Chapter Seventy-Five: The Whale Is Full of Treasures

After ordering these things, Hong Tao directly sailed the windsurf board on the beach, and even didn't care about the steady board below, love to break constantly, it was really no strength, if it wasn't for the two old men of the Tan family to support him, he couldn't even take off the chest hook, and his two arms were unconscious.

The Tan family is afraid of whales, because they don't know the origin of this thing, and they may have been attacked by toothed whales before, so they use false rumors to treat all large whales as terrible sea monsters, which are invincible to manpower. But when they were beaten to death by Hong Tao, the courage of the Tan family returned, but that's it, a few hooks tied to the cable, and put it on its back, and it was not obediently pulled to the shallow water, and it didn't even struggle, just honestly lying on the shore and bleeding.

"Tao Yanzi, this is Rong Weng Weng, the territorial sea man of our Tan family, it has been more than ten years, every year he takes the big guy out to catch the sea, and his old man can come and go in this sea area with his eyes closed." When Bo Xiaoer ran to the bonfire with a body of seawater, Hong Tao and Carl were lying on the sand and letting the two Tan boys spread hot sand on their bodies. This is also Hong Tao's idea, after the muscles are too tired, the best way is to apply a cold compress, but unfortunately there is no ice here, and then some are hot compresses, especially the sea sand with salt, which can be applied to invigorate blood and eliminate blood stasis. Otherwise, when they get up tomorrow morning, they won't have all four arms, and they won't be able to move for at least a few days.

"Rong Weng Weng...... Oops, my waist......" Hong Tao raised his eyelids, and wanted to sit up and say hello to the old man, but as soon as he raised his buttocks, he lay down again. It hurts too much, I can't get up, I love to be polite and impolite, as for what Weng Weng is, he doesn't bother to ask, I guess it's a grandfather or something, it's still too grandpa.

"Don't move, don't move! Son, good, I know your grandfather, he is the most literate person in the Tan family, many Tan family members were born, they all looked for him to take their names, or he has a vision! Old man Rong didn't care about Hong Tao lying on his stomach talking to him, and he personally came up and grabbed a few handfuls of hot sand on Hong Tao's waist.

"Weng Weng, I'm fine, but my big fish...... Hey, hey, hey...... "Hong Tao felt a little more comfortable on his waist, and wanted to turn over again, but unfortunately he gave up halfway, and now there is no place on his body that doesn't hurt.

"Don't worry, no one will touch your fish, Weng Weng will help you keep an eye on it, our Tan family is not allowed to have this problem, who dares to touch me and sink him directly in the sea!" Old man Rong thought that Hong Tao was afraid that the whale would be robbed by others, so he gave Hong Tao an exact answer.

"It's not that I'm afraid of others moving, but that whale is very useful, very valuable, and can't be slaughtered casually...... You help me up, let me get up, I can't tell you here! Hong Tao knew that the old man had misunderstood himself, this whale weighed more than ten tons, and he couldn't eat ten meals a day. He didn't think about how to distribute whale meat, a whale, meat is the least valuable, it is full of treasures, even if it is put in this era, it is still a treasure, it must not be wasted, otherwise it will be really in vain.

"Xiao Er, what do you see, come, carry your brother-in-law and follow me to the beach!" Old man Rong is worthy of being the leader of the Hainan Tan family, and he understands things very well, although he doesn't know what Hong Tao is going to do, but he still has full respect for a person who can kill the giant whale alone, and is willing to listen to his opinion. At the moment, he copied Hong Tao with Bo Xiaoer, and then put it on Bo Xiaoer's back.

What is the use of whales other than meat? That is very useful, otherwise in the 19th century, European and American countries would not have hunted whales with their lives, and the real meat composition accounted for only one percent, and the most important thing was for the rest of the whale's body. The industrial revolution in the West will be much slower without whales, whether it is from daily life or industrial production, whales are a very important link.

The first is whale oil, not the essential oil we use in the bath, it is whale oil! Oil made from whale fat. More than one-third of a whale's body weight is fat, and when the skin is cut, the pale pink layer underneath is the blubber layer. This thick layer of blubber not only maintains the whale's body temperature, but also provides nutrients to the whale when food is not sufficient. By heating this blubber, you can get the most basic whale oil, which is best used as lamp oil, which burns very brightly and has no fumes or any peculiar smells. If it can be filtered and boiled at high temperatures, whale oil will become a viscous liquid like honey, it is a very high-grade industrial lubricant, which will neither become diluted nor solidified at a high temperature of hundreds of degrees, and many precision instruments are lubricated with this whale oil.

The second is whale meat, many people say that whale meat is unpalatable, which is all purposeful one-sided propaganda in later generations. There are whale meat for sale in the markets of Norway and Japan, and if you don't tell you, you can't eat it at all, this is whale meat, it doesn't smell fishy at all, except for the slightly light color, it is very similar to the beef we usually eat, and it is still good beef. Whale meat is rich in protein, and in later generations we have too many substitutes to eat, so we don't need to eat whale meat, but in the Song Dynasty, when many poor people still relied on taro every day, it was already a paradise to have whale meat to eat.

Then there's the baleen whale, which only baleen whales have. Baleen whales, listening to this name, should know that it must have something to do with baleen. This whisker is not a beard, but a tooth, the tooth of a baleen whale. It's in the whale's jaw, like a tooth, but it's made of cartilage, lined up on one side. Baleen whales do not eat but drink when eating, even the sea water with small fish and shrimp to drink into the mouth of a big mouthful, but do not swallow, first close the mouth, the whale baleen stand up, like a filter in the lips, the sea water can leak out, small fish and shrimp are all left.

According to the size of the whale, each baleen ranges from half a meter to more than 3 meters long, and the weight ranges from a few taels to more than a dozen catties. It's very tough and elastic, it can bend, it can stretch, it can do a lot of things. For example, European and American women's skirt supports, underwear supports, medical surgical instruments, sail cable-stayed rods and sail supports, and so on. The Inuit also made bows out of whale baleen and strings out of whale tendons, which were very light in weight but powerful in launch, and were their hunting weapons.

The material of the whale baleen is very similar to the ivory, it is a good material for making handicrafts, after polishing and carving, it can be fake, and many ivory handicrafts in later generations are actually made of thick whale baleen core, which is difficult to distinguish between professionals.

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