The Tang Dynasty started from saving Empress Changsun

Chapter 241 Koi Girl
Seeing a red carp eight or nine centimeters long swimming in the bucket, Chen Jingke was a little excited, and hurriedly said, "Wait a minute."

The fish seller stopped and said enthusiastically, "Does your lord want to buy fish? I just caught fish from the river, and it's fresh."

Chen Jingke nodded, pretending to choose to watch.There are not many fish in the two buckets, about half the size of a basin.

The price of live fish is higher, so the fisherman filled the bucket with water, but it seems that some small fish are wilting and should not live long.

The red carp he paid more attention to actually had as many as three, and they were not very big. The longest one was eight or nine centimeters, and the other two were smaller, about five or six centimeters.

After making sure that he read correctly, he was overjoyed in his heart. He had no other hobbies in his previous life, but he liked feeding fish.

Koi were no longer seen in the Tang Dynasty, and even goldfish had not been bred yet.There are red crucian carp, but he doesn't like it very much.

At this time, I am very happy to see the naturally mutated red carp. Although the color is monotonous, it can still be related to koi after all.

"Live fish is quite rare here. How much did I charge for it?"

The fisherman didn't expect to sell all of them when he first arrived. He secretly thought that he was lucky, and said, "You see, it's not easy for me to transport it all the way from outside the city. Let me give you 23 ten cash."

After speaking, he took a cautious look at Chen Jingke, for fear that he would be angry.

Working as a coolie at the pier only earned eight to twelve yuan a day, and these few fish cost twenty or thirty yuan. He was afraid that Chen Jingke would be angry.

Chen Jingke said directly: "Fifty Wen, I also want these two buckets and poles."

"Ah?" The fisherman said incredulously, "You said five...fifty Wen?"

Chen Jingke said: "Think too little?"

The fisherman quickly shook his head and said, "No, no, it's too much. Besides, you don't need to buy a bucket, how about I send it to your home?"

Chen Jingke smiled and said, "You are honest. I don't want to hide it from you. I didn't buy fish to eat, but to buy these three red carp and release them."

"I bought your bucket because of the water in it... Forget it, you may not understand these things. In short, just give you the money and put the things down, how about it?"

How could the fisherman refuse to agree, and hurriedly said: "Okay, you are really a kind person, and Tianzun will definitely bless you to succeed in your studies."

Releasing red crucian carp is a common practice of Buddhism and Taoism, and some faithful men and women follow suit, so temples will prepare some releases.

Chen Jingke said that he liked the red carp and wanted to buy it back and release it. The fisherman didn't find it strange, but thought he was a pious layman.

After paying the money and taking the burden, let the guards carry it and walk back.He slapped his forehead before walking far, confused.

Asked Xu Shanying and the others to stop, and shouted to the children playing not far away: "You guys come here, do you want some fish for you?"

Seeing that he was dressed gorgeously and surrounded by murderous guards, those children 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 feel distressed if one of them died.

Xu Shanying and the others didn't ask any further questions, they fished 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 speaking, 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 didn't compete with each other, but a family divided up a pile of similar weights, and then happily hugged them home.

After getting the koi, Chen Jingke went straight back to Zixiao Temple without any further delay.He came to his own yard, asked Xu Shanying and the others to put the bucket by the pond, and sent them away.

Then he shouted into the room: "Yi Nu, Yu Zhu, bring a copper basin."

"Ah? Alright, here we come." Yuzhu's flustered voice came from inside the room.

After a while of tinkling, she ran over with a copper basin for washing her face.Yi Nu also followed, but her walking posture was a bit strange.

"Give it to the real person." Yuzhu's eyes wandered and she dared not look at him.

Chen Jingke naturally knew why, and felt a little amused, but at the moment he cared about the koi and was not in the mood to joke.

He pointed to the gazebo 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 fleeing.

Yi Nu has long been used to it and is not so shy. He walked slowly to his side and asked curiously, "This is... a red carp? Where did the real person buy it?"

Chen Jingke said proudly: "I saw it while wandering in the street, how beautiful is it?"

Yi Nu naturally wouldn't take his fancy, and said: "Well, the red ones are really pretty, and they will look even better when they grow up."

Chen Jingke said happily: "With vision, the bigger the koi, the better it looks, and they will give birth to more koi in the future. By then, the whole pond will be full of koi."

Speaking of this, 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 the real koi girl."

Although I don't know what a koi girl is, I can still understand the general meaning.Yi Nu was both shy and happy, and suddenly loved the three koi a little more.

On the other side, Yuzhu didn't look at the small things at all, and her mind was on Chen Jingke.She communicated with Yi Nu all day, her heart was full of anticipation and apprehension, how could she have the heart to look at these few small objects.

After calming down in the gazebo for a while, seeing Yi Nu and Chen Jingke chatting happily, enviously in his heart, he boldly walked over.

"Then hurry up and put them in the pond, sister Yi Nu and I will feed them properly in the future."

Chen Jingke said: "You can't put it in like this. The water quality and temperature of the bucket and the pond are different. Putting it in directly is easy to die."

Yuzhu said worriedly: "Then what should I 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 into the pond."

Yuzhu said happily: "Ah, it can still be like this, the real person is so smart."

Chen Jingke probably understood what was going on with Yuzhu, so he pretended not to notice her abnormality, and said, "Read more, and you will understand in the future. Come and help pour the water from the bucket into the copper basin."

It took almost an hour of busy work, and finally put the three koi into the pond.

After entering the water, they disappeared as soon as they swung their tails. This is a good sign, indicating that the three fish are all healthy.

Originally, fish were fed in this pond, mainly red crucian carp for release and ordinary carp for play, so the three of them would not be lonely.

Before I knew it, the day passed, and soon it was night again.

(End of this chapter)