The reason why a large number of precious manuscripts and documents suddenly appeared in this era is surprisingly simple, which makes people feel incredible, helpless and even sad.
It turns out that in the 1990s, a large number of precious manuscripts and documents suddenly appeared in the Panjiayuan Flea Market, Liulichang, Baoguo Temple and other Yanjing antique markets because during this period, the major archives, museums, libraries and major government agencies in Yanjing abandoned a large number of documents when they moved. These abandoned documents were all sent to scrap collection stations, and then bought by dealers and sold in these antique markets.
Manuscripts such as the preface to Ba Jin's "Collection of Truths" and Qian Zhongshu's "Guan Zhui Pian" flowed out of the Zhonghua Book Company like waste.
In 2003, the Literary Research Magazine cleared out 33 boxes of things and refused to open them for inspection. The price was 33,000 yuan. Mr. Zhao Qingwei decisively bought them for 30,000 yuan. After opening the boxes, he was pleasantly surprised to find that every box contained manuscripts by famous people. The yellowed papers were all handwritten by Li Keran, Shi Lu, Fan Zeng, Wu Guanzhong, Bing Xin, Li Keran, Wang Meng, Xia Yan, Huang Yongyu, etc.
Also, in the 1990s, when the Yenching Library began to use computer retrieval, a large number of books were thrown away. One young librarian actually threw away the entire set of "New Youth" founded during the May Fourth Movement, and kept the current "Youth Digest"...
"Could it be that this set of New Youth was the work of that young librarian?" Yang Jing thought to himself. He knew that the complete set of New Youth was eventually bought by Mr. Wang Jinchang at the price of scraps. If this set was the one collected by Mr. Wang Jinchang, then wouldn't he have taken advantage of this great collector?
"Fuck him! Who cares who it belongs to? Today I saw this set of New Youth, so it belongs to me!"
Yang Jing had no guilt at all for intercepting Mr. Wang. In this era, there were countless precious manuscripts and documents that had been lost from various institutions, archives, museums, and libraries.
An old stall owner who had run a stall in Panjiayuan for many years once said that the number of precious manuscripts and documents he had sold alone amounted to several truckloads!
What's this little thing in front of me?
Thinking of this, Yang Jing calmly asked the stall owner: "Boss, how much are these magazines?"
When the stall owner saw Yang Jing paying attention to the "waste products", he felt a little reluctant.
I have so many old books here, but you don't want to read them, but insist on reading those "junk". What are you thinking?
Perhaps it was precisely because of this reluctance that the boss's tone of voice became much colder.
"These things are not sold separately, but are sold together. If you want them, they are two yuan per pound!"
Yang Jing was stunned when he heard this!
Those precious manuscripts and documents were bought by collectors of later generations at the price of junk. A precious manuscript that was worth millions in later generations was sold by the pound in this era! At first, Yang Jing thought it was a joke when he heard this legend.
He really couldn't believe how such precious manuscripts and documents could be sold for scrap!
But the stall owner's words made Yang Jing completely believe that those were not jokes, but true stories!
Seeing Yang Jing didn't say anything, the stall owner felt a little uneasy. He bought these things from the scrap yard at 30 cents per pound, and sold them at 2 yuan per pound. In his mind, he was making a lot of money.
"Is it too expensive for this customer?" The boss muttered to himself. Just as he was about to lower the price, he heard the young man flipping through the "junk" and saying, "Okay! Two dollars a pound is two dollars a pound. How much do you have? I'll take it all!"
When Yang Jing said this, he was forcibly suppressing himself from shouting out in excitement.
He was so busy reading the New Youth just now that he didn't read the stuff below. Now when he flipped through the stuff below, guess what it was?
Yang Jing’s eyes almost popped out!
"This is part of the manuscript of Master Lu Xun's Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk and Huagaiji. Huh? There's another copy? Damn, this is part of the manuscript of the master's Scream!"
"Oh my god, what is this? This is the manuscript of Master Mao Dun's "Ode to the Poplars", "Rayon", and "The Earth and Mountains and Rivers"!"
"Ah? Is this the manuscript of Kang Youwei's The Book of Great Harmony?"
"Hey, this is the manuscript of Master Guo Moruo's "Ode to the Sun", the manuscript of "Phoenix Nirvana", the manuscript of "Green Grass in the Suburbs", and..."
"Ah! This is..."
......
Although Yang Jing remained calm at this moment, it seemed as if a super typhoon of level 18 was blowing in his heart!
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Yang Jing would have thought he was living in a dream.
These manuscripts were all written by the masters themselves. If they were in the future, anyone would fight over any of them! But here, they are sold by the stack! And the price is by the pound...
Is this fucking fair? Can my luck be any better?
These well-preserved and precious manuscripts kept appearing in Yang Jing's eyes. The more he looked, the more upset he felt.
How sad it is! Just because some people are idle and do nothing, they don't understand the value of these precious manuscripts and documents, and they actually sell them as rubbish!
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