Siheyuan: The Era of Struggle

Chapter 62 is out of oil (please collect and read!)

As the whole country prepared to celebrate National Day, a group of exploration teams were busy somewhere in the Songliao Plain west of Ice City.

As the drill went deeper and deeper, a hint of impatience appeared on everyone's face.

Some even threw the documents in their hands to the ground in anger, complaining to their companions: "I don't know what's going on. The chicken in the basin has been looking for it for so long and has not produced any oil. I don't know where they got such a weird data. We have worked hard for half a month in vain."

"Zheng Yonghao, pick up the information!" Seeing the technician in a gray Zhongshan suit and covered in dust throwing the information on the ground, the captain of the survey team stepped forward and shouted sternly.

"What are you complaining about? The workers are working so hard without saying a word, but you are the one complaining?
What, have you been wronged by us? If you feel wronged, just go away and stop complaining here."

"Captain, I just think it's a waste of effort for us to continue exploring here. It's a sheer waste of manpower and resources."

After hearing what the captain said, the technician named Zheng Yonghao reluctantly picked up the reading materials and handed them over. The cracks on his weathered hands seemed like a map recording his master's arduous journey.

In a map like this, almost everyone here has a pair of dirty faces that seem to never be washed clean, as if they feel sorry for the owners of their cheeks and are protecting them from the wind and sand in the wilderness.

The captain listened to Zheng Yonghao's complaints, looked at him seriously, and said loudly: "Comrade Zheng Yonghao, why are we sleeping here in the open air?"

"Captain, we are living here in the open air so that we can get rid of energy problems in our development."

Zheng Yonghao immediately straightened up and reported loudly.

"Since you know this, why are you still complaining here?"

The captain heard his hoarse voice and looked at Zheng Yonghao, who was only in his early twenties, but because of years of wind and sun, and had no time and place to take care of himself, he looked like an old man in his fifties. However, his eyes were still firm, and the corners of his mouth trembled slightly.

“This is still a child!”

It was at this moment that he realized that the youngest technician in their team, who was a college graduate, was only in his twenties and still had no partner.

In the past few years, he has been traveling around the wilderness with everyone, and like them, he is always unkempt, so he almost thought that this young man was a veteran like them.

He can do this, can I ask for more?
So the captain softened his tone: "Comrade Zheng Yonghao, I understand your idea, but the higher-ups must have their reasons for asking us to do this."

"Besides, what's wrong with the fact that the Foot Basin Chicken didn't find the oil field? It's precisely because the Foot Basin Chicken didn't find it that we have to search more carefully, just to let those beasts know that on our land, what they couldn't do back then, we can do it ourselves!"

"Okay, the captain is right. Back then, those beasts took advantage of our decline to bully us. Now that we have stood up, we want to prove that we are better than them."

"Everyone, work harder. The detection hole has now reached 1,200 meters. Let's try to reach the goal of 1,300 meters today."

Zheng Yonghao's morale was also boosted by the captain's words just now. No rabbit of this era is willing to admit that he is no better than those beasts in the east.

If nothing else, just to save face.

1270, 1280…1290…

As the drilling depth got deeper and deeper, Zheng Yonghao found that as the exploration depth got closer and closer to the distance of 1300 meters, the brown sandstone in the drill core contained oil and had a full color, proving that there was indeed oil underground. Because Yang Ning gave the location of the high-yield area in the north of Daqing Oilfield at the beginning, and this area had already been drilled a thousand-meter-deep exploration well, Zheng Yonghao and his team were able to explore this depth so quickly in less than a month.

The discovery that the drill core contained oil swept away the workers' previous anxiety caused by their fruitless gains, and greatly boosted the morale of all the personnel present.

The captain was also very happy. He looked at the drill cores on the ground and cheered: "Great! Finally, our efforts this month have not been in vain."

So he looked at Zheng Yonghao, who was squatting on the ground inspecting, with a look of trepidation and asked, "Comrade Zheng Yonghao, based on the current situation, what are our chances of getting oil?"

Zheng Yonghao raised his head and adjusted his glasses, and said a little embarrassedly: "Captain, I'm sorry, I was arbitrary before."

The captain waved his hand, interrupting him, and asked anxiously, "Don't say these words for now. Tell me, do we have a high chance of catching him?"

Zheng Yonghao stood up and nodded excitedly: "Very large, according to the situation of the core drilling, at least 80%."

"Great, that's great!" After hearing Zheng Yonghao's reply, the captain turned around excitedly: "I originally thought that our experimental team was raised by a stepmother, but I didn't expect that in the end they would still rely on us for their retirement!"

"Hahaha~" The captain vented for a while about his frustration at being assigned here, then turned around and shouted to the workers, "Did you hear that? Our work was not in vain. There is oil here, and we are not far from the oil layer now. Let's work harder and try to give a big gift to the higher-ups on National Day."

"Oh~" The workers' dirty faces were suddenly filled with excitement. There was oil here, which meant that their efforts during this period of time were not in vain.

The next day, after the captain reported the situation here, the higher-ups immediately decided to send a larger professional team for support, which even included experts from Big Brother.

After the expert from Big Brother inspected the core, he immediately decided to complete the drilling, cement the well and test the oil.

The first perforation test revealed no oil. A cloud of disappointment weighed heavily on everyone.

However, they were not discouraged. After digging more than ten meters, they decided to drill another hole to test the oil.

This time, a miracle happened!
The dark brown crude oil that had been deposited underground in the Songliao Plain for billions of years finally woke up from its slumber, shot out of the wellhead and sprayed into the sky.

At this moment, everyone present was partying, hugging and celebrating like crazy!
At this moment, no one cares about the stains and grease on others’ bodies. Those are the medals of their hard work on the front line day and night.

The leader on the scene held the captain's hand and said excitedly: "Well done, well done, you have worked hard, and you have made a great contribution this time."

The captain looked at the people celebrating wildly around him. At this moment, his face was also full of excitement. He shook the leader's hand and said repeatedly: "We finally lived up to the expectations of the superiors. It is worth it to find the blood of industry for us."

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