Chinese scientist Peng Jiamu: The mystery of the disappearance of Lop Nur is finally explained and concealed for more than 30 years

On June 17, 1980, the radio station of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Malan Base near Lop Nur, Xinjiang suddenly received such a telegram for help:

The telegram was soon sent to Zhou Fuyou, Director of the Garrison Operations Department at Malan Base. .

Zhou Fuyou quickly checked the map. The location indicated by this coordinate is near Kumu Kuduk. After asking for instructions, he asked the sender to call back:

About 10 hours later, at 9:20 pm on the 17th, the Malan base received another telegram, but this time the content was a bit strange:

What important situation? Why did not disclose a word of "important situation" in this emergency telegram, and must wait until 2 am to report it?

Time seemed to pass very slowly, Zhou Fu walked step by step with the second hand on his watch, ignoring the anxious eyes staring at it.

After finally staying up until 2:00 in the morning, the radio finally came with amazing news:

Who is Vice President Peng?

He is the vice president of the Xinjiang Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an expert on plant viruses in my country - Peng Jiamu .

The side of the radio station is the Lop Nur expedition team of the Xinjiang Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Zhou Fu has understood, until 2:00 in the morning, the expedition team telegraphed this important situation, which means that the expedition team could not find Peng Jiamu after many searches, so it solemnly asked the troops to "send a plane to look for it".... ..

With the passage of time and the passage of time, the paper has turned yellow; the words have become blurred; the memory has been forgotten...

It has been 38 years since Peng Jiamu disappeared, unfortunately , to this day we still do not know where he is,Where does the soul go?

Even though this name is so unfamiliar to today's post-80s and post-90s, we can't forget this man and his motto:

"I want to be a paving stone and let others step on my back. It is honorable to walk up and down. I would like to be a paving stone like this all my life."

Immortal!

01

The ancients said: Those who set up great things in ancient times not only have extraordinary talents, but also have perseverance.

In 1925, Peng Jiamu was born in a grocery shop in Cha[chá]tou Village, Panyu County, near Guangzhou. His original name was "Peng Jiamu". His father gave him this name to pray for "family harmony".

Chatou Village's Pengjiamu Park

Peng Jiamu was not very smart when he was a child. slingshot), how many are left?"

He twisted his fingers and quickly replied: "Nine left!"

However, the teacher likes this kid. In Shaoguan Zhongyuan Middle School, Peng Jiamu met his teacher, Mr. Liao Pingzi .

In 1902, Mr. Lao was hired as the chief editor of the supplement of " China Daily " in Hong Kong to promote the revolution.

It is said that the Guangdong warlord Chen Jiongming once made him a "provincial government member". Liao Pingzi shook his head and said, "It's not right, it's not right. Go to Zhongyuan Middle School to be a Mandarin teacher.

Mr. Liao's Chinese painting is unique in calligraphy. Local officials have come to visit and are willing to ask for his paintings and calligraphy with large sums of money, but Mr. Liao often stands up without saying a word.

Mr. Liao Pingzi's calligraphy and painting

However, Mr. Liao especially liked the diligent and studious Peng Jiamu, and taught him to practice calligraphy and painting. Once, Mr. Liao painted a painting and wrote an inscription in his own hand as a gift to this 13 or 14-year-old boy:

Jiamu Xuedi Qingwan

Qianzhang ancient wood is a sound of autumn

Yoyo Kesitian Mo Weiting

Under the care of Mr. Liao, Jiamu Peng studied even harder and made rapid progress in his studies.

In that year, due to the war of resistance against Japan, the Department of Agriculture and Chemical Engineering of Central University only admitted one freshman in the entire central and southern region of .

In 1947, Peng Jiamu and his college classmate and girlfriend Xia Shufang graduated together. There is a saying in old China: "Graduation means unemployment."

Peng Jiamu finally got the Peking University College of Agriculture A letter of appointment for a teaching assistant in the Department of Soils, but at this time his supervisor Wang Yinglai needed two teaching assistants to teach biochemistry at Shandong University School of Medicine. Naturally, Peng Jiamu and Xia Shufang were the perfect candidates.

Xia Shufang persuaded him to explain the situation to Peking University Agricultural College and terminate the contract so that the two could be together, but Peng Jiamu shook his head like a rattle and sighed:

" people,Always be trustworthy! As soon as the word is spoken, the horse is hard to follow! I have already promised others that it is inconvenient to change my words. ”

From then on, the two are separated from each other, and they can only rely on the geese to pass on books to tell each other.

02

There is a saying: Small husband, small wife, small family, desk lamp, full-length mirror.

After liberation , Peng Jiamu had the most comfortable time, at this time he had been transferred to work as an assistant in the Institute of Physiology and Biochemistry of the Shanghai Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Although at that time, the Kuomintang planes still flew over Shanghai from time to time to drop bombs, but The love between him and Xia Shufang finally came to fruition. They tied the knot in 1951, and in the second year they had the crystallization of their love - son Peng Hai.

Peng Jiamu's family (wife Xia Shufang, son Peng Hai, daughter Peng Hai) Li)

At that time, Peng Jiamu began to study a new topic - procollagen , which is a protein present in the connective tissue of animal .

He often drowned in experiments all day long Rabbit, shave the rabbit hair, and then extract the procollagen from the rabbit skin.

Since his wife had a heart attack during childbirth and had an arrhythmia, Peng Jiamu provoked the heavy burden of the family. From cooking to rice washing, washing diapers, coaxing children, and cleaning the floor, he is capable of everything.

However, despite being very busy, Peng Jiamu's heart is very happy, and his mood is as clear and beautiful as the sky in new China.

Excellent work, the organization decided to send him to the "Big Brother" Soviet Union to learn a new technology - nuclear magnetic resonance. At that time, it was a great honor to study in the Soviet Union!

However, what surprised everyone was that Peng Jia Mu did not go, but gave this opportunity to study abroad to others .

It's a coincidence that when the organization notified him to study abroad, Peng Jiamu heard exciting news:

Chinese Academy of Sciences In order to develop the rich resources in the frontier of the motherland, a comprehensive committee was organized. This committee is "recruiting" and is divided into several small teams, ready to go to various places in the frontier to conduct field inspections.

To what extent and to what extent can people be responsible for their own choices? Choice is a choice for some but not for others.

Peng Jiamu is determined to give up the opportunity to study abroad and go to the frontier. In order to obtain organizational approval for his request to go to the frontier, he also wrote directly to Guo Moruo, president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences .

Peng Jiamu is doing an experiment in front of a microscope

We read this letter today and still feel powerful:

......

I volunteer to go to the frontier, this is my long-cherished wish.

I have extensive scientific knowledge and a strong physique.

In the face of difficulties, I can stand up straight,

stubbornly raised my head and looked forward.

I have the courage to make my way out of the wild.

......

In the inscription of the letter, it is the first time he has this name - "Peng Jiamu"! Why did

change its name?

Peng Jiamu later explained: "'Family harmony', I just want family harmony. It's too narrow to focus on the small family. I want to jump out of the small family and go to the frontier to 'add grass and wood'! "

He explained: "Jiamu,It is a 'frame' when combined, I want to build a bridge between Shanghai and the frontier! "

"In my life, I only had a dream of Yun Xiaomeng, and one step can empty the world and mountains. "It may be more appropriate to use this famous sentence of Xu Xiake to describe Peng Jiamu's mood at this time...

03

In July 1958, in a letter to Shanghai Biochemical Research In the letter he led, Peng Jiamu wrote the following words:

"Although I made the greatest determination when I left Shanghai, I must start the work, and prepare to let my bones add more soil to Xinjiang. Organic matter (please don't tell Xia Shufang about this) .

But it would be a great loss if no one took care of the work here when I was physically unable to support it.

After Chen Shanming (Peng Jiamu's colleague in Shanghai) came, I can rest assured..."

These words are filled with indifferent sadness, like a dying old man asking for funeral, but that year Peng Jiamu is only 33 years old, which is really strange.

Two years ago, Peng Jiamu got his wish and embarked on a journey to the frontier.

During half a year, he first accompanied the Yunnan Biological Expedition Team in the Western Frontieridae, known as the "Kingdom of Plants". After taking the test, he rushed to Xinjiang to help prepare for the establishment of the Xinjiang branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Peng Jiamu in Xinjiang

then went south to Hainan Island, and then folded into Guangzhou to hold an academic conference.

Field Scientific expeditions are often hungry and full. "

Don't say, he does have this confidence. Because he likes physical exercise since childhood, Peng Jiamuzhen has never been sick, and he claims to be "the holder of the undefeated record"!

However, there is . ,The moon is cloudy, sunny and full, people are born, old, sick and die, and people eat whole grains, how can there be no reason not to get sick. And Peng Jiamu's disease was a "big move".

Mediastinal malignancy . The mediastinal part is the passage through which organs such as the trachea, esophagus, and large blood vessels must pass, and is the key part.

When Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Zhu Kezhen ordered him to return to Shanghai to see a doctor, Peng Jiamu's tumor had grown to the size of two fists.

Changed to someone else, and his legs softened first, but Peng Jiamu was a "special patient without a single cartilage from head to toe".

At the time, one of the treatments for tumors was an intravenous injection of nitrogen mustard , a highly toxic drug that made patients vomit. The nurse asked Peng Jiamu how his reaction was, but he smiled and said:

" It's nothing, the reaction is not big, everything is business as usual, don't reduce the dosage, continue the treatment, it doesn't matter, I can bear it! "

Another treatment is Taking a deep X-ray, the patient had to take a drug orally before irradiation, which was extremely sour, barely swallowed, and vomited out in just a few minutes. Peng Jiamu used his strengths to drink some baking soda every time to neutralize it, but he couldn't help but vomit.

Once, Peng Jiamu had a continuous high fever of 40 degrees, the doctor issued a "critical illness notice", Peng Jiamu had beads of cold sweat on his forehead, and sincerely said to the doctor:

" I can bear all the physical pain, As long as the disease is cured, I can work for a longer period of time. ”

Peng Jiamu, who has been nurtured by Mr. Liao Pingzi since he was a child, is also very good at writing. At the critical moment of his life, in the rescue room, he wrote such a pompous poem:

Ang has a lot of ambitions for seven feet,

How is it going to transform the Gobi?

How dare you bow your head to Shen Wei.

"How willing to bow to Shen Ke", after four or five months of meticulous treatment, the tumor actually shrank significantly. As soon as the disease improved, Peng Jiamu began to "look westward and chase the dust".

Nothing is impossible for a strong-willed person.

04

The interesting thing about history is that it makes most people small and some people great.

In the post-liberation Chinese history, there is a most humiliating memory - the Cultural Revolution, which was an era of "upside down":

People are turned upside down and demons are turned upside down; ; good is reversed to evil, evil is reversed to good; true is reversed to false, false is reversed to true...

The leaders of the Shanghai rebels are eyeing Peng Jiamu, because he is a "paceman", and defeat him big influence.

Soon Peng Jiamu was included in the list of "anti-party groups", saying that he "scolded Marx 'damn'!"; he once said "Mao Zedong Thought is the pinnacle of Marxism-Leninism", dear, doesn't that mean "Mao Zedong" Can't ideas develop?"

But Peng Jiamu said: " He said his, I'll do mine! "

At that time, six of the seven basic science special groups of the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry were disbanded, and The Plant Virus Institute of Peng Jiamu still insists on working and keeps publishing papers.

The leaders of the rebels shouted that their teeth hurt.

They took Peng Jiamu to the denunciation meeting, Peng Jiamu was like a jet with his arms slashed, he still shouted: "I protest! You are just a fabrication!"

This guy is like an iron Eggs, not even a needle can go in.

So,Inspired by " Yangcheng Dark Whistle", the rebels created a secret underground spy organization "Plum Blossom Party" of the Kuomintang, saying that Peng Jiamu was one of the important members of the organization, and even his old nanny He is also considered to be Peng Jiamu's "communicator".

If you don't recruit, you will raid your home. The rebels are really "dedicated", and their homework is meticulous. The chimney is removed, the wall is smashed, the floor is lifted, and even the cane that Peng Jiamu used to lean on when he was sick was broken, because it is suspected that there is a "miniature transmitter" hidden inside.

The party emblem of the "Plum Blossom Party", which the rebels never found, left in anger.

In 1976, after Zhou Enlai's death, there was a nationwide "fight against the rightist to reverse the verdict", Mao Tou pointed at Deng Xiaoping, and the Shanghai rebels forced all party members to write big-character posters "criticizing Deng".

But Peng Jiamu is not afraid of the lewd power of the rebels, he just doesn't write. The kind colleague couldn't stand it anymore, so he co-wrote a piece and persuaded him: "You can sign your name to avoid trouble."

Peng Jiamu said very stubbornly: "My name, Peng Jiamu, is just not signed like this. After the Cultural Revolution, Peng Jiamu was both excited and anxious. He was eager to get back the time that was delayed by the "Gang of Four".

He told the party group about his wish: "Revisiting the frontier, whether I go to Tibet, Yunnan, Xinjiang or Qinghai, I am happy!"

Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei in " Weicheng Song" In the poem, he once sighed: "I persuade you to drink a glass of wine, and there are no old people out of Yangguan." Today, Peng Jiamu is "a lot of old people out of Yangguan."

When old friends greeted him at Urumqi Airport, everyone was already "smiling as before, but Xiao Shu's temples were already stained".

In April 1964, Peng Jiamu published an article in Shanghai " Xinmin Evening News " titled "Why do people live? , he wrote at the end of the article:

" I think,It is honorable to be a paving stone and let others walk on your back. I am willing to be such a paving stone for the rest of my life. ”

Peng Jiamu returned to Xinjiang after the robbery. Once, a reporter asked this question: “What kind of work do you hold in the Xinjiang branch?

When Peng Jiamu heard this, he knew that the reporter was asking about his "title" in the Xinjiang branch.

He replied humorously: "I am in the Xinjiang branch, working as a paving worker!"

Peng Jiamu is not pretending to be modest. Although he has come to Xinjiang many times to work and is one of the "Founding Fathers" of the Xinjiang Branch, his only "title" is "Associate Researcher of Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry", and he has never Xinjiang branch has served as an official and a half-officer.

"paving the road", paving it purely!

He cherishes talents and dedicates all his help. He has three assistant researchers in Xinjiang, two Han and one Uyghur_ span34span has achieved excellent academic results under his careful training.

Peng Jiamu likes books, and his professional books and literature books are often placed in the laboratory. Colleagues borrow them from him, and he always says:

" borrow what? Just take it and see. I am very happy that you are willing to read books! ”

In the winter of 1979, Peng Jiamu was appointed as the vice president of the Xinjiang Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. After taking office, he was no longer limited to the plant virus group, but focused on the work of the whole hospital.

At this time, Peng Jiamu began to formulate The plan to enter the Lop Nur area.

Lop Nur, a mysterious barren land.

In 1959, Peng Jiamu visited the northern part of Lop Nur and collected soil samples.

In 1964, Peng Jiamu came to In the lower reaches of the Peacock River in Lop Nur, at that time, Lop Nur began to dry up, but there was still lake water.

This time, Lop Nur has completely dried up,It became a piece of hard Shiozawa .

Lop Nur satellite image, like a huge ear

Don't underestimate this no-man's land, this is actually a "cornucopia".

The soil here is rich in potassium salt , which is an important fertilizer and can improve the cold and drought tolerance of crops.

The salt layer also contains magnesium, an important material for aircraft manufacturing, rare metals such as lithium, rubidium, and cesium, as well as borax and gypsum.

In particular, the content of heavy water in groundwater is quite high, heavy water is an important moderator for neutron , and it is also the raw material for making hydrogen bomb .

The leaves of the plant Apocynum there have significant blood pressure lowering effects.

However, the climate there is very bad, the temperature difference between day and night is huge, more than 50 degrees during the day, and it can be close to 0 degrees at night. arrive.

The precipitation is even more pitiful, less than a few millimeters per year. So much so that apart from the wild camel , no other beast can survive, not even a single wolf.

There is a unique "Yardan" landform (due to the erosion of the storm, and then the strong wind erosion), the vehicle must detour. Some people have calculated that the car turned 186 sharp turns in two hours, but could only travel 11 kilometers.

Yadan Landform in Lop Nur

"There are many ambitions to gallop in the frontier, and dare to teach the Gobi fertile fields."

The scientific expedition team led by Peng Jiamu set off. They entered the lake area from the "720 base" in the north. In seven days, we traveled through Lop Nur and arrived at Milan on the south bank of the Lake District.

across Lop Nur, this is the first time in history. "If you don't enter a tiger's den, you can't get a tiger's son." Peng Jiamu "has the courage to step out of the wilderness".

He wrote in a letter to a friend:

"...then found the remains of a dried teal , followed by dead eagles, dead birds, dead sheep... .."

"The rocks in Altun Mountain are so beautiful, and the rockery on top of the bonsai can't be better..."

06

Time goes to June 5, 1980, Ke The exam task was almost without risk, and it was successfully completed.

In Milan, Peng Jiamu suddenly made a new plan, taking advantage of the situation to investigate the ancient Silk Road, heading east from Milan, passing through Donglik, Shanlanzi, Kumu Kuduk, Hongshijing, Xindongyi No., and then go north via Turxun and return to Urumqi.

This route is a large circle to the east than the original plan, but Peng Jiamu believes that this area is the "Ancient Silk Road" and is worth investigating.

This decision may be the biggest mistake of Peng Jiamu's life, and it is fatal .

At that time, the expedition team members were extremely exhausted. Except for Peng Jiamu, everyone returned to their hearts like arrows. The climate on the east line is even worse, with extreme heat, drought, wind and sand, and far from settlements.

Due to the "butt blowing wind", the car could not dissipate heat. It could only stop after walking for ten or twenty minutes, open the front cover to dissipate heat, and could only travel 40 kilometers a day, which was far behind the planned 80-100 kilometers.

In order to travel, the expedition team only slept three or four hours a day. On the sixth day, on June 16, 1980, the team arrived at Kumu Kuduk. By this time, they had run out of gasoline and water.

After negotiation, Peng Jiamu agreed to send a distress telegram to the local garrison, but he also said:

"It's too expensive to transport water by helicopter! It costs more than 2,000 yuan to fly a helicopter for one hour (note: the price at that time) .It takes several hours to fly from the nearest military base, and it costs the country tens of thousands of yuan. Can we be self-reliant and find water nearby?

On the morning of the 17th, Wang Wenxian, the deputy captain, found that Peng Jiamu was missing. At first, he thought he was going to pee, but he did not come back after an hour.

Everyone started to get nervous. Finally, in the cab of the SUV, he found In one of Peng Jiamu's atlases, there is a note in pencil, which reads:

I will go east to find a well

Peng 17/6, 10:30

When he disappeared, Peng Jiamu was wearing blue workcloth overalls, a white sun hat, and suede half-height work shoes of size 42. He carried an aluminum water bottle with two kilograms of water and carried a He didn't want to go far with the Seagull camera.

He was 55 years old that year.

07

Peng Jiamu's disappearance was not too much of an accident. He was looking for water and encountered a violent sandstorm. It was difficult for him to survive alone. The environment of the desert is so harsh and so vast that it is effortless to hide a corpse.

Sand is mobile, and the wind can change the landscape in just one day, while a person's The size is very small, and it is a drop in the ocean in the desert. After being covered up, there is basically no hope of being found. Unless the body is equipped with the current GPS positioning system, it is difficult to locate. Even GPS positioning, in that kind of It may not be possible to find it in a bad environment. The disappearance of Peng Jiamu is a common unfortunate event.

In the boundless vastness and boundless loneliness, Peng Jiamu never came back. Over the years, people have carried out a total of seven searches. The first four times are for searching, and the last three are for commemoration.

The poet Zang Kejia in his poem " Some people" says:

Some people are alive,

He is dead.

Some people are dead,

He is still alive.

Peng Jiamu is dead, but his "paving" spirit has never dimmed.

Although time has come to the 2010s, and material life has been greatly improved, people's spiritual world is increasingly trapped in a vicious circle of monism only about money. "What is the purpose of life?" It seems to be an eternal fog. .

But we are delighted to see that more and more young people today, especially those born in the 80s and 90s, the spring water of their hearts begins to pour out of their hearts, and the spring water whispers clearly and plainly:

Life is full of possibilities!