Chapter 59: Solid Ambergris
Yan Qiu's words did not play the role of a pelican empowerment, but instead conveyed a terrifying message, and everyone trembled.
"You mean that nest is a dragon's nest? Is there any evidence? Surina asked first.
Yan Qiu said: "I am a student of history, of course I believe in science, the academic community has long believed that the dragon is not real, but the Yellow Emperor conquered various tribes, combined their totems, and finally drew the totem, but one thing is not clear, the characteristics of several animals can be drawn into any pattern, why is it just a dragon?" â
Jiang Li added: "The Yellow Emperor has a bear tribe, and the dragon's body just doesn't have the characteristics of a bear, and your science is not reliable at all." â
After listening to Jiang Li's words, Yan Qiu woke up like a dream and exclaimed: "Yes, why didn't I think of it? That means that the image of the dragon has another origin. Could that nest really be a dragon's nest? â
Su Rina still asked: "Is there any evidence?" â
Yan Qiu said: "Let's talk about the size of the nest first, a bird that can grow so big, I don't think there is a zĂ i in the world." Speaking of the powder inside, such a large amount of egg skin powder is enough to prove that the size of the egg is not small, and from the distribution point of view, they all come from the same egg. And that scale. â
Speaking of this, the fat brother interrupted and asked, "Didn't Zhan Xiao say that it was fish scales?" Could it be dragon scales? â
Jiang Rou replied to the fat brother: "Zhan Xiao didn't see the situation at that time, just guessing, why did a fish eat it and leave only one scale?" â
After that, I didn't listen carefully to what everyone discussed, because my brain was all occupied by the scene of the mirage, when there were two dragons hovering over the Futu Tower, and I was scared enough, if the mirage is a reproduction of the scene of ancient times, then the two dragons may also be real, is this dragon raised by humans? Specifically to collect that blue ore? Did the blue ore come out of the dragon's mouth?
I immediately resumed my thoughts and interrupted the conversation and said, "Can you think about it, if the dragon is real, then what does the blue ore have to do with the dragon?" â
Jiang Li said: "Do you know about bird's nest? That's a solid formed by the swallow's saliva. What if this blue meteorite is ambergris? It may become solid after solidification. â
The fat brother said: "I know ambergris, it's whale feces." You're talking and talking, why did you get whale poop again? â
Yan Qiu smiled and said, "I only know one thing, but I don't know the other." Let me tell you about it, and learn about culture. After speaking, Yan Qiu popularized the knowledge of ambergris to us.
It turns out that the first country in the world to discover ambergris is our ancient China. In the Han Dynasty, fishermen by the sea went out to fish and caught a kind of gray-white wax, which can exude a strong aroma, and the largest can be more than ten catties.
Later, when fishermen encounter this kind of thing, they will catch it, and the result is black, not fragrant, but has a strong fishy smell, after drying, it becomes gray and white, and can emit a lasting aroma, and when it is burned with fire, the aroma is even more overflowing, and it is more fragrant than the musk at that time.
The local officials felt that it was a treasure, so they bought it at a low price, and then presented it to the emperor as a treasure, and finally became the finest spice in the court, and it was also used as medicine.
At that time, no one knew where this thing came from, so the emperor sent someone to consult the alchemist in the palace. Even the fishermen who live at sea don't know, how can the warlock who does chemical practice in the palace know?
But if you directly say that you don't know, then you say that you know everything and are immortals of cultivation, and these bulls who blow out can't justify themselves. So the warlocks made up a story, they said that this is the dragon in the sea, and the saliva that flowed out when he slept fell into the sea and solidified, and after a long time, it became this incense, so it should be called ambergris.
It is also recorded that in fact, in the Yin Shang and Zhou dynasties, ambergris, musk and plant spices were mixed to make various sachet ornaments and hung on the head of the bed and beside them, but there is no specific evidence.
In the end, Yan Qiu said: "Actually, this thing is a whale's intestinal obstruction, which was said by the warlock to be ambergris." But are those warlocks making up stories out of thin air? Legends of dragons and ambergris must have been circulating long before their time, and it is possible that they simply named something that could not be explained by the legendary fetish. â
I continued Yan Qiu's topic and said: "No wind and no waves, if there is really a legend of ambergris in the Han Dynasty, then it is very likely that in the earlier days, the dragon was originally stored zĂ i, do you mean this?" â
Yan Qiu nodded.
The fat brother said: "Wait, let me ponder, you two are a bit informative in what you two are talking about." Do you mean to say that ambergris has nothing to do with dragons, incense is whale excrement, and real ambergris is not fragrant, and the dragon's spit will solidify into the ore of Zhanxiao's knife? â
Jiang Rou smiled and said to the fat brother: "The son can be taught." This also explains why they built a tower crane here and collected a lot of blue ore, because there is a dragon's nest here, and a lot of ambergris is solidified here. Perhaps it was for this reason that these people built the city here. â
Su Rina listened carefully for a long time and said, "Zhanxiao, it turns out that your knife is a treasure, and the dragon's saliva has changed." â
Listening to her words, I didn't feel the meaning of being praised at all, but felt that I had a bit of a bad taste, and I kept having so much fun with dragon saliva.
Now a new question arises, what does this ambergris mean? This city was certainly not built overnight, and generations of people have mined this kind of thing that cannot be eaten or covered with quilts, and why is it in the end? It can't be for the sake of taming animals, right? The grandfather of the circus?
I asked the others, "Then what do you say, what is the use of them asking for this ambergris?" Ambergris can at least be sold as a spice for money, and ambergris is useless. â
Jiang Rou said: "Maybe you don't know how to use it, your knife is a magic weapon for our spells, if I didn't have the Vajra Demon Pestle, I would have to take it back." â
I was dissatisfied: "This knife, if you want to return it to you, it is useless at the critical moment, but it is all kinds of chaos, and it always brings us to the predicament." â
Jiang Li hurriedly came up to be a good man and persuaded me and Jiang Rou not to quarrel.
We both gave the same answer, just kidding.
It seems that my temper with this sister is quite compatible, both are heartless masters, and there is a lot of tacit understanding to fight the enemy together, my view of her rebellious girl has always dissipated, in fact, she is a kind of rational kindness, not Jiang Li's kind of sensibility occupies all, in the face of danger, the gentleness is hidden under the hard appearance, in fact, it is more practical.
Yan Qiu said: "Although I don't know what they are using to collect ambergris, I know that their departure must have something to do with the depletion of ambergris. â
I asked, "If they left because they ran out of ambergris, why didn't they pack up their belongings and leave?" Instead of hurrying away? â
The fat brother's explanation was: "Because the dragon flew away, they were in a hurry to chase the dragon." â
We couldn't go any further, and all we had left was laughter.
The fat brother thought we were laughing at him, and kept saying, "Be quiet, bring the dragon to you to eat." â
In exchange for more violent laughter.
In the end, Jiang Rou said: "Okay, let's rest on the edge of this tower, I'll get you food, you make a fire, and by the way, dry the painting, I'll see what this painting looks like." â
After all, everyone has their own division of labor, and Jiang Rou is still drawing talismans and releasing eagles.
Her spell is not quite the same as I imagined, I thought the talisman was drawn, get an altar, a peach wood sword or something, and make a spell. I didn't expect that every time she used it, she drew a talisman out of thin air, and there was nothing on the talisman paper, so it seemed that seeing was believing.
I was in charge of drying the paintings, sitting by the campfire and carefully holding the paintings to bake, too close for fear of baking the canvas, too far away and afraid of the temperature not enough, looking relaxed, actually very tired to do, not only the fire was hot, the arm holding the painting was sour after a while, the canvas of this painting was a little thick, even the rabbit was almost baked, I completely dried the painting, and in the end the arm would not bend.
In the process of slowly drying the painting, the canvas in my hand is like a magic prop, an ancient mural-style ambergris collection map, little by little into the two sisters of the grassland, after the canvas dried, there is no loss at all, the same as the original touch.
I stood up, walked next to Jiang Rou, and said to Jiang Rou: "Look, we suspect that this is your biological mother, and the one next to it is Zhou Tongtong's mother, who is preliminarily identified as Aunt Dan." â
Jiang Rou knew that I was talking about the werewolf, and nodded meaningfully, maybe she thought that her mother's situation was not much better than becoming a werewolf.
When Jiang Rou was looking at the painting, the fat brother who was sitting on the side suddenly pointed to the painting in Jiang Rou's hand, revealing a surprised expression, squeaky and didn't know what to say.