Chapter 460: Original text: Chapter 460 Straight to the point Modifications:
"What’s your name? Why did you get into a conflict with them?" The female police officer didn’t beat around the bush and got straight to the point.
Zhang Dadan briefly explained the whole situation to the female police officer, but she didn’t believe him.
Because according to Zhang Dadan, the other party had six or seven people armed with six or seven kitchen knives, yet they didn’t dare to make a move and even got two of their men injured by him. That was too absurd to believe, right?
As the saying goes, no matter how good your martial arts skills are, they can’t beat a kitchen knife! Zhang Dadan’s group only had three people, and one of them was a woman. Could they really take on six or seven knife-wielding men?
"Do you know the saying, ’Honesty will get you leniency, resistance will get you severity’? The reason I’m taking notes on the spot is to give you a chance to come clean! Where did you throw the kitchen knives?" The female police officer harshly questioned.
Zhou Yong, seeing that she didn’t believe them no matter what, interrupted, "Auntie Police! We really didn’t bring any knives. Even if we did, we wouldn’t bring kitchen knives. That’s too embarrassing, right?"
Upon hearing this, the female police officer suddenly got furious and shouted, "Auntie? You’re calling me Auntie? Looks like you’ve lost your mind. Let’s just take you guys to the station and see!"
"No, no! Sister... Sister... I was wrong... I was wrong! But we really didn’t bring any knives. They were the ones threatening us with knives!" Zhou Yong hurriedly pleaded and earnestly explained.
Meanwhile, the male police officer questioning Chef Li and the others had already figured out the situation and verified it with the reporting landlord.
According to his investigation, it was indeed Chef Li’s group who instigated the trouble, while Zhang Dadan and his group were the ones being threatened.
To save face for the female police officer, the male police officer waved at her and called, "Little Wei... Little Wei, come over here!"
Feeling a bit frustrated by Zhou Yong, the female police officer impatiently said, "Wait a bit! I’m about to get the truth out of them!"
Seeing her stubbornness, the male police officer sighed and explained, "I’ve already gotten the clear story! Come over here first!"
Got the story clear? Little Wei’s expression instantly dimmed. It seemed her interrogation skills were still lacking!
"Brother Ma, so it’s confirmed that they were engaged in a gang fight?" Little Wei asked despondently.
Despite wanting to save her face, Brother Ma, being a police officer, had to be careful with his words and actions, so he chuckled and said,
"What gang fight? You’re overthinking it! It was this group provoking them; they are innocent."
In Little Wei’s mind, since Zhang Dadan dared to confront knife-wielding men, he must have had some leverage. Who would have thought, he actually fought them barehanded.
This made Little Wei, who had little worldly experience, find it unbelievable and quite embarrassing since her subjective judgment almost wronged the innocent, which was indeed a dereliction of duty.
Little Wei hesitated for a moment and eventually admitted her mistake, saying, "Well... Mr. Zhang, I’m sorry! I was being rash and wronged you!"
Zhang Dadan didn’t want to get entangled with her and coldly responded, "It’s nothing. Being wronged is fairly common!"
However, his slightly arrogant tone once again angered Little Wei. She had already apologized, and he still held a grudge?
Little Wei glanced at Brother Ma and saw that he had already tidied up Chef Li and his group, so she smirked and said, "Brother Ma, how about I take them back first to make a statement, then send a car to bring them?"
Brother Ma had some affection for Little Wei and had just let her lose face. How could he refuse her now?
"Let’s go! Follow me back to make a statement!" Little Wei gave Zhang Dadan and the others a cold look and said.
Even though Zhang Dadan hadn’t studied law, he knew both parties involved had the obligation to make statements. Little Wei’s actions were reasonable.
However, he had already told everything earlier and didn’t want to waste more time.
Moreover, Zhang Dadan had a natural aversion to going to such places like government offices, as the saying goes, "Don’t live to enter the courthouse, don’t die to enter hell."
"Haven’t we already made a statement? Chef Li has confessed to their misdeeds. Why make it so complicated?" Zhang Dadan said with a wry smile.
Little Wei glared at Zhang Dadan and scolded, "Stop talking nonsense! Just do what you’re told!"
Seeing how domineering she was, Bai Jie became displeased and retorted, "What’s your problem? Are you trying to take revenge on us? Be careful, we’ll report you!"
Before Little Wei could respond, Brother Ma walked over, apologized to Bai Jie with a smile, and pulled Little Wei aside to whisper.
After a brief argument, they seemed to reach an agreement. Brother Ma amends apologized to Zhang Dadan and escorted Chef Li and his group away with Little Wei.
Once they left, Zhou Yong snickered and teased, "Dadan, I think that female police officer likes you. Otherwise, why would she constantly find trouble with you?"
As soon as he said this, he regretted it and cautiously glanced at Bai Jie. Seeing her frown, he felt even more remorseful.
Zhou Yong exaggeratedly slapped himself on the cheek and said with a forced smile, "Miss Bai, I was just joking... just joking..."
Bai Jie shot a glance at Zhang Dadan, who seemed to enjoy himself with a smile on his face. She snorted and said angrily, "Joking or not, what’s it got to do with me?"
Meeting Bai Jie today was already an accident; her sudden offensive approach left Zhang Dadan somewhat overwhelmed. He dared not provoke her further.
Zhang Dadan ignored the two and changed the topic, saying, "Alright, enough of this! Let’s discuss the rent with the landlord."
Only then did they notice the still terrified landlord sitting on a chair, gasping for breath.
Seeing him in this state, the group felt no sympathy. If he hadn’t broken the agreement first, none of this would have happened today.
Zhang Dadan eyed the still fearful landlord and felt a desire to exploit him. If he was ruthless, why shouldn’t he be heartless as well?
"Boss, let’s talk about the rent!" Zhang Dadan walked a few steps forward to the landlord.
The landlord took a deep breath, composed himself, and said, "Alright! I’ll sign the contract with you now."
Hearing this, Zhou Yong quickly took out a stack of documents and a pen from his bag, ready for the landlord to sign. But Zhang Dadan stopped him.
The landlord was puzzled by this and hesitantly asked, "Is there... something wrong? Mr. Zhou and I have already discussed the details?"
Zhang Dadan chuckled coldly and glanced at Zhou Yong, saying lightly, "It’s not a matter of details, but a matter of price!"
Price issue? What’s happening? Didn’t Chef Li and his group just get arrested? Why would he still want to raise the price?
The still-nervous landlord, realizing Zhang Dadan might want to increase the rent, returned to normal and shyly said,
"If you feel embarrassed and insist on raising the price, I have no objection. We’ll go with Chef Li’s offer, thirty-six thousand yuan!"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Yong was enraged and shouted, "Thirty-six thousand? Are you kidding me? You might as well rob us!"
The landlord, who was internally rejoicing, was once again taken aback by Zhou Yong’s angry outburst. What’s happening? Who’s calling the shots here?
"Hmph! Boss, you’re overthinking this. I’m not going to raise the price; I’m lowering it! Do you understand?" Zhang Dadan laughed.
Lowering the price? The landlord’s heart sank again. Someone was willing to pay thirty-six thousand, but renting it to them for thirty thousand meant a monthly loss of six thousand yuan?