After staying on the dam for a few days, except for meeting his acquaintance Luo Jinlan, Zhong Yuemin felt a little happy, and everything else was a mess.

After in-depth contact with the first-hand information of the Sanmenxia Dam, Zhong Yuemin found that the problem was more serious than he imagined.

Since the Sanmenxia Dam began to close the sluice gates to store water and sand in the 60s, the reservoir has accumulated nearly 10 billion tons of sediment in the past 10 years, and the upper reaches of Sanmenxia to Tongguan and Xi'an have accumulated thick sediment, making the riverbed too high by more than 10 meters.

Even the mouths of the Wei River and the Luo River, the two largest tributaries of the Yellow River in the upper reaches of Tongguan, have silted up barrage sand, making the original good river water difficult to vent, and high flood control elevators have been built from both sides of the Wei River and the Luo River, which are free of floods.

It still can't stop the annual flooding of the Wei and Luo rivers, overflowing the embankments, flooding farmland and destroying tens of thousands of homes.

The groundwater in the Guanzhong Plain could not be drained, the fields were submerged, and the peasants saw that the yield of the land was decreasing year after year, but they did not know why. In fact, their land has become salinized because of the storage of water from the reservoirs.

In fact, the main task of the working group stationed by the Qing University in Sanmenxia is to draw up a plan for discharging sediment and to try all kinds of methods to discharge the sediment accumulated in the reservoir area.

The simple point is to open the construction diversion bottom hole under the premise of ensuring safety, and these construction diversion bottom holes, Professor Wan Li insisted on retaining them, but was rejected by the person in charge of the project at that time, and insisted on plugging them with concrete in accordance with the Soviet design plan.

And now it is necessary to re-blow up the bottom hole of the diversion that was blocked back then, one wall and one pass, and it is estimated that each hole will cost 10 million.

Zhong Yuemin was actually a little disappointed that the methods adopted by the working group could not solve the problem fundamentally.

There is no way to drain the sediment accumulated in the reservoirs, there is no way to lower the riverbeds raised by the Wei and Luo rivers, and there is no way to restore the yield of the salinized farmland of farmers.

Even everyone in the working group, from top to bottom, knew this, but no one dared to bring it up.

"Yuemin, have you encountered any difficulties lately? I see that you are a little negative. On this day, Luo Jinlan found Zhong Yuemin and asked privately.

"Sister Jinlan, is what we are doing now really useful?" Zhong Yuemin asked what was in his heart.

Luo Jinlan was a little nervous, "Yuemin, why do you have such an idea? The state has mobilized so many manpower and material resources to do this project, how can it be useless?"

"Sister Jinlan, do you really think so?" Zhong Yuemin's voice was a little low: "What we are doing is called a reconstruction project, but in fact, it is to make up for the previous mistakes, just to make this dam seem to not exist." ”

"Yuemin, don't talk nonsense!" Luo Jinlan stopped in a low voice, looked around again, and whispered: "It's not as simple as you think! Don't mention this matter in front of others! Do you know?"

Zhong Yuemin nodded, he knew very well in his heart the seriousness of this matter, and he also understood that Luo Jinlan's nervousness was by no means a trivial matter.

Seeing Zhong Yuemin nodding in agreement, Luo Jinlan relaxed a little, "Weren't you quite clever before? Why did you commit a shaft this time? This kind of thing is not something we can manage, and we can't control it!"

"Sister Jinlan, I don't know how to drill the tip of the horns. Zhong Yuemin analyzed himself: "Maybe I read the report about the reservoir migration.

More than 400,000! More than 400,000 migrants from the reservoir area, these are not just numbers, but living people who have moved far and wide because of the construction of this dam.

As soon as I thought about it, I felt uncomfortable, and I thought what we were doing was especially ridiculous. ”

Luo Jinlan was silent, she knew that what Zhong Yuemin said was the truth, but the price of telling the truth was too great for anyone to bear, and she didn't want Zhong Yuemin to do such a thing.

"Yuemin, do you want to go back to school for a while?"

Zhong Yuemin got up, "Sister Jinlan, don't worry about me, I won't make trouble for myself." ”

"That's good!" Luo Jinlan smiled, "I'll just say that with your character, you're not the kind of person who can do stupid things." Let's go, go make me something delicious. ”

"There's no guy here, right?" Zhong Yuemin spread his hands and looked left and right.

"Hey, hey, look at me!"

Luo Jinlan took out a coal stove from the back of the duty room like a trick, and took out an iron pot and shovel from the desk.

Zhong Yuemin was dumbfounded, "Why did you prepare so many things?"

"Shhhhh ”

"It's hard for a good woman to cook without rice? We don't have anything here, what are we doing?" Zhong Yuemin looked everywhere, but saw nothing.

"You turn the stove through and make the fire a little hotter. Luo Jinlan smiled mysteriously, took out three eggs from the drawer, and pinched a few garlic from the windowsill.

Zhong Yuemin was surprised: "On such a cold day, how do you feed your garlic?"

"Garlic is easy to feed, put it under the sun at noon, put it in the house at night, water it frequently, and it will grow in a week. Luo Jinlan washed the garlic with her hands and feet and pinched it into sections.

Then, pour oil into the pot, take a bowl out, quickly break the eggs, stir them with chopsticks, and the whole process goes smoothly.

"Sister Jinlan, didn't you let me do it, why did you do it yourself?" Zhong Yuemin asked when he saw Luo Jinlan doing it himself.

Luo Jinlan moved the shovel and said with a smile: "Today, I will let you see my sister's craftsmanship, you just wait to eat." ”

"Then I'll be waiting to taste your dishes today. Zhong Yuemin copied his hand.

"Don't worry, it will definitely satisfy you! After you left northern Shaanxi, I really couldn't get used to eating the food in the cafeteria, so I could only do it myself, and my skills must be good!" Luo Jinlan said, "Don't look at the garlic scrambled eggs are inconspicuous, if you want to scramble the eggs just right, the garlic flavor melts in, it's not easy!"

"It can be seen that your posture of holding a shovel at the end of the pot is decent, and it has improved a lot compared to before. Zhong Yuemin praised.

Luo Jinlan said arrogantly: "That's for sure, I learned it the way you cooked, and I practiced it for a long time!"

Zhong Yuemin took the enamel basin and handed it over, "Is there a staple food? ”

Luo Jinlan put the eggs up, and her mouth snuggled behind the door, "There are price steamed buns in the bag hanging over there, you can take them and bake them." ”

"Baked steamed buns are good!" Zhong Yuemin ran to get them, "I like to eat this the most." ”

"I know you like to eat, so I asked the master in the cafeteria for it. Luo Jinlan said with a smile.

"Don't you know, since I went to northern Shaanxi, I have been tired of eating corn paste and miscellaneous grains, and I have been thinking about eating white flour steamed buns and rice all day long. Zhong Yuemin stuck chopsticks in the steamed buns on the fire, "After returning to Beijing, I found a restaurant, so I ordered white rice and steamed buns, and pulled them into my mouth vigorously, and the people next to me thought I was hungry and crazy, so I ate two big bowls of white rice and three steamed buns." ”

"Hahaha, I can guess the expressions of the people next to me at that time, they must have looked stupid!" Luo Jinlan laughed.

"Also! After eating all of this, I remembered that this is the capital, not Yanchuan, and there must be meat in the pipe!" Zhong Yuemin continued, "I immediately asked the waiter to serve a braised pork, two large bowls of rice." And guess what?"

"Didn't bring any money?" Luo Jinlan guessed with interest.

"I was a special restaurant that day, and the money must have been enough!" Seeing that Luo Jinlan couldn't guess the answer, Zhong Yuemin revealed the secret, "After I ordered meat and rice, the waiter looked at my stomach vigorously, and didn't dare to place an order for me, for fear ······that I would kill myself!"

Luo Jinlan was stunned at first, and then couldn't stop laughing, and even laughed out of tears. After a while, I still screamed that my stomach hurt.

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After eating a meal of eggs and scrambled garlic with Luo Jinlan that day, Zhong Yuemin's mental state has improved a lot, and he also persuaded himself that the crux of the Sanmenxia dam can be solved in the future, and he only needs to work hard to do his job, and he does not need to go against the general trend of history.

When the country's national strength is strong, the Sanmenxia migrants will definitely be able to get a good settlement, and there will definitely be a better solution to the sediment accumulated in the upper reaches of the Yellow River.

Zhong Yuemin has always comforted himself in this way and put himself into the busy renovation project.

All day long, I either followed the engineers of the team to draw project drawings, went to the dam to do on-site investigations, and even squatted on the construction site all day to supervise the construction.

On this day, Zhong Yuemin worked twenty-four hours, even if he was young, he was a little mixed and heavy when he came out of work.

I wanted to go back to the dormitory to sleep, but I didn't expect that the cold wind blowing outside was smart, and my lower abdomen was swollen and painful, so I remembered that I had been holding my urine for several hours, and I couldn't help it.

Although Zhong Yuemin's mind was a little confused, he could still recognize the direction, he knew that there was a small toilet in the corner of the side of the dam, and by the dim light, Zhong Yuemin trotted for a while.

At this time, it was early in the morning, the sky was not yet dawn, the dam was quite high, the cold wind was cold, and there was no one else on the dam except Zhong Yuemin.

Unexpectedly, when I rushed to the toilet, there was an old man sweeping the floor and cleaning inside.

"Uncle, it's morning!" Zhong Yuemin didn't see the old man's face clearly, so he couldn't wait to untie his belt, take out the little monk, and rush to the urinal pool.

"Morning!" the old man responded, and when he heard Zhong Yuemin's urine collapse, he smiled: "Young is good, and he is angry!"

"I'm so ruthless!" Zhong Yuemin replied with a smile, "Uncle, why did you get up so early?"

"Earlier, everyone didn't go to work, and it was convenient to do hygiene. The old man replied.

Zhong Yuemin and the old man have nothing to talk about, in fact, they just greeted them out of politeness, according to their usual state, they urinated after greetings, and they just left.

Today may be really suffocating, I urinated for almost half a minute, and there is still a lot of pressure in my bladder, but Zhong Yuemin has nothing to say, and the old man is not good at talking, so the two of them are quiet and busy with their own work.

Zhong Yuemin faced the wall, not knowing what he was thinking, so he buckled a piece of lime from the wall, supported the little monk with one hand, and drew a picture on the wall with the other.

What he drawn, it is what he saw before, the topographic map of the Sanmenxia River Basin, drawn casually, not particularly accurate, but the approximate proportions are not wrong.

After the painting, Zhong Yuemin drew a solid line at the location of the Sanmenxia Dam, representing the dam.

Zhong Yuemin kept comparing on the map, drawing eight short lines on the dam to indicate the bottom hole of the backflow, and two thick solid lines to represent the power generation pipeline that was blown up, and dotted lines on both sides of the dam to represent the sand discharge tunnel.

The picture on the wall is already extremely complicated, and only Zhong Yuemin himself can understand it.

Zhong Yuemin looked at it and thought about it, he didn't even know that the little monk was no longer spraying water.

The original function of the dam was to hold back sand and store water for power generation, but the huge amount of sediment accumulation exceeded the carrying capacity of the reservoir, and even caused frequent floods in the upstream, so it could only open a hole in the dam to discharge sand, and the sand discharge caused the water level to decrease, and the purpose of power generation could not be achieved.

Zhong Yuemin thinks that the Sanmenxia Dam is like a blood clot in a blood vessel, and it is also an artificial blood clot, he originally wanted to control the blood flow, but he did not expect that it would cause the blood vessel to swell, and there would even be a danger of vascular dissection.

Now, no matter how much you impress the blood clot, it is not as useful and direct as it is to remove the blood clot directly.

Zhong Yuemin squinted his eyes, drew a big cross on the solid line representing Sanmenxia, and muttered: "Blow up your girl!"

"Are you sure you're going to blow up this dam?" The old man next to him didn't know when he was standing behind Zhong Yuemin.

Zhong Yuemin snorted, shook it, put away his little monk, and then touched the wall with his hand to erase the traces of the figure.

"Uncle, did you hear it wrong, I didn't speak?" Zhong Yuemin said to the uncle casually.

The sweeping uncle was stunned for a moment before nodding and saying, "I'm old and my ears are not good, so I really heard it wrong." ”

Zhong Yuemin also nodded, "That's okay, uncle, let's see you back." ”

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After that, Zhong Yuemin went back to the dormitory in a daze, fell asleep on the bed for most of the day, and forgot about it when he woke up, thinking that he had a dream.

Unexpectedly, a few days later, Zhong Yuemin met the uncle again, at the seminar on the Sanmenxia Dam project.

Professor Zhang is the host, and the sweeping uncle is the one who is criticized because he is a rightist.

"First of all, we must criticize Wanli's words and deeds against socialist construction in the past, and now let Wanli speak for self-examination!"

Only then did Zhong Yuemin know that it was the famous Professor Wanli who was cleaning in the toilet that day.

Professor Wan Li stood up and didn't take the manuscript, "I'm not wrong, I still think that the Sanmenxia Dam should not be built, I just told the truth that a water conservancy person should say!"

"You!" Professor Zhang patted the table, "Wan Li, don't be stubborn! What you say is one-sided and nonsense!"

"The facts are in front of you, but you all can't see it, and there's nothing to say!" Professor Wan Li retorted unhurriedly.

Professor Zhang sneered: "Could it be that so many of us here are blind?

Professor Zhang looked around the venue, and everyone lowered their heads, "Not a single one!"

Zhong Yuemin looked at Professor Wanli, who was standing alone, clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and stood up, "I!"