Xijin lotus butterfly spring orchid

Lu Rongguang's "Xijin Lotus Butterfly", which won the gold medal, was bought from the farmers' market for 600 yuan in 2003. The market price of this kind of "lotus butterfly" was 10-15000 yuan per seedling at that time, and when the orchid was at its hottest in 2006, it sold as high as 100000 yuan per seedling. How can I find such a big bargain? Lu Jung-Kuang said that this is the skill that every orchid enthusiast learned to bet on orchids only after paying a lot of "tuition fees."

In the orchid world, there is a habit of "betting on orchids", just like "betting on stones" in the jade world. The new orchid just dug up from the mountain can't tell what kind of orchid it is when the bud doesn't open. Both the seller and the buyer guess from their own experience that if it is a rare new variety on the market after flowering, it will be valuable. When you first started growing orchids, you had to buy a "rush". It is common that orchids bought for thousands of yuan are not worth dozens of yuan after flowering. After constantly accumulating experience, Lu Rongguang developed a pair of "golden eyes" for knowing orchids.

Buying "Xijin lotus butterfly" is a successful example of "gambling orchid". It was a day in February 2003. At more than 9 o'clock in the morning, Lu Rongguang went to the farmer's market to have a look at "Xiashan Orchid". The winter of each year to the spring of the following year is not only the season of "downhill orchid", but also the time of "gambling orchid". As soon as he arrived at the flower market of the farmers' market, Lu Rongguang saw a few orchids in the hands of a Yun Lannong. Go to see, originally grow together a clump of orchids, was divided into three clumps, flowers and bones ready to blossom. Jinyun people offer 200 yuan per clump, a total of 600 yuan. Lu Rongguang didn't make a counteroffer, but bought it all. After buying the orchid, the people in the market were still staring at him. How could the customer be so cheerful, but he had already picked up a big bargain? After the flowers came out, it was indeed a rare species of "lotus butterfly". Lu Rongguang named it "Xijin lotus butterfly".