Chapter 15

Qin Shiou said his worry. Shack scratched his head and muttered, "it should be all right, because we've been doing this for decades. Isn't the maple growing well?"

Auerbach, who had been smiling at Qin Shiou before, smiled. He explained, "Qin, come on, I'll tell you the answer. You know, Newfoundland is close to the North Pole. Summer is short and winter is long. In summer, maple uses photosynthesis to produce starch, which will be converted into sugar before winter. "

"In the severe cold of winter, if the plant body fluid freezes, the cell membrane will rupture and the plant will naturally die. Maple juice is full of sugar, so it is not easy to freeze below the freezing point, so they can survive in high latitude and cold areas. "

"But when spring and summer come and the temperature rises, maple trees begin to grow with water. In this way, the sugar content in the tree juice becomes higher and higher. Once the concentration is higher than the concentration of cell fluid, the cell water will be lost, which is also not conducive to their survival."

"So, at this time, it's best to harvest maple sugar and let maple leaves store starch again under photosynthesis. In fact, even if we don't collect maple sugar, maple trees will secrete these things."

In contrast, Auerbach obviously has more culture. Shaq nodded wildly and probably couldn't understand it.

Qin Shiou was a man who had studied biology, so he understood this truth and began to collect tree juice without psychological pressure.

These two maple trees are more than 80 years old, with numerous roots and luxuriant branches. The trunk has to be hugged by two sarks. The tree juice is very abundant. After inserting the plug, they begin to flow amber juice.

Qin Shiou dipped his hand in it and tasted it. The sticky tree juice has a sweet fragrance of plants and trees. It tastes lighter than sugar water, but it has a different feeling.

When Shaq left, squirrel Xiaoming got up from the tree, jumped on a storage tank and looked at the sap inside.

Qin Shiou dipped his fingers in some tree juice and handed it to Xiao Ming. He stretched out his pink tongue and licked it quickly, then shook his big tail and jumped off the jar.

It seems that squirrels also eat sugar. Qin Shiou looks at Xiaoming who seems very happy and smiles.

In fact, there was no need for Qin Shiou to feed him. After observing for a while, Xiao Ming climbed to a place where the tree juice forked, where a pipe head was also inserted. Xiao Ming was condescending and licked the tree juice flowing from the pipe head from time to time like drinking water.

The two big trees indeed stored a lot of SAP. In just one morning, Qin Shiou collected more than 20 kilograms of SAP.

The way to boil maple syrup is to cook it in a pot. As the water evaporates, the last thing left is syrup.

After the fire, Qin Shiou didn't care. He extended his mind to the ocean to see the changes on the bottom of the fishing ground.

The area of coral reefs is even larger. They are scattered and extended to more than 50 square meters. Finally, the seabed has a colorful taste.

Qin Shiou's heart is focused on expanding everywhere. When he meets fish, he leads him to the location of the coral reef. Through his efforts, there is a lot of excitement around the coral reef.

Colorful corals stretch their hairy tentacles to prey. Some insect yellow algae are scattered around to absorb carbon dioxide released by corals and phosphorus and nitrogen in emissions.

At the same time, zooxanthellae will release oxygen and carbohydrates, which are the food on which coral insects live. The two sides form a symbiotic relationship.

In addition to zooxanthellae, coralline algae, cyanobacteria and brown algae also grow on corals recently. Before, cyanobacteria and brown algae almost disappeared here. It is estimated that only some "seeds" are left. When Qin Shiou uses mysterious energy to breed corals, they also benefit.

It is the existence of coral algae, cyanobacteria and brown algae that attracts crucian carp and other fish. They eat these algae.

He wandered for a while at the bottom of the sea, mainly exploring the field of shallow water areas, so it was impossible to find any sunken ship treasures. It was meaningless, so he planned to take back his mind.

But when he took it back, he met a strange little fish. It was about the length of its palm. It was green and red and bright in color. It was covered with small black spots on its body and a red band on its side, like a rainbow. It was very ornamental.

Qin Shiou is curious. He should know this kind of fish. This is the famous rainbow trout.

Rainbow trout is a specialty fish in North America. It is a treasure of cold water fish. Its meat tastes delicious. In some places, it even uses its fish meat to pretend to be salmon. It often appears in Hong Kong dramas.

However, as Qin Shiou knows, rainbow trout should be a freshwater fish. It generally lives in some rivers in North America, Alaska, Canada and other places. How can it be in the sea?

The little fish is very impatient and seems to have encountered something. It may have just escaped from the mouth of natural enemies. Most fish in the ocean live in groups. When one is a lone ranger, he is usually scattered by natural enemies and the fish drift away.

Qin Shiou's mind shrouded. The little fish immediately calmed down and followed Qin Shiou's lead all the way. It also went to the coral reef, and then swayed its head and tail to look for food.

Nothing more, Qin Shiou took back his mind. He then went online to check, and then suddenly realized.

That small fish is indeed a kind of rainbow trout, called hard headed trout. This fish is a rare migratory fish among trout. It grows in the river.

Qin Shiou now knows that coral reefs are indispensable for the development of fishing grounds, which can provide food and shelter for fish.

After thinking about it, he went to Shaq and asked, "man, do you know how to make corals grow faster?"

Shack didn't know why. Qin Shiou explained the relationship. After understanding it, he said in embarrassment: "boss, it's not easy. In the past, we had a lot of Bafang corals here, but later the water quality became worse and worse, and the corals couldn't live."

Generally speaking, corals like to live in warm, transparent and nutrient poor tropical shallow waters, but they have a wide variety and distribution. There are also many kinds of corals in temperate and cold shallow waters.

Even in the deep-sea waters of the cold zone, they have been found. For example, the American Geographic magazine reported that they once found a kind of black horn coral at the depth of 8800 meters.

However, coral is a very delicate creature. They are very sensitive to seawater salinity, pH, light transparency, oxygen content and water pollution. Now, with the increase of seawater acidity caused by carbon dioxide pollution, coral is facing a huge survival crisis.

The reason why the coral around the farewell Island died so badly should be related to water pollution. When Qin Shiou's mind entered the ocean, he instinctively felt uncomfortable because of pollution.

"What if the water quality improves?" Qin Shiou asked.

Shack said, "that's easy. We can throw stones and wooden frames at the bottom of the sea. As long as we build a skeleton, coral insects will cling to it. Over time, they will extend into coral reefs."

Qin Shiou nodded to understand and began to plan how to artificially make coral reefs in the future.

Maple sugar was boiled until the afternoon. When Shaq went to town, he brought back several children. These children were happy to see the maple sugar boiled almost golden. It was always children who liked sugar.

The children were seven or eight years old. Shack patted the biggest little guy and proudly introduced him: "boss, this is my son, little shack, the warrior and treasure of the sardinson family."

Qin Shiou smiled bitterly. Are Canadians too lazy to name their children? Why is it not the same name as Dad or Grandpa? Robert Black IV, the little boss of Lee's auction house, is like this, and so is shack's son now.

Maple candy is easy to eat. Make some clean snow with an ice maker, pour maple candy on it one by one, and then eat it after cooling.

Qin Shiou ate one. The maple candy dipped in snow was sweet but not greasy. Because of the snow, it was cold and bright. It was much better than domestic lollipops.

Auerbach instructed Qin Shiou to make maple syrup pudding with maple syrup, which is a special snack in Newfoundland. It is baked with fresh cream, maple syrup, egg yolk and some mint leaves.

The process is not complicated. Stir the egg yolk, cream and maple syrup, then filter out the maple syrup pudding liquid with a fine screen, then pour it into the model, break the surface bubbles with a spoon, and finally bake it in the oven. It can be eaten in the refrigerator at any time and heated at any time, which is very convenient.

Nothing happened in the afternoon. Shaq was busy calculating what to buy. Qin Shiou sat on the sofa watching TV dramas with a plate of fruit salad and maple syrup pudding. He had direct access to North American cable TV. Although it was a toll channel, the program quality was quite high, at least there was no broadcast.

The day passed. At night, Qin Shiou had nothing to do and was going to the bar. As a result, the car couldn't start, which made him quite depressed. He made up his mind to buy a car tomorrow!

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