A huge school of bonito roams the fishing grounds, and Qin Shiou attracts a batch of herring, which is a temptation for the bonito.

Humpback whales stayed for the time being, and Qin Shiou gave them input Poseidon energy, so that as long as the whales did not leave, the bonito schools would not leave, plus the delicious sardines, these bonito were equivalent to sheep in the tiger's mouth.

Qin Shiou stood on the deck and watched the spectacular scene of ten thousand fish competing in the distance, the school of bonito pursued the black-backed anchovy, and the school of sardines appeared again, so that they were suddenly excited.

The first thing the bonito targets is the black-backed anchovy, which is their favorite food, and when the bonito spots it, it will attack in groups up and down, left and right, so that the black-backed anchovy has no way out of the water.

But the sandpiper and the clam compete for the fisherman's profit, and the bonito forces the black-backed anchovy to jump, and the short-tailed shearwater flying on the surface of the sea will immediately rush down to catch these fish with precision, knowing that the palm-length anchovy is suitable for their food.

In this way, the blackback anchovy kept jumping out of the sea, and the sardines were chased by the bonito, and the surrounding sea suddenly became messy.

Snowballs, skates and beans are brought in, and they are not interested in the little black-backed anchovies, but the stubby, fat bonito is their dish.

This makes it interesting that a school of fish, large and small, begins to scuffle, stirring up a fishing ground.

Qin Shiou didn't interfere in this kind of thing, and there was no problem with the fishing ground, so he drove the boat back.

The area of the fishing ground is not good, Qin Shiou went to sea for half a day, and when he went back in the morning, it was already noon when the fishing boat docked at the dock.

When he got ashore, he saw Winnie and her children working around the two sugar maple trees in front of the door. Holding a small bottle and jar in his hand, he was concentrating on scooping something with a spoon.

Xiong Da followed behind Winnie with a greedy face, his big tongue constantly licking his lips. The little tail behind the ass wagged rapidly, and it was called a cheerful one.

From time to time, Winnie would use a spoon to wipe something on the bear's mouth, and every then the bear would sit down and lick his lips contentedly.

Seeing this scene, Qin Shiou knew what Winnie was doing, she was taking the children to collect maple syrup.

Spring is a good time to harvest maple syrup, and last year Qin Shiou picked two large vats, but it only took a few months to eat and then it was gone. I went to the supermarket in town to buy it later.

Seeing Qin Shiou, Shirley smiled brightly and raised the small glass bottle in her hand. It is filled with amber syrup, which is truly natural and pollution-free, and the bottle of syrup is almost immobile and very viscous.

"How many have you collected? Is it enough for us to eat for a year? Qin Shiou asked with a smile.

Shirley shook her head regretfully: "A month is not enough." You see the bear is big, it's so greedy, if we hadn't looked at it, it would have eaten all the syrup today. ”

When Xiong Da heard Shirley call its name, he thought there was syrup to eat, so he quickly ran over with his tail wagging his tail, raised his head and looked at Shirley expectantly, and whined and whined.

The tiger and the leopard ran to Winnie, and they stood up with the trunk of the tree. stared at the sugar jar in Winnie's hand.

Winnie gave them some drops on their tongues with a small spoon, and the two little ones licked their lips happily.

This is the habitual action of the dog eating, and it turns out that way. The syrup was stained on both sides of his mouth by the tongue, sticking the mustache together.

The two maple trees can't collect much syrup, last year Qin Shiou thought that he was just eating by himself, and felt that it was enough to collect two cans, but this year, so many people still have foodies like Xiong Da, he has to expand the scope of collecting syrup.

Walk over to Winnie. Qin Shiou discussed: "Hey, sweetheart. Let's take the children to the mountains tomorrow to pick syrup, we haven't been to the mountains this year. ”

Winnie kissed him and smiled, "Okay, I have no objection. ”

Qin Shiou took a bottle and spoon and scooped the syrup from some cracks in the trunk, Shaq walked over from a distance and said with a smile: "You guys are wasting time like this, I'll go find a few pipes, and I will be able to smoke out the syrup soon." ”

"No!" Winnie and Shirley said in unison that what they were scooping out was oozing syrup, while Shaq's sap would come out if he made a hole, and it needed to be purified to be syrup.

The normal time to extract sugar maple sap is March and April, when the temperature in Newfoundland is below zero at night and can reach seven or eight degrees during the day, which is very suitable for sugar maple to convert starch into sugar and dissolve it in the sap.

If the sap is not extracted in March and April, the sugar in the sap will be automatically purified and flowed out, which is what Winnie and others are doing now, directly getting the syrup.

Qin Shiou shrugged, then leaned on the trunk of the tree and began to pick the syrup with a small spoon.

Shaq stood aside and had nothing to do, so he asked without words, "Hey, boss, do you want to have a party?" Generally, when the fish is caught in the fishing grounds, there will be a party and the like. ”

Canadians learn the same thing as their neighbor Americans, and they will immediately have a party when they have anything, and they have money to drink champagne and eat seafood, and they don't have money to drink beer and eat burgers, but they must have a party.

Qin Shiou also likes to be lively, and said: "No problem, find a time, go to the Gatorley Fishing Farm to do it, it just so happened that I won it." ”

Shaq began to plan: "We can have some fights then, how about a wrist wrestling game?" Whoever wins is the Patry Emperor, and the party beauty queen, who used to be Cheryl Harry's teacher. ”

Winnie's eyes floated over faintly, and Qin Shiou said categorically: "There are no tigers and monkeys in the mountains to call the king, with Winnie here, will the beauty queen fall to his family?" ”

Shaq touched his nose and said with a dry smile: "This, it's hard to say." ”

Qin Shiou glared at him, he was so stupid, it doesn't matter if he says it well or not, he has to say it well now!

Speaking of Cheryl, Qin Shiou doesn't often go to town and rarely goes to Grant Elementary School, so he forgot Mao Weilong's instructions, which will be remembered, and quickly said to Winnie: "How about you and Teacher Cheryl have a good chat?" ”

"What are you talking about?" Winnie smiled sweetly, and the steel spoon in her hand tapped the sugar jar, and Xiong Da thought it was calling for it to be fed, so he ran over to it, only to have Winnie slap it on the fat buttocks.

Qin Shiou told Mao Weilong about her unrequited love for Cheryl, and Winnie said embarrassedly: "According to what I know about Teacher Harry, this is difficult. ”

"It's artificial, we have to help, don't we? Who made him my brother? Qin Shiou said.

Winnie nodded, and took the children to continue to search for the syrup that flowed down the cracks in the bark, Qin Shiou went back to the kitchen to get some ice cubes and crushed snow from the ice machine, and the syrup slipped on it, and quickly froze into ice maple candy.

In fact, these syrups can't be eaten directly, they need to be distilled and purified, but these syrups secreted from trees are not tree sap, and the concentration and sweetness of the sugar are sufficient, and they can be eaten after freezing.

Of course, Winnie is giving the bear a lot of food, and the bear is crazy about eating syrup, and after freezing into sugar cubes, he can only hold it in his hand and lick it, so that it will be slow to eat.

After Winnie and the children had dug up the syrup, Shaq made a hole in the tree to collect the sap, which was later distilled and purified. (To be continued)