Qin Shiou expressed his worries, Shaq scratched his head, and muttered, "It should be fine, because we've been doing this for decades, don't maple trees grow well?" ”

Auerbach, who had been smiling and watching Qin Shiou's busy work before, laughed, and he explained: "Qin, come, I'll tell you the answer." You know, Newfoundland is close to the Arctic, so it has short summers and long winters, and in the summer, maple trees use photosynthesis to produce starch, which is converted into sugars before winter. ”

"In the cold winter, if the body fluids of plants freeze, the cell membranes will break and the plants will naturally die. The sap of maple trees is rich in sugar, so it is not easy to freeze below freezing, so that they can survive in cold regions at high latitudes. ”

"But when spring and summer come, the temperature rises, and the maple trees start to use water to grow, so that the sugar content in the sap will be higher and higher, and once the concentration is higher than the concentration of cell sap, the loss of cell water is also not conducive to their survival."

"So, at this time, it's best to harvest maple syrup and let the maple leaves restore starch under photosynthesis, and in fact even if we don't collect maple sugar, the maple tree will secrete these things."

In contrast, Auerbach is obviously much more educated, and Shaq nodded wildly on the side, probably not understanding.

Qin Shiou is a person who has studied biology, so he understood this truth, and began to collect tree sap without any psychological pressure.

Both maple trees were more than eighty years old, with flourishing roots, trunks as thick as two shaks, and abundant sap, which began to gurgle out when plugged in.

Qin Shiou stretched out his hand and dipped it and tasted it, the slimy sap had a kind of sweet fragrance of plants and trees, which was lighter than the taste of sugar water, but it had a different feeling.

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

Qin Shiou dipped his finger in some tree sap and handed it to Xiao Ming, he stretched out his pink tongue and licked it quickly, and then flicked his big tail and jumped off the jar.

It seems that squirrels also eat sugar, Qin Shiou looked at Xiao Ming, who shook his head and tail, and seemed to be very happy.

In fact, there was no need for Qin Shiou to feed, Xiao Ming observed for a while, and then climbed to a place where the sap forked, where a pipe head was also inserted, Xiao Ming was condescending, licking the sap flowing out of the pipe head from time to time as if drinking water.

The two big trees really stored a lot of sap, and in just one morning, Qin Shiou collected more than 20 kilograms of sap.

The earthy method of boiling maple syrup is to steam it in a pot, and as the water evaporates, the final thing left is syrup.

After the fire was burned, Qin Shiou didn't care, he extended his mind to the ocean to check the changes on the bottom of the fishing ground.

The area of the coral reef has become larger, and it has spread to more than 50 square meters, and the seabed finally has a bit of a colorful taste.

Qin Shiou's mind expanded in all directions, and after encountering fish, he led to the location of the coral reef, and after his efforts, the coral reef was already much more lively.

Colorful polyps hunt with ciliated tentacles, and some zooxanthellae are scattered around, absorbing carbon dioxide and phosphorus and nitrogen from emissions.

At the same time, zooxanthellae release oxygen and carbohydrates, which are food for polyps, forming a symbiotic relationship between the two sides.

In addition to zooxanthellae, there are also corals and cyanobacteria, brown algae and the like, which have only grown recently, before cyanobacteria and brown algae were almost extinct here, it is estimated that only some 'seeds' remained, when Qin Shiou used mysterious energy to breed polyps, they also benefited.

It is also the existence of coral, cyanobacteria, and brown algae that attracts fish such as crucian carp, which feed on these seaweeds.

He walked around the bottom of the sea for a while, mainly exploring the territory of shallow sea areas, so it was impossible to find any shipwreck treasures or the like, and it was not interesting, so he planned to retract his mind.

But when he took it back, he came across a strange small fish, this small fish was about the length of a palm, blue and red, bright body color, its body was covered with small black spots, and there was a red band on the side of its body, like a rainbow, which was very ornamental.

Qin Shiou was a little curious, he should know this kind of fish, this is the famous rainbow trout.

Rainbow trout is a special fish in North America, belonging to the treasure of cold-water fish, the meat is delicious, and in some places it is even used to pass off its fish as salmon, and it often appears in Hong Kong dramas.

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

This small fish is very impatient, it seems that something has happened, it may have just escaped from the mouth of the natural enemy, most of the fish in the ocean are social people, when there is a lone ranger, it is generally scattered by the natural enemy, and the fish are left out.

Qin Shiou's mind was enveloped, and the little fish suddenly quieted down, followed Qin Shiou's guidance all the way, and it also arrived at the coral reef, and then shook its head and tail to look for food.

If there was nothing to do, Qin Shiou retracted his mind, and then he went to check on the Internet, and then suddenly realized.

The small fish was indeed a species of rainbow trout, called the hardhead trout, which is a rare migratory fish among trout, and grows in the river and the sea.

Qin Shiou now understands that coral reefs are indispensable if fishing grounds are to develop, and this thing 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?" ”

Sha Ke didn't know why, Qin Shiou explained the relationship, and after understanding, he said embarrassedly: "Boss, this is not easy, we used to have a lot of eight-release corals here, but then the water quality became worse and worse, and the corals couldn't survive." ”

In general, corals prefer to survive in warm, transparent, and trophic-poor shallow tropical waters, but they are very diverse and widely distributed, and there are quite a few coral species in shallow waters in temperate and cold zones.

They have even been found in the deep waters of the cold zone, such as the American Geographic Magazine, which reported that they had found a kind of blackhorn coral at a depth of 8,800 meters.

But corals are delicate creatures, they are very sensitive to the salinity, pH, light transparency, oxygen content and water pollution of seawater, and now with the increase in the acidity of seawater due to carbon dioxide pollution, corals are facing a huge existential crisis.

The reason why the corals in the sea around the island died so badly should be related to water pollution, and when Qin Shiou's mind entered the ocean, he instinctively felt uncomfortable, because of pollution.

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

"That's easy, we can throw rocks and wooden frames at the bottom of the sea, and as long as we build a skeleton, the polyps will cling to it, and over time, it will extend into a coral reef," Shaq said. ”

Qin Shiou nodded and understood, and began to plan how to artificially create coral reefs in the future.

The maple syrup was boiled until the afternoon, and when Shaq went to town, he brought back a few children by the way, and these children were happy to see the maple syrup boiled into an almost golden brown, and it was always the children who liked to eat sugar.

The children were all seven or eight years old, and Shaq patted the eldest little guy and proudly introduced: "Boss, this is my son, little Shaq, the warrior and treasure of the Sardinson family." ”

Qin Shiou smiled bitterly, aren't Canadians too lazy to name their children? Why is it not the same name as my father or my grandfather? This was the case with Robert Blake IV, the small owner of the Ritchie auction house at the beginning, and now the same is true of Shaq's son.

Maple syrup is very easy to eat, use an ice maker to make some clean snow, pour the maple syrup on top one by one, cool it and you can eat it.

Qin Shiou ate one, the maple syrup dipped in snow is sweet but not greasy, because of the snow, it is simply cold and icy, much better than domestic lollipops and the like.

Auerbach instructed Qin Shiou to use maple syrup to make zuò maple pudding, a Newfoundland specialty that is baked with whipped cream, maple syrup, egg yolks and some mint leaves.

The process is not complicated, the egg yolk is stirred with cream and maple syrup, and then the maple pudding liquid is filtered out with a fine sieve, and then poured into the model and used a spoon to crush the surface bubbles, and finally baked in the oven, put it in the refrigerator and eat it at any time to heat it at any time, which is very convenient.

There was nothing to do in the afternoon, Shaq was busy calculating what to buy, while Qin Shiou was holding a plate of fruit salad and maple pudding on the sofa to watch TV series, directly connected to North American cable TV stations, although it was a paid channel, but the quality of the program was quite high, at least there were no ads.

The day passed like this, and in the evening, Qin Shiou had nothing to do and was ready to go to the bar to play, but the car couldn't start, which made him quite depressed, and he made up his mind to buy a car tomorrow!

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