The valley is still filled with morning fog in the early morning, and the Tangnu Uliang in October already has the feeling of early winter. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info ended up being unprepared, star fruit didn't expect the early morning here to be so cold. The siblings didn't think about the weather before they set off, and there was actually no weather forecast at all, which is why they were hit by a white plague last winter.

A white plague is a snow disaster, and many of the herders' livestock freeze to death after a snowstorm. The sun did not rise in the morning and today was a cloudy day. "It doesn't look like a good day to dig for oil." Star fruit stands in front of the yurt and looks to the east, the forest is still lush under the morning mist, and the birch and beech are not afraid of the cold.

"You're looking good for this new dress." Da Ming rubbed his sleepy eyes and walked out of the bag.

"Aren't you the same?" Carambola smiled back, and both of them put on Mongolian robes. She was actually wearing the clothes of the grandson of the old man Hadanbat, who was Bagen, and the lining of the wool was very warm, while Daming was wearing the clothes of Bagan's father.

Bagan's parents drove their sheep to graze early in the morning, and they also brought a flatbed truck to stock up on some hay. With the experience of a year ago, the whole village is adding sheepfolds. Cattle and sheep are their most important possessions, and the people who were still laughing and laughing yesterday are busy in the early morning in the face of today's weather. But in the future, they may not have to work so hard, and once the oil is excavated, it will completely change their lives.

Bagan and Kikige were very curious about the drills, especially pulling the star fruit and asking what they were.

"This is oil drilling equipment, and there are good black things under this ground, as long as you dig these out, everyone will be rich."

"So when you have money, can you buy more cattle and sheep?" Bagan asked curiously. He doesn't understand what oil is, but as long as he has money.

"If you have money, you can buy a lot of candy, and Besica, that black thing you gave me that day." Kikige asked excitedly.

The carambola shrugged, exactly like in history, when the Tuvans and many other ethnic minorities were persecuted during the Stalin era, and their lives were very difficult, and nothing has changed to this day. Maybe they don't realize how bad their lives are, and once they come into contact with the prosperity of the outside world, they will definitely go out desperately.

"Of course, it will get better and better here in the future, and a lot of good things will be shipped in."

In the end, the two children did not follow the group, and the children of the whole village went to school. In any case, the Russian government is still very concerned about education, perhaps the Tuvan government, so that small settlements far away from Kyzyl have village schools.

After a steppe-style yogurt feast, the procession set off, and the old man Hadanbat became the new guide.

There were no smooth roads on the new journey, and the convoy marched on the shepherd's dirt road. The old man rode a horse, and he felt that such a path was most suitable for horses.

The bumps of the vehicle are more serious, and the star fruit is most worried that the drilling equipment will break the steel cable and fall to the ground, if it is broken, it will be annoying.

The journey went very smoothly, and under the guidance of the old man, the group finally arrived at the asphalt lake.

Sonia pinched her nose and frowned and said, "This smell is so bad, what does it smell like when it falls to the ground, it doesn't smell like it's smelly, I can't stand it when I smell it." ”

"It's the smell of sulfide, and it's poisonous!" Star fruit took a look at the dark "lake": "Look, that's the bones of animals, only the spine is left." ”

Da Ming saw those bad things in the direction of his sister's finger, and a very bad feeling arose, perhaps a kind of fear. "It's very dangerous here, the sulfide is poisonous gas, and these animals just smell too much and die here."

The workers looked around to check the situation, and the engineering captain marked the location on the map. In order to pinpoint this location, Pugachev even brought something more advanced - a small radio transmitter. He's not a geology expert after all, but he knows exactly what asphalt means. He stood behind the brother and sister and asked, "Should we transport these things back, since we are going to build a good road, these ready-made asphalt don't cost at all." ”

Carambola shook her head: "Uncle's idea is too idealistic, we have walked all the way to the potholes, and we are simply walking in the wilderness after crossing the bridge, even if we build a road, then we should also build a road from Kizil to here." Let's buy asphalt for road construction first. ”

Workers found dead wildlife, some of them highly decomposing carcasses, near the asphalt lake, and it was clear that this was not the place to stay.

Of course, star fruit is not a geological person, but she has heard and seen a lot, but where there is an asphalt lake, it can only mean one, and there is oil in the ground that has been affected by geothermal heat and overflowed. "It looks like there's not just oil here, there's hot springs too! Maybe we can build another set of pipes, and we can build a thermal bath here. ”

Da Ming knew that this was a joke, and after choosing a new location between the valleys, he made up his mind to start building**.

Workers began to get busy, first building platforms, then checking on the gasoline generators, and others mixing the drilling mud. Everyone was busy until the evening, and the initial construction was completed.

At night, the stars are shining in the mountains, which are the lights of battery-powered electric lights, and some people who are really energetic are eating barbecue.

In the dark night, the valley is blowing cold, and tomorrow we will use this small ** tentative oil digging for exploration, and the success or failure depends on the results of tomorrow. The brother and sister and Sonia sat around the campfire, and there was a special feeling about camping like this.

Sonia sat on the trunk of a tree she saw. "We're like some fantasy characters, maybe like explorers hundreds of years ago. I liked it very much, but my father wanted me to have more aristocratic atmosphere, but I still longed for the hunters. For example, the kind of wolf hunters in the Siberian wilderness, and the Nenets who eat venison raw in the Arctic Circle. ”

Listening to her, the star fruit drilled deeper into Daming's arms, and the two sat around the bonfire to feel nature. The deep mountains were dark without night, and the old man Hadanbat made a pot of milk tea to distribute to the people who had not yet slept.

The brother and sister slowly tasted milk tea in a tea jar, and by the way, they listened to the old man tell about the past days.

The old man deeply felt that life was about to change dramatically, and it was the children who were sitting there who gave the change. "Maybe we should bring the shaman from the village, tonight is good for divination, the mountain god will tell us through the shaman where the black oil came from."

"No, no, maybe we should pray in church." Sonia teased.

The old man smiled, although he didn't believe much in the shaman's divination, but he finally had a sustenance. Star fruit knows very well what she is doing now, as long as the earth in this parallel universe is still that earth, then this area of Tuva must be hiding oil.

Over the next two decades, more oil fields will be discovered in Russia, from Siberia to the Far East, and some have predicted that they will run out of oil by 2050, but this will be pushed back again and again as exploration deepens.

Tuva does have oil, as evidenced by this asphalt lake, but it was long forgotten due to poor infrastructure and sparse population, until a medium-sized oil field was discovered in 2016. The oil spill always created this asphalt lake, and in the end, the Tuvan government drilled the well with a try-and-see mentality, and the first well exploded.

On the new day, the weather was still gloomy, and the old man looked at the day and did not snow according to his experience. The brother and sister were woken up by the noise of the generator, and the two quickly got dressed and got out of the tent, only to see Pugachev actually talking seriously.

The content of the lecture is nothing more than doing a good job or something, and the brother and sister don't need to say anything more.

When everything is ready, the connected power drill starts to start.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, people had discovered the great power of oil, but suffering from the backwardness of drilling technology, the most troublesome problem was the problem of drilling collapse, and a pair of Texas brothers solved this problem. They used clay mud as lubricant for the drill bits, which successfully stopped the collapse.

This technology has led directly to the cheapness of oil, and now special mud is being used to penetrate with drill bits.

Pugachev sat and smoked a cigar, believing Besika's words, and tens of millions of tons of oil were hidden in this valley.