Tiger Police

Chapter 121 Liquidated Damages

Zhang Qiang took a long puff of cigarette, his tone of voice sounded a bit strange, and there was also a hint of threat: "Why, you want to drive me away?"

Zheng Yuxian was frightened, and managed to pluck up the courage to say: "That...no...it's not kicking out. Xiao Zhang, something happened to my family, and I have to take the house back. You can't live here anyway. For one month, I will pay you half a month's rent and return the money to you."

Hu Pingtao chimed in: "Don't be dissatisfied, it's already pretty good. Do the math yourself, it's been more than 20 days since you moved in. Aunt Zheng confiscated a whole lot for the sake of your poor health. monthly rent."

Zhang Qiang is very afraid of Hu Pingtao who is wearing a police uniform.He threw the cigarette butt on the ground, raised his foot to stamp it out, rolled it hard a few times, and said unhappily: "This matter has nothing to do with you police, I am renting a house, and I have not committed a crime. I'm right."

"Besides, it's our business to borrow money from her. Why do you, a policeman, get involved?"

Faced with verbal provocations, Hu Pingtao did not get angry. He said kindly, "Aunt Zheng is my aunt, and I help my relatives. Is there a problem?"

To help people to the end, fictitious relatives can play a certain role at critical times.

The corners of Zhang Qiang's eyes twitched a few times, then he raised his hand, shook his head resignedly, and sighed: "Okay! I admit it, who made me have no money, and my health is not good. What about the relatives of the policeman... old lady, just do as you said: you quit the rent, I check out, this is the head office!"

The matter was satisfactorily resolved, Zheng Yuxian showed joy and nodded again and again: "Okay, that's good. That... I'll transfer the money to you right now."

"Wait a minute, I haven't finished talking yet."

Zhang Qiang touched his newly shaved bald head, with a hint of cunning in his eyes: "In addition to the three months' rent and one month's deposit I gave you, I also paid an extra month's rent to the agency. Since you asked me to Check out, you have to pay me the money, right?"

When Zheng Yuxian heard this, he immediately became anxious: "This is the agency fee you paid them, what does it have to do with me?"

Zhang Qiang raised his hand and made a stop motion: "Old lady, you can't say that. You should understand that when we signed the contract to rent the house, it was your wish. I didn't default on the rent. Transfer the money to you. Now it's the other way around, you don't want me to live here. I don't care if your relative is a policeman or not, I have to make it clear: now you want me to go. That's fine, I have nothing to say. But You have to pay me for the loss, right?"

Zheng Yuxian was too anxious to say a word.

The truth is true, but the agency fee for that month's rent has nothing to do with her.

Seeing this, Hu Pingtao stepped forward and said solemnly: "Aunt Zheng confiscated your money. This is a problem between you and the intermediary company. In addition, please show your ID card and certificate of release after serving your sentence."

Without arguing, Zhang Qiang turned around and walked to the bed, took out the ID from a bag, and handed it to Hu Pingtao.

There is no problem with the ID card, and the release certificate has the stub of the detention center and the seal of the local police station.While examining carefully, Hu Pingtao frowned and asked, "Do you have a history of drug abuse?"

Zhang Qiang stared at him unkindly, and spoke in a provocative tone: "I used to like this, but then I quit, the kind replaced by medicine. You are a policeman, why don't you even understand this?"

Hu Pingtao ignored him, the priority now is to help Zheng Yuxian get the house back.He collected the documents and returned them to Zhang Qiang: "Let me repeat, the agency fee has nothing to do with the landlord, she never confiscated the money. Now we are only talking about the house, and I will give you two days to pack up and move out as soon as possible."

Zhang Qiang showed a mocking look on his face, and said with a sneer: "Since you have said that, I have to give face... OK, I will move if you ask me. We don't have to wait until tomorrow, I will do it later Call someone to come and remove the stuff."

Hu Pingtao was surprised by Zhang Qiang's words, and nodded slowly: "Thank you for your cooperation."

Zhang Qiang smiled maliciously: "Don't be in a hurry to thank me, I haven't finished my sentence yet. As a person, I know what's wrong with me. I take drugs, I have been in prison, I am poor, and I haven't worked yet... Police officer, I will tell you what is wrong with me. To be honest, this person is going to be poor, and he has no money, so he can do anything. I can use the money to rent a house because I want to find a job and set up a family. Since you If you don’t want to rent the house to me, that’s okay, I’ll just leave. But I have to put my ugly words up front—no one can take advantage of me, and I must spit out what I eat.”

There was a threat in his words, and Hu Pingtao looked at him coldly: "You mean, let us go to the agency with you and ask for the agency fee back?"

"That's right!" Zhang Qiang smiled, his smile was strange and confusing: "Isn't this too much to ask?"

Hu Pingtao thought for a while, then turned to Zheng Yuxian: "Aunt Zheng, what do you think?"

Zheng Yuxian was eager for Zhang Qiang to move away quickly, so he nodded repeatedly.

To be honest, no one wants to have such a tenant.Not to mention borrowing money, whether it is drug use or release after serving a sentence, any one of them will make the landlord a big headache, and no one wants to provoke it.

……

The intermediary company is not far from the rental house, just on the side street more than 300 meters away.

The customer manager named Jiang Guihua is a middle-aged woman in her 40s.According to Zheng Yuxian, the former manager was a man, and it was replaced by her in the second half of last year.

Things are not complicated and can be explained in a few words.

"You want to quit the rent?" Jiang Osmanthus had heavy makeup on her face, her cheeks were white on both sides, but the skin on her neck was very dark.She put away her smile and frowned.

Zheng Yuxian quickly explained: "I have to take the house back and refund the rent to him. I will not rent this house anymore, so you have to refund the agency fee to him."

When Jiang Guihua heard it, her eyebrows were raised upright, and she spoke in a loud voice: "Why? This is a matter between you two. Why do you drag our agency into it? It has nothing to do with us!"

Zheng Yuxian said: "Didn't you charge him a monthly rent as an intermediary fee? Now that I don't rent, you have to refund the money."

Jiang Guihua frowned tightly: "Zheng Yuxian, you have to clarify the responsibilities. I'm an intermediary, and I'm only responsible for pushing your house. As for who you rent the house to, that's your business. You and I There is a relationship between entrustment and entrustment. As long as someone mentions me to rent your house, and you agree and sign the contract, even if the entrustment is established, I can smoothly collect the agency fee."

"Now you are unwilling to rent the house to him. In other words, it is the conflict between you and Zhang Qiang. You can't use this as an excuse to ask me to refund him the agency fee! Because there is no entrustment between me and him, The entrustment relationship between me and you is also over. I received the money because I completed this stage of work. If you think about it carefully, is this the truth?"

Zheng Yuxian jumped up anxiously, but Jiang Guihua couldn't speak, so he could only turn his eyes to Hu Pingtao for help.

Hu Pingtao sighed secretly, and persuaded in a low voice: "Aunt Zheng, what you said is right, it's the truth."

He wanted to help Zheng Yuxian, but Jiang Osmanthus said the truth, and Hu Pingtao had nothing to do about it.

Jiang Guihua was familiar with the terms of the lease, and she might have been offended by Zheng Yuxian's request.In front of Zhang Qiang, he deliberately said: "Zheng Yuxian, I suggest you take a good look at the relevant regulations. The national law clearly stipulates that people who have been released from prison and drug addicts should not be discriminated against. It is legal for people to pay for renting a house normally. Civil rights. And now there is no evidence to prove that Zhang Qiang has violated the law in renting your house. In other words, you have no right to terminate the lease contract.”

"What did you say?" Zheng Yuxian was dumbfounded on the spot.

Zhang Qiang also had a clear expression on his face at this time, he took out the folded rental contract from his pocket, and unfolded it in front of Zheng Yuxian: "Old lady, I remembered, I'm afraid I have to continue to live in this house. can't drive me away."

"Why?" Zheng Yuxian was confused and asked angrily.

"Look here, about the terms of the breach of the contract." Zhang Qiang smiled triumphantly: "I didn't do anything illegal in your house, why do you let me go? Of course, if you insist on doing this, I will Nothing to say. Who made the house yours?"

"I can move out, provided you compensate me for all losses, including liquidated damages for half a year's rent."

Zheng Yuxian's eyes widened, and he asked in disbelief: "What did you say? Half a year's liquidated damages? You mean... I... I have to pay you the other way around?"

Without waiting for Zhang Qiang to speak, Jiang Guihua chimed in: "That's the truth. Calculated at 800 yuan per month, that's 800 yuan for half a year."

Zhang Qiang smiled happily at the side: "Old lady, you can think about it, I will take care of this matter, even if your relatives are policemen, they can't help you."

Zheng Yuxian was almost pissed off.

She was helped by Hu Pingtao to leave the housing agency and return to the police booth.After resting for a long time, he slowly stood up and left slowly.

……

Hu Pingtao called the economic investigation team leader Shi Hongwei.

"This is weird." He didn't hide his thoughts: "The tenant named Zhang Qiang first asked the landlord to borrow money, and then told the landlord that he was a drug addict and released from prison. This is unreasonable."

Shi Hongwei said on the phone: "It's a little strange. Under normal circumstances, no one would publicize his history of drug use, and it is not honorable to be released after serving his sentence. If it is really difficult financially, It's generally negotiated with the landlord, not threatened."

Hu Pingtao asked: "But why did he do this? Blackmail? Blackmail?"

Shi Hongwei thought for a moment: "If I'm not wrong, his purpose should be compensation for breach of contract."

Hu Pingtao immediately reacted: "Deliberately let the landlord know his details, and then generate fear, and refuse to rent the house to him, resulting in a breach of the lease on the surface."

Shi Hongwei said with a smile on the phone: "The lease contract has been signed for half a year, and the liquidated damages for half a year are as high as tens of thousands of yuan, which is a lot of money."

Hu Pingtao was thoughtful: "So I'm not in good health, and going to the hospital to see a doctor is just an excuse... From this point of view, I guess the intermediary must be with this Zhang Qiang. Otherwise, the old lady Zheng's house , no matter what, the rent is less than [-] a month."

Shi Hongwei immediately became interested: "This matter is quite new. I have seen many economic fraud cases, and this is the first time of this type. Xiaohu, you can help me keep an eye on it. If you need anything, just let me know." Tomorrow, I will send someone to investigate with you, if it is confirmed that it is a new fraudulent method, you will have made meritorious deeds again."

……

Before he could wait until the next day, Hu Pingtao received a call from Zheng Yuxian at around eleven o'clock that night.

She cried on the phone: "Little Tiger, please help me! I know you are busy with work, but I don't know anyone else, so I can only beg you."

The police booth was on duty in turn. Hu Pingtao just lay down on the temporary bed, and quickly sat up with his mobile phone: "Don't worry, speak slowly."

Zheng Yuxian was sobbing on the phone, and said in a tearful voice, "The one who rented my house is Zhang, he has angered everyone upstairs and downstairs, and now he is going to be kicked out."

Hu Pingtao wondered, "What did he do?"

Zheng Yuxian sighed: "I can't say a word or two on the phone. I'm renting out a room here now. Xiaohu, Auntie, please come here and help me."

……

Zheng Yuxian's rental house is located on Hongshan East Road.After the reform and opening up, the flour mill established an enterprise called "Xiangyanghong", which specializes in making pastries.In order to accommodate outside workers, a staff dormitory was built here.Later, the flour mill was restructured, and the "Xiangyanghong" pastry factory was also contracted. The dormitory building was used as employee benefits, and it was sold inside the flour mill at a lower than market price, and the in-service workers bought it themselves.

They are all buildings with a sense of the times, red brick houses, the kind without inlaid tiles on the outside.

Although the house here is old, the location is very good.In particular, Huaguang Primary School, which is more than 800 meters away, is a key school in the provincial capital.These days, parents are willing to pay for their children's studies. They would rather keep their own house empty than rent it near the school.

When Hu Pingtao arrived at the scene, there were more than a dozen people gathered in the courtyard in the middle of the dormitory building, surrounded by Zheng Yuxian and Zhang Qiang, and a young woman in revealing clothes.

"He stays up late at night and engages in such tricks outside, what kind of person is this!"

"Old Zheng, we have been acquaintances for many years. You said you rent a house, but why do you want to rent a house to this kind of person?"

"This person is not a good thing at first glance, and he has just been released from prison. No matter what you say, you can't let him stay here, otherwise our children will follow suit and be abolished."

Hu Pingtao walked in from the crowd and asked Zheng Yuxian, "Aunt Zheng, what happened?"

Seeing him, Zheng Yuxian seemed to have seen a savior, grabbed Hu Pingtao's hand tightly, and hurriedly explained the matter.

The old dormitory buildings of the flour mill just formed a courtyard, separated from the street by walls on all sides.

(End of this chapter)