Falling Flowers Poetry Album

The stall owner saw that Zhu Dafu and the others had all chosen goods that were obviously fake at a glance. Such things were clearly worth very little. Even if the four people's selections were added together, they would not amount to a hundred yuan, which left him feeling extremely displeased.

Just then, he saw Chu Chen flipping through several books, seemingly rather interested. He hurriedly said to Chu Chen, "Little brother, those few items are only sold as a bundle."

The reason he said they had to be sold as a bundle was that he wanted to make a little more money from Chu Chen. Of course, it did not matter if Chu Chen refused to buy them. Genuine goods like these were not difficult for him to sell.

"Sold as a bundle?" Chu Chen had never encountered such a thing before, and found it somewhat amusing.

"That's right!"

"How much?"

The stall owner thought for a moment and said, "Eight hundred for all of them."

There were only ten ancient books in total. Chu Chen had already looked through the first five, all of them ordinary woodblock-printed books from the late Qing to the end of the Qing dynasty. The remaining five probably would not be any better. He certainly had no interest in paying eight hundred yuan for such things. Rather than that, he might as well choose something cheaper.

However, just as he was about to refuse, he noticed that the seventh ancient book was actually a leaf album.

A leaf album was a form of mounting for calligraphy and painting, as well as one of the traditional formats used in ancient Chinese bookbinding. Calligraphy-and-painting albums emerged during the Song dynasty under the influence of book-album binding. As a type of small-scale calligraphy or painting, they