Chapter 8 - Treating Fish and Identifying Fish
In the old fish repair shop, Yuyou did two businesses in one morning and earned 280.
At 2 o’clock in the afternoon, a gust of wind bell rang, and three old men walked in one after another. They were all dressed in ordinary clothes, but their temperament was quite special.
“Three old gentlemen, is there anything that needs to be repaired?” Yu You asked.
The three paid no attention to the electrical appliances and parts in the counter, but looked at the aquarium fish in the aquarium with interest.
“This tiger-skin butterfly is so beautiful.”
“It’s a big Huadan rock perch, at least 70 centimeters.”
“There is still a dog head? Seawater dog heads are not common in the market, and they still look so straight.”
“These landscaping are also very particular, presumably from the hands of experts.”
“Strange, why are all seawater fish and no freshwater fish?”
An old man with white hair looked up at Yuyou: “Little boss, why don’t you have freshwater fish for sale in your store?”
Yuyou: “I run an electrical repair shop…”
The expressions of the three old men were stagnant for a moment, and then one of the old men in a vest said sadly: “What kind of electrical repair shop do you run? It’s just a waste of money, isn’t it bad to concentrate on raising fish?!”
“That’s right.” In the end, the tall and thin old man also echoed, “The quality of your fish alone is enough to make a little name in the flower and bird fish market, and it won’t hurt us to discover this shop today.”
Yuyou: “…” I’m so sorry that you missed it.
“Little boss.” The white-haired old man came to the counter, “Are all your ornamental fish raised by you?”
Yuyou nodded: “Yes.”
“Since you don’t open an aquarium shop, why do you keep so many ornamental fish?” Taking care of these ornamental fish requires a lot of money and a lot of energy. If it is not true love, ordinary people cannot have this patience.
Yuyou smiled and said, “I like raising fish.”
“That’s definitely not an ordinary liking.” The white-haired old man looked at her meaningfully.
“Little boss, do you know how to raise freshwater fish? For example, koi, red dragon.” The old man in the vest came over and asked.
“I know a little bit, but I’m not very good at it.” Goldfish, koi carp, and red dragon are the three most popular feng shui fish in the ornamental fish market. A feng shui fish of excellent quality is likely to sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. A few years ago, there was a blood red dragon that sold for a sky-high price of more than 6 million, causing a sensation in the entire ornamental fish market.
Compared with the symbolic feng shui fish, the price of ordinary ornamental fish is relatively common.
Yuyou’s ability also has a certain boosting effect on freshwater fish, but it is not as obvious as seawater fish.
“I have a violet red dragon. Recently, my appetite has been lost, and the color has become very dim. I have seen it at the veterinarian, but it still has no color. I wonder if you can do anything about it?”
The Ziyan Red Dragon is considered to be the more expensive species among the red dragons, and the lowest price is around 300,000. This old man’s exit is Ziyan Honglong, and his family must be quite wealthy.
“I haven’t seen the real thing, so it’s hard to make a judgment.” Yu You replied pertinently.
“Then let’s make an appointment, please come to my house to have a look.” The old man was quite eager.
Yuyou thought for a while, if it was before, she would definitely not go, but now, she needs to find someone to help with the demolition. Looking at the temperament of these three old people, it seems that they are not ordinary people, maybe they can provide her with some useful advice.
At this time, Yu You still didn’t know what kind of characters they were.
“Okay, how about the day after tomorrow?” Yuyou asked.
“No problem, I’ll send someone to pick you up at 9 am the day after tomorrow.” No matter if it works or not, the old man will let her try it.
“Little boss, how do you sell this dog head?” The tall and thin old man interjected when he saw that they had finished talking.
“Not for sale.” Yu You looked at him: unfortunately, you have no fate, this dog head only likes beautiful women.
“I will pay 3000!”
“30,000 won’t even sell.”
The tall and thin old man had to give up.
Immediately after the three left, someone secretly investigated the general situation of the old fish repair shop and Yuyou.
According to the data, the Laoyu repair shop has been operating for more than 30 years. The original owner and his wife were killed in an accident. The foster girl Yuyou gave up the postgraduate entrance examination and came back to inherit the shop. For the next few years, she took care of the maintenance shop and raised fish. Her fish are all old, weak, sick and disabled bought from other aquarium shops at low prices. After her treatment, most of them are back to health.
“Is it all sick fish?” The three old men were quite surprised. Looking at those ornamental fish, how could there be any sickness? Obviously they are all excellent fish species. It can be seen that the girl’s fish farming skills are indeed extraordinary.
Two days later, Yu You got into the car sent by the old man and headed to his residence.
The old man’s surname is “Xie”, and he lives in the Guanhai District of Yaoshan Mountain, known as the “Treasure Land of Feng Shui”.
Yuyou is not very concerned about Feng Shui, but he can also guess that the price here is expensive.
The car rolled up the mountain and slowly drove into a garden-style villa. The villa does not look surprising, but it is quiet and elegant, and it is quite ancient.
A servant opened the car door and led Yuyou into the villa.
Along the stone road, you pass a courtyard with a small pond in which a group of colorful koi fish are raised.
Entering the hall, Yuyou saw the huge fish tank on the right at a glance. Three red dragons and two golden dragons, each of which is in very good condition.
“Little boss, you are here.” Old Xie’s laughter came from the side.
Yuyou turned his head and found that the three old people he had met that day were all there, and he also saw an acquaintance – Lu Jingyi. Seeing him appear here, I suddenly understood why these three old people suddenly patronized her repair shop.
“Hello, three old gentlemen.” Yu You greeted politely.
Old Xie said warmly, “Don’t be cautious, just sit down.”
“Let’s look at the dragon fish first.” Yuyou walked slowly to the fish tank, and several others followed.
Xie Lao asked proudly: “How do you think my dragon fish?”
“Not bad.” No matter the feeding environment or the feeding method, they have done the best.
“Then please help me to find out what happened to that purple red dragon?” Xie Lao said, but did not specify which one it was. The three red dragons in the tank are all purplish red, but the color is different.
Yuyou raised her hand to the water and asked, “Do you mind?”
“You are free.” Xie Lao let her play freely.
Yuyou then put her finger into the water, gently sliding it, making a few circles of ripples. As if being summoned, the five dragon fish moved closer and circled and swam under her fingers.
This skill instantly stunned everyone present.
After dozens of seconds, Yu You retracted his hand and said, “Old Xie, these dragon fish are all healthy.”
Xie Lao calmly said: “You mean, they are all right?”
“I’m just saying, they’re healthy.”
Xie Lao looked at her puzzled.
“The factors that affect the healthy growth of dragon fish are not only diseases, but also emotions.” Yu You tapped the fish tank lightly, and several dragon fish immediately came over, spitting bubbles with their mouths open and closed.
“This purple-red dragon,” she pointed to the red dragon in the middle, “has it been frightened recently?”
“Scared?” Xie Lao pondered hard, but for a long time nothing happened to make it frightened.
At this time, Elder Wei on the side said, “Old Xie, when you changed the water in the fish tank before, didn’t your wrench accidentally hit the head of this dragon fish? Think about it, after that time, did this Is there something wrong with the dragon fish?”
“Hey!” Xie Lao patted his forehead and said suddenly, “If you don’t say, I almost forgot. I didn’t care at the time. After all, it wasn’t heavy. I thought it was all right. I didn’t expect Arowana to get angry.”
Yu You popular science said: “Generally speaking, there are several reasons for the arowana to be frightened, one is the noise, the second is the light intensity, the third is that there are too many people around, the fourth is that the water temperature is too different when changing the water, and the fifth is the There are other pets in the house, and the sixth is violent vibration. Once the dragon fish is frightened, their food intake will decrease, and even they will refuse to eat. After a long time, other symptoms will occur. Fortunately, you do not blindly use medicine, otherwise it is very likely Backfire.”
There was a flash of surprise in Xie Lao’s eyes, and she didn’t know how she saw that she didn’t take medicine.
“So, how should we appease their emotions?” Xie Lao asked for advice seriously, and he was quite convinced of Yuyou’s ability.
Yuyou asked, “Have you been fed today?”
“Not yet.”
“Can you feed me?”
“Of course.” Xie Lao hurriedly asked the servant to fetch fish food.
The food of arowana is mainly insects, frogs and small fish and shrimps. The annual food of an arowana costs nearly 10,000 yuan.
Yuyou took the food box handed over by the servant, which contained small fish and shrimp. She grabbed a small shrimp and put it into the fish tank, and five arowanas immediately swam over to fight for it.
She deliberately avoided the angry dragon fish and fed all the food to the other four dragon fish. After a few times, the arowana finally became anxious, changed its slack appearance before, and began to swim faster, fending off other arowanas aggressively. After a few minutes, it finally managed to “grab” the food, and was not in a hurry to eat it. , but bit its trophy and circled the fish tank happily, as if to show off his majesty.
“Haha…” Elder Xie couldn’t help but laugh.
Yuyou handed the food box to Elder Xie and smiled, “It should be fine.”
Xie Lao gave her a thumbs up: “Amazing.”
Several others were also convinced. The problem was solved in just a few tens of minutes, and the casualness of lifting weights completely subverted their cognition of fish farming.
“Haha, no wonder Lu Jingyi specially introduced you to Lao Wei, you are indeed a master.” The so-called knowledge of the book, if you have the real ability, you will know it immediately.
Old Xie greeted Yu You to take a seat, and glanced at Lu Jingyi with a smile.
“Elder Xie has won the prize.” Yu You turned his head to look at Lu Jingyi who was sitting beside her. The latter looked calm, as if the “Lu Jingyi” in Lao Xie’s mouth was not him.
“Xiaoyu, do you think there is anything else I need to pay attention to?”
“Xie Laoyang’s dragon fish is healthy and in excellent condition. I have no extra suggestions in this regard.”
“Speaking of appearance,” Wei Lao said, “could you introduce the appearance of these dragon fish in detail?”
The question is sober, and I wonder if she has any novel insights.
Yuyou said slowly: “To evaluate the appearance of an arowana, we mainly look at ‘shape’, ‘state’, ‘beard’, ‘mouth’, ‘eyes’, ‘fins’, ‘scales’ and ‘color’ On the one hand, Xie Lao’s three purple arowanas have a well-proportioned body, a good posture, a sharp eye, a moderate length of dragon whiskers, large and powerful fins, red and purple scales, deep and dark light, and they have their own domineering domineering. The golden dragon is a bit inferior, both in size and color, it is not as good as the three red dragons. If you want to score, the three purple and red dragons can be rated 6.5 points, and the golden dragon is 5 points.”
“What? You can only rate 6.5 points for that kind of appearance?” Qiao Lao looked surprised.
“The scales of the three red dragons are not wide enough, the scale frame is not clear enough, the layers are not clear enough, and the color is dark.
The three old men are silent: the small supernatural is only 6.5 points, what will the big supernatural look like? Boss, are your requirements too high? !
“Xiaoyu, can you find a better dragon fish?” Qiao Lao asked eagerly.
“Sorry, I run a maintenance shop and don’t sell fish.”
That kind of heart-wrenching feeling reappeared in the hearts of the three old men: You obviously have a breeding expertise, but you have to go to a blacksmith shop to strike iron, won’t your conscience hurt? An arowana can sell for tens of millions, how much can you make for repairing an electrical appliance? !
Wei Lao retreated: “Then we will buy fish in the future, can we ask you for help?”
“That’s fine.” As long as it doesn’t delay her learning techniques, everything else is easy to say.
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