At nine in the morning, a black Santana turned from Yanjiang Road onto the Yangtze River levee via the temporary road constructed during flood control.
It was the dry season, so the levee was far from the river's surface.
The gentle slope on the outer side of the levee was overgrown with weeds, and there was a lot of rubbish left by the flood season among the weeds. To the south, there was a vast expanse of reeds swaying in the wind. Further south on the river, three internal freight ships of a hundred tons were anchored, waiting to cross the river to the small pier on the opposite shore to load goods.
In the distance, the main and auxiliary waterways remained as busy as ever, with a freighter estimated to be at least twenty thousand tons heading upstream.
Working by the river, or even enforcing the law on it, recognizing ships was a basic skill that could be quickly mastered without deliberate learning.
