So he apologized to the several people who had come over to ask about the price, saying that the fish had already been reserved.
Upon hearing this, they all expressed their regrets for intruding and dispersed, but they did not go far. Instead, they gathered around the big red fish, joining others in admiring and discussing it, as such a large red fish was truly a rarity.
Lin Yang also walked over, looking at the brightly colored big fish before him.
The "red fish" they referred to was actually just a local dialect term for what is scientifically known as the Chinese Lipstick Fish, a species in the Cypriniformes order, of the Barbinae subfamily, and Barb genus, and it is unique to our country.
It is mainly found in the Yangtze River basin of China, more abundant upstream, and also present in Fujian's Min River, albeit rarely.
