Li Duoyu's meal made everyone eat very comfortably.

Lao Li went to take a nap after eating,

A-Niang is responsible for cleaning up,

Zhou Xiaoying hurriedly went to coax the child, but the baby didn't see his mother after getting up, and cried for more than ten minutes.

Li Duoyu wanted to help coax, but the more he coaxed, the more he cried, so he had to rest on the rocking chair in the courtyard.

I didn't think about taking a nap before I heard a strange sound, melodious and ethereal, and a little mournful.

This voice is very familiar to him.

In his previous life, when he watched short videos of catching the sea, he occasionally brushed up on some videos related to whales, and the whale's voice was exactly the same as what he heard now.

Li Duoyu patted his head, thinking that it was a dream and had auditory hallucinations, but he didn't expect the voice to get louder and louder, as if more than one whale was calling.

Li Duoyu stood on the stone bar in the courtyard and looked out, and there were already many people on the tidal flat, all around a big black spot.

"No, there are whales."

At this time, a few older children were running excitedly to tell each other.

"Brother Yu, there is a big fish on the tidal flat of your house, hurry up and go to see it."

"It's big, bigger than a boat."

"It's really exciting."

After hearing this, Li Duoyu was even more convinced that the big black spot on the tidal flat should be a stranded whale.

So, Li Duoyu brought his father's mud horse, and Li Haoran, who was playing with 205 on the side, heard that there was a big fish, and his ears straightened.

Seeing that the uncle picked up the mud horse, he also hurriedly carried a bucket and followed behind Li Duoyu.

"Uncle, wait for me."

Seeing that both of them had run away, the two hundred and five were stunned for a while, and they chased after them.

Li Duoyu looked at the bucket in Li Haoran's hand, a little crying and laughing, it takes dozens of buckets to fill the whale feces with this bucket, and you still want to load fish?

Forget it, it's all mentioned.

As several children rushed to tell each other, fishermen near the pier rushed to the direction of the tidal flats, and many of them were carrying buckets in their hands, just like Li Haoran.

When Li Duoyu came to the tidal flat, he found that the sea area where the whale was stranded was near their oyster field.

There are a lot of villagers on the shore, and since many people have not been allocated to the tidal flats, there is naturally no such thing as mud horses, and it is not easy to want to go to the tidal flats to watch.

After Li Duoyu put down the mud horse.

Li Haoran and Erwuquan all stood up, Li Duoyu kicked hard, and then slid in the direction of the big whale.

I skied for about 150 meters.

Li Duoyu came to the place where the whale was stranded, and there were many people here, but most of them were acquaintances.

Uncle Zhuang of the wharf, Li Shuguang, the lobby brother, uncle, and the Zhao brothers are also here, and most of the rest are also villagers near the wharf.

"Duoyu, you're here too."

Li Shuguang greeted.

"You guys, why did you come so soon?"

"Just before the tide receded, I happened to collect a net nearby, but as soon as the tide receded, I found that this big whale had been left here."

Li Duoyu looked at the behemoth in front of him, about sixteen meters long, and all of them were barnacles.

And the head is particularly large, with a three-third of the body, like this big-headed whale is very easy to recognize.

It's the sperm whale.

Seeing more and more people, the sperm whale, which was frightened, twisted its huge body from time to time, and its tail slapped the muddy ground of the tidal flat.

I tried to swim back into the sea, but because the tonnage was too large, each movement made it sink deeper and deeper into the tidal flats.

Whereas, sperm whales live in groups.

Once one is found, there will be companions nearby, and sure enough, it is not far away, almost the location of Li Duoyu's fishing row.

More than a dozen sperm whales circled around and whined.

As for why there are so many sperm whales here, Li Duoyu thinks it has something to do with the upcoming cuttlefish fishing flood.

In the summer, cuttlefish come to the nearby waters to lay eggs, and sperm whales are particularly fond of eating sea creatures such as cuttlefish and squid.

It should have come with the fishing flood, and I don't know what the reason is, so I ran aground in the tidal flats.

Li Duoyu looked around and saw a broken messy net nearby, as well as a brown rope wrapped around the tail of a sperm whale, and already had an answer in his heart.

It seems that this sperm whale stranding really has something to do with him.

Li Duoyu looked at the sea, and then looked at his watch, at half past one in the afternoon, the tide had just receded, and at least until about ten o'clock in the evening, the tide would rise back here.

In the face of the sperm whale trapped in this position, even if the expert did not appear, Li Duoyu had already sentenced it to death.

And the sperm whale is very heavy, out of the buoyancy of the water, under its own weight, the internal organs will also be irreversibly damaged, simply put, it crushes itself to death.

Now the only thing that can save it is the third uncle's tugboat with the largest horsepower on Dantan Island, but the third uncle went to sea.

And Li Duoyu can't guarantee that the third uncle's tugboat can pull such a behemoth.

So unless there is a tin boat with enough horsepower now, this sperm whale has no chance of survival.

And the two hundred and five, who came with him, after seeing this big whale, bared their teeth and grinned, and kept barking at it.

After hearing a dog barking.

The stranded sperm whale became more and more nervous, struggling, its tail fluttering, and slamming into a big beat.

A large amount of sludge water was splashed, and the second uncle who was standing at the tail of the fish was covered in mud, and even the dry tobacco with him was extinguished.

After reacting, the second uncle scolded: "Damn, this stupid dog, if there is a kind, you go to the sea and call those dozen whales." ”

After hearing this, seeing the embarrassed appearance of the second uncle, everyone didn't dare to laugh too loudly.

And Li Duoyu patted the head of the two hundred and five: "Do something, you, if you call again, I will throw you into the sea to feed the whales." ”

"Woooooooooooooo

Two hundred and five were very aggrieved, and they didn't know why they were beaten.

Seeing that the second uncle's whole body was dirty like that, Li Duoyu took off his vest and handed it to the second uncle: "Second uncle, come, quickly wipe it." ”

The second uncle waved his hand and said, "Wipe it with your clothes, and when you turn around, your mother will scold me to death, and I'll just go to the nearby sea water to wash it." ”

And Li Haoran stared at the big fish in front of him with his eyes, and actually swallowed his saliva: "Uncle, such a big fish, if you kill it, it will be enough for our village to eat for several months." ”

Lao Zhuang next to him smiled:

"You snacker, how do you know how to eat, this fish is not delicious, the whole body is full of oil, and the meat is unpalatable to death."

Li Haoran was curious:

"Grandpa Zhuang, have you ever eaten this whale?"

"When I ate this whale, your Uncle Duoyu hadn't been born yet, our island, when it was the most exaggerated before, more than a dozen of these whales were stranded at a time, and all of them exploded later, and everyone didn't want to go to the beach to play for two months."

"How can the fish burst, I don't believe it."

"If you don't believe it, go back and ask your grandfather, your grandfather was blown up back then, and he washed it for a whole week, but he didn't wash off the smell on his body."

"Really?"

Lao Zhuang nodded: "If I want to lie to you, I will invite you to eat sugar." ”

"Okay, then I'll go back and ask Grandpa."

When Uncle Zhuang said this, Li Duoyu did have a little impression, when he was a child, his uncle seemed to have told him about this ugly thing about Lao Li.

But everyone surrounded the behemoth in front of them, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

Do you want to say cut meat?

Everyone is a little disdainful, whether it is cooked or dried, the meat of sperm whales is very unpalatable, and the smell of ammonia is strong.

I ate too much and felt uncomfortable.

Li Duoyu, who has worked in the island country, knows better that even the island people who love to eat whales do not eat all whale meat, and they generally eat the most small breezy whales and Bryde's whales.

And large fish like sperm whales, the meat is more chai and the taste is worse, so they can make whales if they die.

And the sperm whale in front of them, for the current fishermen, in addition to whale oil and whale skin, they really can't find anything valuable.

Even if you really want to kill this whale.

Now is not the best time either.

Old fishermen like the eldest uncle and the second uncle all know that when there are schools of whales nearby, they can't kill whales in front of them.

Otherwise, going to sea may be remembered by them, the big ship is fine, if it is a small sampan, it is estimated that it will be overturned in an instant.

At this time, Li Shuguang, the lobby brother, suddenly asked: "There are many fish, you have a lot of wild roads, is there a way to sell this fish?" ”

Li Duoyu was also stunned.

Sell whales?

He really didn't think about it, and after thinking about it for a while, he replied: "Otherwise, let's notify the Fisheries Bureau and let them deal with this matter, maybe the museum will use it to make a specimen or something." ”

"Yes, that's a good idea."

And the Zhao brothers on the side, when they heard that they were going to inform the fishery administration, their faces turned black in an instant, but the tidal flats were full of their people.

The two brothers were not enough to laugh.

Where do you dare to choke.

And this time Li Duoyu is not talking nonsense, there was a stranded sperm whale on their island in the previous life, and it was indeed pulled to the museum to be made into a specimen.

"I'll go and inform the Fisheries Bureau, just in time to take the seafood I received to the Mussel Wharf." After Lao Zhuang finished speaking, he set off in his son's sampan boat.

And for the sake of safety, when Lao Zhuang drove the boat, he deliberately bypassed the group of sperm whales.

Not long after.

There are more and more people watching sperm whales on the tidal flats, and some people even bring long knives to kill fish, as well as large basins for fish.

After seeing this scene, Li Duoyu remembered a report from his previous life.

A truck driver overturned on a national highway and spilled goods all over the floor, only to be looted by nearby villagers.

What he remembered most was that a reporter went to interview him afterwards, and a villager said disdainfully: "His things, we are not worth anything at all." ”

The reporter asked helplessly: "It's worthless, why do you still rob it." ”

"Everybody's grabbing it."

The same goes for the villagers with the fertilizer bags behind Li Duoyu, who may not eat whale meat, but that doesn't prevent them from owning it.

Fortunately, this sperm whale was stranded on the tidal flat of Li Duoyu, and the people in this circle are all related to the Li family.

It is also a relatively well-known person on the island, and those villagers who want to gag the sperm whale did not make a fuss.

More than an hour later.

Since no one had watered the sperm whale, its skin became drier and weaker, it had difficulty breathing, and its two large round eyes began to seep water all around, looking like tears.

The tail didn't move much anymore, and it soon didn't work depending on the situation.

But at this moment, a large lump of things rushed out of its asshole, and there were a lot of undigested cuttlefish and various miscellaneous fish.

The pungent smell of ammonia smoked everyone back more than ten meters, and the few people who were close just now had tears flowing down.

"TM's, they're all dying, and they're going to."

And Li Duoyu found the stranded sperm whale, near the excretion outlet, there was a very large mass, black and not slippery, it was like foam, floating in the shallow water.

It was about the size of a washbasin, and it had whale droppings and undigested cuttlefish scraps attached to it.

After seeing this thing, Li Duoyu endured the stench and took it out of the pit with both hands.

After seeing this scene,

Everyone was stupid, and they couldn't understand why Li Duoyu wanted to hug such a stinky whale.

But intuition told Li Shuguang that the thing that Li Duoyu hugged was definitely not simple, if it was really, it would be impossible for Duoyu to hug it.

"Fish, what is this?"

Li Duoyu grinned and said, "This thing is very valuable, it is a very famous medicinal herb and spice, do you want me to get some for you." ”

The lady who was holding the sack on the side said with a disgusted face: "You are so bad, how can such a stinky thing be a spice." ”

Brother Li Shuguang also felt a little outrageous, how could spices come out of the stool.

"I really didn't lie to you, it's really a top-notch spice."

Li Duoyu couldn't help sighing, you all believed me when I said it, but no one believed it when I told the truth.

However, at this time, how would the fishermen know that the ambergris used for tribute is pulled out by sperm whales, and maybe they don't even know what ambergris is.

In the past, Li Duoyu once heard from a fisherman on the island that he once picked up a milky white ambergris the size of a watermelon on the beach.

He thought it was some kind of garbage, and just threw it away.

Later, after the information developed, I knew that it was ambergris, and each gram was more expensive than gold, so I was so angry that I slapped my thigh, and every time I thought about it, I regretted it very much.

Li Duoyu carried this very light "stool" into the nearby seawater, and after cleaning the greasy substance attached to it and whale poop, a black "stone" appeared in front of him.

Looking at the stone in front of him that was bigger than the basin, Li Duoyu got closer and smelled it, and almost fainted himself.

But he can vouch for it.

This thing is ambergris.

Ambergris is indeed only found in the stomachs of sperm whales, as they often devour large squid and octopuses.

And both of these sea creatures have tough jaws and tongue teeth in their mouths, which are not easy to digest.

And when these things accumulate in the gastrointestinal tract, they will stimulate their intestines, and the intestines secrete a special wax-like substance that wraps up the residues of the food, and slowly forms ambergris.

To put it bluntly, it is the sperm whale that eats too much indigestible things, and then produces intestinal stones, which are ambergris.

But to be precise, the stones that have just come out cannot be called ambergris, because they are still very smelly and have no value at all.

The stones must be soaked in seawater and sun-dried for decades, and after a series of chemical reactions, they will become real ambergris.

The most expensive ambergris is milky white, the color that is said to have to float in the sea for hundreds of years before it can appear.

In later generations, whether there are scientific and technological means to accelerate the chemical reaction of ambergris, Li Duoyu does not know.

Anyway, you can't go wrong with saving it first.

After washing, Li Duoyu put this stone into the bucket that Li Haoran was carrying.

I didn't think about it, it was just right.

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