561. Collect maple syrup (6/10)
The huge school of bonito is wandering in the fishing grounds, and Qin Shiou attracts a batch of herrings, which is a temptation for bonito.
Humpback whales were temporarily kept, and Qin Shiou inputted the sea god energy to them, so that as long as the whales don’t leave, the bonito will not leave. With the delicious sardines, these bonitos are equivalent to a sheep entering the tiger’s mouth.
Qin Shiou stood on the deck and watched the spectacular scene of thousands of fish competing in the distance. Bonito chassis was chasing black-backed anchovies, and sardines appeared again, so they suddenly became excited.
The first thing the bonitoes targeted was black-backed ankle, which is their favorite food. When the bonitoes found their traces, they attacked up and down, left and right. In this way, the black-backed ankle was desperate and could only jump out of the water.
But the fisherman gained benefits when fighting with the snipe and clams. The bonito rushes to jump up with a black-backed anchovies. The short-tailed croaker flying on the sea will immediately rush down and accurately catch these fish. You must know that the length of anchovies is suitable for their food.
In this way, the black-backed anchovies kept jumping out of the sea, while the sardines were chased by bonitoes and ran around, and the surrounding waters suddenly became messy.
Snowballs, ice skates and beans were attracted, they were not interested in the small black-backed anchovies, and the thick, short and fat bonito was their dish.
This is interesting. A group of fish of all sizes began to fight, stirring up a fishing ground incredibly lively.
Qin Shiou didn't interfere in this kind of thing. Seeing that the fishing ground was fine, he drove a boat back.
It is not good if the fishing ground is large. Qin Shiou went out to sea for half a day. When he went back early in the morning, it was already noon when the fishing boat approached the dock.
After getting ashore, he saw Winnie and the children working around the two sugar maple trees in front of the door. She was holding a small bottle and a small jar in her hand, concentrating on scooping something with a spoon.
Xiong Da followed behind Winnie with a greedy look, her big tongue kept licking her lips. The little tail behind her butt was shaking quickly, which was so joyful.
From time to time, Winnie turned her hands back and used a spoon to apply something on Xiong Da's mouth. Every time at this time, Xiong Da would sit down and lick her lips with satisfaction.
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 collect maple syrup. Last year, Qin Shiou picked two large buckets, but it only took a few months to eat it. It was still bought at the supermarket in the town.
Seeing Qin Shiou, Shirley smiled brightly and raised the small glass bottle in her hand. It was filled with amber syrup. It was truly pure natural and pollution-free. After swaying, the syrup in the bottle was almost motionless and very sticky.
"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. Look at Xiong Da, it is so greedy. If we hadn't watched it, it would have eaten all the syrup today."
Xiong Da heard Shirley call her name, and thought she had syrup. He quickly shook his tail and ran over quickly, raised his head and looked at Shirley in anticipation, and screamed in a low voice.
The tiger and the leopard ran to Winnie, and they stood up on the trunk of the tree and looked at the candy bowl in Winnie's hand with their eyes.
Winnie dripped some on their tongues with a spoon, and the two little guys immediately licked their lips happily.
This is the dog's habitual action of eating, and as a result, the syrup was touched by the tongue on both sides of the mouth, and the mustache was stuck together.
Two maple trees didn’t collect much syrup. Last year, Qin Shiou thought it was just eating it himself, and thought it would be enough to collect two cans. This year, there are so many people and foodies like Xiong Da, so he has to expand the scope of collecting syrup.
Walking to Winnie, Qin Shiou discussed: "Hi, sweetheart. Let's take the children to the mountain to pick syrup tomorrow. We haven't climbed the mountain this year."
Winnie kissed him and smiled, "Okay, I have no objection."
Qin Shiou took a bottle and spoon and scooped syrup from some cracks in the tree trunk. Shaq walked over from a distance and smiled and said, "You are so wasteful of time like this. I'll find a few tubes and I'll be able to draw syrup soon."
"No!" Winnie and Shirley said in unison. What they are scooping out now is the syrup that seeps out, and if Shaq digs holes, what is flowing out is the sap, which needs to be purified before it is the syrup.
Normally, it is suitable for extracting sugar maple sap in March and April. At this time, the temperature in Newfoundland at night can reach seven or eight degrees during the day. It 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 automatically purify and flow out. This is what Winnie and others are doing now, and they will directly get the syrup.
Qin Shiou shrugged, then lay on the tree trunk and began to pick up syrup with a small spoon.
Shaq stood aside and had nothing to do, so he asked without saying a word: "Hi, boss, do you want to hold a party? Usually, when fishing grounds are caught, they will set up a party or something."
Canadians learn this from this, and they immediately open a party if they have something to do. They have money to drink champagne and seafood, and have no money to drink beer and burgers, but they must open a party.
Qin Shiou also likes to be lively and said, "No problem, find some time to go to Gatoria Fishery, and I happened to take it down."
Shaq began planning: "We can have some competitions at that time, how about the wrestling competition? Whoever wins will be the Patry Emperor, and the Party Beauty Queen. They used to be Teacher Cheryl Harry."
Winnie's eyes floated over faintly, and Qin Shiou said firmly: "There is no tiger in the mountains and the monkey is called the king. With Winnie here, will the beauty pageant queen fall into his house?"
Shaq touched his nose and said dryly, "This is hard to say."
Qin Shiou glared at him, saying, "It's so stupid. No matter whether he is good or not, he must be easy to say now!"
Speaking of Cheryl, Qin Shiou doesn't go to the town often and rarely goes to Grant Primary School, so he forgets Mao Weilong's instructions. When he thinks about it, he quickly says to Winnie: "How about you and Teacher Cheryl go and have a good chat?"
"What are you talking about?" Winnie smiled sweetly, and hit the candy candy in her hand. Xiong Da thought it was calling it to feed it, so he ran over happily, but Winnie slapped it on the fat butt.
Qin Shiou said Mao Weilong’s unrequited love to Cheryl, and Winnie said in embarrassment: “Based on my understanding of Teacher Harry, this is very difficult.”
"It's done by man, we have to help, right? Who made him my brother?" Qin Shiou said.
Winnie nodded and continued to search for the syrup that flowed down the bark with the children. Qin Shiou returned to the kitchen and made some ice cubes and broken snow from the ice maker. The syrup was poured on it and quickly frozen into ice maple syrup.
In fact, these syrups cannot be eaten directly, and they need to be distilled and purified. However, these syrups secreted from trees are not saps. The concentration and sweetness of the sugar are enough, so you can eat them even if you freeze them.
Of course, Winnie is for Xiong Da to eat. Xiong Da is too crazy to eat syrup. After being frozen into candy cubes, she can only hold it in her hand and lick it, which makes her taste slower.
Chapter completed!