Chapter 126: Big fish stranded, black ambergris
Chapter 126 Big fish stranded, black ambergris
Li Duoyu’s feast made everyone feel comfortable.
Lao Li went to take a nap after eating.
Aniang is responsible for cleaning up.
Zhou Xiaoying hurriedly went to comfort the child. When the child got up, he didn't see his mother and cried for more than ten minutes.
Li Duoyu wanted to help soothe her, but the more she cried, the harder she cried, so she had to rest on the rocking chair in the courtyard.
Unexpectedly, I heard a strange sound just after taking a nap. The sound was melodious and ethereal, with a bit of a whine.
This voice is very familiar to him.
In his previous life, when he was browsing short videos on the sea, he occasionally came across some videos related to whales. The sound of the whales was exactly the same as what he heard now.
Li Duoyu patted his forehead. He thought it was a dream and auditory hallucinations, but he didn't expect that the sound was getting louder and louder, as if more than one whale was calling.
Li Duoyu stood on the stone strip in the courtyard and looked out. I don’t know when there were many people on the tidal flat, and everyone was surrounding a **** spot.
“No, there are real whales.”
At this time, several older children were running excitedly to tell each other.
“Brother Yu, there is a big fish on your tidal flat, go and see it quickly.”
“So big, bigger than a boat.”
“It’s really exciting.”
After hearing this, Li Duoyu became even more convinced that the **** spot on the tidal flat should be a stranded whale.
So, Li Duoyu took his father's mud horse with him, and Li Haoran, who was playing with Erbaiwu on the side, heard that there was a big fish, and his ears were straightened.
Seeing his uncle pick up the mud horse, he quickly picked up a bucket and followed behind Li Duoyu.
“Uncle, wait for me.”
Seeing that both of them were running away, 250 was stunned for a moment, then he chased after them.
Li Duoyu looked at the bucket in Li Haoran's hand and was a little bit dumbfounded. It would take dozens of buckets to fill the bucket with whale poop, but he still wants to hold fish?
Forget it, I’ve mentioned it all.
As several children rushed to tell each other, the fishermen near the pier rushed towards the tidal flat. Many of them, like Li Haoran, were carrying buckets in their hands.
When Li Duoyu came to the tidal flat, he found the whale stranded in the sea near their oyster field.
There are many villagers gathered on the shore. Since many people are not assigned to the tidal flat, naturally there is no such thing as a mud horse. It is not easy to go to the tidal flat to watch.
After Li Duoyu put down the mud horse.
Li Haoran and Erbaiwu both stood up. Li Duoyu kicked hard and then slid towards the big whale.
It slipped for about 150 meters.
Li Duoyu came to the place where the whale stranded. There were also many people around here, but most of them were acquaintances.
Uncle Zhuang from the dock, cousin Li Shuguang, uncle, and the Zhao brothers are also here, and most of the rest are villagers near the dock.
“Duoyu, you are here too.”
Li Shuguang greeted.
“You guys, why are you here so quickly?”
“Just before the tide receded, I happened to set up a net nearby. As soon as the tide receded, I found that this big whale had been left here.”
Li Duoyu looked at the huge beast in front of him, about sixteen meters long, and its body was covered with barnacles.
The head is particularly big, with one-third of its body being as long as this one. Big-headed whales like this one are very easy to recognize.
It is the sperm whale.
Seeing more and more people, the sperm whale became frightened. From time to time, it would twist its huge body and slap its tail on the muddy beach.
I tried to swim back to the sea, but because the tonnage was too big, it sank deeper and deeper into the tidal flat every time I moved.
Sperm whales live in groups.
Once you find one, there will be companions nearby. Sure enough, it is not far away, almost at the location of Li Duoyu's fishing raft.
More than a dozen sperm whales were circling there and making whining sounds.
As for why so many sperm whales appear here, Li Duoyu thinks it has something to do with the upcoming cuttlefish fishing season.
Every summer, cuttlefish come to nearby waters to lay eggs, and sperm whales especially like to eat marine life such as cuttlefish and calamari.
It must have come with the fishing season. For some unknown reason, it was stranded on the tidal flat.
Li Duoyu looked around and saw a mess of damaged nets nearby, as well as a brown rope wrapped around the sperm whale's tail, and he already had the answer in his mind.
It seems that the stranding of this sperm whale has something to do with him.
Li Duoyu looked at the sea surface and then at his watch. At 1:30 p.m., the tide had just ebbed. It would take at least 10 p.m. for the tide to rise back here.
Faced with the sperm whale trapped in this position, even if the experts did not appear, Li Duoyu had already sentenced it to death.
Furthermore, sperm whales are very heavy. Without the buoyancy of water, their internal organs will be irreversibly damaged under their own weight. Simply put, they will crush themselves to death.
The only thing that could possibly save it now was Sanshu's tugboat with the highest horsepower on Dandan Island, but Sanshu went to sea.
And Li Duoyu couldn’t guarantee that Uncle San’s tugboat could pull such a behemoth.
So unless we get an iron boat with enough horsepower, this sperm whale has no chance of survival.
The two hundred and fifty who followed along saw the big whale, and they bared their teeth and kept barking at it.
After hearing the dog barking.
The stranded sperm whale became more and more nervous, struggling constantly, flapping its tail and giving a big slap.
A large amount of muddy water was splashed, and the second uncle standing at the tail of the fish was covered in mud, and his dry smoke was also extinguished.
After the second uncle came to his senses, he scolded him: "Damn it, you stupid dog, if you have the guts, go to the sea and bark at those dozen whales."
After hearing this, everyone did not dare to laugh too loudly when they saw the embarrassment of their second uncle.
Li Duoyu patted Erbaiwu on the head and said, "You are causing trouble. If you scream again, I will throw you into the sea to feed the whales."
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Erry Baiwu felt aggrieved and had no idea why he was beaten.
Seeing how dirty his second uncle's body was, Li Duoyu took off his vest and handed it to his second uncle: "Second uncle, come here, wipe it quickly."
The second uncle waved his hand and said: "Use your clothes to wipe it. Then your mother will scold me to death. I will just wash it in the nearby sea water and it will be fine."
Li Haoran stared at the big fish in front of him and swallowed: "Uncle, if we kill such a big fish, it will be enough for our village to eat for several months."
Lao Zhuang next to him smiled and said:
"You're a snack, how do you know how to eat it? This fish is not delicious. It's covered in oil and the meat is so unpalatable."
Li Haoran said curiously:
“Grandpa Zhuang, have you ever eaten this whale?”
"When I ate this whale, your uncle Duoyu wasn't even born yet. Our island used to be the most exaggerated, with more than ten whales of this kind stranded at one time, and then they all exploded. It stunk everyone for two months. They don’t want to go to the beach.”
“How could the fish explode? I don’t believe it.”
“If you don’t believe me, go back and ask your grandpa. Your grandpa was blasted all over his body that year and even after a whole week of washing, he still couldn’t wash away the stench.”
“Really?” Lao Zhuang nodded: “If I want to lie to you, I’ll treat you to candy.”
“Okay, then I’ll go back and ask Grandpa.”
When Uncle Zhuang said this, Li Duoyu did have some impression. When he was a child, his uncle seemed to have told him about this scandal about Old Li.
But everyone gathered around the huge beast in front of them, and they didn’t know what to do for a while.
Should we say cutting meat?
Everyone is a bit disdainful of it. Whether it is cooked or dried, sperm whale meat is very unpalatable and has a strong ammonia smell.
I feel uncomfortable after eating too much.
Li Duoyu, who has worked illegally in island countries, knows better that even islanders who love to eat whales do not eat all kinds of whale meat. They usually eat the most small whales and Bryde's whales.
As for large fish like sperm whales, their meat is poorer in texture and tastes worse. If they are exhausted, they can be canned.
As for the sperm whale in front of us, the current fishermen really can’t find anything valuable except whale oil and whale skin.
Even if you really want to kill this whale.
Now is not the best time either.
Old fishermen like the uncle and the second uncle all know that when there are whales nearby, they cannot kill whales in front of them.
Otherwise, they may be worried about you when you go to sea. Big ships are fine, but small sampans may be overturned in an instant.
At this time, cousin Li Shuguang suddenly asked: "Duoyu, you have many wild ways, is there any way to sell this fish?"
Li Duoyu was also stunned.
Selling whales?
He really didn't think about it. After thinking for a while, he replied: "How about we notify the Fisheries Bureau and let them handle the matter. Maybe the museum will use it to make specimens or something like that." ”
“Okay, that’s a good idea.”
The Zhao brothers on the side turned dark when they heard that they were going to notify the fishery administration, but the tidal flat was full of their people.
The two brothers couldn’t even laugh enough to apologize.
How dare you choke?
And this time Li Duoyu was not lying. In his previous life, there was a stranded sperm whale on their island, and it was indeed taken to the museum and made into a specimen.
“I’ll notify the Fisheries Bureau. I’m just about to take the seafood I received to Qingkou Pier.” After Lao Zhuang finished speaking, he set off in his son’s sampan.
For the sake of safety, Lao Zhuang deliberately avoided the group of sperm whales when sailing.
Not long after.
More and more people are watching the sperm whales on the tidal flats, and some even bring long knives for killing fish and large basins for holding fish.
Seeing this scene, Li Duoyu remembered a report from his previous life.
A truck driver overturned his truck on the national highway and his goods were scattered all over the ground. As a result, he was robbed by nearby villagers.
What impressed him most was that when a reporter went to interview him afterwards, a villager said disdainfully: "His things are not worth anything to us at all."
The reporter asked helplessly: "It's not worth anything, why are you still trying to rob it?"
“Everyone is grabbing it.”
The same goes for the villagers holding fertilizer bags behind Li Duoyu. They may not eat whale meat, but that does not prevent them from owning it.
Fortunately, this sperm whale stranded on the beach of Li Duoyu, and the people in this circle are all related to the Li family.
He was a relatively respectable person on the island, so the villagers who wanted to ride the sperm whale did not make a fuss.
More than an hour later.
Since no one watered the sperm whale, its skin became drier and drier, and its body became weaker and weaker. It was difficult to breathe, and water began to seep out around its two big round eyes, which looked like tears.
The tail doesn’t move very much, and it looks like it will die soon.
But at this moment, a big lump of stuff rushed out from its **** hole, including a lot of undigested cuttlefish and various miscellaneous fish.
The pungent smell of ammonia pushed everyone back more than ten meters. Those who had been close just now shed tears.
“Damn it, I’m almost dead, and I still have to poop.”
Li Duoyu discovered the stranded sperm whale. Near the excretion port, there was a large, black thing that was floating in the shallow water like foam.
It was about the size of a washbasin, with some whale excrement and undigested cuttlefish residue attached to it.
After seeing this thing, Li Duoyu endured the stench and took it out of the **** pit with both hands.
Seeing this behind the scenes,
Everyone was dumbfounded and couldn't understand why Li Duoyu wanted to hug such a smelly whale poop.
But his intuition told Li Shuguang that the thing Li Duoyu was holding was definitely not simple. If it was really shit, Duoyu would not be able to hold it.
“There are many fish, what is this?”
Li Duoyu grinned and said, "This stuff is very valuable. It is a very famous medicinal material and spice. Do you want me to get some for you?"
The lady holding the sack next to her said with a look of disgust: "You are so bad. How can such a smelly thing be spice?"
Cousin Li Shuguang also felt that it was a bit outrageous, how could spices come out of stool.
“I’m not lying to you, it’s really top-notch spice.”
Li Duoyu couldn't help but sigh. You all believed me when I told lies, but no one believed me when I told the truth.
However, how could the fishermen at this time know that the ambergris used as tribute was pulled out by sperm whales? Maybe they didn’t even know what ambergris was.
In the past, Li Duoyu heard from a fisherman on the island that he once picked up a milky white ambergris the size of a watermelon on the beach.
He thought it was some kind of **** and threw it away.
Later, when information became more developed, I learned that the thing was ambergris, and that it was more expensive than gold per gram. I was so angry that I slapped my thigh. I regret it every time I think about it.
Li Duoyu carried the very light piece of "poop" into the nearby sea water. After cleaning the greasy substance and whale **** attached to it, a black "stone" appeared in front of him.
Looking at the stone in front of him that was bigger than the washbasin, Li Duoyu accidentally got closer and smelled it, almost fainting himself.
But he can guarantee it.
This stuff is ambergris.
Ambergris is indeed found only in the bellies of sperm whales, as they often eat large squid and octopus.
These two marine creatures have tough **** jaws and tongue teeth in their mouths, making them difficult to digest.
When these things accumulate in the gastrointestinal tract, their intestines will be stimulated, and the intestines will secrete a special waxy substance that wraps up the remains of food, slowly forming ambergris.
To put it bluntly, the sperm whale eats too much indigestible food, and the intestinal stones produced are ambergris.
But to be precise, the stones that have just come out cannot be called ambergris, because they are still very smelly and have no value at all.
The stones must be soaked in seawater and sun-dried for decades, and after a series of chemical reactions, they will turn into real ambergris.
The most expensive ambergris is milky white. It is said that the color can only appear after it has been floating in the sea for hundreds of years.
Li Duoyu doesn’t know whether there will be any technological means to speed up the chemical reaction of ambergris in later generations.
Anyway, if you save it first, you can’t go wrong.
After washing, Li Duoyu put the stone into the bucket carried by Li Haoran.
I didn’t think about it, it was just right.
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