Chapter 493 496. Ambergris (5)
Just like a nuclear submarine running rampant underwater, and like Kunpeng stirring up the wind and clouds, the sperm whale's movement instantly turned the sea water into a torrent, and there was chaos under the water.
Faced with such a torrent, Ao Muyang could not maintain his balance, so he simply ignored it and went with the flow, letting it do whatever it wanted.
The tiger was frightened and immediately raised its head and rushed to the sea surface.
The sperm whale ignored it, and immediately opened its mouth to suck sea water after turning its head. A lot of sea water entered its mouth along with the golden droplets.
The tiger was stupidly floating in the sea above and watching this scene. It was very anxious, helpless, and angry. In the past, if other sea fish dared to make it have such emotions, it would swallow it in one bite without saying anything!
Now it can't do that. The guy under him is several sizes bigger than him, and the teeth in his open mouth are several times longer than his own. If he takes the initiative to provoke, the end is likely to be giving his head to others as a snack.
The tiger swam towards Ao Muyang and pushed him away, just like pushing a ball, and pushed him out of the turbulence with its head.
It made such a move to act like a spoiled child. Of course, due to its size, the orca's acting like a spoiled child is different from that of General Youfu and the other leaders.
Fortunately, Ao Muyang has a strong ability to withstand blows, otherwise, if he were to let an ordinary person hit him like this, he would be waiting for his bones to break!
For ordinary people, this is called acting cute? This is called murder!
Ao Muyang understood what it meant. The tiger was angry that his gold drop was taken away by the sperm whale.
But Lao Ao spread his hands and said that there was nothing he could do. What do you want me to do? Should I help you criticize it? No, no, no, don't, I don't want to be eaten either.
He became smart when he gave the tiger the gold drop again. When the tiger opened its mouth, he put his hand in. He quickly released the gold drop and the tiger quickly absorbed the gold drop.
Although there were golden drops to eat, the tiger still felt wronged. The current situation made it feel like: I am a married woman, how can being intimate with my husband seem like having an affair?
It turned around and looked at the sperm whale that was staring at it, feeling sad in its heart. It had a premonition that it would not be so easy to eat golden drops in the future.
Ao Muyang used golden drops to take them away from the fishing grounds, and then sent a signal to the island, and the island sent a boat to pick him up.
Ao Qianlai, who was driving the boat, said mysteriously: "Yangzi, there are big fish in this sea."
Ao Muyang smiled bitterly and said: "Well, a sperm whale, did you see it?"
Ao Qianlai glared and said: "What sperm whale? I'm talking about tuna!"
Ao Muyang understood, he just found out that there were two bluefin tuna in the fishing grounds.
But tuna is also a big fish? Ao Muyang sneered, he really wanted to bring the sperm whale up to open the eyes of this countryman and let him know what a big fish is.
This reminded him of some of the rich people in the Middle East mentioned in the news. What's so great about raising lions and crocodiles? I raise killer whales! Not only killer whales, but also sperm whales!
When he returned to the island, Ao Mingtao and his team had been busy for a long time, and half of the barnacle seedlings were put into the sea.
Because the growth cycle has entered the clinging stage, the barnacle seedlings fell into the sea and moved towards the shore, looking for a suitable place to live on the reef.
After a while, at least thousands of small barnacles found a suitable place to dock, so dense that people with intensive phobia would faint from fear.
Seeing this, Ao Muyang waved: "Okay, stop working, come up and take a rest. Is there any tea on Qianlaishu Island? Make some cold tea for everyone."
"No tea, but there is watermelon."
"Then cut the watermelon for everyone."
Several fishermen took off their clothes and hung them on their shoulders and walked onto the island. It was their first time to come to Zhuantou Island. They were very curious about the fishery contracted by Ao Muyang, so they walked around the island.
Zhuantou Island is not small, and it takes more than half an hour to walk around the island.
There are not many trees and green plants on the island, and it has not been specially cleaned up, so there is nothing to see, but out of curiosity, Ao Mingtao and his party still walked around for a long time.
The weather was hot, and everyone gradually returned. After returning, Er Deng said with envy: "Village chief, you are really rich, but you are too bold. You left such a big piece of ambergris outside?"
After hearing the first half of his words, Ao Muyang was about to be modest, but he was stunned after hearing the second half of his words: "What? Ambergris? Where did you see it?"
Er Deng pointed to a protruding reef behind him and said: "Isn't the thing you are drying there ambergris? It looks like it to me!"
Ao Muyang didn't even know what was drying on the reef!
But he knew very well what ambergris was. It was a very precious spice.
The white nan necklace he wore on his hand was also a very precious spice, known as the king of fragrance. The preciousness of ambergris is not inferior to that of agarwood. Moreover, the most precious agarwood is white agarwood, and the most precious ambergris is white ambergris.
Ambergris has been used as a high-grade spice since ancient times. For a long time in ancient times, it was a special spice for royal families and nobles of various countries. The European royal family ground ambergris into extremely fine powder and dissolved it in alcohol to make ambergris solution as perfume, while the Chinese royal family liked to burn dry ambergris.
Looking at the direction indicated by the second lamp, Ao Muyang was about to ask if this was what Ao Qianlai and his wife had dried, and then he suddenly thought of the origin of ambergris and suddenly understood what the second lamp was talking about!
Ambergris!
Ancient people said that ambergris was solidified from the saliva spit out by dragons, so it got this name, but modern research has found that they are actually secretions of sperm whales.
Sperm whales like to eat mollusks such as squid and octopus, but squid and octopus have hard beak bones, which sperm whales cannot digest. They will form solids with secretions in the intestines, which is the initial state of ambergris.
But the things at this time are not ambergris. They need to be vomited out by sperm whales, and after years of wind, sun, water and stone grinding in the ocean, they finally become ambergris.
It can be said that the formation of ambergris is accidental. They also have to go through hardships to come out, and their experience is extremely legendary. Of course, this is what makes it precious and scarce.
Thinking of the information about ambergris, Ao Muyang further recalled that according to the information, the ambergris that has just been vomited is black and soft, and has a bad smell.
This is in line with the characteristics of the ball of things that the sperm whale vomited that day. At that time, Ao Muyang didn't think much after seeing it. He thought it was something dirty, but it turned out to be the ambergris that had just been vomited!
Fortunately, he hit the target by mistake. He didn't know what the sperm whale had vomited at that time. He was afraid that the sperm whale's own smell would attract it to stay in the waters around the fishing grounds, so he brought it ashore on purpose.
After bringing it ashore, he didn't tell anyone and just threw it on a reef as if it were garbage. He forgot the exact location, but it seemed to be in the direction indicated by the second light.
Thinking in his mind, he walked quickly towards the reef, and then a gray-black solidified object as big as a millstone appeared in front of him.