Dark night.
The storm was raging.
The raging waves of the sea crashed frantically against the reef, as if they were about to topple the whole piece of land in the next moment. The orange balloon, more than ten meters above the ground, had been blown extremely crooked, signifying that the typhoon was close at hand, and even the sturdy barbed pole below which the wind stopper was tied up had begun to creak, as if it was going to break in the next second.
For the remote harbor of Shikabashi, this kind of bad weather, though rare, occurs three or five times a year. Therefore, the residents here were used to it, and retreated to their own huts, burning dim lamps and candles, drinking red-star pot-au-feu with dried salted fish, and of course, putting pots, tarpaulins, and anything else that could filter out the dampness underneath the leaky part of the roof. Around so, the quilt will always be in a moist state, as if the hand touch up can be dense on a layer of wet.
In this atmosphere, in the four bridges west of the town of a dilapidated shack inside, but burning fire. Inside the messy pile of discarded rubber tires ------ for the poor boat people, this is a cheap and effective fill boat leather material ------ There were also ten or so sallow-skinned, excited boat people gathered around. Most of them are in their twenties and thirties, only the middle-aged man sitting in the center of the deep wrinkles on his face, like a knife and axe general, the jaw of the beard ballast is also a little white, his features look is sad with goodness, a look knows that is the kind of life and destiny against the grain of the kind of people.
"Aiya aiya aiya, if I say this thing today, three boy is have credit, but Sen Yan that one time to aim at the right point la! "
The person who spoke was a young man with a scar on his face called Gao Qiang, making exaggerated hand gestures and sputtering. His words were obviously recognized by his surrounding companions, many of them were nodding their heads and betting their appreciative gazes on a young man sitting on the right side.
This young man had thick black eyebrows, the muscles on his arms were bulging, his physique was very strong, and although there was some flying color between his eyebrows, he was not unsteady. He was sitting casually on a worn wooden stool, holding a porcelain bowl with a missing corner. Probably because the boiling water inside the bowl was boiling hot, so he had to drink it while blowing on it. The young man called "Moriwa" smiled slightly when he heard himself mentioned, but he did not make a sound, but only smiled and nodded at his companion, and then continued to drink the water.
"Mori Yan's blow was naturally nothing to speak of, but I stabbed nine forks, nine whole forks!" A big-nosed burly man stood out and exclaimed, and kept gesturing excitedly with his hands.
"Servant, that big beast even dragged us for at least thirty miles! If it drags us ten more miles, we'll have to eat the wind."
A black thin middle-aged man in the corner suddenly interjected and laughed:
"Brother Dasi, I'm afraid that the balm scraped out this time is no less than twenty kilograms! That is to get dry out also less say also have ten kilograms ------ this time is considered to earn a lot, you have not been thinking of Fuyuan overhaul once? This overhaul ten times the money also have more than ah!"
Dasi brother is obviously that middle-aged man, he heard also naive smile, but inside the eyebrows clearly also overflowing with joy. He was born in the sea since he was a child, the salty flavor of the sea water almost seeped into the bone marrow, he almost used the boat as his home in his life, because of adopting two orphans at a very early age, so he never got a wife, and it seems that he doesn't intend to look for one after that. He used his life savings to buy the old ship Fuyuan several years ago, not realizing that he had been defrauded and had just gotten it overhauled, and thus had not paid off the debt he owed until now.
If it is said that goodness and loyalty will be favored by fate, then I believe that Dasi brother has already been rich in money, but the fact is that no matter how hard Dasi brother is running around, but also can not get out of the destiny of the poor and dislocated. However, no matter how mean the God is, there will be occasional eye-opening moments. The day before yesterday, Fuyuan met a single fat-headed monster when he was sailing!
Fat head monster is the fishermen in this area of the sea to its common name, the scientific name is the famous sperm whale, its body is thick and short, the action is slow and clumsy, and looks very strange, showing a head-heavy tail-light appearance, if you want to take what creatures to describe it, amplified millions of times tadpoles can barely be on the right number, the sperm whale's huge head almost accounted for one-fourth to one-third of the length of the body, the entire head as if it were a big box. The whole head seems to be a big box. Its nose is also very peculiar, only the left nostril is open and located in front of the left upper, the right nostril is blocked, so it breathes a column of fog at an angle of 45 ° to the left in front of the spray. For experienced fishermen, they can be spotted from afar on the column of water ejected by this whale. It's just that after decades of hunting, sperm whales have dwindled to the point where there are only a few hundred of them in the world, and in the last five years there have only been three hunts for the fathead monster in the entire ocean, so you can imagine how rare it is.
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At that time, the one who found the single fat-headed monster was Ah Fat, the thin black man who was the equal of Big Brother Four. The rest of the youngsters had to call Big Brother Four "Uncle Four". To be honest, according to the configuration of Fuyuan's old fishing boat, it was impossible to take on this huge monster. Luckily, one of the orphans adopted by Uncle Dasi, San Zai, is very skillful, and some days ago, he found a fish gun in the dock's junkyard that was not wanted by others, and after drumming a few times, he was able to make do with it. But its intention is to shoot the sharks in the South China Sea to cut a few rubber, how could I expect to encounter almost extinct fat head monster?
Then there was a persistent chase.
The Fuyuan was determined to seize the opportunity given to her by God, and despite the typhoon warning, she bit the 10-meter-long sperm whale in the middle of the stormy sea! However, no one on the ship had any experience in whaling except Uncle Big Four, and the one fixed shot fish gun installed on the ship was even in a half-obsolete state, and it failed to hit even four times in the stormy waves and bumps, which instead made the huge creature alert and look at it about to dive into the sea bottom.
Just at this time, the big four uncle adopted another orphan Fang Senyan but a step to grab on, his body in the wind and waves in the swaying like leaves like ups and downs, but his hands seem to be welded to the fish gun as firm, aiming for a full ten seconds, and then in the time of despair when all the people are almost a gun shot!
The shot pierced the sperm whale's vitals!
Under the pain of the dying beast, it dragged Fuyuan for thirty nautical miles, and the sea water along the way was reddened by it. But in the end, it became a human trophy, and the old Fuyuan, fully loaded, miraculously made it back to the harbor before the typhoon made landfall. For sperm whales, although their meat/oil/bones are very expensive, the most valuable thing is the "balm" in their intestines. This is the local fishermen's term for the dried and processed "ambergris".
The sperm whale's main food is squid/octopus, which it eats but cannot digest the sharp shell of its mouth and the round bones inside. At this time, the end of the large intestine or the beginning of the rectum of the sperm whale is stimulated by lesions, resulting in the production of a gray or blackish secretion, which gradually formed a thick dark substance in the small intestine, stored in the colon and rectum, when taken out of the stench is terrible, and stored for some time to gradually fragrant. This is the so-called ambergris.
Ambergris contains 25% of ambergris, is the raw material of precious spices, is the best material to make perfume to maintain the fragrance, used in perfume fixative. It is also a valuable Chinese medicine. Uncle Dasi hunted sperm whale is only more than ten meters long, in the same kind of body is also counted in the middle of the lower, spare so, that harvest of ambergris can be sold for a huge sum of money!
This boat of people get together to talk and laugh, do not realize that it is already late at night. They have been fishing at sea for half a month, not to mention that they also pinched the time before the typhoon came to rush into the four bridges harbor, but also ate some hard work, and when the excitement of hunting the big guy is over, the fatigue immediately attacked. The rain was pouring outside, and the typhoon would not stop until tomorrow afternoon. Uncle Big Four logically stayed inside his hut to bunk down, and these boat people who were used to suffering on the boat didn't feel any better. On the contrary, the three boys and Mori Yan has been separated out, the two in the north end of the four bridges of the town next to the Mazu Temple Street each repair a shack, but also have their own private space, at this time, despite the wind and rain, but put on a tarpaulin from this part of the town to walk to that part of the time will not take much time.
Two people will be horizontal and vertical nailed several pieces of wooden boards of the old door pushed open, a cold wind with a large area of rain water whisked in, immediately make a person spirit to fight a cold war. Even the boat people who were already lying down around the fire in the center grunted a few times in dissatisfaction. Fong Sen Yan and San Zai both shrunk their heads against the tarpaulin and put the door on top, but Uncle Big Four rushed up and stuffed an umbrella out, the two of them utilized the obscure light inside the doorway to discern the direction, and then walked back towards the road back home with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
Four Bridges is a small town, not even marked on the map.
Its exact location is a small bay to the south of the border city of Fangchenggang in Guangxi, and even on a clear day one can see the country of Vietnam to the west with the naked eye. In the administrative location of the division also happens to belong to the three unregulated areas. Therefore, the invisible formation of a collection of smuggling, trade, smuggling in one of the deformed port, in which most people are engaged in the gray industry that wanders on the edge of the law.
The reason why the honest Uncle Dasi chose to settle here is because the old ship Fuyuan is also stolen, and Uncle Dasi can not afford the heavy taxes, Fang Senyan once saw the long list of fees, which involves a variety of departments, including finance, taxation, industry and commerce, public security and border guards, health, the township government, the fishery committee or village committee, the management company of the fishing boat, etc., but here only need to pay a protection fee on time to the fishing vessel management company. The only thing you need to do here is to pay a protection fee to the local "big brother", Flower Shirt Fei, on time.
Just because you don't know when will be above "sweep", so the four bridges of the building are mostly with quite cheap plywood, tires, fiberglass tiles and so on temporary construction, belongs to the kind of city management eyes and thorns in the side of the illegal building. Fang Senyan close to 19 years old this year, a few months older than the three children, but from the age of fourteen years old by the big four uncle entrusted acquaintances on the ship to do things, because he is doing things calmly and steadfastly, so very much praised by the employer, and repeatedly entrusted with the trust of a young age in the world ports around, whether it is to see and for the people to be called the first of its kind.