It was a Sunday, and out of the 300-odd people in Ningxia Village, more than 200 people participated in the voting. In order to pay attention to this re-election, the town also came to a deputy mayor to supervise the re-election process and announce the final election results by the way. Of course, the deputy mayor who came to Ningxia Village was Liu Peng who had a good relationship with Zhong Shengbin.
Not only the deputy mayor Liu Peng came, but even Li Yuan came to join in the fun. In fact, Li Yuan didn't want to come. After all, it was Ningxia Village's business, and it had nothing to do with him. However, in order to cheer for the old village chief, Li Yuan was obliged to appear at the election scene.
Before the formal vote, Liu Peng, now the highest ranking official, spoke. The content is to ask everyone to vote seriously and exercise their rights well. At the same time, he will also supervise the entire re-election process, and strive to be fair, open, and just.
In fact, Liu Peng himself knew that these were just superficial words. Zhong Shengbin invited him out last night to be cool, and at the same time patted his chest and said that most of the villagers have been dealt with, and the village head of Ningxia Village will be replaced tomorrow.
Of course, Liu Peng will not come out about this kind of thing. The so-called "eating people with a short mouth and short hands", he really hoped that Zhong Shengbin would be elected. This can be regarded as happy for everyone, and Zhong Shengbin will not make trouble for himself afterwards.
After Liu Peng's speech, it was the candidate's campaign speech. In fact, there are only two candidates for the village head of Ningxia Village this year. One is Chen Wenchuan, the old village head who has been elected for several consecutive terms, and the other is the ambitious Zhong Shengbin.
The style of the two campaign speeches is also very different.
Zhong Shengbin said it was hype, saying that after he was elected village chief. I will definitely do my best for the welfare of the villagers, increase everyone's income, and make the life of Ningxia Village more prosperous. In short, I will describe the situation after my election.
And Chen Wenchuan's campaign speech. It's just a dry sentence "try hard for the good of the village" and it's over. Compared with the eloquent Zhong Shengbin, it is simply a world of difference.
After the speeches of the two men, Liu Peng announced that the voting had officially begun. Every adult villager present gets a ballot and just ticks the candidate's name.
More than 150 of the more than 200 people have voting rights, and it doesn't take much time to vote and count votes. The final result was soon handed over to Liu Peng, after he glanced at the name on it. He nodded and smiled very satisfied.
"Hey, everyone, be quiet, and I will announce the results of this reelection!" Liu Peng raised the electric horn to ask everyone to be quiet, indicating that he was going to announce the final voting results.
There was some noise in the open space in front of the village committee, but after hearing Liu Peng's words, everyone quieted down. Waiting for him to announce the election results.
"I declare that the result of the re-election of Ningxia village head in 2014 is..." Liu Peng raised his voice at this point, glanced at everyone and continued: "Zhong Shengbin was elected village head!"
"Boom!" As soon as the result was announced, whispers erupted from the crowd.
Those who voted for Zhong Shengbin because he promised benefits all showed joy. All they knew was that Zhong Shengbin was elected, and their two hundred dollars would be in their hands. Of course, they were very happy to get the benefits.
And Zhong Shengbin's best friend and a few villagers who have objections to Chen Wenchuan. Then all of them showed complacency. The former knew that after Zhong Shengbin was elected, he would be able to reap some benefits. And the latter is so proud, purely out of the pleasure of revenge—who told you Chen Wenchuan not to introduce me to work in the farm? Now I won't choose you as the village head!
And the rest of the villagers all showed surprise and anger. These people are hardcore supporters of Chen Wenchuan, and Zhong Shengbin did not go to solicit votes from these people before. So after Chen Wenchuan's unexpected defeat, they were naturally very surprised. Many people immediately thought that in recent years, Zhong Shengbin, who was rarely able to become the village chief in the village, must have used some shady means. Naturally, he became angry immediately.
Chen Wenchuan himself was as surprised as these villagers. He never imagined that Zhong Shengbin, who only returned to the village for a month or so a year, and who had always had a bad reputation, would defeat him and become the new village head of Ningxia Village!
At this moment, Chen Wenchuan couldn't believe this fact. When Zhong Shengbin came to Liu Peng triumphantly, ready to accept the key of the village committee, which symbolized the power of the village chief, the old village chief really believed that he had indeed been defeated. .
"No, there must be ghosts in it!"
"That's right, why should Zhong Shengbin be the village head?"
"What's wrong with the old village chief? Why did you dismiss him?!"
At this time, the villagers who supported Chen Wenchuan expressed their dissatisfaction with the result.
Zhong Shengbin, who was still smiling just now, immediately frowned, and said to Chen Wenchuan's supporters with a sneer, "What? This is the result of everyone's voting, and you still want to overthrow it?"
Liu Peng was completely on Zhong Shengbin's side, and immediately said loudly: "Why, are you questioning the voting process supervised by me? This is easy to handle. Everyone's votes are still here. Who doesn't believe that you can do it yourself Recount!"
The villagers who supported Chen Wenchuan were really eager to try, planning to check their ballots again.
But Chen Wenchuan felt that this was a village matter, and he didn't want Liu Peng, an "outsider", to see the joke, so he immediately stopped the villagers and said, "Zhu Wei, stop making trouble! You have to admit the result when it comes out, and you have to be true to your word." !"
The villager named Zhu Wei was not quite reconciled, and said loudly to Chen Wenchuan: "But the old village chief, I don't accept it!"
"Since it was voted by everyone, you have to accept it!" Chen Wenchuan waved his hand: "I am not the village chief from today on, if you still want to listen to me, go home now!"
Seeing that Chen Wenchuan was talking about this, Zhu Wei and the others couldn't stand their ground, stomped their feet heavily, and left in resentment.
Chen Wenchuan didn't leave right away, but came to Zhong Shengbin and said in a deep voice, "Xiao Zhong, I will leave the affairs of the village to you in the future, don't worry about it."
Zhong Shengbin said with a smirk: "Old village chief, don't worry, I will do my best for the sake of the village. You have experience in this area, please give me more guidance in the future."
Chen Wenchuan shook his head dispiritedly and said, "Since you are the village chief, it is of course inconvenient for me to point fingers. From now on, you will be the master of the village affairs."
"Old fellow, you are wise!" Zhong Shengbin sneered in his heart, but on the surface he said very politely: "Old village chief, you are too modest."
Chen Wenchuan just waved to Zhong Shengbin, and then went home alone.
Li Yuan next to him had a panoramic view of this scene, and couldn't help but rubbed his chin and muttered to himself: "I didn't expect the village chief to be replaced. What is the origin of this Zhong Shengbin, so that the old village chief can suffer Waterloo?" (unfinished to be continued.)