Every city has memorable corners, intersections and slopes like Dongguan Street.
I don't know if you remember the villain book stall on Dongguan Street.
Roughly in this position, there will be many long wooden boxes covering the ground, or wooden shelves on the side of the wall, which are neatly arranged with books with 60 or 64 openings and colorful covers.
There are "Talking Tang", "Water Margin", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Eastern Zhou Nations", "Yang Jiajian", "Saying Yue Quan Biography", "Journey to the West", "Railway Guerrilla", "Chicken Feather Letter", "Little Soldier Zhang Ga", "Mine Warfare", "Tunnel Warfare", and there are also "Snow White", "Daughter of the Sea", "The Emperor's New Clothes", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" that girls like to watch, dazzling, I don't know which one I should read first?
Although the movie is more attractive, but because it is too slow to shoot, no villain book comes out fast, so watching villain books is still the mainstream of reading.
Even some movies have just been released, and there are villains with the same name painted and painted, such as "Police Officer with Special Status", "Yue Family Young General" and so on.
At that time, the stall owners of the little people's book stalls were mainly middle-aged and elderly women living nearby, and there were also a small number of students who had just graduated and had not yet found a job.
They will price according to the thickness of the villain book, there are 1 cent to read a book, there are 2 cents a book.
At that time, there was a sense of competition, whoever had more books and whose stalls were bigger, they were more attractive, so they all put the book stalls very large.
Therefore, the loss of villain books is larger, and some villain book stalls change books once a year, and they will regularly put on a batch of new books.
New books are usually booked in advance at children's bookstores.
At that time, a friend of mine used to help watch the villain book stall here to prevent some children from being tempted to steal books like Kong Yiji.
He also recalled: "Later, in order to protect the villain's book so that it could be read for a long time, he made a book cover out of kraft paper and put the villain's school bag with his name and number written on it.
Next to some villain book stalls, there are also wooden signs with warm tips, which read: 'Please pay attention to the love of books'. ”
Villain book stalls also rely on the weather to eat business, the most afraid of rainy days.
If it is a cloudless summer and a cool autumn, these little people book stalls are the most attractive.
In the era of relatively monotonous cultural life, the entertainment functions undertaken by these villain books are a bit like today's 4G or 5G mobile phones.
People sit on small horses, small benches, and can relish the morning or afternoon.
Some people will laugh heartily while watching "Little Soldier Zhang Ga"; some people will laugh heartily while watching "Tiger Prison Pass", while comparing the "List of Heroes of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms" with their fingers: "One Lü Two Zhao Three Dianwei, Four Passes, Five Horses, Six Zhang Fei, Seven Faces, Eight Ugly Texts..."
Unconsciously, the sun set, the moon also came out, the stalls were closed, and everyone reluctantly left.
Some people are still thinking about waiting for tomorrow or Sunday to watch the next episode.
Alas, those sets of villain books, some people have read the whole thing, and some people have not yet read the whole book.
The reason why I think of this villain book stall is because I have a villain book in my collection, "Li Kui".
It was the summer of more than 30 years ago, when I was young, I came to the children's bookstore and used the 2 mao steel hammers I had saved for a long time to buy a thick villain book "Li Kui".
The red cover is a close-up of Li Kui's domineering, carrying two plate axes, majestic.
I watched, my heart was beautiful, and I couldn't let go.
For some reason, I came down the tramway to the little man book stall on Dongguan Street.
A stall owner was suddenly optimistic about this "Li Kui", so he wanted to buy it, priced 2 mao villain books plus 1 mao, and could also read a few more villain books.
I was reluctant to hold the baby like I was, without agreeing.
However, my "Li Kui" is still "settled" in the villain book stall here.
A classmate's grandmother opened a villain book stall here, and "Li Kui" was borrowed by her.
Since then, I have never seen this "Li Kui" again.
Later, there were suddenly hong Kong TV dramas "Huo Yuanjia the Great Hero", "Chen Zhen", "Shanghai Beach", "Legend of the Archery Hero", and there were cartoons that made children obsessed, "Astro Boy", "Smart One Hugh", "Flower Fairy", "Travels on a Goose", and these little people who had been burning for many years gradually disappeared.
Then, 30 years later, in 2015, when I was writing the manuscript of "The Book of Villains and Dalian", I bought a copy of "Li Kui" from the old book network for a high price.
In the middle of the night, in front of the moon setting window, I couldn't help but sigh: "Time has gone far." ”
The sun rises in the East Pass, and the moon sets on the West Hill.
In December 2019, shortly after the publication of Dalian in Time, the fifth draft of Dongguan Street was revised.
When I was preparing to revise the sixth draft, I suddenly received the task of revising two manuscripts, one was "Searching for Relics in the Streets and Alleys." "Dalian Old Street" requires 200,000 words to complete, and this manuscript is revised according to "Memory Dalian Old Street" and "Memory Dalian Old Street (continued)"; the other is the final revision of "Years and Years of Dalian".
Therefore, the revision of the sixth draft of "Dongguan Street" was shelved.
The original name of "Dongguan Street" was "The Green Dongguan Street and Me", and later according to the suggestion of a friend, it was renamed "Dongguan Street".
In December 2019, it took less than a month (20 days) to complete the "Street Search. Modification of Dalian Old Street.
When the epidemic came in January 2020, I used this time to complete the eight revisions of "Years of Dalian", which basically met the publishing requirements.
This manuscript is actually based on the first revision of "Qingni Imprint - Dalian Old House" completed in 2016 and rewritten into a cultural tourism book.
It was originally planned to continue to revise Dongguan Street.
Subsequently, he undertook the writing of "Goi Mikan" and published it in December 2020.
Mr. Deng Gang, a dalian playwright cong zhijia and a representative figure of Dalian sea oyster literature, made a recommended preface.
In 2021, because of the compilation of "Shanshui Ganjingzi" and "Zhuanghe Terroir", the revision of "Dongguan Street" was shelved again.
It won't be reprinted until 2022.
In more than 2 years, I have consulted some materials, accumulated materials, and come up with new ideas.
Good luck in the Year of the Tiger, no hustle and bustle.
Looking at the two Dongguan Street sketches (electronic version) presented by the late painter Wang Zhongfu, I forgot the time.
Mr. Liang Sicheng said: "Cultural relics and ancient buildings are the wealth of all mankind, there is no class, there is no border, in the change to protect the key cultural relics, the contribution is great." ”
The ten years of protection of Dongguan Street are like this.
Recording precious time is both a sentiment and a responsibility.
"Xiangjing Weigan" revised 6 drafts, "Years dalian" revised 8 drafts, "Dongguan Street" will also strive for excellence.
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