Chapter 261: If the person is gone, must you pay money

Hearing Zhou Yi's words, the sorrow on Sun Daye's face did not diminish in the slightest.

In this world, some people have big hearts and aren't afraid of trouble, while others have small hearts and take everything they encounter to heart.

Especially for the older generation like Sun Daye, they are usually very afraid of such matters, especially since someone died this time.

"It's not like that, Little Zhou. This is a death, it's different. If I had known it would turn out like this, I would have preferred to just let him leave. Really, this matter is going to be very troublesome."

Zhou Yi smiled while walking toward his car, saying, "I told you, Sun Daye, don't feel guilty. What can they do to cause me trouble? Either file a Lawsuit in Court, or come and make a scene."

"Come to the Small Residential District to make a scene, or go to my Company to make a scene, or film videos and write articles online to make a scene, letting people on the internet curse me. Besides these tricks, what other methods do they have?"

Huh? Sun Daye was left completely stunned there. He wanted to say something, but for a moment, he didn't know how to put it.

Upon hearing these words, Sun Daye's first reaction was: isn't all of this enough?

In the eyes of their older generation, having someone come to your door to make a scene is equivalent to the sky falling; you must immediately find a way to appease them.

As it turns out, in the eyes of this young man, it seems that being sought out to make a scene, having them go to the Company, or even being cursed online doesn't count for much at all?

You actually asked "what other methods"?

Sun Daye felt that he was truly old and couldn't keep up with the thoughts of these young people. Is he not afraid of the other party coming to make a scene?

When the time comes and it blows up, after all, someone died on their side. Once a person is dead, you might lose your job, have no income, still have to pay them money, and still be cursed by people online.

"Little Zhou, this, I think you should still be a bit careful. We still have to live our lives. If it doesn't work out, I still have savings; why don't we just pay them?"

Sun Daye thought it over carefully and said.

He has a pension, and this matter was originally caused by his grandson. Zhou Yi was also kind enough to help, and Sun Daye felt he couldn't let someone suffer these things after helping out.

Hearing this, Zhou Yi smiled. Honestly, the elderly in this Small Residential District are actually quite good; people as unreasonable as Xu Yufeng are truly rare.

Most of the elderly are very good people, just like Sun Daye and Liu Nainai.

For Zhou Yi, it is enough that Sun Daye has this heart.

"Sun Daye, I thank you first, but it's really unnecessary. Everything has to be based on reason, right? Why should money be paid just because someone is gone? That makes no sense."

If money were paid so easily, wouldn't all these elderly people with serious illnesses be able to go out and stage accidents everywhere? Anyway, you have an argument with them, and then you don't even need to say someone is gone—just go to the hospital for a few days and demand money. What would you do?

Zhou Yi felt this shouldn't be the case, so he was indignant. Since they want to play, then let's play.

"Alright, Sun Daye, put your heart at ease. When soldiers come, block them with generals; when water comes, cover it with earth. Let them do whatever they want."

Even Sun Daye thinks this way, which means it seems to be the default in society now: as long as someone is gone, or even if they are still around but injured, you have to pay money regardless of whether you are at fault or not.

But this isn't right, it's really not right. Why should it be?

Shouldn't it be about reasoning? Shouldn't responsibilities be clearly divided?

How is it that just because someone died, they are in the right? The dead are indeed to be respected, so after they pass away, their past deeds are no longer commented upon.

But this is not a reason for your family members to use the dead as an excuse to demand money!

The dead are to be respected, it is the deceased, not the family members, who are to be respected. Zhou Yi felt that people must be made to understand this point.

After comforting Sun Daye, Zhou Mouren strolled away a few steps, then turned back and said, "By the way, Sun Daye, I'm going to eat. Want to join?"

"No, no, no, no need, Little Zhou. I still have things to do."

Having just experienced such an event, Sun Daye had no appetite at all.

So Zhou Mouren turned into the restaurant next door; no matter what, one still has to eat.

On the surface, it looked like Zhou Yi didn't care, and he truly didn't care about the other party's family, but witnessing the departure of a life still touched Zhou Mouren somewhat.

You never know when tomorrow or an accident will arrive, so what we need to do is seize the present.

A person lives this life and must do something. Since he has this fate and has the system, he must do something.

There is no need to mention phrases like "If you didn't hit them, why help them." These days, everyone jokes that when you encounter an elderly person, you absolutely must not speak, you can't speak.

If they just lie down, you might have to pay out an entire villa.

All kinds of news reports show that even if you didn't hit them, they insist it was you, causing you all sorts of trouble and turning your peaceful life into a mess.

By the time it is finally determined through various means that it wasn't your fault, those who extorted you suffer no consequences. Is that fair?

Zhou Yi certainly knows that talking about fairness now is a bit laughable, but he just wants to stand up and speak for this reason!

After comfortably eating a bowl of noodles, Zhou Mouren went home to sleep.

Meanwhile, inside the hospital, Fang Fengyu was silent, and beside him, his younger sister Fang Xiaofeng was talking incessantly.

"They have already notified us to prepare for the funeral arrangements. What do we do, Brother? Just now I said not to let him leave, and you kept stopping me! Dad passed away so inexplicably, there has to be an explanation!"

These days, even when people extort others, they do it very tactfully. It's not about the money, you have to give me an explanation.

"Then what do we do? Should I go and stop him from leaving? The police are right there. Do you want us all to get arrested?" Fang Fengyu said irritably.

"Who dares to arrest us? Does he dare? The old man passed away inexplicably, and we can't even ask? Why is it that now people aren't allowed to reason!" Fang Xiaofeng roared with great dissatisfaction.

"Brother, I'm just curious what you're afraid of. If you're afraid, don't get involved! It's a waste of how much Dad took care of you!"

Saying this immediately made Fang Fengyu furious, and the two began to bicker.

The relatives nearby hurriedly persuaded them to separate.

By now, they had watched the Monitoring video, and they had also heard the content captured in Zhou Yi's exercise video as well as the recording of the conversation, but they just felt the other party was responsible.

What responsibility? We don't know, but anyway, the person is gone, so you have to pay money.

"Stop arguing, Brother. What do you say we do now?" someone asked.

Fang Fengyu hesitated for a moment before saying, "We can actually find a Lawyer to consult. We should file a Lawsuit; this matter definitely cannot end like this."

File a Lawsuit?

The people in the room looked at each other; it seemed like a way.

But Fang Xiaofeng was unhappy and said, "Who knows how long a Lawsuit will take? Who knows what will happen? We don't know anyone in the Court, no connections, so how could we possibly win?"

"We have to go directly to him. Don't we know where he lives now? Let's go to his house and find him. Everyone go with me to cry and curse at him. I don't believe that we can't reason this out."

"Don't think about making a scene for now, okay? File a Lawsuit first. If the other party is willing to pay, then that's fine. Why must we make a scene!" Fang Fengyu said.

"Xiaofeng, Big Brother is right."

Someone nearby spoke up: "I've heard before that if someone dies, as long as you file a Lawsuit, the Court will definitely side with them. You'll at least get the other party to pay something; it's impossible that someone died and he bears no responsibility at all, that's impossible."

When this was said, everyone nodded in unison.

"Fine, then let's file a Lawsuit!"

"And big brother, we can also find reporters and let them report on it. After all, we are in the right, and that Zhou Yi probably never imagined we would actually file a Lawsuit."

"Yes, yes, yes, big brother, let's go find a Lawyer to file a Lawsuit. Just look at that man surnamed Zhou; he doesn't think we'll file a Lawsuit at all. Since that's the case, we must fight this case!"

With everyone putting in a word here and there, Fang Fengyu nodded; his original intention was also to file a Lawsuit.

As for finding reporters, that was an underhanded tactic, and people like Fang Fengyu are those who live in their own worlds.

If reporters report it, then the Court might side with them when the time comes.

This was their way of thinking, and besides, they could also drag out a whole bunch of things about public opinion and stability.

Since they had decided to file a Lawsuit, finding a Lawyer was very necessary.

When ordinary people encounter such problems, they naturally want to see if there is anyone among their relatives, friends, or acquaintances who works in the legal profession, or if they have any Lawyer friends.

At the very least, if they have a friend who knows a Lawyer, that would work too.

In any case, they would absolutely not go to a law firm themselves; it had to be through an acquaintance's introduction.

This is the power of habit: they would rather trust a so-called acquaintance introduced by a friend of a friend than go directly to a law firm to find someone.

Everyone started chattering away, discussing who they knew that worked as a Lawyer.

At this moment, Fang Xiaofeng remembered and said: "A colleague of mine has a friend who seems to be a Lawyer. Should I go ask?"

This definitely had to be asked, so Fang Xiaofeng walked to the side and started making a phone call.

"Hello, Lili, it's me, Xiaofeng. Yes, did you say before that you had a friend who is a Lawyer? Yes, something has happened on my side of the family, and I want to ask a Lawyer. You see... you'll give me his number, right? Good, good, good, okay."

"Oh, by the way, what is that Lawyer's name?"

"Surnamed Zhang, right? Alright, alright, thank you, Lili. I'll treat you to a meal another day."

Hanging up the phone, Fang Xiaofeng said: "Alright, there is a Lawyer, surnamed Zhang. Brother, you call and ask."

Fang Fengyu nodded, looked at the phone number, and immediately dialed it.

On the other side of Jingzhou City, in a restaurant, several brothers-in-misfortune were eating.

"We have finally finished our training. After this time, we must never get into these things again," said one man in a suit and leather shoes who looked quite reliable.

This was Wang Daoren, and these brothers-in-misfortune were people he had met in the training class before.

In a sense, they were all "big smarts" who had all been forced to attend this training class due to various ridiculous operations that led to a Suspension of Practice.

And yesterday, they had finished their course; today, they received their practicing certificates again.

So everyone was very happy and came out to gather and celebrate.

"That's a must!" the man next to him said: "The time we spent, I'm truly impressed."

"You're still impressed, Old Zhang? I've never seen you operate like that!" Wang Daoren laughed.

The Lawyer called Old Zhang, whose full name was Zhang Wei, retorted upon hearing this: "Old Wang, what right do you have to laugh at me? You were hit with a Suspension of Practice twice in a row, and you're still laughing at me?"

Everyone had been hit with a Suspension of Practice, so no one had the right to laugh at anyone else!

Zhang Wei was about to say something else, but his phone rang. He picked it up, spoke a few words, and then covered the receiver and said: "Brothers, I'm about to have a case!"

Damn! The others, including Wang Daoren, were all full of envy. Old Wang was feeling a bit uncomfortable now; so many people had looked for him during his training, but now that the training was over, there was absolutely no one.

This was just damn ridiculous, wasn't it? The key was that he couldn't even talk about it.

He couldn't just say he had just finished his training; he still had his pride to consider...

Under the disdain of Old Wang and the others, Zhang Wei walked to the side and started talking in detail.

"Yes, tell me roughly about the case. However, I must tell you first: if you decide you need me to fight the lawsuit, then the consultation fee will be waived, but if you are just consulting, there will be a fee."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a sentence from the phone.

"No, that Lawyer Zhang, we were introduced by your friend. We aren't sure yet, and this isn't a consultation, we just want to ask you..."

We were introduced by your friend, so since we are all friends, don't talk about consultation or no consultation, just let us ask.

Hearing this, Zhang Wei's face, which had been happy, suddenly fell a bit.

He wanted to speak his mind, but thinking about it, this was his first case after finishing the training, so he would let them "ask."

"That Lawyer Zhang, it's like this: my father was riding a bicycle past a Small Residential District entrance, and then he accidentally bumped into a child, and then he was stopped by someone..."

Fang Fengyu hurriedly explained the previous situation. Of course, it was the common failing of many clients: he picked the good parts to say and skipped the bad parts directly.

Why do many people lose lawsuits? Because they don't realize they need to be honest with their Lawyer!

What they say makes people feel they are completely innocent, but if you were really innocent, why would it be like this?

Zhang Wei listened very carefully. As a big shot who had managed to get himself a Suspension of Practice, his professional attitude was beyond reproach.

"Hmm, I see. Your case has potential. Since the old man has already passed away, however, my suggestion is that besides that person named Zhou Yi, you can also sue the Small Residential District Property Management together."

"Because it happened at the entrance of the Small Residential District, and yet that Zhou Yi and the old man had a dispute and were making a scene, but the Property Management didn't care, so you can sue them too."

Zhang Wei said with a natural expression.

There are differences between Lawyers, and Lawyers are very good at exaggerating small matters.

I am just putting forward my hypothesis; as for whether to adopt it, that is your business.

If the lawsuit isn't won in the end, it has nothing to do with me, because no Lawyer can guarantee a win, right?

A Lawyer is just a profession, that's all.

"Really, Lawyer Zhang? Then, if we hire you to fight the lawsuit, what is the fee..."

"For this, I suggest you come to my law firm so we can talk in detail."

While Zhang Wei was on the phone, Wang Daoren had a suspicious look on his face; he seemed to have just heard a name that sounded very familiar.

The morning throat-soothing chapter is here; there are two more chapters today!

Thanks to Yun Zhi Yu Xue, Wenchidage, Dracoo, Book Friend 2020, Another Newbie Big Brother, Feimaowuyu, Hidden, Jue Qing Wu Ai, and thanks to the brothers for the tips. Thank you.

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