At the moment, the Amazing Fate Aquarium could be said to be poor, with a thousand things waiting to be done. Other than an empty room, there was nothing else. However, it was okay. Karl had already shipped a batch of aquarium equipment from Germany, and there would be more in the future. As for the aquarium tanks, they would buy a batch of normal ones locally and then customize a few extra-large ones, the kind that would shock people the moment they entered the shop.
Zhang Zian remembered the giant aquarium tank in Karl's aquarium that could be used as a screen. Karl had raised a European paddlefish in it, and he was going to order a similar one.
He pushed the door open and looked around the first floor of the store. Luckily, after he bought the shoe store, he had renovated the water and electricity system, and installed a lot of sockets on the walls in case of emergencies.
Marine life was very sensitive to temperature. They either needed to be heated or cooled. Aquarium equipment basically needed electricity, and it would look bad to have a lot of plug boards in the store.
There were also lights.
Marine life, including corals, needed lights of different intensities and colors. Not only did they provide light, but they also enhanced the atmosphere, so that customers would fall in love with these beautiful creatures at first sight.
He walked around the first floor casually, silently imagining the placement of the aquarium tanks, and tried to make use of the space.
He walked to the stairs and walked up to the second floor.
A small part of the second floor was used as the delivery room for the Abyssinian cats, but Abyssinian cats didn't give birth all year round, so the delivery room was empty most of the time. The other space was also temporarily empty like the first floor.
He gently pushed open the door of the delivery room. The mother raised its head in alarm, but when it saw him, it immediately recognized him. It immediately relaxed and laid down to lick the fur of the kittens in its arms.
In the few days since he left Binhai City, the kittens had already opened their eyes, and they looked much better than when they were born. They curiously looked around this new and strange world, and cuddled around in the mother's arms, looking for the best place to drink milk.
The two mothers lived in the delivery room these days to avoid being disturbed by the customers that came and went. Because of their small range of activities, the food they ate was nutritious. Every day, four medium-sized fresh crucian carps were boiled into soup, and at night, a can of cat food was opened for them as a midnight snack. As a result, they were much fatter than before.
However, once the kittens grew up, the female cats could return to the pet shop and continue their daily life of jumping up and down. Soon, they would return to their slim and healthy bodies.
The kittens had just opened their eyes, but they had not fully opened yet. Their eyes were not much bigger than soybeans, and their bodies were about the size of mobile phones. When they were full, they clustered around each other like balls of fur, and their little milk teeth could be seen in their mouths.
When they were born, their fur was very dark. However, as they gradually grew up, the different parts of their body had different shades of fur. The markings on their foreheads became more obvious, while the fur on their chest, abdomen, and neck became lighter and lighter. The area below their necks had a slightly yellowish milky white color, as if they were wearing a napkin before eating.
Most of the kittens didn't know how to run yet, so they could only crawl around the mother cat. However, the kitten that was reserved could already run. It would fall from time to time, but it would immediately get up, like an adventurous explorer.
Zhang Zian checked the situation in the other delivery room. There was nothing unusual.
He slightly lowered the power of the electric blanket under the cat's nest. Spring was coming to Binhai City.
There was a small notebook hanging on the wall of each delivery room. He opened it and looked at it. It was a record of the kittens' weight since they were born. When he was not in Binhai City, Lu Yi Yun had been recording it for him.
Looking at the data, the kittens' weight would increase by a little more than 10 grams every day. Sometimes it was more, sometimes it was less. After all, whether or not they had bowel movements had a big impact on their weight, but on average, it was roughly the same on a weekly basis.
A steady increase in weight was a sign of health.
He also picked up each kitten one by one and put them on the kitchen scale to measure their weight. He then wrote down the date and filled it in at the bottom of the form.
Every time he finished weighing a kitten, the mother would take the initiative to bring it back to the cat's nest.
During this period of time, the mother liked to keep herself and the kittens in a dark place, but for the sake of their health, it was better for them to bask in the sun to replenish their vitamin D.
So he opened the curtains and let the morning sun shine into the room. It just happened to shine on the mother and the kittens, showing off the unique double or triple color bands on the Abyssinian cat's fur.
Bang!
The door of the store opened and closed downstairs.
"Master! We're here! Your package is here! "
Wang Qian and Li Kun must have delivered the package.
The kittens and the mother were fine, so he closed the delivery room door and went downstairs.
Li Kun held the door open while Wang Qian carried the package into the store. Some of the packages were written in German, and some were written in English.
"Master, you told us to sort them out before moving them here, but we don't even know what they are!" Li Kun said with a bitter face.
Wang Qian and Li Kun's families and relatives all had cats and dogs, so they were very familiar with how to take care of cats and dogs.
Their relatives also raised fish, but most of them were freshwater fish, and they were raised extensively. For example, they built a fish pond with concrete and red bricks outdoors, then put a few koi or grass goldfish in it. Other than feeding them every few days, they basically didn't have to worry about feeding them. During the winter, they would bring the fish indoors, and during the other three seasons, they would be kept outdoors.
Some careless people would keep the fish outdoors even during the winter. Grass goldfish and koi were famous for being easy to raise. Even if the water was frozen, they wouldn't necessarily freeze to death.
Since the Qing Dynasty, there was a popular saying that vividly described the life in the old Beijing siheyuan — the canopy, the fish tank, the pomegranate tree, the gentleman, the fat dog, and the fat girl.
In just two short sentences, there were six nouns, and two of them were related to pets!
In these two sentences, there were only two adjectives and no verbs, but it was like a picture of peaceful summer life unfolded in front of one's eyes. It was fascinating.
Old Beijing people liked to raise goldfish in the big fish tanks in the siheyuan, and the more classy ones would even plant lotus, water lilies, water plants, and other plants in the fish tanks.
You can pick lotuses in Jiangnan, where are the lotus leaves?
Fish play among the lotus leaves.
Fish play with the lotus leaves in the east, fish play with the lotus leaves in the west, fish play with the lotus leaves in the south, and fish play with the lotus leaves in the north.
Even if one didn't go to Jiangnan, or even leave the siheyuan, one could still enjoy the cool air under the canopy while waving a cattail leaf fan and looking at the beautiful scenery of the fish playing with the lotus leaves.
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