Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 42 General Election

The steam bus No. 306 stopped running at 8 o'clock. For this kind of steam bus that runs every half an hour, if Chen Yan didn't run faster, he would have to run ten kilometers to go home.

Fortunately, there is also a bus stop for the No. 306 steam bus on High Street.

He left High Street quickly and came to the platform outside High Street East. After waiting patiently for more than 20 minutes, he finally waited for the last 306 steam bus.

There were not many passengers in the car, so Chen Yan didn't need to smell the ubiquitous pungent body odor of the imperial people.

Chen Yan sat in the front seat in a daze, and didn't come back to his senses until he heard someone talking to him.

"hello."

He collected himself, only to realize that the speaker was the driver of the steam bus, a white-skinned uncle who looked more than 50 years old.

"Young man, did you know that the imperial elections every four years are about to begin!"

The imperial election... Chen Yan didn't know much about it.

All he knows is that the imperial election is a voting activity conducted by the citizens of the entire empire. People will successively elect the mayor of each city, the governor of each state, and the president of the empire.

In fact, every time Chen Yan thinks of this, he feels very strange.

Shouldn't the head of the "Empire" be the "Emperor"?

What is the president?
I don’t know, I don’t understand, whatever, it’s none of my business.

Chen Yan scratched his tired and numb face:

"Ah, ah, yes, I heard... But I am a new immigrant, and I don't seem to be eligible to vote."

It was only after Chen Yan finished speaking that he regained his strength a little, and was able to raise his head and look at the uncle's appearance in the rearview mirror.

He has the same ordinary face as most uncles in the empire, with a big nose and big mouth, fair skin with rosy skin, black hair mixed with about a third of white hair, and his eyes are very energetic.

Chen Yan subconsciously thought, this uncle must also be a transcendent...

What the uncle driver said next proved his overwhelmedness.

"Where do you work, boy?"

Chen Yan glanced around and found that he was the only passenger on the last bus.

This shows that the uncle driver is indeed talking to him.

"In Central Forest Park."

He answered vaguely.

The Byron Weiss Zoo was originally part of the Central Forest Park, and there seemed to be nothing wrong with his answer.

When the uncle heard his answer, he immediately became energetic and his tone was full of enthusiasm.

"If you have a job, it means you have a vote. This is the power given to you by the law and belongs to you!"

When the uncle uttered the word "power", he used a plosive sound, spit and froth.

Chen Yan thought to himself, fortunately the steam bus does not have such a thing as an accelerator, otherwise this uncle is so excited when he talks like this, if he kicks the accelerator...

Perhaps because he knew that "Chen Yan has votes", the uncle became more attentive.

"You live in this city, you must hope that your living environment will get better and better,

In this case, you need to choose a policy that is beneficial to you-

Guys, have you figured out who to vote for? "

Who to vote for?

Poor Chen Yan has just been in Yanan City for a month, not to mention choosing a mayor or governor. In addition to the nosy Street Police Commissioner Klein Justus, he even the next-door neighbor at No. 33 Walker Street I can't even pronounce the name!

The uncle driver glanced at the rearview mirror, and after seeing Chen Yan's confused eyes, he showed a confident smile.

"Now the three parties in Yanan City, the Liberal Democrats are just a joke, and there are not many people. Let's not talk about it for now, let's just talk about the Conservative Party and the Labor Party...Boy, where do you get off?"

"Walker Street, Mr Driver."

"Oh! Walker Street! What a place! There's no cheaper ale in all of Yharnam than in Walker Street pubs!"

“…Walker Street is really affordable (which is why I chose to settle there).”

"But if the Conservative Party comes to power, the price of ale will go up! Not only will the price of ale go up, but the price of brown bread, mint batter, canned beef, cheese, butter, sugar, tea, salt, potatoes...all will go up!

Prices are skyrocketing!boy!

The rich hoard things and make ordinary things rare, and the poor suffer the injustice - and the Conservatives don't care!

The Conservative Party is the mouthpiece of the rich, and the rich think that the current policy is good, and society needs to continue like this! "

The uncle cursed loudly, but Chen Yan automatically ignored the abusive slang and swear words mixed in the uncle's words.

After the No. 306 steam bus passed the Yanan City Public University Station, the uncle was almost cursing and stopped slightly.

"The Labor Party is the voice of us workers!"

Uncle's attitude is completely different from before.

"The Labor Party speaks for workers and helps us get more wages, longer holidays, and social benefits that were unimaginable before!"

The uncle was so excited that he almost flew up from the driver's seat.

Fortunately, the steam bus moves on fixed rails, and there is no such thing as a steering wheel.

He was obviously aware of his gaffe, sat down a little awkwardly, and covered up his embarrassment with a loud voice.

"Enough rest time, reasonable social insurance, even a pension!"

"You live on Walker Street, oh damn Walker Street, I used to live there for a while too,
The residents on Walker Street are all fucking hard workers. They left their hometowns, abandoned the fields they had cultivated for tens of hundreds of years, and came to the bustling Yanan City, where they became bitter workers.
They eat black bread that is harder than fucking gallstones every morning, drink mush that even mules disdain, work from 6 am to 9 pm every day, work more than 13 hours a day, and dream of living in the market one day Big house in the center, ha!

What a dream! "

He changed his tone: "Before the Labor Party appeared, I also had this dream, boy, I woke up at [-]:[-] every morning with a sore head and red eyes to cook for the children, dreaming that I could work two hours less a day, Back then, I never thought that dreams could come true!"

"In the election 4 years ago, the Labor Party won two seats in the governing council of Yanan City. The interests of workers were protected by legislation, and justice was done!"

Chen Yan still doesn't understand the electoral system of the empire, so he doesn't understand the way the Labor Party fights for the interests of the workers.

He didn't answer the uncle driver's words, because his tired mind was no longer enough.

He looked out of the window, the street lights were already on, and there was a light snowfall in the sky. Groups of pedestrians passed by in the not-so-big snowstorm. They were the first batch of workers who got off work. Most of them were workers in light industrial factories in the old city. Get off work a little earlier.

Another group was heading in the opposite direction, the workers on the night shift.

The shift system has created huge benefits for the empire, and the workers have received more wages for night shifts. Everything seems reasonable, only the increasingly tired body and the dark circles under the eyes that cannot be eliminated are constantly protesting.

Walker Street bus stop, here we come.

Before getting out of the car, the uncle driver gave Chen Yan a thumbs up:

"Boy, never forget that you are a worker, and you must work hard for the interests of the workers!"

(End of this chapter)