Both father and son sneered in their hearts, originally Meng Shuliang felt that Wei San would call over, and he didn't have any good intentions, but now it seems that he just wants to sell this deformed Arowana to himself.

It's just that Meng Shuliang thinks this fish is too ugly, and he really doesn't like it, so of course he can't buy it. Meng Zitao, on the other hand, doesn't like this kind of deformed fish, and he doesn't want to be the object of the baton, so he won't be a mallet.

So, Meng Shuliang shook his head directly: "To be honest, I really don't like Lao Wei, what kind of Arowana you are, it's too ugly, just like a person with a hunchback." ”

"How can this be called a high back is a hunchback, and it's obviously beautiful, don't you think about it?" Wei Sanjiang was a little anxious: "If you want, I'll give you a cheaper." ”

"No, I really can't appreciate this fish. ”

Meng Shuliang looked at General Wei and said with a smile: "And to be honest, this doesn't seem to be your style!"

General Wei immediately changed his expression: "Old Meng, you have the heart of a villain to live the belly of a gentleman, is it possible that with our friendship for many years, it is a problem for me to give you a little cheaper?"

Meng Zitao smiled: "No problem, the key is that I really don't want to buy this kind of arowana." ”

"Okay, okay, forget if you're dissatisfied. Wei Sanjiang's tone was a little unhappy.

At this time, Meng Zitao spoke: "Uncle Wei, why did you raise so many small brocade lithium?"

Meng Zitao is talking about another large fish tank, which has dozens of ornamental brocade lithium, but the length is relatively small, it is estimated that it is only about ten centimeters, and the longest is not more than fifteen centimeters.

Wei San came to his senses: "Oh, this is what my friend picked, they are all koi fish after the second selection, they are all very good koi, do you want to choose a few to raise at home, maybe you can raise the champion fish in our city?"

Meng Shuliang said angrily: "I said that I won't take you to fool people like this, and the champion fish have come out, if it is really a champion fish, you won't raise it yourself!"

Wei San spread his hands and said: "But I don't raise koi, otherwise I would be reluctant to sell them! These are all my friends who temporarily put them here for the time being, and they will be taken away in two days, do you want to buy a few, they are very cheap." ”

"Uncle Wei, are you sure these are the koi fish that came out of the second selection?" Meng Zitao asked pretending to be curious.

"Of course. General Wei Sanjiang left a way back for himself, and added a sentence later: "At least that's what my friend told me." ”

Meng Zitao said: "But the koi fish selected for the second selection are not all about 15 centimeters." ”

In fact, the so-called second choice, is a stage in the process of koi cultivation, after all, koi fish is an ornamental fish, the price of the high sale must be good-looking, so it is necessary to gradually select the fish, generally speaking, koi fish from the fry, will go through five selection process.

After about a month of rearing, the koi fry can grow to about 5 cm, and then the koi fry can be selected.

The first selection is based on the overall view of the fry, which is normal and free of defects. Observe whether the koi fry are strong and swim lively, whether the spine of the fish body is straight, whether there are deformities and defects in each fin, and whether the characteristics of the species are obvious.

The second pick went further than the first. It is necessary to select a koi fish with bright and bright body color, clear markings and distinctive species characteristics, and the fins of the key parts should be beautiful, the pectoral fins and head shapes are symmetrical, and the eyes, snouts, and tentacles are not deformed.

After the third selection, most of the fry have been eliminated, at this time the basic characteristics of the koi fish are particularly obvious, the white background is particularly pure white, the red spot edge is clear, the black spot is evenly shaded, the markings are symmetrical, and the proportion of each fin is appropriate, so the three selections are left after the better koi fish.

After the fourth selection, there are not many koi fish left, and they are all high-quality fish, and then they can be sold all over the country.

The fifth selection is to select the best of the best and take the fish to participate in the competition.

To put it simply, just like a beauty pageant, from the beginning of the qualifiers all the way to the finals, the top few are finally decided.

"This little deflated three, a bad stomach, since you know, you still ask me!"

Wei San scolded in his stomach, and then pretended to be surprised: "Ah, there is still this statement? I don't know much about koi, and I really don't know very well." I'll give you a call to find out. ”

As he spoke, he walked not far away and picked up his mobile phone to make a call.

Meng Zitao pursed his lips, his hearing was already much higher than that of ordinary people, how could he not hear that there was no sound in Wei Sanjiang's mobile phone, it was clearly just pretending.

After a while, General Wei walked back and said apologetically: "It's my friend's son who shipped the wrong fish, and he is willing to sell it cheaper, the small one is fifteen, the big one is twenty, if you like it, just buy a few, it's already very cheap." ”

Meng Zitao smiled: "Uncle Wei, let's not talk about it, I'll buy some for five yuan a piece, and I'll buy all three yuan a piece." ”

General Wei San shook his head again and again and said no: "No, no, no, how can I sell it at this price, my friend has to scold me to death!"

Meng Zitao said with a smile: "It's just some 'earth cannons', and the price is already okay." ”

The earth cannon is actually a koi fish, but the koi fish that have not had much ornamental value and have been eliminated or killed are familiar with the "earth cannon".

As for why these "earth cannons" will be sold, it is because the elimination rate of commercial koi is very high, a koi fish of 80 or 90 centimeters can carry 7.8 million eggs, and the hatching rate can produce about 4.5 million splashes based on 80%.

The splash grows to 5 cm, after the initial screening (a selection) to die off nearly 60% of the fry, after a selection can only leave about 5% of the fry (about 8000), the 8000 fry can leave 500 after the second selection, 30 after the third selection, and may not be left after the fourth selection.

The real value in the whole process is the 500 fry selected by the second selection, so the profit generated by these 500 fish is greater than the cost of the small million fish, so that the fishery can continue to operate. You said that leaving 500 fish was stressful.

Therefore, this is also the reason why the koi fish in the market ornamental fish, an ordinary one, as little as 350 yuan a piece, more than 100 yuan, thousands of yuan abound.

And in order to recover as much cost as possible, it is normal for those "soil cannons" that are screened out to be sold at the time of screening.

Seeing that Meng Zitao actually knew about the "earth cannon", General Wei San was so angry that he almost scolded his mother, you know that it is an "earth cannon", just say no, what are you doing around the bush.

Therefore, General Wei Sanjiang no longer pretended, and directly began to bargain: "There are good and bad earth cannons, your price is too cheap, in this way, if you buy them all, count it as five yuan a piece, otherwise the small one is eight yuan, the big one is ten yuan, and it will not work if it is low." ”

This price was very acceptable to Meng Zitao, so he nodded and said, "Then I'll buy them all." ”

"Okay!" Wei Sanjiang's face bloomed with joy.

Meng Shuliang frowned, but didn't say anything.

Subsequently, everyone transported the fish to Meng Zitao's parents, because there were too many fish, the glass fish tank at home was too small to fit, so they were put in the bathtub first.

After settling the money, Wei San and his wife left happily.

"I said Xiao Tao, why are you buying so many fish, you are going to open a shop to sell fish!" Shu Ping had a lot of opinions about Meng Zitao buying so many koi, and now that everyone is gone, he can't help but complain.

"Yes, if you want to buy a little koi, forget it, what are you doing with these selected ones?" Meng Shuliang was also a little puzzled, but he believed that his son could not trade at a loss, so he was waiting for his son to explain.

Meng Zitao said with a smile: "Of course I can't be so stupid, as for buying so much, it's because I don't want to get into trouble, I'll keep it a secret first, and after a few months, you should know." As for the effect, think of my Arowana. ”

Meng Zitao's words surprised both of them, and Meng Shuliang said, "You don't mean that you can raise these top koi?"

Meng Zitao said with a smile: "I can't say if I can become the top koi, anyway, the worst should be able to sell for 10,000 yuan a tail." ”

In fact, the koi fish that cost 10,000 yuan a tail are just an ordinary breed in the high-end koi market, and the price of the most expensive koi in the world can be as much as 20 million! Meng Zitao is fully confident that he can breed these koi into top breeds.

Some people may ask, why did Meng Zitao think of raising koi, and why did he have the confidence to raise koi, did he rely on spiritual fluid?

This is obviously impossible, the reason why he thought of raising koi is entirely because of Mr. Jiahua, Mr. Jiahua's favorite is to raise fish, and later because of the practice of the Nine Dragon Sutra, he raised carp, the reason is not difficult to guess, carp jumped the dragon gate, since the dragon can no longer be found, then try to raise carp.

Of course, Mr. Jiahua does not have the ability to turn carp into dragons, and there is no Jackie Chan for the carp he raises, but he has summed up a set of experience and methods in cultivating carp, and has successfully cultivated colorful carp, which is much stronger than some of the top koi fish respected by Dongying people.

In addition, Mr. Jia Hua also found that after putting the carp and Molongyu he raised together, through some methods, they can achieve a complementary effect, and the carp will be more spiritual, not to mention, the quality of Molongyu will also be improved.

It's just that Mr. Jiahua's method should be useless now, because in the process, the aura between heaven and earth must be transferred, but Meng Zitao has the spiritual liquid, maybe it can be replaced?

For Meng Zitao, this is a non-loss-making experiment, it is good to be successful, even if it can't be successful, it can also raise some top koi fish. Don't Dongying people like koi, and they have a lot of money, such as the Loulan worth 20 million, which died not long after buying it back. He was fully confident that he would get more money from the hands of the Dongying people.