Pitch black night, Violent storm.
The waves of the sea crashed wildly against the reef, as if they were about to overturn the entire land 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 close at hand, and even the sturdy pole tied to the wind barrier below has begun to creak, and it seems that it will break in the next second.
For the remote port of Siqiao, this kind of bad weather occurs three or five times a year, although it is rare.
Therefore, the inhabitants of the area are accustomed to this, and retreat into their huts, light dim lamps and candles, drink red star two-pot heads with salted fish, and of course put basins and tarpaulins and everything else that can filter out dampness under the leaks in the roof.
Around this, the quilt will always be in a moist state, as if it can be wet when you touch it.
In this atmosphere, in a dilapidated shack to the west of Four Bridges Town, there was a raging fire.
Inside was a messy pile of discarded rubber tires------ which was a cheap and effective refiller for poor boat people------ and a dozen or so dark-skinned boatmen with very excited expressions.
Most of them are in their twenties and thirties, only the middle-aged man sitting in the middle has deep wrinkles on his face, like a knife and axe, and the beard on his chin is also a little gray, and his facial features look like he is sad and kind, and at a glance he knows that he is the kind of person who is obedient to life and fate.
"Oh, oops, if you want me to talk about today's incident, Sanzai has a credit, but Sen Yan just aimed at it right."
The person who spoke was a young man with a scar on his face, called Gao Qiang, who said with exaggerated gestures and drooling.
His words were clearly agreed upon by his companions, many of whom nodded their heads in succession, casting their appreciative gazes on a young man sitting on the right.
This young man's eyebrows are thick and black, the muscles on his arms are bulging, his physique is very strong, and although there is a flying look between his eyebrows, he is not steady.
He was sitting casually on a shabby wooden stool, holding a porcelain bowl with a missing corner.
Probably because the boiling water in the bowl is hot, so you have to drink it while blowing.
The young man called "Mori Yan" smiled when he heard the mention of himself, but he didn't say anything, just smiled and nodded at his companion, and then continued to drink water.
"Sen Yan naturally didn't have to say anything, but I stabbed nine forks, a whole nine forks" A middle-aged man with a big nose stood up and said loudly, and kept gesturing excitedly with his hands.
"Servant, that big beast actually dragged us away, let's talk about thirty miles, drag ten more miles, and we will have to eat this wind."
A dark and thin middle-aged man in the corner suddenly interjected and laughed: "Senior brother, I'm afraid that the balm scraped out this time will not be less than twenty kilograms, even if it is dried, there are more than ten kilograms------ this time it is considered to be a big profit, haven't you always wanted to overhaul Fuyuan once, and there are more than ten banknotes for overhauling ten times."
The eldest brother is obviously the middle-aged man, and he smiled honestly when he heard it, but his eyebrows were clearly full of joy.
He was born by the sea since he was a child, and the salty taste of the sea water almost penetrated into the bone marrow, and he almost made the boat his home in his life, because he adopted two orphans very early, so he never got a wife, and it seems that he is not going to look for it later.
He bought the old ship Fuyuan with his life savings a few years ago, but he didn't expect to be defrauded by someone, and he overhauled the ship just after getting it, so the debt he owes has not been paid off until now.
If kindness and loyalty will definitely be favored by fate, then I believe that the eldest brother has already had a lot of money, but the fact is that no matter how hard the senior brother works, he can't get rid of the fate of being displaced and destitute.
But no matter how mean God is, there will always be occasional times when he opens his eyes, and when Tianfu was far away from going to sea, he met a lonely fat-headed monster Fat-headed monster is the common name of the fishermen in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and other areas, the scientific name is the famous sperm whale, its body is stubby, slow and clumsy, and the appearance is very strange, showing a heavy head and light tail appearance, if you want to take any creature to describe, the tadpole that has been magnified ten million times can barely match the number, the huge head of the sperm whale can almost account for a quarter to a third of the body length, and the whole head seems to be a big box.
Its nose is also very peculiar, only the left nostril is unblocked, and it is located in the front left front, and the right nostril is blocked, so the fog column it breathes is sprayed at a 45° angle to the left front.
For experienced fishermen, the whales can be spotted from afar in the jets of water that they eject.
It's just that after decades of hunting, sperm whales have been reduced to only a few hundred in the world, and in the past five years, there have only been three reports of hunting fat-headed monsters in the entire South China Sea, and its rarity can be imagined.
At that time, it was Ah Fa who found this lonely fat head to blame, that is, the black and thin man who had a relationship with the senior brother.
The rest of the offspring have to call the eldest brother "fourth uncle".
To be honest, according to the configuration of Fuyuan's old fishing boat, it is impossible to attack this behemoth.
Fortunately, an orphan adopted by the fourth uncle, Sanzai, was ingenious, and a few days ago he fell in love with a spear gun that others dismantled and didn't want in the abandoned house on the dock, and he made a few pounds with his stuffy head, and he was able to make do with it.
However, its original intention was to shoot sharks infested in the South China Sea to cut a few pieces of fish maw, how could you expect to encounter the almost extinct fat-headed monster Then there was a relentless chase.
The Fuyuan was determined to seize the opportunity given by God, ignoring the typhoon warning and biting the ten-meter-long sperm whale in the wind and waves, but no one on the ship had any experience in whaling except for the fourth uncle, and the fixed spear gun installed on the ship was in a semi-scrapped state, and it failed to hit four times in a row in the wind and waves, but it made this behemoth vigilant and look at it to dive to the bottom of the sea.
At this time, Fang Senyan, another orphan adopted by the senior uncle, grabbed it in one step, his body was bumpy and undulating like fallen leaves in the swaying of the stormy waves, but his hands were as firm as if they were welded to a speargun, aiming for a full ten seconds, and then just when everyone was almost desperate, a shot was fired This shot pierced the sperm whale's vital point Under the pain, the dying giant beast dragged Fuyuan for a full thirty nautical miles, and the sea water was red along the way.
But in the end, he reluctantly became a trophy of mankind, and the old Fuyuan, who returned with a full load, miraculously succeeded in returning to Siqiao Port before the typhoon landed.
For sperm whales, although their meat, oil and bones are expensive, their most valuable thing is the "balm" in the intestines.
This thing is the common name of the local fishermen, and after drying, it is the famous "ambergris." ” The main food of the sperm whale is the squid octopus, after it eats it, but it can't digest its sharp mouth shell and the round bones inside.
This is the so-called ambergris.
Ambergris contains 25 ambergris, which is the raw material of precious spices, and is the best substance to keep perfumes fragrant, and is used as a fixative for perfumes.
At the same time, it is also a valuable traditional Chinese medicine.
The sperm whale hunted by the fourth uncle is only more than ten meters long, and it is considered to be lower in size among the same kind This boatload of people gathered together to talk and laugh, but before they knew it, it was late at night.
They have been running around the sea and fishing for half a month, not to mention that they rushed into Siqiao Port before the typhoon came, and they also had a lot of hard work, and as soon as the excitement of hunting the big guy passed, fatigue hit immediately.
The rain is pouring outside, and the typhoon will not stop until tomorrow afternoon.
The fourth uncle naturally left people to live in his own shack and lay bunks, and these boat people didn't feel anything if they were used to it on the boat.
However, Sanzai and Sen Yan have already separated from each other, and the two have each built a shack next to Mazu Temple Street in the north of Siqiao Town, which can be regarded as having their own private space.
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The two of them pushed open the old door with several planks nailed horizontally, and a cold wind carried a large amount of rain in, which immediately made people shiver.
Even the boatmen who were lying down around the fire in the middle grunted a few times in dissatisfaction.
Fang Senyan and Sanzai shrank their heads on the tarpaulin and closed the door, but the senior uncle rushed up and stuffed an umbrella out, and the two of them took advantage of the dim light inside the crack in the door to discern the direction, and walked back on the way home.
Four Bridges is a small town that is not marked on the map at all.
Its specific location is a small bay in the south of the border city of Fangchenggang in Guangxi, and even on a clear day, you can see the land of Vietnam to the west with the naked eye.
In terms of administrative location, it also happens to belong to the zone of three irregularities.
As a result, a deformed port integrating smuggling, trade, and smuggling has been formed, and most of the people in it are engaged in the gray industry that wanders 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 couldn't afford the heavy taxes and fees, Fang Senyan once looked at the long bill of charges, which involved a wide range of 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., and here you only need to hand over a protection fee to the local "big guy" on time.
Because I don't know when it will be "swept away" from above, most of the buildings of the four bridges are temporarily built with fairly cheap plywood, tires, fiberglass tiles, etc., which belongs to the kind of illegal buildings that are thorns in the eyes of the urban management.
Fang Senyan is close to 19 years old this year, a few months older than Sanzai, but since the age of 14, he has been entrusted by his senior uncle to an acquaintance to work on the ship, because he is calm and down-to-earth, so he is very well received by his employers, and has been repeatedly entrusted with trust
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