Beijing, are now filled or transformed into a good place to cool down in summer.

Li Weimin turned on the light bulb below and illuminated the stairs. The basement was not very deep, shallow, just two or three meters long, similar to the underground parking room in the community today.

Just as Li Weimin said, it was very damp inside. There were some white lime piles next to it, which should be used to absorb moisture. After walking along the stairs for a few steps, there was another spacious place. Under the light, you could vaguely see inside: three walls were actually large bookshelf dug out, with many thread-bound books on it. It was a pity that the books were either scattered, falling off, broken, or eroded by moisture, moldy and discolored---

Lin Yi felt distressed. Although he didn't know the specific content of these thread-bound books, it wouldn't be a slaughtering death if so many books are piled up in such places? You must know that thread-bound books are the most afraid of the weather, otherwise there wouldn't be such a saying that "showing books" since ancient times.

Fortunately, the people here are a little conscience, knowing to use lime to absorb moisture, and knowing that some newspapers are placed inside... But looking at the thread-bound books here, the discussion on the appearance is completely ruined.

Lin Yi finally understood what Li Weimin said before, why it was a pity? This is the reason.

Li Weimin looked at these multi-line books and sighed: "What a pity, so many books are left outside, so I'm afraid the children will take them randomly, and I'm afraid they will be broken if they put them here. It's difficult!"

"How many thread-bound books are there here?" Lin Yi couldn't help asking.

"Well, I've read the records, and there are almost seven or eight thousand copies."

"so much."

"It's still a small amount. I heard that when Wen Ge Gang was copying books, he copied 50,000 or 60,000 copies from the old people's homes, and his appearance was very good." Li Weimin stroked the books with his hands, "What a pity, only a few of them are left in the past few decades, and they are all ruined like this. Alas, my responsibility!"

Lin Yi didn't say a word, and his heart was very uncomfortable at this moment.

As a book lover, seeing such a large number of treasures being ruined like this, the feeling in my heart is unreleased and it is so uncomfortable to hold it in my stomach.

In the past, Lin Yi also read some miscellaneous notes on books and remembered that there were some of them that were about Wen Ge's house scouting out many thread-bound books. Those thread-bound books were mainly about the "Four Olds", and the more stored were some medical books. Others were either burned or pulled out of pulp, or stuffed into the toilet, wrapped in fried dough sticks, and indirectly ruined them. It can be said that Wen Ge's burning of books was a shocking disaster.

The thread-bound books that can be preserved now have all been attached to God. Therefore, no matter what theme or content of the thread-bound books are, in a sense, they are all treasures, treasures that have survived through disasters.

Look at these thread-bound books, there are all types of contents, and the common "Four Books and Five Classics" are even more common. There is the Yipintang version of "The Great Learning" during the Jiaqing period, but unfortunately it is very insect-eaten; there is the Guangxu Wenzhaitang version of "The Doctrine of the Mean", but unfortunately, there are only one or three fragments; there is the "Eight Methods of Yongzi" during the Xianfeng period, which is of good quality, but the back cover falls off and sticks together inside; there is the "Medical School Golden Mirror" of the Qing Dynasty.

There are many books on "Jingyue Complete Book", but unfortunately they are all broken; there are also "Tracing the Origin of Stars" in the Republic of China. I heard that this set of books was written by Zhang Guolao, the "earth immortal" of the Tang Dynasty. It is the earliest book about fortune telling. The photocopying is more than a thousand, but unfortunately these two books are extremely different in quality, and they are mostly half broken; there are also some thread-bound books about Feng Shui, geography, Five Elements, and Eight Trigrams. Needless to say, these books have been searched and suppressed as the key points, and the most are broken.

In fact, the online prices of online books such as Feng Shui, geography, fortune-telling, etc. are basically outrageously high. Lin Yi didn't understand why this was the case before, but now he understands it. Because the content is sensitive, the literary and cultural periods have been copied. Now things are rare and valuable, and the content is unique, it has become a hot commodity.

It's really ridiculous. It's because there are few people in the world that the price is high. The reason for the small amount is artificial destruction and burning. I don't know whether this is the luck of the book collector or the sadness of the thread-bound book.

Walking through the bookshelf dug out of a wall, Lin Yi continued to browse the other wall. Compared with the previous wall, the other person's books on this wall were not much better.

The focus of thread-bound books is on quality. Not to mention large books, small books, wide heads, fish tails, or whether there are additional criticisms on the eyebrows, whether there are seals on the title page, and there are five or six ways to thread a book in a single book. It can be seen how complicated the process and strict requirements are in terms of "quality".

Based on this point, when Lin Yi was flipping through these thread-bound books, he deliberately or unintentionally selected some of the good looks - mainly because he picked the general from the cripple and took it to browse.

Lin Yi stroked his hands and looked through these moldy and distorted thread-bound books. His heart was surging and he didn't know what he was thinking.

At this time, a thick fragrance of books slowly spread out from the pile of broken thread-bound books.

When Lin Yi smelled this strong fragrance of books, he couldn't help but be stunned. You know, the fragrance of books he smelled in the past was basically very light and light, either into silk or strands. He had never had such a strong fragrance of books. Even if he first came into contact with the ancient book "Tea Classic", he did not have such a strong smell.

At this moment, Lin Yi was shocked. Smelling the fragrance of books, he seemed to hear a peerless lonely book shouting "Help"!

With such a strong aura and such a powerful spiritual energy, what kind of book would this be?

Lin Yi was full of curiosity.

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