Chapter 8

Auerbach brought a camera. He shot the woman with the golden drum from different angles. He also selected one of pinajan's paintings, the morning wind blowing through the woods, and shot it.

"I sent it to my old friend and asked him to judge it professionally." Auerbach explained, "that guy is the art director of Lee's auction house in Ottawa. He has no eyes."

Qin Shiou put these paintings away. When Auerbach left, he saw the pickup truck in the yard, nodded and said, "it's really inconvenient to go to town from the fishing ground. I neglected it. In this way, drive my old Ford and I'll send the pickup back to Anderson."

Anderson is the name of the owner of the small hotel.

After hearing this, Qin Shiou was moved and said, "give me the Ford. What are you driving?"

Auerbach said, "I still have a BMW 750. I'll drive a BMW."

Qin Shiou: "

Auerbach left. Qin Shiou stayed alone in the small building and had nothing to do. He took a vacuum cleaner and chicken feather blanket and prepared to clean.

The small building is divided into two floors. The first floor has two bedrooms, two toilets, a hall, a storage room and a kitchen. The overall area is more than 300 square meters, and the hall alone has nearly 100 square meters.

The second floor is a little small and has a look of 250-60 square meters. Six bedrooms are symmetrically distributed. In addition, there is a cloakroom of about 20 square meters. It is very spacious and the decoration style is simple. The whole small building is paved with a layer of excellent red maple board, both moisture-proof and beautiful.

During lunch, Qin Shiou was ready to change his taste. The COD in Newfoundland was very famous. He transferred his consciousness to the nearby ocean and was ready to finish his wish and burn a cod to taste.

The beautiful Chenbao Lake gave Qin Shiou a great thought. Originally, he thought that the landscape of a lake was so brilliant, and the vast underwater world should be more colorful.

But what he saw disappointed him. Where the water was less than two meters deep, most of the seabed was snow-white and fine sand. In addition, he could touch the reef every three or five times.

His consciousness sank further, and when he reached a depth of about four or five meters, coral appeared on the seabed.

Unlike those colorful Australian tropical corals on TV, most corals in the waters around the fishing ground are gray and lifeless.

Qin Shiou thought this was what cold zone coral looked like. Then, by chance, he also saw a small piece of coral mixed with pink and light yellow.

From this piece of coral, Qin Shiou can feel the vitality. Small coral polyps agglomerate together to form this piece of coral.

In this way, Qin Shiou understood that those gray white reefs were not living corals, but coral reefs composed of coral insect bodies.

Qin Shiou's consciousness continues to move in the sea, but it can't move far. The limit range is about two nautical miles from the fishing ground. In this way, he experienced a considerable sea area, but he didn't see a fish after searching in the sea for a long time!

The offshore waters of the fishing ground are dead, and the seabed environment is seriously damaged. The fish have left here. In addition, the pollution in this sea area is also very serious. The water quality is very bad, and the water temperature is relatively low, which is the reason why the fish fled.

When Qin Shiou saw a transparent jellyfish's long arm floating towards him.

The jellyfish has a length of more than 40 cm and a caliber of 5 cm. Its shape is like a spiral arm. It is symmetrical as a whole, but its two ends are slightly slender. Its body is composed of outer wall and inner wall, with a hole in the middle. Its whole body is translucent light white.

Qin Shiou recognized that it was a cup sponge. Although it looked very big, in fact, it was similar to the structure of coral. The latter was composed of countless small coral insects and it was composed of countless small jellyfish.

Cup jellyfish is a very common creature in the Atlantic Ocean. This cup sponge is composed of square and deep cup jellyfish. A small jellyfish is only two millimeters long. They usually live in groups. Only when thousands of small jellyfish are combined can they have such a structure.

Qin Shiou was a little happy to see this cup of sponge, because it can attract fish. It is known as "small fish shelter" and can protect small fish.

As we all know, the ocean predation pyramid is that big fish eat small fish, but a cup of sponge can generate several meters or even ten meters long. For big fish, it is like a monster and dare not attack it easily.

In this way, small fish can get a higher chance of survival by hiding in it. The secretion and excreta of small fish are the food of these cup jellyfish, and their symbiotic relationship is a great spectacle of the ocean.

Qin Shiou's consciousness approached the cup sponge and found that the life breath of the small cup jellyfish that made up it was weak, and the outer wall on the side even broke a hole.

However, when the cup jellyfish approached Qin Shiou's consciousness, the vitality slowly began to recover, and Qin Shiou felt a little tired. Then he suddenly realized that his consciousness could be used for the treatment and even rescue of marine life.

Qin Shiou's consciousness converged back, and the cup sponge followed him. Finally, it floated to the pink and light yellow coral, and it stopped.

At this time, the cup jellyfish have recovered their vitality. Qin Shiou can feel the attachment and gratitude of these little things to him.

Taking back his consciousness, Qin Shiou felt tired and hungry.

The COD was not found. Qin Shiou was too lazy to cook carp. He simply drove to the town and found a restaurant called "father Hickson" to eat ready-made fish.

The restaurant looks shabby from the outside, but it is clean inside. An old white man with a braided beard on his chin is busy cleaning. Oak tables are polished brightly. It is obvious that they have been years and have been coated.

"Hey, man, what do you want?" Seeing Qin Shiou, the old man asked with a smile.

Qin Shiou was about to speak. The old man looked at him carefully for a while. Suddenly, he came quickly and gently punched him in the chest: "you are driving old Auerbach's car. I heard that the old guy took Qin's grandson to the town. Is that you?"

It seems that his grandfather is really popular. Qin Shiou smiled and said, "yes, I'm Xiao Qin. Qin in your mouth is my grandfather."

He hoped that the old man would give him a discount like the hotel owner. It would be better if he were invited to dinner.

As a result, the chubby old man laughed and said, "great, boy, your grandfather still owes me more than 1000 yuan for dinner. Remember to pay for him in the future."

Qin Shiou immediately cried and laughed, but then the old man patted him on the shoulder and said, "but I invited Qin for the first meal. I promised Qin that when his descendants came to take over the fishing ground, they would invite them to dinner."

The little braided old man did things with great vigour. After he sat down, he rushed into the kitchen. Qin Shiou was stunned to see his figure disappear. He said silently for a long time: "Sir, I haven't said what to eat."

Four or five minutes later, a fragrant fried rice was brought up. On the snow-white rice was whiter and tender salmon meat, dotted with golden oil flowers, and golden egg cakes. In addition, the periphery of fried rice is poured with a layer of red meat sauce, which looks like a big appetite.

Qin Shiou scooped up the meat sauce rice with a spoon and ate it. The fresh and tender gravy exploded with the warm rice in the taste buds. He gave the old man a thumbs up and said vaguely, "great, this is the best fried rice I've ever had."

After listening to his praise, the little old man's eyes narrowed with laughter. He took out a pipe and held it in his mouth. After spitting out a cigarette, he said, "this is my father Hickson's best spicy fried salmon sauce rice. Your grandfather used to like it very much. I guess you'll like it too."

"The world is delicious." Qin Shiou praised.

As soon as he said the word, Hickson's father suddenly calmed down. He looked at Qin Shiou carefully, and there was a faint mist floating in his eyes.

Qin Shiou didn't know what was going on. Father Hickson looked at it for a long time and whispered, "young man, when your grandfather first ate this fried rice, he also used the word 'delicious in the world'. At that time, my father was still managing this restaurant. In the blink of an eye, for many years. "

Hickson's father didn't say anything behind him. Standing in front of the window, he bit his pipe and looked out at the blue sky. The smoke lingered. Maybe he was thinking about his youth.

The blue sky is still there, and my old friend has disappeared.

After this meal, Qin Shiou had to pay the bill. Father Hickson insisted on not accepting it, but apologized: "just now I thought of some things in the past, and the atmosphere may be a little depressed. Come back tomorrow noon and I'll make you another one, okay?"

Qin Shiou thanked and returned to the fishing ground. He had nothing to do in the afternoon. His spirit was also a little tired. He lay in bed and watched TV.

Canada and the United States closely intersect. As the younger brother of the latter, it can share almost all American TV programs. Qin Shiou watched a TV play called "x killer" that was not introduced in China.

The x-killer imitates the X-Men a little. The protagonist is also a mutant with special functions. His ability is that he can become that person after he comes into contact with a person's DNA. The plot tells the story of how he uses his super ability to punish evil.

In the evening, Auerbach called and said that his old friend from Lee's auction house had flown to Newfoundland to help him identify the paintings early tomorrow morning.