At 11 a.m., the sun was shining brightly, and the meeting room was slightly stuffy. In Huangyuan County, the weather had already gotten hot after entering May.
In the bidding evaluation meeting room, as Secretary Zhang Xingguo took the lead in raising his hand, Kang Yong followed closely behind, and then Hou Peng.
Seeing the two raise their hands, Zhang Xingguo immediately felt confident. Actually, he was mainly concerned about Hou Peng, fearing that Hou Peng might change his mind. As for the two supporters beside him, Kang Yong and Ma Tao, he wasn't worried at all.
As long as Hou Peng supports him, Qi Weihua's attitude is irrelevant, because he has three votes, plus Hou Peng's, making four votes, which is more than half.
Zhang Xingguo's gaze finally settled on Li Xiuyuan, with a hint of amusement in it.
Li Xiuyuan's expression remained largely unchanged. Zhang Xingguo sneered inwardly, thinking, "He's really good at keeping his composure, and he's putting on quite a show."
Zhang Xingguo was about to have the supervisors count the votes when he glanced at Ma Tao out of the corner of his eye and noticed that Ma Tao hadn't raised his hand and was keeping his head down, seemingly busy with something.
Zhang Xingguo coughed lightly to remind Ma Tao to raise his hand. He wondered what Ma Tao was thinking about today, his head down, scribbling and drawing. What was there to record at this bidding meeting? Why didn't he raise his hand when he should? He'd have to give him a talking-to later.
Zhang Xingguo coughed twice, but Ma Tao still didn't respond at all.
Zhang Xingguo frowned immediately and spoke up to remind him, "Committee Member Ma, everyone is evaluating bids now. Put aside your work for a moment and express your opinion."
After Zhang Xingguo finished speaking, Ma Tao finally mustered up his courage and looked up, meeting Zhang Xingguo's gaze and nodding: "Okay, I understand, Secretary Zhang."
But after he finished speaking, Ma Tao didn't raise his hand at all. Zhang Xingguo's forehead veins throbbed. What was he thinking? Raise his hand? Just agree but not raise it? Has he lost his mind?
However, Zhang Xingguo couldn't say it outright in this situation. Just as he was about to subtly remind Ma Tao about raising his hand, he heard Li Xiuyuan say from the side, "Secretary, everyone who supports Zhengda Company has raised their hands. Shouldn't we count the votes?"
"Okay, let me repeat this one last time: raise your hand if you support CP Group." Zhang Xingguo reminded him again, but Ma Tao seemed not to understand and sat there blankly, showing no intention of raising his hand.
Zhang Xingguo could only grit his teeth and have the votes counted.
After the staff of the Discipline Inspection Commission finished counting the votes, everyone put down their hands.
Zhang Xingguo looked at Li Xiuyuan and said, word by word, "Then raise your hand if you support what Deputy Mayor Li said about the vast number of construction companies."
At this point, Zhang Xingguo didn't think he would lose. Ma Tao had made a mistake, but it wouldn't affect anything. Ma Tao's brain was out of order today, and he didn't know why he hadn't come to his senses. But Ma Tao wouldn't support Li Xiuyuan anyway.
As for Qi Weihua, at worst he can just abstain; why would he support Li Xiuyuan?
On the contrary, Lu Zhenhai is the most likely to support Li Xiuyuan. He has heard some things recently, such as that Lu Zhenhai's daughter Lu Ting seems to be with Wang Zhitao.
This might change Lu Zhenhai's attitude.
Even if Lu Zhenhai supports Li Xiuyuan, it will only be two votes, which is one vote less than the three votes on his side.
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