The government officials guarding the city gate and several white servants personally sent the carriage out of the city. They did not return to the city gate until the carriage had gone far.
"Head, it doesn't look like the two gentlemen are out of town on business, more like, more like..." A white servant next to him hesitated to say half of his words.
The government officer who heard this snorted lightly and said, "It's more like running out of the city to escape, right?"
"That's what I want to say." Bai Yi smiled and then whispered, "The county magistrate has left, and now these two masters have also left. I am afraid there is no one who can make the decision in the city now." .”
"How about you become the master?" The yamen servant looked at him sideways and asked.
Bai Yi chuckled with an embarrassed look on his face and said: "How can a young man have the right to make the decision in Zhongmu County? Only you, the leader, have the qualification to make the decision."
"Fart, I'm the only one guarding the city gate. No matter what happens, it's not my turn as a policeman to make the decision for Zhongmu County." The yamen officer spat in the other man's face.
"The head said it, the head said it." Bai Yi nodded and bowed his head in agreement, wiping the saliva off his face with his oil-stained twist sleeves.
At this moment, a large number of pedestrians appeared in the city.
The sharp-eyed white servant noticed it and hurriedly shouted: "Close the city gate quickly, these untouchables want to leave the city."
Several white servants hurriedly ran over to close the city gate.
When the yamen servant saw it, he stopped the white servants and said, "Stop closing the city gate. Come and bring a few people to the top of the city to lift down the tables and stools I usually use."
The few white servants who were about to close the city gate threw down the city gate, turned around and ran towards the city.
The white servant who stayed with the yamen servant reminded him in a low voice: "Boss, the county magistrate issued an official document a few days ago, prohibiting the people in the city from leaving the city."
"All those officials in the Yamen ran away. Now I have the final say on the gate of Dongcheng. I can let out whoever I want." The Yamen servant snorted softly.
Soon, with the cooperation of several white servants, a table and stool was moved to the doorway on the inside of the city gate.
The yamen servant lifted his legs across the bench and sat down on it. At the same time, he asked his white servant to put a basket on the table.
When he was almost done, the people who rushed to the city gate also arrived nearby.
"You guys, go over and stop the people who want to leave the city. Tell them that each person who wants to go out of the city will be charged a hundred taels of silver, a carriage will be charged a tael of silver for leaving the city, and the same will be charged for a sedan." The Yamen servant told the white servants around him.
A white servant asked hesitantly: "You can also collect money when you go out of the city?"
In the past, when they guarded the city gates, they always charged entry fees, and never asked for exit fees from those who left the city.
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The yamen servant looked at the white servant who was speaking, and said with a proud smile: "Today is different from the past. If you really want to go into the city, I will not charge the entry fee this time, but only the exit fee. If you want to go out of the city, you have to pay for it." Only free money will do."
The clever white servant understood a little bit.
But some white servants still said in confusion: "In the past, the city entry fee was just a few big bucks, and people in carriages and sedan chairs were not charged entry fees. This time, if we charge such a high exit fee, will it offend me?" Those old men?"
Those who came in and out of the city in sedan chairs and carriages were all dignitaries.
Ordinary government servants and white servants usually don't dare to provoke such people. At most, they spend a few drink money on the poor people who come into the city.
"Take it as you are told. There is so much nonsense. Go quickly and let one go. I will take the blame for you." The yamen servant was annoyed by the questions from the white servant under his command. He opened his mouth and scolded him together.
Several white servants hurriedly walked towards the people approaching the city gate and stopped them seven or eight steps away from the city gate.
"Why should we pay? We are going out of the city, not into the city."
"That's right, that's right."
"You people are a bit too shady. You charge for entering the city and charging for leaving the city. It's unreasonable."
The people who wanted to leave the city soon started to argue with the white servant who stopped them.
However, the white-collar workers don’t have the best of both worlds.
Facing the excited people, he picked up the stick in his hand and went straight to it.
The few people standing in front were quickly beaten to death and lay motionless on the ground. They kept making low hums from their mouths, proving that they were still alive.
When the remaining people saw the brutal scene of Bai Yi, they all calmed down.
"I'm telling you, if you want to go out of the city, you must pay the city fee. It's a hundred dollars per person. If you don't want to pay the city fee, you can go back." A white servant pointed the stick in his hand at the many people in front of him and threatened.
A few people standing near the front lowered their heads in fear, not daring to look directly at the white servant in front of them.
This also made several white servants even more proud.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way."
A carriage came from behind, and the driver used the animal whip in his hand to drive away the people who were blocking the carriage.
Even when approaching several white servants, the driver showed no intention of stopping.
The coachman even wanted to use the whip in his hand to drive away the white servants who were blocking the carriage.
The white servant knew the carriage in front of him and knew that the hitchhiker's whip would be in vain, so he did not dare to continue blocking the front and hurriedly stepped aside to avoid it.
When the driver saw this, there was a trace of contempt on his lips.
However, before the coachman could be proud for a long time, he saw a bench flying over from the opposite side. He hurriedly pulled the reins and controlled the carriage to stop.
boom!
The bench struck a step ahead of the carriage.
The coachman broke into a cold sweat.
If he had not pulled the reins in time, the bench in front of him would not have fallen to the ground, but would have directly hit the horses pulling the cart. The horses would be frightened and run around uncontrollably, causing the nobleman sitting in the cart to follow him. Frightened.
"You are looking for death!" The coachman, who had come to his senses, looked at the government servant who threw the bench in front of him and cursed loudly.
The other party almost caused him to lose his job as a driver.
The officer reached out and pulled out the knife from the scabbard, walked towards the carriage step by step, and said with a cold face: "What are you doing standing still? Stop the carriage for me."
The white servants who heard the call quickly ran over and surrounded the carriage.
"You, what are you doing? Don't you know this is Mr. Xu's carriage?" The driver became frightened when he saw the government servant using the knife.
The Yamen servant walked to the side of the carriage, held a knife in one hand and raised his fist into the carriage, saying: "Mr. Xu was shocked, but the county magistrate has an order to prevent the rebels from sneaking into the city. No one in the city can leave the city without an order."
"Can't I do it too?"
After the words fell, the car curtain was opened, and a middle-aged man with a big belly leaned out of the car.
The yamen servant said with a smile: "In the past, I naturally didn't dare to stop Mr. Xu from leaving the city, but I didn't dare to disobey the order of the county elder. Otherwise, Mr. Xu would go to the county government and get permission from the county elder. As long as there is a warrant to leave the city from the county magistrate, I will not dare to stop him."
He raised his head and looked at the Xu family master in the carriage with a smile.
