Chapter 176: Magic and the Battle of Magic!

Zhou Yi felt it was quite normal for Miss Xiao Xu to ask this question.

Because he himself, including Xinran and Fang Dazhuang, had all expressed their own views on this issue before.

And among them, Zhou Yi agreed most with Su Dama's perspective.

"Xiao Xu, do you think they know they are being unreasonable?" Zhou Yi asked, looking at the older woman in front.

Miss Xiao Xu thought about it carefully and said, "Brother Zhou, they probably don't know... Look, this older woman also feels that it should all be handled by the Traffic Police Team."

"No, Xiao Xu, let me tell you, it's not that they don't really know; it's that in the past, they gained a lot through this kind of unreasonable behavior, so by now, they have become accustomed to being unreasonable..."

Or perhaps, there are many things in this that seem to have become conventional.

For example, when facing public authorities, individuals always seem to be in the right; in any case, they just look for you, and if you don't solve it for them, then it's your fault.

They don't care about the other party's earnest advice; they just decide that they will pester you, and you must solve it for them.

And then there is the "I am weak, so I am right" mentality—you are already in this state, and you still want me to pay?

Setting aside everything else, whether you can afford to pay is one thing, but your attitude is another!

It's as if something happened, and you never intended to pay at all.

"Brother Zhou, I think I understand what you mean. So that's why you were so serious to the end with that neighbor upstairs and the one who occupied the parking space," Miss Xiao Xu said thoughtfully.

"Right, I am actually a person who sticks to principles. It was clearly their fault, so why do many people tell me to just let it go? On what grounds?"

"Just because they can make a scene shamelessly, while I can't put down my own face? No, I have received professional education and will never indulge others."

Unless there are other considerations...

Of course, Zhou Yi did not say that last sentence out loud.

As for what other considerations, specifically refer to the case of a certain internet celebrity currently being arrested while livestreaming...

"If you say they are truly bad people, that's not it either. For example, the one who occupied the parking space, he just felt that it was such a small matter, and I surely wouldn't do anything."

Anyway, ever since then, Song Xiaofei has been very observant; a few days ago in the Small Residential District, he would take the initiative to greet Zhou Yi's parents when he saw them.

And whenever he saw them carrying things, he would want to come over to help...

Perhaps it was a feeling that prompted him, but Zhou Yi said quite a lot, and Miss Xiao Xu beside him listened very carefully.

However, this atmosphere lasted for only five minutes before it was interrupted.

Then a group of three people walked in, the one at the front being a woman of about fifty years old.

Yes, a woman, not an older woman.

What? You ask me how to distinguish between a woman of this age and an older woman...

Zhou Yi doesn't know how to categorize it either; he feels it has something to do with weight?

Thinking carefully, it seems that for those who are older, have worked hard, and have put on weight, we call them older women.

And for those who have managed to keep their figures well, we call them aunties...

One can only say that the concept of appearance really runs through our ages, influencing us at every moment.

"Wait, what are you here for?"

Seeing someone arrive, Qi Ming hurried forward to ask, as if he had seen a savior.

The leading woman said directly, "Hello, comrade. My surname is Zhao, I am called Zhao Wenjing, and this is my son Lv Xuewen, and my son's girlfriend."

"And my son received your call, saying that he splashed someone with water while driving today? And then he was required to come?"

Oh my, the main party has arrived. It's just that Zhou Yi and Miss Xiao Xu exchanged a look—for a matter like this, the mother still has to show up?

And she was a bit aggressive right from the start!

"Brother Zhou, this woman gives the feeling that such a small matter shouldn't have involved her son."

Zhou Yi shrugged: "You can remove the 'feeling' part."

Zhou Mouren actually really wanted to complain; you even chose a name like this, Wenjing (Quiet/Gentle), where are you quiet or gentle at all?

However, he decided to stay quiet for now; as the main damage dealer, it is better not to mock randomly.

The traffic police officer opposite, Qi Ming, suddenly felt his temples start to throb.

Here one can see the importance of experience; for a veteran community police officer like Lao Li, this kind of thing wouldn't even count as a matter.

With his many years of grassroots experience, what kind of people hadn't he seen?

It was only after meeting Zhou Yi that he was slightly broken, but now, Lao Li has cultivated to the realm of being impervious to swords and spears.

"Ms. Zhao, your son did not slow down when driving through the water-logged road, but instead accelerated to overtake, and the tires crushed the water, causing several people waiting for the bus to be covered in water on their faces and bodies."

"His behavior has already violated our country's Road Safety Law, so after the other party reported it to the police, my Traffic Police Team notified your son to handle it according to the law. Do you understand?"

However, what he didn't expect was that Ms. Zhao's voice became even louder upon hearing this: "Comrade, our country's police force doesn't seem to be so abundant that even splashing water has to be managed, right?"

"That was just an accident; he didn't see that pile of water. Who drives and slows down whenever they see water? He was indeed in a hurry today; it was my son's first time going to his girlfriend's house."

"And he was just meeting her parents when you called to notify him. The impact of this is so great..."

Qi Ming interrupted her directly: "Ms. Zhao, I remind you again, your son broke the law, so we notified him. It has nothing to do with whether the police force is abundant or not. As long as the law is broken, we will handle it according to the law!"

The tone in these words was very special; let alone others, even the usually naive Miss Xiao Xu understood.

This traffic police officer's meaning was very simple: your son meeting his girlfriend's parents is your family's business, and it has nothing to do with us.

We are just handling it according to the law.

"Fine, fine, oh my, isn't it just that you want to impose a fine? Fine us then, we can afford this little bit of money!" Zhao Wenjing waved her hand there.

At this, Qi Ming's face sank completely: "Ms. Zhao, I am warning you for the last time: your son broke the law by not slowing down when passing through a water-logged road, and he also overtook from the right!"

"We are handling this according to the law!"

Perhaps the Warning sounded very serious, and the sharp-tongued Zhao Wenjing also shut her mouth, not daring to say anything more.

Of course, she did not see that behind her, the expression on her son's girlfriend Fangfang's face had never been good.

Fangfang really felt very bad at this moment!

In her view, since the traffic police notified them that there was a mistake, they should just come obediently, pay the money if they need to pay, and let it be handled—wouldn't that be enough?

As it turned out, her boyfriend insisted on bringing his mother along, and on the way, this Auntie Zhao kept saying things.

She said the traffic police nowadays just want to collect fines, and also said something about how she would have a good talk with the other party once she arrived.

Moreover, from start to finish, from the moment he picked up his mother until now, her boyfriend had not expressed a single opinion of his own!

Whatever his mother said, that was what went.

Couldn't he see it? The traffic police had already issued a Warning repeatedly, saying this was an illegal act; why couldn't he step up and say a word!

It wasn't just about this incident, but the attitude her boyfriend displayed during this incident made her feel extremely uncomfortable!

It was always "my mom says this," "my mom says that," "we'll listen to my mom in a moment"...

When they talked about it before, she didn't think much of it, just feeling that he kept his mother on his lips, so he should be the filial type.

But this time, this feeling was simply terrifying!

That he could let his mother take full charge of such a matter—Fangfang had previously thought that this Auntie Zhao coming over was to help pay the fine, or perhaps to pull some strings.

It's just that... stroking her belly, a flash of hesitation crossed Fangfang's face; what on earth should I do?

Failing to slow down through the puddle, splashing several people with water, this time a maximum fine was issued: two hundred yuan!

There was also overtaking not in accordance with regulations, that is, overtaking on the right, three points, two hundred yuan.

Hearing that overtaking on the right also incurred points and a fine, Lv Xuewen couldn't help but say: "Officer, I, this, there wasn't even a traffic accident, why is there still a deduction of points and a fine?"

Qi Ming found the Monitoring video recorded on his mobile phone and then played it for the other party to see:

"Look, you were originally driving in the middle, then you overtook from the right, and immediately switched back to the middle lane; this has already constituted a complete act of overtaking on the right."

The Monitoring captured it clearly: driving to the right, then overtaking, and merging back into the middle.

"But officer, I see many people on the street overtaking from the right, so why are they fine?"

Regarding this, Qi Ming gave a very detailed explanation.

"There are several situations where overtaking on the right is not illegal, for example, if you continue driving in the right lane after overtaking, or if you drive a long distance after overtaking before changing lanes, or if you have been driving on the right the whole time and just overtake directly."

"These behaviors are not illegal, but you changed back to the middle lane very quickly after overtaking; this is the illegal situation of overtaking on the right!"

Of course, Qi Ming wouldn't say that discovering this was entirely a case of "beating the grass to scare the snake"...

He had originally just wanted to find evidence of the driver passing through the puddle without slowing down, but ended up seeing the overtaking on the right...

There's no helping it; this is just like illegal parking or speeding; as long as you aren't caught on camera, even though you have already broken the law, you actually won't be punished.

This is the current situation, and everyone has to admit it.

So overtaking on the right is the same; it wasn't caught on camera, but it just so happened that someone checked the Monitoring and dug it out for you.

Then there's no helping it; since it has been discovered, you still have to be punished as you should!

After explaining, seeing that the other party accepted it, Qi Ming nodded; it was fortunate that this kid wasn't the kind of unreasonable person his mother was.

"By the way, the few people next to you were all splashed with water by you, so now we need to conduct Mediation first..."

However, before Qi Ming could finish his sentence, two roars sounded from the side, and these roars directly roared his words back.

"Take a look yourself, come, come, take a look yourself, look at my clothes, they are almost dry now, but what about the dirt on these clothes? These are clothes I just bought!"

The middle-aged woman's roar was like thunder; according to Zhou Yi's description, that roar could almost shake the entire universe, and wherever it passed, everything was shattering.

"Still want compensation for clothes? Keep dreaming! Isn't it just splashing a bit of water? Why, you've caused my son to be fined and have points deducted, and you still have the face to ask for money?"

"At your age, are you relying on extortion to make money? Why don't you go to the road and stage a fake accident!"

Zhao Wenjing's counterattack remained sharp as ever!

She probably vented the anger she didn't dare to release after Qi Ming's Warning directly onto the middle-aged woman.

I can't afford to provoke the police, but I can't afford to provoke you lot?

And as for the middle-aged woman, she had been shouting at Qi Ming for a long time, but it yielded no results; now that she had finally met the real culprit, she just grabbed on and wouldn't let go.

"That's exactly it!"

Zhou Mouren's Recording Pen and mobile phone were already turned on; Qi Ming glanced at them but didn't say anything.

"What is exactly it, Brother Zhou?"

The young lady Xiao Xu next to him became an extremely qualified straight man for his jokes.

"This is the scene I was looking forward to most in my heart. Let me tell you, Xiao Xu, only magic can defeat magic!"

"And now, it's a confrontation between two 'magic masters'; we 'combat scrubs' just need to shout '666' from the sidelines."

Obviously, the meme here was too old; young lady Xiao Xu didn't understand it at all, staring blankly with her innocent big eyes on the side.

The middle-aged woman's combat power was indeed infinite, and that Ms. Zhao was not weak either; honestly, Zhou Yi felt that if he went up, he probably wouldn't be able to hold back.

It's just that he looked at the young couple nearby and felt that this mother was a bit bizarre.

The son's girlfriend is still here, and you are arguing with people like this!

Is it that she already feels that her son's girlfriend won't run away, or what?

To put it bluntly, even if one is in the right, in this situation, as an elder, to be there screaming and cursing at another middle-aged woman.

It just feels... very absurd.

"Me staging a fake accident? Isn't this caused by your son? What's wrong, are young people these days all like this? You do something wrong and don't dare to admit it?"

Zhou Yi now discovered that this middle-aged woman seemed to have remembered wrong; she kept saying how young people nowadays are this or that.

Could it be that she had a very good temper when she was young?

Not necessarily; if she could be good when she was young with the way she is now, he, Zhou Yi, would livestream himself eating ants!

The young woman holding a child also stepped forward and said: "Exactly, how are you talking? It was clearly your son who caused it to be like this."

"My child is covered in dirty water, and you still think you're not wrong?"

"I'm not wrong, what can you do? I'm telling you lot, I'm not wrong; want money? Keep dreaming!"

While saying this, Zhao Wenjing also looked around, probably seeing Zhou Yi looking at her, and shouted again: "What are you looking at? What's wrong? I've figured you people out; you just can't get enough of taking advantage, can you!"

Qi Ming had actually been trying to persuade them for a long time on the side.

"Comrades, stop arguing for a moment, everyone calm down, stop arguing!"

However, his individual strength when facing several female comrades, some of whom were even holding children, was truly a bit stretched.

The most important thing is that bickering, it develops very quickly!

Just because of two sentences like "What are you looking at?" and "I'm looking at you, so what?", both sides could finish greeting each other's relatives within ten seconds.

Qi Ming hadn't even had time to call for backup yet, and things here were already getting out of hand.

Ever since she became a middle-aged woman, she had never suffered such grievances, so this was definitely something she could not endure!

She went right up and started pulling Zhao Wenjing's hair.

The two thirst-quenching chapters for the evening have arrived. Thanks to brothers Wen Chi, Book Friend 2022, and Fat Cat Story for the tips, thank you.

(End of this chapter)