Song Fang saw Wang Youcai's appearance, and was almost angry. Chen Yueqin saw all this. She whispered to Song Fang: "I heard the people in the village talk in private, the relationship between Ma Yan and Chen Erniu is very stiff, so there is no such thing as Youcai said, what Ma Yan did well, I heard that Ma Yan didn't want to do it."

"Is this true?" When Song Fang heard this, she suddenly came to her senses. In fact, in the entire Xiping Village, who is half a catty, who is eight taels, Song Fang still knows. This Ma Yan is higher than her in terms of education, experience, and business ability, Song Fang has long known this in her heart, to put it bluntly, she is afraid that Ma Yan will come to fight with her, if she really does not participate, then her chances of winning will be greater.

Chen Yueqin saw that her daughter-in-law was happy, so she lowered her voice and said, "This won't be wrong, I listened to Qiao Dongping's mother." Because several other cadres were not convinced, let Ma Yan be the village head"

"If that's the case, then Ma Yan will definitely not participate in this election," Wang Degui finally said. His words, Song Fang was reassured.

As soon as lunch passed, the loudspeaker in Xiping Village suddenly sounded. Immediately afterwards, Chen Erniu's hoarse voice shouted: "All the villagers of Xiping Village, please pay attention, at half past one this afternoon, a village chief election meeting will be held. Every family must send someone to participate, children and the elderly should not come, and those who come must be able to take on the responsibility of the whole family."

Chen Erniu shouted this twice on the loudspeaker, and finally said that because of the election of the village head, the time to go to work in the cooperative was also postponed to 3 o'clock in the afternoon, that is, after participating in the election meeting, everyone went to work again.

Wang Youcai, who had slept beautifully, walked out of the west room. Chen Yueqin glanced at his son, and said a little distressed: "The meal is ready, you have to eat a little, don't break your body"

"I'm sure I'm going to eat, if I don't eat every meal, it's not starving me," Wang Youcai said, and walked into the kitchen by himself. The guy stood in the kitchen and ate two bowls of noodles, looking really hungry.

In the upper room, Song Fang and Wang Degui were talking about running for village chief this afternoon. Wang Youcai walked in, sat down on a chair and said, "Don't think about it too complicated, isn't that what it is?" Don't worry, someone will help us, this thing will definitely be done," Wang Youcai said with confidence.

Song Fang smiled and said, "This thing can only succeed." First, I'm unemployed now, and secondly, we can't afford to lose this person, because I'm now representing your old Wang family."

"Okay, okay, don't keep saying that you represent our old Wang family. Then when you become the village head, do you give your family every month's salary? Wang Youcai smiled coldly and choked Song Fang.

Song Fang's eyes widened and he roared: "Give it to the family, let's go to the northwest wind?" Your eldest brother is coming out next month, and you said that as soon as he comes out, he can find any errands, and he doesn't want me to raise him for a while."

"Ahh Big brother is coming out? This is a good thing, but have you thought about it, you can't let the eldest brother rest at home, so it's easier to have an accident" Wang Youcai asked a little surprised when he heard that Wang Youfa was going to come out.

Song Fang smiled and said, "One hundred husband and wife, I have already thought of it for your eldest brother." We will find a way to open a store in the newly built building materials market in Pingdu, so that your eldest brother can run it."

"Yo! Not bad! It seems that the sister-in-law has already prepared for this," Wang Youcai said with an imbalance in his heart.

Song Fang glanced at Wang Degui and said, "If you don't find something to do, do you want us to starve to death!" “

"Eldest daughter-in-law, didn't you say that you want to open a farmhouse in Xiping Village?" Chen Yueqin couldn't help but ask Song Fang.

Song Fang glanced at Chen Yueqin coldly and said: "The farmhouse is not open just when it is opened, you see that the whole project has just started, and if you want to officially operate, it will be at least two to three years." So what do we eat in the past two or three years? ”

"Huh! I don't understand this, I'm just asking casually" Chen Yueqin found that she was a little out of her mouth, and quickly pulled away and left.

Wang Degui lit a dry cigarette, took two puffs and said, "It's not as long as you said." When I was herding sheep in the southeast mountain, I heard Xia Zecheng tell several other people that the project was being built and operated at the same time, and that it was a service upgrade. I don't understand it anyway, but I heard him say that it will be operational by the end of this year."

"Really? Wouldn't that be better" Song Fang said, raised her hand and glanced at her watch, then beckoned Wang Youcai and the two to go to the Xiping Village Committee together.

Chen Yueqin saw that Song Fang was gone, so she quickly stepped into the upper room, she sighed and asked, "You said that our daughter-in-law here, can you choose the village chief?" ”

"It's hard to say. I don't want to discourage the two of them, but it's not as simple as they seem. Who is Xia Jian? I can understand this young man's brain, don't look at him not in Pingyang Town, maybe behind this matter, the person who vigorously supports or makes a move is him" Wang Degui is old and calculating, and he sees this matter very thoroughly.

When Chen Yueqin heard this, she hurriedly said: "Since this is the case, then don't let them go again, isn't this embarrassing?" ”

"Humph! This Song Fang held herself up very much, and no one at home could clean him up, so I asked her to go out and see if she was half a catty or eight taels" Wang Degui said, laughing.

Chen Yueqin snorted coldly and did not speak again.

The compound of the village committee in Xiping Village is already crowded with people. It was past one o'clock, and the sun was shining very strongly, but all the people who should have come were here.

On the steps of the first floor, there is a row of tables. Behind the table sat Secretary Lu of the Pingyang Town Party Committee, as well as Deputy Mayor Tong Jie. Wei Xiaoming, secretary of the town party committee. The other person is Li Lin, the deputy mayor who just came to work, and in addition to Xia Jian, Pingyang Town and the first and second leaders are here.

Chen Erniu, the deputy head of Xiping Village, sat at the table with him. Xia Sanhu and Qiao Dong sat on the side, but they didn't see the face of Ma Yan, the acting village head. It turned out that just before this, Tong Jie took Ma Yan's Quanli village head. No wonder she was angry and disappeared from her figure.

Chen Erniu saw that everyone was almost here, so he took the microphone and slapped it twice, and then said loudly: "Villagers of Xiping Village, please pay attention. Today, I took advantage of the more than an hour of the lunch break to elect the village chief of our village. In line with the principle of fair competition, no one is allowed to canvass for votes without permission. If discovered, they will be punished by law."

Next, Secretary Lu said a few words, and asked Tong Jie to announce the election discipline, and the election began. First, the town government nominated Chen Erniu and Xia Sanhu. There is also Song Fang, who almost everyone didn't expect, as soon as her name was written, it attracted everyone's discussion.

In addition, two young people from the village also registered. What puzzled everyone was that among these people, there was only Ma Yan's name. She was the acting village chief during this time, and she did a good job, and some people still said behind her back that she had Zhao Hong's shadow.

Song Fang and Wang Youcai stood in the crowd and saw that Ma Yan's name was not on the blackboard. Song Fang began to smile secretly in her heart.

At this time, a bold villager asked loudly, "Why is there no name for Ma Yan?" She is the most capable candidate in our village to be a good village chief."

"Oh! Ma Yan gave up the campaign herself. The town leader has also talked to her, but she just doesn't want to be the village chief anymore," Chen Erniu explained loudly to this person.

When someone heard this, he laughed loudly: "Deputy Village Chief Chen, this shouldn't be your ghost!" I heard that just now, the two of you had a big fight, and you don't support her work at ordinary times, I wonder if there is such a thing? ”

"This has nothing to do with this election. She gave up voluntarily, so no one else can be blamed for this" Chen Erniu pushed this person back in a very resolute tone.

Secretary Lu glanced at the candidates on the blackboard, and his brows slowly stretched. He glanced at Tong Jie, smiled slightly, and said, "Mayor Tong!" I'm pretty much there, so let's get started! Ma Yan has a stubborn personality, we can't spoil everyone's affairs because of her alone! ”

Tong Jie let out a sigh of relief and did not answer Secretary Lu. But at this time, Secretary Lu couldn't wait to say loudly: "It seems that there are only so many candidates for this time, and now we will start voting by secret ballot."

"Wait! And me," Ma Yan shouted, squeezing in from outside the gate of the village committee. There was a small cheer from the villagers, and it seemed that everyone's eyes were bright.

Secretary Lu said extremely unhappily: "This kid has gone back on his word, can he still be the village chief like this?" “

"Qiao Dongping! Write Ma Yan's name as well," Tong Jie said loudly to Qiao Dongping, who was drawing the vote.

In front of everyone, Secretary Lu didn't have much to say. In this way, Ma Yan's name was written on the blackboard. Voting in the village is as simple as writing a person's name. If you can't write, write the code name in front of the person's name, such as one, two, three, and other numbers.

Chen Erniu's work ability, Ma Yan's cultural level, and Song Fang is the daughter-in-law of the old Wang family. These external factors have attracted a lot of votes for them. The final result turned out to be that Chen Erniu received the most votes, and Ma Yan and Song Fang ranked second with the same number of votes. It seems that it is necessary for Wang Youcai to come back a few days ago for some activities. Otherwise, who voted for her Song Fang.

Secretary Lu wiped his sweat and said to Tong Jie beside him: "Mayor Tong! Since such a situation has arisen, let's quickly cut through the mess and let them go in for the written test! “

"That's fine! In addition to Chen Erniu and Ma Yan and Song Fang, the person with the highest number of votes is Xia Sanhu. The votes of the other people are too low, even if they take the exam, it will have no effect," Tong Jie said with a slight smile.

Xia Sanhu stood up and said a little embarrassed: "I gave up the campaign, so I didn't take the exam."

"Good, good! We respect Xia Sanhu's opinion, and the remaining three people will sit indoors, and we will distribute the test papers. also invited one or two villagers to be invigilators" Secretary Lu is indeed a little anxious, it may be that the sun is shining, and he is a little overwhelmed.

At this time, Wei Xiaoming stood up and said: "For the fairness of this examination, we have produced a total of ten sets of test papers with different contents, and now please invite a villager to come over and draw out a set of test papers as today's test papers."

As soon as Wei Xiaoming's words fell, Secretary Lu's face changed, and he asked in a low voice: "Xiao Wei!" What's going on? How did I not know this? “

"You don't know? I said at the last meeting that I will produce the test papers, and the papers will be drawn during the exam! Wei Xiaoming asked a little puzzled.

Secretary Lu asked in a hurry: "Then you have a drawer..." Secretary Lu said, wanting to speak again, he suddenly felt as if he had said something wrong.