Chapter 15 Ambergris
August 29, 2012.
The British Daily Mail reported: 8-year-old boy Charlie Naismith found a large beige stone on the beach while playing on the beach. The surface of the stone seemed to be coated with wax and a faint fragrance. Charlie thought the stone was very interesting, so he took it home. However, Charlie's parents recognized that it was not an ordinary stone, so they took it to experts to inspect it, and found that it was a "amberg". The ambergris picked up by Charlie weighed 600 grams. As soon as the news came out, someone immediately offered $63,000 to buy it.
It is reported that the Charlie family is still looking for ambergris, but Charlie has already figured out how to use the treasure he picked up. He plans to build an animal shelter with the money sold ambergris.
This is not the first time that anyone has discovered ambergris. In 2006, an Australian couple saw a strange piece of stuff on the beach. The couple took it home based on curiosity and asked marine biologists for advice and determined that it was a precious ambergris.
Ambergris is a dry product of secretions in the intestines of sperm whales. Some sperm whales will vomit out the condensation, and some will excrete it from the intestines. Only a small number of sperm whales will leave ambergris in their bodies.
Ambergris is a precious spice and is a precious raw material that is highly sought after by perfume manufacturers. It is worth up to £6,300 per pound (about 454 grams). Due to its high price and very rare, ambergris is also known as "floating gold". In 2008, someone also found a 110-pound ambergris, with a total price of up to £500,000.
Ambergris is mainly used as a fragrance setting agent for perfume, which helps the perfume taste last, but due to the difficulty of finding and environmental factors, most chemical synthetic fragrances are now used.
But chemical things cannot be compared with natural ones after all, and this is why natural ambergris is becoming more and more expensive.
Cai Hongming was excited when he remembered the newspapers about ambergris that he had seen before. He thought that the ping-pong ball in his hand was as big as a stone, which might be ambergris. Now in his eyes, this thing is no longer a stone, but gold. I don’t know if it is a psychological effect, but he felt that the stone in his hand was getting more and more fragrant. It was also very simple to prove whether the things in his hand were ambergris. He took a little bit of it and roasted it to see it. However, he didn’t have a lighter on his body, so he put the stone into the blessing land of the cave in the jade tripod and planned to go home and try again.
He was a little greedy when he put away the things, and he didn't know if there was any other thing below.
So he continued to dig down. Unexpectedly, there was still some below. Finally, he was asked to dig a piece that was almost the size of a hug, a football, a palm, and a total of three ambergris.
He had already thought about it, keep the big ones, and sell the big table tennis balls and the palm-sized ambergris to sell them. This kind of thing will only become more and more valuable, and it is a bit stupid to sell them so early. He didn't expect that he would have such a surprise when he came to dig something back and eat it, and he was so happy that he couldn't stop talking about it.
"Steal food again, have you washed your hands?" In the kitchen, Cai Yuhuang scolded her in anger when she saw her daughter secretly reaching out to grab things on the plate.
“It’s been washed long ago.”
Lu Qiaohong took the cooked red stew and said, "Mom, you didn't make so many delicious foods when I was at home. When I came back, you made so much, so you were so partial."
"Wow, I abused you normally and didn't cook delicious food for you? Well, from tomorrow, our family will cook porridge with sweet potatoes in the morning, with pickles with braised eggs at noon, and with white porridge with soy milk at night. What do you think?"
Isn’t it a life to do this? Seeing my mother come true, Lu Qiaohong hurriedly hugged her mother’s shoulder and acted coquettishly: “Mom, actually I want to say that you are the best to me.”
Cai Yuhuang snorted and said, "What's the use of the best thing? You'll have to get married in the end. Alas, it feels like the pigs we raise. It's a pity that I'm raising so white and fat that I'm going to give to others without even taking a bite."
"Mom, is there such a metaphor?"
"You are a pig, are you wrong to say this?" Cai Yuhuang said strangely.
"Mom..." Lu Qiaohong was so coquettish.
As soon as Cai Hongming entered the door, he heard the conversation between his sister-in-law and her cousin coming from the kitchen, and couldn't help laughing. Someone compared his daughter to a pig? When he walked into the kitchen, he saw his cousin grabbing a big red croaker (blue crab) eating beside his sister, which made his saliva almost flow down.
When Cai Yuhuang saw him, she immediately said, "Hongming is back. Your mother said you were back a few days ago. Unexpectedly, you ran to another place to play. Be careful that your mother will come back to settle the score with you."
"Don't be afraid, you're here with your sister-in-law." Cai Hongming said to his sister-in-law with a smile.
"I can't help you."
Cai Yuhuang gave him a blank look, saw that he was carrying a bucket in his hand, and looked at it, and found that it was the old one again. She couldn't help but say, "I ran to dig these things again. I'll dig them every time I come back. Go and wash them, and I'll cook them for you later."
Cai Hongming was ordered and quickly took it to wash it.
Later, Lu Qitian returned from selling seafood and started a meal.
Cai Yuhuang knew that Cai Hongming was back and specially left behind the fattest red-fried vermicelli, Qin beer, which tasted so amazing. This seafood meal made Cai Hongming’s stomach bulging and crab oil flowing from the corners of his mouth. After eating, Lu Qitian took out a bottle of wine that had been treasured for a long time from it. Unfortunately, Cai Hongming didn’t like drinking this thing at all.
"Uncle, what's the best wine? Didn't my mom send you sea buckthorn wine? Go and drink that one, which one is brewed by others and has been stored for nearly ten years."
"I specially asked your father to buy it for me, just waiting to entertain guests in the future. You haven't drunk there, why are you doing that? What are you drinking this one? How many hundred bottles are there?"
Seeing him say this, Cai Hongming had to bite the bullet and drink wine. He really has no love and is sour. He likes sweeter ones.
After drinking a few sips of wine, Lu Qitian asked, "Is there anything wrong with you tomorrow?"
"No."
"Then you come here early tomorrow and I'll take you to fish."
Cai Hongming heard this and curled his lips disdainfully, "Uncle, I have to take you to fish. Who in the village knows that I have good fishing skills? There are fishes at the hook, and there are fish at the hook." As he said that, he even made a stinky fart look like a fishing position.
Cai Yuhuang couldn't see it and leaked from the side: "Yes! Especially in other people's fish ponds, fish are hooked faster, otherwise they wouldn't have been chased into the house."
"Puchi"
Lu Qiaohong laughed a lot when she heard it. She heard her mother talk about the embarrassing things her cousin did when she was a child. It is said that once she ran to the fish pond with her friends, but she was chased and hid at home and did not dare to come out. In the end, her grandfather came out to settle the matter.
Cai Hongming was a little embarrassed to be said, scratched his head and said, "That's also a skill."
Cai Yuhuang rolled her eyes and was about to ridicule a few more words, but Lu Qitian said, "I'm not taking you to the pond to fish, but the sea, the big fish in the sea, which is interesting to catch."
"Do you have a boat?" Cai Hongming remembered that his uncle seemed to have no boat.
"Of course there is." Lu Qitian said proudly.
"What's so proud of a second-hand broken boat? You have asked you to buy a new one, but you didn't listen. Now, you're ready to repair it every day, and you can buy a new one." Cai Yuhuang said angrily from the side.
"Don't I think there is no need to buy a new one? Who knows that the boat is so bad?" Lu Qitian quickly defended himself when he saw his wife angry.
Chapter completed!