Tiger Police

Chapter 328 Columbarium

Zhang Jingsong didn't believe it: "You are the police! With you here, how dare they?"

"The police are not omnipotent." Hu Pingtao said coldly, "What are you doing? You just shut the door and set up a mourning hall at home, and you still make such a big show, lest others don't know?"

Before Zhang Jingsong could answer, the old lady Liu Min's sharp accusation came again in the air: "You just have no good intentions, you just hope that I will die early!"

This seemed to be a signal, and all the elderly onlookers in the corridor immediately echoed and cursed.

"A good house must be made into a miasma."

"Old Liu is right, this kid just has no good intentions."

"It's no wonder I've been sick all this time. I've been to the hospital, but I've taken a lot of medicine and it's not getting better. I've been messing with it for a long time."

"This house needs to be feng shui. If he messes it up like this, even the best house will be ruined. How can we live in this way?"

Facing the storm of accusations, Zhang Jingsong became anxious. He stood up from behind Hu Pingtao, his face flushed, and he argued loudly.

"What nonsense are you talking about! This is my own house, and I can do whatever I want. I am willing to spend hundreds of thousands. This is my home, even if I treat the house as a garbage dump, it is my business , what does it have to do with you?"

The old lady Liu Min was angry, and strode forward, standing still less than half a meter away from Zhang Jingsong.It was so close that the tips of their noses almost touched.

"Even if it's your house, you can't do whatever you want. There are old people in every household upstairs and downstairs. You, you, you...you are cursing us to death!"

In a word, once again provoked the anger of the old people present.

"Old Liu is right, this kid just wants us to die soon."

"Tear off those things that he pasted on the door, and burn them all."

"Get out, you are not welcome here."

Zhang Jingsong also got angry when he was scolded. Although he was shocked and afraid, he turned around and ran to the door, with his hands on his hips to block everyone, looking like he was going all out.

"I want to see who dares to do something?" He sneered disdainfully: "What do you want to do? Looting? Do you think it's great because there are many people? The police are here, and now is a society ruled by law. Whoever dares to do something will go to jail. "

Hu Pingtao and Tan Tao looked at each other, seeing helplessness in each other's eyes.

Tan Tao lowered his voice: "I didn't see it, this guy has quite a brain."

Hu Pingtao said: "Separate them first, try to persuade them!"

After finishing speaking, he turned around and walked in front of Zhang Jingsong, and asked seriously: "What are you doing? A good house can't live, so you have to make it like this. You must have an explanation for today's matter, otherwise we won't be able to suppress it. No one can help you then."

This is half true.

Zhang Jingsong panicked when he heard this: "Officer, you can't just let it go! I...I have reasons."

Hu Pingtao's tense face eased slightly: "Then tell me, I'll listen."

Zhang Jingsong quickly explained.He sighed, and his mood suddenly became depressed: "The cemetery is expensive now... My dad passed away last year. According to my original idea, I planned to bury him in the cemetery on the outskirts of the city. But the land price over there is too expensive , just one square meter costs 20 yuan. Some remote places are also expensive. The better environment costs 10,000+ yuan, and the worst one costs more than 6 yuan. And those cemeteries are even smaller, only half a square meter , and even smaller ones, only [-] square meters."

"The land is becoming more and more valuable, and the dead and the living have to fight for it. The old saying is good: it is safe to put it in the ground. My father has worked hard all his life, and I also want to find a better cemetery for him. But my ability is limited. My daughter-in-law quarreled with me several times about the cemetery."

Hu Pingtao didn't understand: "Death is the most important thing, and it's safe to go to the ground. This is normal, what's there to be arguing about?"

Standing on tiptoe, Zhang Jingsong peeked over Hu Pingtao's shoulders at the old people who were blocked by Tan Tao, swallowed hard, and explained in a low voice with a bitter face: "You don't know, I'm going to work with you at work. The wages are several thousand yuan a month. My wife resigned after she got pregnant the year before last and took care of the baby at home. After giving birth, the money for moonlight milk powder is not a small amount. Now the family is supported by me alone... just buy a cemetery , equivalent to half a suite in the city!"

Hu Pingtao nodded slightly: "So you just want to enshrine the urn at home?"

Zhang Jingsong continued to sigh: "If you just spend some money, I will admit it. After all, he is my father, no matter what, I still have this bit of filial piety. But the problem is, this cemetery is not what it seems on the surface. It's that simple. It's not a one-time buyout, it only has a 20-year period of use at most. Once the time is up, you have to renew the contract. Let's talk about the cemetery I fancy in the suburbs! 20 yuan a phase, 1 yuan a year. This Who can stand such a trick?"

Hu Pingtao could only nod silently.This is beyond the jurisdiction of the police, and it is not convenient for him to make comments.

Zhang Jingsong took a deep breath, and his voice was lower than before: "I also thought about buying only one installment, and then burying the ashes there, no matter how he is urged by the cemetery management office. Anyway, I paid the money, you What can you do to me?"

"But that's not okay! I have a friend who does just that. But the cemetery doesn't care at all... Guess what, they only look at the time. If you don't renew the contract or pay when it expires, they will just dig the grave Now, dig out the ashes and call to inform you to claim them.”

"They made it very clear on the phone: Anyway, it has been dug up, and if you don't claim it within a week, it will be used as fertilizer according to the regulations."

Speaking of this, Zhang Jingsong sighed a little: "20 is the most expensive, but even a cemetery of tens of thousands of yuan per phase is hard for me to accept. I can't save much money all year round. If I spend all of it on this , what about the wife and son? Do you drink the northwest wind?"

"My father was in poor health and left early. Although my mother is not sick now, who can tell what will happen next? People are getting old, and if they don't pay attention, they will have to be hospitalized. The old saying goes "73, 84, the king of Hades is not Please go yourself." Although parents can be buried together in this cemetery, it is a lot of money after all!"

Zhang Jingsong licked his lips, hesitated for a while, and continued: "Guihe Community is a newly developed real estate. Although it is far from the city, the environment is good, and the house price is only 50 square meters. I bought this small apartment. , more than 40 square meters, including the deed tax and so on, the total is less than 20. My son goes to school and usually lives in an old house in the city. I thought, instead of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy the right to use the cemetery for [-] years, how about Buy a house here directly. Anyway, I don’t come here very often, and I never thought about using this house for rental. I will be filial to the elderly, and I will give my dad a spacious place... I will decorate this house. The whole thing is very cheap, it is waterproofed, the wall skin is scratched casually, and thick curtains are hung in the house all the year round, so the sun can’t shine in.”

"Actually, I'm not the only one who does this. I've inquired about it, and many people do it. Let's talk about the newly opened community in the east! The opening price was more than 5000, but the actual purchase price was only [-]. The main reason is that the location is far away and the traffic is inconvenient. , but many of those who buy houses there are foreigners.”

"They are like me. They don't buy houses for living people at all. They are used to store ashes."

"Officer, I really never thought of causing trouble on purpose. This man, no one can hide from birth, old age, sickness and death. Since ancient times, we have paid attention to "the dead are the greatest". In the past, there were coffins for peace in the ground, but now they are all cremated. The ashes are left. The country also promotes cremation, which makes the cemetery more and more expensive. Those people in the cemetery are really black-hearted! Every 20 years, the dead business is getting bigger and bigger. I spent hundreds of thousands Buying a residential house, the property right is 70 years, and you only need to pay the relevant fees after the expiration. I use this house to put the ashes, and there is no so-called 20-year cemetery management fee... What a bargain!"

What he said was well-founded, and Hu Pingtao couldn't find a reason to refute it.

More importantly, what Zhang Jingsong did did not break the law.

After thinking for a moment, Hu Pingtao said seriously: "Even if this is the case, what you have done is still a bit too much."

As he spoke, he raised his finger to the door frame: "Look, you have painted the entire door white, and you even pasted those words in the middle... In this way, a good house has been turned into a tomb."

"The white flowers on the door, and the word "Dian", do you think this is appropriate?"

"And the couplets, candles and money... Tell me, what do you want the neighbors to think?"

Zhang Jingsong also knew that he was in the wrong. He nodded his head a few times, but his mouth was still a little stiff: "...I... I didn't do it on purpose. I... I learned it from others."

Hu Pingtao stared at him and asked, "Who did you learn from?"

Zhang Jingsong replied: "It's the community on the east side. There are six-story prefabricated houses, and a garden of about ten square meters is provided on the first floor. The River Kwai community is far enough away. Bus. But the houses over there sell better than here. I thought it was strange, so I went to have a look... Guess what, the best houses over there are on the first floor. Dig a hole in the garden, bury the urn in it, and make a grave bag outside."

Hu Pingtao was dumbfounded, and at the same time expressed doubts: "Impossible! Does the community property care?"

Zhang Jingsong scoffed at this: "Those people are very cunning. They buried the ashes, piled up the grave bag, and planted grass directly on the soil layer. The whole garden looks decent, with trees and flowers planted beside the grave bag. They bought it specially. There are long strips of landscape stones on the front of the tomb, and the engravings are so small that if you don’t go in and get close, you won’t be able to see what’s written on it.”

After saying this, Hu Pingtao understood: "You mean, it looks like a garden on the surface, but in fact its purpose has changed."

Zhang Jingsong nodded: "It is now advocating to keep pace with the times. Anyway, it is just to find a place for the deceased old man. I come to see it every year during the Qingming and Winter Solstice, and I don't usually live... Besides, the cemetery is so crowded when I go to the grave. , there is not even a parking space, it is better to be spacious in your own home, and you can do whatever you want."

When he was talking, Hu Pingtao was not idle.He turned on his phone and searched for relevant policies on cemetery management.

The "20-year contract renewal" mentioned by Zhang Jingsong does exist.According to the regulations in the "Cemetery Management Measures", those who bury ashes in a commercial cemetery shall pay the grave burial management fee in accordance with the regulations.The tomb management fee is charged annually, and the one-time charge shall not exceed 20 years at most.If you continue to use it after the expiry date, you still need to pay the fee.If the fee is not paid within three months, it will be treated as an unowned tomb.

Zhang Jingsong was a little depressed: "Officer, I didn't intend to cause trouble. I really can't help it. Tell me, when you are alive, you need to worry about the house and be a house slave. When you are old and dead, you have to worry about another "house" .I...I am really difficult...really too difficult."

"The right to use the cemetery is only 20 years, and the option to buy a house is 70 years. It is very clear at a glance."

"I've checked, and it's not illegal to buy a commercial house and use it as a "columbarium."

Hu Pingtao picked up his words: "Yes, it is not illegal. But it is unreasonable for you to do so."

After a pause, he continued: "Your neighbors can choose to call the police, and we have to come to the scene to deal with it. This is a civil dispute. We can only persuade, but cannot force it...Let's put it this way! This matter needs you Both parties need to negotiate with each other.”

Zhang Jingsong became anxious again: "This is my house, I have the final say."

Hu Pingtao said solemnly: "Have you considered other people? You have also seen that not only this building, but also other residents in the community have expressed their opposition. There are many people and power. After all, housing prices and reputation of the community are related to The self-interest of each owner. If you hold a meeting of owners and ask you to move out or remove the ashes, what do you say?"

Zhang Jingsong's eyes were a little red, and he said bitterly, "They dare!"

Hu Pingtao reiterated the facts in a steady tone: "They, like you, have not violated the law or committed any crime. To be fair, your behavior has already had a great impact on the normal life of the residents of River Kwai Community. Both you and them You may need legal help, but the core of the problem is still on your side."

"I think it's better for both of you to take a step back! You can deal with these things on the door frame, don't make it so exaggerated. As for you to set up a table in the house to worship or something, it is your freedom to close the door."

These words are well-founded, and Zhang Jingsong is not arrogant and unreasonable.He thought for a long time and nodded slowly.

This side persuaded, but Tan Tao's side didn't go well.

The main reason is that the old lady Liu Min wanted to drive Zhang Jingsong away no matter what she said, and she kept saying, "This community only lives with living people, not dead people."

Hu Pingtao persuaded patiently: "He has promised to remove all the decorations on the door frame. As for whether the urn should be kept at home, that is his right."

(End of this chapter)