Meng Wentian looked at his embarrassed appearance and said with a smile: "What's the matter? Do you think I'm messing around?" Without waiting for Zhou Weidong to nod, he said to himself, "Yes, I'm a bit messing around, but I'm ...... By the way, can you take me to see the floodway?"

Zhou Weidong asked in surprise, "You haven't died yet?"

Meng Wentian looked at the gray sky, sighed, and said, "Can I die? I'm really worried about this dam." ”

Zhou Weidong asked, "Cadre Meng, you haven't seen a dam before, have you?"

Meng Wentian shook his head and said, "I haven't seen it from such a close distance." ”

Zhou Weidong said: "No wonder. In fact, the first time I went to this kind of high dam, everyone had a feeling of fear, feeling like they were in the clouds. …… , by the way, Cadre Meng, do you still have a fear of heights?"

Meng Wentian couldn't cry or laugh, and said, "You might as well say that I'm insane, do you think I'm messing around? Let's go, let's go see the flood channel." …… How far is it?"

Seeing that he insisted, Zhou Weidong couldn't object, pointed to the mountain on his right hand that belonged to the territory of Changheng County, and said, "Go around the mountain in front of you, about six or seven miles." …… Wait a minute, I'll go to the house and push a bicycle over, and we'll ride it. ”

It took only ten minutes for the two young men to ride to the floodway.

The flood channel looks fairly neat, at least the part of the drain near the reservoir is well dredged. Because the water level of the reservoir has only reached the warning level. The flood channel has not yet been drained outward, and even the trickle of water in the canal is flowing towards the reservoir at a very slow rate, which is obviously a small amount of water for the whole reservoir.

Meng Wentian was going to follow this channel for a while, to see where it flowed and whether the whole channel was unblocked. I didn't want him and Zhou Weidong to ride far before they saw Hua Yi and their group, they were walking on the ridges of the paddy fields.

There were four of them, the village chief named Xia Shu walked in front, Hua Yi walked second, and they were followed by two men. Meng Wentian didn't know them, and it was estimated that the two were also from Shang'an Dong Village.

Seeing Hua Yi, Zhou Weidong, who was riding a bicycle, deliberately slowed down the speed of the car and greeted Hua Yi: "County Magistrate Hua." ”

Hua Yi looked at the two of them and asked Meng Wentian strangely, "What are you doing?"

Meng Wentian said: "I look at the flood canal, I don't know if this canal is smooth?"

Hua Yi was even more strange and asked, "What do you care about this channel?"

Meng Wentian said: "I looked at the reservoir, the water level was very high, and I was worried that something would happen to the dam, so I came to see if the flood channel was working. If the water level is high and the flood channel is blocked, the dam is in danger. ”

A man behind Hua Yi laughed and said, "Are you still worried about the danger of the dam? The dam body is so wide and thick, but it is poured with cement and steel bars, how can something happen, you are too worried." ”

The man at the back also laughed and said, "This flood canal is useless, how can there be water flowing here? If there is really water coming here, then our paddy fields will become rivers." Speaking of this, he said to Hua Yi, "County Magistrate Hua, we really can't afford to wait, we hope that your leaders will tell the reservoir, now the flood discharge will lower the water level, you see that our paddy fields can't see the bottom clearly, and the seedlings that have just been planted will really die after a few days of flooding." ”

The rice fields now look like a vast ocean, and only a few seedlings planted in the fields can be seen growing taller, and only an inch or two at most are exposed to the water, and a little green can be seen.

When the breeze blows, it's really white.

Xia Shu, the village head, looked up at the cloudy sky and said to Hua Yi: "County Magistrate Hua, we really didn't mean to be embarrassed by the reservoir, if it really rains for two more days, this more than 100 acres of seedlings will really be finished." ”

From the tone of their voices, it can be heard that they did not pay attention to what Meng Wentian said about the dam accident, although they also wanted the reservoir to release the flood as soon as possible, but their purpose was only to keep their rice fields from flooding.

The three men were like this, and so was Hua Yi, and she didn't pay attention to what he said about the safety of the dam, so she only heard her say to the three men: "I called Director Hu, and he said that your rice fields are illegally cultivated, and their reservoir will definitely not be flooded because your more than 100 acres of paddy fields are flooded." ”

Xia Shu squatted down on the ridge of the field, looked at a small piece of green leaves not far away, and said very painfully: "County Magistrate Hua, anyway, are these also seedlings? If they are allowed to grow, there are seven or eight hundred catties of rice per mu, and they can also feed a lot of people, and can't they also reduce a lot of burden on the political axe? Of course, it is better to allocate a part of the money from above, and let us build an embankment to raise them, so that it will be done once and for all." ”

Hua Yi sneered twice, but he was not in the mood to answer him.

Seeing that Hua Yi didn't echo himself, Xia Shu didn't dare to say anything more, but stood up, pretended to be smiling, and said: "County Magistrate Hua, today we made an appointment with Director Luo of the reservoir to come to our village to have dinner with you, and now the time is almost up, let's go back to the village." ”

What he said was obviously kind words, you must know that the reservoirs are under the management of the Department of Water Resources and Hydropower, and the leaders of such reservoirs with large power generation capacity are all high-level, and in order to balance the localities and prevent the localities from giving orders to the reservoirs, the top leaders of these reservoirs are at the same level as the county magistrates, and they are all department-level cadres.

And Hua Yi is only the nominal deputy county magistrate, and now he is still in the period of temporary training, and the other party's position is not high at all, saying that the other party came to accompany Hua Yi to dinner, it is simply to promote Hua Yi, and it should be said upside down: Hua Yi accompanied the director surnamed Luo to eat.

Thinking of this, after all, more than 100 acres of land were flooded, and this more than 100 acres of land was the largest cultivated land in Shang'an Dong Village, although Hua Yi was not very happy, he still decided to accompany the surnamed Luo to dinner, and persuaded the reservoir to discharge the flood and lower the water level of the reservoir.

Hua Yi first hummed at Xia Shu, then turned his head to Meng Wentian and said, "You guys should go together." ”

Remembering that Xia Shu and others said just now that this flood canal was unblocked, Meng Wentian did not insist on checking the situation of this canal with his own eyes, and besides, this canal was very far away, and it was not something that he and Zhou Weidong could see in a short time.

So he agreed to Hua Yi and followed her and Xia Shu and others to the village, while Zhou Weidong said goodbye to them, saying that he would put the bicycle back and eat at home, and come back after eating.

Watching Zhou Weidong ride away, Hua Yi and his party turned around and walked towards the village. Meng Wentian walked behind Hua Yi and said to Hua Yi: "County Magistrate Hua, do you know Director Luo?"

Hua Yi shook his head and said, "I don't know." …… What's wrong?"

Meng Wentian said: "I want to ask you to do me a favor." ”

Hua Yi was stunned for a moment and asked, "What are you helping you with?"

Meng Wentian said: "Please try to persuade Director Luo to start discharging the flood from now on and try to lower the water level." ”

Hua Yi turned his head to look at Meng Wentian and the two happy men behind Meng Wentian, and asked, "You also feel sorry for the more than 100 acres of paddy fields in the village?...... , but this paddy field ......" Speaking of this, seeing Meng Wentian's serious face, he couldn't help but be even more puzzled, but thinking of Meng Wentian's never unintentional purpose, he said, "I'll try it." I just don't know if this director will look at my face. Village Chief Xia and the others said a lot of good things to the man surnamed Luo, but he didn't agree. Even invited him to dinner this time, it was because their village said a lot of good things before they moved him. ”

Xia Shu also heard Meng Wentian's words, and he was originally happy in his heart, but after listening to Hua Yi's words, he also sighed and said: "It is estimated that it is impossible for them to lower the water level too much, they are simply misers, for fear that the water in the reservoir will be wasted, and that there will be no water to generate electricity in winter." ”

Meng Wentian whispered to Hua Yi, "Can you ask your father for help?"

Hua Yi was even more puzzled, and asked in surprise, "Why do you want my father to come forward?"

Meng Wentian hesitated for a moment, and resolutely said, "If it continues to rain like this, the dam will be dangerous!"

Hearing this, Hua Yi stopped for a moment, turned his head again, stared at Meng Wentian, and asked, "What you said is true? You went to see the dam just now, is the dam really dangerous?"

Meng Wentian nodded affirmatively and said, "Yes." ”

Not only Hua Yi was stunned, but even Xia Shu and the others looked at each other, and a man said to himself: "Impossible, right? This dam has been around for decades, and the water level this year is not the highest." The year before last, when the water level was at its highest, even the ridges where we are walking now were submerged. ”

Although the ridge is not very high, the water level is still at least a foot away from submerging it.

Another man also said: "If the dam is dangerous, Director Luo will definitely not believe it." You must know that the year before last, when the water level was highest, the water almost flooded my pigsty, and now it is at least a meter away from the water level at that time. If he talks about the dam in this way, he may say that we are lying to him, but it will not release the flood. ”

Xia Shu also nodded and said: "Director Luo, they are experts, and there are chief engineers in the reservoir, all of whom are intellectuals, and they know whether the dam is dangerous or not." If we use this reason to trick them into flooding, it will backfire. ”

In their minds, Meng Wentian asked Hua Yi to help move Director Luo, and his purpose was the same as theirs, that is, to expose more than 100 acres of submerged rice to the surface.

But Hua Yi knew that Meng Wentian's vision would definitely not only look so far, he must have his purpose.

But she couldn't help but ask: "Do you have any specific data? Did you see a crack in the dam just now? You can ask Zhou Weidong for help, isn't his house a reservoir? If you find a problem, let him say that the leaders of the reservoir will definitely pay attention." This is a matter of human life, and it is impossible to ignore your opinion. ”

Meng Wentian shook his head and said, "I have no problem, and I haven't found any cracks. ”

Hua Yi said strangely: "It was the people at the dam who discovered the hidden problem, and he reported it to their leaders, but their leaders ignored it, so he wanted to use you and my way to force the reservoir leaders to pay attention?"