The next day, Li Jianguo went to Xu Chengjun and told him about it.
Xu Chengjun was a little surprised too. He did not really understand it. As he saw it, Li Long had contracted Little Haizi, dug a canal for it, and installed a floodgate, keeping it from being washed away.
From Little Haizi, the Li family could use the water however they liked. There was nothing wrong with that.
But since Li Jianguo and Li Long had made their position clear, the water in the lake would remain under the Team's management. Of course, the Li family's cooperative could use it without any problem. In other words, they could use it themselves, but anyone else would need the Team's approval and would have to pay.
Xu Chengjun was rather touched.
Actually, it made sense once one thought it through. After all, Little Haizi counted as a reservoir built in the sixties or seventies. The waterworks had been built in the days of the people's commune, so they were public property.
When Li Long contracted it, nobody had actually made clear whether he was contracting everything or only its aquaculture functions. Looking at it now, it was a muddled business.
As long as neither the Team nor the township pursued the matter, the Li family could do whatever they wanted. And as things stood, neither the township nor the Team was likely to interfere.
But the Li family had not taken advantage of that. That put them on a different level.
So Xu Chengjun immediately guaranteed that whenever the cooperative needed water, the Li family could simply release it. The Team would never stop them.
The Team would have another source of ready cash!
The matter was settled just like that. Xu Chengjun even called all the village representatives