He saw an eight or nine centimeter long red carp swimming in the bucket. Chen Jingke was a little excited and said quickly: "Wait a minute."
The fish vendor stopped and said enthusiastically: "Do you want to buy fish? I just fished it out of the river. It's fresh."
Chen Jingke nodded and pretended to pick and look. There were not many fish in the two buckets, only about half a basin.
The price of live fish is higher, so the fisherman fills the bucket with water, but it seems that some of the small fish are wilted and may not live long.
There were actually three red carps that he was more concerned about, but they were not very big. The longest one was eight or nine centimeters, and the other two were smaller, about five or six centimeters.
I'm sure he got it right. He was very happy. In his previous life, he had no other hobbies except feeding fish.
In the Tang Dynasty, koi are no longer seen, and even goldfish have not been cultivated. There are red crucian carps, but he doesn't like them very much.
At this time, I was very happy to see the naturally mutated red carp. Although the color is single, it can still be related to the koi carp.
"Live fish are quite rare here. How much do I want for them?"
The fisherman didn't expect that he would sell them all as soon as he arrived. He thought to himself that he was lucky and said, "You see, it's not easy for me to transport it all the way from outside the city. I'll give you twenty or thirty cents."
After saying that, he glanced at Chen Jingke cautiously, for fear that he would be angry.
Working as a coolie at the dock only earned eight to twelve cents a day, and these fish cost twenty or thirty cents. He was very afraid that Chen Jingke would be angry.
Chen Jingke said directly: "Fifty coins, I also want these two buckets and poles."
"Ah?" the fisherman said in disbelief: "You mean five...fifty cents?"
Chen Jingke said: "Too few?"
The fisherman quickly shook his head and said: "No, no, no, it's too much. Besides, you don't need to buy a bucket. How about I deliver it to your home?"
Chen Jingke smiled and said: "You are sincere. I won't hide it from you. I didn't buy the fish to eat, but to buy these three red carp to release."
"To buy your bucket, you need the water in it...Forget it, you may not understand these things. In short, I just give you the money to put the things down, how about it?"
How could the fisherman not agree? He said hurriedly: "Okay, okay, you are such a kind-hearted person. God will definitely bless you to succeed in your studies."
Releasing red crucian carp is something commonly done by Buddhists and Taoists. Some good men and women also follow suit, so temples and temples will prepare some for release.
Chen Jingke said he was interested in red carps and wanted to buy them back and release them. The fisherman didn't find it strange and thought he was a pious layman.
After paying the money, he took the load, asked the guard to carry it, and walked back. He didn't go far when he slapped his forehead, confused.
He asked Xu Shanying and the others to stop and shouted to the children playing not far away: "Come here, do you want some fish?"
When the children saw that he was dressed gorgeously and that there were murderous guards around him, they all looked at him timidly from a distance and did not dare to move.
Chen Jingke was too lazy to explain and said to Xu Shanying: "Take out all the fish and throw them on the ground."
He did this mainly because he was afraid that these fish would compete with the three red carps for oxygen, and he would be distressed if one of them died.
Xu Shanying and others did not ask any more questions, and took out all the fish except the red carp and threw them on the ground.
It looked much better now, and he didn't know if it was an illusion, but he felt that the three red carps seemed more lively than before.
Chen Jingke pointed to the fish on the ground and said to the group of children: "These fish are for you."
After saying that, he left with Xu Shanying and the others.
It wasn't until they were far away that the group of children confirmed that the fish were really for them, and they rushed up to share the fish.
This group of children did not fight over each other, but each family divided a bunch of them, all weighing about the same, and then happily carried them home.
After getting the koi, Chen Jingke didn't delay any longer and went straight back to Zixiaoguan. When he came to his yard, he asked Xu Shanying and others to put the buckets by the pond, and then sent them away.
Then he shouted into the house: "Yi Nu, Yu Zhu, bring a copper basin over here."
"Ah? Okay, here we come." Yuzhu's somewhat panicked voice came from inside the room.
After a jingling sound, she ran over carrying a copper basin for washing her face. Yi Nu also followed behind, but her walking posture was a bit strange.
"I'll give it to you." Yuzhu's eyes were wandering and she didn't dare to look at him.
Chen Jingke naturally knew why, and felt a little funny in his heart, but at the moment, he was concerned about the koi and had no intention of joking.
He pointed to the pavilion and said: "I saw a stall on the road just now, so I bought some small items and came back. Go and see if there is anything you like."
"Yeah." Yuzhu left as if running away.
Yi Nu had long been used to it and was not that shy. She slowly walked up to him and asked curiously: "This is... a red carp? Where did the real person buy it?"
Chen Jingke said proudly: "I saw it when I was wandering on the street. How beautiful is it?"
Naturally, Yi Nu would not brush him off and said, "Well, the red one is really pretty. She will look even better when she grows up."
Chen Jingke said happily: "If you are discerning, the bigger the koi are, the more beautiful they will be. They will give birth to more koi in the future, and then the entire pond will be filled with koi."
At this point, he looked at Yi Nu and said, "I got you last night and met these three koi today. This is the way of luck. You are my real koi girl."
Although she didn't know what a koi girl was, she could still understand the general meaning. Yi Nu was shy and happy, and she suddenly felt a little more fond of these three koi.
On the other side, Yuzhu didn't look at the small objects at all, her thoughts were all on Chen Jingke. She had been communicating with Yi Nu all day long, and her heart was full of expectation and apprehension, so how could she bother to look at these small objects.
A man calmed down in the pavilion for a while. Seeing Yi Nu and Chen Jingke chatting happily, he felt envious and boldly walked over.
"Then put them in the pond quickly. Sister Yinu and I will feed them well in the future."
Chen Jingke said: "You can't put it in like this. The water quality and temperature in the bucket and the pond are different. If you put it in directly, you will die easily."
Yuzhu said worriedly: "What should we do?"
Chen Jingke said: "It's easy to do. First put the fish in the copper basin, and then put the copper basin in the pond. After an hour, the water temperature will be almost the same, and then put the fish in the pond."
Yuzhu said happily: "Ah, it can still be like this. You are so smart."
Chen Jingke roughly understood what was going on with Yuzhu, so he pretended not to notice anything unusual about her and said: "Read more, and you will understand it in the future. Come and help pour the water from the bucket into the copper basin."
After working hard for almost an hour, I finally put the three koi into the pond.
After entering the water, they swung their tails and disappeared. This is a good sign, indicating that the three fish are very healthy.
Originally, there were fish in this pond, mainly red crucian carp for release and a few ordinary carp raised for fun, so the three of them would not be lonely.
Unknowingly, the day passed and soon it was night again.