"Haha, I just said that you don't believe it when you see pearls, okay, then smash them open..."
Zhuang Rui knew that there were not only pearls, but also more than one. In addition to the pearl that was almost the size of a pigeon egg, there were more than a dozen small pearls, but compared with the big ones, they could be ignored.
"Okay, let's smash it open, and we can have some clam soup at night..."
"Yeah, let's take a look and see if there are any pearls in this big clam..."
After hearing Zhuang Rui's words, everyone onlookers suddenly became excited. Life at sea is actually very boring. When they heard that there was excitement, the deck was immediately filled with people, even Director Wu and Professor Meng crowded over.
When Professor Meng saw Zhuang Rui asking the crew to get the hammer, he couldn't help laughing and scolding: "This brat is not doing his job properly..."
"Professor Meng, you can't say that. At least Mr. Zhuang was the first to discover the wreckage of the shipwreck. This should be remembered as the first contribution..."
Director Wu is in a good mood at the moment. The second group of divers has surfaced just now. According to their analysis, the location surveyed by Zhuang Rui is most likely the wreckage of a shipwreck, and there are quite a lot of them.
This made Director Wu, who was in charge of the salvage operation, very happy. Not to mention that he couldn't control Zhuang Rui, even if he could, he would turn a blind eye to Zhuang Rui's behavior.
"We don't know yet. We will have to wait until they come up with the plan and carry out salvage..."
Professor Meng shook his head. As an archaeological expert, things should speak for themselves. There is more than one sunken ship in this sea area, the Awa Maru. Maybe the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
"Okay, we'll find out in the afternoon. Professor Meng, do you think there are any sea pearls in this big clam?"
Director Wu smiled and changed the subject. He had already passed the news to the headquarters just now. Even if he only salvaged a piece of iron sheet, Director Wu would kill the iron sheet from the Awa Maru.
Professor Meng looked at the big clam and said: "It's hard to say. The formation of natural pearls is very random. It's hard to say, hard to say..."
Natural pearls are formed when the clams are feeding on the seabed and their shells open. Some foreign objects, such as sand, parasites or small gravels, are occasionally driven by the water flow and fall into the pearl's mantle.
When the mantle of a sea mussel or a river mussel is stimulated, it will secrete nacre, which will wrap up the fallen foreign objects layer by layer, making them smooth and gradually forming a bright and moist outer layer of the pearl sac.
Artificial cultured pearls are based on this principle, using core insertion technology to implant round beads into clams. After a period of culture, pearls will be formed.
The shape of natural pearls is not always round. Sometimes they can take on various irregular shapes depending on the material that falls into the shell. However, their color is much stronger than artificially implanted pearls.
As for the size of the pearl, it actually has little to do with the volume of the material that fell into it, but it is related to the number of years the pearl has been cultivated in the clam. The longer the time, the larger the pearl particles will be.
"Here comes the hammer..."
While everyone was talking, a crew member came over holding a big hammer in both hands. The handle of this hammer alone was more than one meter long. It was a bit like the kind of sledge hammer used to smash piles at construction sites.
"My dear, this hammer is quite big..."
"I said, is this thing probably weighing sixty or seventy pounds? Who can move it?"
"That's right. If you don't break open the clam and hurt yourself again, just change it to a smaller one..."
Some onlookers went up to weigh the weight of the hammer. Although they could lift it, they couldn't lift it above their heads. Their arms didn't have the strength of hundreds of kilograms, so they really couldn't use this object.
"Just this one, I'm afraid it's too small to be smashed..."
The shell of this sea clam is struck with your hands, and it makes a "dang-dang" metal impact sound. It is obvious that the shell is not thin, and it is estimated that it cannot be broken open by an ordinary small hammer.
"Everyone, please step back a little, and then step back a little..."
Zhuang Rui stepped forward and picked up the hammer with both hands. This was because he didn't want to be too pushy, otherwise with the weight of the hammer, Zhuang Rui could make a fool of himself with one hand.
After hearing Zhuang Rui's words, the crowd dispersed in all directions, leaving a space of five to six meters square in the middle. They stared at Zhuang Rui who was holding the hammer without blinking.
"Ouch...Ouch!"
Just when Zhuang Rui raised the hammer high and wanted to smash it down, King Kong squeezed in from nowhere, stretched out his long arm, and grabbed the iron head of the hammer from behind Zhuang Rui.
Without warning, Zhuang Rui was staggered by King Kong and almost fell over. When he turned around and saw this big guy, he couldn't help but feel a bit dumbfounded.
"Damn, let me tell you, where are you playing? King Kong, let go quickly..."
"Ouch!"
King Kong let go of his long arms, beat his chest, yelled and pointed at Zhuang Rui, and reached out to grab the hammer in Zhuang Rui's hand.
"Okay, let's go and have fun, you can't smash this thing..."
Zhuang Rui pushed away King Kong's hand. There was a priceless black pearl inside. If King Kong hit it with a hammer, Zhuang Rui wouldn't be able to find it and cried.
"Go, go, if you don't obey me, Thunder Lord will come to see you at night..."
Zhuang Rui angrily threatened the evil-minded King Kong. This big guy was scared out of his wits by lightning yesterday. As soon as he heard Zhuang Rui's words, he immediately squatted to the side with his head in his hands, causing the onlookers to burst into laughter.
He swung the sledgehammer again, and with the force of thunder, the hammer raised high high drew an arc in the air and struck hard on the shell of the big clam.
"Pfft! Pah, what does it smell like?"
Because Zhuang Rui moved too fast, the big hammer did not pause at all after it came into contact with the sea clam shell, and directly smashed the shell into pieces, and the hammer sank into the sea clam.
However, a stream of seawater with a slightly salty taste splashed out from the rupture of the sea clam's body and fell into Zhuang Rui's mouth. The meat of the sea clam was delicious, but the taste of unprocessed sea clams was not ordinary.
, Zhuang Rui suddenly frowned and spat out.
"Grandma, brother, still can't handle you?"
Zhuang Rui took the water handed by others and rinsed his mouth, took a deep breath, directly raised the sledgehammer again, swung it high and continued to smash it down.
The weight-dropping points chosen by Zhuang Rui were all around the clam, but the central area where pearls were born was not touched at all.
After being beaten for more than ten times in succession, the tightly closed sea clam was already in pieces. The fresh white sea clam meat twitched for a while and finally stopped moving.
The onlookers were dumbfounded by Zhuang Rui's move. No one could have imagined that Zhuang Rui, who didn't look strong, could actually hit so many blows in one go. Even the workers on the construction site who had been pounding all year round, compared to
He is nowhere near as good as he came.
"Mr. Zhuang, let me do it. This sea clam meat is tightly connected to the shell. Most people can't peel it. Don't waste it..."
After Zhuang Rui stopped, Lao Li jumped out. Looking at the snow-white and tender sea mussel meat, his mouth seemed to be watering. Ordinary sea mussels can only be eaten stir-fried, but such big ones are extremely rare.
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This kind of large clam is different from those small shells that can also be called sea clams, which will automatically break away from the shell when boiled in water. Instead, the clam meat and shell are closely connected, and they must be separated with a knife.
Zhuang Rui nodded and said: "Sure, you can do it, be careful not to hurt your hands..."
The cracks in the sea clam shell are quite sharp, and you may cut your hand if you are not careful. Zhuang Rui once caught river mussels in Yunlong Lake in Pengcheng when he was a child, and his hands were often injured by river mussel shells.
"Hey, Mr. Zhuang, don't worry, we used to eat this bowl of rice..."
After hearing Zhuang Rui's words, Lao Litou immediately smiled and trotted to the restaurant. He borrowed a knife and two plastic buckets, went to the sea clams, and began to dissect them skillfully.
Lao Litou didn't brag. He moved very skillfully. He put one hand on the shell of the sea clam and reached inside with the other hand. He didn't use his eyes at all, but relied on his feeling to peel off the meat and shell of the sea clam.
Come.
This sea clam weighed more than two hundred kilograms. Even if the shell was removed, the meat inside weighed sixty or seventy kilograms. After a while, half of the clam meat had been taken out and a full shovel was released.
"Husband, where are the pearls you mentioned?"
Qin Xuanbing held Zhuang Rui's hand tightly and kept watching Old Li Tou take out the mussel meat. However, to her disappointment, not a single pearl appeared until the plastic bucket was full.
"Haha, lady, don't worry, pearls are usually adsorbed inside the outer membrane. This will be solved soon..."
Before Zhuang Rui could answer, Old Li Tou started laughing. While talking, his hands were not idle. He scraped and twisted the half-opened sea clam, and a whole piece of snow-white and tender clam meat was absorbed by him.
Taken it out.
"Mr. Zhuang, this is the outer membrane sleeve. Whether there are pearls or not depends on the knife..."
Lao Litou did a very good job. He took out the entire part where the pearl was born, held it in his hand and showed it to Zhuang Rui.
Smelling the fishy smell, Zhuang Rui quickly waved his hand and said, "Okay, Lao Li, just untie it..."
"okay!"
Seeing everyone staring at him, Lao Li felt a little proud. He put his thumb on the handle of the knife, turned it around his palm, and then cut off the seven or eight kilograms of clam meat with one knife.
It was cut open.
"This this……"
After cutting the clam meat, Lao Li suddenly stopped. He lowered his head and stared at the piece of clam meat, muttering something in his mouth.
"Lao Li, are there any pearls? Quickly light them up and show them to us..."
"Yeah, why are you blocking there? Could you please say a word..."
"Eh? Lao Li, why are you looking like this? What's going on inside?"
When Lao Li raised his head, everyone noticed that there was an indescribable look on Lao Li's face that had been blown by the sea breeze.
