Chapter 85 Pearl, another step towards wealth
——That’s the river clam.
The river clams look black and are inconspicuous on the mall system interface.
Jiang Ning smiled slightly mysteriously.
She already had a new plan in mind.
The river and pond area that has just been opened is not very large.
Jiangning divided it into three parts, one part was used to raise the freshest grass carp, and the other part was used to raise freshwater shrimp.
This way, with fish and shrimp, you can add a lot of delicious food to the dinner table in the future.
The remaining one third is used to cultivate river clams.
The Space Boy was watching Jiang Ning's operation from the side. He blinked in confusion and asked curiously.
"Is this river clam... delicious?"
There are many records describing the deliciousness of fish and shrimp in ancient classics.
But he had never heard of river clams.
Jiang Ning shook his head while operating.
"Tongtong, this river clam is not for eating."
The little boy's eyes suddenly widened.
Isn't it for eating?
What is that used for?
Jiang Ning had completed the operation at this time. In the river and pond area in front of her, there were schools of grass carp, fresh shrimps jumping around, and river clams covering the river bottom.
She watched it all and explained slowly.
"Although river clams can be eaten, their meat is hard and not very rich. It takes effort and time to eat them, and their edible value is not high. However, they have special economic value - that is, cultured pearls."
"pearl?"
The little boy looked at Jiang Ning's shining eyes, listened carefully, and thought slowly.
He continued to ask.
"Are you talking about the pearl in the poem 'The moon shines brightly over the sea, the pearl sheds tears; the sun shines warmly over the blue field, the jade emits smoke'?"
"Yes, it is this pearl! Lantian jade is the result of tens of thousands of years of geological changes. It is hard to come by and it is too difficult for ordinary people to obtain. But freshwater pearls are much simpler."
As Jiang Ning spoke, his smile became more charming.
Then just do it immediately.
She asked the space boy to move his fingers, and he picked up the clams from the bottom of the pond.
The wet clams have a slight fishy smell.
The two shells of the clam are tightly closed together.
Jiang Ning used a thin piece of iron to pry open the tightly closed clams.
After opening again, the iron sheet turned sideways, and a tiny gap opened up in the closed shell.
The gap should not be too large, it should only be a few millimeters wide.
If the gap is too big and pulls the skin and flesh of the clams, the clams may die and the breeding will be ineffective.
When the gap is opened, you can see the milky white meat inside the clam.
Jiang Ning used a thin iron needle to poke three small holes in the thickest part of the clam meat.
They are said to be three small holes, but in fact they are also three small wounds.
The next step is to put a small piece of cell membrane of other clams into the three small holes.
Because after there are wounds and other foreign objects.
In order to protect themselves, clams secrete a special mucus, which is nacre.
This nacre will wrap around the originally implanted cell membrane to form the bead nucleus.
Over the years, as the pearl is wrapped layer by layer, the bead nucleus slowly grows...
Gradually, they turned into shiny pearls that people could see.
This step looks simple, but it actually requires a lot of eyesight and hand strength.
It doesn't depend on who is stronger, but on who has steadier hands.
Because only when the holes poked are standard enough and the position of the cell membrane is square enough, the pearls that grow will be big and round, instead of crooked.
Jiang Ning was doing these things.
She lowered her head, her fair face looking calm and composed.
Clear eyes stared at me without blinking.
Her wrist holding the small iron rod did not tremble even in the tiny gap.
The movements are fast and steady.
The space boy watched silently from the side.
His pretty little face was tense and he stopped breathing several times.
I was afraid that if I wasn't careful my breathing would become too heavy and affect Jiang Ning's movements.
After Jiang Ning finishes all this.
You should pour some hydrogen peroxide to disinfect the wounds of the clams.
However, these conditions do not exist in the Lingbao space, and the water in the Lingquan River is clear and clean, and will not cause the clams to rot due to inflammation.
So, you can skip this step.
Simply put the processed clams back into the pond.
The next step is to wait patiently.
During this period, the substances that clams need most are plankton and sunlight.
Plankton is nutrients and sunlight is energy.
So Jiang Ning also put some grass carp and fresh shrimp into the clam breeding area to allow them to produce some plankton.
As for the sunshine...
spirit
It is spring-like all year round in the treasure space, and the thing that is most abundant is sunshine.
Jiang Ning had calculated it before.
In the Lingbao space, rice only takes one day to mature and be harvested, which is about the same growth cycle of half a year in the real world.
In other words.
It usually takes 3-5 years for river clams to produce small pearls.
Then in the Lingbao space, Jiang Ning can harvest the first batch of small pearls in as fast as six days.
The small cultured pearls are not considered to be very expensive treasures.
But for Jiang Ning, among the intangible cultural heritage techniques that she has devoted herself to studying, the most indispensable one is the embellishment of pearls.
But it has extraordinary significance.
This is also the reason why she gave up breeding some tastier varieties and chose clams instead.
only……
Pinch open the clams, make small wounds, add cytoplasm...
These steps completely exceed the basic settings of the Lingbao Space and are no longer something that can be accomplished simply by the Space Boy waving his hand.
After trying several times, the little boy shook his head.
"No, the gap is too small, and the clam meat is so white that I can't even see where the hole is."
As stubborn as he was, he could only spread his hands and look helpless.
"It's okay, I'll do it. You just need to stay with me."
Jiang Ning looked at the little boy and said gently.
In this way.
In order to harvest more pearls faster, Jiang Ning spent a longer time staying in the Lingbao space.
She even forgot...
…
Inside the house.
Qin Jiulie has been back in the room for some time.
His eyes looked towards the lighted bathroom again and again.
During this time, I could only see dim lights but could not hear any sound of flowing water.
He frowned.
He walked to the bathroom door and knocked.
Boom boom boom.
"Wife, are you still taking a bath?"
"young married woman?"
"Wife, I'll open the door and go in—"
There was even a hint of anxious worry in Qin Jiulie's last words.
A large hand grasped the door handle.
A heavy push.
When the dark eyes saw the scene in the bathroom, the pupils suddenly trembled.
His eyes then darkened.
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