I drank coffee and beer, and ate purple sweet potato, coconut duck and spicy roast duck.
Koolau's ducks are famous throughout Oceania. A quarter of New Zealand's ducks are produced here, mainly landlubbers. When Lao Wang was eating, he was very happy: He is actually a landlubber, even though he is a landlubber. Grew up in a seaside fishing village.
The spicy roast duck is not bad. It is a method invented by Chinese chefs. When eating it, it is combined with Chinese cabbage and lemon juice. The fat of the duck itself is dried by roasting. Adding lemon juice makes it less greasy.
Eating roast duck, Motak said with emotion: "Eating this should be paired with the ocean. Listening to the sound of the waves crashing on the shore and tasting the delicious dark beer, ah, that's so beautiful."
Lao Wang blinked. He couldn't understand what eating roast duck had to do with the ocean. This was not eating seafood.
After eating and drinking, start working. The auction will start tomorrow. Today is the day for the participants to gather. New Zealand is a small country. Even if the ranchers don’t know each other, they have heard of each other, so there are many gatherings.
Wang Bo was an outlier among them. After Motak introduced him to a few people, they heard that the alpacas had been delivered and rushed to the temporary pasture outside the city to watch them.
The rancher arranged for cowboys and friends to help with the reception. After Wang Bo walked in, a peculiar smell unique to livestock came, and then a herd of alpacas appeared.
The adult shoulder height of these alpacas is about one meter and the body length is close to two meters. Due to seasonal reasons, their hair is now the longest time of the year, which can reach half a meter. The curly hair is very fluffy, making them look round. Yes, it's really cute.
When they came to the new environment, the alpacas stretched their long necks and looked outside with confused expressions. When someone approached, they screamed and ran back.
Seeing this scene, Lao Wang felt a little distressed: "Damn it, how can you eat such a cute thing?"
"It's really delicious. I've eaten it before." Motak smacked his mouth and seemed to be savoring the taste.
Although he has eaten alpacas, he has never raised alpacas, so he doesn't know much about them. He asked later: "Are you sure you want to raise these things? They are not easy to raise, and they may not be profitable."
Wang Bo smiled and said, "Let's try it. I still have a lot of open space in my pasture. If it can be well cultivated, wouldn't that be a good thing?"
Bowen, who followed, had seen alpacas in Texas. He knew more about them and introduced: "The alpacas raised here are mainly Huacayo alpacas. I heard that there are Sully alpacas in New Zealand, but the number is very small. No, I guess we won’t have the chance to see him.”
A young man dressed as a cowboy came up and asked, "Hey guys, are you interested in my alpaca?"
Motak went up to talk with him, while Wang Bo curiously watched these legendary beasts in the country, the great grass and mud horses.
Alpacas are very docile animals. They are timid. If someone feeds it, it must wait until the person walks away before eating, even if it is an owner who is familiar with it.
However, when a yellow-haired mud horse saw Wang Bo approaching the fence, it walked over on its own initiative and stared at him with wide eyes, like a curious baby.
Lao Wang stretched out his hand to touch it, but the grass-mud horse did not dodge. Instead, it blinked at him with its big eyes and grinned back, showing an expression that looked like a smile, like a happy beast.
Seeing this, Bowen laughed and said, "Boss, it likes you."
Wang Bo asked the cowboy in charge of the alpaca: "Man, are they for sale now? Can I ask how much this alpaca costs?"
The cowboy came over with a trace of sadness on his face and said, "You want to buy an alpaca? You can choose any of the others, but this one doesn't work. Unfortunately, it's not for sale."
"why?"
The cowboy said leisurely: "You know, friend, alpacas are very afraid of loneliness. They are one of the few animals that will suffer from depression and eventually die due to loneliness, so we have to be in pairs when selling. Sell them just to prevent them from being so lonely."
As he spoke, he paused, and the sad expression on his face became heavier: "This one cannot be sold alone. Its friend died not long ago. If I sell it to you, it will harm both the alpaca and you. "
Lao Wang understood, and the Mexican handsome boy said: "Oh my god, this alpaca is close to us because it is too lonely, right?"
"I'm so sorry."
Motak said: "But it doesn't matter. Wang, aren't you planning to buy a herd of alpacas? Then it won't be lonely."
The young cowboy looked at Lao Wang in astonishment: "You want to buy a group of alpacas? Not one or two?"
Lao Wang nodded.
The young cowboy suddenly laughed enthusiastically: "Hey, man, that's a misunderstanding. You can buy it with confidence. You can choose whatever you want. This one can also be sold to you."
The Mexican handsome boy asked emotionally: "Is it because it has a companion, so it will no longer be lonely?"
A white man with a big belly came over and laughed: "Are you telling a story? Can't you tell? He obviously wants to trick you into buying more alpacas in pairs."
The young cowboy smiled awkwardly and said, "Fagel, you are such a good joker. Are you here too?"
The fat-bellied white man hummed: "Of course, I came here specifically to buy alpacas. These alpacas will definitely belong to me in the end!"
Wang Bo secretly thought, who is this? Why don't you fly into the sky on a North Korean cannon if you are so awesome
He looked at the young cowboy, who misunderstood what he meant and thought he was pursuing his previous trick. He laughed dryly and said: "Actually, sir, alpacas are really afraid of being alone. One alpaca cannot survive."
"I plan to buy hundreds of them." Lao Wang said angrily. It was quite shameful for him to be fooled by this young man.
"Then you have to wait until tomorrow. There will be no batch sales today, only individual sales. I thought you planned to buy one or two." The young cowboy smiled awkwardly.
The auction will start tomorrow and transactions can also take place today, but generally in small lots.
This is due to price considerations. The selling price of large batches of livestock is usually relatively low, that is, the wholesale price. It is not suitable to sell it now - the freight for shipping it all the way is already astronomical. If you sell it at the wholesale price, you will lose money. .
At the auction, if someone raises the price, you can sell it at a high price. The selling price of a single unit is relatively high, and you can sell it at any time. Of course, if someone is willing to buy in large quantities at the price of a single unit, then the ranchers will definitely be willing to sell now.
Wang Bo patted the happy alpaca on the head and said, "Keep this one for me. I will definitely take it away tomorrow, okay?"
The fat white man Geer next to him looked at it for a while and suddenly asked: "How much does this alpaca cost? I want to buy it."
The young cowboy was startled, and so was Wang Bo. What does this mean? Are you deliberately bullying me, Lao Wang
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