Chapter 318 Encountering a strange fish in the reservoir
An ornamental fish.
That’s just a few categories.
Marine fish, freshwater fish, tropical fish, goldfish, koi.
Now in mainland China, in more remote places like theirs, goldfish and koi are the main fish.
These two types of ornamental fish tend to command high prices.
As for betta fish and the like, because there are many locally and there is no shortage of these things, they seem to be very worthless.
"Brother, please give me a few of these koi and goldfish, and catch them in pairs."
Chen Ling pointed to some low-priced fish in the fish tank. The fish said.
The boss was a fair, bookish, middle-aged man wearing glasses. After Chen Ling came in, he just sat on a wicker chair and read the newspaper.
Only when Chen Ling asked for a price, he simply quoted the price. He didn't say much else and didn't seem to be enthusiastic.
At this time, Chen Ling wanted to buy fish, but he just responded with a neither salty nor bland answer, and slowly put it in a plastic bag for him.
I didn’t even ask him if he wanted a fish tank or fish feed.
In short, there are very few words.
The boss caught fish for him, and Chen Ling looked around at his small aquarium.
This store is spacious and bright, and is built in a sunny location. When the store door is opened, warm sunlight will shine in.
In the middle is a huge Feng Shui stone.
The Feng Shui stones are carved into steep peaks with waterfalls flowing above and small pools below.
In the small pool are fish and turtles, as well as some aquatic plants and lotus leaves.
Behind the small water pool is a small bamboo bridge, thirty centimeters wide and narrow, which is just a decoration.
Below is the flowing water.
That is the koi fish pond.
Very artistic.
Behind the wall of the store are rows of transparent glass fish tanks.
There are colorful ornamental fish inside, swimming around with the sound of splashing water.
After the sunlight shines in, the fish tank becomes brighter, the fish are swimming, and the golden light and shadow on the ground sway, giving people the illusion of sparkling waves.
Very beautiful.
Chen Ling turned around and watched, then walked to the small bamboo bridge with fish food in hand, squatting to feed the koi.
I have to say, these koi carp are just beautiful. They are swimming in groups in the water, and they are even more beautiful than the floating brocade.
As soon as people come to feed them, they swim over in unison.
Feed the fish here for a while and watch the beautiful koi, and your mood will get better unconsciously.
"Brother, don't you have any golden arowanas here?"
When the boss fished the fish for Chen Ling to pack, Chen Ling asked.
"No."
The boss shook his head, sat back on the wicker chair, and looked back at him: "That Arowana has just started, so I haven't figured it out clearly enough to know the price."
Chen Ling nodded: "I don't think this kind of fish is sold in the market here."
"Well, this fish is abundant in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, but it has not spread to us. It is said that one fish is of good quality. A top-quality arowana can be sold for more than 30,000 yuan. "
Speaking of fish, this man answers every question, but he doesn't smile. He's pretty decent. Maybe that's just his personality.
But Chen Ling doesn't care about such minutiae.
“Is it so expensive?”
He pretended to be surprised.
Although he didn't know much about dragon fish, he also knew that the blood-red dragon had been sold for tens of millions in later generations.
It’s just that I don’t know what is good, what is good, and the specific market conditions.
"It's very expensive. But the koi is not bad either, and the better ones cost tens of thousands..."
The boss rubbed his eyes, yawned, and lazily handed it to Chen Ling Yiyi, a graphic magazine, said, "Take a look at last year's magazine. It has the prices of these ornamental fishes."
Chen Ling took it in his hand, put the bag of fish in the pool, floated it, and looked through it.
This is a magazine from 1995.
The publication in Guangdong Province said that by 1995, almost every household in the capital city of Guangdong Province had a fish tank, and the ornamental fish market was expanding rapidly there.
The ornamental fish in the mainland are not comparable to those in developed coastal cities.
Especially Koi, as the star ornamental fish in the past two years, although it has been outshone by the rising star Arowana in the past two years, there are also varieties worth tens of thousands of dollars.
In addition to koi, goldfish are also highlighted.
The specific introduction is nothing more than that most goldfish species are accidentally cultivated.
Many types of goldfish, such as lion heads, were originally disabled fish that appeared during selective breeding.
It later became a very popular category.
This is somewhat similar to the later pet cats and dogs.
All expensive pets have some genetic disease or something.
In addition, what surprised Chen Ling the most was that an inconspicuous "little miscellaneous fish" was also posted in a prominent position.
This kind of small miscellaneous fish has a wide and flat belly. They call it copper plate fish, and its scientific name is "big fish". Most of them are only three to five centimeters long, so they are very small.
Because the fish tastes bad, the fish meat has a bitter taste, and the belly is dark, full of dirt, and fishy, so few people eat it, and they throw it away when they see it.
But it was said in the magazine that a few years ago, the Emperor of the Little Devils specially sent people to Taihu Lake in China to look for this kind of fish.
Because this fish is colorful and beautiful in fish tanks, it has been called the Chinese Rainbow abroad.
"Mom, I caught a small fish in the village that is just for chickens and ducks, and the little devil's emperor is treated as a treasure."
Hearing Chen Ling mutter, the boss rarely smiled "Those little devils, you don't expect them to do anything serious." Chen Ling looked down carefully and saw that the Japanese Emperor was an expert on ornamental fish.
The following introduction explains that Chinese koi were introduced to Japan, and many high-end varieties were developed and gradually spread to the world.
Although most of this short article was probably true, the introduction of the article and the meaning it expounded made Chen Ling frown and feel a little uncomfortable.
Seeing this, the boss smiled again: "Nowadays, some people just admire foreign things, so don't worry about them."
Chen Ling shook his head and smiled.
"Brother, you are well-informed. Have you ever seen a red eel? Its whole body is bright red, and a pair of whiskers on its mouth can grow to two feet long..."
"Red eel? Still growing whiskers?"
The boss was stunned and looked at him with a frown: "Only loaches have beards. Where do eels have beards?"
"Yes, I know that eels don't have beards. Isn't this a red eel?" Maybe it’s different from other eels. The color of this fish is weird, and it’s not impossible to have a pair of long whiskers.”
Eels look like snakes without whiskers, while loaches have five whiskers. right.
Most people who have caught these two kinds of fish know this.
“Red eel, a pair of barbels, I have never seen what you are talking about. I have seen white eel.”
The boss frowned even more. White eels, also known as river eels, are quite different from this situation.
Furthermore, if an eel has long whiskers, is it still an eel?
"Brother, what price do you think this kind of red eel would cost if sold as an ornamental fish?"
Chen Ling thought for a while, took out a photo from his pocket, and handed it over to He looked.
This was taken by Han Ninggui and the others. Chen Ling kept a few pictures in the thatched house in Dongtian for emergencies.
"Oh, there really is such an eel."
At this time, P-picture technology had not yet spread. The boss believed it as soon as he saw it. He held up the photo and looked at it again and again in the sun, "Don't say, It's quite beautiful, with small black eyes the size of rice grains, red all over, and long and thin. It's much prettier than ordinary goldfish..."
"There aren't many red eels like this, are there? "
"It's not much, I just caught two. Seeing the beautiful color, I haven't been willing to throw them away."
Chen Ling responded, if there are more, they will definitely be worthless. How can I do that? Say more.
Moreover, Han Ninggui and the others have also cultivated this thing, and now it is only kept among them, and it has not yet leaked out.
He is asking now.
"Brother, if you want it, I will send it to you in two days."
"Is it guaranteed to survive if I send it here?"
"I must guarantee that I can survive." Live, don’t worry about this. I won’t send it to you if you die.”
"Okay, but I've never seen this red eel before. So the price of this fish..."
"I won't go into detail about the price yet."
Chen Ling smiled: "You pay I’ll give you a rough price.”
“Around two thousand a piece? I’ll give you the price when I see the fish.”
Chen Ling said yes. I don’t expect these fish to be sold for more than 10,000 yuan.
He immediately said no more, paid and left.
But when he left, the boss gave him a business card.
The name is Du Guanghe.
Chen Ling walked to a deserted place and took a look. The card was ordinary and he put it away together with the pairs of ornamental fish he bought in the store.
This flower, bird, insect and fish market occupies a relatively large position.
Ordinary fish stalls are set up one after another, including small goldfish, loaches, crabs, river mussels, various large and small turtles, and some small black salamanders. Everything is very cheap, and Du Guanghe The store looks completely different.
Although the fish at these stalls are ordinary, they are more lively.
Chen Ling walked around and bought something that Dongtian didn’t have, such as a finger-sized giant salamander.
These small salamanders and the cave fish are not the same thing.
“Huh? Sister, what kind of fish is this?”
Chen Ling was carrying two bags of fish fry and turtle fry. When he walked to a stall, he was suddenly stunned because the large iron basin on the fish stall contained several strange-looking fish.
These strange fish were about thirty centimeters long. They were devoid of phosphorus, looked more ferocious than catfish, and were smooth as if they had bone armor. They immediately reminded him of the huge water monster he encountered in the reservoir.
"This, this is a sturgeon, fished from the river. If you want it, it will be cheaper for you."
The fat black woman is wearing a straw hat and black glue. Shoes smiled heartily.
“Sturgeon, is it the Chinese sturgeon?”
Chen Ling's mind flashed with lightning, and he suddenly understood something.
It is said that Chinese sturgeons can grow to very large sizes without natural enemies.
The huge strange fish in the reservoir outside the village might be a Chinese sturgeon that accidentally swam there.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about. Others say it’s sturgeon, so we just follow suit.” The stall owner said.
“How much does this sturgeon cost?”
"Two hundred yuan, I'll give it to you, do you want it?"
Seeing Chen Ling frown, the eldest sister hurriedly said: "Don't think it's a little lethargic, just worry about not being able to feed it. This fish is usually normal." It’s just for eating. I’ll kill it and stew it in a pot. It’s very delicious.”
This lady actually doesn’t charge much for the price. To be honest, most of the sturgeon is just for eating. A pound of sturgeon in first-tier cities costs at least two hundred yuan.
Having said that, these sturgeons are actually still fry, 20 to 30 centimeters long, which is very small among sturgeons. The thin fry have only a few ounces of meat, and the total of five fish is not much. It must be a pound.
And I don’t know where these fish were caught. Two of them were listless and didn’t move much. Chen Ling patted the basin hard twice before they started to swim slowly.
Because Chen Ling was worried about the strange fish in the reservoir, he was too lazy to bargain too much with the elder sister, and finally bought the five sturgeons for 150 yuan.
(End of this chapter)