What's wrong with this lawyer?!-Chapter 540 - 180 Is this what you meant by someone paying the lawyer’s fee?

"Fraud?" the middle-aged man glared and said, "What do you mean by that? Do you think just because we’re holding an event in the village, we’re easy to bully or what?"

"I’ve just said it. You’re calling us fraudsters, then bring out the evidence. If you can’t provide evidence, we can also say that you’re slandering, you know?"

"What kind of person are you, can’t stand to see others do well, can you!"

The middle-aged man was quite dissatisfied. What fraud were they talking about? They hadn’t scammed anything. They let you borrow money to buy a few hundred bucks worth of stuff, how was that fraud?

Indeed, the middle-aged man, Xu Shouchang, didn’t think they were committing fraud and believed this was just normal sales behavior.

The price of their product sold online was only about a dozen yuan cheaper than the price they were "selling" it for.

So before, Xu Shouchang wasn’t worried at all. You could call the police if you want; they wouldn’t care.

Xue Lingling didn’t directly answer but just said, "Then take out your phones and let’s see if what you were doing before was registering information or making people take out loans."

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions on Xu Shouchang and the others’ faces changed!

What’s with this woman? Just moments ago, she seemed clueless, but now she’s suddenly exposing their biggest secret.

Xu Shouchang could only forcefully say, "What are you talking about? I don’t understand what you mean. You want us to show our phones, we’ll show our phones."

Hearing this, Xue Lingling turned to address the elders nearby, "Everyone, listen to me for a moment. There’s no such thing as a free lunch in this world. Do you think they’re doing free health checks and giveaways for you?"

"No, they’re using your information to take out loans! They had you register just now, and they had you do facial recognition. That’s all for online loans!"

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Xue Lingling continued, "It means they are making you take out loans online to buy these things. In some time, someone will come to collect debts from you, asking you to pay it back."

With that explanation, everyone finally understood.

"What? So it’s not a gift for us? We’re supposed to take out loans to buy these? Well, I don’t want it!" The older woman who spoke previously quickly put down what she was holding and said.

Getting something for free was one thing, but taking out loans to buy it was out of the question.

Many of the elderly left behind in rural areas are very conservative, the type who can’t sleep at night with a debt hanging over them.

So sometimes, people in this world are really strange. Some people can’t wait to repay a borrowed sum, while others, burdened with a mound of debt, still sleep soundly.

Like some real estate tycoons...

Another elder asked, "What’s going on here, it was supposed to be given to us, why has it turned into a loan now?"

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The villagers, who were just moments before delighted, were now in a panic, surrounding and asking questions non-stop. Xu Shouchang and his colleagues were finding it hard to cope.

Finally, Xu Shouchang spoke up, "Everybody, calm down, please. Just because she says we made loans, you all believe it?"

Upon hearing this, Xue Lingling said, "If you didn’t do it, just show your phones to everyone, and that’ll prove it. I think it’s a simple way to clear things up."

"Why? Are you the police? You want to see our phones just because you say so?"

Both sides started arguing again, and Xu Shouchang and his group were planning to take the chance to slip away, but it was already too late; more villagers were gathering around.

There’s an old saying, "Rough mountains and rivers breed crafty people." Although there’s something wrong with this statement, it conveys the idea.

Why organize legal education campaigns in rural areas? On one hand, it’s to prevent the villagers from being deceived and defrauded; on the other hand, it’s to encourage them to abide by the law.

You must know, thirty years ago, if such a scam was uncovered, they would be treated almost the same as thieves. The villagers might even tie the perpetrator up and beat them before handing them over to the authorities.

As for the worst treatment, it’s reserved for human traffickers. There have been many cases of this nature in various places. Catching someone stealing children could lead directly to their beating to death...

As for pursuing legal responsibility, how could that be done...

So now these individuals didn’t dare to move. The villagers, who had been amiable until just a moment ago, now looked at them with suspicion.

Right then, Xue Lingling spoke up, "Everyone, don’t worry. We live in a society governed by law, and I certainly can’t force you to show me your phones."

"The police have been notified, and waiting for them to arrive shouldn’t be a problem, right? Or are you saying you can’t even wait that long?"

As she spoke, Xue Lingling glanced at Old Tang in the crowd; she was emulating the way this teacher spoke.

Teacher Tang always talked this way, about living in a society ruled by law, about respecting the law...

But she remembered, at the last lecture, a law professor from the school, easily incensed, argued with Teacher Tang and wanted to throw punches, only to be instantly taken down by him...

After putting him down, Teacher Tang still talked about ’living in a society governed by law’ and that ’you are infringing unlawfully, and I am exercising self-defense,’ and such.

He even told everyone that the guarantee of a rule-of-law society is force and that without force, the law doesn’t count for anything.

Because of this, all the students who attended the lecture remembered Teacher Tang...

Old Tang himself chuckled, surprised that someone had picked up his catchphrase.

He was a bit curious about how today’s events would be handled.

Soon after, a police car arrived, and officers from the town’s police station rushed over.

Given the issue involved rural fraud, and since the group of people was trapped in the village, a quick response was essential.

Officer Chang approached and asked, "Who called the police? What’s the situation here?"