Chapter 334
On the way, Li Jing knew from Zhang Hong's mouth what was going on. It turned out that early in the morning, when the salt factory workers were working, they suddenly found that a large group of huge fish swam on the beach in front of the salt field.
In the words of the salt factory, the largest fish is nearly ten feet long, like a hill, and the small one is several feet long. It is estimated that the largest giant fish is at least tens of thousands of pounds. And this giant fish is not one or two, but has 500.
"Is that fish still there?"
"It's strange to say that although these fish are huge and ferocious, they stop there after rushing to the beach, and they don't go ashore or go back to the sea." Zhang Hong said in surprise: "We have seen a lot of big fish. The dolphins and sharks are big, but they are not that big. I guess this giant fish is the legendary Kun, and it's very likely that they want to transform into Peng when they go ashore!"
Li Jing already knew almost what was going on at this time, and it must be a whale stranded. Judging from the situation he described, it is very likely that the sperm whale from a large group of people was stranded.
However, although he knew it, Li Jing was still shocked when he heard that 500 whales were stranded. As far as he knew, the most common thing he had heard in later generations seemed to be that 300 whales were stranded at once in Australia. For example, 500 whales were stranded at once, and the largest one was ten feet long, and it was rare to see a sperm whales worth more than 100,000 kilograms.
Whales do not rely on their eyes to distinguish directions in the sea, which is similar to dolphins. The whale's eyes are extremely disproportionate to its figure. A giant whale's eyes are only as big as a small watermelon, and generally can only see objects within four or five feet of watermelon. Their vision is extremely degraded, and the distance that a huge whale can see is not as far as its body. It is somewhat similar to bats. Whales have a high-sensitivity echo ranging ability that is born early. The frequency range of ultrasonic waves they emit is very wide. This ultrasonic wave will immediately return after encountering obstacles to form an echo. Whales accurately judge the distance between themselves and obstacles based on the round-trip time of this ultrasonic wave. The positioning is very accurate, and the error is generally very small.
Generally speaking, there are three reasons for whales to get stranded. One is that there are parasites in the ear that destroy the echo positioning system. Another reason is that the whale system has undergone a lesion, which makes him lose direction. Another reason is that the fishing fleet has been fishing frequently recently. When fishing, sometimes the crew will use bamboo poles to continuously hit the ship's side, which ends up being dry in the water, which destroys the whale's sound wave positioning system.
Whales are ethnic creatures and are particularly fond of love. If a whale rushes into the beach and gets stranded, the rest will follow without hesitation, causing one after another and eventually leading to a tragedy of collective suicide.
Li Jing estimated that this is the specific reason.
When you arrive at the beach, you can see hundreds of huge whales on the beach from afar. These whales are indeed smear whales, with heavy heads and light tails, just like a huge tadpole.
The beach was surrounded by fishermen and people who came to watch. Many fishermen naturally recognized this as whales, and would not say that they wanted to turn into Peng Kun like Zhang Hong. However, five hundred huge whales suddenly appeared and rushed to the beach. This was as strange as it was raining some time ago. So everyone just watched from a distance and did not dare to approach.
Many people saw Li Jing coming, and they surrounded him here.
"The giant fish dies, the king and the prince are ruined!" Li Zhen has also arrived and said softly close to Li Jing, with a worried face.
"This is not an ancient sign, it is a bad sign!" Li Liang also said behind.
Seeing the brother singing and drinking, and saying something bad, Li Jing almost couldn't help but say something bad and he was still wearing underwear. But he also knew that some things were really hard to explain to them. Five hundred giant fish rushed into the shallows. Although they were not dead yet, there was only a trace of life left and they would die soon.
Seeing the people next to him talking, Li Jing frowned. Dengzhou was finally smooth, and he didn't want to have any messy things. His mind changed and he had already thought about it. He said loudly: "I had another dream in the middle of the night last night. It was the old man from Qingzhou who came to invite me last time. We sat in the world turtle and arrived at the Dragon King's Crystal Palace again. When the Dragon King saw me, he asked me, I miss you last time, I'm sorry, I'll give you a 100,000 fish, are you still satisfied?"
"I replied at that time that although the fish are 100,000, they are all too small, and everyone will lose one by one. If only it could be bigger, the Dragon King would just laugh and say nothing. Then we drank and got drunk again. When we woke up, we had already returned to Dengzhou. As soon as we woke up, we heard that a giant fish appeared. We came all the way, but it was not like this. Could it be that this giant fish was because of the Dragon King's gift again after what I said to the Dragon King last night?"
Li Zhen knew very clearly that Li Jing slept with Gongsun Lan last night, so it was unlikely that he would enter the Dragon Palace at night. However, he was also very smart and understood the effect of Li Jing's words in just one turn. The giant fish died, the king and the princess were. There was a king and a marquis in Dengzhou. The king was King Zhao Li Shi, and the marquis was Zhendong Marquis. No matter which marquis, this was not a good thing. If it were not done well, the situation in Dengzhou would be different.
But regardless of whether Li Jing’s words are true or false, there are previous incidents of praying for rain and laying fish. Now that Li Jing is the gift of the Dragon King, who can’t tell me?
Li Zhen touched his forehead and said loudly: "That's right, this must be the gift of the Dragon King, the gift of the Dragon King after hearing the words of the county marquis. This is the gift Li Envoy invited to the Dragon King!"
As soon as the three gifts were released, the onlookers immediately believed most of them. Apart from this, what other reasons could make so many giant fish rush to the beach by themselves?
"Since it is the gift of the Dragon King, don't refuse. Hurry up, call more people to bring you here and let's divide the giant fish." Li Jing said with a loud laugh.
There were 500 sperm whales, the small one was more than three feet long, and the large one was only more than eight feet long. Li Jing summoned thousands of them to start dividing these fish-wolf whales, chopping them with a knife and axe, and pieces of whale flesh were removed.
The stove had already been set up next to him. So many whales killed and picked up meat. Except for a few who were directly distributed to the people as food, the rest could not be stored. They had to be processed and made into canned food and sealed. Whale meat is a rare item, and Li Jing believes that this batch of canned food will definitely be sold at a good price.
Li Jing and other officials were watching, and their blood was boiling. Thousands of generals 500 giant fish were slaughtered at the same time. This scene was really spectacular.
"Wow!" A burst of exclamation came from the largest whale. Li Jing and others rushed over and saw that most of the huge whale, more than eight feet long, had already taken off most of its flesh. The abdomen was opened, and a huge squid fell out from it.
After measurement, this huge squid was six feet long and weighed three thousand kilograms. The squid was covered with a row of huge fish-and-whale teeth marks, which were six inches deep. Li Jing could see at a glance that this squid, which looked like a sea monster, was the king squid.
The king squid lives in the deep sea, and sperm whales usually prey in the deep sea. Therefore, these two huge deep sea creatures often engage in desperate battles, either you die or I die. This squid has not been digested yet, and it is very likely that it has just been preyed not long ago.
"Keep this cuttlefish and keep it with ice. I want to die in Chang'an and offer it to Yaozi!" Such a huge cuttlefish, which is six feet long and weighs three thousand kilograms, is quite rare. Yaozi is so fond of playing now, and I guess such things will definitely please him.
Immediately, I went back to Dengzhou to travel to the ice. The wealthy families had ice warehouses, and those who were good at Daxia could also have ice.
Dozens of people dragged the squid, and at this moment, something actually fell out of the whale's belly.
"It's an inch!" Youjin exclaimed. Sure enough, an inch fell from the whale's stomach. No one noticed it just now because of a squid. Now, as soon as the squid was dragged away, it fell out immediately.
It was a boy with a pale face and his eyes were closed.
Airu, who was watching the fun behind, suddenly shouted, "Isn't that the Tiedanzi from Wangcun? Oh, it's really Tiedanzi. I went out to catch seaweed last afternoon, but I didn't come back. A villager searched for a night last night and found half of the broken pieces. It was said that they fell into the sea, but I didn't expect it to be eaten by the giant fish."
At this time, several other Wangcuns came to hear the sound and recognized Tiedanzi from their village. Soon their parents also arrived, and the family hugged Tiedanzi and cried bitterly. I wonder if it was an illusion, but Li Jing actually saw Tiedanzi moving with one hand in his father's arms.
"Can't this child actually not die yet?" Li Jing was surprised and hurriedly stepped forward and touched his wrist. His hands were extremely cold, and there were also many whale gastric juice. Li Jing quickly reached his hand to the side of Tiedan's neck and felt a faint beating.
"Tiedan is not dead yet! Not dead!" Li Jing said loudly.
The surroundings couldn't believe it. Li Jing quickly put Tiedan flat, then gave him a heart pressure, and then reached out to sniff his throat. Just as he was about to do his work respiration, the Tiedan suddenly coughed, turned his head and spit out a mouthful of things, and actually opened his eyes.
All the students watched all this in disbelief. The child who entered the belly of Giuyu and the half-lost child actually came back to life under the treatment of Governor Li.
Tiedan opened his eyes and joined him: "Aye, my mother, where am I?"
Li Jing smiled and said to the child who might be fourteen or fifteen years old: "You were still in the belly of the giant fish and stepped into the gate of hell with one foot, but I pulled you back." This sentence was just a joke, or it was just a metaphor to pull Tiedan back from the gate of hell, but Tiedan's parents thought it was true. The governor could borrow rain from the Dragon King, so why couldn't he pull his son back from the gate of hell?
The family kowtowed to Li Jing one after another, and the other onlookers were also whispering. It is said that the governor not only asked for a gift from the Dragon King, but also pulled back the iron balls that had already been eaten into the giant fish's belly from the gate of hell. When everyone who entered and all who entered looked at Li Jing again, in addition to the gratitude and respect in his previous eyes, there was also more admiration and awe in his eyes!
"At up, get up, and survive the disaster, you will definitely be blessed." Li Jing pulled Wang Tiedan and his family up in a harmonious manner. He had also seen it on TV that Youru was swallowed by whales and was still alive in the whale's belly. The main reason is that although the whale salmon had sharp teeth, they did not use their teeth to chew food. Another thing is that Tiedanzi was young and healthy, so he would definitely die if he changed to Tiedanzi. After looking at Tiedanzi, he saw that although his face was pale, his whole body should have been very strong. He was probably six feet tall, just a little shorter than him.
"How old is Tiedanzi this year?"
"fifteen."
Li Jing nodded, "Would you like to follow me to join the army? You can be my guard!"
Tiedanzi's eyes lit up and he said hurriedly: "Tieedan is willing!" As he said that, he kowtowed again.
Li Jing helped him up, "If you can survive in the belly of a giant fish, you will be lucky. Since you are willing to follow me, I will give you a great name, just call it Tieqiang. What about Wang Tieqiang?"
Tiedan was naturally extremely happy, and Tiedan's parents and younger brothers and sisters were also happy. If you can get the county marquis in love, you will be successful in the future. This is really a disaster, and you will have good fortune. The next person is also both happy and Tiedanzi, and he feels a little envious and envious of his experience.
Li Jing asked Tiedanzi to wash his body first, put on Qianjing clothes, and found a military doctor to check his body carefully, and prescribed several doses of tonics to allow him to regulate his body.
"It's incense! It's incense! It's incense!"
After calming for a while, the other side shouted again. Before Li Jing could pass by this time, a butcher laughed and ran to Li Jing and reported: "Report the envoy, the whale has incense. Such a large piece of incense is probably at least a thousand pounds!"
Li Zhen also followed behind and added: "It's ambergris, ambergris! I've seen it. That piece is at least 100 kilograms. It's so rare. I have recorded in my book that only one of the sperm whales will have ambergris. I didn't expect that the first time we killed whales will have ambergris. And under normal circumstances, a whale's fragrance is only a few dozen or 100 kilograms at most, and it's amazing to get two hundred kilograms. Unexpectedly, this whale is big and the fragrance in his body is also big. It's probably really 100 kilograms."
"This ambergris alone is priceless!"
When he heard that he had found a 100-pound ambergris, Li Jing couldn't help but take a long breath of air conditioning. This whale is really a bit weird. Not only is it eight feet long, but it also cuts off nearly 100,000 pounds of meat. If bones and internal organs are added, this fish-sie whale is probably more than 60 tons. It's such a giant. No wonder even the king squid in its belly has 3,000 pounds. Now a piece of ambergris is several times that of other whales.
Chapter completed!