Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2580 Investigation ([-])

A few snoozing guests on the left and right showed unsuspecting faces, and a few villagers who didn't know each other simply scolded: "This is a little boy from the side, and the ghost is screaming!"

"The chickens in my cage don't lay eggs, how can you pay for it?!"

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A man with the appearance of a drug dealer, carrying a medicine basket and hanging many scattered items, explained, "This seems to be Huang Dana's stupid son of the landlord's family!"

Of course, Yuan Shuzhi didn't know if there was a landlord named Huang Dana in Huangxi, and it was even more impossible to know if his stupid son was this one.

"Go to Tangxia for fifteen yuan!" The sister of Dan's family who collected the money quoted a price.

The idiot first took out a few banknotes with one or two pennies to buy a ticket. Of course, the girl from the Dan family said that it was not enough, so the idiot then took out the money. This time, what he took out was a banknote that looked familiar. , it looks like a silver dollar coupon, but this denomination is ten yuan.

This is rare. The Senate abolished the two and changed the yuan, and the purchasing power of one silver dollar was very large.Yuan Shuzhi's monthly official income is only a few yuan.In daily life, most of the "fen" and "wen" notes are used.

Yuan Shuzhi frowned. In his memory, he had never seen a ten-dollar silver coupon.The largest denomination of banknotes that can be seen on weekdays is only one yuan. This one-yuan bill is equivalent to one thousand Wen, and ten yuan is a huge sum of money.

Where did the ten-yuan bill come from?He couldn't help being a little puzzled.

"Is this enough money?" The fool held up the banknotes and was about to hand the money to Dan's sister, when suddenly a man with the appearance of a merchant grabbed the money and said anxiously, "Brother, I'll help you pay for the boat." Money, give me this money!"

Just now he scolded the idiot for being very energetic, but now he suddenly wanted to help someone pay the bill, and his attitude changed so quickly that the whole boat was stunned.

But the drug dealer suddenly said: "Brother, what kind of money did you take, show it to everyone?"

The peddler just put the money in his pocket and ignored him.A look of finding treasure.

A curly-haired man wearing a double-breasted "Australian jacket" sitting at the back of the boat said slowly at this time: "Brother who exchanged money, the money is a ten-yuan note issued by Song Dynasty, and one piece can be exchanged for ten large silver dollars. Conscience, you can't cheat this little brother!"

"Where did you get the wild stuff, don't care about your business!" The peddler opened his mouth and scolded, looking arrogant and unreasonable.

The man in the Australian attire smiled slightly and said, "Of course I will take care of things that are not fair on the road." He took out a waist card from his side and flashed it.

The peddler sneered, "You want to bluff people with a sign?"

The drug dealer next to him took the sign, glanced at it and exclaimed: "You belong to the official department of the Song Dynasty?!" After that, he quickly persuaded the vendor:
"Since ancient times, the common people have not fought with officials, so please stop talking! This is an official from the Song Dynasty!" After saying that, he handed over the waist badge.

The peddler took the sign and glanced at it, showing a guilty conscience but unwilling to let go of the situation, and stiffened his neck and said: "Who knows what kind of government office you are! You say that, this money is really worth ten big silver dollars?" After finishing speaking, he handed the badge back to the drug dealer, and the drug dealer immediately returned the badge to the man with fake hair. The whole process was very fast, like a butterfly wearing a flower.

"It can't be true or false." The "Australian cadre" said calmly, "You can help this little brother buy a ticket, but you can't just coax his money."

The peddler still looked unwilling to admit defeat, and said: "You said it was worth ten yuan?! This ten-yuan note has never been seen on the market before. He took it out to buy things like this. Is it true or not?" I don’t know. I’ll give him [-] cents to help him buy a ticket, and in exchange for this paper ticket whose authenticity is unknown, I’m doing good deeds!”

The fake-haired man seemed to be unable to stand it any longer. He got up and said, "Since this is the case, I will show you the appraisal, and please everyone be a witness. This money-changing brother, bring me the money."

The peddler hesitated and said, "Aren't you trying to deceive me?"

"I'm an official of the Song Dynasty, how can I deceive you?" The man with fake hair had a righteous expression on his face.

The peddler then took out the ticket, handed it over hesitantly, and said, "Be careful, don't let me break it."

The fake cadre took the bills, took out a magnifying glass from his satchel, held up the bills to the light, and looked for something.After a while, a blurry crane appeared on the banknote through the light, and immediately shouted: "Did you see it? This is the anti-counterfeiting symbol of the new banknote!"

After showing half a circle in the middle and rear of the ship, Yao asked for the magnifying glass and banknotes, and then showed half a circle in front of the ship.Yuan Shuzhi was secretly surprised to see that there was indeed a watermark of a crane on the banknote.

The "show" has been on until now, and others have seen it fresh. Yuan Shuzhi was used to seeing "Xian'er" when he was hanging out at the bottom, and knew that it was a scam.Bright child, dark child.It is a common routine in places where foreign merchants often come and go, such as ships, docks, inns, and roadside tea sheds.Specializes in deceiving passers-by.Although there are many tricks and names, the routines are the same.

He knew that this group of people committed crimes in a gang, and he didn't know their relationship with the boat owner. It was not appropriate to say anything at this time. He just observed carefully and remembered the faces of several people so that they could be traced later.

What really surprised him was not the scam itself, but the counterfeit currency in front of him.As a civil servant in Guangzhou, he was aware of the counterfeit money circulating in the market, because the bureau held a special meeting to report this matter, and also notified the types and characteristics of the counterfeit money seized.

Judging from the materials in the notification, all the counterfeit coins found are very poor, and it can be said that they are fake at a glance.In addition to deceiving villagers in more remote places, they will be exposed in larger markets.

But the banknote in front of me is very close to the real coin in terms of material, pattern and handwriting.If it is different, it is that the pattern and color are different from the current banknotes.

It's just that the banknotes just flashed before his eyes, and Yuan Shuzhi didn't have time to take a closer look, and couldn't get more details.

At this time, the peddler made an embarrassing and distressed expression, reluctantly took out two silver dollars and handed them to the fool, and said heartbrokenly: "This is all I have, and I took out all my money! Give it all to you, you I don’t know if this piece of money is true or not, one piece is exchanged for two yuan, bro, you’ve made a lot of money!”

As the "stupid son of the landlord's family", of course he is so stupid that he wants what he wants, and he doesn't say no. Silly!"

But the man with fake hair continued to persuade the fool with a heartbroken look: "You can't spend your money like this, you should go to a bank or a bank to change it into small change, and you can change it into ten one-yuan silver dollars! How can you just change two! Alas Hey, little brother, you didn’t steal the money, did you?”

The fool hurriedly waved his hands and said, "I didn't steal it! I didn't steal it! I dare not! This is what my brother gave me to drink." He also made a silly drinking gesture.

The man with fake hair continued to ask: "Then what does your brother do?"

The idiot replied: "My brother went to the countryside with the chief to collect money." Then he made a plan, "He has a lot of money there, and he gave me a lot!" Then he took out another wad of banknotes, They all look similar: "My brother gave me a lot."

The peddler suddenly realized: "It turns out that your brother is the accountant of the elder, no wonder he can get a lot of money!"

The drug dealer man said, "I want it too, and I'll give you two silver ones in exchange for one!"

He changed the money, patted his thigh with a look of regret: "Oh, I usually carry more than a dozen yuan with me, but today I just bought the goods, and the money is all spent! If I had known, I would have bought less medicine!" The neighbors yelled repeatedly.

The peddler and the drug dealer sang together, encouraging people around to "trick" fools into exchanging one banknote for two yuan.After some manipulation, some of the passengers on board were fooled.A few well-dressed businessmen with a little money in their families probably thought it was a chance to pick up the pie in the sky, so they took out the money and started to exchange one, two... There was a businessman who looked like He took out ten yuan in one breath and exchanged five of them.

If someone takes less than two yuan, the two men will say that they are too foolish and stop the fool from accepting it.

After all, two dollars is not a small amount. Most people can't afford so much money, and even if they can't change it, they show envious expressions.At this time, the hawker "made an idea" and asked several of them to "combine" to change one.

Since this banknote can be exchanged for ten yuan, it can be exchanged afterwards and then distributed according to the head. Everyone can understand this account. Now the cabin is boiling, and several people are pooling money to buy another one.

The man with fake hair, on the other hand, seemed upright and refused to "deceive fools", and repeatedly persuaded fools: "You can exchange this money for ten big silver dollars when you get it to the city!!! How can you return it to them! Alas Sigh! Your brother will die of heartache if he knows!"

After this farce, more than half of the people paid for it. Yuan Shuzhi did a rough calculation, and this time the group got more than 30 yuan, which can be regarded as a big deal!

Seeing that the money changer was gone, the fool disembarked at Tangxia, and after two piers, the drug dealer and the hawker also disembarked one after another.

As for the banknotes that were exchanged, they were carefully held in their arms, and they looked around vigilantly, fearing that Lu Bai would be robbed.I went to another town, but it was a big pier.It was just after [-] o'clock in the afternoon, and the boatman started here.Guests who want to go ashore to eat and shop can feel free, but they just need to go back to the ship before it gets dark.Because night ships still have to leave.

As soon as the ship came to a stop, the passengers on board rushed to land, and many of them were wealthy households with a lot of food.The boatman was smoking his pipe and sneered.Yuan Shuzhi knew that he probably knew something, so he deliberately said: "Why are there so many people going ashore all of a sudden?"

Before the boatman could speak, the girl from the Dan family laughed and said, "Where are they going to be top-notch, they are going to Delong to exchange money, waiting to get rich!"

"We don't care if you get rich or not, Xiao Quan, you should prepare a few bamboo tubes in case someone jumps into the river."

(End of this chapter)