The turbulent waves of the sea are hitting the rocks crazily, as if the entire land will be overturned in the next moment. The orange-red balloon more than ten meters above the ground has been blown extremely crooked, which means that the typhoon is approaching
So close, even the strong bar holding the wind blocking rope below began to creak, as if it would break in the next second.
For the remote port of Siqiao, this kind of bad weather is rare, but it occurs three or five times a year. Therefore, the residents here are accustomed to it, retreating to their shacks to sleep, burning up and fainting.
Hui Dengzhu drank dried salted fish and drank Red Star Erguotou. Of course, he also put a basin, oilcloth and anything that could filter out moisture under the leaky spot on the roof. In this way, the quilt will always be in a moist state.
It's in such a state that it's as if a layer of moisture can be obtained by touching it with your hands.
In this atmosphere, a raging fire burned inside a dilapidated shack in the west of Siqiao Town. Discarded rubber tires were piled messily inside - for the poor boat people, this was a
A cheap and effective boat-repairing material - there were also gathered around a dozen boat people with dark skin and very excited expressions. Most of them were in their twenties and thirties, except for the middle-aged man sitting in the middle.
The wrinkles on his face are deep, as if they were cut with a knife and an axe, and the beard on his lower jaw is also a little gray. His facial features look sad but kind, and you can tell at a glance that he is the kind of person who accepts the twists and turns of life and fate.
"Oh, my, if you want me to say that today's incident, Sanzi deserves the credit, but Senyan's aim was just right!"
The speaker was a young man with a scar on his face, named Gao Qiang, and he spoke with exaggerated gestures. His words were obviously recognized by the companions around him. Many people nodded and expressed their appreciation.
His eyes were focused on a young man sitting on the right.
This young man has thick black eyebrows, bulging muscles on his arms, and a very strong physique. Although there is a bit of a flying look between his eyebrows, he is still steady. He is sitting casually on a worn-out
On the wooden bench, there was a porcelain bowl with a corner missing. Probably because the boiling water in the bowl was very hot, so he had to drink it while blowing it. The young man named "Senyan" smiled slightly when he heard the mention of himself.
, but did not make a sound, just smiled and nodded at his companion, and then continued to drink water.
"Of course Sen Yan didn't have to say anything about that, but I got nine tattoos, a whole nine!" A middle-aged man with a big nose stood up and said loudly, and kept gesticulating excitedly with his hands.
"I'm sorry, that big beast dragged us for at least thirty miles! If it drags us for another ten miles, we'll have to suffer the consequences."
A dark, thin middle-aged man in the corner suddenly interrupted and said with a smile:
"Brother, the amount of ointment scraped out this time is probably no less than twenty kilograms! Even if it is dried, it weighs at least ten kilograms - this is a big profit. Haven't you always wanted to overhaul Fuyuan?
?Now there is enough money for ten major repairs!”
The fourth brother was obviously the middle-aged man. He smiled honestly after hearing this, but his eyebrows were clearly filled with joy. He was born at the seaside since he was a child, and the salty smell of the sea almost penetrated into his bones.
He has lived almost all his life on a boat. Because he adopted two orphans very early, he has never found a wife, and it seems that he has no intention of finding a wife in the future. He used his life savings to buy a Fufu a few years ago.
This old ship was unexpectedly deceived by others. It was overhauled just after we got it. Therefore, the debt owed has not been paid off until now.
If we say that kindness and loyalty will definitely be favored by fate, then I believe that the fourth brother is already wealthy. However, the fact is that no matter how hard he works, he cannot escape the fate of poverty and poverty. However, no matter how mean God is, there will always be occasional misfortune.
When I opened my eyes, when Fuyuan was out at sea the day before yesterday, he encountered a lone fat-headed monster!
The fat-headed monster is a common name for it by fishermen in Guangdong/Guangxi/Hainan. Its scientific name is the famous sperm whale. Its body is short and thick, its movements are slow and clumsy, and its appearance is very strange. It looks like it has a heavy head and a light tail. If you want to take it
If you want to describe any creature, a tadpole magnified tens of millions of times can barely match it. The huge head of a sperm whale can account for almost a quarter to a third of its body length. The entire head seems to be a big box.
. Its nose is also very peculiar. Only the left nostril is unobstructed and located above the left front. The right nostril is blocked, so the mist column it breathes is sprayed out to the left front at an angle of 45°. For experienced fishermen, it is far away.
Their traces can be found in the water jets ejected by these whales. After decades of hunting, sperm whales have been reduced to only a few hundred in the world. In the past five years, only sperm whales have been detected in the entire South China Sea.
There have been reports of hunting fat-headed monsters three times, so one can imagine how rare they are.
At that time, it was discovered that the fat-headed stranger who was alone was Ah Fa, the thin, dark man who was friends with the senior brother. The rest of the young boys had to call the senior brother "fourth uncle". To be honest, according to the
With the configuration of Fuyuan's old fishing boat, it was impossible to attack this behemoth. Fortunately, an orphan named Sanzi adopted by the fourth uncle was clever and ingenious, and he spotted it in the scrapyard at the dock a few days ago.
I bought a speargun that someone else had dismantled and didn’t need, and after tinkering with it for a while, I was able to make do with it. However, its original intention was to shoot sharks that haunted the South China Sea and cut a few pieces of fish maw. How could I have expected that this would happen?
Encountered an almost extinct fat-headed monster?
What follows is a relentless chase.
The Fuyuan was determined to seize the opportunity given by God. It ignored the typhoon warning and bit the ten-meter-long sperm whale in the wind and waves! But except for the senior uncle, no one on the ship caught it at all.
Whale experience, and the fixed-line speargun installed on the ship was in a semi-dead state. It failed to hit the target even after four consecutive shots in the rough wind and waves. Instead, it made this behemoth become vigilant.
Just look at it and dive into the bottom of the sea.
At this moment, Fang Senyan, another orphan adopted by the fourth uncle, jumped up to him. His body was undulating like fallen leaves in the swaying waves, but his hands were as firm as if they were welded to a speargun, and he aimed for a whole day.
Ten seconds, and then a shot was fired when everyone was almost desperate!
This shot penetrated the vital point of the sperm whale!
The dying beast dragged Fuyuan in pain and swam for thirty sea miles, with the water turning red along the way. But in the end, it had no choice but to become a trophy of mankind. The old Fuyuan returned home with a full load.
It also miraculously succeeded in returning to Yotsubashi Port before the typhoon landed. For sperm whales, although their meat/oil/bones are expensive, the most valuable thing is the "balm" in their intestines. This thing
It is the common name of local fishermen. After drying, it becomes 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 bones. At this time, the end of the large intestine or the beginning of the rectum of the sperm whale is stimulated to cause lesions, resulting in a
A kind of gray or slightly black secretion. These secretions gradually form a viscous dark substance in the small intestine, which is stored in the colon and rectum. It smells bad when it is first taken out, and gradually becomes fragrant after being stored for a period of time. This is
It's called ambergris.
Ambergris contains 25% ambroxine, which is the raw material of precious spices and the best substance to keep perfume fragrant. It is used as a perfume fixative. It is also a valuable traditional Chinese medicine. There are only more than ten sperm whales hunted by the fourth uncle.
Meter long, it is considered to be of average size among its kind. Even so, the harvested ambergris can be sold for a huge sum of money!
The people on this boat gathered together to talk and laugh, and it was late at night before they knew it. They had been fishing on the sea for half a month, not to mention rushing into Siqiao Port before the typhoon came, which was a lot of hard work. Waiting
As soon as the excitement of hunting a big guy passed, fatigue set in immediately. It was raining heavily outside, and the typhoon Shao said it would not stop until tomorrow afternoon. The fourth uncle logically allowed people to live in his shack and make beds on the floor.
The boat people are used to the hardships on the boat and don't mind it. However, Sanzi and Senyan have already separated. They each built a shack next to Mazu Temple Street at the north end of Siqiao Town, which can be regarded as their own private property.
Although there was heavy wind and rain at this time, it would not take much time to walk from this part of the town to that part by putting on an oilcloth.
The two pushed open the old door with several wooden boards nailed horizontally, and a cold wind came in with a large amount of rainwater, which immediately made people shiver. Even the boat people lying down around the fire in the middle grunted with dissatisfaction.
After a few sounds, Fang Sheyan and Sanzi shrank their heads against the oilcloth and pushed the door open. The fourth uncle rushed over and shoved an umbrella out. The two of them used the dim light inside the crack in the door to identify the direction, and then went deep into the room.
I walked back on the way home, one foot at a time.
Siqiao is a small town, and there is no town marked on the map at all.
Its specific location is a small bay south of the border city of Fangchenggang, Guangxi. Even on a clear day, you can see the country of Vietnam to the west with the naked eye. In terms of administrative location, it also happens to belong to the area where no one cares. Therefore, it is invisible.
It has formed a deformed port that integrates smuggling, trade, and illegal immigration. Most of the people inside are engaged in gray industries that wander on the edge of the law.
The reason why the honest fourth uncle chose to settle here is because the old ship Fuyuan was also stolen, and the fourth uncle could not afford the heavy taxes. Fang Senyan once saw that long ship.
A long charge sheet involves many departments, including finance, taxation, industry and commerce, public security and border defense, health, township governments, fishery committees or village committees, fishing boat management companies, etc., but here you only need to protect one payment
Just pay the fee to the local "big boss" Hua Shanfei on time.
Precisely because we don’t know when they will be “swept out” from above, most of the buildings on the Fourth Bridge are temporarily built with relatively cheap plywood, tires, fiberglass tiles, etc., which is exactly the kind of violation that is a thorn in the side of the urban management.
Construction. Fang Senyan is nearly 19 years old this year, a few months older than San Tsai. However, since he was fourteen years old, his uncle has asked acquaintances to work on the ship. Because he is calm and practical, he is highly praised by his employer and has repeatedly
Being entrusted with trust, he has been traveling in ports all over the world at a young age, and his knowledge and conduct are second to none.