Early the next morning, Li Long drove to Little Haizi.
To his surprise, Yang Laoliu had already driven the cattle and sheep to the foot of the dam. Clearly, he had eaten very early and started work even earlier than at the Purchasing Station.
His enthusiasm left Li Long a little embarrassed. Was he being a Zhou Bapi?
After greeting him, Li Long climbed the dam to look at the floodwaters.
Actually, he could have guessed without looking-when he got out of the vehicle, he had seen floodwater gushing out beneath the floodgate. Clearly, there was a huge volume of water, and it would not recede anytime soon.
"Xiao Long, this is quite a flood." Yang Laoliu followed him up with his sheep whip in hand and said:
"Looking at this water, if the floodgate hadn't been opened, it might have overtopped the dam this morning... Who knows what those team cadres are doing? With this much water, they didn't even think to open the floodgate yesterday."
He meant the floodgate at the northeastern corner of the dam that supplied irrigation water to the whole team's fields.
That floodgate was locked, and the team leader and the Water Manager had the keys. When Li Long saw that the water wasn't so high yesterday, he had only raised the floodgate at the base of the dam without telling the team, thinking there should be no problem.
Now both floodgates were open, so Li Long asked:
"Uncle Yang, did you tell the team?"
"Yep. After I brought the sheep back yesterday, I went and gave Jun Wazi a talking-to. He's not as keen on handling things as he used to be, now that he's team leader. Since he took the job, he can't spend all day thinking about making money." Although Land