Wang Xiaohai and Yu Tu attacked each other and their reputations plummeted. The other three also had bad reputations, but not as bad as them.
In general, the five mayoral candidates have now become representatives of heinous crimes. Even if they have no shortcomings, several will be fabricated, and if they have shortcomings, they will be infinitely magnified. No one can escape!
None of the five candidates dared to take to the streets because if they did, everyone would shout and beat them up! Fruit peels and watermelon rinds were thrown at them. If they collected them, they could probably open a fruit shop.
"Don't worry about it. This happens every five years," Cheng Yan said to Wang Xiaohai. "The previous mayor was still pelted with shoes by all the citizens, but he still managed to become mayor in the end."
"Then his approval rating must not be high. How could he become mayor?" Wang Xiaohai asked curiously.
"Because the laws in Qingliu City don't stipulate that a voter turnout rate of over 50% is required for the vote to be valid, as in other places," Cheng Yan said.
"What do you mean?" Fang Fang asked.
"Even if only one person votes, their choice for mayor still counts," Cheng Yan said. "That means even if you're notorious, as long as you get a higher percentage of votes than everyone else, that's all that matters. No matter how bad your performance is, as long as you make your enemies even worse than you, you win!"
"So there's this kind of campaign tactic?" Fang Fang suddenly realized.
"As long as we can win, that's all!" Qin Jie said. "The popular campaign strategy in Qingliu City is to self-destruct and smear your opponents endlessly. My father and I were a little uncomfortable when we first arrived."
"Did your father become the principal in the same way?" Wang Xiaohai asked.
"No, my father's appointment was directly issued by the Union Ministry of Education. Local officials cannot refuse it, unless he commits a serious dereliction of duty. Only then do local officials have the right to fire him." Qin Jie said, "Even in this cruise ship incident, it was my father who voluntarily resigned. Otherwise, he could have shamelessly continued to stay as the school principal."
Yunmei took a notebook and wrote it down.
"By the way, aren't you a mayoral candidate? How come you know nothing about these things?" Qin Jie said to Wang Xiaohai.
At this moment, the five people were sitting in the car that Wang Xiaohai bought for ten thousand yuan. Cheng Yan was driving, Fang Fang was sitting in the passenger seat, and Wang Xiaohai and the two girls were sitting in the back seat, making others envious.
"Does a mayoral candidate have to know this kind of thing?" Wang Xiaohai asked. "You're Yu Lu's boyfriend, so do you necessarily understand him?"
Qin Jie pinched Wang Xiaohai's thigh hard.
Seeing this, Yunmei also pinched Wang Xiaohai's other leg.
"Can you please give way to girls and stop arguing with them!" Yunmei said.
"Oh, I'm sorry, but what the girl said doesn't make sense. Can't I refute it?" Wang Xiaohai explained.
"Your emotional intelligence is zero!" Yunmei said, "You can't refute it. You are not allowed to refute it!"
Wang Xiaohai was speechless, and Fang Fang was just looking at the scenery outside the window.
The car stopped in front of the District 4 Mall.
"Go in and buy some dinner ingredients." Wang Xiaohai said, "We're going to cook our own dinner tonight. Each of us must cook three dishes of our own, choosing our own ingredients!"
The five of them happily went to the raw food section of the mall to shop.
"Fang Fang, which three dishes can you cook?" Cheng Yan walked up to Fang Fang and asked.
"Scrambled eggs with tomatoes, tomato and egg soup, and scrambled eggs with tomatoes," Fang Fang said.
Cheng Yan: “…”
After the five people purchased the food, Wang Xiaohai put them in the trunk of the car and drove back to the dormitory.
Since the dormitory was not spacious, the five of them went to the balcony at the back where they dried clothes to cook.
Three courses for five people each.
Wang Xiaohai: Mapo tofu, steamed sea bass, stir-fried beef with celery.
Fang Fang: Among the scrambled eggs with tomatoes, tomato and egg soup, and scrambled eggs with tomatoes, two of his dishes seemed to be burnt and turned black, only the soup was not burnt.
Yunmei: Fried vermicelli with crab roe, exquisite snack turntable on the Ferris wheel, and two-color fish head.
Cheng Yan: Delicious duck neck, sweet fruit cake, and scallion pancakes.
Qin Jie: Roasted chicken legs, roasted duck legs, roasted lamb legs.
Wang Xiaohai: "The principal's daughter only knows how to barbecue?"
Qin Jie: "At home, my servants always cook for me. I never have to cook myself."
Wang Xiaohai thought that Yunmei was a princess, so she could still cook. However, Yunmei's identity could not be exposed, so he compared her with Cheng Yan: "Cheng Yan's family background is not worse than yours, and he can cook well."
"He is a man, it is normal for him to be good at hands-on work," said Qin Jie.
All the dishes were served and everyone started eating. I have to say that the dishes I cooked myself tasted better than those in the restaurant.
Of course, except for Fang Fang's dishes, no one knows what that black thing is, and no one wants to eat it, not even Fang Fang herself.
After drinking, the five of them all went to sleep in Wang Xiaohai's dormitory. Since there were only four beds, Cheng Yan and Fang Fang slept together.
The next morning, Cheng Yan got up with panda eyes, and Fang Fang was talking in her sleep again.
Today is the day when voting begins. Everyone gets up, turns on the TV and watches the live election broadcast, but Wang Xiaohai has to rush to the TV station to wait for the results with the other four candidates.
When Wang Xiaohai rushed to the TV station, the lobby was already full of people. He saw Cheng Yan's father was also there, sitting on the largest sofa.
Everyone was looking at the big screen on the wall of the hall. Dozens of staff members from the election committee were divided into two groups, one in the east and one in the west, and went to each district to place ballot boxes.
There are a total of twenty boxes, placed in the centers of twenty districts in Qingliu City, and guarded by a staff member.
The working committee had already delivered ballots to every household, but no one knew whether they threw them into the trash can.
In the morning, when the citizens woke up, they didn't bother to pay attention to the ballot box. In their eyes, none of the five candidates were good people.
However, many students over the age of 18 voted for Wang Xiaohai, all of whom he had recruited in colleges and universities.
Many employees of the company voted for candidate No. 4 Yu Tu, and it seems that the company's leaders have been bribed.
There are other drivers who voted for number three.
After nine o'clock, the vote counts began to appear on the TV station's screens.
Number one Hu Shuo: 1,886 votes.
Number two, Sun Ba: 2018 votes.
No. 3 Xiahou car: 2333 tickets.
Number 4 on the road: ticket.
Number five, Wang Xiaohai: 5028 votes.
The number of votes began to increase slowly, and the deadline was 6 pm.
Although candidate number four had a bad reputation, he was rich and had bribed many people. After seeing the number of votes, a smile appeared on his face, as if the position of mayor was already in his pocket.
"Wang Xiaohai's votes are a bit low!" Tan Jie and the others discussed in the dormitory, "Should we go to the school and ask someone to help us vote? There are still hundreds of thousands of people in the school."
"No need," Cheng Yan said. "Forcing others will only backfire. If you were lying at home playing games and someone knocked on your door and asked you to vote for them on WeChat Moments, would you feel good about it?"
"We can only wait. We have done everything we need to do," Fang Fang said.
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