"I comforted her and said, 'You can only do this, and it is your responsibility to tell him the truth.' How are you now? She said: 'How' that?' I said, 'Your husband, he and you are in the same unit?' She shook her head and said, "I don't have a boyfriend yet." He bowed his head as he spoke. I was stunned: it turned out to be a lie, a beautiful and cruel lie. After a long silence, I said, 'I'll see you off at the train station tomorrow.' She said, 'No, we're a group of a dozen people.' After talking for a while, she looked at her watch, got up and broke up with me. ”

In this way, Yang Lanyu quietly left Qinghai and Jinyintan, which produced China's most famous love songs. I felt a little sour in my chest, as if it wasn't Wu Xinwei who fell in love with her, but me. Yes, I didn't stand a chance to fall in love with her, but I was sour. In the future, as soon as I sing "In That Distant Place", I will think of Yang Lanyu, and there will be a sourness that cannot be dissolved, which is the sourness of 'looking back and nostalgia', the sourness of 'constantly hitting me gently', and the sourness brought to me by the 216 factory in Jinyintan. Especially now. ”

"A year after Yang Lanyu left, I joined the army and became a full-time correspondent. I finally had the opportunity to come to the place where she worked. This place has become Xihai Town. The predecessor of Xihai Town was the so-called 'mining area', which was the state-owned 216 plant of the China National Nuclear Industry Corporation, also known as the 'China Nuclear Weapons Research Institute' or 'China's first nuclear weapons research and development base'. The base encompasses the entire Jinyintan, a vast grassland of 1,170 square kilometers with an average altitude of 3,350 meters. ”

"I, like all those who don't know what's going on, had a question as soon as I came to Xihai Town: Why did you choose this place for the nuclear weapons development base in the first place? The expert group surveyed the sites in Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai provinces, and believed that the Jinyintan in Haiyan County, Qinghai Province is located between Daban Mountain and Yueyue Mountain, which belongs to the gentle hills and grasslands, which are easy to hide, and the area is open, which is conducive to construction, and more importantly, the population density is small, and there are only more than 1,700 households, nearly 9,000 herdsmen and 270,000 livestock that need to be relocated, and it is only more than 100 kilometers away from Xining, so the supply of materials is more convenient. It is an ideal location for the development of nuclear weapons. ”

"Jinyintan produced China's most famous love song and China's first atomic weapon, is it a match made in heaven? Love and atomic weapons represent two kinds of confrontations in our world—war and jade, ice and fire, terror and emotion, but also two normals of human life: the pursuit of happiness and the opposition to war. They can all be tragedies and they can all be comedies; It could be sunlight, and it could be shadow. They are cause and effect of each other, complement each other, and are the background of mutual dependence. Love is incomparably powerful because of the atomic weapon; Atomic weapons are gentle because of love. They are unified in our philosophy of existence, giving us courage, giving us a lot of sleep that will not wake up, giving us a calm and relaxed life, so that we no longer cry because of broken love, no longer tremble because of terror, and no longer panic because love and atomic weapons are nothing. ”

"When I left Jinyintan, I thought of Yang Lanyu again. What if Yang Lanyu doesn't leave? No, she will always leave, she goes to a more distant place, and as soon as she goes, the Xihai Town of Atomic City and the gold and silver beach where love songs echo are no longer far away. I sang "In That Distant Place" in the Golden and Silver Beach, which is no longer far away, but where is that "distant place"? ”

"In that far away place, there was a good girl......"

Stunned, he closed his notebook, straightened up, started the car, and sped forward.

At this moment, a shadow suddenly flashed in the sky. As he was driving, he looked up into the sky and saw a huge disc that was passing over his head, flying forward, and soon turned into a small black dot and then vanished.

"Xiao Yang, someone has come to see you."

When Yang Lanyu returned to the base, a logistics officer said while greeting her.

Yang Lanyu wiped the sweat from her forehead, and the figures of Wu Xinwei and Tan Weiwen unconsciously appeared in her mind, and her face couldn't help but turn red.

"Who? How did you find here? Yang Lanyu took a military kettle, took a sip of water, and asked casually.

"He's been waiting for you in your room, won't you just go and see it?" The logistics officer smiled secretly, "He's been waiting for almost two or one afternoons." ”

"What? How can I make him wait in my room? How did he get in? Yang Lanyu asked with some annoyance.

Listening to her words, the logistics officer just smiled and did not explain.

Yang Lanyu knew that it was useless to ask again, so she put down the kettle angrily, wiped the sweat on her face again, and walked quickly to her room.

Yang Lanyu's room was on the seventh floor, she took the elevator upstairs, through the glass wall around him, he saw that there seemed to be a lot of soldiers in black uniforms in the hall, she knew that these people belonged to the internal affairs army, and it was estimated that there was a big man who came here to inspect.

The elevator reached the seventh floor, she got out of the elevator and came to her room, and sure enough, she saw that the door was hidden, she was a little angry, pushed open the door and strode in, just about to have a seizure, but saw a familiar back, and couldn't help but be stunned there.

The other party noticed her return, put down the book in his hand, turned his head to look at her, and his eyes flashed with tenderness and love.

"You're back, Lan Lan." Yang Shuoming looked at his daughter with a frosty face and said softly.

"Please, Father, next time you enter someone's room, say hello in advance, or show your search warrant, okay?" It's illegal for you to do this, be careful if I poke things out, and Congress will impeach you. Yang Lanyu deliberately pursed her lips as if she was angry, and walked towards her father, when she came to her father's side, she couldn't help laughing and threw herself into her father's arms.

"Why are you here...... Think you want you to miss you......" she said like a child, rubbing her face against her father's chest.

Yang Shuoming hugged his coquettish daughter and stroked his daughter's soft long hair with his hand. He noticed that his daughter's hair was a little yellow, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

"It's been hard work for a while, isn't it?" Yang Shuoming asked with some distress.

"It's okay! I didn't find many mines, but I picked up a lot of stones. Yang Lanyu raised her head from her father's arms, blinked her dark eyes, took out a yellow round stone from her pocket, and shook it proudly in front of her father.

"Guess what? What is it? ”

"Let's not talk about the material, this form alone is really magical." Yang Shuoming took the strange stone shaped like a chick that had just pecked the eggshell from his daughter's hand, and exclaimed, "I can't imagine that this is the work of nature." ”

"Yes! The people in our team said that it was too much to carve, and the master carver might not be able to carve such an image. Seeing that her father liked it so much, Yang Lanyu was also very happy, "Say it quickly, what is this?" ”

"It's a piece of golden jade." Yang Shuoming's "supercomputer eye" started again, and the answer was quickly given.

"It is worthy of being a famous jade collector in China, in a word." Yang Lanyu smiled and nodded, signaling her father to answer correctly, "I see, you are better than us geological experts, and you can also come to find uranium mines in the future." We're short of manpower. ”

Since the exploration of uranium ore was carried out on a large scale throughout the country, many professional and technical personnel were transferred from various departments, and later tens of thousands of prospectors were mobilized from many provinces, cities, and departments, including a large number of professionals in the military. Almost at the same time, Yang Shuoming himself signed two orders in February 1944: one was to notify Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi and other four provinces and regions to select and transfer 193 cadres for the prospecting troops, and to transfer them by the end of March and report to Changsha; The other is to notify six provinces and autonomous regions, including Shanxi, Hebei, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Xinjiang Provinces, to select and transfer 294 cadres, who are required to be transferred by the end of March and report to Urumqi.

Such a large-scale mobilization of men and horses was the result of previous information that the German political axe had scoured for high-grade uranium ore throughout Europe. The U.S. investment in the development of uranium resources in South Africa and the newly discovered uranium deposits in Canada also indicate that the U.S. nuclear weapons development work has reached a fairly advanced stage, which has virtually increased the pressure on China. Therefore, the importance that China's political axe attaches to the geology of uranium mines is so extraordinary, that the people who do the specific work below feel both honored and responsible. The State Council often convenes meetings of relevant personnel, many times presided over by the premier or even Yang Shuoming himself.

China's uranium geological survey has been carried out very much, and the stalls are spread out very widely, so Yang Shuoming particularly stressed the need to pay attention to secrecy. Of course, talking about these with his daughter is not a leak, because the daughter, who is a well-known geologist in China, is one of the members of the prospecting team.

"Haven't you all tuned your people?" Yang Shuoming asked.

"Hehe, of course it's all transferred, I lied to Minister He about the transfer, as well as the 13 technicians under him. Didn't we call it the Third Bureau of the Ministry of Geology, he thought it was his men at first. My own title is also kept secret, and I called an assistant minister of geology, and our third bureau is called the third bureau of the geology department, and Minister He thinks that this organization belongs to his ministry. I asked him for 13 technicians, and he later found out that it wasn't his. Yang Lanyu laughed again.

"Do you still have any difficulties?" Yang Shuoming asked.

"Yes! As soon as I joined the work, everything was cut off from the outside world. Classmates are no longer in touch, all relationships are severed, no correspondence, no contact, that's all. I don't even know what I'm doing. Yang Lanyu said with some grievances, "Why didn't my mother come to see me?" Did she go to her dolphins again? ”

"Mom is sick, and when she gets better in a while, she will come over." Yang Shuoming thought of Liu Xiangyun, who was now far away on an overseas island, and couldn't help but worry in his heart.

"Huh? How's she doing? Is it heavy......" Hearing that her mother was sick, Yang Lanyu suddenly became anxious, as if she was about to cry.

"It's okay, she'll come over after a while, but she won't come, I'll catch her." Yang Shuoming comforted her daughter, and when her daughter heard that her mother was fine, she was relieved.

"Tell me about your team." Yang Shuoming pulled his daughter and sat down on the sofa.

"Most of the exploration team are wives and children, and some of them come directly from their hometowns. I didn't even have a place to live just now, but now it's much better. There were 10 of us on a plane and we were flying around. Our team first carried out a survey of uranium mine radiation surnames throughout Xinjiang Province. First of all, various mines, shafts and tunnels in Xinjiang Province were investigated, including the former mineral specimen showroom. Although many of us graduated from the School of Geology, we have learned general knowledge, but we don't understand uranium ore and learn it from experts. Our team went out the earliest, first inspecting the coal mines near the Tianshan Mountains and Urumqi, and later went to the Altai region. Sometimes by plane, sometimes by truck, whether it is a miner, a draftsman or a guard, all with guns and instruments. Run about two or three hundred kilometers a day. This area is very desolate, there are no people, and if the car breaks down, it will be troublesome. There are no hotels at night, so I set up a tent and a mosquito net, and sleep in the wild. It was very windy, and many people had to work together to put up the tents, otherwise no one would be able to sleep. When we arrived in Burqin, we encountered a river, there were so many mosquitoes, and the two hands were old to fight, and we divided the people into several teams, each team was about six or seven people, and each went to the designated area to investigate. I was also leading a team out to investigate, and the means of transportation we used was horses. Once, while riding a horse, my horse was startled and shook me off. I was wearing a pair of hiking boots on my feet, and the man fell off, but the heels of the hiking boots were still hanging from the stirrups. The horse was running, and I was even more startled at the sight of the man like this, and instead of stopping, I ran faster and faster, and I almost hit my head on the rock. The others hurried after me, and finally a miner came up and rescued me. The prospector is a junior high school student, named Wu Zhijun, this kid is very clever, he came over and dragged the horse, this blames me for my inexperience, I have never ridden a horse before, I learned it all here. Yang Lanyu saw that her father listened with relish, so she completely opened the conversation.

"When we returned to Urumqi, the team had not yet arrived, so we started to collect information first, and as soon as we found clues, we hurried to investigate. One day, Lao Liu, the chief geologist, looked for me. Because I just got a clue, there is a point in Jinghe County called Ashale, more than 400 kilometers west of Urumqi, uranium seedlings have been found. Lao Liu asked me to go to the examination with another graduate student who was engaged in geophysical prospecting. We stopped riding horses this time, we drove a truck, the driver was a demobilized soldier, people were quite stunned, drove to Jinghe County, about to enter the ravine, and couldn't drive the car to find an old Mongolian man. Use horses to pull people to pull things. As we crossed the river, the horse stumbled and left me and my luggage in the river. When I arrived at the mine, I had to go inside as soon as I checked it, and I walked seven or eight miles, and the green and red patches in front of me were very beautiful. As mentioned in the book, after the secondary ore of uranium is oxidized, it is particularly vivid, so we are very happy and think that uranium ore has been discovered. When I got to the front, it was green moss on the stone, lined with something red, and it wasn't uranium ore at all. I went up to the top of the mountain to get some specimens and came back, and it was getting dark. When it's dark, I want to go home, there are still 70 kilometers back to Jinghe County, and I have to ride a horse, although I was scared of the last time, but what if I don't ride this 70 kilometers, I just got home. ”

"There are three people in our group, I am Han, the college student is Uyghur, and the old leader is Mongolian, and I don't understand the language. Living habits are not good, such as eating, eating dumplings and not even soy sauce, only salty and salty noodles for you. We are not used to eating mutton all the time, not to mention that the heat and cold of the weather are extraordinary. Fortunately, the people are good, real and enthusiastic, I tell them to do whatever they want, I divide the route of the survey every day, and come back at night, I check everyone's route again to see if there is any situation. The lads in our team were quite capable. ”

"The first uranium-bearing mine that Xinjiang Province has just found is in Yili. The earliest condition of this deposit was brought by the Xinjiang Provincial Bureau of Geology. Their men had already taken samples in the Dala area of Ili and found uranium anomalies of more than 5 parts per 10,000, so they later set up an exploration team based on this information and quickly found the deposit. ”

"Urumqi is actually not like the provincial big cities in the mainland, there are not so many people. Due to the arrival of the people mobilized by our team one after another, Urumqi suddenly became lively. There are many of us, and our whereabouts are very mysterious, so it is difficult not to attract attention. The people who went were all certified by the War Department, which only said that they were on a special mission, and no one else was allowed to ask more. Because they were afraid that the enemy's spies would cause trouble, the personnel of the geological team were equipped with guns with special permission. We don't usually wear military uniforms, we wear all kinds of clothes, old and young, all with guns, just like riding horses, and I learned to shoot guns here. ”

"We sometimes travel two or three hundred kilometers a day by truck, depending on where the accommodation is located. The Gobi Desert is all along the way, which is very desolate. After a bumpy day, at night, I found a place to stay and went to sleep, and I had to get up early the next morning. Due to the drought and lack of water, there was not enough water to wash the face, and when I came back, they were all unkempt and dusty, and the fur coats they wore had worn through several holes because they were grinding and grinding in the back. ”

Yang Shuoming looked at his daughter, who was a little haggard, and couldn't help but feel heartache when he thought of his daughter's recent suffering.

(To be continued)