Lu Fan felt that last phone call was a bit of a flex.
Especially the bit about calling in 7,000 lawyers. That kind of talk wasn’t how people of his status showed off anymore.
It was too cringey.
But when dealing with difficult old landlords like these, sotis you had to resort to such tactics.
The simpler and cruder, the more effective.
"What’s gotten into you?! What lawyers?! Xiaojiang, is he your man?" Aunt Liu, intimidated by Lu Fan, imdiately grew tense.
Jiang Yixia quickly explained, "Aunt Liu, please don’t get worked up."
She imdiately walked over to Lu Fan and shot him a look. "What are you doing?"
"They’re obviously bullying you. They don’t want to pay the penalty for breaking the contract and just want you to move out imdiately. I couldn’t just stand by and watch," Lu Fan said calmly.
"You could have at least let try to talk to them first! You jump to calling lawyers and the police at the slightest disagreent," Jiang Yixia said, speechless.
Lu Fan chuckled. "From their attitude just now, I could tell this wasn’t going to be easy. It’s fine, you go talk to them first. The legal team from my branch office won’t be here that quickly anyway."
Jiang Yixia had no choice but to turn back to Aunt Liu and Uncle Wu. "Aunt Liu, Uncle Wu, we just renewed the contract last month. It’s impossible for to find a new storefront in such a short ti. How about this? I’ll start looking, and I’ll let you know once I’ve found a new place. Is that okay?"
Although Aunt Liu had been frightened by Lu Fan’s intimidating presence, she maintained her harsh tone. "No. In any case, you have to be out by the end of this month."
"But the end of the month is only ten days away! How am I supposed to find a new shop in just ten days?" Even soone as good-tempered as Jiang Yixia was clearly getting angry at her words.
Uncle Wu seed to want to play the peacemaker. He waved his hand and said to Aunt Liu, "Why don’t we let Xiaojiang move out next month? It really is hard to find a new place in such a hurry."
"You shut up." Aunt Liu glared at him, signaling him to be quiet.
Her overbearing arrogance was on full display.
Aunt Liu first looked at Jiang Yixia and said, "My relative has already given a deposit. I’ll be honest with you—his rent is much higher than yours, so I don’t want to rent to you anymore."
Then she turned to Lu Fan. "And you, don’t try to scare . This is my property. I’ll rent it to who I want. If I don’t want to rent it to her, I won’t. The worst that can happen is I’ll waive this month’s rent. What else are you going to do?"
Jiang Yixia was furious. "You! How can you be like this? You’re being completely unreasonable."
"Since you’ve put it that way, I have nothing more to say. You can discuss it with my lawyers and the police later," Lu Fan said calmly.
Then he looked at Jiang Yixia. "Yixia, get the contract ready. You can show it to my lawyers in a bit."
This ti, Jiang Yixia didn’t argue back.
’This guy is so annoying, but he never drops the ball when it really matters.’
She knew this old couple was dead set on making her leave.
That being the case, Jiang Yixia wasn’t foolish enough not to protect her own rights.
’If the contract was useless, then what was the point of signing it?’
So, Jiang Yixia went back into the room and brought out the contract.
Seeing this, Aunt Liu started to get anxious. "Let tell you, don’t you try to scare with that stupid contract! It doesn’t have any official seal, just my signature. It has no legal effect! Signing this damn thing was just for show. My son studied law, you know! Don’t even think about intimidating ."
Lu Fan smiled. "If it’s just for show, then you have no reason to be nervous. We’ll just see what my lawyers and the police officers have to say about it."
After speaking, he glanced at Jiang Yixia, giving her a confident and calm look to signal that she didn’t need to worry.
Although Jiang Yixia didn’t want to escalate the situation this much, she had no better solution at the mont.
So, she decided to let Lu Fan handle the rest.
’Of course, Jiang Yixia had no intention of being grateful to him for this.’
’If Lu Fan tried to use this to get her back, or make her do sothing else... ’
’Jiang Yixia just might smash his big head and his little one!’
Just then.
His assistant Jiali walked in, leading a group of white-collar professionals in suits.
There were about ten of them.
"Boss, I’ve brought the legal team from our nearest branch office," Jiali explained. "These lawyers are all graduates from top universities with strong professional skills. The team leader here was once a top team leader at a law firm."
As she spoke, she stepped back to introduce the middle-aged man at the front.
The middle-aged man wore a crisp suit and carried himself with a confident, imposing air amidst the group.
But the mont he saw Lu Fan, his deanor instantly beca humble. He said respectfully, "Hello, Chairman. I’m Xiaocu, the Director of the Legal Departnt for the Yangcheng Qiangsheng Group."
"Xiaocu, sorry for the trouble of having you all co over. I have a small matter here that I need you to handle," Lu Fan replied.
"Please, just give us your orders, Chairman."
Lu Fan took the contract from Jiang Yixia and said calmly, "Here’s the situation. My wife rented this storefront and just renewed the lease for two years last month. Now, the landlord is demanding she move out imdiately, within the month. I’d like to know how we can claim compensation."
"That’s a simple matter. We’ll proceed directly according to the breach of contract clause in the lease," Director Qiu said, looking at the contract. "The penalty specified here is a paynt equivalent to three months’ rent. The monthly rent is 5,000 yuan, so the total would be 15,000 yuan. If the landlord insists that we move out, they will need to pay 15,000 yuan in compensation."
Just then, Sister Li, the owner of the dry-cleaning shop next door, noticed the commotion and hurried over to ask what was happening.
When she learned that the landlord was trying to kick Jiang Yixia out, she flew into a rage and blurted out, "You old witch! You want her to move out without paying the penalty? In your dreams! Let tell you, don’t you dare bully my Sister Xia, or you’ll have to answer to!"
Faced with so many people, Aunt Liu grew frantic. She fud, "Are you crazy? You want to pay 15,000 yuan?"
"Ma’am, this is the contract you signed. You have to honor it," Director Qiu replied.
"Honor it, my foot!" The more Aunt Liu spoke, the more agitated she beca, panting heavily. "I see now, you’re just a bunch of robbers and bandits, ganging up on ... I... I’m calling the police too! I’ll report you for being gangsters!"
With that, she took out her phone, intending to call the police.
「anwhile.」
After the Xiashan Police Station in the Bai Mountain District received the report, two officers prepared to head out.
But one of the officers noticed the address of the report.
He imdiately reported to Director Huang, "Director Huang, there’s a report from the comrcial street. Soone is reporting a dispute where a landlord is forcing a tenant to move out."
Director Huang frowned, puzzled. "Why are you telling this? You guys can just go handle it."
The officer walked up to his side, embarrassed, and whispered, "Director, do you rember that pervert who caused trouble at the flower shop a while back? The one you ca back late at night to interrogate personally? This report is from that sa flower shop."
Director Huang was so startled he almost dropped his pen.
Because of that incident with the pervert at the flower shop, he had to go to the city and report the details to the deputy chief early in the morning.
The deputy chief had chewed him out all morning.
The mory still made him shudder.
’And now soone else is causing trouble there?!’
Director Huang imdiately fastened his belt and said to the officer, "Quick, get everyone at the station who isn’t on an important case. I’m leading the team. Move, move, move!"
With that, Director Huang shot out of his office like a rabbit.
Faster than a groom on his wedding night.
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