In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Chapter 126 Big Fish Stranded, Black Ambergris
Li Duoyu's big meal made everyone feel comfortable.

Lao Li went to take a nap after eating,

Auntie is in charge of cleaning up.

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

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

Unexpectedly, just after taking a nap, I heard a strange voice, which was melodious and ethereal, with a bit of whining.

This voice was very familiar to him.

In his previous life, when he was watching the short videos of chasing the sea, he would occasionally see some videos about whales, and the sound of the whale was exactly the same as what he heard now.

Li Duoyu patted his forehead. He thought 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 strip in the courtyard and watched. There were already many people on the tidal flat at some point, and everyone was surrounded by a big black spot.

"No way, there are really whales."

At this time, several older children were excitedly rushing to tell each other.

"Brother Yu, there is a big fish over there in your tidal flat, go and see it quickly."

"It's so 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 beach should be the stranded whale.

So, Li Duoyu took his father's mud horse with him, and Li Haoran, who was playing with Erbaiwu at the side, straightened his ears when he heard the big fish.

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

"Uncle, wait for me."

Seeing that both of them had run away, Erbaiwu was stunned for a while, then ran after them.

Li Duoyu looked at the bucket in Li Haoran's hand, a little dumbfounded. It would take dozens of buckets to fill the bucket with whale feces. Do you want to fill it with fish?
Forget it, mention it all.

As a few children rushed to tell each other, the fishermen near the pier rushed towards the beach one after another. Many of them, like Li Haoran, carried buckets in their hands.

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

A lot of villagers surrounded the shore, and since many people didn't get the tidal flats, they naturally didn't have such things as mud horses. It was not easy to go to the tidal flats to watch.

After Li Duoyu put down the mud horse.

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

Slid about 150 meters or so.

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

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

"Duoyu, you're here too."

Li Shuguang said hello.

"You guys, why are you here so soon?"

"Just before the low tide, I just collected a net nearby, but as soon as the tide went out, I found that this big whale was left here."

Li Duoyu looked at the huge monster in front of him, about 16 meters long, with barnacles all over his body.

And the head is very big, with one-third of the body length, such a big-headed whale is very recognizable.

It's the sperm whale.

Seeing more and more people, the sperm whale, feeling frightened, twisted its huge body from time to time, and slapped its tail on the mud on the tidal flat.

I tried to swim back to the sea, but because the tonnage was too large, every time I moved it made it sink deeper and deeper in the tidal flat.

Sperm whales live in groups.

Once you find one, there will be companions nearby, and it is not far away, almost at the location of Li Duoyu's fishing raft.

A dozen sperm whales circled and whined non-stop there.

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

Every summer, cuttlefish come to the nearby waters to lay eggs, and sperm whales especially like to eat sea creatures such as cuttlefish and calamari.

It should have come with the fishing season, but for some unknown reason, it was stranded on the tidal flat.

Li Duoyu looked around and saw a destroyed messy net nearby, as well as the brown rope wrapped around the sperm whale's tail, and he already had the answer in his heart.

It seems that the grounding of this sperm whale really has something to do with him.

Li Duoyu looked at the surface of the sea and then at his watch. The tide had just ebbed at 01:30 in the afternoon, and the tide would not come back here until at least ten o'clock in the evening.

Facing the sperm whale trapped in this position, Li Duoyu had already sentenced it to death even if the experts hadn't appeared.

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

The only thing that can save it now is the tugboat with the most horsepower on Dandan Island, but the third uncle has gone to sea.

Moreover, Li Duoyu couldn't guarantee that Third Uncle's tugboat could pull such a huge monster.

So unless there is an iron boat with enough horsepower now, the sperm whale has no chance of surviving.

And the two hundred and five who came over together, when they saw the big whale, grinned and kept barking at it.

After hearing the dog bark.

The stranded sperm whale became more and more nervous, struggling non-stop, with its tail fluttering, and a big slap.

A lot of muddy 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 the second uncle reacted, he scolded: "Damn, you silly dog, if you have the guts, you can go to the sea and call those dozens of whales."

After hearing this, everyone didn't dare to laugh too loudly when they saw the second uncle in distress.

And Li Duoyu patted Erbaiwu on the head: "Make trouble, you, if you call again, I will throw you into the sea to feed the whales."

"woo woo woo woo."

Erbaiwu was very wronged, and he didn't know why he was beaten.

Seeing how dirty Second Uncle's whole body was, Li Duoyu took off his vest and handed it to Second Uncle: "Second Uncle, come, wipe it quickly."

The second uncle waved his hand and said: "Use your clothes to wipe it, your mother will scold me to death later, I will wash it in the nearby sea water and it will be fine."

But Li Haoran stared at the big fish in front of him, and swallowed: "Uncle, if such a big fish is killed, it will feed our village for several months."

Lao Zhuang next to him smiled and said:

"You little foodie, how do you know how to eat it? This fish is not tasty. It's full of oil, and the meat is unpalatable to death."

Li Haoran asked curiously:

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

"When I ate this whale, you, Uncle Duoyu, hadn't even been born yet. Our island, in the most exaggerated time, stranded more than a dozen of these whales at one time, and all of them exploded behind. Everyone was so stinky that they didn't want to go to the beach for two months."

"How could the fish explode, I don't believe it."

"If you don't believe me, go back and ask your grandpa. Your grandpa was blasted all over that year. After washing for a whole week, he still couldn't wash off the stench on his body."

"Really?"

Lao Zhuang nodded: "If I want to lie to you, I will treat you to candy."

"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 old Li's scandal.

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

Are you talking about cutting meat?
Everyone looked down on them a bit. Whether it was cooked or dried, the fish meat of sperm whales was very unpalatable and had a strong ammonia smell.

If you eat too much, you will feel uncomfortable.

Li Duoyu, who has worked illegally in the island country, knows better that even the islanders who love to eat whales don't eat all kinds of whale meat. They usually eat the most of the small whales and Bryde's whales.

However, large fish like sperm whales have poorer meat quality and poorer taste, so they can be used as canned whales when they die.

As for the sperm whale in front of them, for the current fishermen, apart from whale oil and whale skin, they really can't find anything of value.

Even if you really want to kill this whale.

Now is not the best time.

Old fishermen like Uncle and Uncle know that when there are whales nearby, they cannot kill whales in front of them.

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

And at this time, Li Shuguang suddenly asked, "Many fish, you have a lot of wild ways, is there any way to sell this fish?"

Li Duoyu was also stunned.

Selling whales?
He really didn't think about it. After thinking about it for a while, he replied: "Why don't we inform the Fisheries Bureau and let them handle this matter. Maybe the museum will use it to make specimens or something."

"Okay, that's a good idea."

And the Zhao family brothers on the side, when they heard that they were going to notify the fishery administration, their faces turned dark instantly, but the tidal flat was full of their people.

It's not enough for the two brothers to apologize.

Where dare to choke.

And this time, Li Duoyu wasn't talking nonsense. In his previous life, there was a sperm whale that was stranded on their island, and it was indeed taken to the museum to be made into a specimen.

"I'm going to inform the Fisheries Bureau. I just want to take the seafood I received to Qingkou Wharf." After Lao Zhuang finished speaking, he drove his son's sampan and set off.

For the sake of safety, when Lao Zhuang sailed, he deliberately bypassed the group of sperm whales.

Not long after.

There are more and more people watching the sperm whales on the beach, and some people even brought long knives for killing fish and large washbasins for fish.

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

A truck driver overturned on the national highway, spilling goods all over the ground, but was looted by nearby villagers.

What impressed him the most was that when a reporter went to interview him afterwards, a villager said disdainfully: "We don't have any value for his things at all."

The reporter asked helplessly: "It's worthless, why are you still robbing it?"

"Everyone is robbing."

The same goes for the villagers holding fertilizer bags behind Li Duoyu. They may not eat whale meat, but it does not prevent them from owning it.

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

It can be regarded as the more respectable people on the island, and those villagers who wanted to squat sperm whales did not make a fuss.

more than an hour later.

Because no one was watering the sperm whale, its skin became drier and weaker, it was difficult to breathe, and water began to seep around its two large round eyes, which looked like tears.

The tail doesn't move much, and it will die soon depending on the situation.

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

The pungent ammonia smell pushed everyone back more than ten meters. The few people who were close just now burst into tears.

"Damn, they're almost dead, and they still have to shit."

And Li Duoyu found the stranded sperm whale, near the excretion port, there was a big lump, not slippery, floating in shallow water like foam.

It was about the size of a washbasin, and some whale feces and undigested cuttlefish residues were attached to it.

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

After seeing this scene,
Everyone was dumbfounded and couldn't understand why Li Duoyu wanted to hug such a stinky whale poop.

But my intuition told Li Shuguang that the thing Li Duoyu was hugging must not be simple. If it was really shit, Duoyu would not be able to hug it.

"Duoyu, what is this?"

Li Duoyu grinned and said, "This thing is precious. It is a famous medicinal material and spice. Would you like me to get some for you?"

The aunt with the sack on the side said with a look of disgust: "You are too bad, how could such a stinky thing be a spice."

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

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

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

However, at this time, how would the fishermen know that the ambergris used as a tribute was pulled out by sperm whales, and they might not even know what ambergris is.

In the past, Li Duoyu 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 garbage, so he threw it away.

Later, with the development of information, I knew that the thing 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 piece of "poo" into the nearby sea water, and after cleaning the greasy substance attached to it, as well as the whale's poop, a black "stone" appeared in front of him.

Seeing the concretion in front of him that was bigger than the washbasin, Li Duoyu sneaked closer and sniffed it, almost fainting 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 octopus.

And these two kinds of marine creatures have tough horny jaws and tongue teeth in their mouths, which are not easy to digest.

And when these things gather in the stomach and intestines, they will stimulate their intestines, and the intestines will secrete a special waxy substance, which wraps the residual core of the food, and slowly forms ambergris.

To put it bluntly, the intestinal stones produced by sperm whales after eating too much indigestible food 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 for decades, and after a series of chemical reactions, they will become real ambergris.

And the most expensive ambergris is milky white. It is said that the color can only appear after floating in the sea for hundreds of years.

Specifically, in future generations, Li Duoyu doesn't know if there are technological means to speed up the chemical reaction of ambergris.

Anyway, save it first, it will never go wrong.

After washing, Li Duoyu put the stone in the bucket Li Haoran was carrying.

No idea, just right.

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