The vegetable market that Old Man Lan mentioned was not the one near Chuhua University.
In the car, the puppy in the cage didn't seem to be very adaptable to the unfamiliar environment, and there was no familiar atmosphere around it, and it was not as energetic as before. Stick out from the gap in the cage's iron mesh, bite the wire, and stretch out your claws to scratch a few times.
Zheng Tan watched the dog nibble and play with the wire, raised his hand and patted its outstretched nose, not thinking that the little guy would still open his mouth to bite. Zheng Tan was fine when he was idle, so he patted the pup's nose and played. The pup didn't respond quickly, couldn't keep up with the speed, and couldn't bite Zheng Tan no matter how much he bit.
When a puppy opens its mouth and bites, it doesn't mean it wants to bite, it's just playing.
The reason why Zheng Tan chose this dog was not as good and aura as Old Man Lan thought the dog was. With this little puppy, Zheng Tan couldn't see any excellence. In fact, the main reason was to look at this dog. The dog has the biggest mouth. Zheng Tan carefully compared it just now. Compared with its three brothers, this dog's mouth is indeed a little bigger. Finally, he found some difference, and Zheng Tan ordered this one.
Twenty minutes later, the old man Lan rode a car to a vegetable market and pushed the car in. At this time, there were not many people in the vegetable market after the morning rush hour.
Buying a dog in a vegetable market is generally not something young people do. First, it will give people a feeling that they don’t love dogs. Second, the vegetable market basically only sells puppies of local dogs. Young people don’t like it, so come here to buy Most of the dogs are middle-aged and elderly. The old man Lan also knew that there were local dog pups who were sold here. He had never had such an experience before.
After asking, the old man Lan walked in the direction pointed by others. There was a dog seller over there.
In the vegetable market, dogs are sold here. Either they are specially collected and then sold to others, or they are originally selling vegetables, and they are offered to sell by the way when there are pups at home.
The old man Lan looked at the two families. The dogs of those two families were a little older, and they should have been three or four months old. Old man Lan felt that the dog was better raised since he was a child, and he had deep feelings for it. Before the puppy's temperament was fully developed, he could revise it by himself, so this time he planned to buy two one or two months old at once. The puppies of the puppies, raised from a young age, are placed in a small flowerbed, which is more effective. It is also for this reason that he also rejected the good intentions of several friends to send dogs. The big dogs have no feelings for him when they sent them over. It is not easy to cultivate feelings, so forget it.
Probably because of the sounds of some big dogs and puppies in the vegetable market, the puppies in the car cage stopped playing with Zheng Tan. They squatted there and listened carefully and looked around.
Zheng Tan looked around from the edge of the car, the dogs in the cages, he felt a little sad, which reminded him of the bad experience he had once. These were not raised as meat dogs. They were local dogs that were collected by the street vendors at low prices from some farmers and used as domestic dogs. You can see it by looking at them.
Not to mention these dogs, even now, countless cats are being shipped to the South.
Change
Society is like this and cannot be changed.
Just thinking about it, Zheng Tan heard a discussion not far ahead, and craned his neck to look over. Zheng Tan saw a flower-haired dog with a basket in its mouth, followed the person all the way to a stall selling vegetables. There is a puppy, and it looks a little smaller than the one in Old Man Lan's car. Due to the angle, Zheng Tan couldn't see how many of them. He could only see half the head of one puppy, but he couldn't see the others.
Because of this, many people gathered around to watch.
The old man Lan also walked over with the cart. Fortunately, there were not many people in the market at this time, otherwise the car would really not be able to get in.
"Is this dog for sale?" someone asked.
"Sell, my dog is very obedient. We let it carry the basket, and it came over." The stall owner said.
"This bitch doesn't know she wants to sell puppies, doesn't she? Hey, it looks pitiful."
Although some people are pitiful, the people who surround them are just talking. However, there is still a real need to buy a dog.
One is a man who runs a restaurant nearby. He has not yet arrived at work. The man was looking for someone to chat with at the vegetable market. He wanted to raise a dog after seeing it. There is always a need to guard against thieves in restaurants, and it also acts as a deterrent to those who want to make trouble.
"This dog is not bad, this shrimp has a long waist." The restaurant owner looked at the bitch who was holding the basket just now, his eyes lit up. Over the years he has opened a restaurant, he has also raised a lot of dogs, and he has some eyesight.
"What's wrong? Boss Liu, what is so important about the dog? Let's talk about it, let's buy one if you're interested. My warehouse does have to keep a dog to guard it." Another middle-aged man came over and said.
"Yo, Boss Wang, why are you here?" Boss Liu, who opened the restaurant, didn't ask much. Seeing that everyone around him was looking at him, he started talking.
"This dog is not as cheap as others say, he can hunt and watch the house..."
Boss Liu spittled about the dogs he had raised in the past. The people around were all right at this time, and they all came to listen to the story. Old man Lan also listened with great interest, but because he was pushing the car, he couldn't rely on him. Too close, only the bitch next to the crouch can be seen from the gap between the people in front.
In fact, Zheng Tan listened to what Boss Wang said, this person may not really know much about dogs, but is based on the dog he has raised before, plus a little experience learned from others, here It's still possible to bluff.
"... That man also said that the dog he raised was good, oh hello, I laughed at that time, it was obviously a hunting dog, and the dog was made into a pig-like bucket and was proud of it. The shrimp waist dog that my family used to raise is far worse, the dog in our family can jump three or four meters away, and it can be sold for tens of thousands in some places!"
The people around were amazed when they heard this.
Listening to everyone's compliments, Boss Liu, who opened the restaurant, became even more complacent, coughed, restrained the smile on his face, and said like a professional expert: "However, if you use it as a hunting dog, which dog should you choose? You still have to look at the terrain and the place. Are you hitting the plains or the hills? The hills or the mountains? The terrain is different, and the hunting dogs you need are different. Cathrow and other big dogs go out, but if you use a dog that hits the mountains to catch foxes and hares on the plains, it may not be able to run... But then again, in fact, this dog is just fine with its own use."
Then a bunch of people around him agreed with "yes yes yes".
"Boss Liu, what is a fine dog?" someone from the stall behind asked.
Boss Liu sat on the chair given by the stall owner, with his legs crossed, he replied slowly, "It's a thin dog, just like its name, it looks slender and streamlined, and it runs at a speed, tsk tsk, like an arrow shot out. The fine dog is the traditional hunting dog of our country, do you know the roaring dog in the myth of Erlang God? That was originally the fine dog."
There was another exclamation of "oh" around, which satisfied a lot of Boss Liu's vanity.
Feeling that it was almost done, Boss Liu didn't say more, got up and patted the inconspicuous dust on his legs, and said, "But now it's hard to find good dogs. Good dog, it's hard."
After talking, Boss Liu walked to the booth of the person who wanted to sell the puppy. The bitch who was squatting next to it had been taken away by the hostess. If the dog is sold, it is not good for the bitch to stay here, and it is easy to cause trouble. Although the bitch came with the basket in her mouth, she might not know that the puppy in the basket was going to be sold.
"How do you sell your dog?" Boss Liu asked the stall owner, "Don't sell it for 18,000 because of what I just said, then I won't do it."
This dog really won't rise to tens of thousands of yuan just because of what this boss Liu said just now. How much does this dog sell for? Oh, some people around can't help but sneer in their hearts, whoever buys it is an idiot. No one will buy it for hundreds of dollars.
Just listen to the story. As experienced traders, these people around them will not be fooled by Boss Liu’s few words and two stories. They are in the vegetable market. How can they sell vegetables without that brain
The stall owner smiled honestly when he heard Boss Liu's words, "How can we do it? We are going to sell this dog for 100 or 80 yuan." In fact, they only planned to sell it for 30 to 40 yuan. They did not expect that there would be such a thing as Boss Liu. out, taking this opportunity to raise the price a bit.
"Hey, I'll give you a pole and you'll crawl along. The price of the next door is the price of a big dog. However, let's take a look at your dog's waist, 80 yuan, this dog is my price. Take it away." Boss Liu pointed to the puppy in the basket, which was almost the same color as the bitch, and said. In fact, I really want to lower the price. Boss Liu can't stand his own face. Anyway, the bitch was praised by him just now. The price of the puppy has to be higher than other dogs. It is because of this. After he heard the stall owner's offer, he didn't make any counter-offer.
"Hey, okay, this dog is sure to be much better than my bitch." The vendor picked up the little flower dog in the basket that was on the edge of the bamboo basket and handed it to Boss Liu.
After Boss Liu gave the money, he looked at the puppy, probably because it was about to be sold, the vendor did a simple cleaning for the puppy, and it didn't look too dirty, so Boss Liu took it and left.
After Boss Liu left, Boss Wang, who said he wanted to buy a dog to guard the warehouse, pointed to the dog in the basket with mostly black hair and white limbs, "I like this kind of hoofs that ride on snow, that's all. , pack a bag."
The people around listened happily, thinking it was buying a lunch box and "packing a bag".
The stall owner finally found a snakeskin bag, filled it with the dog, and handed it over with a smile.
When the two of them left, the people around also dispersed. The stall owner looked at the dog left in the basket and sighed. Sure enough, this is the hardest one to sell. However, the price of the two has exceeded expectations, which is a consolation. Forget it, or sell it to those who have collected it to make meat dogs, and if he keeps it, he won't have much food to feed.
The old man Lan was also sighing. At first, he actually fell in love with the dog that "walks on snow with four hooves". Although it is not a pure four hoofs on snow, it looks better than the last remaining dog. Even if I can't buy this one, old man Lan was thinking of buying that flower before, but he didn't expect that the little flower dog would be bought first, and then the four hoofs on the snow were also preempted, so there were only three dogs, old man Lan. I couldn't buy the two I liked, as for the remaining one...
The old man Lan frowned, always feeling disgusted.
Not only the old man Lan looked down on, but also the people around him.
In fact, as long as the coat color changes, there are still some people who are willing to buy it, but the problem is that many people despise this coat color now, and the one in the rest of the basket doesn't look like the first two and only has spirit, squatting quietly in the basket, It didn't move when the two dogs were making a lot of noise just now.
The hair color is not good, and the spirit is still poor. Who wants to buy it? Although it is only a few dozen yuan, but the people in the vegetable market are not willing to spend it in vain. For them, it is better to buy a few more packs of cigarettes.
"I know a dog with this coat color. When it grows up, the coat looks like it has a skin disease. It's ugly and dead," said a pork stall owner not far away.
"I can't even look at it." Another stall owner followed.
"It's really not very good-looking, stray hair." Someone around agreed.
The old man Lan didn't want to buy it anymore. First, he didn't like the color of the fur. Maybe because of the reason of raising flowers, he prefers a slightly purer color. Why do I like this kind of miscellaneous hair, just as a stall owner said just now, the dog of this color looks like it has a skin disease when it grows up. Second, this is what others have picked and left, plus the words of the people around, it always feels like an inferior product.
The old man Lan was about to push the cart away, but when he turned his head, he saw the cat jumped off the cart and walked to the edge of the bamboo basket.
Although others disliked him, Zheng Tan felt that the dog looked pretty good.