An old man and 400 old photos.

This morning, an old man in his seventies hobbled all the way to my office and took out two file bags from a blue handbag.

The old man's name is Zhao Guangming.

The file bag contains 400 old photos taken by the old man in his spare time since he joined the work.

I greeted the old man cordially, and my colleague warmly handed me a cup of hot tea.

"Editor, I want to donate these photos to the factory history exhibition and make a modest contribution to the 70th anniversary."

Zhao Guangming, an old man, is an oil exploration team member and joined the work in the 1960s. He graduated from normal school and worked as a middle school teacher for several years. After studying internal medicine in Dushanzi Hospital for one year, he became the team doctor of the field exploration team.

The old man loved photography all his life and took many photos of the work and life of workers and cadres with the team. Although they are not very professional, it seems that these old and fuzzy photos are still precious, because that era has long been forgotten by many people.

How did oil exploration workers live and work in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s?

Mr. Zhao said that at that time, the country's economic development was backward, and the country implemented unified purchase and marketing. The distribution of materials is very scarce. There are food stamps, cloth tickets, sugar tickets and meat tickets in life, and the exploration team has few vehicles, so it is reluctant to use them when working in the field.

No matter in the mountains under the Kunlun Mountain, in the Populus euphratica dunes on both sides of the Tahe River, or on the desolate Gobi desert in the north and south of Tianshan Mountain, it is very difficult to work in the field without transport vehicles.

Q: "What if there is no vehicle?"

Answer: "Hiring donkeys and camels is the same!"

Q: "What if the donkey and camel can't walk?"

Answer: "pack your bags and go!"

Q: "What should I do without vegetables?"

Answer: "Eat some wild vegetables and stick to it!"

Old photos, the images and characters in them look green, but they are real and touching.

The predecessors carried forward the "iron man spirit" of going to the battlefield when conditions permit, and fought against sandstorms, deserts and heat, overcoming many difficulties.

From the bright conversation with Lao Zhaoman, I learned that there were not enough means of transportation at that time, and the expedition members rode donkeys and camels to explore; If there are no donkeys and camels, they will pack up their equipment and walk on foot; When digging a well, there are not enough vehicles to pull water, so we use buckets to lift water and washbasins to dig wells; Working in the deep mountain valley, if you can't eat vegetables, you will dig wild vegetables to eat.

The exploration team said heroically: "In order to find a new oil field, the more bitter and tired, the sweeter the heart;" Sprinkle blood for the country and swear to let the earth spray oil. "

I think it was the exploration team of the older generation who, facing the wind and sand, climbed mountains and crossed the Gobi Desert, waded through rapids and dangerous beaches, mapped out topographic maps one after another, took out geological profiles one after another, and found groups of underground geological structures and large oil fields and gas fields one after another.

Nowadays, the explorers who have contributed to the discovery of oil fields in the west of the country are old and slow to move. Some of them got sick in the wild, and some left this world.

When leaving the editorial department, Lao Zhao Man Guangming expressed a long-cherished wish. "Editor, I want to select some clear photos from these 400 old photos in my own name and hold a field work and life photo exhibition in the factory history exhibition. This is my wish for more than 50 years! "

Looking at Zhao Guangming's long-awaited eyes, it is no longer clear. It is the eyes that witness the difficult oil exploration process and the eyes full of trust and hope.

I thought for a moment and knocked on the door of the editing room next door.