Chapter 277

This was originally a good thing.

But neither Zhu Yuanzhang nor Su Qiao had expected this.

As people's incomes rose, the first batch of unlucky ones were gradually surfacing.

—The officials.

The sun set.

Having just finished teaching, Qi Tai had just walked out of the Donggong.

He saw his four sedan bearers standing outside the gate, looking at him.

Qi Tai's corner of the mouth twitched slightly.

Then he asked,

"Since this Master has arrived, why are you still standing here? Hurry and prepare the sedan to return to the residence!"

Those four sedan bearers looked at Qi Tai, exchanging glances.

They sighed and said,

"Master, we have a statement we must make."

Qi Tai looked at the two in front of him in confusion and asked,

"What statement?"

"Master, your monthly wage is far too low, isn't it?"

"Yes, it is true we sell our hard labor, but look at what monthly wages hard laborers in Jin Ling receive?"

"Moving bricks at the brick kiln outside the city, one still gets six strings of cash a month."

Qi Tai, with a gloomy face, looked at the four in front of him and asked,

"What do you mean? Didn't I just raise your monthly wage last month?!"

"One tael of silver a month; we also need to support our families!"

Hearing this,

Qi Tai forcibly suppressed the temper about to erupt.

He spread his palm and then asked,

"Fine, name your price; I will consider it."

Those four sedan bearers exchanged a glance and then said to Qi Tai,

"Master, we don't want much; four taels of silver a month."

"Yes, four taels is about right."

Qi Tai stared in shock at the four in front of him.

He gritted his teeth and roared,

"Four taels of silver? Why don't you just go rob someone?!"

"Do you know how much salary this Master receives in a month?!"

Qi Tai's monthly salary was only a little over fifty shi of grain.

One sedan bearer wants four taels of silver a month!

Four sedan bearers means sixteen taels of silver gone!

Looking at Qi Tai, who was stomping his feet in anxiety before the four,

The four sedan bearers also seemed to have reached their limit.

They threw the sedan down in front of Qi Tai.

"Since it is like this, let us part on good terms. Master... no."

"Xiao Qi, from now on, when you see us four brothers, you had better speak politely!"

"Bang!" The sedan hit the ground.

Qi Tai stared in shock at the four in front of him and roared,

"What do you want to do?"

"Do you intend to rebel?!"

"How am I supposed to carry my sedan back?!"

The four sedan bearers spat a mouthful of saliva without turning their heads and said,

"Carry it yourself!"

These Retainers were long-term laborers; they were not sold to this Qi Tai.

Before, it was to earn silver.

Now that silver cannot be earned,

Only a ghost would bother with them!

A moment later,

Qi Tai stared in shock at the sedan in front of him.

He kicked it hard.

557 Then, in pain, he couldn't help but cover his foot and curse,

"You Menzhe Gang of lowborns, you have rebelled! Go find others, go find others; never beg this Master to take you back!"

"A three-legged toad is hard to find, but two-legged people are everywhere!"

Looking at the sedan in front of him,

Qi Tai couldn't help but let out a long sigh and said,

"Sigh, I should have taken a carriage."

"At the very least, I can still go home."

Before Qi Tai could lament for long,

he saw Huang Zicheng personally driving a carriage from afar, racing swiftly toward the tents where the officials residing outside the city lived.

Seeing this,

Qi Tai immediately realized

that he was likely not the only one in the entire court abandoned by his own servants.

These servants usually gathered at the gates of the Gedaya Sect every day, waiting for officials to finish court.

They had probably all conspired together.

Watching Huang Zicheng race toward him,

Qi Tai was just about to call out and ask Huang Zicheng to stop and give him a ride back,

"My Lord Huang, could you give Qi..."

Before Qi Tai finished speaking,

he suddenly saw clearly that Huang Zicheng was sitting in the carriage, shouting with a grotesque expression,

"My Lord Qi, get out of the way~!"

The corner of Qi Tai's mouth twitched slightly.

He stepped aside on his own.

He saw Huang Zicheng driving the carriage, which shot forward with a "whoosh" straight into the distant alley entrance.

A huge "Boom" echoed.

Huang Zicheng's carriage became a pile of broken copper and scrap iron.

"My Lord Huang!"

Qi Tai ran quickly toward the distant "accident scene."

After summoning several other officials who were also walking,

he finally dragged Huang Zicheng, whose head was bleeding, out from a pile of wooden planks.

"My Lord Huang, are you alright?"

Huang Zicheng looked at Qi Tai with deep sorrow and said,

"My Lord Qi, human hearts are no longer as they used to be!"

"I never in a million years expected that these servants are all ungrateful ingrates!"

"All those years of silver fed to dogs, and now they won't even give you or me a moment's breath of relief!"

"They made me drive the carriage back myself."

"When have I ever suffered such humiliation? You and I have read the sages' books since childhood; where have we ever done such work?"