Daming pirates

Chapter 134: Easy solution

This minke whale was so big, weighing about seven or eight tons, that it was impossible to pull it onto the boat. We had to drag it behind the boat with a rope and return to Treasure Island.

But it was not easy to pull such a big 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 two

Everyone in the back of the boat wanted to get a share of the pie, trying to steal a piece of meat from the whale to satisfy their hunger.

Looking at the sharks surrounding him, Yu Xiaotian became very angry. He thought to himself that I had worked so hard to catch such a whale, but you bastards came to snatch it. Isn't this cheap for you?

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So he asked the Sea Wolf to follow the Walrus, close to the whale, and lowered the sampan on the ship again, and asked Black Head to lead a few people down to the sampan to protect the whale.

So another human-shark war started at sea. Whenever they saw a shark coming up and trying to bite a whale, they would immediately use a spear or harpoon to stab the whale hard, or they would just shoot an arrow. It was just a practice.

Now that you are good at archery, shoot the shark in the water.

The sharks were just greedy for food, and they suffered a lot at once. Several sharks were stabbed by harpoons or spears, and they began to toss in the sea water.

The shark blood aroused the other sharks into a frenzy, and the water in the sea seemed to be boiling. After all, they are all cold-blooded animals, and they would not let go even of the same kind, and began to bite the injured sharks.

For a moment, the sharks were biting each other fiercely. There were blood stains everywhere on the sea surface, and pieces of white shark meat floated up. Even the seabirds joined in the fun and joined in the feast.

In the middle, he swooped down from time to time, picked up a piece of shark meat from the sea water, and quickly flapped his wings to fly high.

Some seabirds were too greedy, and the shark meat was too big for them to pick up, so they fell into the sea water. A shark rushed over quickly, took a bite, and dragged them down.

When Yu Xiaotian saw such a scene, he couldn't help but sigh. This is really a portrayal of the human world! People die for money, and birds die for food! Looking at the vast sea, he secretly thought, I don't know where he will go in the future.

Will it one day become a feast for others?

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

After a Kongming lantern was released, the bonfire on the island became brighter, and in the distance you could see the light spots of torches on the island.

Everyone's spirits were lifted, and all the fatigue on their bodies was swept away. They all stood proudly on the side of the ship, assuming a stance of standing on a slope.

As the ship slowly docked at the shore, the people on the island hurried to greet it. When they saw the huge thing towing behind their ship through the light of the lanterns and torches on the ship and on the shore, everyone was stunned.

Stunned.

The news spread to everyone on Treasure Island, including those who were sleeping. They all put on their clothes and ran to the shore to see what was happening.

In the midst of everyone's admiration, Yu Xiaotian led everyone to use the slide, pulley block and winch that they had used to repair the ship, and put two mules on the winch. With everyone's help, they used all their strength to

They dragged the big whale to the shore.

Now they can rest assured that no more sharks will come to compete with them for food. Looking at this big whale, it was covered in bruises from shark bites along the way. Fortunately, the rope was not bitten, otherwise

It's like their work for the sharks was in vain.

Yu Xiaotian did not dare to wait until dawn before handling the captured minke whale. He immediately ordered people to prepare a large pot, sea salt, knives and axes, and started cutting up the whale with torches overnight.

The whale's skin is very thick and requires a lot of strength to cut it. There is a thick layer of fat under the whale's skin. No one has ever done this before. They can only cut open the whale's skin clumsily and remove the fat from the whale.

The whale skin was separated, and the fat was peeled off piece by piece from the whale meat.

After the large pieces of whale fat were cut off, they were immediately sent to several large pots, where they were thrown into the pots and began to be refined over fire.

The whale fat made a sizzling sound in the pot, and gradually turned into translucent grease, and blue smoke came out. The air was filled with a fishy smell of whale oil, making the entire Treasure Island stink.

There is no way the sea breeze can dissipate this smell.

For a whole day, everyone was dismembering the whale. The whale's skin was peeled off in large chunks and handed over to the amateur cobbler to figure out how to deal with it. The fat was sent to the oil cauldron to be continuously refined into grease.

, then scooped out with a large spoon, put into iron buckets, copper basins and other vessels to cool, and then put into wooden barrels.

New whale blubber was constantly being put into the cauldron, and some black scum was floating in the cauldron. Someone took out the scum and was reluctant to throw it away at first. Later, he saw that there were too many things, so Yu Xiaotian

Let them throw the dregs into the fire below.

With these oily residues in the fire, the fire burned even more vigorously. Later, they even stopped using firewood and directly burned these oily residues to refine whale oil. This is equivalent to the whale using its own body to provide the island's sea.

The wolves refined their own grease, and the process was undoubtedly cruel.

Only then did Yu Xiaotian realize that the containers they had prepared were too few. The oil from this whale could be used to refine so much oil that the containers they prepared were simply not enough, so they had to put all the oil in the stockade together.

They found everything that could hold liquids to hold the whale oil. It is estimated that they will not have a washbasin available for a long time.

The skin and blubber of the whale were quickly peeled off by everyone's concerted efforts. What should be dried was dried, and what should be boiled in oil was boiled. Next, large pieces of whale meat were cut off. The number was equally scary, and this one

The blubber and whale skin account for nearly a quarter of the weight of the seven to eight-ton minke whale, and the meat also accounts for nearly one-third of the weight. After the whale meat is carefully picked off little by little, it weighs two tons.

It's so much that even if the people on the island eat it with open stomachs, it will take a long time to eat.

Fortunately, spring has just begun along the coast of Fujian, and it is the time when the warmth returns to cold, so the whale meat will not deteriorate quickly. However, even so, Yu Xiaotian still asked people to leave a small part of the fresh whale meat and wipe the rest.

Add a large amount of salt, marinate it and spread it out to dry, then marinate it into bacon and store it for them to eat gradually in the future.

When a big whale came down, they stored nearly two tons of whale meat. Such a large amount of meat was something they could not even imagine before. Although they often let people go out to sea to fish, the sea fish even in the

It's so delicious that eating it every day is not an option. There will always be times when you feel upset after eating it.

Whales are mammals. Although the meat is a little rough, it tastes a bit like mutton and tastes quite good. This made everyone on the island enjoy the meal.

Many people ate whale meat and felt very good. For these people, they had never thought that one day in their lifetime, they would have the opportunity to eat meat in such a big way. Such a day

For them, it is truly a day in heaven. Even if they are driven away now, they are unwilling to leave. In short, in the eyes of many people, their helmsman is a person with great abilities. Following him has the flesh and blood.

Eat, this is better than anything else.

As for Xiaotian, although he took his people out to hunt whales this time and lost a sampan, he did not lose any of his men and successfully captured a whale, which greatly satisfied their material needs. The most important thing was that

Not these.

The most important thing is that through this whaling activity, he felt that the cooperation between his subordinates was greatly tempered and made them more cohesive. At the same time, through the slaughter of whales, everyone experienced a bloody scene.

, after seeing the bloody scene of dismembering a whale, many people have become more nervous and can better adapt to such bloody scenes.

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

Looking at the whale with only the skeleton left on the beach, Yu Xiaotian still felt a little regretful. The current Treasure Island is too small and there is not enough land for them to cultivate. Otherwise, these whale bones will be crushed.

After being crushed and put into the ground, whale bones are rich in phosphorus and potassium, which are very good natural fertilizers, but they cannot use these things at the moment.

However, he still tried his best to scrape more useful things from the whale. The baleen was removed by him and stored away. This thing is very elastic and can be used as a bow string or used to make fine products.

The umbrella ribs can be sold to the Li family in the future and resold on land, and the value will be quite high.

Even the whale's internal organs, some of which were not needed, were boiled into oil. The whale's liver was rich in vitamins and could be eaten by his subordinates in the future. Some were specially given to Blacksmith Zhang to feed his wife.

It is used to replenish the body. If we recruit people from land again in the future and encounter malnutrition and a serious lack of vitamin A in the body, and for people with night blindness, giving them some whale liver can quickly solve their problem.

In short, it took them a day and a half to dismember the whale completely, and except for the whale bones, they collected all the rest.

At this time, they completely solved the problem of demand for oil and grease, and also reserved a large amount of whale oil, so the problems encountered in ship repair were easily solved.

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