Wen Yan didn't go to meet that water ghost, nor did he continue to get involved in what happened afterwards.
This kind of thing wasn't up to him to decide. The Huai River involved too much, and too many people. In earlier times, the Huai River Basin often flooded, ruining fields and farmlands.
It's only in the past few decades, with constant management and the construction of waterworks, that there has been all this new good farmland.
He just confirmed with Mai Conggui that the water ghost had called Niu Zhiqiang, and that Niu Zhiqiang had come in person to take the water ghost away, so he could relax.
Anything connected to great rivers has always been complicated.
Especially now, when things inside the water system are involved, it gets even more tangled, implicating more things than you can count.
This isn't something one or two people can just make a snap decision about.
