Chapter 126 Big Fish Stranded, Black Ambergris (1/2)

Chapter 126 Big fish stranded, black ambergris

Li Duoyu's big meal made everyone feel very comfortable.

After eating, Lao Li went to take a nap.

A Niang was responsible for cleaning up,

Zhou Xiaoying hurried to coax the child. After getting up, the child didn't see his mother and cried for more than ten minutes.

Li Duoyu wanted to help coax the child, but the more he coaxed, the more he cried, so he had to rest on the rocking chair in the courtyard.

Unexpectedly, just after a short nap, he heard a strange sound, which was melodious and ethereal, and a little bit of wailing.

He was very familiar with this sound.

In his previous life, when he was watching short videos about sea catching, he occasionally saw some videos related to whales, and the sound of the whale was exactly the same as what he heard now.

Li Duoyu patted his forehead. He thought he was dreaming and had auditory hallucinations, but he didn't expect the sound to get louder and louder, as if more than one whale was calling.

Li Duoyu stood on the stone slab in the courtyard and looked out. There were already quite a few people on the beach, and everyone was surrounding a big black dot.

"No way, there really is a whale."

At this time, several older children were running around excitedly telling each other.

"Brother Yu, there is a big fish on the beach near your home, go and see it."

"It's so big, bigger than the boat."

"It's really exciting."

After hearing this, Li Duoyu was more convinced that the big black spot on the beach should be a stranded whale.

So, Li Duoyu took his father's mud horse, and Li Haoran, who was playing with idiots, heard that there was a big fish, and his ears were straight.

Seeing that his uncle picked up the mud horse, he also quickly picked up a bucket and followed Li Duoyu.

"Uncle, wait for me."

Seeing that both of them ran away, idiots were stunned for a while, and then ran after them.

Li Duoyu looked at the bucket in Li Haoran's hand, a little bit amused and crying. It would take dozens of buckets to put whale shit in this bucket, and he wanted to put fish in it?

Forget it, I've already picked it up.

As several children told each other, fishermen near the pier rushed to the beach. Many of them, like Li Haoran, carried buckets in their hands.

When Li Duoyu arrived at the beach, he found that the sea area where the whale was stranded was near their oyster field.

Many villagers gathered on the shore. Since many people did not get the beach, they naturally did not have mud horses. It was not easy to go to the beach to watch.

After Li Duoyu put down the mud horse.

Li Haoran and Erbaiwu all stood up. Li Duoyu pedaled hard and then slid towards the direction of the big whale.

Sliding about 150 meters.

Li Duoyu came to the place where the whale was stranded. There were also many people around here, but most of them were acquaintances.

Uncle Zhuang from the pier, my eldest cousin Li Shuguang, my uncle, and the Zhao brothers were also here. Most of the rest were villagers near the pier.

"Duoyu, you are here too."

Li Shuguang greeted.

"How did you guys come so quickly?"

"Just before the tide receded, I was collecting a net nearby, and as soon as the tide receded, I found this big whale left here."

Li Duoyu looked at the huge creature in front of him, about 16 meters long, with barnacles all over his body.

And the head is particularly large, about one-third of the body. Such big-headed whales are very easy to recognize.

It is a sperm whale.

Seeing more and more people, the sperm whale was scared and twisted its huge body from time to time, slapping the mud on the beach with its tail.

It tried hard to swim back to the sea, but because the density was too large, every movement made it sink deeper and deeper in the beach.

And sperm whales live in groups.

Once one is found, there will be companions nearby. Sure enough, it was not far away, almost at the location of Li Duoyu's fishing raft.

More than a dozen sperm whales kept circling there and making wailing sounds.

As for why there were so many sperm whales here, Li Duoyu thought it was related to the upcoming cuttlefish fishing season.

Every summer, cuttlefish come to the nearby sea to lay eggs, and sperm whales particularly like to eat marine life such as cuttlefish and squid.

It should have come with the fishing season, and for some unknown reason, it was stranded on the mudflat.

Li Duoyu looked around and saw a damaged and messy net nearby, as well as a brown rope wrapped around the sperm whale's tail. He already had the answer in his mind.

It seems that the stranding of this sperm whale really has something to do with him.

Li Duoyu looked at the sea surface and then at his watch. It was 1:30 in the afternoon, and the tide had just receded. It would take at least until around 10 o'clock in the evening for the tide to rise back here.

Facing the sperm whale trapped in this position, even if the experts did not appear, Li Duoyu had already sentenced it to death.

And the sperm whale is very heavy. Without the buoyancy of the water, its internal organs will also suffer irreversible damage under its own weight. Simply put, it crushed itself to death.

Now the only one who can save it is the tugboat with the largest horsepower on Dandan Island, which is the third uncle, but the third uncle has gone out to sea.

And Li Duoyu couldn't guarantee that the tugboat of the third uncle could pull such a huge monster.

So unless a tin boat with enough horsepower came now, the sperm whale would have no chance of survival.

And the idiot who followed along saw the big whale, barked at it 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 suddenly slapped it.

A large amount of muddy water splashed up, hitting the second uncle standing at the tail of the fish, and his pipe was even extinguished.

After realizing what was happening, the second uncle cursed, "Damn it, you stupid dog, if you have the guts, go to the sea and yell at those dozen whales."

After hearing this, seeing the second uncle's embarrassed look, everyone didn't dare to laugh too loudly.

And Li Duoyu patted the idiot's head, "You are making trouble, if you yell again, I will throw you into the sea to feed the whales."

"Woo woo woo woo."

The idiot felt wronged and had no idea why he was beaten.

Seeing that his uncle was so dirty, Li Duoyu took off his vest and handed it to him: "Uncle, come on, wipe it quickly."

Uncle waved his hand and said: "Use your clothes to wipe it, or your mother will scold me to death. I will wash it in the nearby sea water."

Li Haoran stared at the big fish in front of him and swallowed his saliva: "Uncle, such a big fish, if we kill it, it will be enough for our village to eat for several months."

Lao Zhuang next to him laughed:

"You little foodie, how can you only know how to eat? This fish is not delicious. It is full of oil and the meat is so unpalatable."

Li Haoran asked curiously:

"Grandpa Zhuang, have you eaten this whale?"

"I eat this whale At that time, your uncle Duoyu was not even born. In our island, the most exaggerated time was when more than ten whales of this kind were stranded at one time, and they all exploded. The stench was so bad that everyone didn't want to go to the beach for two months. "

"How can fish explode? I don't believe it."

"If you don't believe it, go back and ask your grandpa. Your grandpa was exploded all over that year. He washed for a whole week, but the stench on his body couldn't be washed off."

"Really?"

Lao Zhuang nodded: "If I want to lie to you, I will treat you to candy."

"Okay, then I will go back and ask grandpa."

After Uncle Zhuang said this, Li Duoyu did have some impression. When he was a child, his uncle seemed to have told him about this ugly incident of Lao Li.

But everyone surrounded the huge monster in front of them, and didn't know what to do for a while.

Should we talk about cutting meat?

Everyone looked down on it. Whether it was cooked or dried, the fish meat of sperm whales was very unpalatable and had a strong ammonia smell.

It was uncomfortable to eat too much.

Li Duoyu, who had worked illegally in the island country, knew better that even the islanders who loved to eat whales did not eat all kinds of whale meat. They generally ate the most small whales and Bryde's whales.

Large fish like sperm whales have more woody meat and worse taste. They can only be canned whales.

For the current fishermen, except for whale oil and whale skin, they really couldn't find anything valuable about the sperm whale in front of them.

Even if they really wanted to kill this whale.

Now is not the best time.

Old fishermen like my uncle and my second uncle knew that when there were whales nearby, they could not kill whales in front of them.

Otherwise, they might be targeted when they went out to sea. It was okay for large ships, but if it was a small sampan, it would probably be overturned in an instant.

At this time, my eldest cousin Li Shuguang suddenly asked: "Duoyu, you have many wild ways, is there any way to sell this fish?"

Li Duoyu was also stunned.

Sell whales?

He really hadn't thought about it. After thinking for a while, he replied: "Or, let's notify the Fisheries Bureau and let them handle this matter. Maybe the museum will take it and make it into a specimen or something."

"Okay, this is a good idea."

When the Zhao brothers heard that they had to notify the Fisheries Administration, their faces turned black instantly, but the mudflats were full of their people.

The two brothers couldn't even smile.

How dare they say anything.

And this time Li Duoyu was not talking nonsense. In his previous life, there was a stranded sperm whale on their island, and it was indeed pulled to the museum to be made into a specimen.

"I'll notify the Fisheries Bureau. It just happens that we have to take the seafood we received to the Qingkou Wharf." After Lao Zhuang finished speaking, he drove his son's sampan and set off.

And for safety reasons, Lao Zhuang deliberately bypassed the group of sperm whales when he drove the boat.

Not long after.

More and more people gathered on the mudflats to watch the sperm whales, and some even brought long knives for killing fish and large basins for holding fish.

After seeing this scene, Li Duoyu recalled a report from his previous life.

A truck driver overturned on the national highway, and the goods were scattered all over the ground, and were looted by nearby villagers.

What impressed him most was that afterward, a reporter went to interview him, and a villager said disdainfully: "Those things of his are not worth anything to us at all."

The reporter asked helplessly: "If they are not worth anything, why are you still robbing them?"

"Everyone is robbing them."

The same is true for the villagers holding fertilizer bags behind Li Duoyu. They may not eat whale meat, but it does not prevent them from owning it.

Fortunately, this sperm whale was stranded on the beach of Li Duoyu, and the people in this circle are all related to the Li family.

He is also a relatively well-known person on the island, so the villagers who want to rob the sperm whale did not make a fuss.

More than an hour later.

Because 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 of its two big round eyes, which looked like tears.

The tail didn't move much, and it looked like it would die soon.

But at this moment, a large mass of stuff rushed out of its anus, including a lot of undigested cuttlefish and various fish.

The pungent smell of ammonia pushed everyone back more than ten meters, and the few people who were close to it just now shed tears.

"Fuck, it's almost dead, and it still wants to poop."

Li Duoyu found a large black object near the excretion of the stranded sperm whale, floating in the shallow water like foam.

It was about the size of a washbasin, and there were some whale feces and undigested cuttlefish residues on it.

After seeing this thing, Li Duoyu endured the stench and took it out of the shit pit with both hands.

After seeing this scene,

everyone was dumbfounded and couldn't understand why Li Duoyu wanted to hold such a smelly whale feces.

But Li Shuguang's intuition told him that the thing Li Duoyu held must be something special. If it was really feces, Duoyu would never hold it.

"Duoyu, what is this?"

Li Duoyu grinned and said, "This thing is precious. It is a famous medicinal material and spice. Do you want me to get some for you?"

The aunt holding a sack on the side said with disgust, "You are so mean. How could such a smelly thing be a spice?"

My eldest cousin Li Shuguang also thought it was a bit outrageous. How could spices come out of feces?

"I really didn't lie to you. It is really a top-grade spice."

Li Duoyu couldn't help but sigh. You all believed my lies, but no one believed the truth.

However, the fishermen at that time didn't know that the ambergris used for tribute was excreted 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 had picked up a milky white ambergris the size of a watermelon on the beach.

He thought it was some garbage and threw it away directly.

Later, after the development of information, he knew that the thing was ambergris, and it was more expensive than gold per gram. He was so angry that he slapped his thigh and regretted it every time he thought about it.

Li Duoyu took this very light "feces" to the nearby sea water, cleaned the greasy substances attached to it, and the whale feces, and a black "stone" appeared in front of him.

Looking at the stone in front of him that was bigger than a washbasin, Li Duoyu was possessed by a ghost and sniffed it, and almost fainted himself.

But he can guarantee it.

This thing is ambergris.

Ambergris is indeed only found in the stomach of sperm whales, because they often swallow giant squids and octopuses.

Both of these marine creatures have tough keratin jaws and tongue teeth in their mouths, which are not easy to digest.

When these things gather in the gastrointestinal tract, they will stimulate their intestines, and the intestines will secrete a special waxy substance to wrap the residual core of the food, and slowly form ambergris.

To put it bluntly, sperm whales eat too much indigestible things, and then 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 stone must be soaked in seawater and exposed to the sun for decades, and after a series of chemical reactions, it will become real ambergris.

The most expensive ambergris is milky white, and it is said that it must float in the sea for hundreds of years before it can appear.

Li Duoyu doesn't know whether there are any technological means to accelerate the chemical reaction of ambergris in the future.

Anyway, it won't go wrong to save it first.

After washing, Li Duoyu put the stone in the bucket that Li Haoran was carrying.

I didn't expect it to be just right.

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