The minke whale was so big, weighing about seven or eight tons, that it was impossible to pull it on board, so it had to be dragged back by rope and headed back towards Treasure Island.

However, it was not easy to bring such a large pile of meat back to Treasure Island, and on their way back, the smell of whale blood attracted a group of sharks, who chased after the two boats, both wanting a piece of the pie, trying to get a piece of the meat from the whales.

Looking at the sharks that surrounded him, Yu Xiaotian was angry, and said in his heart Lao Tzu worked hard to catch such a whale, but you bastards came to grab it, isn't this cheap for you?

So he had the Seawolf follow the Walrus, clinging to the whale, and lowered the ship's sampan again, and let the Blackhead lead a few men down to the sampan to protect the whale.

As soon as they saw a shark coming up and wanted to bite the whale, they would immediately lean out with a spear or harpoon to stab it, or simply release the arrow, which was considered to be a practice of archery, and shoot the shark in the water.

The sharks were greedy for food, and they suffered a lot at once, and several sharks were stabbed by harpoons or spears and tossed in the seawater.

The shark blood provoked the other sharks even more to go crazy, and the sea water seemed to be boiling, after all, they were all cold-blooded animals, even if they were of the same kind, they did not let go, and began to bite the injured shark.

For a while, the sharks were also inseparable from each other, the sea was full of blood stains, and pieces of whitish shark meat floated up, and even the seabirds joined in the fun, joining in the feast, swooping down from time to time, picking up a piece of shark meat from the seawater, and quickly flapping their wings and flying high.

Some seabirds are too greedy, and the shark meat is too big for them to hold up, so they fall into the sea, and some sharks rush over quickly, and they bite and drag them down.

When Yu Xiaotian saw such a scene, he couldn't help but feel emotional, this is really a portrayal of the world! People die for money, birds die for food! Looking at the vast sea, he secretly thought to himself, I don't know where he will go in the future, and whether it will one day become a big meal in other people's mouths.

After dragging a large whale, they returned very slowly, and did not return to Treasure Island after dark, until in the middle of the night, when they saw the campfire lit on Treasure Island.

As a Kong Ming lantern was released, the bonfire on the island became brighter, and the light of the torches on the island could be seen from a distance.

Everyone's spirits were lifted, and the fatigue on their bodies was swept away, and they stood proudly on the side of the ship one by one, posing as if they were standing on a slope.

As the ship slowly docked to the shore, the people of the island hurried to meet it, and when they saw the behemoth that they were dragging behind their ship by the light of the lanterns and torches on the boat and on the shore, they were all stunned.

The news reached the ears of everyone in Treasure Island, including those who were sleeping, and they were woken up, dressed one by one, and ran to the shore to see the rarity.

In the midst of everyone's amazement, Yu Xiaotian led everyone to use the slipway they were going to use to repair the ship, as well as the pulley set and the winch, put two mules on the winch, and everyone helped to drag the big whale to the shore.

Now they can rest assured, there will be no sharks running to grab food with them, and then look at this big whale, the shark bite along the way is covered in scaly wounds, fortunately the rope was not bitten, otherwise they would be equivalent to doing it for the sharks in vain.

Yu Xiaotian didn't dare to wait until dawn to deal with the hunted minke whale, so he ordered someone to immediately prepare a cauldron and sea salt, knives and axes, and began to divide the whale with torches overnight.

The whale skin is very thick, it takes a lot of force to cut it, and the whale skin is a thick layer of fat, no one has done this kind of thing, only clumsily cut the whale skin, the whale fat is separated from the whale skin, and the fat is peeled off from the whale meat piece by piece.

After the large chunks of whale fat were cut off, they were immediately sent to several cauldrons, where they were thrown into the pots and began to be tempered with fire.

The whale fat made a stinging sound in the pot, gradually turning into translucent grease, and blue smoke came out, and the air was filled with a fishy smell of whale oil, making the whole Treasure Island stink, and the sea breeze could not blow away this smell.

For a whole day, everyone was dismembering the whale, and the whale skin was peeled off in large pieces, and handed over to the two-and-a-half hanger cobbler to find a way to deal with it, and the fat was sent to the cauldron where the oil was boiled, and it was continuously refined into grease, and then it was scooped out with a large spoon, put into iron buckets, copper basins and other utensils to cool, and then loaded into wooden barrels.

The cauldron kept being put into new whale fat, and there were some black slags floating in the pot, some people fished out these slags, and they were reluctant to lose them at first, but then they saw that there were too many things, so Yu Xiaotian asked them to throw these slags into the fire below.

After the fire had these oily slags, it burned even more vigorously, and then even the firewood and grass were not used, and the oil residues were directly burned to refine whale oil, which is equivalent to the whales using their own bodies to refine their own oil for the sea wolves on the island, and this process is undoubtedly cruel.

Yu Xiaotian found out that the containers they prepared were too few, and the fat on this whale could refine so much oil that the containers they prepared were not enough at all, so they could only find out all the things in the stockade that could hold liquids, and it was estimated that for a long time, they would not have a washbasin to use.

The whale skin and fat were soon stripped off by everyone's concerted efforts, the drying of the drying, the boiling of the oil, and then the large pieces of whale meat were divided, the number of the same scary, this seven or eight tons of minke whale, fat and whale skin accounted for nearly a quarter of the weight, the meat also accounted for nearly a third of the weight, after the whale meat was carefully removed a little bit, the weight was more than two tons, even if the people on the island opened their bellies to eat, it would take a long time to eat.

Fortunately, it is now the beginning of spring along the coast of Fujian, and it is the time when it is warm and cold, and the whale meat will not deteriorate quickly, but even so, Yu Xiaotian still let people, leaving a small part of fresh whale meat, and the rest are smeared with salt, pickled and then spread out to dry, and salted into salted meat and stored for them to eat gradually in the future.

This big whale came down, they stored nearly two tons of whale meat, so much meat, for them before, is unthinkable, although they often let people go out to sea to fish, but even if the sea fish is delicious, it is not a way to eat every day, there will always be a time to eat stomach.

Whales are mammals, and although the meat is a little rough, it tastes a bit like mutton, and it tastes quite good, which makes everyone on the island feast.

Many people eat whale meat in large mouthfuls, and they are in a good mood, which is for these people, they have never thought before, in their lifetime, one day they will have the opportunity to eat meat so much, such days are really heavenly days for them, and now even if they are driven away, they are not willing to go, in short, in the eyes of many people, their helmsman is a person with great ability, and he has meat to eat, which is better than anything.

As for Xiaotian, although he took people out to sea to hunt whales this time and lost a sampan, he did not lose his subordinates, and successfully captured a whale, which greatly satisfied their material needs, and the most important thing is not these.

The most important thing is that through this whaling activity, he feels that he has greatly tempered the cooperation between his subordinates to make it more cohesive, and at the same time, through the slaughter of whales, everyone has experienced a bloody scene.

This is undoubtedly a good exercise for improving the combat effectiveness of his subordinates, both materially and spiritually, this time his whaling activities have gained a lot.

Seeing the whale with only the skeleton left on the beach, Yu Xiaotian still felt a little regretful, the current Treasure Island is too small, there is not enough land for them to cultivate, otherwise, after these whale bones are crushed, they go up to the land, whale bones are rich in phosphorus and potassium, which are very good natural fertilizers, but at the moment they can't use these things.

However, he still tried his best to scrape more useful things from this whale, and the whale baleen was taken down by him and stored it, this thing has good elasticity, it can be used as a bowstring, and it can also be used to make a good umbrella bone, which can be sold to the Li family in the future, so that it can be resold to the land, and the value is also quite expensive.

Even the internal organs of whales, some of the internal organs that are not needed are also taken to boil oil, and the whale liver is rich in vitamins, which can be eaten by his subordinates in the future, and he also specially gave some to Zhang Blacksmith, so that he can give his wife to eat, replenish the body, and in case of recruiting people from the land again, in case of malnutrition, the body is seriously deficient in vitamin A, and people with night blindness, give them some whale liver to quickly solve their problems.

In short, it took them a day and a half to completely dismember the whale, and all but the whale bones were taken into their pockets.

At this time, they completely solved the problem of demand for oil, and also stored a large amount of whale oil, and the problems encountered in repairing ships were easily solved.

(The second watch arrives, and the third watch will be served around 6 p.m.) ）