Chapter 90: Arowana (I)
The "dragon" is a symbol of the spirit of the Chinese nation. It carries strength, hope and the Chinese's vision of a better life. Since ancient times, our nation has called itself the "descendant of the dragon".
Dragon culture is an important source and part of the Chinese culture, and has a profound impact on the development of China's culture. This influence permeates all levels of Chinese society. People worship the dragon in a totemic manner, and do everything possible to concretize and vivid the image of the dragon, people are constantly guessing, constantly searching, and finally created a lion head, antlers, fish scales, chicken claws...... of aggregates.
If you don't think it's clear enough, you may be amazed by its huge, glittering scales and its majesty when you first see the prehistoric creatures that grow in the pristine tropical lakes of Southeast Asia!
At this point, you'll be sure to blurt out that it's the legendary dragon. Since the discovery of this prehistoric creature, it has been the object of human scramble. Locals say that as long as you have it at home, you will bring good luck to yourself and your family, and you will be blessed with many long lives, prosperous financial luck, ward off disasters and avoid dangers, and all wishes will come true...... Moreover, the locals gave it a loud and apt name - Arowana!
So when Zhang Yun saw it for the first time, he was deeply attracted by the dragonfish.
Hearing that he was going to raise Arowana, Calvin introduced it to Zhang Yun.
According to the appearance and morphology of Arowana, scholars divide Arowana into: Golden Arowana, Orange Red Arowana, Golden Arowana, Platinum Arowana, Green Dragon and Silver Dragon.
Among them, the most valuable is the golden arowana, and the cheapest is the silver arowana. The perfect Arowana should keep a pair of dragon whiskers straight and neat. Although the damage can be regenerated, it is difficult to ensure that it will grow as expected.
This requires a large aquarium, and not the average person has a place to breed. Fortunately, Zhang Yun himself ordered a large aquarium.
Calvin's shop only has the most common silver Arowana and blue Arowana. It's not that he doesn't want to enter the good ones, but the good arowana is expensive, and there are not a few tens of thousands. There are only so many people in the town that no one would buy such good fish.
Hearing this price, Zhang Yun was speechless, he didn't expect that there would be such an expensive pet in the world. He thought that macaws were expensive enough, but he didn't expect that arowana would be about the same. Moreover, the price of arowana is mainly based on color, as well as the body shape, dragon whiskers, eyes, top of head, mouth, scales, gills, and pectoral fin, dorsal fin, anal fin and tail fin. The price of a beautiful and good-looking fish is expensive, and the price of ordinary arowana is cheap. The difference can reach more than ten times.
And these can all be said to be appearances.
The speaker has no intention, the listener has a heart, and one of the things Zhang Yun has always been most proud of is that he can raise parrots very well. Full of spirit, lively and lovely, with a shrewd energy.
Everyone who sees a parrot can't help but give a thumbs up, thinking that they have never seen such a great parrot.
Since he can raise parrots so well, then the same can be done with arowana. If he can raise an ordinary Arowana well, there will be more than ten times the price difference. In the past, he spent 10,000 yuan to buy Arowana fry, which may bring him hundreds of thousands of benefits.
Zhang Yun immediately decided to buy Arowana fry, and it was the most expensive Arowana. The majestic and graceful posture of the golden dragon on the back, the wide scales, the blue background, and the brilliant gold frame show the awe-inspiring and inviolable heroic style of the golden armor warrior. The pure gold on its gill cover reveals a gorgeous and rich atmosphere. It's crazy at first sight.
Calvin had a look of embarrassment on his face and said, "Zhang, you don't want to buy such a good one." In fact, if you just raise it for fun, ordinary silver Arowana, star Arowana, and blue Arowana are enough. These fish are also very beautiful. ”
"No, I checked the information about Arowana, and at present, the red Arowana and the over-backed Arowana are worth investing in!"
"If you invest, you have chosen the dorsal Arowana and the red Arowana, which is indeed easy to get more returns, but it is also risky. I've dealt in these two types of fish before, but unfortunately I lost a lot. Once something goes wrong, it's easy to lose all your money. ”
Zhang Yun is very confident in himself, he has the trick of controlling beasts, since he can raise parrots well, Arowana is also not a problem. Insist on wanting to buy a few. Arowana fry are still relatively cheap, and even if he loses money, he can afford to lose money.
People have money to spend as much as they want, but they can't control it. Calvin had no choice but to let him follow him to XN to buy it. The price of over-the-back Arowana is not a problem, if you want to choose a good one, in addition to going to the fishing ground by yourself, you can only go straight to the XN flower market in XN as usual, and the flowers, birds, fish and insects are not separated, so these things are actually in the flower market.
The flower market is divided into four sections: the aquarium, the bird market, flowers, plants, and pets. Zhang Yun had only visited the bird market and pets before, and had never been to the aquarium yet.
As soon as he entered it, he was dazzled. There are almost all kinds of pet fish here. There are all kinds of tropical fish, warm water fish, and some exotic fish. As for other ancillary products, such as fish food, bait, aquariums, filter media, tank water pumps, there are also many of them.
There are also some relatively large shops that sell relatively expensive ornamental fish, such as arowana and koi. In order to attract customers, it can be said that everything is done, and one store, which was originally the location of the window, was directly converted into a large four-meter-long aquarium with several sharks in it. So that everyone who sees it has a second look, and there are not a few people who stay next to the aquarium and take pictures.
Calvin took him in for a stroll, which contained multiple fish tanks and aquariums. A variety of graceful arowanas swim around, pleasing to the eye. Some are small fry, and there are mature arowana more than half a meter long, giving people an elegant and luxurious feeling.
In a ground tank in the corner, there are more than a dozen large koi fish that are nearly one meter long, which are very beautiful.
Calvin pointed to the Arowana inside and commented on them one by one. "The golden dragon is divided into five grades according to the grade, but if it is divided according to the color, there are more. The background color of this golden-headed arowana is purple, so it is called purple-bottomed gold-headed, in addition, there are blue-bottomed, gold-bottomed, colorful and classical, etc., and in order to sell for more money, fishmersmen will rename the body shape and color slightly different, what big gold, small gold, 24k, cannonballs and so on. ……”
Let Zhang Yun roughly understand the quality of Arowana. When asked what kind of fry he was going to choose, Zhang Yun said that he would only buy small fry, and the worse ones would do, not the good ones.
Calvin was almost out of breath by him, and you told me only after I introduced you to this for a long time. Since he wanted to buy small fish fry, Calvin took him around, and finally came to a store that was not in a good location.
It is already close to the bird market, and you can hear the chirping of birds. Usually those who come to buy fish have already bought fish from the front, and those who come here occasionally either go to the bird market to see the birds, or they are dazzled, and they don't know what kind of good to choose. Rarely will buy.
"This isn't Calvin, why are you free to come to me?"
After entering, the boss gave Kevin a warm hug, a tall, thin man in his forties.
"Zhang, let me introduce you to you, this is the boss Fast Scott, you can call him Scott. This is Zhang Yun, a local tyrant in my town, ready to buy a few Arowana. ”
Scott shook hands with Zhang Yun. "Welcome, welcome, whatever you want. Calvin and I are old friends, and since he introduced you, I'll give you a wholesale price today. ”
Calvin smiled and said, "You old boy, when I came to buy something, you didn't give me a wholesale price." Otherwise, who will buy from you? ”
Zhang Yun understood that Scott was Calvin's supplier, and everything in his store came from here.
Zhang Yun noticed that there was a sign hanging outside, and asked, "Your store is not doing well, how did you think of renting it?" Don't you want to do it? ”
Scott shook his head and said. "That's not my shop, it's the one next to me, and he's not doing well and he's about to go out of business. I had no choice but to rent out the storefront. How interesting you are! ”
Zhang Yun really wants to rent such a storefront, and the parrots he feeds can be sold out of the nest during this time.
Even now parrots can be sold. Not only the young birds that have come out of the nest, but also the nestlings that have not yet come out of the nest, as well as the breeding birds that have been raised after they have been raised, can be sold. You can't sell all the parrots wholesale, and it's good to have your own store to sell them.
So I asked for the other party's phone number, and I was going to talk to the owner later.
"There are no Arowana seedlings here, I'm going to buy some."
Scott was a little confused, what do you want the fry to do. Generally speaking, people who come to buy fish want to be adult fish, and those fish have grown up and have colorful bodies. This is fish farming.