581. Contact with coral reefs (6/10)
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Spring is very suitable for sunbathing. It is not hot at noon. Qin Shiou sat on the beach with Mao Weilong next to him, and there were several empty beer cans next to them.
Occasionally, the sea breeze will make the empty beer cans sway around the ground. At this time, the tiger and the leopard will jump up excitedly and compete for the beer cans.
Qin Shiou didn't eat lunch, so Winnie went to the town to buy two newly released pizza, and let the children and tiger leopard eat it separately. When they were full, Qin Shiou went into the water and tried it. So she took seven children to the sea water.
The ebbing tide brings the coral reefs closer to the water surface. If the sea water retreats by five or six meters, it will reveal the coral reefs. Even so, the coral reefs are very close to the water surface, and small lotus in some places have sharp corners exposed.
The coral reefs that are nurtured by the sea god's energy are colorful. Through the clear sea water, the sun shines on it, and the light is shining with colors. There is a kind of beauty of flowers blooming brightly.
The coral polyps visible to the naked eye seized this opportunity close to the sea to try to absorb the warm sunshine. The seaweed around them stretched out their leaves, and some small fish and shrimps wandered freely on the coral reefs, without knowing that they were only half a step away from being abandoned by the ocean mother.
It was the first time that Qin Shiou had watched these coral reefs with his naked eyes. Although it was not as clear as using the consciousness of the sea god, it had another kind of beauty through the sea water.
The crystal water is slowly waving by the sea breeze, so the coral reefs seem to be swaying slightly on the left and right. The polyps quickly squirm the small tentacles around the mouthparts, grab the zooplankton brought by the waves and stuff them into their mouths, taking the opportunity to have a full meal.
Although coral polyps are beautiful and weak, they are actually injured and have stinging cells. Once the stinging cells are stimulated, they will turn out the stinging silk sac, which has a paralysis effect. This is their way to capture zooplankton and protect themselves.
Coral polyps are the main body and soft body of corals. They constantly capture food and provide energy to the osteogenetic cells of the ectoderm, allowing them to absorb calcium ions in the water and combine with carbon dioxide to form calcium carbonate. Then their cells will release a carbonate mineral aragonite, gradually forming bones to support the coral reefs.
Just outside these coral reefs, some destroyers such as resident stone clams, rock clams, stone clams, and open belly clams are surviving.
Qin Shiou pinched a clam of about the size of his middle finger and said, "Look. These things will destroy our coral reefs, so we have to fish them out. In addition, this thing is delicious. Can you cook it for you to eat at night?"
"Where is the scallop?" Michelle asked unwillingly.
Qin Shiou found a large open-bellied clam and handed it to Michelle, and laughed and said, "This is also a scallop. Isn't it?"
Michelle said with some disappointment: "But it's too ugly, right?"
Shirley picked up a triangular wedge clam to show to Michelle, and said, "You can't ask too much. Look, does Qin's clam look better than this one?"
Qin Shiou looked at it and found that the big loli was a double-shelled shell. Its shell was large and thin, with a pointed front and wide back, like a small fan. The shell had radiating ribs on the surface, and the color was dark brown, which looked really ugly.
But this thing is delicious, so I asked in surprise: "This is Jiang Yu. Dear, it tastes great. There is a saying in my hometown called 'Sea Cucumber, Abalone, Jiang Yaobei'. It is said that it is a top shellfish."
While explaining, Qin Shiou looked around and soon saw Jiang Jue's figure.
These shellfish foot silks are hair-shaped. They are inserted upright into the mud and sand with the tip of the shell, and are fixed to the seabed with foot silk because they look like reefs. If Shirley hadn't caught it, he wouldn't have found it yet.
It is much easier to find the river after you notice it. In some places, small groups of rivers gather together, and they grow upside down on the seabed, looking like a small stone forest on the seabed.
When they heard it was delicious, Xiao Shaq and Crackenson decided to catch it. Qin Shiou stopped them and asked them to catch clams and various clams on the scallops first. These things would destroy the coral reefs.
As for Jiangxi, there is no need to rush to deal with it. They are not interested in coral reefs, but they just like to coexist with the big open-bellied clams. Let them go first and then fish them out when they want to eat. Anyway, it is in shallow waters.
Qin Shiou called the pineapple to see the children. It is a master of swimmers. Even if a child accidentally falls into a deep water, the pineapple can be brought with him. Who made it have strong swimming skills and great power?
The children were holding a small plastic bucket in their hands and constantly picking up these clams. Qin Shiou found a large bucket. Whenever someone's small plastic bucket was filled, he would go over and collect it.
Clams can be big and small, the large ones are as big as the mouth of a sea bowl, and the small ones are like thumbnails, each with their own way of eating.
Qin Shiou asked the children to collect them regardless of size, even if they were found, they could not be eaten or left here to damage the coral reefs.
After collecting two large buckets, the children finally got tired of playing. They all gained something. There are always beautiful individuals in clams. These things have different appearances, and the patterns on them are strange, and some can form abstract patterns.
The children were so happy that after Michelle found a heart-shaped stone clam, she forgot the frustration of losing the two yellow mussels, and raised it in her hand and shouted.
After having enough fun, Qin Shiou took them to the shore, then called them to the front and said, "Come on, guys, let's talk about scallops now, will the scallops not be lost, right?"
The big loli said positively: "Yes, it won't be lost!"
"Then where did they go?" Qin Shiou looked at several children, "I don't ask who took it away, because everyone will make some mistakes. But you must remember that you should not take away things that are not yours. If you want to get them, then work hard like now, and the things you gain in this way are yours. Do you understand?"
A group of children nodded, and someone wanted to say something. Qin Shiou waved his hand and told them not to speak and continued: "I will let Duoduo stay in my room tonight. If anyone takes it, go find her and hand it over to her. She won't say it, right?"
Shirley spread her hands and said, "This is the best idea."
Qin Shiou got on the shore, and Winnie came up to hug him and gave him a deep kiss, and said affectionately: "You did a great job today. I think you will educate our little baby to be a good person in the future."
"First of all, we have to work hard to make a baby." Qin Shiou said teasingly, "First of all, we have to get married first, we can't get married with our children, right?"
Winnie laughed when she heard what he said interestingly, but her opinion was different: "I don't want to marry you so alone. We have to have two children before we get married. At that time, we will walk into the church with their hands, and it will definitely be beautiful."
Qin Shiou blinked and asked, "Aren't you serious?"
Winnie said for granted: “Isn’t this good?”
Qin Shiou smiled bitterly, "Damn, our national conditions are different. If his parents at home know that he doesn't get married even if they have children, they will probably tear him to pieces and dip them in the sauce." (To be continued)
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