Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

"Then can you sell this clam to the hospital?" Dot asked anxiously.

"But I only have this one, and there's a big pearl inside that I want~" Lin Xia didn't want to sell it.

Dot immediately said, "I can give you all the pearls inside. I just want the clam meat, okay?"

"Ah? This is something we can consider, but why?" Lin Xia asked puzzledly.

"Alas~ Since the beginning of autumn, many people in the town have started to suffer from internal heat, and the situation is quite serious. This has never happened in previous years, so we are not well prepared when facing such symptoms." Dot explained seriously, "I know that sea clams can clear the heart and relieve internal heat, clear away heat and relieve restlessness, and can effectively eliminate heat toxins in the blood. They are suitable for people who are prone to internal heat. Moreover, this is a dietary therapy and will not cause a burden on the body. However, few people in the town eat clam meat, which leads to the lack of clam meat sales and storage, so..."

Lin Xia's eyes sparkled when she heard this. This was a good way to make money. "Okay, after I take out the pearls, I'll sell you the clam meat. Besides, I can also find a way to catch some more clams and sell them to you then, too?"

Dortmund was deeply moved: "That's great. If you can find it, just send it to the hospital. I will charge a high price. Thank you so much, Lin Xia!"

"You're welcome, you're welcome! I can't stand hearing that other people are in trouble!" Lin Xia laughed.

"But I don't know why people are suffering from so much internal heat this year. We need to find the root cause! Otherwise, it's just treating the symptoms but not the root cause."

After hearing this, Lin Xia felt a little guilty. Could it be because she ate too much meat? Hey~ She didn't sell the meat, nor did she ask others to eat it. What does it have to do with her? Relax!

"Dot, are you planning to use the clam meat to cook for the people in the town?"

Dot shook his head: "Although diet therapy is the best way to cure the disease, it takes too long to take effect. People who can come to the hospital for treatment are usually in a serious condition and can't stand the pain, so I plan to use clam meat and combine it with other heat-clearing and anti-inflammatory drugs to make a more effective medicine, striving to achieve the goal of curing the disease with medicine.

However, this can only solve the symptoms this time. If we want to fundamentally solve the problem of getting angry, we still have to let people develop reasonable eating habits. Therefore, I will invite Dart to come and explain to him the characteristics of clam meat. After all, he is a professional chef and has more experience in making dishes than I do. I hope he can keep the food delicious while taking into account the pharmacology. This will help promote medicinal diet and make it easier for people to accept it. "

Lin Xia nodded to show her understanding and promised that she would try to catch as many clams as possible and send them to the hospital in the next two days.

In order to immediately get the clam meat that Lin Xia already had, Dortmund said that he would learn the clam opening skills with Lin Xia, and then go back to the hospital directly to open the clams, so that he could also make some medicine as soon as possible to solve the urgent problem.

Lin Xia had no objection, so she and Dot found the book "Detailed Explanation of Marine Life in Mineral Town" recommended by Mary. Because they were in a hurry, the two went straight to the part about clams and learned how to open them.

After reading these methods, Lin Xia couldn't help but take a deep breath. Fortunately, she didn't rush into cooking the clams, otherwise all her pearls would be wasted.

The first sentence in the book says: Never use boiling water to open clams to get pearls, remember!

Because pearls are afraid of acid, alkali and loss of water, they should not be exposed to the sun or in a high temperature environment. Therefore, you cannot use boiling water to scald clams to extract pearls, which will affect the quality of the pearls.

This book introduces three ways to open clams and take out pearls. One is the manual excavation method - using appropriate tools (clam knives) to carefully open the clam shells and take out the pearls. However, this method requires certain skills and experience, otherwise it is easy to damage the clam body or the pearl.

The second method is the freezing method - putting the clams in the freezer of the refrigerator to freeze the pearls inside the clams, so that the clam body becomes dull due to freezing. It will be very easy to open the clam shell with tools without damaging the clam body.

The third method is the oxide method, which is to use a chemical oxide solution to dissolve the mussel body to release the pearl. This method is the simplest, but it will cause serious damage to the mussel body and should be used with caution.

The current situation is that Lin Xia needs pearls, and Dot needs clam meat. Obviously, the third method is directly ruled out. The excavation method requires rich skills and experience, and the two newbies - Lin Xia and Dot - certainly can't do it.

Then only the second freezing method is suitable for two people.

The two immediately said goodbye to Mary and left the library and went straight to the hospital's underground laboratory, where all the tools were available. Dot directly took out a freezing gun and sprayed freezing gas at the huge clam that Lin Xia took out.

The clam that Lin Xia caught was really big, nearly one meter long, otherwise Lin Xia would not have fished up this clam alone.

After 10 minutes of freezing, the clam's body was covered with a thin layer of ice particles. Dot found two crowbars, and he and Lin Xia each took one and began to pry open the clams.

What was said in the book was reliable. There was no danger at all. They just spent some effort to open the clam shell. Once it was opened, the big round black pearl that Lin Xia had seen before was revealed. It was the size of a fist and was very stunning.

Lin Xia wore medical gloves kindly provided by Dortmund, and carefully used pliers (ordinary tweezers were no longer effective) to pick out the pearl and put it into the pool.

Lin Xia began to use a flat bamboo stick to test whether there were any hidden pearls in the clam meat at the edge of the clam shell - this was also what she saw in a book, which said that many pearls would not be clearly visible, but were usually hidden in the clam meat.

However, after searching around, Lin Xia found no hidden pearls. It seemed that this only black pearl condensed the essence of the entire clam!

Lin Xia finished his search and delivered the clam body to Dortmund. Dortmund gave Lin Xia 1G, which was a very high price. Usually clams were worthless, but Lin Xia's clam was really big. According to Dortmund, this one clam was enough for him to make the necessary medicine.

It seems that the idea of ​​getting rich by selling clams in the hospital will not work in the future. However, Dortmund said that if there are any, he will still buy them, but the price will not be as high as this time. He can only buy them according to the price of the Mineral Town Seafood Market, that is, 200G per large fish, 120G per medium fish, and 50G per small fish.

In this case, Lin Xia no longer had the idea of ​​selling it. It would be better to eat it herself than to get it!

But I think that after Dot tells Dart about the edible value of clam meat, the supply of clam meat in the town will increase.

Lin Xia cleaned the pearls and put them away. She said goodbye to Dot and left the hospital.