As soon as Du Deng finished speaking, another person immediately retorted: "My lord, the villain's silver is coming from a very correct way, how can it be fake, it must be this Du Deng, he wants to use fake silver to blackmail me, hum, people like him, adults must not be tolerated!" ”

After the two finished speaking, Qian Sheng ordered someone to ask for the silver in Du Deng's hand, he took it in his hand and weighed it, then looked at the color, put it in his mouth and bit it, frowned for a long time, and said: "This silver is almost the same as the real silver in terms of color and quantity, but Lord Ben can be sure that this is a fake." ”

Qian Sheng made a lot of silver when he was the county magistrate before, and he was naturally very familiar with the authenticity of the silver, so after listening to Qian Sheng's words, Du Deng knelt down and kowtowed again and again: "My lord, this silver is used by this person to buy things for the villain, and the villain thought it was true at night, but when the villain weighed it carefully, he found that there was a problem with the silver, which was clearly fake." ”

As soon as Du Deng said that, the other person immediately raised an objection, and he had to say that Du Deng had fake silver in his hand and couldn't spend it, so he took himself as the main wrong.

The two said this, so that Qian Sheng couldn't tell who was right and who was wrong, and finally had to look at Su Wuming, Su Wuming frowned slightly, looked at the two people in the hall and asked: "There is no doubt that the silver is fake, and the one who uses fake silver to spend must be one of the two of you, this fake silver may also be one of you being deceived by others, it is not a big crime, it is okay to admit it honestly, but if you refuse to admit it, we will find out the person who used fake silver, then don't blame us for the punishment." ”

The two of them looked at each other, but no one was willing to admit that it was their fake money.

Seeing this, Su Wuming smiled lightly at the corner of his mouth, and said: "Since this is the case, then the official will first punish you to go home and take the equivalent of silver as a fine, and this matter will be investigated slowly by the official, and after the investigation is out, you will be severely punished, go!" ”

As soon as he heard that Su Wuming wanted to let these two people go back, Qian Sheng immediately glanced at Su Wuming, meaning that he couldn't let them go back, let them go back, how would this case be tried?

But Su Wuming didn't consider Qian Sheng's eyes, and after waving his hand, he ordered the official to lead them out of the county office, and not long after the two of them left, Su Wuming called Jiang Ying and Lin Yun and muttered in the ears of the two of them, the two of them nodded again and again, and then flew out of the county office.

About half a pillar of incense later, Jiang Ying and Lin Yun went back first, after they said something in Su Wuming's ear, they stood on both sides, and after a while, Du Deng and the other person entered the county hall with silver, but just after they came in and knelt down, Su Wuming suddenly scolded Du Deng: "Okay, you Du Deng, you actually used fake silver to deceive the guests, and refused to admit it, come on, give this master twenty boards first, and then make a decision after the fight." ”

After speaking, the official on the side was about to come to beat with a stick, then Du Deng was stunned for a while, and after the board hit his buttocks, he remembered to beg for mercy, Su Wuming saw that the official also hit a few boards, so he waved his hand to stop them, and then looked at Du Deng and asked, "Say, what the hell is going on!" ”

The people standing on the side were surprised, they couldn't believe what this was, why was Su Wuming so sure that the fake silver was Du Deng's, could it be that he just guessed, hit Du Deng a few boards first, if the fake silver was really Du Deng's, he would definitely beg for mercy?

But if you think about it, this obviously doesn't make sense, there must be other reasons.

At this time, Du Deng raised his head slightly and looked at Su Wuming, and said, "That fake silver is indeed a villain, but it's just ...... It's just that how do adults know that they are villains? ”

Su Wuming smiled coldly: "Lord Ben ordered the two of you to go home to get the silver, and after you left, let people monitor the two of you separately to see the expressions of the two of you, the guest looked sad, full of reluctance, and repeatedly said that he had lost a lot, and although you were a little unhappy, you were not as worried as him, so Lord Ben speculated that you were the one who used fake silver." ”

As soon as he said this, everyone understood what Su Wuming had whispered in the ears of Jiang Ying and Lin Yun just now.

Du Deng sighed and said: "The fake silver was received by the villain in business a few days ago, and after the villain received the fake silver, he wanted to admit that he was unlucky, but ...... But the villain really can't swallow this breath, after all, it's silver, and you can exchange a lot of copper coins, and finally after thinking about it, I decided to find a big head to exchange this silver, today this person came to sell jade, and the size of the silver he took out was about the same as what I received, so I remembered to slander him, but I didn't expect that he would go to court. ”

After Du Deng finished speaking, this small case was over, and after ordering Du Deng to accompany the money to that person, Qian Sheng announced his retirement.

But they don't know that this is just a small episode, or a prelude, of the whole thing.

Before the evening of this day, the whole Qiantang County spread, saying that there was fake silver in Qiantang County, for a while, the people were panicked, no one dared to use the silver to buy things, and the people who sold things did not dare to collect the money casually, some of them needed to spend a lot of money to go to the Qinglou, because the copper money was too heavy, so they ordered someone to carry a box of copper coins to the Qinglou, which was really spectacular.

In the eyes of others, it is spectacular, but in the eyes of Su Wuming, it is all a problem, if the matter of fake silver is not solved, then this Qiantang County may not be peaceful. In the Tang Dynasty, although silver was not a currency in circulation, it was also indispensable in the face of large business.

Su Wuming stood in his courtyard and sighed, he felt that this fake silver thing was really difficult to handle, not to mention that there was no clue about Mi Cangqiong's murder.

Nangong Yan saw that Su Wuming was silent in thought, and her heart was also a little heavy, so she thought that she could make Su Wuming happy, and she felt that the only thing that could make Su Wuming happy was to talk to him.

"Su Lang, what's going on with this fake silver, can silver also be faked?"

Su Wuming smiled lightly: "Of course, silver can be faked, some people can melt silver, and when the silver is formed, lead is poured into it, lead is much cheaper than silver, in this way, shoddy, can make a lot of money to make fake silver." When Su Wuming said this, he wanted to give an example, but after thinking about it carefully, most of the examples he knew were from later generations, and if he said it, he would inevitably reveal flaws, so he only said this in the end.

But Nangong Yan didn't seem to be satisfied with what Su Wuming said, and finally chased Su Wuming to say more, Su Wuming had no choice, so he had to say some things about making counterfeit money from ancient times to the present, of course, what he said was before the Tang Dynasty, and the punishment after the counterfeit money was discovered, such as stealing the mold of making copper coins, and then making money himself, after the fake money was discovered, how to punish different dynasties and so on.

After Su Wuming said this, Nangong Yan nodded with some satisfaction: "These people who make fake money are really hateful, and they will definitely not be able to spare them, our Datang people are only exiled for three thousand miles, which is too cheap for them." ”

Nangong Yan's words were not false at all, and just when a few people were talking about counterfeit money, a servant hurriedly came and said that something had happened to Mi Cangqiong's family, something had happened.

When Su Wuming heard that it was Mifu, he hurriedly asked, "What happened?" ”

"Master Su, that's the case, as soon as Mi Cangqiong died, many merchants came to Mifu to ask for accounts, Mrs. Mi had no choice but to repay the remaining silver at home, but Lord Su also knew that now there was a fake silver incident in Qiantang County, so those merchants were very cautious......"

Before the servant's words were finished, Nangong Yan couldn't help but ask, "Those merchants don't want silver?" ”

The official shook his head: "Those merchants want silver, but they have made a very strict appraisal of the silver, and finally they all feel that the silver in Mifu is all fake silver, and in the end they have to ask Mrs. Mi to take copper coins to pay back, most of the money in Mifu has been exchanged for silver, where are there many copper coins, and finally Mrs. Mi has to give the remaining copper coins in the house to those merchants first, and then think about selling some things in the house to pay off the debt." ”

After the official finished speaking, Su Wuming and the others already understood, and they naturally knew very well the meaning of the officer's words, Mrs. Mi still can't afford to pay off the debt, that's another matter, the important thing is the fake silver in Mifu.

Mi Cangqiong was killed, what he was holding in his hand must be fake silver, how could the murderer kill Mi Cangqiong for fake silver? Of course, Su Wuming and they all know very well that although the fake silver is fake silver, the outer layer is really silver, only the silver is immediately wrapped in other things, if it can be smelted, it can still be separated from other things, but even so, there is not much silver.

didn't have time to think about it, Su Wuming immediately ordered: "Let's go, go to Mifu first." ”

By the time we arrived at Mifu, it was late and the wind was desolate.

Mifu is even more chaotic than yesterday, and some subordinates are even more ordered to resign and leave because of the situation in Mifu, Mi Cangqiong's two wives are running back and forth in the mansion, but nothing is going to work.

There were one or two officials in the house, Qian Sheng didn't come, and when they saw Su Wuming, they immediately greeted him: "Master Su, the silver that Mi Cangqiong exchanged for is all fake." ”

Su Wuming already knew about this, he nodded, and then said to the two Mrs. Mi who came over: "Don't worry, two ladies, there must be a way to solve this matter, and now I also ask Mrs. to bring the remaining silver, and Nameless can come up with a way to crack it." ”

Mrs. Mi responded again and again, and then one person was in the living room by Su Wuming and others, and the other went back to the house to bring the fake silver, Su Wuming picked up the silver and weighed it in his hand, and then put the silver down, and said: "The silver is indeed fake, it seems that Qiantang County will face a big crisis." ”