Chapter 191
After Wang Jiazhi finished flipping through the two stacks of movie magazines, she turned to the two stacks of comic books, most of which were stories from "Sanyan Erpai" and "Jin Ping Mei." She was now keen on flipping through these old books.
When I turned to the second comic book, there was a stamp inside with a red azalea on it.
She continued to flip through the pages, and after a few more, she found another stamp, a white azalea, part of the same set as the previous one. She flipped back and found several more stamps tucked into the book, forming a complete set.
She realized that this was a set of stamps that someone had deliberately collected and put in the book. Perhaps it had been so long that he had forgotten about it and didn't take it out when he sold the old books.
Sometimes, she'd find something stuck in old books. One time, while sorting through old books at home, she found two banknotes. Her father didn't bother hiding any money, and neither did her mother. She didn't know where they'd gotten it.
She opened the next book and found a lot of stamps there too.
Wang Jiazhi was like a child who had found a treasure, flipping through the comic books one by one.
Halfway through, she found a stamp album. There were only a few stamps scattered in it, and the rest was empty. However, the book next to her already had more than a dozen stamps.
She was puzzled. She clearly had a stamp album, so why was it kept inside the book?
She continued her treasure hunt and found it in almost every book, and they were all her favorite flowers, still lifes or small animals.
She found the stamp sets, some in the same book, some in different books, and sorted them into categories.
Before she knew it, she had been looking for stamps from morning till afternoon. She put all the stamps into the stamp album, but she couldn't even put all the stamps into one album.
She felt sorry for the books. Their owner had probably forgotten about them. Perhaps his family had sold them without his consent. The thought of it made her heart ache.
Or maybe... the person is no longer with us, and the things he cherished so much in his lifetime are just sold like waste paper.
Although this is an old story, the people who bought this book were probably not very old. They liked collecting beautiful stamps, reading interesting novels and comic books, and died young.
Wang Jiazhi felt that this was an extremely sad story.
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