Chapter Thirteen: Dragonfish Secured

The shop owner said, not forgetting to promote his business. Hearing the shop owner, the girl immediately said, "Then give me another Blood Red Dragonfish, exactly the same."

The shop owner's expression turned helpless. "Miss, do you know this Blood Red Dragonfish won an award? Where can I find another top-quality one like this for you? How about you look at something else?"

"You don't even have a 800,000 fish, and you have the nerve to ask me to look at something else? The fish here don't even qualify to be in my dad's fish tank."

After saying that, the girl turned and walked out the door.

She loudly announced to the people around, "Whoever can help me find a fish like this, I'll give them 50,000 yuan."

Wow! This immediately stirred up all the stall owners in the flower, bird, and fish market. They all came over, holding photos on their phones to show the girl. At first, the girl looked at each one, but after a while, she lost interest.

She shouted to everyone, "You all sell fish. You know the price of this fish in your hearts. Don't try to trick me with your trash fish."

Seeing the girl say this, everyone stopped trying to sell to her.

Abruptly, the girl's phone rang.

She answered the call. Not knowing what was said on the other end, her face remained expressionless. She just coldly said, "I know," and hung up.

The girl's previous anxious demeanor had vanished, replaced by a cold glint in her eyes.

At this moment, Ye Yuan had been watching the Blood Red Dragonfish and hadn't noticed the girl's change.

Ye Yuan thought to himself that his Fishery Space had a great effect on the growth of fish. He wondered if a fish that was about to die would be able to survive in his Fishery Space.

As he thought this, he saw the girl getting into her car to leave. He quickly walked to the car door and said to the girl, "Hello miss, I'd like to ask how you plan to deal with this fish?"

The girl glanced at Ye Yuan and spoke irritably, "Your whole family are misses. Watch your wording."

Ye Yuan, inexplicably insulted by the girl, didn't get angry.

Ye Yuan had to change his address. "Madam, how do you plan to deal with this fish? If it's possible, I'd like to buy it. Of course, I won't offer too high a price, as the fish is already in this condition."

"Can you cure it?"

"No," Ye Yuan answered without hesitation.

"If you can't cure it, what are you buying it for?" the girl pressed him relentlessly.

"To eat."

Ye Yuan answered very straightforwardly.

"I've never eaten such an expensive fish before. It looks like it should be delicious."

The girl never expected Ye Yuan to give such an answer.

Upon hearing this, her originally cold face softened slightly. She said to Ye Yuan, "Take it if you like it. I don't need it anyway. Oh, and help me deal with the fish tank too, it's useless now."

After saying that, the girl got into the car.

Ye Yuan busied himself by carrying the fish tank out of the car. Before Ye Yuan could even say thank you, the girl closed the car door and told the driver in front to drive away.

Watching the SUV merge into the traffic, Ye Yuan shook his head. There were so many rich people in Shangjing. They could just give away a fish bought for 800,000 yuan.

Ye Yuan didn't waste any time and returned to his car. It took a lot of effort to put the fish tank in the back seat.

Finding a less crowded spot, Ye Yuan placed the fish directly into the Fishery Space, and then followed it into the space himself.

Ye Yuan had recorded himself entering the space with his phone, showing how his body looked from the outside.

To outsiders, Ye Yuan's body appeared to be sleeping when he entered the space, which was why Ye Yuan dared to enter the space directly in the car.

As Ye Yuan entered the fishery, a prompt sounded:

"Detected a creature with completely depleted vitality. Do you wish to heal it?"

"Yes."

"This treatment will cost 50 points."

Ye Yuan hadn't expected the system to have such a function. He immediately asked, "System, can humans or other animals be healed in this state?"

"No."

As the negative answer was given, another 100 points were deducted.

"It would be great if it could save people," Ye Yuan thought to himself.

Looking at the dragonfish again, it was still the same as outside when it first entered the Fishery Space.

After the system deducted the points, a gentle white light enveloped the fish. The light entered the dragonfish's body, becoming less and less, and fainter and fainter, until the dragonfish absorbed all the white light.

Looking at the dragonfish again, not only was it much more energetic, but its length had also increased significantly.

Ye Yuan placed the dragonfish in the pool next to the stone tablet, and only then did he leave the space with peace of mind.

Today was the day of Ye Yuan's black pearl auction. In the past few days, Ye Yuan had visited all the flower, bird, and fish markets in Shangjing, but he hadn't sold this batch of ornamental fish.

Ye Yuan was a new face in Shangjing. Although the ornamental fish he had were all top-quality, the fishmongers only offered extremely low prices.

Later, Zhao Chuan gave him a suggestion. He suggested selling this batch of fish through the flower shop owned by his Third Brother, Deng Kai. His family's flower shop was already located in the flower, bird, and fish market. They just needed to set up a small area for ornamental fish at the entrance.

If the sales were good, they could continue. If the business was not good, Ye Yuan planned to return to Blue Island to find a stable sales channel. He couldn't keep coming to Shangjing frequently just for some ornamental fish.

This batch of fish was tentatively agreed to be split fifty-fifty with Third Brother Deng Kai. Deng Kai initially disagreed, but after hearing that Ye Yuan had a black pearl to be auctioned, which might sell for millions of yuan, he didn't insist further, as his family wasn't particularly wealthy.

The auction was this afternoon. In the morning, there was a raw stone exchange fair in the suburbs of Shangjing. Zhao Chuan took Ye Yuan and Second Brother there, as Third Brother had some family matters and couldn't make it.

The so-called raw stone exchange fair was essentially gambling stones.

Gambling stones is a term in the jewelry industry, a method of trading raw jadeite. It's popular around the Yunnan-Myanmar border and carries a gambling element. When jadeite is mined, it's encased in a weathered rind, making it impossible to know its quality inside. Only after cutting can the quality of the jadeite be determined. In its early days, gambling stones wasn't called that, but rather "gambling business."

In recent years, gambling stones has become very popular in Shangjing, and even the profession of "gambling stone master" has emerged.

A gambling stone master needs several qualities: first, immense resilience to challenges; second, a spirit of adventure; and third, extensive experience. In the gambling stone market, some have become rich overnight, but many more have gone bankrupt overnight.

Zhao Chuan drove Second Brother and Ye Yuan for an hour, stopping in front of a disused factory building in the suburbs of Shangjing. The factory looked quite dilapidated from the outside, but the interior was a completely different story.

Inside, it was divided into many stalls, each displaying numerous stones of various sizes. A large area in the center was reserved for stone cutting, where several professional stone cutters were chatting.

Ye Yuan and the others arrived quite early, so there weren't many people yet. As soon as Zhao Chuan entered, he introduced a middle-aged man who was looking at raw stones in the distance to Ye Yuan and the others. This middle-aged man was the gambling stone master Zhao Chuan's family used, and his surname was Nie.

After exchanging greetings, Zhao Chuan asked Ye Yuan and Second Brother, "Are you two going to play on your own, or with me?"

"I'll walk around by myself. You take Fourth Brother and don't worry about me."

Ye Yuan also said he would look around on his own, so Zhao Chuan went with Master Nie to select raw stones.

PS: Thank you to all the friends who have been following my book. I know some of you are genuinely reading, and I will try my best to improve my writing skills. This is my first time writing a book, and many parts are still immature. I also thank those friends who have given recommendation votes, especially my friend 08a, whose continuous rewards have given me great motivation.