Of course, yurts are generally known since the beginning of the Bronze Age, that is, about 3 thousand years ago. Convenient, lightweight, mobile, quickly assembled, quickly disassembled. It is warm in winter and cool in summer.
You can use different materials to collect such a house. Felt does not let not rain, not wind, not cold. Conveniently located chimney, which serves as a window and ventilation, modern coating made of composite materials makes the tent also bulletproof, which is important in the steppe!
What is interesting, the most honorable place in the yurt is located directly opposite the door. Somehow I remember, our car in the desert broke down, we twisted it with a pen for three hours, but we couldn't start it. The spark slipped, the sound was heard in the engine "dr-dr-dr" and everything, did not start.
They lifted the lid of the engine, twisted it in the carburetor, and a flame of two meters flashed out of it ... the car was old 1974. Soviet jeep ... UAZ-469. The five-seater and still behind were two folding seats in the luggage compartment. Removable canvas top, four doors and a fifth trunk from the back. 4 speed gearbox, can carry 7 people and 100 kg of cargo or 2 people and 600 kg of cargo. It has lowered side gears ... in short, not killed iron horse. However ... in our desert she got up ... the business was very simple.
The young driver, he was not taken on an expedition, was not enough experience, but was taken by an old man, but the young driver was offended and at night blocked the brake discs on the rear wheels. The old driver was surprised that the speed was low only 65 km per hour from the possible 120 km per hour.
Although usually these cars drive at speeds from 70 to 90 km per hour. In the desert, the speed dropped to 35 km per hour ... until the car stopped in the middle of the desert ... 100 km to the nearest settlement ... and hello ... to the 1.5 km topographic water source, salty and bitter. But this is on the map and on the ground, we hardly found a well at 7 km ...
What to do?
Cell phones did not have a connection and we could not take the radio ... it cost very heavy 450,000 dollars.
Ass what to say!
Slowly it began to get dark, in the desert from afar I could hear the howling of wolves ...
Oh ... I thought, got into trouble!
Where is Dara, a yurt?
I'll tell you now, Bro.
After half an hour, some guy rode a horse, saying what are you doing here?
Well, we say the car won't start!
He silently looked at us and rode away ...
We were surprised.
An hour later, two trucks arrived, one GAZ-55 and the second KrAZ-255B marsh with 240 horsepower ... a super heavy truck.
It turned out to be a farmer with a livestock farm, before it was a collective farm named after Stalin!
It turned out that they had a summer base from the place of our stop, there they were pasturing camels, preparing milk and cheese to cook. We talked, it turned out that these were nomads from the great Nayman family. I just have a great-grandfather "Mirza-bobo" was a kind of Naiman. Countrymen! Relatives! Immediately asked where were the nomadic family? River Nur, the city of Keder!
Its, then, said the chairman of the collective farm!
What is your kind of tamga?
Inverted bull head!
Good!
What is the battle cry?
"Great Black Mountain"!
Altai mean ?!
Yes, you are our relative!
What problems?
Yes, the car won't start ... it's dark ... the wolves ... there is no water ... but we still need to collect soil samples ...
So therefore you are scientists?
Geologists? Are you looking for gold?
Not! Environmentalists we!
We are engaged in monitoring of heavy metals and radionuclides!
How so?
Well, we conditionally divided the desert and steppe into squares of 1 km, the total area of 100,000 square kilometers. Every year we travel to the field and at the previously marked sites, points with reference coordinates in longitude and latitude, we take samples of the soil, from 5 cm depth, 10 cm, 45 cm and 95 cm.
Then we take samples of different types of plants, bushes, tree bark , soil from reservoirs, bones in fish, fish meat, water from sources. Then measure the data. Determine the content in samples of heavy metals and radionuclides in the maximum allowable concentrations and maximum allowable doses.
So in the past 10 years, we collect statistics.
Why do you need it?
Well, we will then make a map of pollution of agricultural and pasture land!
Then what?
Well then, according to the quality of the land, we will determine their cost, where you can grow organic vegetables, medicinal plants, fruits, berries, where the milk will be clean and where not very.
And then?
After we will evaluate the land, those that are not polluted are more expensive, those that are polluted are cheaper, and after the map there will be a map of environmental and insurance risks for agriculture.
Wow!
Yes! Interesting and difficult work!
Good that I met you relative! We have been living in the desert for many years now and no one told us that such work is underway!
Relative!
Yes!
Do not forget to send us your card!
Not a problem, I will send you an invitation to the presentation of the card, just give your legal address, we will send you a card as part of the state scientific and technical program. And you write to us about the introduction?
Have agreed!
Oh, good that your car broke down! Relatives and you and we found!
Well, come on, we will take your UAZ to the base, where our mechanic will see what he can do, and while you and your comrades are out, we'll go on a visit. The morning is wiser than the evening.
New relatives jumped out of the truck, hastily greeting the scientists, taking the iron beam attached it to the mount on KrAZ-255B and the second end to our UAZ.
Quickly and quickly they did it!
The head of the family, Bozorboy, ordered everyone to drive the cars, our driver got behind the wheel of the UAZ and we settled in the back of the GAZ-55 and drove towards the base.
In the desert it was quickly getting dark ... the summer heat in an instant gave way to the cold of a bone that was penetrating. And we just closed the windows in the GAZ-55.
Bozorboy told us that our family used to roam around Turfan and Gaochana. But after the "Iron Curtain" was established in 1937. Rod was divided into two, one remained there, the other here in the CAO. But now, again, the borders are open, we go to visit each other. We see our patriarchs, our relatives bring us to us, our concerts, and we bring clothes and shoes. Although now there is no difference, we even have the prices for their goods lower than theirs.
We now have about three hundred camels and about a dozen horses at our base. We as a farm produce cheese from camel milk and milk itself. We send for export to Europe, we get foreign currency. We live well! Our average salary per month is about $ 2,600, in the village almost everyone has his own Toyota jeep, life is arranged.
Interestingly, you live in Small An Small and why do you work for us at CAO?
We have a joint project with your geologists and environmentalists, an interstate project for drawing up such a map for all our countries.
So Bazarboy, you will get this card before other farms!
Lucky!
But we arrived however!
Wash your hands! As we have taken three times!
And then go to the yurt! We will eat first, and then in the evening our mechanic will look at your car!
Well, but it really hasn't eaten for 8 hours already, somehow everything in business has been buried!
We were amazed ... in the yurt we were placed in a place of honor opposite the door, near a hill with blankets and a chest with dishes. But we were not surprised that we were placed in a place of honor. In the steppe, guests are very important, it is an old custom. Not! We were surprised by the abundance of meat, boiled, fried, baked, steamed, mountains of meat! A lot of milk, koumiss. Sumptuous dinner!
But even such an abundance of meat, we are not as struck as what we were treated to. It was the head of the ram, our translator got the language, Bazarbay said, so that he could communicate well with people, our expedition leader got the ram's brain so that he thought better, our driver who wore glasses, got the ram's eye so that he could see better, I have the ear of a ram so that I can better listen and not interrupt my elders. Bazarbay noted that the Chinese have a good proverb: "a person has two ears and one mouth, that's all for nothing"! I immediately noticed that Americans say "49 percent speak and 51 percent listen"!
Here it is true! (Oh ... it was dangerous, flashed through the author's head, they would be banned again!).
In the morning our UAZ was as good as new, we quite managed to fulfill the mission of the expedition, by the way the map was released, as was the book for it. Everyone was happy, and now Bazarbai often visits us home, brings koumiss, and we treat him with vegetables and fruits. When arriving in the capital does not stay at the hotel and with us.
Relatives like nothing!
By the way, Bazarbay told me that once in the steppe he cut himself with a sickle, he was a little rusty. Treated foot alcohol and iodine and he began the process of blood poisoning, gangrene began. Who will fly to the steppe, while you call an ambulance you can already die.
Then his grandfather and rescued, he was a veteran of the second world war, came to Berlin! But most importantly, he knew how to heal wounds and gangrene; one Siberian taught him during the war.
My grandfather immediately made his grandson a bath of tar. They soaked the leg for 5 hours and so they continued for 5 days. When they arrived from the ambulance, they were stunned by the fact that the patient who had to die for a long time from gangrene, was still alive and the main thing was feeling great!
Hey guys, stop talking! The water has gone! Sweet as honey, already teeth crackle! We found water! She lay on the water horizon at around 15 meters!
Come see!
Now, we will need to install a water tower, install a concrete box, lay pipes, put a pump and equip an operator's control room, enclose an artesian well with a fence, put up a sign. There is still a lot of work!
WOW!!! Cool! Come on guys, try a new water !!!
It's for me!
Here we are finally able to try this water !!!
Take out the mugs!
Iron mugs! The most it!
Yeah, well! In the cold season, they can easily stick in the teeth and the sky!
What's wrong? Already?
What is your mug?
I have a porcelain bowl, the thing is to drink such water. Only porcelain does not change the taste of water! I thought you knew such subtleties ?!
You do not know anything!
Here before, for example, there were very elegant Persian bowls, with a thin pattern, carved, green. During tea drinking in the teahouse, the drinking bowl was passed from guest to guest so that he could taste the delicate taste of green tea from China.
To everyone who got it, such a drinking bowl, after he tried tea, he had to tell his story about the trade, craft, travel or adventures that happened to him on the Silk Road! On cold winter nights, in a caravanserai, everyone gathered around sources of heat, sandalwood — something like the Japanese "katatsu", drank tea, and told interesting stories until the morning. Sometimes some of them were recorded, and then the light presented fascinating tales like "1001" nights!
Therefore, it is china that is best suited to appreciate the entire rich palette of artesian water.
Enough talking! It's time to drink!
Yeah, it's like in advertising, the image is nothing!
Anyway, it's time to try, how much time and effort is invested!
Dara, put a bowl under the stream of water, cold drops fell on his hands, from the temperature, sneaking down to the very bones!
Having filled the bowl, Dara first smelled the water, she gave it frost, how does winter smell, how does snow smell, ice? So it smelled of water! Smell of freshness and energy! Having taken the first small sip of water, Dara was amazed by the rich energy in it! She seemed to turn his head, give strength, very refreshing!
Ah, Dara turned to look at the reaction of Fang and the workers. Those too enjoyed the water!
Fang, in one gulp, he sipped a mug of water and put it under the stream again!
"Tasty !!! So delicious !!! With me all the fatigue disappeared like a hand "!!!
This water is a sin, use for irrigation! It is necessary to roll up in bottles and sell for big money !!! 1 liter for 5 dollars is easy!
Uh, it won't work, getting permission for bottling water is very difficult and you need at least a couple of hundred thousand dollars of money. Obtain so many permissions that it is easier to refuse.
Come on, I'll take over!
It is not worth it! And why draw excessive attention to yourself! If someone likes this cool water, they will definitely take it away and they will not give you compensation! It is not worth it! Isn't it better to drink this water quietly and enjoy life ?! You do not find in this great common sense to be modest?
Not! I am a businessman!
Well, if you are a businessman, first of all you should study the local conditions of doing business!
If you don't know, you shouldn't climb a ford into the water!
I can agree!
It only seems to you!
...
"Dara, he explained to Brough Fang for a long time and in detail that it's better not to raise this venture at all!"
After that, sad, Fang, looked sluggishly at Dara ... and he waved his hand wearily, the shine in his eyes went out, and he said:
"Well, and then how to do business?"
Simply! Everything is very simple! Do not shine like a light bulb in the dark and you will not be flocked to the whole clan world - butterflies and mosquitoes! What the hell do you want?
I see…
Okay, let's just drink the water ourselves.
How are you going to deliver this water to the farm?
Well, we can refuel here, ask Dilshod to take water from here and spray it over the farm, all the same he has magic power, so he does not spend gasoline, his mechanisms do not wear out ...
But how will it look from the side?
They can raise the magic barrier and no one sees anything!
Eeee!
Isn't it easier to hold pipes out of tarpaulin!
3 km!
Nothing, it is quite feasible!
The price of the issue is only some 800 dollars!
It makes no sense to put plastic, as the water quality will be lower ...
You can buy those plastic pipes for cold water from a Turkish company with filters, they are durable, 50 years warranty! The issue price is $ 1600, taking into account the delivery and commissioning work, the price will be $ 2,000. May they have to mount everything tomorrow evening!
Something very fast! On the site they have written that they deliver for 2 months and the price will be about $ 7800!
Where did you get Dara such bright moods?
Come on, better I will put our Chinese pipes ...
No, thanks. Yesterday I bought a cloth for washing dishes from China, it looked very good, but the smell !!! From them and so did some chemical smell! Frankly, it's scary to use it for food. And before you washed the dishes? South Korean, she and the texture of the fabric was pleasant and there was no smell!
Why do you do the dishes with your hands and not in a special car?
Well, we have electronics prices ceiling! Plus, the water does not comply with GOST. Dirty often goes; the filters are all clogged with sand and stones; if I had a lot of money, I would put the dishwasher and spare parts are needed if you order something from Turkey, bring them within 2 months, the cost of delivery, the cost of the part, the cost of installation, plus the work of the master and the payment of his journey.
The price of one spare part, which costs conditionally in Turkey 15 dollars, we will have about 76! Well, to hell with me such a machine! I'll wash it myself! But the price for water! While it is not yet the ceiling! But soon we will have to wash in the basin ...
...
So my answer is obvious, I will buy Turkish plastic pipes for cold water. The price is lower and the delivery is faster, because in the East, what is written formally and what works in fact is different. In the East, the most important thing is communication, contacts, direct benefit. As I know, this Turk, personally, Exender Efendi, so one phone call is enough and he, even today, will be able to resolve this issue.
Who is this Eskander Efendi?
You will, Brough laugh, he was a butcher in a Turkish supermarket, until he was closed, or rather did not squeeze. All his colleagues went back to his home in Turkey, and he stayed and opened next to the house of Aunt Firouzeh, a cafe of Oriental Sweets. I brought two mini-plants from Turkey and produced marzipans on our raw materials, pistachio, almond and walnut nuts, made Turkish and Indian sweets. He produced Turkish Delight, several kinds of halvah, baked cakes and pies, cooked cakes on gluten-free flour. He made his very tasty chocolates. Cooked also Turkish food.
I had a regular customer with him, he even gave me a 45 percent platinum discount card! Quiet - quiet, developed, then began to sell for export their products, by the way, to China. Began to receive foreign currency, developed. Then, when changing formats, a new wave in connection with the reforms, he received a new breath, opened just a couple of factories and companies for the production of plastic pipes for public utilities and water management.
So he knows me and I, his cafe, by the way, he gave us the opportunity to open his shop, it was his cafe. Now at his head office, the company located in his personal 37-storey building, there is a cafe on the second floor, and guess who works there every Friday and Saturday? And who still has his platinum discount card?
So I will call him today, I think he will help!
Well as you know!
We would put you other pipes, not categories "b-", but premium class!
As one wise person said to me, "the easier you do, the less effort you spend, the cheaper it will cost the more efficiently you work"! "The enemy of the good, the best!" He's right!
If you can reduce the financial and time costs, why not do it?
Here, you are right, Bro! Well, well, let's do as you suggested!
Ah, then!
We also have a lot to do today! Then something Yoshida-san is late, then we have to go to the city to find out how sales go there in the online store. Do not forget that closer to dinner, we all need to eat, look out for Mas, he cannot leave the morning yet! And time is ticking fast, only recently it was 11 am, and already now it is 2 pm.
How much time will your work finish? I think five will manage! We are now using new technologies and solutions, on nano technology, as everything is being done faster than 10 years ago in construction!
It's good!
There is a lot to do!
But here, something from this wonderful water, I froze!
Maybe we can get some water and make some good tea from "Deer Grass"; we still have it from that time on the farm!
What do you want to try that tea?
Why not?
We still have to find an older sister with you ... I wonder what effects we will get from her?
Uh ... No, no, we don't need that!
Why?
Last time I was so scared that I barely stretched my legs!
Why do you need magic?
Can't you learn the language yourself? Can't see well? Can't you bargain? So learn yourself, diligently, hard work will win talent!
Uh, bro, throw the Confucian teachings, I went through this, I can bring you a virtual conversation between Confucius and Lao Tzu!
Yes, I know that you are a lover of philosophical conversations, but they go sideways. Here, without a language of codes that those in the subject understand, cannot do in any way, you will directly sculpt the womb, banned quite easily! This you probably recently made sure!
You're right here, Bro! Let's leave this philosophy without it well!
For sure!
Well, what can I say, of course the buzz is to drink some tasty water, but she would have gone better in the summer in the heat at plus 50 in the shade, and not with a piercing wind of 10 meters per second blowing from the hill, and even at air temperature 14 degrees Celsius!
Come on, have some tea! I just grabbed Yantak sugar, try its taste with water from an artesian well, if you Fang do not want to drink tea from Deer Grass, no one forces you ?! I'll give you your favorite and sweet boiling water!
Well, I would say that before! I don't understand something, your hobby for this Herb Reindeer, I prefer to taste either boiling water or oolong milk, well, jasmine tea is very good.
Only from his frequent use of your joints will begin to hurt, iron is washed out of the body, and even who knows what elements are contained in your tea, do they say it is grown on human "night gold"?
These are all idle rumors spread by competitors!
That's why I drink wild-growing Deer tea, everything is natural there, even the animal is "night gold"! By the way will say!
Your business!
How do you boil tea?
But on the yurt there are solar panels, quite enough to boil tea, for two lamps and to watch TV news and weather or a couple of films. What else do you need?
Well, if there is a lot of work, then besides electricity, tea and you will not need much sleep from electricity. Especially if you are just going to use the yurt. I understand you so bro?
Exactly!
By the way, you saw dandelions already bloomed, the whole field is covered with them, like a yellow carpet! And there on the hill, Baraz said that nettle is growing!
So what?
We can quickly, while the guys are working, make soup, it is delicious, and healing, and there are a lot of vitamins in it, that after the winter will be in the subject! But is there no meat? Well, why do you need meat? After hard work and to keep warm the meat would be a topic!
Well, I only have a can of beef stew "Great Wall", Chinese, canceled! 1 kg by the way!
Well, let's add it to the soup, but then the brew will lose its special healing properties. After all, there are preservatives in the stew!
I wonder why you have a braised organic meat lover, this is a bonus that yurt collectors left, marketing reaches the village!
Interesting!
Not that word!
While you Bro put the kettle and I will collect some fresh dandelions and nettles. By the way, Russians go to the nettle bath, to the steam room, this is a very useful thing. Nettle removes toxins from the body! This is the word I said! We have a public bath in the professorial campus! I remember going to it in the first year, then the price of one ticket was only 16 cents!
No, I do not want a bath! But on the hot springs!
To Japan? In onseny! I would go to Kyoto! They say noble onsen there!
Yes, it would be nice, when we earn money, maybe we will go!
But for some reason this direction is not in demand among our tourists! Choose to relax on the sea in Antalya or go to Thailand!
It's all about the price! A ticket from your capital to Osaka-Kansai is $ 1500 back and forth, and you can get to Antalya for $ 500 and to Thailand for $ 800. And in Japan, prices are high, but the service is also at a high level! The price of hotels in Antalya is $ 500 for 10 days and in Osaka only one day at least from $ 80 to $ 150! The answer is obvious! You even rich people are not willing to spend so much money! They do not understand all the charm of rest in Japan, they need to be able to understand and admire the beauty, cherry blossoms, momiji leaves fall, admire the moon ... oh, well there, I was once in Nara once and in Sapporo. I wanted to go on the island of Sikoku and Okinov ... but so far I have put it off for another time.
Since I, unlike you, Dara, was several times in Seoul, Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, it is easier and cheaper to fly from us!
Lucky!
Okay, I'm going to collect wild plants!
Do not you forget to put tea, Bro?
Well, as you say, Gap-Nest, Birodari Bizrukam!
Fine!
Interestingly, all the same, as nature intelligently arranged everything, as winter begins to end, all products begin to lose their beneficial properties, and nature immediately supplies wild plants with a high content of vitamins in them. Which people need so much!
A small stream flowed near the hill, nettle grew there, but it couldn't be taken without gloves, hands would later burn from the released nettle substance. Therefore, I will probably have to take it, sleeves from the jacket!
Dara wrapped her hands in the sleeves of the jacket, began to collect the stems of this stinging plant, not much, so that it remains for the next meal.
Nettle then generally appears at the end of May and June, but for some reason we have it at the end of February, strange ... but maybe this is some kind of special? After all, it was a test site for environmentally friendly plants? But it's worth a try!
As Avicenna also said, nettle can be used for healing purposes, everything from the roots to the uppermost leaves and seeds! Nettle contains organic and mineral substances, including titanium, potassium, magnesium, barium, calcium, silicon and sulfur. It contains a large amount of vegetable proteins. Nettle has vitamin, choleretic, hemostatic, tonic, anti-inflammatory, wound-healing properties. Nettle well tones the human body, nourishes it, enhances metabolism, fight effectively with anemia.
Especially nettle well helps the peasants to restore hair if they start to go bald! But of course there are some contraindications - who have increased blood clotting, it is contraindicated for its use, for diseases requiring surgery. So always with all herbal preparations, there are healing properties and contraindications. Who has kidney problems, nettle is not worth it.
From nettle you can make a wonderful salad - together with leaves of fresh raspberries, stalks, dandelions, arrows of garlic, you can also cut a little onion. Greens, wash, dry. Slice, sprinkle with lime, if it is not, then ordinary vegetable oil is quite suitable. You can eat in the bite with meat. That is, and the stew suit?
Probably not yet ?!
But we have neither vegetable oil, nor garlic, nor onions, and especially lime. Or maybe take this salad, what did Grandma Mahtab do? Dandelion young leaves soak in water to leave bitterness, along with nettle leaves. Gram 200 dandelion and 100 gram nettle. Two walnuts! Crush them and mix in the salad! That's all!
A dandelion can still be prepared and jam - for 200 pieces of flowers, 250 ml of water, 1 cup of sugar, boil a light syrup for half an hour, add lemon juice and boil another 8-9 minutes. Remove the brew from the heat and let it stand for a day, pass through a sieve, boil for another 30 minutes, pour into jars. Jam should be eaten in 1 week.
You can still dry the flowers of a dandelion and then use when decorating baking.
Now I'll just collect 100 pieces of dandelion leaves and leaves of five bushes of nettle. Then soak them in water for 30-40 minutes. To leave bitterness and nettle boil over boiling water.
To burn the burning substance.
After cooked with stew soup, add there chopped leaves and stems of plants. You can still throw a couple of walnut kernels into this brew. Here is a warming dinner for the workers. A lot of people, but at least on a cup of hot, it will be useful!
So do it!
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Now Fang and Dara are making soup! This is not entirely organic food, but it will be good for the hungry workers, to stop the worm, so that after three hours I eat plenty of meat!
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The workers were leaving the yurt ... their eyes glittered bizarrely. Nettle soup reminded them of an ax soup, but it was delicious, especially they liked Deer Herb tea and nuts with dry fruit.
They seemed to have gained new strength. It seemed to them that they could predict what would happen to them tomorrow, all the pain in the feet, radiculitis in the lower back, toothache, everything took off like a hand and even chronic chronic diseases were released for a moment, delivering to their owners their minutes of joy and happiness!
They sort of ate nothing, one medium bowl (300 ml) of stewed meat and greens, a couple of kernels of nuts a few pieces of dried fruit and after drinking 300 ml of tea, they were full and their thirst was gone. It seemed to them that they could even understand what the birds flying on top were saying!
After eating, they sat for half an hour in the yurt, discussing how they would complete the work.
At this time, a mocking voice rang out in Dara's head - well, that master, you found me all the same! Now we will go to the sister! Nothing to spend time here!