Chapter 24 Little Goldfish
For example, some dog dealers will put drugs in the food and lure the dogs to eat it. Once they eat it, they will be taken away and sent to dog meat restaurants.
Since Mingyin’s popularization of this knowledge, the number of dogs caught by dog traffickers has decreased a lot.
After the dogs finished eating, Mingyin took the snow cakes to the supermarket.
On the way, her mother called her and asked her to bring back some fish to eat.
So Mingyin turned around and went to the nearby vegetable market.
When they arrived at the market, the boss saw Mingyin and said with a smile, "It's you who brought the snow cakes out today."
Since Xuebing often accompanied Li's mother to buy vegetables, the owners in the vegetable market all knew them.
"What do you want to buy this time?"
Mingyin: "Buy a bottle of soy sauce."
Boss: “Don’t you need anything else?”
Mingyin thought that it was a rare opportunity for her to go out, so she bought some vegetables for dinner.
After buying it, she took the snow cakes to visit the aquatic area.
Snow Cake couldn't move when she saw the beautiful little fishes in the glass tank.
[Mom, look at the fish! Look at the fish!]
After buying the fish, Mingyin turned around and saw that Xuebing's claws were already pressing on the glass tank.
Seeing this, the fish stall owner smiled and said, "Little girl, do you want to buy an ornamental fish?"
"Watching fish?" Mingyin.
The fish stall owner: "Yes. Look, I have a lot of beautiful little fish here. Do you want to pick one and take it home?"
Mingyin saw that Xuebing liked it and said, "Then pick one."
"Okay!" When the fish stall owner saw that she wanted to buy something, he immediately smiled and brought her a colander for catching fish.
The beautiful fish in the fish tank were swimming around. Mingyin took a fancy to a guppy. Its tail was colorful and very beautiful.
Just as she was about to go down to pick it up, the little fish nearby started chirping.
[Don't take her away! Don't take her away! She is the most beautiful little female fish here. What will we do if you take her away?]
Mingyin raised her eyebrows when she heard this.
Okay, Mingyin let it go.
Mingyin looked around and picked out a red carp. Just as she was about to catch it.
The black fish next to him screamed: [You can't take her away, she is my wife!]
Mingyin: “…”
Then, her eyes caught sight of an angelfish whose colors ranged from dark blue to light blue to silver-white. Its swimming figure was like an elf in the ocean.
Mingyin's eyes lit up: "This fish is beautiful!"
Just as she was about to go down to catch it, another fish spoke next to her.
[Isn't it said that opposites attract? Why does she, a female, always pick on the young female fish here? There aren't enough young female fish to go around, and if she takes them all, the single fish here will have no chance of finding a wife.]
Mingyin: “…”
How can she, a human being, be attracted to you fish?
For the first time, Mingyin felt that understanding what these animals were saying was not a good thing.
The fish stall owner saw that she clearly had a crush on the fish in the fish tank, but she would go down to catch them and then take them back every time.
"What's wrong? Miss, I see you like guppies, red carps, and angelfish. Why don't you want any of them?"
Mingyin gave an unnatural smile: "There are a lot of beautiful fish here. I am a little hesitant."
The fish stall owner smiled and said, "Then take your time to choose. I'm not in a hurry. You can just pick a few more."
He also understands that guests who come to choose fish have difficulty in making choices.
Suddenly, Mingyin asked the boss: "Do you know which fish in this fish tank are male fish?"
The boss was stunned when he heard her words and stammered, "Male...male fish?"
"Are there male and female fish?"
The boss only picked male fish when he met the customer for the first time. Is there any difference between male and female fish???
Seeing this, Mingyin decided not to make things difficult for the boss and looked into the fish tank again. This time, she planned to ignore the sounds of the small fish and go straight down to catch them.
[Aaaah! He is the most handsome little male fish in our fish tank. Don’t catch him. I want to marry him.]
[I want to marry him too, please let him go!]
[Last time, the second most handsome husband in our jar was kidnapped. Now they are going to kidnap the most handsome husband in our jar?]
[Wow… As expected, pretty people are more likely to be noticed! ]
Mingyin: “…”
The little male fish stopped making noise, but the little female fish started making noise again.
A little goldfish was leisurely leaning against a rockery to bask in the sun: [Ah! Or am I just having a good time, no one is paying attention to me?]
Little female fish: [You are ugly, she definitely doesn’t miss you.]
There are a few red dots on the little goldfish's tail, and its scales are not shiny enough. They are obviously golden, but they look gray.
Mingyin nodded in agreement: "Yes, I'll pick a normal one instead of him."
After she finished speaking, all the little fish in the fish tank stared at her in shock.
The little goldfish leaning on the rockery also looked at her in shock.
[OMG! She can actually understand what we are talking about?]
[So she heard everything we said just now?]
[No wonder she was so hesitant standing in front of the fish tank.]
[It’s over! The humans who can understand us will definitely want to capture us all!]
After being shocked, the little fishes immediately scattered and hid.
Only the brave little goldfish was still lying leisurely on the rockery.
[I have lived for hundreds of years, and this is the first time I have met a human being who can understand what I say.]
Mingyin's eyelids twitched.
How many hundreds of years?
Goldfish usually live 5 to 10 years.
Of course, if it is well raised, it can live for more than 20 years, but humans can only live for a hundred years or so, so how many hundred years can a fish live?
The little goldfish saw her questioning look.
[Don’t disbelieve me, I can live for a thousand or ten thousand years without any problems.]
A little female fish cautiously emerged: [Beautiful sister, don’t believe him, he just likes to brag! He even said he is a golden dragon? ]
[Right, right, right! He said that he failed to leap over the Dragon Gate, so he fell to the plain and was bullied by the fish, and ended up in this mountain valley.]
Mingyin raised an eyebrow: "Leaping over the Dragon Gate? Isn't that something only red carp would do?"
She thought of the animated film "The Adventures of Little Carp" which she watched when she was a child.
Little female fish: [Beautiful sister, please take him away. He is disliked by all the fish here and is not liked by any fish.]
The little goldfish turned over and muttered: [It’s up to you whether you believe it or not.]
Mingyin saw that the fish was really pitiful, so she said, "Boss, I want this little goldfish!"
When the boss saw the fish she was pointing at, he couldn't help but ask, "Miss, why did you pick such a grey fish?"
This fish is an old customer here, but no one wants it because it looks too ugly.
Not only does he not want him, he also likes to be the boss in the fish tank, fighting with other fishes and often making those fishes break their heads and bleed.
Little Goldfish: [You are ugly! Your whole family is ugly! I am obviously the most handsome fish in the world!]
The boss couldn't hear the little goldfish scolding him, so he just said, "Miss, do you want to pick a new one? I fed this ugly little fish to the cat and it was rejected."
Mingyin shook her head and said, "No, boss, I just want this one."