Insufficient balance

  "There's 50,000 yuan that can be taken, which is naturally good. At this age, it's impossible to take a large sum of money from home to do something. Having this 50,000 yuan as a bottom line makes Tang Yu very happy. As for meeting the person who was rescued, there's no need to, lest people think that he's seeking repayment for his kindness." Tang Yu thought to himself with satisfaction.

  But then I thought about it again and reacted to myself being a serious patient, and smiled bitterly.

  "Look at me now, how can I go to the city to get the money? It'll take three to five days to recover. Later, write a leave note and you help me bring it to school, okay?" After a pause, he suddenly leaned in close to Su Qing's ear with a mysterious tone, "But about saving someone and the 50,000 yuan, don't mention it in front of my parents or anyone else, got it? Don't let others know that I'm the one who saved them."

  Su Qing leaned on her hand, being so close to the child for the first time. Su Qing's small face was also slightly red, but when Tang Yu asked her to keep it a secret, she nodded vigorously. Sharing a "major" secret with good friends always made this young girl very happy.

  Just then, Tang Tianhong pushed the door open and came in. Tang Yu didn't say those things to Su Qing either, and handed over the thermometer he had just taken out.

  "38.5? How high is that? You were still trying to take advantage of me while playing chess last night, and now you're like this. The doctor will be here soon, it's so serious, let's just get an IV." He lowered his head and touched his forehead against Tang Yu's, checking if the thermometer was malfunctioning.

  Tang Yu's dad came in, and Su Qing also felt embarrassed to stay here and talk to him. Just as she was about to leave, she suddenly heard Tang Yu's mom shouting loudly.

  "Old Tang, you said that the Zhongshan Park was fine and then suddenly it's closed. These people in the city government don't think about how to help us revive our factories, but instead they just shut down a perfectly good park that was just built last year. I'm saying that these officials are all idle and have nothing better to do."

  Tang Yu smiled secretly, "Mom, you're overestimating him. Dad is just a small deputy secretary-general of the government, a low-ranking official at the deputy department level, far from being an official noble, you're giving him too much credit."

  Su Qing smiled and pouted on one side, seemingly finding it amusing that Tang Yu was teasing his dad like this.

  "This thing has left me bewildered, and to this day I still don't know what's going on. I'm still puzzled about it. Didn't someone almost drown in the water at Zhongshan Park yesterday? Zhongshan Park was temporarily closed for rectification because of this, and the official statement from the municipal committee is that the safety facilities were not up to par." As he spoke, he let out a sigh, but didn't notice Su Qing covering her mouth with an incredulous expression behind him, exchanging glances with his own son.

  "Didn't someone rescue both people who fell into the water yesterday? It's also good that these two people are lucky, in our big Dongling City, it's not easy to find a few people who can swim. But since no one was hurt and no lives were lost, why do you still want to close the park? That's one of the few places in Dongling City where we can have fun. I'm telling you, all you know how to do is put on an official show."

  "It's not what you think, this matter has nothing to do with our government, and it's unclear how it got out of hand. It somehow reached the ears of some people in the provincial government, and this morning, the provincial government office called Chen Secretary and Su Mayor directly to ask about the security work in Dongling City. At first, both were confused, but eventually figured out what was going on. This afternoon, a deputy mayor in charge of tourism was scolded by Chen Secretary until he was covered in bruises, and had no choice but to close down Zhongshan Park for rectification."

  Tang Yu smiled slyly, "That deputy mayor and Mayor Su are quite close, aren't they?"

  "You're clever, Vice Mayor Xu was furious today, if he knew you were talking nonsense here, I don't know how angry he would be." Tang Tianhong scolded Tang Yu with a smile.

  However, in his heart, he also acknowledged Tang Yu's words. If it weren't for Vice Mayor Xu getting close to Mayor Su recently, this disaster wouldn't have happened.

  Yesterday's incident, to put it simply, was just a very simple matter. The key is that once this matter reached the ears of the provincial party committee, it had a bad impact on Dongling City. Chen Songwei wanted to take advantage of this to establish his authority and strike down Su Mayor's recent enthusiasm, which is understandable. Deputy Mayor Xu happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and could only admit to being unlucky.

  Su Qing had something to do in the afternoon and wasn't interested in what they were saying, with Tang Bo around, many things weren't convenient to say to Tang Yu, so she took her leave and left, bringing a fake note signed by Tang Tianying to excuse Tang Yu.

  The little girl sang a tune when she went out, and she was very happy with a big secret about Tang Yu in her heart.

  As for Tang Yu, his dad went to work in the afternoon, and his mom stayed at home to take care of him. He could only obediently receive intravenous fluids at home.

  The doctor's cold is quite severe, and he has been hooked up to three bottles of IV fluids for the past three days.

  Tang Yu actually wanted to say that this kind of cold was a common occurrence for him and would naturally get better in a few days, but looking at his mother's expression, he swallowed the words back into his mouth without saying them.

  It was his parents who inadvertently mentioned the April 10th electoral convention, where the mayor's election would be passed at the people's congress, which made Tang Yu's heart skip a beat.

  Su Muru was transferred to Dongling City as deputy secretary and acting mayor at the end of 1992, and needed to be elected by the People's Congress to officially become the mayor. In his previous life, Su Muru had been defeated in the mayoral election, and although he had initially made some progress in the city and gained some supporters, the vote-buying incident had revealed that Dongling City was ultimately Chen Songwei's domain. Su Muru's reputation had suffered greatly as a result, and despite his successful re-election to mayor with the support of the provincial government, the leaders of the municipal government had seen through the situation and no one dared to easily side with him. Afterwards, Su Muru had almost no supporters in the city except for a few loyalists like Tang Tianying, which was also one of the reasons why he could be easily framed by Chen Songwei and his cohorts later on.

  Logically speaking, in domestic elections of this kind, it's just a formality, and all that's needed is to go through the motions at the People's Congress. Under China's political system, indeed only a formality is required, so there's nothing to worry about. That's why Su Mu Ru and others didn't notice Chen Song Wei would make an issue out of this kind of thing.

  Moreover, doing so seems to bring no benefits to Chen Songwei himself, and may even cut off his political career, at the very least blocking his path to advancement, which is a lose-lose situation.

  It seems that no matter how you look at it, Chen Songwei didn't have to take such a risk and do something so taboo. But Tang Yu, who had been reborn, knew that in his previous life, such a strange thing had indeed happened to Su Mu Ru.

  On April 10th, the NPC election is about to take place. Today is already April 5th, and even if we include today, there are only four and a half days left. How can I make my father and others realize the danger in these four and a half days and turn disaster into fortune? Obviously, this is not an easy task.

  Logically, this kind of election should be a unanimous election. With only one candidate, Sukmawati Soekarnoputri, the election would likely proceed in a controlled manner, making it difficult for something like vote-buying to occur.

  It's probably only someone like Chen Songwei, who has controlled Dongling for many years as a local emperor, who could achieve this level of control over the people's representatives.

  He doesn't even need to do much, just get close to some NPC deputies before the election, let the people below make some hints, and relax the supervision system during the election. It's almost certain that Su Mu Ru, this unstable outsider, will not be able to go through the formalities of the NPC.

  But how can I let my father or Su Mu Ru know about this impending tragedy? Since it happened in the past, it means that Su Mu Ru didn't receive the news in advance or didn't take it seriously enough, which led to the incident. In the domestic system, as long as there is a premonition, there are many ways to avoid it from happening.

  But since Sumu Ru didn't discover it in his past life, Chen Songwei must have done it extremely secretly, or else he wouldn't be able to completely deceive Sumu Ru's eyes. Even if Sumu Ru is not doing well, after being in Dongling City for so long, he still has a few informants and usable people around him.

  How can I expose Chen Songwei's secretly planned conspiracy to Father or Su Mu Ru?

  Lying in bed thinking about it all afternoon, I couldn't figure out what was going on, and my head became more and more dizzy.

  "No, must the tragedy of my past life continue to happen in this life? Must I relive it and watch such a tragedy occur again with my own eyes? No, I must avoid such a thing."

  By around 4 or 5 pm, Tang Yu still hadn't come up with a good solution.

  He never thought of running over to tell his dad or Su Mu Ru that Chen Song Wei would rig the election. Who would believe him at his age? To them, this possibility was simply impossible.

  With such a mess of thoughts, Tang Yu also fell asleep in a daze.

  When he woke up, he faintly heard voices in the living room, "Just came back from there, heard that Xiaoyu was ill, come and see."

  The voice sounds somewhat familiar, as if it's someone I know very well, who could it be coming to my own home?

  Yes, Second Uncle, this is your voice. But shouldn't you be busy with your real estate in Hainan at this time? Why did you rush back to Dongling at this time?

  As expected, the next words from my mother proved that it was indeed Second Uncle. "You've been busy with a lot of things in Hainan and can't even catch your breath. Come back and rest properly. Xiao Yu just has a slight cold and is fine. He's just had three bottles of IV fluid and is probably sleeping inside now. Your big brother is still busy in the city and will be back soon. You sit down first, I'll go prepare some food for you."