Chapter 586: Does the Vice Sect Leader Not Need to Be Helped Up?

"Is that true, Pengpeng? Only a Mediation Agreement from the Court has legal effect?" Deng Jiafeng asked hurriedly.

Liu Zhipeng replied, "Yes, Auntie. A Mediation Agreement given by the Police Station doesn't actually have legal effect. A Court's Mediation Agreement is equivalent to a Judgment; if you don't comply, it can be subject to Compulsory Execution."

"The Police Station has no way to force you to comply."

Liu Zhipeng wasn't exactly forgetting the pain once the wound had healed; these were theoretical concepts, and isn't studying law just about learning these theories?

A Mediation Agreement indeed only has legal effect if it is issued by the Court, because, like a Judgment, it can be subject to Compulsory Execution.

The Police Station does not have this power.

"Then I can rest easy, Pengpeng. I ran into a lunatic for no reason, and they even called the police over such a small matter; it's made me unable to even eat my meal now."

"You go ahead and get busy, Pengpeng. Come to Auntie's house for dinner after you get off work."

"Eh, no need, Auntie, no need. I'll just eat at the cafeteria. It's nothing, and it's good that I know these things."

After hanging up the phone, Liu Zhipeng went back to continue working. He had no other thoughts, just the feeling that the law he had studied was finally useful.

On her side, Deng Jiafeng hung up the phone and looked at Feng Jianhua, saying, "Old Feng, it's fine. Pengpeng said that the Mediation Agreement from the Police Station has no legal effect."

"That's right. If we don't pay, the other party can only go to Court to file a Lawsuit."

Upon hearing this, Feng Jianhua hesitated and said, "Then what if they really go to Court?"

As soon as these words came out, he was mocked by Deng Jiafeng: "What do you think filing a Lawsuit is? You have to hire a Lawyer and spend money. It's not as simple as calling the police where you just make a phone call. How could that be possible?"

"We pay so much money just to get a consultation; wouldn't a lawsuit cost even more? No one is that stupid."

"Besides, if they really do file a Lawsuit, I can just pay after they file it, right? Nothing will happen."

Deng Jiafeng's calculations were so loud that even Modu could hear them; that was exactly what she thought.

The other party called the police over such a small matter just to disgust her, so she would disgust them back; only then could she vent her anger.

As for the other party filing a Lawsuit... she simply didn't believe anyone would file a Lawsuit over such a trivial matter. What kind of person would do that? Are they bored out of their minds? Or do they have a gold mine at home?

And so, the matter was happily decided.

Liu Zhipeng was still working very hard, but he had already learned his first lesson: your client will not necessarily tell you the whole situation.

Deng Jiafeng wasn't actually hiding it on purpose, because she didn't know either.

After being brought back to the station, she had cried there for a long time, begging desperately to be let go so she could attend her son's wedding.

The consequence was that Chen Li didn't even mention the potential penalties, and the Mediation process was already completed.

Normally, this kind of matter also requires going through the Mediation process, unless the party being insulted refuses to agree to anything and insists that the person who did the insulting be held in Detention for a few days.

This time, however, seeing that the other party had already cried like that, and the situation was indeed special, and most importantly, Zhou Yi had set the conditions, she agreed quite readily.

So there was no need for trouble, and considering Deng Jiafeng needed to leave quickly, she was specifically asked to sign early.

If it were a normal Mediation process, grassroots Police Stations would generally want to clarify everything first to prevent any unexpected situations.

Then, after you finish doing those things—that is, after you apologize and pay compensation—you come back to sign the Mediation Agreement and go through the procedure.

Doing it this way was also to avoid trouble. Liu Zhipeng was quite right about one thing: the Mediation Agreement from the Police Station indeed has no legal effect.

However, this does not mean that the Vice Sect Leader doesn't need to be helped up.

If your actions are serious enough to fall under the Public Security Administration Punishments Law, then when you fail to fulfill the Mediation Agreement, the Police Station will, on one hand, advise the other party to file a Lawsuit in Court.

On the other hand, the Police Station can proceed with their own procedures.

The statute of limitations for public security administration punishments is six months...

There are so many laws that there is always one that fits you. Just because it cannot be subject to Compulsory Execution does not mean that they cannot use other methods to make you experience the existence of the law.

Thus, in such an atmosphere, a day passed.

Zhou Yi walked home, curious about whether Deng Jiafeng really didn't want to apologize or pay the compensation.

As it turned out, when he arrived at the Elevator entrance, there was no apology letter at all, and even the previous notice had been cleared away by Property Management.

Zhou Yi was a bit suspicious. What was this person thinking? Did she think he definitely wouldn't take it seriously?

He checked the group chat again; there was likewise no apology message.

As for the compensation, that was even less likely. He had left his account details for the other party, but judging by this, they really didn't want to pay.

After hesitating for a moment, Zhou Yi opened the homeowners' group again, tagged the other party, and sent a message.

"Hello Ms. Deng, I am the neighbor who signed the Mediation Agreement with you. It has now been a day; please apologize and pay the compensation according to the contents of the Mediation Agreement."

The consequence of having a bunch of Legal Persons around you is that you habitually follow procedures for everything.

For example, right now, notifying the other party in this way is seen by many as completely redundant and useless.

However, in law, the significance of a "formal demand" is great.

For instance, if someone owes you money, you might keep thinking that the other party definitely knows about this matter, so it doesn't matter if you say anything or not.

This could lead to a consequence where, when you finally want to file a Lawsuit, you discover that the case has already passed the statute of limitations.

But if you carry out a formal demand—that is, you say to the other party, "Hurry up and pay me back"—

Then, well, after the formal demand procedure, the original statute of limitations is interrupted and begins to be calculated anew.

So, for those who keep not paying back money, remember to make a formal demand; never feel embarrassed. That is your money that was lent out!

If they don't pay it back, they should be the ones in the wrong.

After it was sent, the previously quiet homeowners' group suddenly became lively, and some homeowners immediately popped up.

"What's going on? Isn't this the neighbor who said they wouldn't move their car before? What's with all this talk of mediation and whatnot? What happened?"

"Does anyone know?"

No one knew, and those who did weren't saying anything. This kind of thing offends people, and as ordinary people, everyone still thinks it's better to avoid trouble.

So, after asking a few times with no response, everyone stopped talking. But, since the group finally had some entertainment, everyone started paying attention.

At the very least, Deng Jiafeng should reply to the message, right?

However, this wait lasted all night. Until he woke up the next morning, Zhou Yi checked the group, and that woman named Deng Jiafeng still hadn't said a word.

It was as if the other party hadn't looked at her phone at all.

This made Zhou Yi, whose anger had dissipated after a night, suddenly feel his temper flare up again.

After thinking it over, Zhou Yi recalled that the other party's phone number was left on the Mediation Agreement, so he dug it out and dialed the number.

It was currently busy; he put his phone down, waited ten minutes, and called again, but it was still busy.

After calling three times like this, Zhou Yi was certain of one thing: this person must have added his phone number to their blacklist.

It really is true that in a big enough forest, you'll find all kinds of birds; he wondered where this Ms. Deng got the audacity to simply refuse to acknowledge a Mediation Agreement issued by the Police Station?

However, when Zhou Yi and Lawyer Fang were drinking and chatting together, he had heard of such things before; some people, after returning home and listening to their family, felt the compensation amount was unreasonable and went back to the Police Station to cause a scene...

Of course, in the end, they got exactly what they asked for and happily received five days of Detention, how delightful.

After some thought, Zhou Yi prepared to head to work, but before leaving, he decided to draft a Notice.

He hadn't intended to do this, but since you won't answer the phone or reply to WeChat, I have no choice but to use this method to urge you.

When the Court is unable to serve documents, they also use Notice of Service by Public Announcement, so there's nothing wrong with it; both the Court and I do it this way.

He had a printer at home, and it didn't take long to print out the Notice.

Zhou Mouren admired it himself; it was only about a few hundred words, explaining the cause of the conflict, and then emphasizing that he had agreed to the Mediation solely out of consideration for her son's upcoming wedding.

Now, I am giving you one day to immediately apologize and provide compensation; otherwise, I will take necessary measures to protect my legal rights—do not say you were not warned!

While Zhou Yi was working on these things, Zhou Xinran watched from the side, and once he was finished, she spoke up: "Is this the same thing you posted on that family upstairs?"

"Why do I feel like, while you call this a formal notice, you're actually just trying to stir up trouble..."

Zhou Yi quickly said: "Xinran, we may be close, but you can't slander me; this is just a formal notice. There is no slander, no insult—since when is stating facts not allowed?"

"Hurry up and go; I'll post this at the Elevator entrance before we leave."

Zhou Xinran smiled and said nothing more; in her opinion, once this thing was posted, the other party would likely be even angrier.

Even though I did something wrong, you can't make me apologize in front of everyone; you're embarrassing me and not giving me face!

Face is something that can be more valuable than anything else when it matters; when people are cursing in the group chat, they don't care about face at all, but believe me, if you post it at the Elevator entrance demanding an apology, they will feel they have lost face.

However, Zhou Yi didn't care; I've tried every method I could think of and used every way to contact you, but you just blocked me and didn't reply, so what else can I do?

After posting the Notice at the Elevator entrance, Zhou Yi specifically called Property Management to tell them not to take it down, and only then did he and Zhou Xinran head to work with peace of mind.

Meanwhile, upstairs, Deng Jiafeng was also preparing to go to work.

"Lao Feng, did you ask our son yesterday if that Lu Yan actually got the money back?" Deng Jiafeng asked while putting on her shoes.

Feng Jianhua shook his head: "I didn't ask; how could I ask that? You should stop worrying about it; our son is already married."

"Why can't I worry about it? Even if he's married, I'm still his mother. So much Bride Price was given out, and the in-laws promised it would be returned, so why can't I ask? You are just..."

Complaining as she went, Deng Jiafeng headed out the door, but just as she was about to enter the Elevator, her phone rang; she picked it up and saw it was her son calling.

"Hello son, what's wrong? What's the matter? The first-floor Elevator entrance? Okay, wait a moment, I'll be right down."

Hanging up the phone, Deng Jiafeng hurried to the Elevator and went downstairs; upon reaching the first-floor Elevator entrance, she saw several people gathered there.

Among them were her son and daughter-in-law.

"What exactly is going on?" Deng Jiafeng asked as she approached.

But before she could finish her sentence, she saw the Notice there, her own name specifically bolded and blackened, making it very eye-catching.

Feng Jiannan, standing to the side, spoke up: "Mom, what is this situation? Didn't you say everything was fine?"

Her daughter-in-law, Lu Yan, didn't speak; her current status made it inappropriate for her to say much.

The neighbors nearby were also whispering, occasionally looking at Deng Jiafeng and murmuring.

Or rather, no one expected that this Deng Jiafeng would actually be notified in such a way.

Some wanted to say that this behavior was not good, after all, you should communicate privately, why post it at the Elevator entrance? It has such a bad influence.

But they opened their mouths and couldn't say it, because this Notice seemed to have the power of foresight, writing out all the arguments they had prepared in advance...

Why not communicate privately? Because they didn't know where the other party lived, they blocked calls, didn't reply to messages, and there was truly no other way but to use this method to tell the other party to hurry up and fulfill the Mediation Agreement.

However, just because everyone else couldn't argue didn't mean Deng Jiafeng couldn't.

After seeing this so-called Notice, she felt a fire rising straight up, not to mention that there were so many neighbors nearby who had all seen it!

Neighbors are not relatives; if one person sees it, you can say the whole building knows.

Especially since she had previously been very arrogant in the owners' group chat, telling the other party to go complain wherever they wanted...

In a fit of rage, Deng Jiafeng stepped forward and tore the Notice down, ripping it to shreds!

She looked at her son and daughter-in-law and said: "Jiannan, you two go to work first; this matter isn't as he says, can't you see he's committing Extortion?"

"The day you got married, I had to rush over; they wouldn't let me leave unless I agreed, so I had no choice but to agree, but asking for so much money—if this isn't extortion, what is?"

"Alright, hurry up and go."

Since it had reached this point, no one continued to watch the spectacle; mainly, they checked the time and realized they were going to be late for work.

Deng Jiafeng also prepared to go to work, but she felt the fire in her heart growing, and she simply couldn't hold it back.

Fine, so we've torn off the mask, have we? Then let's tear it off completely; Deng Jiafeng took out her phone and directly tagged Zhou Yi in the group chat.

"Posting a Dazibao, are we? Next, are you going to have everyone criticize me together? Huh? Extortion, are you done yet? Three thousand yuan, why don't you just go rob someone?"

"Calling the police and refusing to let me leave unless I agreed to Mediation, right? Fine, I'm telling you now, I was originally planning to compensate you one thousand yuan, but now, you won't get a single cent! Go ahead and sue me!"

"By the way, let me tell you, that so-called Police Station Mediation Agreement—I just won't follow it, what can you do to me? You Legal Blind, don't you know that a Police Station Mediation Agreement has no legal effect?"

"I just won't follow it, let's see who can do anything to me!"

"Post it, keep posting it, I'm telling you, I'm not done with you!"

It was another long string of voice messages; any normal person could tell that the content of these messages was likely filled with extreme profanity.

After finishing her cursing, Deng Jiafeng put her phone down; I just won't pay, I'll make you die of anger.

This outburst of cursing immediately brought the owners who had been lurking back out.

In fact, some people had already sent photos of the Notice from downstairs everywhere, but because they didn't want to offend anyone, they hadn't posted them in the group chat.

But now, since she had exposed herself, everyone had no more reservations, and soon the photos and such were all over the group chat.

"So that's how it is. I was wondering what the matter was. This really can't be judged; I think both sides are at fault. One side shouldn't be cursing people, and the other side, well, is being a bit too petty. It's just a couple of curses, you're all neighbors..."

This kind of statement thinks it has considered both sides, but in reality, it's the type that offends both.

But helplessly, the owner who sent the message still feels that what they said is very correct.

Soon, an owner who had also been cursed at before retorted: "What petty or not petty? What's wrong with that? Just because he got married, he can occupy our Small Residential District's parking space as he pleases? Everyone spent money to rent their parking spaces; who is so noble?"

"Not to mention that Deng person was still cursing in the group all day. It's just that I didn't see it at the time, otherwise I would have wanted to call the police too."

Of course, more people were expressing there that the Mediation Agreement from the Police Station really has no legal effect? Everyone didn't know that at all before.

Everyone discussed it for a long time, but couldn't come up with anything, because what Deng Jiafeng said was so righteous that everyone felt what she said seemed to make a lot of sense.

At the very least, this neighbor surnamed Zhou seems to only be able to protect his rights through a Lawsuit, but to file a Lawsuit over such a matter feels a bit like making a mountain out of a molehill.

In the words of one owner, this trivial matter, it's hard to say whether the Court would even care, not to mention the money that would need to be spent in the process.

Under these circumstances, many people feel that this neighbor surnamed Zhou probably won't file a Lawsuit, because it really isn't worth it.

Everyone's general perception is still the same as before: don't go to court unless absolutely necessary.

Time is like a wild donkey, but for Zhou Yi, when he is busy, he is busy enough, and when he is free, he is free enough.

Who would have thought that he would be busy all morning today, and only had a little free time at noon. Picking up his phone, Zhou Yi intended to have a video call with Zhou Xinran.

As a result, he discovered that there were quite a few people in the owner group tagging him.

There were even people wanting to add him as a friend, with the note actually asking him to look at the group.

It's a bit strange; he isn't familiar with anyone else in the Small Residential District, so why are so many people suddenly wanting to add him?

But fortunately, since he was idle anyway, Zhou Yi clicked on the group, preparing to see what the situation was.

Facts proved that even in an owner group, there are many "old sixes" (sneaky people); everyone is the type that loves to watch the chaos without fearing it's too big...

Of course, it's also possible they just don't find Deng Jiafeng pleasing to the eye. Anyway, Zhou Yi saw the long voice message the other party sent.

Clicking it to listen, he was stunned!

Although she indeed wasn't planning to execute that Mediation Agreement, he, Zhou Mouren, had truly never seen anyone dare to say this so blatantly.

To be able to say directly, "Police Station, your Mediation Agreement has no legal effect, it cannot be enforced, and I just won't comply..."

Is she an idiot? What is she thinking? Although it indeed has no legal effect, they have plenty of other ways!

Especially in a case like this, where it is a situation where one can choose to punish or not.

What, does the Vice Sect Leader not need to be supported?

This is getting interesting. Zhou Yi dialed Chen Li's phone directly.

"Hello, Officer Chen, yes, it's me, Zhou Yi. Are you at the station? I have something to find you about. Okay, I'll come over now; this matter is hard to talk about on the phone..."

It is indeed hard to talk about. Should he say on the phone that Deng Jiafeng looks down on your Police Station?

The key is, he couldn't imitate that tone either.

At the Guangming Road Police Station, Chen Li put down the phone with a suspicious look. What kind of matter could it be that can't be said on the phone? Could this guy be brewing some big trouble again?

Forget it, don't worry about that for now; eating is more important. Better hurry up and grab a bite.

Many people in the station are eating now, and the station leader is there too.

No matter what matter he, Zhou Yi, has, he isn't worried.

After waiting for about twenty minutes, a car stopped in the courtyard, and then a handsome guy got out of the car, pushed the door open, and entered the Police Station.

As it happened, he ran into a bunch of police officers who had just finished eating and were also walking in.

No need to say much, they were all acquaintances at a glance. Station Chief Lao Kang of the Guangming Road Police Station was there too. Seeing Zhou Yi, he immediately smiled: "Little Zhou is here again. Is there something the matter this time?"

What a coincidence. Zhou Yi quickly took out his phone and said: "Leader, this is just a small matter. I'm looking for Officer Chen Li."

"Regarding the matter that the station mediated last time, the other party is now completely refusing to comply with the mediation agreement, and, and what she said is very ugly..."

Lao Kang glanced at Chen Li and smiled: "Ugly? How ugly is it?"

"Maybe it's better not to listen. It really is too..."

"You, Little Zhou, you aren't reserved at all when you go to the Zhonglou side with Lao Zhang, but you're holding back here with me, right? I'm telling you, it's fine." Lao Kang pointed at Zhou Yi and said.

Then he, Zhou Mouren, couldn't be blamed.

"I'm going to play it now. It's a voice message."

It can only be said that everyone is an "old six." Zhou Yi even specifically turned the volume to the maximum, so that Deng Jiafeng's voice instantly resounded through the Police Station.

Even people in the case-handling area heard it.

Listening, Lao Kang's expression changed, and the others were all looking indignant.

Still the same saying, everyone is human, so everyone has the emotions that humans should have, it's just that one cannot bring emotions into work.

But to say it so directly... it's equivalent to a slap in the face!

After listening, Lao Kang immediately said: "Little Chen, you guys didn't handle this well. Re-handle it with Lao Wu. The law will not wrong a good person, but it must not let a bad person go!"

After speaking, he nodded to Zhou Yi again and then walked toward the office.

Chen Li came to Zhou Yi's side, truly with anger on her face.

Lao Wu didn't speak either. At the time, everyone considered the other party's special situation and handled the special matter specially; Lao Kang had requested to mediate if possible.

And yet, she turned around and said something like that.

"That Zhou Yi, you wait here first. We'll go bring the person back. We'll follow the procedures as they should be followed!"

Zhou Yi naturally had no problem with that. He also really wanted to see what the situation would be when Deng Jiafeng was brought back again.

There are always people who think others are harming her. If they really wanted to harm her, they would have just put her in Detention at the very beginning.

Now, if she won't pay the three thousand or apologize, then just wait. What's written on the Court Indictment won't just be three thousand!