The casino is full of "buy and go...... Buy and leave" voice.

Qiu Luoxue and Nie Yuan entered the casino and saw that there were many gambling tables inside, surrounded by people. Everyone was excitedly waiting for the answer to be revealed, their eyes radiating eagerness and greed.

"Prime Minister, you're here." The reception staff of the casino saw Qiu Luoxue come in and greeted her warmly.

Hearing the man call herself, Qiu Luoxue was very surprised. What's going on? In order not to let others recognize her, she also deliberately stuck a mustache and disguised it.

"Can you recognize me?" Qiu Luoxue asked in surprise.

"It's sticky and bearded, but it's still recognizable." The casino receptionist said with a smile, "Besides, there are such handsome guards around you, and you are the only prime minister in Annan City." He looked at Nie Yuan and said the latter words, but Nie Yuan's expression was so cold that he was so frightened that he immediately withdrew his gaze again.

After hearing this, Qiu Luoxue complained to Nie Yuandao: "Look, I said that you should stick a beard, now it's exposed."

"I don't want to stick." Nie Yuan said.

"Alas~ This kid, how old is he and rebellious." Qiu Luoxue said as she tore off the beard on her face and put her feet on Nie Yuan's face.

"What a nice sticker." Qiu Luoxue looked at the beard on Nie Yuan's face with satisfaction, and then set off to find the gambling table.

Nie Yuan followed Qiu Luoxue, reaching out and tearing off the beard on his face as he walked.

"Don't tear it off." Qiu Luoxue seemed to have expected Nie Yuan to tear off his beard and warned.

Nie Yuan's hand had already torn half of his beard, and when he heard Qiu Luoxue's words, he glued it back again. What could he do? Who made him very fond of Qiu Luoxue.

When Qiu Luoxue was secretly investigating in the casino, Zhang Yunwen took a group of patrols to the back mountain to search. In winter, the mountain is bare, and although there are many trees, the leaves have fallen in winter, and only the primary colors of the trees are present. There is still snow in many places on the ground.

"How is it possible to pick up money in such a desolate place?" Zhang Yunwen saw the surrounding environment and said in wonder.

If it's a person who picks up money in such a place, forget it, and several people say so. But this kind of place is rarely visited in winter, how can there be money?

"Spread out, look for it, and see if you can find anything." Zhang Yunwen commanded, and the patrols scattered everywhere to find clues.

"Bet, bet."

"Prime Minister, which side do you want to press?" Someone asked about the Qiuluo Snow Trail.

"I don't press." Qiu Luoxue said, then pointed at Nie Yuan and said, "He presses."

"The money is here, you can press it yourself." Nie Yuan took out a money bag from his upper body and handed it to Qiu Luoxue.

Qiu Luoxue smiled and pushed the money bag back and said, "Imperial court officials can't participate in gambling."

"I'm also a court official." Nie Yuan said.

"You're not, you're a retainer." Qiu Luoxue said, "My exclusive retainers. ”

Nie Yuan thought about it carefully, it seemed to be right, after all, he was now Qiu Luoxue's guard, so he was going to bet, and when he saw the table with the size written, he asked Qiu Luoxue: "Which side is pressed?"

Qiu Luoxue thought for a while, pointed to the small side and said, "Let's ...... over here."

Qiu Luoxue didn't come to the casino to gamble money, just to wait for the opportunity to observe the people in the vicinity, since the counterfeit money came from the casino, it means that someone put the fake money into the casino to participate in gambling.

"I guess people who use counterfeit money must not care about winning or losing, take a closer look, and pick and choose those who are generous and don't care about winning or losing." Qiu Luoxue arranged for Nie Yuandao while waiting for the bets to be revealed, but fortunately, there was a commotion in the casino, and no one paid attention to the content of their conversation.

On the other side, at the gate of the Zheng Mansion, the beggars were staring intently at the situation in the Zheng Mansion, and the people who came in and out were carefully watching.

Qiu Luoxue and Nie Yuan stayed in the casino for most of the day, and finally found a few people who were not quite right. These people seem to be gambling in a planned way, they are scattered around different tables, they participate in gambling, sometimes they win, but most of the time they lose, and they don't care if they lose. After a few rounds of betting, they will switch tables to continue playing.

Qiu Luoxue didn't notice these at first, but Nie Yuan was the first to find out.

"Do you see the person on the other side?" Nie Yuan whispered in Qiu Luoxue's ear.

Hearing Nie Yuan's words, Qiu Luoxue looked across and saw a man in his thirties.

"See, what's wrong?" Qiu Luoxue whispered.

"That guy was dressed and looked ordinary, but he was very generous." Nie Yuan said, "And most of the people here are looking forward to the results after placing their bets, but he doesn't care." ”

According to what Nie Yuan said, Qiu Luoxue took a closer look and found that the person was indeed like this, such a person was indeed eye-catching. Even a person who takes pleasure in losing money pays attention to the outcome of his bets, and he doesn't care about the game, his eyes are always elsewhere.

Qiu Luoxue followed the man's line of sight, only to find that he was observing the same person as him, who didn't pay attention to the gambling game but acted generously.

"Look behind me on the right, there's a man like him." Qiu Luoxue said.

Nie Yuan looked back a little and also noticed this, and said, "It seems that there is more than one person who distributes counterfeit money."

"But it's enough for us to catch one." Qiu Luoxue smiled and looked at the person on the other side of the gaming table, "It's him, keep an eye on him." ”

After that, the person walked around the casino and participated in gambling. Qiu Luoxue and Nie Yuan kept staring at him. He didn't leave the casino until sunset, when he had lost all his money.

"Keep up." Qiu Luoxue immediately said to Nie Yuan after seeing the man leave.

The two followed him all the way, and finally came to a deserted alley, and Nie Yuan said to Qiu Luoxue, "You wait for me here first." With that, he continued to walk forward.

Originally, the tracking was to be carried out covertly, but Nie Yuan was not hidden now, and followed directly and boldly behind the man. After he had gone, the man seemed to notice that someone was following him, so he walked faster and faster.

He walked fast, and the people who followed him also walked fast, and finally he couldn't help it, and suddenly wanted to turn around, and said, "What kind of person......"

It's just that as soon as he turned back, he found a knife against his neck, Nie Yuan looked at the man with cold eyes and said, "Come with me to the county office."

In this way, the person who distributed counterfeit money in the casino was brought into the county office, and Qiu Luoxue interrogated him for a long time, but the person just didn't speak.

"Hey...... Really, this person's mouth is too hard, obviously he has been caught, and he doesn't say anything, so he is angry. Qiu Luoxue, who had not gotten anything for a long time, said angrily.

"Go back, I'll give you the answer in an hour." Nie Yuan said to Qiu Luoxue.

Qiu Luoxue had always heard that the interrogators of the shadow guards were cruel, making life worse than death, and when she heard Nie Yuan say this, she knew that he planned to use the interrogation methods of the shadow guards, and she was a little curious for a while.

Driven by curiosity, Qiu Luoxue said: "I'll come with you, I've always wanted to see the interrogation methods of the shadow guard."

Nie Yuan said solemnly: "It's better not to look at it, in that case you will be afraid of me."

"Tricks...... Is it cruel? Qiu Luoxue asked tentatively.

"Hmm." Nie Yuan replied.

Hearing him answer like this, Qiu Luoxue suddenly didn't want to watch it, and said, "Oh, it's okay, it's okay, I won't watch it." With that, she left the prison.

In Qiu Luoxue's eyes, Nie Yuan will always be a good person who silently guards her, and she doesn't want to have any bad opinions about Nie Yuan, so she won't pay attention to things that are unfavorable to Nie Yuan.

Nie Yuan stood in the corridor of the prison cell, watching Qiu Luoxue's figure gradually disappear. The sunlight shone into the corridor through the window next to her, and Qiu Luoxue's figure became more and more blurred.

"Before I met you, I lived like this, there was no good hope, only death." Nie Yuan muttered.

It was Qiu Luoxue who gave him good expectations, but now he feels more and more far away from that expectation. Because the man he likes is the king of this country.

"Your Majesty, the ministers are afraid, the money factory has always obeyed Your Majesty's orders, and will never dare to pass on the patterns and manufacturing methods of the coins, please let Your Majesty know it." The head of the money factory knelt in the main hall of the imperial study, and Xia Zimo sat on the dragon chair, high up, looking at everything.

"Since the pattern and production process have not been transmitted, why is there a large number of counterfeit coins on the market in Annan City?" Xia Zimo asked, his voice calm and steady, neither happy nor sad.

It was Xia Zimo, who did not show joy and sorrow, that made the ministers unpredictable and in awe. is also like this, he does not show joy and sorrow, which caused Qiu Luoxue to feel distressed.

"This ...... The minister had not heard of such a thing, and he ......," said the governor.

Xia Zimo didn't want to listen to his nonsense, so he directly threw a report in front of him and said: "This is the report presented by Prime Minister Qiu, it has been a few days since Annan City discovered the counterfeit money, and you haven't heard any news at all?"

The manager trembled and picked up the report thrown by Xia Zimo from the ground, checked it carefully, and saw that there was really such a thing.

"This ...... It was the negligence of Weichen's work, and the minister must investigate this matter as soon as possible after he returned. The manager immediately said.

"The matter of Annan City is solved by Prime Minister Qiu. You just need to do a good job from the inside to find out who passed on the patterns and craftsmanship of making money, to whom? Do you understand? Xia Zimo asked.

"Ming...... Understood, Wechen went to do it immediately. The steward said.

"If you can't find out, you just wait to be dismissed." Xia Zimo finally said sternly.

…………

It's another day, a day separate from Qiuluoxue. Xia Zimo looked at the empty imperial study, nostalgic for the days when Qiu Luoxue was by his side. Recently, he has been busy with official business, and he has not been to Annan City to see Qiu Luoxue for several days.

"I don't know if that woman thinks about me." Xia Zimo muttered.

"I guess I'm busy with counterfeit money, so I don't have time to think about it." Xia Zimo said to himself, "It's all those people who don't stop, so that I and she can't see each other often." ”