Siheyuan: A Very Happy Era

Chapter 68 Everyone's eyes are sharp
"You're all here!"

"It just so happens that I have something to inform you. After a meeting of the brigade, it was decided to conduct a three-day winter fishing activity in Xiaohewan starting from the morning of the day after tomorrow. All members of the production team must participate at that time."

"If there's anything you don't understand, you can ask the family you're staying with when you get back, so you don't end up being clueless!"

"In addition, considering that you have just arrived here and are not familiar with other people in the village, in order to avoid affecting the work efficiency of the production team, we have decided to let you form a separate production group and then incorporate it into the first production team."

"In the next two days, you can discuss among yourselves who will be the leader of this production team, and report to me when you have the results."

After saying that, Xu Guangfu didn't care about the reactions of Shao Ruian and the others. He turned around and left in a hurry, as if he didn't want to get involved too much in the affairs of Shao Ruian and the others.

When Li Guoqiang walked out of the mill, he just happened to see Xu Guangfu's back as he left.

Fortunately, he had heard clearly what Xu Guangfu said just now, so he didn't have to ask Shao Ruian and others to tell him.

Afterwards, before he could figure out whether these two things were good or bad, Shao Ruian and Shang Xiuzhen suddenly had an argument.

"Why do we have to make you the team leader? Is it because you are the oldest?"

"Shang Xiuzhen, can you please stop getting so excited? I didn't say I must be the team leader. I just think that where I live is closest to the captain's home. If I am allowed to be the team leader, it will be more convenient for me to cooperate with the captain's work in the future."

"Then why don't you say that Xu Wanling lives next door to you? It's only a dozen meters away. What difference can it make?"

"I'm thinking that as the team leader, if anything happens in the future, I'll have to run and inform everyone in time. I'm worried that it will be inconvenient for Xu Wanling, a girl, to run around!"

"It's inconvenient for her, but it's convenient for me! If you don't believe me, let's compare now to see who can run farther, you or me?"

"You are deliberately trying to make things difficult for me, aren't you?"

"Hey, don't say that. I'm not being mean to you. I'm just discussing the matter with you!"

"Okay, since we don't agree, let's vote to decide who will be the team leader."

"Okay! Then let everyone vote. I believe everyone has sharp eyes."

After saying that, Shang Xiuzhen turned her head to look at everyone else, then extended her hand to Xu Wanling.

"Xu Wanling, can I borrow your pen?"

Hearing this, Xu Wanling hesitated for a moment, but finally took out a pen from the inner pocket of her cotton jacket and handed it to Shang Xiuzhen.

Shang Xiuzhen reached out to take the pen, then immediately took out a piece of toilet paper from her pocket, tore it into eight small pieces, and handed them to the others, while asking everyone to form a circle.

Then, she picked up a clay pot that was used to store wheat flour and said loudly, "Later, we will all write the names of the people we think are most suitable to be the team leader on the piece of straw paper, fold the straw paper and throw it into this pot. The person who gets more than half of the votes will be our team leader."

"If no one can get more than half of the votes, then we'll hold a re-election until the winner is determined."

"Does anyone object to this method?"

"No, right? If not, then start with me!" After saying that, Shang Xiuzhen took a pen and wrote her name on a piece of straw paper. She folded the straw paper and threw it into the clay pot. Then she handed the clay pot and the pen to Xu Wanling who was standing next to her, and at the same time gave her a look for support.

Seeing this, Xu Wanling didn't say anything, but just silently reached out to take the jar and the pen.

Soon, everyone finished voting, and the clay pot and pen returned to Shang Xiuzhen.

In order to avoid being accused of cheating, Shang Xiuzhen simply turned the mouth of the earthenware jar upside down, letting all the ballots inside fall to the ground. Then, under the gaze of others, she squatted on the ground and opened the ballots one by one.

After a while, everyone knew the voting result without anyone announcing it.

They were Shang Xiuzhen with 1 vote, Shao Ruian with 1 vote, and Li Guoqiang with 6 votes.

Among them, the most surprising thing is that Li Guoqiang actually has as many as 6 votes.

Just as everyone was looking at Li Guoqiang in surprise, Li Guoqiang himself was also puzzled. He didn't understand why Wang Zhiyong, Zhang Chunyan, Zhao Dabao, Xu Wanling, and Chen Jianjun voted for him?
It was obvious that they had been avoiding him before!
There was even some minor conflicts between him and Chen Jianjun.

It couldn't be that Chen Jianjun already knew that he had Jin Die's support and was deliberately trying to please him, right?

Shang Xiuzhen and Shao Ruian quickly figured out the key to this, and then looked at Wang Zhiyong, Zhang Chunyan, Zhao Dabao, Xu Wanling, and Chen Jianjun with some realization.

In fact, the logic behind this is very simple.

It's just that Wang Zhiyong, Zhang Chunyan, Zhao Dabao, Xu Wanling, and Chen Jianjun didn't want Shao Ruian, a selfish man, to be the team leader, nor did they want a little girl like Shang Xiuzhen to take over their heads, and they didn't want to get involved in the competition for the team leader themselves, so they finally chose to give their votes to Li Guoqiang, the most unlikely person.

The only thing they didn't expect was that so many people would make the same choice.

After a moment of silence, Zhao Dabao suddenly grinned, and then said to Li Guoqiang with a simple and honest face: "Team Leader Li, I'll trouble you to worry about us from now on!"

Hearing this, Wang Zhiyong, Zhang Chunyan, Xu Wanling and the other three all started shouting.

"Team Leader Li!"

Although Shang Xiuzhen, Shao Ruian, and Chen Jianjun were somewhat unwilling, and even a little jealous, they had no choice but to acknowledge Li Guoqiang's identity as the team leader when they saw that the matter was already settled.

Li Guoqiang listened to the voices of Team Leader Li, and felt a little happy in his heart. Then he waved his hand and said, "Okay, I said you guys should stop making fun of me. Since everyone trusts me so much, I will definitely work hard to do my job as a team leader well in the future."

"If there is anything that is not right, you are welcome to tell me at any time."

"Well, if you don't have anything else to do, I'll go in and grind the flour first!"

After saying that, he looked around at everyone and found that no one spoke, so he turned around and went into the mill.

When everyone saw that Li Guoqiang took the position of team leader so easily, they couldn't help but look at each other in surprise for a moment.

Shang Xiuzhen and Shao Ruian, in particular, felt extremely depressed.

(End of this chapter)