Thinking of this, Huo Haocheng looked around, wanting to see where the mayor and the commander were and what they were doing.

"Hey, Huo Haocheng, what are you looking at?" After the joke, the group talked about today's progress. They were all happy to know that the railway and highway should be cleared by tomorrow. However, when they talked about the situation in the city, they noticed that Huo Haocheng was looking around and didn't respond when they called him twice.

Sitting next to him, Gu Jinghe imitated the way Ruan Shaolin had patted Bai Sirui earlier, and slapped Huo Haocheng on the back.

Coming to his senses, Huo Haocheng noticed their puzzled looks and asked, "Did you see the mayor and the commander today?"

The group asked, puzzled, "Don't you usually deal with them?"

"No, I haven't seen them at all today, from when I went out this morning until I came back this evening."

"Yes, me too."

“We saw Secretary Xu this morning, right after Ruan Ruan finished speaking. He must have heard what Ruan Ruan said. What happened?” Bai Sirui didn’t understand politics very well and rarely dealt with government people, so he didn’t understand Huo Haocheng’s question for a moment.

None of them understood why Huo Haocheng would specifically seek out the mayor and the commander when they were having a perfectly good conversation.

"Do you think that what Ruan Ruan did today was something that the mayor or the commander should have done, but Ruan Ruan beat him to it?" Deng Yi thought about what his grandfather had told him, and then looked at Huo Haocheng's actions, asking uncertainly.

"It's not that they rushed ahead, but rather, this is what they should have done. However, two days and two nights have passed since the earthquake. Apart from seeing them that night, and only Bai Sirui and the others saw Secretary Xu, I think he must have heard the commotion to show up today. What about the others? Have you seen them?"

Hearing Huo Haocheng's words, they realized that they hadn't seen many government leaders in the past two days.