December in central Yunnan is not cold, and it is the dry season, but it is the golden season for outdoor civil construction. The once barren thatched river and valley have been transformed into a busy civil construction site.

Qi Zhengming, dressed in overalls and holding construction drawings in his hand, was accompanying several major cadres of the village committee with his eldest brother-in-law Wang Wenxin to check the construction progress of the dam at the top of the mountain valley ditch in the thatched river.

At the birthday banquet of the old mother-in-law, Wang Wenxin listened to Qi Jingtao talk about the Malone Highway Project, and after listening to Qi Jingtao's story about the Malone Highway Project, he hesitated and stayed at home in central Yunnan for a while, and by the way, he took over several small tasks of building roads and dams in the countryside. When he couldn't resist the temptation of Ma Long's friend and went to run the N-hand highway project again, the project had already been contracted by someone else.

I don't know if it's regret or loss, Wang Wenxin stayed with Ma Long for a few months. He also organized two excavators and bulldozers from his own construction company to help other bosses carry out earthworks on the Malone Highway section for several months.

After Qi Zhengming got the contract for the granary river orchard, Qi Jingtao handed over the planning and design drawings, renderings, and civil infrastructure construction drawings of several large boxes of orchards prepared by Lao Qi to his father. The special bank account for the orchard project is stationed with her full-time personal assistant Xu Manli to live in the construction project department.

As the commander-in-chief of the Granary River Orchard Project, Qi Zhengming, who is in line with the principle of his own funds and his own mastery, first thinks of Wang Wenxin's construction company when considering the construction party. A phone call recruited his brother-in-law back to his hometown from Ma Long, and easily handed over a large-scale project to his brother-in-law to take care of it, and he started to be the chief inspector of the project himself. Qi Zhengming, an agricultural water conservancy project, is very familiar with it, and when he was young, he led the young people of the brigade and the production team to engage in small reservoir projects, and now he is familiar with it.

After Assistant Xu Manli Xu was stationed in the project headquarters, in addition to reviewing and appropriating project funds, she still did her old job. Construction project negotiation, project contract management and project funding review.

Assistant Xu is only responsible for Qi Jingtao, and in the project headquarters, everything is done, and Wang Wenxin, who often asks her for project allocation, can't cry or laugh, and secretly admires his eldest nephew for employing people.

Several cadres of the village committee and Wang Wenxin couldn't figure out how the set of planning drawings handed over by Qi Jingtao had to be designed at the end of the big mountain gully of the Granary River. According to the planning drawings, if the dam is completed, it will move 500 meters down the top of the small ditch of the granary river, and the intersection of the three mountains will form a small reservoir with an area of more than 50 acres and a maximum depth of more than 9 meters.

The 33-metre-long dam was easy to build with machinery and reinforced concrete, and was built quickly as long as the money kept up. However, can the so-called 'small river' formed by a number of small streams of water seeping out of the cracks in the rocks of the mountain accumulate into such a large reservoir? Can the stagnant water formed by natural rainfall every year be used to store the stagnant water into a reservoir? Don't play with the old man.

It's really so easy, the granary river has long since become a real granary river. The ruins of the dam were built a kilometre downstream, and it took thousands of people in the village months to pick out the dam on their shoulders. But now that the dam has been built, what about the water? There is no water available in this huge depression.

Zhang Jiayuan looked at the base of the dam under construction with dissatisfaction, and complained to Qi Zhengming: "Lao Qi, which design is this planning plan? Have you ever come to check on the spot? Back then, who in our village had never come here to pick up the dam, and after so much effort, the rain accumulated in the rainy season every year was not enough for the old cows to roll." It's a fool to build a reservoir here!"

"Yes, I also invited water conservancy experts from the Water Conservancy Bureau to survey back then, and I planned to dig a culvert from the Zhangjia Mountain in front of me and bring water from the Guanqing Reservoir ten kilometers away, but it wasn't because the mountain was too big to be completed?" said Ding Jiancheng, a clerk.

"It's a matter of time that the mountain is too big, but the main reason why it didn't work out is that the amount of water stored in the Guanqing Reservoir is too small, and it is difficult to maintain the water supply of the mountain over there, so how to divert water to this side?"

Qi Jinghong said that it was his father who presided over this work at that time, and in the end, it was not that he did not do his best, but the objective conditions did not allow it, and he did not allow others to arrange his father casually.

"Then why do you plan a reservoir here? A young cadre from the town who came down to inspect spoke very politely.

The dam in the fifth district is only more than 120 square kilometers, and this project is already a big project, and the relevant leaders of the town still attach great importance to it, and send several cadres to inspect and track the progress of the project.

"Hehe, actually, judging from the overall topography of this mountain valley, the idea of building a reservoir here is very good. You see, the terrain here is a natural water storage hyacinth, surrounded by mountains on three sides, wide inside and narrow outside, closed exit, and the amount of work of the dam is the smallest. After the completion of this reservoir, there is a drop of more than 40 meters from here to the downstream Jingou. If you really hold back the water here and make a small reservoir, it will be filled with water. As long as the aqueducts are built along the mountains on both sides, there is water on the slopes of the mountains for almost three kilometers downstream. If the amount of water is sufficient, when the time comes, not to mention planting cherries and fruit trees, it will be no problem to plant rice. ”

Another cadre from the town appraised the scientific nature of the reservoir design and the planning and layout of the related water conservancy facilities.

"Hehe, the key is that there is no water, if there is water, the granary river would have lived up to its name a long time ago, why bother to become a thatched river. Look at it, the mountains are full of thatch, and if it is burned once, how much labor does it take to clean it up?" Qi Jinghong said regretfully.

"This is the planning and design that we asked the senior engineer in the province to do, and there must be a reason for this design. Let's not discuss it, won't we know the outcome when it's completed?"

Xu Manli seemed to make sense when she heard what they said, but she really didn't understand these things. She also asked Qi Jingtao when she went back, and Qi Jingtao said that if she planned like that, the reservoir would definitely be able to fill with water. Xu Manli didn't know where the water came from or how to fill it, so she had to open her mouth to defend her boss's design plan.

Zhang Jiayuan was angry about leading the villagers to toss blindly and with no good results, and after listening to the words of this assistant Xu, he pouted: "Hehe, the senior engineer invited by the province, the topographic map and contour line are clearly visible, and the aqueduct is also designed in a proper manner." It's a pity that I didn't see him come to the construction site to see the situation on the ground, and there were times when he cried. ”

"Big brother, Xiao Tao's plan is really problematic, can he still divert water from the belly of the mountain, or dig out the mountain spring water from the ground? The entire dam will cost more than 1.5 million yuan to complete, and when there is no water, it will all be wasted. ”

Wang Wenxin, as the construction party, only managed to construct according to the construction drawings, and there was no need to care whether the water could be filled in the end. But this project is his brother-in-law's project, he can't ignore it, if there is really no water, this joke will be big, and he is very faceless as the construction party.