Author | Huainan bookworm
Source | Confucius old book network APP dynamics
As the old saying goes: don't watch "Three Kingdoms" when you don't watch it, and don't watch "Water Margin" when you don't. There may be some truth to this statement. Young and vigorous, love to fight bravely, watched the various "'criminal'" behaviors of liangshan good men in "Water Margin", is it not easy to cause trouble by imitating them in real life? But I am not afraid, when I was young, I especially liked to watch "Water Margin". Because I was weak when I was a child, I was still short, and if people didn't beat me, it would be good, who would I dare to mess with? I just imagined being a good man.
The earliest was to listen to the commentary book "Water Margin" on the radio, and I probably knew a little about the story of Water Margin. When I was in junior high school, I also read a lot of Water Margin stories in the Villain Book, and I also borrowed two sets of "Water Margin" character books (when I was a child, I called the Little Man Book Picture Book and the novel called the Word Book). This set of eighty copies of "Water Margin" does not look addictive, and it is over when it reaches Liangshan. About 85 or 86, one Sunday, my friend Wei Dong (also my elementary school junior high school classmate, mentioned in the previous dynamics that he often went with me to buy villain books) and went to the Xinhua Bookstore on the street near our house, and I saw a new set of three brown and red covers on the counter of "The Complete Biography of Water Margin", looking for business to look at, which was published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House in 1984. One hundred and twenty copies, the first volume also contains the Ming Dynasty Water Margin figures (Ming Dynasty Chen Hongshou's "Water Margin Leaves") and woodcut illustrations. I loved it as soon as I saw it. But looking at the price of 4.25 yuan, the money I carried was not enough (the few cents I was carrying were all my movable assets at that time), and there was still a difference of 3 yuan. In those days, books over 4 dollars were not cheap either. Wei Dong saw that I was embarrassed on the side, and said to me: Do you really want to buy it? If you really want to buy me to borrow you 3 yuan (that's the food cost for a week when he goes to the technical school). I said yes, I'll pay you back when I have money, and I can lend you books to read. So I bought this set of "Water Margin" back. At that time, the young and ignorant did not worry too much, and they did not know how Wei Dong's food expenses for that week were finally solved. Go home and tell my mother that I borrowed 3 yuan from Wei Dong to buy books, and my mother said that she had to pay it back to the family quickly, and immediately gave me 3 yuan, and when Wei Dong came home from the technical school the next weekend, she returned the money to him.
Throughout my high school years, I read this set of "Water Margin" several times. At that time, I didn't know that reading books had to be wrapped in book covers, and I only had eight new books in the whole product. At that time, the favorite Water Margin characters were Wu Song and Shi Qian, and the least favorite was Song Jiang. I like Lin Jiaotou Fengxueshan Temple, Zhi ZhiSheng Gang, Wu Song Fighting Tiger and other passages, and when I read about the fall of the good men of Liangshan when I read the last forty conquests of the Liao Kingdom and the fall of The Square La, I also sighed and lamented the end of the hero.
In more than 30 years, my home has moved twice, and this set of books has always been in my collection. Although I am no longer obsessed with "Water Margin" when I grow up, I have always remembered the original intention when I read "Water Margin" as a teenager.
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