"What is there to be afraid of?" With that said, Fan Lun took a pen and paper from the desk nearby and quickly wrote down a double copy of the 'Overlord Contract', "As long as you sign it, what happened just now will be taken care of by our newspaper office.
You can let bygones be bygones."
"Okay, we have the evidence." Lin En put away one copy.
Fan Lun was startled: "What do you mean?"
"Wait for the sheriffs to come." Linn sat upright, waiting for Eden to come.
"Wait until the Sheriff comes?" Fan Lun snorted, "It seems you chose the worst path, so don't blame me."
"It's not your fault." Lynn shrugged.
Looking at it now, this matter can be properly resolved on his side, and there should be no need for Reiner to come forward.
And he only planned to terminate the contract at first. Since Fan Lun still looked like he wanted to blackmail him, he might as well do it more thoroughly.
Half an hour later, a Sheriff's Department car parked below the apartment building. Deputy Eden and two sheriffs, led by the landlord Old Noel, came to Lynn's room.
"Mr. Beavis, long time no see, I have to ask you to help with the review today..." Fan Lun met the Sheriff Beavis whom he knew in the corridor, and he suddenly felt more confident.
So what if Lynn also knows the Sheriff?
You have to take care of this matter yourself!
When it comes to the reputation of the Fernando family, which sheriff would dare to take the risk to support a pariah like Lynn?!
"Let's go in and talk." Bevis, who was following Adjutant Eden, nodded and entered the room first.
"Adjutant Eden." In the room, Linn stood up and shook hands with Eden.
Eden smiled: "I didn't expect us to meet again so soon."
"I didn't expect that I would have to ask you to administer justice so soon. I owe you a favor." Lynn invited Eden to sit down.
"What kind of favors are there? Seriously, I owe you a favor." Eden did not sit down in a hurry, but looked at Fan Lun who just ignored him and kept flattering his subordinate Beavis, "Tell me about it.
, what’s going on?”
"Adjutant Eden, let me introduce you first." Bivis said respectfully, "This is Adjutant Eden of our Public Security Bureau, and this is Editor Van Lun of Zward Daily."
"Adjutant, adjutant?" Fan Lun looked at Eden, a little dumbfounded.
He thought Linn would call Arthur over, but he didn't expect that he could directly invite someone like Adjutant Eden!
This is a bit tricky...
"Mr. Fan Lun, should you speak first or should I speak first?" Lin En motioned for everyone to sit down and chat.
"I, I go first." Fan Lun stabilized his mind and decided to strike first, "Mr. Beavis, the situation is-"
"Adjutant Eden is here, just talk to him directly, I will just listen." With the officer here, the so-called Van Lun's trump card, Beavis, did not dare to make any mistakes.
"Ahem, okay, yes, that's it." Fan Lun could only face Eden and said, "Our Zward Daily Press and Mr. Linn signed a contract, and the contract requires that Mr. Linn needs to report to us within three months.
The newspaper provided 24 articles with no less than 10,000 words. However, Mr. Linn only provided ten articles and proposed to terminate the contract. At the same time, he refused to pay liquidated damages and claimed to be Mr. Lena of the Fernando family.
Mr. Reiner asked him to do this. He is trying to steal the name of the Fernando family and force us to agree to such an unreasonable request."
"Oh? Are you still a novelist?" After hearing what Fan Lun said, Eden looked at Lynn in surprise.
"A little hobby." Linn smiled and nodded.
Eden looked at Lynn again and felt that this friend he had just met for a few days had many unknown strengths: "Are you still friends with Mr. Reiner of the Fernando family?"
"Yes. We plan to go to the Imperial Capital together in the next few days to study and learn. Considering that we will not have time to write the manuscript, we decided to terminate the contract." Lin En said.
"Then what did this editor from Van Lun say about your refusal to pay liquidated damages?" Eden asked again.
"The content of the contract is true. It does clearly require me to contribute twenty-four articles to the Tswold Daily within three months. But you also know that I am not an unreasonable person. Under normal circumstances, I will definitely do it."
Fulfill the contract or pay liquidated damages." Lin En said sincerely, "However, I think this contract has long since expired. Since it is an invalid contract, my request for termination is reasonable and there is no need to pay any extra liquidated damages.
"
"Invalid?" Fan Lun suspected that he heard wrongly, "A contract signed in black and white does not become invalid just because you say it is invalid."
Eden frowned and glanced at Fan Lun: "Let Mr. Linn finish first."
"Okay..." Fan Lun gritted his teeth and stared at Linn, wondering what he could say in front of the sheriff.
Lynn said unhurriedly: "We signed a contract on December 28 last year. The contract required me to contribute 24 articles of no less than 10,000 words to the Tswold Daily News within three months.
For my manuscripts, the newspaper paid me a royalties of one gold per thousand words. The date for handing in the manuscripts and distributing the royalties was set on every Sunday.”
"Yeah." Eden listened carefully.
"But I didn't expect that just one week after the contract was signed, that is, on January 4th, Mr. Fan Lun unilaterally modified the contract without my permission and reduced the royalties per thousand words to seventy-five copper coins.
"Lynn looked at the landlord, Old Noel, who was waiting at the door. "I happened to be away at that time, so the landlord, Mr. Noel, collected the royalties on my behalf. I think he can serve as a witness to prove that what I said is true."
"This..." Fan Lun's palms began to sweat.
Why doesn't Linn play by the rules?
Since he knows such a big shot as the adjutant, shouldn't he just rely on the adjutant to put pressure on him unreasonably?
Why are you bringing up your own incident on January 4th?
"Are you the landlord, Mr. Noel?" Eden followed and looked at Old Noel.
"Ah, yes, I am." Old Noel was confused and got involved.
"How much money did you get from Mr. Van Lun at that time?" Eden confirmed.
"Fifty gold. I remember it very clearly, fifty gold." Fifty gold was not a small amount, and Old Noel was deeply impressed by it.
"How many manuscripts have you turned in?" Eden asked Lynn again.
"Ten articles."
"Ten articles...shouldn't ten articles be worth one hundred gold coins? Even if Mr. Van Lun modified the contract without authorization and changed it to seventy-five copper coins, there should still be seventy-five gold coins." Eden saw the problem at a glance.
Lin En continued to give Fan Lun a heavy blow: "I was in a tight situation when I first signed the contract. Mr. Fan Lun helped me pay three months' rent. So including a little hard work fee, he should deduct ten gold himself."
"If you calculate it this way, don't you still have fifteen gold left?"
"He only paid the royalties for eight manuscripts, and the fifteen gold royalties for the remaining two manuscripts were deducted from him."
"I see, that makes it clear. He originally paid one hundred gold coins for two articles, and the remaining eight articles were reduced to seventy-five copper coins per thousand words, which is sixty gold coins. After that, he deducted the price from
The rent I paid for you in advance will only be fifty gold in your hands." Eden straightened out the accounts.
Linn nodded: "Yes."
"This is what we have agreed on a long time ago. Before the twenty-four manuscripts are handed in, the newspaper will pay for two articles first," Fan Lun defended.
"Is there any?" Lin En pretended to be crazy.
The press fee was their original verbal promise.
Fan Lun agreed to Lin En's proposal in order to make more money.
In this way, once Lin En breached the contract, he would be able to pocket the royalties for these two articles.
However, before he could profit, this verbal promise became evidence of his exploitation of Lin En.
"What do you mean there is? This is what we agreed on at the beginning!" Fan Lun said anxiously.
"Do you have witnesses?" Linn pointed out the key point.
"I..." Where can Fan Lun find witnesses for such a shameful thing?
Eden raised his hand: "Mr. Fan Lun, there are witnesses on Mr. Lin's side, proving that it was your newspaper that breached the contract first. In that case, if Mr. Lin now demands to terminate the contract, you should not have the right to recover liquidated damages."
On the contrary, Mr. Lin En did not ask the newspaper for liquidated damages when you breached the contract, which I think is quite interesting."
"Yes, it's very interesting." Linn agreed.
After all, I ended up being the beneficiary?
Fan Lun pointed the finger at Lin En again and said angrily: "But! On the 6th, he took the initiative to go to the newspaper office and renegotiated with me! In the end, we followed the contract and paid him the royalties!
"
"Mr. Fan Lun, please understand that when you modified the contract without authorization on the 4th, the contract was already invalid." Lin En immediately retorted, "The payment of the royalties on the 6th does not mean that the legal validity of the contract has been restored."
"Why is it not counted as recovery?! Isn't the money you got in the end still the amount stipulated in the contract? And wasn't the two original manuscript fees paid out in advance?"
"The logic is wrong." Lin En responded calmly, "When you revised the royalties without communication, the breach of contract had already become a fact. When I went to see you on the 6th to discuss this matter, you did not consider the liquidated damages in the contract.
You paid the royalties, but you were afraid that I would accuse you of deducting a large amount of royalties from authors, so you compromised with me."
Withhold royalties from a large number of authors?
Eden smelled a bigger inside story in this dispute: "Mr. Van Lun deducted a large number of authors' royalties. What's going on?"
"He took advantage of his position to lower the remuneration for the author, while raising the remuneration for the newspaper, and earned the difference himself. For example, he quoted me a price of one thousand words per gold, but in fact, when he reported it to the newspaper,
, the price will be increased by at least 20%. In this way, he can earn two gold from each article." Lin En said.
"Nonsense!" It was about his own career, not to mention the presence of the Sheriff. Fan Lun had to react fiercely to deny Lynn's words, "You are slandering and slandering! In order to not pay the liquidated damages, you are trying every means to throw dirty water on me.
!So despicable! So shameless!”
"Mr. Van Lun, calm down. As the sheriff, of course we will find out whether this is true. I promise you, I will not wrongly accuse any good person, nor will I let any bad person go." Eden said.
Guarantee.
This not only failed to calm down Fan Lun, but also made him feel cold.
I simply can’t afford to check it out!
If you really go and check it out, the newspaper will definitely not let you go!
"I suggest you check him first!" Fan Lun can only rely on letting Linn die without a burial first, so that he can resolve his own crisis. "He said that Mr. Reiner of the Fernando family asked him to terminate the contract!
But our newspaper office has never received any news from Mr. Reiner! This shows that he is stealing the identity of the Fernando family for personal gain! He wants us to be afraid of the reputation of the Fernando family and compromise with him!"
"I really know Reiner, and this matter was entrusted to him to solve before. It's just that he was a little busy, and before he had time to do it, Mr. Fan Lun came to me to collect the manuscript first," Lin En explained.
road.
"Adjutant Eden! Don't believe him! This man lies a lot! There is not a word of truth in his mouth!" Fan Lun kept talking and fired at Linn continuously. "When he first signed a contract with me, he also claimed that he was from the gay community.