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Chapter 265: Since you put it that way, I'm very interested

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Zhou Yi emphasized the words "serious disruption of production and living order," and Lao Zhou's expression also became serious.

There is a difference between people reporting to the police, just as there is a difference between lawyers filing a lawsuit.

This is something you cannot deny.

He then took the evidence from Zhou Yi's hand and began to look through it one by one; after only a few glances, he looked up at Fang Xiaofeng and the others, and couldn't help but sigh.

The matter of committing a crime is really not just what people imagine, like murder or arson, to be the only crimes.

Although your behavior may seem like nothing to you—"I just came to find you because I wanted money, I just made a scene"—

But you come every day, time after time, causing great problems for the company's normal production and business operations; this meets the criteria for Picking Quarrels and Provoking Trouble.

The fourth circumstance of the crime of Picking Quarrels and Provoking Trouble is: causing a disturbance in a public place, resulting in serious disorder in the public place.

Or, gathering others to repeatedly commit the aforementioned acts, seriously disrupting social order, shall be punished with Fixed-term Imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years, and may also be sentenced to a fine.

But one must note here that currently, in the legal field, it is generally believed that "repeatedly" means three times or more.

Moreover, each instance of Picking Quarrels and Provoking Trouble must reach the level of a crime.

However, it didn't matter to Zhou Yi; he only needed to get these people inside.

When someone is gone, humanitarianism or whatever else is normal, but you cannot say that the family members can use this as an excuse to go around demanding money from people.

What's more, this matter itself is your fault.

The reason Lao Zhou was sighing just now was out of helplessness; in law, especially Criminal Law, when it hasn't touched one's own head, there are always people who feel this thing is very far away from them.

But when Criminal Law really smashes onto your head, you will be stunned, thinking, "How did I commit a crime? What is this situation?"

Although the situation is a bit special now and the Case Filing hasn't happened yet, the people have already been brought in; but fortunately, he, Lao Zhou, has been at the Police Station for many years, so what hasn't he seen?

Soon, relevant colleagues came to review the evidence; if the Case Filing is confirmed, they can be summoned directly today.

Of course, the situation is special; the people are already here, and you have also initiated the Case Filing, so if you don't summon them, wouldn't they have come for nothing?

Thus, after waiting anxiously in the Police Station for over an hour, what Fang Xiaofeng received was a Summons.

"No, comrade, you must have made a mistake, we, how did we commit a crime? Why are you arresting us?"

Fang Xiaofeng shouted all sorts of things there.

Fang Fengyu sat to one side with a blank look in his eyes; from the very beginning, he did not approve of going to their door to make a scene, or going to the Company to make a scene.

But when he learned that his younger sister going to the Company to make a scene seemed to be very effective, he went too, and as a result, something went wrong.

Lao Zhou said upon hearing this: "You gathered so many people to make a scene at the entrance of someone's Company, holding banners and shouting slogans for several days in a row, seriously affecting public order and affecting the production and business activities of other people's Company. Don't you think there is a problem with this?"

"But comrade, it was he who didn't give us money first. If we want money, can't we even ask him for money?"

"We aren't trying to do anything, we just want him to give us money. My dad is gone, there has to be some kind of explanation, right?"

Facing the still very agitated Fang Xiaofeng, Lao Zhou shook his head and said: "Don't say that the other party had no obligation to give you money; the Court has already ruled on this, right?"

"Taking a step back, even if he owed you this money, you cannot use such means to demand it, you know!"

"Alright, go in."

Seeing a policewoman coming over to take her to the interrogation room to sit in that chair, Fang Xiaofeng suddenly went soft.

"Comrade, comrade, you can ask whatever you want, I, I will say everything, I really didn't mean to, I just wanted some money, I didn't think about committing a crime..."

"Go in. Many people say that after coming here, saying they didn't think about committing a crime."

Remember one thing: the law does not joke with you, especially Criminal Law.

Finally, Fang Xiaofeng sat in the chair; compared to her previous righteous appearance, the current Fang Xiaofeng was already crying bitterly.

It was truly the kind of crying where she couldn't speak.

She was already incessantly saying that she could forgo every cent, just wanting the police officer to let her go; unfortunately, Lao Zhou had already initiated a Criminal Case.

And Zhou Yi, after receiving the Case Filing Notice, left the Police Station and drove back to the Company.

Actually, this matter is not just like this; if he wanted to, he could also have Sun Daye file a Lawsuit against the other party to claim compensation for Tort.

After all, his grandson was hit like that.

Yes, the deceased is the greatest, but death does not mean the debt is cleared; whether it is cleared depends on the situation.

Lawyer Fang had previously explained the Inheritance Law to him roughly, so Zhou Yi also knew the gist of it, which is: inheritance is something where either you don't inherit, meaning you waive the inheritance.

Or you must inherit everything; the "everything" here refers to inheriting all rights and obligations.

It is not that you think you can just inherit the money and ignore the other party's debts; there is no such thing.

Old Man Fang passed away and left an estate, and Zhou Yi knew without needing to investigate that these children must have already inherited the other party's estate.

Then, correspondingly, the other party's debts must also be inherited, so one could directly file a Lawsuit to demand compensation.

However, Sun Daye is not a person who likes to be difficult; whenever he encounters trouble, he just wants to settle things peacefully, so it's already good enough that no one is looking for trouble for him; it is absolutely impossible for him to go and look for trouble for others.

This kind of thing is not his business; Civil Liability is their own business.

Zhou Yi went directly to the Self-Media Studio and handed all the video materials to them, including his own meddling, the disputes with the other party, and the footage of receiving the Summons, etc.

"I only have one requirement: edit it into a video, and the narrative should follow the previous style."

Although there is no ending for Fang Xiaofeng and the others yet, it is enough to make a video (Part 1).

As for the Self-Media that was stirring up trouble online, Zhou Yi also decided to file a Lawsuit; Huo Pengfei had already said there were plenty of ways to file a Lawsuit against the other party.

Of course, he is not Lawyer Fang, so he didn't dare guarantee that he would definitely win, only that he could make the other party feel troubled as well.

Regarding this, Zhou Yi was also hesitant; ever since he got the system, he hadn't lost a single Lawsuit. If he relied on filing Lawsuits to drag people down, it would feel like the dragon-slaying youth had turned into the evil dragon.

It's a struggle; I don't know what to do.

Just like that, a day passed, and just when Zhou Mouren had decided to let Huo Pengfei file a Lawsuit against the other party, the phone rang.

He took it out and saw it was an unknown number.

"Hello, who is this?"

A strange voice came from the phone: "Hello, may I ask if this is Zhou Yi, the General Manager of Tengda Company?"

"Yes, it is me, you are..."

"Hello, President Zhou, I am the Self-Media creator called 'Show Off to the Heavens', I... I wanted to apologize to you..."

Show Off to the Heavens, which was Xu Xiu's Self-Media name; Zhou Yi knew it as soon as he heard it, after all, as long as one really put in the effort to look, it was easy to find out who posted it first.

So, what was this situation? He hadn't even decided how to file a Lawsuit against him yet, and he had already called to admit defeat?

Of course, Zhou Yi didn't know that Xu Xiu was already scared silly at this moment!

He had learned about the situation this morning.

Originally, he was going to contact Fang Fengyu to have the other party pay the final balance, but unexpectedly, when he made contact, the person who answered the phone wasn't Fang Fengyu.

After asking, he found out that Fang Fengyu had been arrested!

He was suspected of the crime of Picking Quarrels and Provoking Trouble, and it wasn't just Fang Fengyu; his younger sister, Fang Xiaofeng, had been arrested along with him!

Xu Xiu was stunned at the time; he had watched Zhou Yi's videos and naturally knew that the other party could send people inside in a matter of minutes.

However, previously, in order to make money, he had thought that there could be no gain without risk.

But then again, people are actually all like this: when things haven't happened to themselves, they look like a bit of fun no matter how you see it.

Precisely because he hadn't experienced it, Xu Xiu could solemnly say things like "it's all for the sake of making money."

But when a guy who was just in contact with him suddenly went inside, and this happened right in front of him, that feeling, to be honest, was too shocking!

The key was that even if his article had no problems, Fang Fengyu had paid him to stir up trouble, and those chat records and Call Records were all on the other party's phone.

Xu Xiu didn't even need to think carefully to know that the other party definitely wouldn't keep secrets for him; perhaps to reduce their own liability, they would even take the initiative to speak up.

He didn't know much about the law, so he wasn't clear on what the problem was with doing this.

And the final trigger that prompted him to apologize voluntarily was a fuse.

That was, after some inquiries, he learned about the historical track record of that Lawyer Zhang Wei.

That was truly an extremely rich historical track record; for a moment, Xu Xiu was even curious how this person hadn't been beaten to death by their clients!

So, all of a sudden, he lost confidence in his article; before, he felt that since it had been reviewed by a Lawyer and the other party said it was fine, then it was fine.

But now, with that kind of Lawyer, to be honest, Xu Xiu felt his heart hanging in his throat; even if he were arrested tomorrow, he wouldn't be surprised.

Moreover, his article hadn't caused any particularly major consequences, because with the previous reports as a precedent, young people really didn't buy into this moral kidnapping!

Someone died, so they died, why would you still demand money from others? These young people now feel disgusted when they hear words about smoothing things over.

So for this verdict, they truly supported it with both hands!

Under such circumstances, his article meant to stir up trouble naturally didn't cause any big sensation.

So he didn't have any hesitation; he apologized. He knew that Zhou Yi responded to soft tactics but not hard ones; it had been mentioned in videos before that as long as one apologized sincerely, the other party would indeed forgive.

"President Zhou, I am truly apologizing sincerely. As for the losses caused to you, this is really my fault. I shouldn't have used such inflammatory language to write the report..."

The other party was so quick to chicken out that it caught Zhou Mouren off guard; just then, someone knocked on the office door.

Zhou Yi said casually: "Please come in!"

"President Zhou, have you decided? I'll go file a Lawsuit against that Show Off to the Heavens. Although I can't send him inside like Teacher Fang did, it'll be enough to give him a hard time."

Lawyer Huo always spoke in a loud voice, so Xu Xiu on the other end of Zhou Yi's phone heard it clearly.

"President Zhou, President Zhou, there's no need, really no need. For the losses caused to you, you name a number, and I will compensate for whatever it should be. Really, there's truly no need to file a Lawsuit."

"Whether it's a public apology or compensation for damages, just say the word!"

Xu Xiu was truly frightened by this voice; fortunately, he had called quickly, otherwise, what would he have done when the time came.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yi waved his hand and said: "Lawyer Huo, for the time being, it seems there's no need to file a Lawsuit."

He paused and then added: "Xu Xiu, right? You can go talk to this Company's Lawyer about the matters of compensation and apology."

"And I want to leave you with one piece of advice: don't use your cleverness on these kinds of things. If you walk the night path too often, you will eventually encounter a ghost."

"President Zhou, I'll remember it, I will definitely remember it."

After hanging up the phone and instructing Huo Pengfei to handle the matter, Zhou Yi finally had some free time.

Although he said he wasn't afraid of trouble, Zhou Yi still felt that he should really mind his own business less in the future.

But this way, it felt like there was no need to pad out two videos; he could just explain everything clearly in one video.

The people at the Self-Media Studio had finished editing and sent over the sample, and after Zhou Yi watched it carefully, there were no problems.

Now the coordination between the Self-Media Studio and him was getting better and better.

Bringing the sample home, Zhou Yi began to record the audio.

He usually didn't do this work at the Company, and he didn't know why, but every time he recorded audio for a video, Zhou Yi was afraid of being seen.

Even at the Company, Zhou Mouren worked alone in his office.

"Hello everyone, my dear audience, I am your old friend A Yi. This matter is quite hard to talk about; come to think of it, it's still because I meddled in other people's business."

"Some people might have heard about this matter. It's like this, some time ago..."

Zhou Yi introduced the general situation of the matter with the video, then continued: "I received a Summons. To be honest, I was very happy at that moment."

"The other party didn't come to make a scene but chose to file a Lawsuit. This point exceeded my expectations, but whether it's me or Fang Dazhuang, we have always wanted everyone to use formal channels for Legal Aid."

"So they filed a Lawsuit against me, and I was truly gratified. Of course, they lost. I must mention here that Lawyer Zhou's level has improved significantly."

"However, I didn't expect that after they lost the lawsuit, they would return to their old ways, using underhanded tactics, not only coming to my Company to make a scene but also finding people to post articles online in an attempt to stir up trouble."

"I am a person who is not afraid of trouble."

Next, Zhou Yi began to detail his approach, just like stealing takeout; you can steal all you want, what I need to do is preserve the evidence!

The time in between is the opportunity I give you; if you seize it, then no problem, and I won't pursue it.

But if you continue to do so, then I'm sorry, we'll do whatever needs to be done!

"So everyone tell me, for such a request, this is the first time in my life I've encountered it. They threatened me that I must take them to the Police Station, what can I do? I'm just an ordinary President Zhou."

"They actually tried to run after going to the Police Station; of course, they were caught back as expected. Now I can only say that a Criminal Case has been filed."

As for the video title, let's call it "Who says you must pay compensation if a person is gone?"

The recording was finished; he looked it over, there were no places where the Mosaic was missing, no problems, click upload.

While waiting for the review, Zhou Yi looked at the calendar; there were about twenty days left until Fang Dazhuang returned.

His ability to stir up trouble was still top-tier, and without Fang Dazhuang by his side, he always felt a bit unable to handle things.

He also didn't know what Fang Dazhuang had gone abroad for, leaving so hurriedly; he would have to ask him properly when he returned!

The review passed, and Zhou Mouren's audience lords flooded into this new video in an instant.

"Zixing Yaoyue": Finally posted a new video; this time it wasn't split into parts to pad the runtime? Not bad, not bad, but seeing this title makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

"Feng Qingyue": So it's about that previous matter, damn, how many more people did the District Bully send in this time? The charge is actually Picking Quarrels and Provoking Trouble?

"Namo Gatling Pusa": I can only say they deserve it; are these people still thinking that as long as my family member dies, I'm in the right?

"To tell the truth, such filial sons are truly 'filial'; their own father wouldn't allow treatment and asked to go home, but when problems arose, they went to extort people. I even think this qualifies as Extortion."

"However, I didn't expect it to be the crime of Picking Quarrels and Provoking Trouble; A Yi is awesome!"

Pusa Xiong's words represented the thoughts of many people; that's exactly how it should be done!

They even went to the Company to cause a scene, thinking that causing a scene would be enough to scare people, right?

Zhou Yi scrolled through these comments; everyone seemed to have a greater interest in the crime of Picking Quarrels and Provoking Trouble than in the event itself.

There were even people wanting him to introduce the crime properly, or to have Fang Dazhuang introduce it properly.

Zhou Mouren directly ignored such comments; do they think he is stupid, or that Fang Dazhuang is stupid?

However, the matter was finally over, and Zhou Yi planned to notify his parents to return.

After browsing everyone's comments, Zhou Mouren clicked on his private messages for the first time in a while; he wanted to see what everyone had sent him over these days.

As it turned out, several in a row were just complaints from the audience lords.

"A Yi, recently a bunch of Content Creators on the small broken site have been doing advertisements and promotions for Pinduoduo, talking about Free Take, talking about cash red envelopes, but we have never succeeded in splitting the prize."

"So I am really curious, is that so-called Free Take, and those things like cash red envelopes, actually real?"

Pinduoduo, right? Zhou Yi had an impression of it; back then, his parents kept sending him messages, asking him to "slash" it.

He had even tried it specifically later on, and the result was that while it said his luck was the best, it immediately started asking for the limit.

Eh, it would have been fine if it hadn't been brought up, but once it was, Zhou Yi became interested instantly.

Since you put it that way, I am also very curious whether this is actually real.

If it is real, how many slashes would this take?

Today is extremely lackluster, only one chapter; the number of owed words has reached 104,000, Jiu Jian, you must pull yourself together!

The reason I didn't write this before was because I was waiting for the verdict, but after waiting and waiting, there is still no verdict... The main thing is that according to the outline, this plot should have been written earlier; dragging it out any longer would affect the subsequent plot, so I just wrote it.

Thanks to Aibzai, Yiwan Bulajin, hl, Another Newbie, Wenchidage, Fuchen, Buyibu, Book Friend 2021, Lemon, Baibaimengmeng, Author Will Shoot, Book Friend 1609, Feimaowuyu, Fengxinyoumi, Book Friend 2019; thank you brothers for the tips, thank you. Let's see if I can resume normal updates tomorrow; it's already June 7th, too lackluster.

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