Chapter 16: The Untouchables
Splitting headaches.
When I woke up the next day, the after-effects of multiple deaths became apparent.
After lying on the bed for a long time, the headache was relieved, and I barely got up from the bed to make a meal for myself, but I found that the house was now empty, there was no ingredients to prepare, and I wanted to go out to eat, and I still owed the meal I had at Aju's last night.
Fortunately, there will be an income coming in soon, otherwise it would have been even more painful now.
After changing his clothes for the trip and putting on his robes, Bai Ming took the task voucher handed over to him by the lumber yard steward and left home.
Because the door lock was broken, Bai Ming directly closed the door and walked out, anyway, there was nothing valuable inside.
Taihei Yoshinosuke, a merchant who issued the logging commission, lived in the eastern ward of Hachiman Town, and unlike the western ward where Shirakaki lived, the residents of the eastern ward of Hachiman Town were basically merchants, samurai, and nobles with superior economic conditions.
When you enter the East End, you will find that the environment is much cleaner than the other three districts, with neat streets paved with gravel and high courtyard walls surrounding sturdy and beautiful houses made of stone and cement, so you don't have to worry about the roof leaking if you live here.
In contrast, the western district where Shiraaki lives is the worst area in Hachiman Town, where a large number of homeless and low-income people live here, and the houses here are basically made of wood, and in the special environment of the rain country, no matter how strong the wooden houses are, they will have various problems under the continuous washing of the rain.
Roofs like leaks are a trivial matter, and even worse, houses here can collapse at any time after a rainstorm.
At least in the one month that Bai Ming lived, he had heard of two house collapses, and it was under this condition that he could rent his current residence with his little income.
Of course, the poor environment is definitely not very good without strong constraints, and thefts such as stealing chickens and dogs often happen here, so although Bai Ming was angry that a thief entered the house and messed up his house after he came back, it was not surprising that there would be thieves sneaking in.
Because it's not the first time you've recruited a thief.
The passer-by came to the door of the merchant Taihei Yoshinosuke's house.
Bai Ming confirmed that he looked at the wooden sign hanging next to him-Taiping.
"Very well, this is it."
He is in a very happy mood, this is the biggest amount of money he has earned since he worked, if he simply takes 80 taels a bowl of ramen as a calculation, 30,000 taels can eat 375 bowls, and he has three meals a day, 5 bowls per meal, so he doesn't have to worry about food expenses for nearly a month.
After calculating the purchasing power of his remuneration in a simple and simple way, Bai Ming felt that his head that had been aching a lot was relieved a lot.
"Who are you?"
There was a servant guarding the door, and after Bai Ming stood still at the door, the manservant guarding the door was going to come over and drive Bai Ming away.
"I'm Bai who lives in the West District, and I just completed the entrusted task of the Taiping-sama's lumberyard, and I've come to receive the bounty, is the Taiping-sama at home?."
Bai Ming took out the mission voucher and said, at first, he went to look for Taipei Yoshinosuke's shop, but he found it after being told that Taipei Yoshinosuke was no more.
The servant guarding the door hesitated and nodded, "You stay at the door and don't come in, I'll go and inform Lord Taiping." ”
After the servant walked into the house, Bai Ming waited patiently, and after two or three minutes, the servant and a middle-aged man in a blue-black kimono walked out.
"That's what you said you had done with the lumberyard task." Taihei Yoshinosuke asked with a cheer.
"Yes." Bai Ming frowned slightly, a little unhappy with the fat man's eyes in front of him, but he didn't say anything and handed over the task credential.
Taihei Yoshinosuke took the task credential, squinted his eyes and looked at it carefully, then glanced at Bai Ming again, and suddenly showed a vicious expression, and smashed the mission voucher made of wood at Bai Ming.
"Damn pariah, this is not a mission voucher I sent at all, and you actually took a fake voucher at random and tried to deceive me, is there no shame at all?"
"Don't get out of here!"
Bai Ming subconsciously raised his hand and caught the voucher that was thrown back, he looked at Taihei Yoshinosuke with doubts, what did this guy say?
Because he spoke a bit fast, he had some difficulty understanding.
But when he heard Taihei Yoshinosuke's words clearly, his doubts instantly turned to disbelief.
I'm being relied on!
Since doing odd jobs, it is not that he has been deliberately provoked and deducted from his salary, although he is unhappy, he has endured it.
But today, on this dog day in front of me, I was willing to give myself a penny, and I was scolded for working for so many days in vain.
This made his otherwise good mood immediately turn cloudy, just like this weather.
He looked at Taihei Yoshinosuke with bloodshot eyes, suppressed his anger and asked in a deep voice, "Are you sure you don't pay me what I deserve?" ”
Taihei Yoshinosuke looked at Bai Ming in disgust and scolded, "Untouchable, do you want to go to prison? ”
Bai Ming took a deep breath, glanced at Taihei Yoshinosuke coldly, and turned to leave.
And after Bai Ming left, Taihei Yoshinosuke put away the look of disgust on his face, but he was slightly pity, but then he was overjoyed, "I can save 30,000 taels of expenses again, this group of damn untouchables, don't you know who to thank for letting them eat well?" He even dared to ask for a reward. ”
The servant on the side looked at Bai Ming who left with some sympathy, because he knew what kind of person the master family he served, so he knew what happened to Bai Ming.
If Bai Ming were a commoner in several other districts, he would still be able to get a discounted reward, but he lived in the West District, where he lived mostly as the lowest pariahs like filthy, the lowest level that was the least looked down upon.
Bai Ming learned the language well, but he didn't understand the various cultures and common sense of this world, so he didn't know this at all about the fact that the West District where he lived was a place to live, and he was implicated and didn't get a penny.
There was only one thing in his mind now, that he had been tricked.
After being abused and killed in the space last night, the painful head was endless, and the scheduled large income was suddenly not received but was scolded, and all kinds of irritating things were intertwined, and Bai Ming became even more irritable.
At the same time, he also gave birth to an idea, an idea that had never existed before.