technical type

Next to the stinking ditch, there are the back doors of several shops. This is a back alley, relatively remote, and few people come. When the door is opened, the old brocade book cover in the ditch is almost invisible.

A basin of wash water was poured over the head, which seemed to have added a boost to the sinking process, but it was also this relatively clear water that made the books that were almost buried in the stinking ditch reappear.

"Hey, what is this?"

The boy who came to pour the water still had neat bangs, and the hair reaching to the shoulders made it difficult to distinguish between men and women. The long-sleeved trousers were clean and neat, and the cloth belt wrapped around his waist was wrapped around a few times, highlighting his thinness Apparently, he was young and curious, so he put the water basin aside, bent down, took a branch, and picked up the things in the smelly ditch.

"Is it a book?"

The little boy was a little surprised. These days, the paper with words on it is expensive, and he can see it casually. No matter how bad his eyesight is, he can still recognize that the outer cover of the book is brocade, even if it is a bit worn out. , but the brilliance that once belonged to Jinxiu can never be erased.

"Who threw it here?"

In some accidents, I used a branch to open the pages of the book. The time of soaking was not too long, and it was washed with clean face water. The words on the pages that were about to fall apart were not completely blurred, but still legible. The words and the pictures are more clear.

"Why are there still paintings?"

The young boy has not read many books, but he also knows that real books do not contain paintings, unless it is a kind of non-serious storybook, there may be illustrations every other thickness, and the paintings on it are also It's not very beautiful, but it makes people want to flip through and read all the illustrations.

The same is true when looking at the paintings in this book.

Because there were paintings on almost every page, and the paintings were realistic, the young boy picked up the book, tore off every page, and spread it on the stone road to dry.

He didn't do this work meticulously, and to some extent caused damage to the book again. Fortunately, every page of this book was carefully framed, and it was not completely damaged because of this twists and turns.

Even if this kind of treatment is not the best, but drying after soaking in water, in addition to making the paper a little crumpled, it is indeed saving the fate of this inevitable ruin.

It's a pity that the little boy came late, and didn't know that there were still a few pages of the same paper scattered in the stinky ditch. After he gathered the dried pages and looked at the still clear picture, he realized that there were some places. It seems incoherent, like a few pages missing.

It was a free thing, but I wanted to see it for a while, and I didn't pay too much labor. The cost is low, and the expectation is not high. It is very good to be able to see such a clear picture. If there is less, there will be less Alright.

I didn't get too entangled in this matter, the young boy took the time to read something fresh, he didn't understand the text, he completely ignored it, but the pictures were still understandable, this is like this, that is like that, cats and dogs are not bad It is common and easy to identify. Even snakes are not rare, but others, such as earth dragons, are rare. There is also a bird with a big mouth. What kind of animal is it?

The pictures are easy to understand, even if you ignore the words completely, you can get the general meaning just by looking at the pictures.The young boy’s home sells ingots and incense candles. This kind of business is not very lively. There are more in his spare time. The neighbor’s cat often runs over the wall to play with him. He also likes the cat. One, and then disappeared at some unknown date.

Afterwards, I didn’t keep them anymore. The rat problem in the house was all due to the neighbor’s cat, and I would occasionally feed it some good food.

When he saw the cat and thought of the pictures in the book, the boy tamed the cat exactly like the picture. One person and one cat started a clumsy attempt. On a certain day, the boy accidentally called out to him with a single sentence. After the cat makes a series of pleasing movements, this skill is considered to be taken seriously.

But this kind of emphasis is also limited. It looks good and lively. The young boy was encouraged by the adults for a while and wanted to do something, but all he could think of was just like the monkey man, taking the neighbor's cat with him. Hey, let's perform together at temple fairs and other lively times, in exchange for a few coins in reward.

The business is not big, but it happens from time to time, because taming monkeys is more common, and taming cats is rare. It is fresh enough, and once became a popular place in the neighborhood. There are people with lively pictures, and I even found his house to perform, which is even more interesting. Neighbors, entrust their own cats to train them. Not to mention anything else, it is enough to make people happy that the trained cats can follow fixed orders and make some movements.

The wise ones would ask the young man where he learned such a technique when he saw the opportunity. The young man had no capital, so he directly talked about the book, and if he was interested, he would spend money to buy the book.

"Buy?" The young man hesitated, he had never thought about selling things, not because he realized the value of books, because the money he earned from cat taming performances was actually not much, it was just a trivial matter, but listening to people That being said, how much is it worth selling?

He hadn't figured out how much he wanted, but the other party had already offered a high price of one tael of silver, which was also the price given after a rough look at the booklet.

The boy didn't think about selling it before, and the other party said he wanted to see it, so he let him see it. Now, the other party has seen it and is willing to buy it, so he is a trustworthy person.

Thinking that he has seen all the things on it, this thing is crumpled and not good-looking, it seems that it was because of the smelly ditch that he soaked in at that time, he always felt that there was a smell on it, and regretted not cleaning it at that time, I was also afraid that the handwriting and pictures would be damaged by cleaning, and now some of the handwriting and pictures on it are not very clear.

"Okay, you can take it if you want."

I couldn't wait to agree, for fear that I would lose the high price of this tael of silver.

The other party decisively threw out the money, took the book and left, found someone to look at it, it was an old antique, judging from the above text, this history is still a bit long, the eunuch wrote the book, or such a book, this fresh gimmick is enough Some people are paying more for it.

The interested buyer found a restorer to restore the booklet. The lost one can no longer be replaced, but the loss itself also shows that it has been a long time.

The restored book looks much better, and it was sold at a high price when it was resold. The next buyer, who is willing to spend the money on the book, may not really be for the purpose of reading it, but for the purpose of putting it to use. Buy it for a price, or, if the picture is fresh for a while, watch the excitement, and if you see nothing, then throw it aside.

Then resell at a high price when the next opportunity arises.

I don't know how many times the book has changed hands, the price keeps rising, and it has completely lost its content and the meaning of that part as an antiquity. In the end, it has become a collectible in the hands of someone who doesn't know.

As for the little boy, he was lucky after selling the book, even though he knew that the calligraphy and paintings were worth a lot, but he didn't think that a book thrown in the stinking ditch was really that valuable, one tael of silver, that was one tael of silver ah!

The young boy who consciously made a smart business maintained this simple happiness for a long time. After he became an adult, he was still complacent. He mentioned from time to time that he really had a business mind and was born to do business.

Keeping his own incense and candle shop, taming cats and dogs in his free time is fun and life, and the young boy who enjoys himself is getting old like this.

There is no book, but the skill part is not sold at the same time, it is still kept in my mind, in the accumulated experience of taming cats and dogs. When they grow up, some of them are busy with other things, but there are also a few who have inherited this skill and passed it down from generation to generation.

It belongs to that book, the smart business that grandpa once boasted about, and the smarter younger generation realized that they lost the watermelon and picked up the sesame seeds. When they said it, they beat their chests, wishing that they were there at the time and left behind that more valuable book. .

Think about it, grandpa can pass down such a skill just by swallowing and looking at the picture above, who knows what else is recorded in those words?

Even if it wasn't a martial arts secret book, it might be some kind of treasure book, maybe it would give them a chance to make a fortune, and it would just be bought out by a tael of silver.

How is it not a pity, how is it not embarrassing?

At that time, it was too late to say this again, the young boy who saved the book was already happy to the old age, and passed away with that happiness.For future generations, even if someone sees the loss of this transaction, they cannot turn back the time. What to do when they go back, they can only accept this incomplete inheritance of skills.

The family is big and the business is flourishing. I don’t know in which year, the skills that were not very profitable were carried forward. The new circus seems to have brought a fresh wind, so that people don’t know what to do. .

How come there is such a thing all of a sudden?

"Isn't this the same as the one in the old He's family? Isn't that what the cats and dogs trained in their family look like?"

The news from the neighbors also inspired the old He family. Their family still possessed this skill and went to see the circus performance. I dare not say anything else. Cats and dogs can always do it. To, even better.

As for those other strange-looking animals.

"They're all pretending, they can't fool me."

What is an animal like, what is a human being? If one day an animal can pretend to be a human being, it will be just like a human being pretending to be an animal.

With this precedent, following the example of a circus, and finding more clever beggars to put on one-piece coats and pretend to be animals to make people laugh, He Jiaban stepped onto the stage of history in this era, because They understand the country better and understand human relationships better, but they are better than the foreign circus. It is also a circus with an imported name, but it is all performed by local people. They also charge high prices. , sent.

Many years later, the times are constantly changing, and progressive people no longer care about the performances that people put on. Fresher and more realistic animals are coming. The zoo and its party seem to smash the three views of people. After reorganization, it turns out that there are such animals in the world, and they are really so strange.

Then, one morning in modern times, the little girl who ran over happily called her father to let him see the kitten she was training, "Look, Dad, have I trained well?"

At this moment, when the man leaned over to pick up the little girl, the skill of eating and the glory of making a fortune became the laughter and warmth of sunshine.

Some things are always changing, some things never change.