"I'm not kidding, I'm just helping." Qin Jie said.

Fang Fang picked up the braised pork trotter on the table with chopsticks and took a mouthful of rice. Hearing this, he burst out laughing, and a few grains of rice flew out of his nostrils.

"What a disgusting thing," Wang Xiaohai said to Fang Fang, "Do you eat through your nostrils?"

"It's okay, you two continue discussing the mayor's campaign plan. I'll get the food and turn around to eat." Fang Fang said with a smile, grabbed a plate of fried chicken legs on the table and turned around.

"Why do you think this is possible?" Wang Xiaohai asked Qin Jie.

"I got inside information that the former mayor has died in the hospital. It will be announced in a few days, and then a new mayor can be elected." When Qin Jie said this, the dishes had already been served on the table. She picked up a piece of medium-rare steak and put it in the bowl.

"Do you think I can run for mayor just because the mayor is dead?" Wang Xiaohai said, "I think I should run for Chief Consul of the Confederate States. The mayor is really wronging me."

"I'm not kidding you. To run for mayor of Qingliu City, you must be at least 18 years old. You can become a candidate if you have the joint signatures of more than 100 Qingliu citizens and the petition is approved by the parliament." Qin Jie had obviously done some special research.

"So what? I only meet the requirement of being 18 years old," Wang Xiaohai said. "But there are more Qingliu citizens with the same conditions as me than hairs on a cow. I have no chance of competing."

"But you saved your classmates on the cruise ship for hundreds of years. I will go to ask them for signatures and fingerprints. I guess they will agree. Then the second condition of more than a hundred signatures will be met." Qin Jie said.

"It's easy for other rich people to bribe a hundred people. The second condition is not difficult. The problem is the third one, which is to get the parliament to pass it and become a candidate. I can't think of any way to make the members of the city council stupid enough to vote for me, a college student who just turned 18, to become the mayor of Qingliu City!" Wang Xiaohai drank the juice drink in front of him in one gulp.

"You just need to promise me to run for election, and I will help you with the other signatures and parliament." Qin Jie said.

"Since you have a way to deal with the parliament, then you don't need me at all." Wang Xiaohai was so hungry that he swallowed a Qingliu roast duck leg on the table in one gulp and almost choked on it. "I'm curious, how do you plan to deal with the parliament?"

"The method is very simple, just ask a classmate for help." said Qin Jie.

"Who is it?" Wang Xiaohai asked, picking up a piece of braised pork on the table with chopsticks. "You should eat too. Don't just talk. The food will get cold soon."

"It's Cheng Yan on the cruise ship. His father is a big shot in Qingliu City and the chairman of the parliament." Qin Jie put down the chopsticks in her hand.

"Cheng Yan? That kid!" Wang Xiaohai said, "Isn't he in the giant shark monster's belly?"

"He came back yesterday," Qin Jie said. "Speaking of which, if he's in the giant shark monster's belly, how come you're not sad at all? Aren't you friends?"

"If sadness were useful, I'd be sad right now. If sadness could solve all my problems, I'd be sad every day," Wang Xiaohai said. "Even if I'm sad, I won't tell everyone I meet, 'Look at my face, I'm sad.' People who think rationally rarely get sad."

"Why are you talking more and more like a philosophy professor from our school's liberal arts college?" Qin Jie went back to picking up vegetables. "I don't care. You have to run for mayor anyway. Consider it compensation for your rudeness to me."

Fang Fang heard the words that excited him again, and immediately turned around and said, "Wang Xiaohai, don't you plan to take responsibility? You..."

Before he could say anything, Wang Xiaohai stuffed a Sicong brand hot dog into his mouth, and he immediately "wuwu" and couldn't speak.

"I promise you, don't blame me if it doesn't succeed," said Wang Xiaohai.

Qin Jie cheered and stood up to leave the room: "I'll go get your autograph ready."

Fang Fang thought it was ridiculous. The campaign for mayor was launched in less than the time it took to finish a meal?

"If you can successfully become the mayor of Qingliu City, I will do the butterfly stroke in a cesspool!" Fang Fang had no confidence at all.

"Okay, I'm going to do my best so that you can do the butterfly stroke." Wang Xiaohai started to eat voraciously.

Wang Xiaohai ate thirty dishes by himself. Although he enjoyed the meal, the final bill cost him 15,000 yuan.

Fang Fang ridiculed Wang Xiaohai for spending money lavishly once he had money.

Wang Xiaohai asked, "Didn't you enjoy your meal just now? Just be happy!"