Chapter 368 Bai Ze and Qi Yuanchuan
"Ye Li, what do you mean by this?" Old Madam Xiao shouted, "You are questioning Minister Lei's ability. Who gave you such courage? Now that Xiao Xun is gone, do you think you are the high and mighty wife of the City Lord? You are not! You are just an inferior person."
Old Madam Xiao was going crazy. In the past, Ye Li had Xiao Xun to protect her, and her authority was challenged again and again. Now she couldn't stand it anymore.
"If we don't have time to plant rice, we won't have food to eat. We'll be cold and hungry in winter, and people might even die." Ye Li said slowly, ignoring the furious Madam Xiao.
"Ms. Ye, do you have a solution?" Minister Lei Ming asked humbly, which was much more pleasing to the eye than his domineering daughter.
"I don't have a good solution for the chemicals being pumped into the fields; that needs to be handled by professionals," Ye Li said. "I just have some humble ideas that will help everyone maximize the use of the land and grow food."
"Can you tell me specifically what the method is?"
"Of course, but—" Ye Li looked at everyone who was listening attentively, smiled and said, "It doesn't seem very convenient in this situation."
"Are you telling the truth? Why is it so hard to believe?" Song Yan, the candidate for city lord, said, "You're just a woman escaping from troubled times. What great abilities could you possibly possess? Haha... Could it be that you also used this method to deceive Xiao Xun?"
"Shut up! You are not allowed to slander my mother!" Xixi stared at Song Yan with wide eyes like a fighter. She said word by word, "My mother is the most powerful person in the world. You are not allowed to say that about her."
Xiaomu walked closer to Ye Li, his black eyes full of hostility.
"Haha..." Song Yan laughed even more wildly. He said, "I really feel more and more like we're just playing house. To have two children participate in such a serious occasion, and to have a woman who's full of lies speak here, is truly speechless!"
"Since you have nothing to say, then shut up! Stop saying these dirty words." The door of the conference room opened again, and Qi Yuanchuan and Bai Ze walked in together. The person who spoke just now was Bai Ze.
Ye Li's clenched hands relaxed instantly. It was just the right time, neither too early nor too late!
Bai Ze plopped down on the empty chair, still looking smug, and said, "Electing a new city lord is such a big deal, why didn't you inform Qi Yuanchuan and me? After all, we are the heads of two of the eight great families. What's going on? Do you all look down on our Bai and Qi families?"
It’s not surprising that Bai Ze appears.
Qi Yuanchuan's appearance was a bit unexpected.
But it was really a big surprise that the two of them appeared together.
Bai Ze and Qi Yuanchuan are not on good terms, and this is something everyone knows. I didn’t expect that the two of them would appear at the same time. Could it be that they are also interested in the position of city lord?
Old Madam Xiao instantly became alert and winked at Song Yan, who secretly told himself to go down and prepare.
"How could that be?" Old Madam Xiao said amiably, "You two children are back, and you still don't know that Xiao Xun—"
"I don't want to care about what's going on with him, and I can't care either." Bai Ze interrupted Madam Xiao and said, "I came back today to support my nephew."
Bai Ze stood up and pulled Xiao Mu to sit in the main seat. He stood beside Xiao Mu and announced loudly: "On behalf of the entire Bai family, I, Bai Ze, declare to everyone that I support Xiao Mu to become the next city lord. This is unconditional support."
Everyone was shocked. Bai Ze actually supported a child as city lord? What was he trying to do? Hadn't he always wanted to be city lord? Why was he now? Was he trying to support a child as a puppet, while he himself was the mastermind behind the scenes?
(End of this chapter)
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