Looking at the endless desert in front of him, Yu Qingyang thought of the sea.
The sea may be endless as far as the eye can see, but it gives people a completely different feeling.
Standing on the beach, you feel relaxed and happy, and the sea breeze can blow away all the troubles in your mind.
Standing on the edge of the desert, looking at the endless desert, it is yellow, quiet, thick, and the endless yellow sand spreads to the end of the sky. There is only one word that gives people the feeling: hot!
There seems to be a fire in my heart, burning from the inside out.
It's so damn hot!
This was Yu Qingyang's first feeling after getting off the car.
It's about 40 degrees in the campground, and it's probably 47-88 degrees here.
The sand under your feet is even hotter, and you can feel the temperature of the sand through the thick soles of your sneakers.
It feels as if you are stepping on freshly rolled asphalt concrete pavement.
The paving temperature of asphalt concrete is about 150 degrees, and the asphalt concrete that has just been rolled is also 70 or 80 degrees.
In order to verify his feeling, Yu Qingyang bent down and touched the sand lightly with his hand, and then retracted his hand instantly. The temperature was higher than the asphalt concrete that had just been rolled!
Hot!
It's eighty or ninety degrees. At this temperature, you can scald an egg if you bury it in it.
"ah……"
Xia Xue put her hand to her mouth, making a trumpet shape, and shouted loudly into the distance.
"ah……"
Xia Xue didn't seem to feel the heat or fatigue, and she kept shouting over and over again.
Yu Qingyang wore sunglasses and looked at Xia Xue with a smile.
Although Xia Xue is several years older than Yu Qingyang, in Yu Qingyang's eyes, Xia Xue is like a little girl who has not grown up.
Sometimes he is well-behaved and sensible, sometimes he is clever and weird, and sometimes he is overbearing.
Although Yu Qingyang saw the desert for the first time, he was not as surprised and novel as Xia Xue.
After all, the mental age is already over forty years old.
It's really not like Xia Xue, shouting with excitement.
“Yangzi, it’s so spectacular! It’s my first time to see a desert!
Come on, take some photos for me!
Show it to my mother when we get back!" Xia Xue had vented enough and turned to Yu Qingyang and shouted.
"Okay!" Yu Qingyang turned around and got into the car and took out his camera.
Sun Jian and others had already consciously stayed away.
If it weren't for Yu Qingyang and the others basking in the sun, they wouldn't have looked good on the bus.
Several of them had already hid in the car.
As straight men, they really don't understand what's so interesting about this desert except yellow.
Even wearing sunglasses makes my eyes dazzle.
Xia Xue put on various poses for Yu Qingyang to take pictures.
After taking seventy or eighty photos, Xia Xue was satisfied and stopped posing.
His face was red from the sun and his forehead was sweating, but he still looked through the photos taken by Yu Qingyang with great interest.
"Yangzi, I didn't expect your photography skills to be so good!" Xia Xue was very satisfied with the photos taken by Yu Qingyang.
In the photo, Xia Xue's figure is more prominent and her legs are slender.
Yu Qingyang smiled, this was a little trick that almost everyone knew in later generations.
If the person taking the photo squats down and the camera is lowered, the person in the photo will appear taller.
As for photography technology, in his previous life, Yu Qingyang spent nearly 20 years photographing hidden processes and construction video materials on construction sites.
Even if you haven't studied it specifically, you can still figure out some tricks after twenty years of photography.
"What a pity, it would be great if there were camels! It would be very interesting for us to ride camels and play in the desert!" Xia Xue said with some unfinished thoughts after seeing the photos.
“It’s not easy to ride a camel. I’ll ask someone to buy some camels later!
Let you ride as much as you want!”
"real?"
"How can I lie to you? When I get back, I will ask Chen Xiang to buy some camels from the nearby tribe!
When we go back in the evening, let's eat camel meat first, and then we'll buy the camel back in a few days, and then let you ride as much as you want!" Yu Qingyang said with a smile.
"Eating camels? Isn't it too cruel?"
"Why can't you eat it?
What is the difference between camel meat and beef and mutton?
Here in Ajigeria, camel meat is much cheaper than beef and mutton!
Moreover, hump is a famous dish in the Manchu-Han banquet. There are many hump in the supplies delivered today. Let Lao Wang practice his skills later!"
"I heard it said in cross talk, but I have never eaten it!" Xia Xue is not the kind of person who is pretentious. She no longer worries about why she wants to eat camel, but is actually a little eager to try it.
"Shall we go back? It's too hot here!
Now hurry back and arrive at the camp just in time for dinner!" Yu Qingyang smiled and greeted Xia Xue to get in the car.
There is no road from the camp to the desert, but there is Gobi as far as the eye can see, and the ground is relatively flat.
With the Hummer's off-road capabilities, it's the same on any road.
Just a little slower.
It was already past one o'clock in the afternoon when I arrived, and I was delayed here for an hour. I went back just in time to have dinner.
"Mr. Yu, take a look, is this wood turned into jade?" When Yu Qingyang was about to get in the car, Sun Jian and others came over carrying a piece of wood that looked like rotten wood.
When Yu Qingyang was appraising wood jade the day before yesterday, Sun Jian and others were also there.
Of course I know about wood turning into jade.
Yu Qingyang stepped forward and knocked, making a crisp sound.
It is definitely petrified wood. As for the degree of jade, you have to peel off the bark on the surface to see it.
"Found it there?"
"Over there! We just found it when we were exploring the environment!
Go past a sand dune, and there are many such petrified jades under the sand dune!"
"Let's go over and have a look!" Yu Qingyang didn't mention the return trip.
"Yangzi, what is wood jade? Is it just this rotten wood? Why is it called wood jade?" Xia Xue pulled Yu Qingyang and asked curiously.
Rotten wood, what Xia Xue said was absolutely correct. This looked like a piece of rotten wood, or a rotten wood that was nearly half rotten. It was extremely ugly.
"Wood jade means wood has been buried underground for hundreds of millions of years and turned into fossils!
The reason why it is called wood jade is because some fossilized wood, after being carved and polished, is as delicate as jade and retains the natural texture of the wood!
So we call this kind of petrified wood jade!" Yu Qingyang explained to Xia Xue while following Sun Jian and the others towards the sand dunes.
Climbing up the sand dune, at a glance, there are more than a dozen petrified jade sticks of different shapes and sizes lying under the sand dune.
Standing on the sand dune, looking from a distance, there are many petrified wood jade spots, half buried in the sand.
"Put it here first! When you come back to transport the sand, you can just take it back with you!"
"Mr. Yu, if you put it here, it might be buried in the sand tomorrow!
What if someone takes it away..."
"Haha, it's okay!
Except for us Chinese, no one treats it as a treasure!" Yu Qingyang laughed and patted Sun Jian on the shoulder.
The climate of the desert is constantly changing. Now the desert is as quiet as an untouched girl. Maybe it won't be long before it becomes violent like a tyrant.
After a sandstorm, these petrified wood jade will be buried by the sand, but at the same time, other petrified wood jade will be exposed.
Therefore, Yu Qingyang is not worried at all. These wood jade have been buried and cannot be found!
There are as many treasures in the desert as there are in the sea.
Just hunting for treasure in the desert is no easier than hunting for treasure in the sea.
Back to the car, just like when we came here, Yu Qingyang and Xia Xue were in one car, and Sun Jian and the other five were in one car.
Driving in the Gobi Desert is definitely a novel experience.
The vast Gobi Desert and the bumps of the car give people the pleasure of running at full speed.
Yu Qingyang enjoyed this feeling very much.
The return trip is much faster than the trip here.
When I came here, I mainly had to find the way, so I was a little slow.
It took nearly four hours to get here and less than two hours to get back.
Yu Qingyang was also worried.
A problem occurred in the most unlikely place on the construction site!
No one thought of it.
After receiving Zhao Xinlei's report, Yu Qingyang used the car intercom to notify Sun Jian to speed up.
Speeding all the way, the average speed was over 100.
Fortunately, Hummer is prepared for such road conditions.
If you switch to a domestic car, the car will fall apart.
Just like that, Xia Xue vomited as soon as she arrived at the campground and got off the car.
Yu Qingyang was also made uncomfortable by the shaking. He suppressed the urge to vomit and went to the production base where the well was being dug.
The well drilling company said yesterday that water would be produced today, but what came out was not water.
It's jet black oil.
"Is this the water vein you are talking about?" Yu Qingyang stared at the on-site person in charge sent by the well drilling company and asked in English.
"Sir, this is an accident!" The on-site person in charge of the well drilling company was also sweating on his forehead.
Drilling a deep water well resulted in oil being drilled. This was a huge mistake.
If this land was invested by Hua Yu or Yu Qingyang, it would be a good thing to produce oil!
But the problem is, this is just their temporary base.
The land ownership belongs to the Municipality of Butita, or the State of Ajigeria.
Producing oil has nothing to do with him.
Instead, he has to move and choose a new base.
The oil has a high specific gravity, and under the influence of atmospheric pressure, jet-black oil bubbles out.
Next to the drilling rig, the pit originally used to store mud has been filled with oil.
"Have you called the Butan City Government?" Yu Qingyang ignored the on-site person in charge of the well drilling company and turned to ask Zhao Xinlei.
"We have already fought, and they are coming here!"
"Mr. Lu, it looks like we are ready to move!" Yu Qingyang said to the director, Mr. Lu, with a smile.
"This is something no one would have thought of!" Mr. Lu smiled helplessly.
"Look, should this matter be reported to the country?"
"It has been reported. The domestic opinion is that our construction should stop and wait and see what happens.
We will wait until the Ministry of Foreign Affairs communicates with Ajigeria.
However, the move is finalized!”
"Mr. Lu, please stop work and be on standby. It's okay for a short time, but we won't be able to bear it for a long time!
It costs two to three hundred thousand for a person to eat horse chews this day!"
"Don't worry, Mr. Yu! This is a construction aid project, and the country will not let you suffer!
If it really takes a long time, there will definitely be an explanation!
In fact, not only you, but also our supervision company are the same!
If there is no explanation, we can't bear it!" Mr. Lu comforted Yu Qingyang and said with a self-consoling smile.
It didn't take long for officials from the Butan city government to arrive.
Also present were officials from Butita Mineral Resources Department.
Oil is the economic lifeline of Ajigeria.
The entire country depends on oil, so when they heard that oil was produced, the Butan government took it very seriously.
Yu Qingyang stepped forward to shake hands with Jasler and say hello. He was the city government official who took the lead last time.
After a few words of greeting, Jasler introduced a middle-aged man next to him to Yu Qingyang, "Mr. Yu, this is the deputy mayor of our Butan City, Mr. Mufta!
This is Mr. Romans from the Mineral Resources Department!”
The deputy mayor of Mufta, as well as Romans, are definitely important figures in Butita.
From this point, we can also see the importance Butantan attaches to oil.
“Hello Mr. Mufta!
Hello Mr. Romans!" Yu Qingyang stepped forward and said hello in English.
"Hello, Mr. Yu! Thank you, Mr. Yu, and China for helping us!" Muftah was very polite to Yu Qingyang, holding Yu Qingyang's hand tightly and said.
After some pleasantries, Yu Qingyang took them to the drilling site to take a look at the situation.
Then return to the office.
Qiao Lili came in and made coffee for Mufta and others.
“Mr. Yu, I really didn’t expect that you would actually drill out oil!
What a coincidence!
We were caught off guard!" Muftah said slowly.
"Mr. Muftah, I see you are not surprised at all about oil being pumped out..."
"There is oil underground here, we know it!
In fact, you built this town to prepare for the development of this oil field!
It's just that this time we don't plan to contract to the Americans or the British!
We have reached an agreement with your country!
You will provide us with technical support..." Muftah briefly mentioned the agreement reached with the country.
Yu Qingyang did not pursue the question further.
This is not an issue you should be concerned about.
This confirmed Yu Qingyang's previous guess.
He guessed at that time that Butitatan would never spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build houses for thousands of Berbers.
"Mr. Muftah, I want to know, what should we do next?
Our temporary camp and production base need to be relocated?
Also, should the project continue?”
“Zero-hour camps and production bases are easy to solve!
Mr. Yu can choose the place by himself!
As long as it doesn’t damage the surrounding environment!
As for the construction of small towns, we must continue!
And I hope Mr. Yu can speed up the construction progress!
The fact that there is oil here has probably reached the ears of several major British and American companies!
Our actions here must also be accelerated!”
"Okay! We will report it to the country!" Yu Qingyang did not finish his words.
They only talked about the report, not about accelerating the construction period.
Do you know what the country thinks?
What is the political intention?
The safest way is to follow domestic instructions.
"Okay, Mr. Yu, we will also communicate with your country!
I hope that an agreement can be reached as soon as possible, and the small towns outside will be built one day earlier!" Muftah did not urge Yu Qingyang anymore.
Ajigeria has dealt with China too much, and he can figure out some of China's routines.
I know to urge Yu Qingyang, otherwise I can go directly to the Embassy in Aji for coordination.