August 29, 2012.

The British "Daily Mail" reported: Charlie Naismith, an 8-year-old boy, was playing on the beach when he found a large beige stone on the beach, and the surface of the stone seemed to be coated with a layer of wax and a faint fragrance. Charlie thought the stone was interesting and took it home. However, Charlie's parents recognized that this was not an ordinary stone, so they took it to the expert for examination, only to find that it was a piece of "ambergris". The piece of ambergris that Charlie picked up weighed 600 grams, and as soon as the news came out, someone immediately offered $63,000 to buy it.

It is reported that now Charlie's family is still looking for ambergris, but Charlie has already figured out how to use this treasure, and he plans to use the money from the sale of ambergris to build an animal shelter.

This is not the first time that ambergris has been spotted. In 2006, an Australian couple saw a strange piece on the beach, and the couple brought it home out of curiosity, and after consulting a marine biologist, they determined that it was a precious ambergris.

Ambergris is a dried product of sperm whale intestinal secretions, some sperm whales will vomit out the condensation, some will be excreted from the intestines, and only a small number of sperm whales will keep ambergris in the body.

Ambergris is a precious fragrance and a highly sought-after raw material for perfume makers, costing up to £6,300 per pound (about 454 grams). Due to its high price and rarity, ambergris is also known as "floating gold". In 2008, someone also found a 110-pound piece of ambergris for a total of 500,000 pounds.

Ambergris is mainly used as a fixative in perfumes, which helps perfume taste long-lasting, but due to the difficulty of finding and environmental factors, chemical synthetic fragrances are now mostly used.

But chemical things can't be compared with natural ones after all, and it is precisely because of this that the price of natural ambergris is becoming more and more expensive.

Cai Hongming remembered the newspapers he had seen about ambergris before, and he became excited when he thought that the big table tennis ball in his hand and the stone-like thing in his hand might be ambergris. Now this thing is no longer a stone in his eyes, but gold. I don't know if it's a psychological effect, he feels that the stone in his hand is getting more and more fragrant. It is also very simple to prove whether the thing in his hand is ambergris, take a little burn and see it, but he didn't have a lighter on him, so he put the stone into the cave blessed land in the jade ding, and planned to go home and try again.

Put away the things, he was a little greedy and insufficient, thinking about it, he didn't know if there was anything below.

So, he kept digging. I didn't expect that there was still below, and finally let him dig up a piece that was almost as big as a hug, a football as big, and a slap as big, a total of three pieces of ambergris.

He had already thought about it, and the big ones were kept, and the big ones with table tennis balls and palms were sold with ambergris. This kind of thing is only going to get more and more valuable, and it's a bit silly to sell it so early. He didn't expect that there would be such a surprise when he came to dig up something and go back to eat, so he was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.

"Stealing food again, did you wash your hands?" In the kitchen, Cai Yuhuang saw her daughter who secretly reached out to grab something on the plate, and reprimanded angrily.

"It's been washed early."

Lu Qiaohong took the boiled red cockroach and ate it, and said, "Mom, you didn't cook so much delicious food when I was at home, and as soon as my brother came back, you made so much, it's really eccentric." ”

"Ho, I usually abuse you, didn't cook you anything delicious? Well, from tomorrow onwards, our family will cook porridge with sweet potatoes in the morning, white rice and pickles with braised eggs at noon, and white porridge with soy milk in the evening, what do you think? ”

Isn't it fatal? Seeing that her mother was really coming, Lu Qiaohong hurriedly hugged her mother's shoulder and said coquettishly: "Mom, in fact, I want to say that you are the best for me." ”

Cai Yuhuang snorted and said, "What's the use of the best, it's not about getting married in the end." Alas, this feels like a pig raised by our family, and it is a pity that they have to give it to others without eating a bite. ”

"Mom, is there such a metaphor?"

"You're a pig, am I wrong about that?" Cai Yuhuang said strangely.

"Mom" Lu Qiaohong was coquettish.

As soon as Cai Hongming entered the door, he heard the conversation between his sister-in-law and his cousin from the kitchen, and couldn't help laughing. Anyone else compares their daughter to a pig? When he walked into the kitchen, he saw his cousin holding a big red cockroach (blue crab) and eating it next to his sister-in-law, and his saliva was about to flow.

When Cai Yuhuang saw him, he immediately said: "Hongming is back, your mother said a few days ago that you were going to come back, but I didn't expect you to run to other places to play, be careful that your mother comes back to settle accounts with you." ”

"Don't be afraid, you have a sister-in-law." Cai Hongming said to his sister-in-law with a hippie smile.

"I can't help you."

Cai Yuhuang glanced at him, saw that he was carrying a bucket in his hand, looked at it, and found that it was the same old again, and couldn't help but say: "I ran to dig these things again, what are these delicious, I dig them every time I come back." Go wash it, and I'll cook it for you later. ”

Cai Hongming got the order and hurriedly took it to wash.

Later, when Lu Qitian returned from selling seafood, he started to eat.

Cai Yuhuang knew that Cai Hongming was back, and specially left today's fattest steamed vermicelli and beer, which tasted really against the sky. This seafood feast made Cai Hongming's stomach bulge, and the corners of his mouth flowed with crab oil. After eating, Lu Qitian specially took out a bottle of wine that had been treasured for a long time, but unfortunately Cai Hongming didn't like to drink this thing at all.

"Uncle, what's so good about wine, didn't my mother send you sea buckthorn wine? Go get that one and drink it, it's homebrewed and it's been stored for nearly ten years. ”

"That's what I specially asked your dad to buy for me, just waiting to entertain guests in the future, it's not like you haven't drunk it over there, what are you doing with that thing, drinking this, a bottle is hundreds?"

Seeing him say this, Cai Hongming had to drink wine hard. This wine he really loveless, so sour. He likes something sweeter.

After a few sips of wine, Lu Qitian asked, "Do you have anything to do tomorrow?" ”

"Nope."

"Then you come early tomorrow, and I'll take you fishing."

Cai Hongming listened and pursed his lips disdainfully, "Uncle, I still want you to take me fishing, who in the village doesn't know that I have good fishing skills, there will be fish when I hook, and there will be fish when I hook." As he spoke, he also made a stinky fart gesture like a fishing hook.

Cai Yuhuang couldn't see it, and said with a leak of air next to him: "Yes!" Especially in other people's fish ponds, the fish are hooked faster, otherwise they will not be chased to the house. ”

"Poof"

Lu Qiaohong laughed when she heard it, she heard her mother say that her cousin did things when she was a child, it is said that once she and her friends went to someone's fish pond to fish, and they were chased by others and hid at home and did not dare to come out, and finally her grandfather came out to settle down.

Cai Hongming was a little embarrassed, scratched his head and said, "That's also a skill." ”

Cai Yuhuang rolled his eyes, and was about to taunt a few more words, when Lu Qitian spoke, "I'm not taking you to the pond to fish, but in the sea, the fish in the sea are big, and it's interesting to catch them." ”

"Do you have a boat?" Cai Hongming remembered that his uncle didn't seem to have a boat.

"Of course." Lu Qitian said proudly.

"What's so proud about a second-hand broken ship, I told you to buy a new one, but you didn't listen, now it's okay, repair it every day, and the money spent can catch up with buying a new one." Cai Yuhuang said angrily beside him.

"Didn't I feel the need to buy a new one, who knew that the ship was so bad?" Lu Qitian saw that his wife was angry, and hurriedly defended.

It turned out that this year he bought a small island not far from the village, intending to collect some money for fishing. Naturally, he needed a boat to travel to and from the island, but he was reluctant to spend a lot of money on a new one, so he bought a second-hand boat. Who knew that three days after the boat was bought, there was a problem at both ends, and it cost a lot of money to repair it alone, so Cai Yuhuang couldn't help but be angry.