Chapter One Returns from Whale Hunting ()
The dark night, the storm.
The turbulent waves of the sea hit the reef crazy, and it seems that the whole land will be overturned in the next moment. The orange-red balloon, which is more than ten meters above the ground, has been blown extremely crooked, which means that the typhoon is close, and even the sturdy bar with the windshield beneath it starts to creak, it seems that it will be in the next second Break it apart.
For the remote port of Four Bridges, although this bad weather is not much, it appears three or five times a year. Therefore, the residents here are also accustomed to it, retreating to their shacks, igniting dim lights and candles, drinking red star Erguotou with dried salted fish, and of course, padding the tarpaulin under the leaking roof And everything that can filter out dampness. This is the case, the quilt will always be in a moist state, as if you can touch it up with a wet layer.
In this atmosphere, in a dilapidated shack west of Siqiao Town, there was a blazing fire. There are messy piles of discarded rubber tires—for the poor boat people, this is a cheap and effective boat repair material—and there are dozens of people with dark skin, but the expression is very excited boat people. Most of them are middle-aged men in their 20s and 30s. Only the middle-aged man sitting in the middle has deep wrinkles on his face, like a knife and axe, and his beard and beard are also grayed out. His facial features look like With kindness in sorrow, one can see at a glance that he is the kind of person who rebelliously accepts life and fate.
“Oh, oh, I want to say that this matter today, Sanzai is credited, but Sen Yan only took aim at that point!”
The speaker is a young man with a scar on his face, called Gao Qiang, who is more drooling than exaggerated gestures. And his words were clearly recognized by his surrounding companions. Many people nodded again and again, betting his admiration on a young man sitting on the right.
The young man’s eyebrows are dark, the muscles on his arms are raised, and his body is very strong. Although there is some flying look between the eyebrows, he is still steady. He was sitting on a shabby wooden stool at random, carrying a porcelain bowl with missing corners. Probably because the boiling water in the bowl is hot, so drink while blowing. The young man called “Sen Yan” smiled slightly when he mentioned himself, but he didn’t say anything, just smiled at his companion and nodded, then continued to drink water.
“Sen Yan naturally didn’t have to say that, but I stabbed Jiucha, it was Jiucha!” A big-nosed man with a big nose stood up loudly and kept gesturing with his hands. .
“The servant touched me, and the big beast dragged us away and said less than thirty miles! If we dragged ten more miles, we would have to eat the wind.”
A black skinny middle-aged man in the corner suddenly interrupted and smiled:
“Big Brother, I am afraid that the balm scraped this time will not be less than 20 kilograms! Even if it is dried out, it will be said that there are also ten kilograms-this time it is a big profit, you are not always thinking about putting Fuyuan Is it overhauled once? There are more than ten banknotes overhauled next time! “
Big Brother is obviously the middle-aged man. He smiled happily when he heard it, but his eyes were clearly filled with joy. He was born by the sea from an early age, the salty taste of the sea almost infiltrated into the bone marrow. He has almost been a boat home in his life, because he adopted two orphans very early, so he has never asked his wife, and it seems that afterwards I’m not going to find it. He bought the old ship Fuyuan with his life savings a few years ago. Unexpectedly, he was also cheated by others. He just overhauled the ship once he got it, so the debts owed up to now have not been paid off.
If it is said that kindness and loyalty will definitely be favored by fate, then I believe that the fourth elder brother is already entangled, but the fact is that no matter how hard the fourth elder brother is to work hard, he can not escape the destiny of displacement and poverty. But no matter how harsh God is, there will always be occasions when he opens his eyes. When Qian Tianfu was on the sea, he encountered a fat head monster who had been ordered!
Fat-headed monsters are commonly known by fishermen in Guangdong / Guangxi / Hainan. The scientific name is the famous sperm whale. Its body is short, slow and clumsy, and its appearance is very weird, showing a top-heavy appearance. If you want to describe any creature, the tadpole magnified ten million times can barely match the number. The huge head of the sperm whale can almost account for one quarter to one third of the body length. The entire head seems to be A big box. Its nose is also very peculiar, only the left nostril is unobstructed, and it is located above the left front, and the right nostril is blocked, so the mist column it breathes is sprayed to the left front at a 45 ° angle. For experienced fishermen, they can find their traces from the water jets ejected from this whale from afar. Only after several decades of hunting and killing, the sperm whale has been reduced to only a few hundred in the world. In the past five years, only three news of fat-headed monsters have been reported throughout the South China Sea. Its rarity is conceivable. know.
At the time, it was found that the fat head stranger was Afa, the black and thin man who had a discussion with his elder brother. The rest of the offspring have to be called “four uncles” by the eldest brother. To be honest, according to the configuration of Fuyuan’s old fishing boat, it is impossible to start with this behemoth. Fortunately, an orphan adopted by the fourth uncle, Sanzi, has a clever hand. In the abandoned house of the pier a few days ago, he took a speargun and took it off. Use. However, the original intention was to shoot a few pieces of flower glue on a shark infested in the South China Sea. How could one expect to encounter an almost extinct fat head monster?
Then there was a persistent pursuit.
Fuyuan is determined to seize the opportunity given by God, regardless of the typhoon warning, and has bitten this sperm whale about ten meters long in the wind and waves! However, no one except the senior uncle had any experience in whaling, and the fixed spear-fishing speargun installed on the ship was in a semi-scrap state. It had not even fired four times in the wind and waves. Being able to hit, instead made this giant giant vigilant, to see if it would dive into the seabed.
At this time, Fang Senyan, another orphan adopted by the fourth uncle, grabbed it in one step. His body was undulating like leaves in the sway of the storm, but his hands were as firm as welding to the spear. Aimed for a full ten seconds, and then fired a shot when everyone was almost desperate!
This gun penetrated the point of the sperm whale!
Under the pain, the dying behemoth dragged Fuyuan to swim out for thirty nautical miles, and the water along the way was reddened. But in the end, he was helpless and became a spoils of mankind. The old Fuyuan who returned fully loaded, and miraculously returned to Siqiao Port before the typhoon landed. For sperm whales, although their meat / oil / bone are expensive, the most valuable is the “balm” in the intestines. This thing is commonly known by local fishermen, and after drying, it is the famous “ambergris.”
The main food of the sperm whale is squid / octopus. After eating it, it cannot digest its sharp mouth shell and internal round bone. At this time, the end of the large intestine or the beginning of the **** of the sperm whale is stimulated to cause disease. This produces a gray or slightly black secretion, which gradually forms a thick dark substance in the small intestine, which is stored in the colon and rectum. It smells bad when it is taken out, and it gradually smells when stored for a period of time. . This is the so-called ambergris.
Ambergris contains 25 ambergris, which is the raw material of precious fragrances. It is the best substance to keep perfumes fragrant and used in perfume fixatives. It is also a valuable Chinese medicine. The sperm whale hunted by Uncle Big Four is only more than ten meters long, and it is considered to be of medium to medium size among the same class. This is the case. The ambergris harvested can also be sold for a huge sum!
This boatman got together to talk and laugh, but it was late at night. They had been fishing in the sea for half a month. Besides, they rushed into Siqiao Port before the time when the typhoon came. They also ate a lot of hard work. When the excitement of the big guy was over, fatigue immediately struck. It was raining outside, and the typhoon said it would not stop until tomorrow afternoon. The fourth uncle naturally left people in their shacks to make floor paving, and these boat people did not feel how they were used to it. However, Sanzi and Senyan had already separated. The two built a shack next to Mazumiao Street in the north end of Siqiao Town, which is considered to have their own private space. It will not take much time for the oiled cloth to go from this section of the town to that section.
The two pushed open the old door, which was nailed with several wooden planks, and a cold wind entrained a large area of rain water, which immediately stirred the people into a cold war. Even the boat people who had been lying down in the middle of the fire grumbled dissatisfiedly. Fang Senyan and San Tsai shook their heads against the tarpaulin and lifted the door to the top of the door, but the fourth uncle caught up and put the umbrella out. The two discerned the direction of the debate through the dim light in the door slit, and they took a deep foot Feet walked back on the way home.
Four bridges are small towns, and they are not marked on the map.
Its specific location is a small bay south of the border city of Fangchenggang, Guangxi. Even when the weather is fine, you can see the land of the west of Vietnam with the naked eye. In terms of division of administrative location, it also happens to belong to the zone of no regard to the three. Therefore, an invisible port that integrates smuggling, trade, and smuggling has been formed invisibly. Most of the people in it are engaged in gray industries that are on the edge of the law.
The reason why the senior uncle who has a good relationship with the bus chose to settle here is because the old ship Fuyuan was also stolen, and the senior uncle could not afford the heavy taxes and fees. Fang Senyan once saw After that long bill of fees, there are many departments involved, including finance, taxation, industry and commerce, public security border defense, health, township government, fishery committee or village committee, fishing boat management company, etc. A sum of protection fee should be paid to the local “Big Brother” Huashan on time.
Because they do n’t know when they will be “swept”, most of the buildings of the Fourth Bridge are made of relatively cheap plywood, tires, fiberglass tiles, etc., which is the kind of city management nails. Illegal building stabbed in the flesh. Fang Senyan is nearly 19 years old this year, a few months older than Sanzi. However, since he was 14 years old, his senior uncle entrusted his acquaintances to work on board. Because he did things calmly and steadily, he was highly praised by employers and was repeatedly appointed With trust, he has been passing through ports around the world at a young age, and he is second to none both in knowledge and in person.