Super Zoo

When nurse Xiao Hu shouted so loudly, the other two nurses blushed with shyness. One of the younger nurses hit Xiao Hu: "Why are you shouting so loudly? It's so embarrassing..."

"You two are so delicate. How can you sell things without shouting? Learn from me!"

Nurse Xiao Hu glared at them and continued to shout at the loudspeaker:

"Selling fish feed, fragrant and sweet fish feed! Five yuan a bag, you won't lose money, you won't be fooled, buy a bag of fish feed, and change a good mood for the day..."

There were some people preparing to row boats at the cruise ship dock, and some were walking along the lake. When she shouted, she immediately attracted a lot of people's attention.

People like to watch the fun, and with three girls in nurse uniforms sitting in a row by the lake, many tourists gathered around curiously.

"Didn't you say you don't feed the fish?" someone asked.

Nurse Xiao Hu said carelessly: "That's not feeding randomly. What are you feeding? Plastic bags, junk food, the fish are all dead! Ours is real sea fish, mixed with concentrated feed, the fish grow big and healthy after eating it, how can it be the same?"

The tourists are not stupid, someone immediately reacted and said with a smile: "Okay, your zoo wants us to help you feed the fish, and you want us to pay!"

"Everyone takes what they need. Everyone comes here to play, isn't it just for fun? Who can't afford to spend a few dollars? Don't you think this is the truth?" Nurse Xiao Hu said.

She is right. For Su Ming, feeding fish is work rather than entertainment; for tourists, it is just the opposite. Sprinkling feed into the water and attracting a large group of fish to compete for food is entertainment, not work.

Everyone calculates their own accounts, starting from different points, and calculating differently. For tourists, spending a few dollars to buy fun is natural.

Su Ming was not the first to use this method. Now many farmhouses have launched projects of "picking by yourself" or even "planting" by yourself. Customers pick and plant by themselves, which is equivalent to saving the trouble of farmers and paying farmers money instead. That's the reason, spend money to buy happiness.

There is a famous strawberry garden in the suburbs of Yangchuan City. Every year during the strawberry harvest season, a large number of tourists rush to pick strawberries and experience the pleasure of "working by themselves". The strawberry farmers there save the cost of picking, transportation and packaging, and the price of strawberries is higher than that on the market, which not only drives the economic development of the farmers in that area, but also gives city dwellers an opportunity to get close to nature, killing two birds with one stone.

Nurse Xiao Hu is eloquent and sold half a bucket of fish feed in a short time.

People who bought fish feed took the feed on the boat and threw it on the lake. They didn't expect there would be many fish in the lake, but they didn't expect that after the feed was thrown into the water, the water surface suddenly boiled, and countless fish squeezed one by one and emerged to compete for it.

Su Ming deliberately starved the fry for several days. When they finally encountered food, they ate it desperately.

For a while, the lake was full of fish swarming, and large patches of water splashed. The scene was quite spectacular. The whole Shuijun Lake seemed to have suddenly "come alive".

Most of these feeds were fragments of marine fish. Domestic fish would not eat them. They would sink to the bottom of the water and be eaten by black fish. The four major carps mainly ate the small amount of granular concentrated feed mixed in.

"Girl, what do you mean by feeding fish with a milk bottle?" An old lady with her grandson pointed at the sign of Nurse Xiao Hu and asked in confusion.

Nurse Xiao Hu took out a milk bottle from the bucket. It was called a milk bottle, but it was actually an empty mineral water bottle, but with a rubber nipple installed. The bottle was filled with concentrated feed and chopped marine fish.

Several large notches were cut on the nipple, and a small bamboo pole about one meter long was tied behind it.

"Look, that's it!"

Nurse Xiao Hu walked to the river with a bamboo pole and held the bottle filled with feed to the surface of the water. The feed leaked out of the broken nipple and fell into the water, attracting the fish under the water to pop up and rush to the bottle. One by one, they had round fish mouths and rushed to suck the feed in the nipple.

Baji, baji, the little fishes scrambled for the nipple to eat, looking like a group of children sucking milk.

Since most of the milk bottles were marine fish, only a small amount of concentrated feed was mixed in, so if those domestic fish wanted to eat the concentrated feed, they had to suck hard to suck the small pieces of marine fish out of the nipple.

In this way, the fragments of marine fish would also sink to the bottom of the water and be eaten by black fish.

"Grandma, grandma, I want to play, I want to play..." The little grandson slapped himself happily and pulled the aunt's sleeve to act coquettishly.

"Okay, okay, girl, how much is it for one play?" the aunt asked.

Nurse Xiao Hu handed over a bottle and said, "Ten yuan a bottle, no time limit!"

A bag of mixed feed costs five yuan, and there is only about as much feed in the bottle, but the price has doubled. Time is even less important. A bottle of feed is less than one pound at most, and it will be eaten up by fish in a short time.

With the first person paying, the others followed. Those who came to the zoo were either young people or brought their children, and there were also many couples. The more than 20 bottles prepared by Nurse Xiao Hu were all sold out in less than an hour.

A row of big and small children squatted on the lake embankment, and stretched the bamboo poles tied with milk bottles into the water to attract fish to eat, which was a happy scene.

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Su Ming stood at the top of the Tingfeng Pavilion, taking in the view of Shuijun Lake and most of the zoo. Seeing the little Hu nurse shouting hard below, he couldn't help laughing. He really didn't find the wrong person. Little Hu's personality was too suitable for this job. When selling feed, the effect was better than he expected. Not only could she shout, but she also came up with the idea of ​​using a milk bottle.

He and the three nurses from the health center agreed that when the three nurses were not on duty, they would take turns to sell fish feed here on the cruise ship, and use the money from selling feed to make up for the deficit of buying feed.

Even if they bought the best marine fish and concentrated feed, one ton plus freight would only cost two thousand yuan, an average of one yuan per catty.

He wholesaled it to little Hu nurses at a price of four yuan per catty. They could take the goods first and pay later, and settle accounts once a week. It was basically impossible to lose money. The profit was theirs.

So as long as he could sell 25% of the feed, he could get back all his capital, and the income and expenditure would be balanced, which was equivalent to raising fish without spending money.

Su Ming was careful. The profit of one yuan per pound was not much, but the total amount was large. If a certain amount was sold, nurse Xiao Hu and her colleagues would have to take out a part of the profit and invest it in the medical clinic to buy some common medicines and give them to sick employees in the zoo for free.

In this way, if the sales of feed increased in the future, the entire zoo would share the benefits and would not arouse envy.

Of course, it was too early to talk about making a lot of money now.

Su Ming observed for a while and found that there were quite a few tourists who bought feed to feed the fish. The three large buckets of feed that Xiao Hu and her colleagues brought were sold out in less than two hours.

He suddenly realized that, including the free fish fry, if everything went well, the 100 acres of fish would be almost all free money after they grew up!