Zhang Yaohua stared at a white waxy object on the surface of the sea.

That's right! The indicator arrow is facing it.

Hearing his second brother's words, he said angrily: "Think twice, I'm not interested in giant octopus." ”

Zhang Yaowei and Ah Jiu were stunned.

Not interested?

So what to stop, you can't just for the sake of, right?

Zhang Yaohua pointed to the white objects on the sea and said, "Did you see that thing?" Fish it up for me. ”

At this time, Zhang Yaowei and Ah Jiu noticed a white object not far away.

"What did it come from? Foam? ”

"I'm not sure, let's take a look." Zhang Yaohua shook his head.

Zhang Yaowei slowly leaned over the fishing boat, and Ah Jiu stood beside the boat, using a long net, to catch the thing up and put it on the deck.

The thing is the size of a football, flat and oval, and not heavy.

Ah Jiu leaned over: "It's not foam, vomit...... Damn it! This thing stinks, what the hell! ”

He quickly took a few steps back.

Zhang Yaohua didn't dislike it, he held it directly and looked at it carefully for a while.

"When it dries, it doesn't stink, and it even smells." Zhang Yaohua told him.

Zhang Yaowei: "It feels like a piece of. ”

"Your feeling is right, it was originally a piece of, but now it is ambergris, a precious spice, and it counts as money." Zhang Yaohua said with a smile.

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Yaowei and Ah Jiu looked at each other.

"This is ambergris?"

Obviously, Zhang Yaowei has heard of ambergris. The shipowner has told them before, and I have to say that the previous shipowner was a person with a lot of experience.

"Hmm!"

got the affirmation of the eldest brother, Zhang Yaowei didn't dislike it, and immediately took it over to see. The smell is a bit rushed, not very good. To be honest, many people will lose this thing when they catch it in the vast sea, and they won't think of ambergris.

"I used to hear my shipowner say that ambergris is gray."

Zhang Yaohua: "Then he only knows one thing but doesn't know the other, ambergris is light black at first, and under the action of sea water, it gradually turns gray, light gray, and finally white.

To turn white, it needs to be soaked in seawater for more than a hundred years, so white is the highest quality and the most expensive. ”

It has to be soaked in seawater for more than 100 years to float out all the impurities before it can become the top grade of ambergris.

Ah Jiu asked: "Then why did you say that it was originally a piece of?" ”

"It's sperm whale excrement, not poop?

Sperm whales are known to love to eat large squid and octopus.

When the sperm whale swallows large mollusks, the jaws and tongue teeth accumulate in the gastrointestinal tract, which stimulates the intestines, and the intestines secrete a special wax-like substance that wraps the food residues, and slowly forms ambergris, which is finally discharged. ”

"Isn't that sperm whale often hunted?"

After all, the sperm whale has precious ambergris in its body, so you should understand the truth of its sin, right?

Even sharks, because shark fins are valuable, are often slaughtered. Isn't ambergris worth more than shark fin?

"No, it is said that ambergris taken from the intestines of a killed sperm whale is of no value." Zhang Yaohua said.

Ambergris must float and soak in seawater for decades, if not hundreds of years, before it can be worth a lot of money.

"And how much is this piece worth?"

Hearing Ah Jiu's question, Zhang Yaowei also pricked up his ears.

"This kind of white, high quality, the price of one gram is estimated to be thousands of yuan."

Thousands of dollars?

Ah Jiu was dumbfounded.

How much is a gram of gold? Three or four hundred dollars.

That is, the price of this thing is more than three times that of gold?

I've got a fork!

The piece in front of you, how can you say that it weighs one or two pounds, right?

Ah Jiu and Zhang Yaowei's brains calculated quickly.

"This piece is worth more than a million?" Ah Jiu's scalp is numb.

His parents always told him that pies don't fall from the sky! But what is it? What is not pie? It's a golden pie.

Uncle brother's luck, he really accepted it.

This kind of thing picked up in the sea is not a catch, so you don't need to share it with everyone.

Get rich overnight!

"It stands to reason that it is." Zhang Yaohua nodded.

Zhang Yaowei ran to the cabin and woke up Shui Wang and Ah Hui, who were sleeping.

Shui Wang half-squinted: "No, you're sick, right?" ”

"Hurry up, big deal."

Ah Hui slept for a while and felt much better.

"What's the big deal?"

As he spoke, he pulled his brother out of bed.

"My brother has picked up the treasure again."

"Oh? What treasure did Brother Hua pick up? Shui Wang suddenly became energetic. Last time, I picked up a clams and sold them for 200,000 yuan, and they were all greedy for it! Fantasizing about picking up one or two pieces in the future.

Unexpectedly, this time when he went to sea, it was Brother Hua who picked up the treasure first.

"Surely you've never seen a snake, have you?"

Shui Wang: "Huh? Have you seen it? ”

"I haven't seen it either, but I just saw whale."

Ah Hui couldn't cry or laugh: "Don't tell me, what your eldest brother picked up is whale." ”

"That's right! My brother said it was ambergris, which is very valuable......"

As soon as his voice fell, Shui Wang and Ah Hui had already rushed out.

"Brother Hua, this is ambergris?" Shui Wang asked excitedly.

"Hmmm! That's right. ”

Shui Wang held his hands in front of him, and a smell came to his nose.

"Really? This smells wrong! ”

"It's not the smell when it's dry."

Ah Jiu told the whole process of discovering this treasure on the side.

After hearing this, the two Shui Wang brothers also stared at each other.

Is this all right?

They looked out to sea, and sure enough, they saw the remains of the giant octopus. At this time, sharks have been attracted, and they are preparing to eat a full meal.

"Brother Hua, have you tried to buy a lottery ticket?" Shui Wang couldn't help but ask.

Ah Hui sneered: "I went to the children's amusement park in the county that day, I went with him to buy it, but I didn't hit anything." ”

It seems that the luck of his old friend is in the sea, and the things on land have nothing to do with him.

"Do you know how much this piece is worth?" Zhang Yaowei wants to pretend to be with Shui Wang.

Shui Wang cooperated, and he was indeed very curious. He had heard of ambergris, but he didn't know exactly how much it was worth.

"How much?"

"It's more expensive than gold, at least a million."

Shui Wang and Ah Hui were speechless again.

What else can be said?

There are only two words: awesome!

"Brother Hua, you go to rest, rest, I'm almost asleep." Shui Wang said positively.

Who can't read his mind?

Zhang Yaohua smiled, not broken.

"Then I'll go lie down for a while, something will call me." I've got what he wants, and I can go to sleep with peace of mind.

He checked it with his golden finger, and the next piece of ambergris was far away from them!

Stimulated by this, Ah Hui was no longer sleepy. Including Ah Jiu, several people stared at the sea, for fear of missing any possible piece of ambergris.

Ah Jiu came up with an idea: "Since ambergris is the excrement of sperm whales, isn't it okay to follow sperm whales?" ”

Follow the sperm whale butt to find shit, the brain hole is a bit big!

"The pulled by the sperm whale is not all ambergris. Besides, didn't Brother Hua say it? That thing just pulled out isn't worth much. ”

(End of chapter)