My Fish Pond Has One Very Loyal Customer novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Four Hands
On the night of the nineteenth, the whole plan lay on Lu Qing's kitchen table in pencil.
He had drawn it on the back of a feed sack.
The technician sat at one end in his lab coat, eating dumplings with his fingers.
The old coach sat at the other with the biscuit tin on his knees.
The young man with the cane sat by the stove with a blanket round his shoulders.
Aunt Fen had given him the spare room and a hot water bottle, and had cried twice.
"Right," said Lu Qing. "The county team comes at nine. Three inspectors and a man from the bureau."
"Tang will be there, because it's his case."
"His case," said the technician, with his mouth full. "He's got the deputy director to his house for dinner every month."
"And Qian Lixin holds the stamp. Nothing happens on village land without Qian's stamp, even an inspection."
"He'll be terrified."
"Good. Terrified people say true things in public." Lu Qing tapped the sack.
"You take the water samples at the inlet, where the stream comes in. It's your job. Nobody can say no."
"And I do it slowly," said the technician.
"You do it very slowly. You tell them what you find."
The technician pulled a folded printout from his pocket and slid it over.
"I already ran the sediment from last week," he said. "Chlorinated residue, at a level that has no business in a farm stream."
"It's old. Seven years old, I'd say. And I walked the weir with a metal detector."
"A what?" said the old coach.
"I bought it online. It was thirty yuan." The technician pointed.
"Third stone from the north end, three metres down. Something big and steel."
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