Chapter 241 Academic Significance
The moment Wei Kang recognized Zhang Zi'an, he instinctively looked at the two cats beside Zhang Zi'an, his heartbeat suddenly became extremely violent, and even his fingers, which were extremely stable when making specimens, began to tremble slightly. He ignored www.biquge.info Linqing lion cat with obvious features, and stared at the golden one, contrasting it with the modern Egyptian cat and the cat in the ancient Egyptian murals he had seen.
He was pretty sure that it was a primitive Egyptian cat that had long since gone extinct!
Whether it is the body size or coat color, as well as the fascinating scarab lines on the forehead, especially the squatting posture of looking at everything, it is like a primitive Egyptian cat that passed through ancient Egypt for two or three thousand years and is accustomed to being worshipped by thousands of people!
Ignoring the surprised gazes of the others, he threw away the professor's demeanor and trotted over with his legs outstretched, eager to get a closer look at this living fossil in the history of biology.
Boom!
He had just run a few steps when he bumped into Zhang Zi'an head-on.
"Teacher Wei, long time no see. Why did you meet you here?" Zhang Zi'an greeted politely, and at the same time blocked Fina with his body, no matter whether Wei Kang dodged left or right, there was no way to bypass him.
"Okay, let's talk later, let me see your cat first. Wei Kang's eyes could not tolerate anything else at this time, and his mind was completely occupied by the primitive Egyptian cat.
"No, no, no, let's talk first, because this friend of yours wants to get my cat out. Zhang Zian pointed at Lu Mingyi and said. He saw Wei Kang and Lu Mingyi come out together, and guessed that the guest that the employee was talking about just now was Wei Kang.
"What? Get out? No, no, this can't work!" Wei Kang was anxious when he heard this, and the green tendons on his head popped out.
"Ahem!" Lu Mingyi was completely confused, and didn't understand why Professor Wei suddenly lost his temper, so he had to cough dryly, "Professor Wei, what's going on? You know? Can you introduce me?"
He looked at Zhang Zi'an curiously, and secretly guessed in his heart how this young man was related to Professor Wei - not quite like a teacher and a student, because judging from the interaction between the two of them, Zhang Zi'an seemed to have a higher status......
"My name is Zhang Zi'an, and I own a pet shop in Binhai City. Zhang Zi'an briefly introduced himself.
"Oh, I'm the boss here, Lu Mingyi. I don't know what Mr. Zhang is doing here?" Lu Mingyi said, and looked at Guo Dongyue who was standing on the side, but Guo Dongyue didn't plan to introduce himself.
"Your employee was right, we're here to buy birds. Zhang Zi'an still stopped Wei Kang, "but he said that we can't bring the cat in, we have to leave the cat outside." ”
Lu Mingyi smiled apologetically, "Mr. Zhang, you also know that it is the nature of cats to eat birds, if you let your cat in, in case of an accident, you and I will not look good...... It's better to be like this, Mr. Zhang, these two cats are probably famous cats, I asked my staff to help you watch outside, and I guarantee that you can't lose ......"
He waved to the employee and motioned to come over. In his mind, the most expensive cat is nothing more than tens of thousands of yuan, and it should be no problem to send a special person to watch it for you, right? This is still based on the face of Zhang Zi'an and Professor Wei, otherwise, Lu Mingyi would not be so easy to speak.
Zhang Zi'an didn't express any objections, and Wei Kang jumped out first.
"No!" Wei Kang said incoherently excitedly, waving his arms to strengthen his momentum, "You can't stay outside!
Lu Mingyi was stunned, waved his hand to ask the staff to stop first, and asked, "Professor Wei, it's just two cats, why do you want to do this? If you want, I'll buy you a few of the same ones to come back......
"How many of the same ones?" Wei Kang interrupted him, his chest rising and falling violently, almost hysterically, "Do you know how precious this cat is?
"How is that possible?" Lu Mingyi looked at the two cats he had just ignored in surprise. He runs a bird breeding base, and he is a bird enthusiast, and birds and cats are incompatible, so he doesn't have a good impression of cats, and he doesn't know the types of cats, but he just thinks these two cats are beautiful, and he doesn't understand why Professor Wei attaches so much importance to these two cats.
"How is it impossible?" Wei Kang asked loudly, "All the birds you have here are not as valuable as this cat!" he pointed at Fina, "It's not the price, it's the value!"
Fina accepted Weikang's praise calmly, because she felt that this was the case, and that the birds of the world combined were not worth as much as it, even the people of the world combined. When the snow lion heard Fina being praised like this, although it was not praising itself, it also felt honored and puffed up its chest proudly.
Lu Mingyi listened to it with half a doubt, he knew that Wei Kang was a very old-fashioned person, he easily did not reveal his feelings, he never joked, and such a gaffe was a unique thing, so emotionally speaking, he tended to believe Wei Kang's words.
But if rationally speaking, he is still skeptical, just a cat can compare with the total value of tens of thousands of birds he has here? You must know that many of the birds he has here are extremely rare and rare, and they are all obtained at high prices through various legal or illegal channels, and a cat, no matter how precious and rare, is just a cat.
Wei Kang and Lu Mingyi have been together for a long time, and from the change in the expression on his face, he understood his thoughts, smiled, and said, "Mr. Lu, do you know what kind of cat this cat is?"
"I don't understand cats. Lu Mingyi replied frankly.
"Even if you know, you don't know. Wei Kang sighed, "This cat is a primitive Egyptian cat, a species that was thought to have been extinct in the academic circles, do you understand its significance now? As long as its genes are extracted, and then compared with the genes of modern domestic cats and wild cats one by one, a big problem that has plagued the academic community for a long time can be solved -- whether the place of origin of domestic cats is ancient Egypt, or the fertile crescent of the two river basins, or some other ......."
Zhang Zi'an was quite happy to hear this, and felt that his face was bright, but when he heard this, he was almost scared to pee! It turned out that this little old man surnamed Wei was a thief, and he still had the idea of using Fina as an experimental subject! Although the reason put forward by Wei Kang was very high, Zhang Zi'an could not agree to this point anyway.
On the other hand, Lu Mingyi was dumbfounded when he heard it, he never expected that this golden cat would have such a big background, fortunately he didn't send someone to forcibly drive the cat out just now, otherwise once it was exposed by the media and the Internet, his phoenix song aviary would have to close its doors......