About how to "arrange" those five big fish, Suming had considered it as well.
The smallest of these fish weighed just over 100 jin (approximately 50 kg), with the largest green fish reaching 180 jin (approximately 90 kg); they definitely couldn't be treated like ordinary fish, killed for their meat or sold off.
In modern society, it is exceedingly rare for fish to grow so large; it would take at least several decades. According to the elder generation, such large fish have "spiritual power" and killing them would be an inauspicious act.
As for releasing them, that's nonsense. Not to mention that Suming had bought them with his own money, even if he did release them, they might be caught by someone downstream in a few days after being released upstream.
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These days, with sand dredgers and fishing boats everywhere, severe pollution, and the wild living environment of animals being horribly destroyed, these fish would probably not have as good a life in the wild as they would following Suming.
In the end, Suming was not someone with an entirely noble and righteous backbone; he frankly couldn't be bothered to do things that involved sacrificing his interests for the greater good.
Under normal circumstances, capturing such big fish usually leads to an exhibition with an entrance fee. People seek novelty, and these enormous fish, all five of them, would certainly attract plenty willing to pay to see them.
Suming thought further ahead, possessing the ability to befriend animals, it would be too wasteful to merely use such large fish for exhibition purposes.
As he had told that reporter, he indeed wanted to develop a "fish-riding" attraction.
Riding horses is common, but riding fish is an unprecedented idea; no zoos around the world, including places like Disney, have a fish-riding attraction.
Maintaining horses is expensive; a batch of good horses is costly by itself, and with feed and maintenance, the investment is significant. Moreover, horse riding is relatively more dangerous and not widespread in China.
Big fish, on the other hand, are different. The five fish combined cost less than ten thousand yuan, while just one leg of a decent horse is worth more than that. Daily feeding is easy to manage; they would eat whatever is in the lake, are unlikely to get sick, and are very easy to keep alive.
Therefore, the prospects for the fish-riding attraction are undeniable.
But to truly create a fish-riding attraction that is both safe and fun, the conditions are not yet ripe.
Suming now couldn't be bothered with worrying about this small amount of money. He simply bought himself a small motorboat and moored it in the middle of Shuijun Lake, lounging in a deck chair to sunbathe while scattering his spiritual power into the water.
During this period, the fish in the lake had grown a size bigger. With the rate they were growing, they would be ready for sale in just a few months.
Lately, the gharial gar fish had become much better behaved. Without Suming's control, they would go to Huating Reservoir to feed on time each day and come back full, resting within the area Suming had designated for them quite obediently, saving Suming quite a bit of trouble.
The alligator snapping turtles and the bighead carp had nothing better to do; they did nothing but eat all day, quickly growing in size.
The alligator snapping turtles were somewhat better off, mainly putting on muscle and looking like muscular men. Paired with a fierce-looking shell, they looked quite majestic, and could probably scare quite a few people if they went out at night;
Bighead carp, however, was a lost cause, growing fat and clumsy with a tendency to mutate into a pig. At first glance, it resembled a plump, black dolphin.
The mother dolphin was undergoing treatment, and without her to keep them in check, the dolphin calves acted like two idling hooligans all day in Shuijun Lake, messing around. Sometimes when they saw tourists, they would even pop up to spit water, turn in a circle, and wiggle their butts, baiting for some snacks and screams from young girls.
When they saw Suming's boat approaching, the two dolphin calves started calling out joyfully from afar, leaping through the wind and over the water's surface, quickly reaching the side of the motorboat, where they stood upright on the water, twisting and turning.
Suming casually threw a bass from the bucket, and before the bass even fully hit the water, one of the dolphin calves waiting by the side of the boat leaped, its tail gliding over the surface as if it were sliding on the water, and snatched the fish in its mouth.
The other dolphin calf, having missed out, was so anxious that it kept calling out, paddling with its flippers while perched on the edge of the boat, its round head desperately pushing towards the direction of the bucket.
"You shameless thing..." Suming grabbed a squid and tossed it over; its tentacles spread out in the wind, splatting the face of the dolphin calf with a 'biu' sound.
The dolphin calf opened its huge mouth, leaned its body slightly backward, and then inhaled forcefully, slurping the entire squid into its belly, much like slurping noodles.
"Stop eating, go see your mom!"
"Go see your mom" had recently become a popular phrase in Yangchuan City. Ever since the TV report about the family of dolphins at the zoo, swarms of tourists were attracted every day, eager to personally see this animal even rarer than pandas. Later, some cheeky person wrote a comedic article online titled "I've Come to See Your Mom."
The article went viral overnight, and "go see your mom" became a popular phrase, meaning "see something rare."