"Uncle, look, are there words on this clam shell?"

Xiao Mengmeng pointed to the river clam and said.

"Yeah?"

Ye Rongyao squatted down and looked at it, and he really found that there were words on the river clam. However, the word had become difficult to see clearly as the river clam grew up, so he could only vaguely see that there were words engraved on the river clam.

It turned out that Erwazi discovered this big river clam from the stream in the back mountain. It was not big at that time, just about ten centimeters in diameter.

A group of naughty children were playing around with them, and the two kids even took out a fruit knife from their home and carved their names on the big river clam.

This kid plays with things for a few minutes. After playing for a few times, the group of naughty kids found it boring and threw the river clam into Ye Rongyao's lake.

But I didn’t expect that in just four or five months, the river clam would have grown so big.

This has to be said that the nutrition of Ye Rongyao is so good.

"It's really the river clam you mentioned."

Ye Rongyao said with a smile.

Now I finally figured out the origin of this river clam.

"Glory, such a big river clam, why don't you stew it and add a meal to the dinner."

Ye Xianghai suggested.

"No, you can't eat it."

Xiao Mengmeng said unyieldingly.

"Haha, listen to Mengmeng, don't eat it."

Ye Xianghai said with a smile.

Ye Xianghai doesn’t care much about whether to eat a river clam or not.

After all, the meat of the river clam is not very delicious, it is not as delicious as the river crab.

"Uncle, let's put it?"

Xiao Mengmeng looked at Ye Rongyao and said beggingly.

"Okay, but before this, my uncle got it something."

Ye Rongyao nodded and said.

Ye Rongyao brought up this big river clam from the river. He had never thought of eating its meat, but to take the treasures on it.

"Glory, do you mean there are pearls in this river clam?"

Wang Bing asked in surprise.

"No, no, there's no such good luck. Just get a river clam and there will be pearls."

Ye Xianghai shook his head and said.

In the past, there were many clams in the river, and many people brought them up to feed poultry. No one ever heard of pearls in the clams.

Ye Xianghai has heard that the pearly river clams are artificially bred in a special way.

"Haha, village chief, don't say anything. I'm so lucky. There are really pearls in this river clam."

Ye Rongyao said with a smile.

"No way?"

"There are really pearls?"

"I have heard of pearls growing in river clams, but I have never seen them."

"I don't know what the pearls in this river clam look like?"

"What's it like, won't you know later?"

Everyone was surprised when they heard Ye Rongyao say that there were really pearls in the big river clam.

After all, I have heard of shellfish creatures such as clams and clams that produce pearls, but there are too few people who have actually seen them. Many people may not be able to see shellfish creatures that grow pearls even if they deal with shellfish creatures throughout their lives.

Anyway, no one in Ye Rongyao's yard has ever seen a shellfish creature that grows pearls.

This starts with the formation of pearls. Not all clams will grow pearls in them. Usually, only parasites or clams and clams that invade the body can produce pearls.

Why can only molluscs such as shellfish grow pearls? This starts with the structure of molluscs. The molluscs' coat membranes are divided into two sides or two pages, wrapping their internal organs.

The outer membrane can secrete shell base and calcium carbide, and these two substances are transformed into crystals to form the shell.

The shell is divided into three layers, and the formation of each layer takes place at the same time. These three layers are: outer periosteum, calcium carbide layer, and pearlite.

When small foreign objects from outside accidentally enter the hard shells of clams and clams, they cannot expel foreign objects for a while.

After suffering from the stimulation of pain and itch, the coat membrane quickly secretes pearls to gradually surround it. Over time, the sand grains are covered with thick pearls, and slowly form delicate and cute pearls.

However, the chances of wild shellfish such as clams and musses producing pearls are particularly low in natural conditions, and some die before they even form pearls.

This is also the reason why people basically cannot see pearls when buying shellfish in the market or catch them from the natural environment.

It is too difficult for shellfish to form pearls in natural environments, but because of its rare nature, this price is much higher than that of artificially raised.

The cheap pearls on the market now basically come from artificial breeding farms. After raising some shellfish, they insert nuclei into the connective tissue of the outer coat membrane. The nuclei is covered with a small piece of membrane. After a certain period of time, artificially cultivated pearls are generated.

"Brother Glory, this... do you really have pearls in this shell?"

Xiao Sier asked excitedly.

"Of course, why would I do this so hard to get it up?"

Ye Rongyao said affirmatively.

In fact, when he saw this big river clam, Ye Rongyao took the idea of ​​trying it out and used "detection" to check the big river clam.

At that time, Ye Rongyao tried his luck and saw if there would be pearls coming for such a big river clam.

Who knew that he was so lucky, but he didn't expect that there were really pearls in this big river clam, and there were a lot of them.

So Ye Rongyao brought up the big river clam.

"Glory, please open this river clam quickly. I have never seen what the pearls in the river clam look like in my life!"

Ye Dequan said excitedly.

"Yes, Honor, open it and take a look."

Ye Xianghai also urged.

"Husband, will it hurt this river clam if you open it?"

Liu Qingqing asked Ye Rongyao with some concern.

After all, Liu Qingqing has read it in the book. The step of picking the pearls in the body of the river clam is to use a small knife to insert the knife along the outlet of the clam shell, stir it twice, and cut off the two large muscles of the river clam. Then the knife was split hard, grabbed the shell of the river clam with both hands and broke it. The entire river clam was opened and the pearls inside were exposed.

As a result, the river clam will die.

But my husband promised Xiao Mengmeng that he would release the river clams, so adults can't deceive the children.

"Don't worry, I have a way to let the river clam spit out the pearl without hurting it."

Ye Rongyao said with a smile.

"Glory, do you really have a way to get pearls without hurting the river clams?"

Ye Xianghai asked curiously.

After all, Ye Xianghai heard that if he wanted to get the pearls on the river clam, he had to push the clam shell of the river clam. You should know that the clam was very brave. When this person touched the clam, the clam would immediately close the clam shell and would not open even if he was beaten to death.

Therefore, to break the clam shell of a river clam, you must knock it open or pry it open with a sharp weapon. No matter which method, it will cause the clam to die.

"hehe."

Ye Rongyao smiled and did not answer the old village chief's question, but said to Xiao Sier: "Get a big plastic basin inside."

"Why do you use a plastic basin?"

Xiao Sier asked curiously.

"Don't ask so much, just get it."

Ye Rongyao waved his hand and said.

Soon Xiao Sier took out a large plastic basin from the small yard.

Ye Rongyao asked Xiao Sier to pour three buckets of water into the large plastic basin, and then put the big river clam into the large plastic basin. Just as the water covered the big river clam.

"Husband, how can I get this pearl out of this river clam?"

Liu Qingqing couldn't understand and asked curiously.

"You'll see it after a while."

After Ye Rongyao said to Liu Qingqing, he said to the onlookers: "Everyone retreats a little. When the river clam is spitting pearls for a while, don't make any noise, otherwise it will scare the river clam and it will not spit pearls."

"Listen to the glory, everyone retreats."

“Everyone retreats.”
To be continued...