Chapter 134 Solution

This small whisk fin whale is really too big, weighing about seven or eight tons. It is impossible to pull it on the boat at all. It can only be dragged behind the boat with a rope and return in the direction of Treasure Island.

But it is not easy to pull such a large pile of meat back to Treasure Island. On their way back, the bloody smell of whale blood actually attracted a group of sharks. These sharks chased behind the two boats and tried to get a piece of meat belly from the whale.

Looking at the surrounding shark, Yu Xiaotian was angry. He said that I worked hard to catch such a whale, but you bastards came to grab it. Isn't it too cheap for you?

So he asked the Seawolf to follow the walrus, close to the whale, and put down the sampan on the ship again, and let the blackhead take several people down to the sampan to protect the whale.

So there was another human shark war at sea. As long as they saw sharks coming up and wanted to bite whales, they immediately leaned hard with spears or harpoons to stab, or simply shoot arrows, just practicing archery and shooting sharks in the water.

The shark was greedy and suffered a lot of losses. Several sharks were stabbed by harpoons or spears and tossed in the sea.

Shark blood made other sharks manic. The sea seemed to be boiling. After all, they were cold-blooded animals. Even their peers did not let go and began to bite the injured sharks.

For a while, sharks were also inseparable. Blood stains floated everywhere on the sea, and white shark meat floated. Even seabirds joined in the fun and joined the feast. From time to time, they dived down, picked up a piece of shark meat from the sea, and quickly flapped their wings and flew high.

Some seabirds were too greedy to eat. The shark meat was too big to hold them, so they fell into the sea. Sharks rushed over quickly, took a bite and dragged them down.

When Yu Xiaotian saw such a scene, he couldn't help sighing. This is really a portrayal of the world! People die for money, and birds die for food! Looking at the vast sea, he secretly thought that he didn't know where he would go in the future and whether it would become a big meal for others one day.

After dragging a big whale, their return speed became very slow, and they did not return to Treasure Island after dark. It was not until midnight that they saw the bonfire on Treasure Island.

After a Kongming lamp was released, the bonfire on the island became brighter, and the light spots on the island could be seen from afar.

Everyone's spirit was refreshed, and the fatigue on their bodies was swept away. They stood proudly on the side of the ship one by one, posing as a standing slope.

After the ship slowly docked on the shore, the people on the island hurriedly greeted them. When they saw the huge thing towed behind their boat through the light of the ship and the lantern torch on the shore, everyone was stunned.

The news reached the ears of everyone on Treasure Island, including the sleeping people, who were also woken up, put on their clothes one by one, and ran to the shore to see the rare.

Amid the amazing sound of everyone, Yu Xiaotian led the crowd to use the slides and pulley sets and winches that they had used to repair the ship, put two mules on the winch, and everyone helped to drag the big whale to the shore.

They can rest assured that there will never be any sharks coming to grab food with them. Looking at this big whale, they were bitten all over the way. Fortunately, the rope was not broken, otherwise they would have done nothing for the sharks.

Yu Xiaotian did not dare to wait until dawn to deal with the hunted minke. He ordered people to immediately prepare the cauldron and sea salt knife and axe, and began to split the whale with a torch overnight.

The whale skin is very thick and requires a lot of force to cut it, while under the whale's skin is a thick fat layer. Everyone has never done this. They can only clumsily cut the whale skin and separate the whale fat from the whale skin and peel off the pieces of fat from the whale meat.

After the large pieces of whale fat were cut off, they were immediately sent to a few cauldrons, thrown into the pot and began to be refined by fire.

Whale fat makes a prickling sound in the pot, gradually turning into translucent oil and emitting blue smoke. The air is filled with the smell of whale oil, making the whole Treasure Island stinky, and the sea breeze can't blow away this smell.

All day, everyone was dismembering the whale. The skin of the whale was peeled off by large pieces and handed over to the half-hanging cobbler to find a way to deal with it. The fat was sent to the big pot that boiled in oil, and then it was continuously refined into grease. Then it was scooped out with a large spoon, put into iron barrels, copper basins and other utensils to cool, and then it was loaded. Go into the wooden barrel.

New whale fat was constantly thrown into the cauldron, and some black slag floated in the pot. Someone took them out and was reluctant to throw them at first. Later, he saw that there were too many things, so Yu Xiaotian asked them to throw them into the fire below.

After the fire had these oily slag, it burned more vigorously. Later, it simply did not even use firewood and grass, and directly burned these oil residues to refine whale oil, which is equivalent to using its own body to refine its own oil for the sea wolves on the island. This process is undoubtedly cruel.

Only then did Yu Xiaotian find that the containers they prepared were too few. The grease on this whale could be refined into a lot of grease, so that the containers they prepared were not enough at all, so they could only find all the things in the stockade that could carry ** and carry these whale oil, which was estimated to be very long. For a while, they didn't have any washbasins available.

The whale skin and fat were quickly peeled off by everyone. It should be dried, the oil should be boiled, and then a large piece of whale meat was divided, and the number was equally scary. This seven or eight-ton minke whale, with fat and whale skin accounted for nearly a quarter of the weight, and the meat also accounted for nearly One-third of the weight, after the whale meat is carefully picked off little by little, it weighs more than two tons. Even if the people on the island open their bells to eat, it will take a long time.

Fortunately, it is just the beginning of spring along the coast of Fujian. It is the time when it is warm and cold, and the whale meat will not deteriorate quickly. However, even so, Yu Xiaotian still leaves a small part of fresh whale meat, and the rest is salted, marinated and then spread it out to dry, marinated into salted meat for them. Eat it step by step.

When this big whale came down, they stored nearly two tons of whale meat. So much meat was something they didn't dare to think of before. Although they often let people go to sea to fish, even if the sea fish is delicious, there is no way to eat it every day. There will always be food. When the stomach goes down.

The whale is a mammal. Although the meat is a little rough, it tastes a little like mutton, and it tastes quite good, which makes everyone on the island eat it.

Many people eat whale meat and are in a good mood. For them, they have never thought before that they will have the opportunity to eat such a big mouthful of meat one day in their lifetime. Such a day is really a day in heaven for them, even if they are driven away. They don't want to leave either. In short, in the eyes of many people, their helmsman is a man with great ability. It's better than anything else to follow him to eat meat.

For Xiaotian, although he took people to sea to hunt whales this time and lost a ssam, at least he did not lose his men and successfully captured a whale, which greatly met their material needs. The most important thing is not these.

The most important thing is that through this whaling activity, he felt that he had greatly tempered the cooperation between the subordinates and made it more cohesive. At the same time, by slaughtering whales, he let everyone experience a bloody scene. After seeing a bloody scene of dismembering whales, many people's's nerves changed. You have to start to get bigger and better adapt to this bloody scene.

This is undoubtedly a good exercise for improving the combat effectiveness of his subordinates. Whether it is material or spiritual, he has gained a lot from his whaling activities this time.

Seeing the whale with only the skeleton left on the beach, Yu Xiaotian is still a little sorry. The current Treasure Island is too small to have enough land for them to reclaim. Otherwise, after these whale bones are crushed, they will go up to the land. The whale bones are rich in phosphorus and potassium, which is a good natural fertilizer, but They can't use these things at the time.

However, he still tried his best to scrape more useful things from the whale. The whale's beard was taken down and stored by him. This thing is elastic and can be used as a bow string or used as a good umbrella bone. In the future, it can be sold to the Li family for resale to the land, which is also of considerable value.

Even the internal organs of whales, some of the useless internal organs are also used to boil oil, and the whale liver is rich in vitamins. In the future, they can be eaten by their subordinates. They also specially gave some to Zhang blacksmith to feed his wife and nourish their health. In case they recruit people from the land again in the future, they will encounter malnutrition and have serious physical deficiency. Vitamin A deficiency, and people with night blindness can quickly solve their problems by giving them some whale liver.

In short, the whale was completely dismembered by them for a day and a half, and all but the whale bones were put into their pockets.

In this case, they completely solved the problem of the demand for oil, and also stored a large amount of whale oil, which solved the problems encountered in repairing the ship.

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