Although Bai Ling was surprised by the result of Mu Cheng's arrest, he quickly accepted it.

If this was really Mu Cheng's doing, then he was probably ready to do it in the future before he fled.

On this night, Lord Cao of Zhuozhou Mansion invited a few people to the house to talk together, and the seven deer hunters did not show up during the banquet - this has been basically the case for a while, and every time they sit around for dinner, the deer hunters will disappear for a while.

Li Yiru and Bai Ling were thinking about their old friends, neither of them had much appetite and almost didn't move chopsticks.

Cao Xun, the prefect of Cao, was talking and laughing with Wang Meng throughout the whole process, and almost didn't look at Li Yiru and Bai Ling.

Bai and Li also understand that they can sit on the guest seat of the prefect today only because of General Chang's face.

At the first sight of this Lord Cao, Bai Ling had an inexplicable dislike for him.

Bai Ling couldn't say the reason, and if she was serious, there were many things in this Lord Cao that reminded her of Master Zheng Mi Zheng in Pingjing, but there was some kind of most important spiritual qi in him.

After eating this dinner, Bai Ling almost heard the wish of this Lord Cao - it turned out that he was a second-class jinshi in the second year of Shengming, and according to the practice of previous years, he should stay in the Hanlin Academy to practice.

However, back then, the emperor took the quasi-Hanlin soldiers he appointed to tour the north, and placed them in the capitals of the four northern states one by one.

The reason why Chen Yicong did this was very simple, he was not worried about the local yamen in the north, so he pressed these young people who had just jumped over the dragon gate and had strong blood like a wedge into the boundary of the north.

Although they are in the north, there is a note in the records of the Ministry that the time these people have been in the north will be directly equivalent to their years of service in the Hanlin Academy.

After serving five years, they can return to Beijing and be reappointed to important positions by the Holy Lord.

The so-called Hanlin bachelor has an extremely noble status, and can almost be called a "private son of heaven".

They revised books and histories every day, drafted edicts, read them for the royal family, and went abroad to serve as examiners for imperial examinations...... Almost all the cabinet ministers and feudal officials took this as a starting point and began their magnificent careers.

Mr. Cao will be in office for five years this year.

In the spring of next year, he will return to Beijing to resume his life. Returning to Beijing with him, there were also more than a dozen comments from colleagues in the north.

These excerpts were to be presented to the Emperor, along with his own debriefings, for the Emperor's viewing.

And how the emperor will evaluate his merits and demerits in the past five years in the north will be largely affected by these dozen or so comments and excerpts.

What Lord Cao values most at present is the comments of the two generals, Chang Sheng and Shen Jichuan—he can see early on that the saint trusts these two generals very much, and the various performances of the emperor's northern tour in the fourth year of Shengming have further confirmed his views.

The status of the Great Zhou Wenchen has always been slightly higher than that of the military generals, but Lord Cao completely ignored this, and he has always done his best to meet any needs of Shen Jichuan and Chang Sheng.

He was originally in charge of the city defense arrangement in the spring and summer of Zhuozhou, but he had to present everything to Shen Jichuan in private, and almost took the initiative to put himself as the subordinate of General Shen.

Shen Jichuan and Chang Sheng were so happy, most of the time the two of them directly did the work handed over by Lord Cao, compared to Yanzhou and Fuzhou, who had to go back and forth according to the rules, but the layout in Zhuozhou was the smoothest - this is also thanks to Lord Cao is a hands-off shopkeeper.

After dinner, Li Yiru and Bai Ling were questioned separately, and before parting, Li Yiru suddenly realized that he didn't seem to have confessed to Bai Ling all the way, but Bai Ling just shook his head, "It's all the truth." ”

"What?" Li Yiru was stunned for a moment, "That'...... What about the mine we found in Huizhou......"

"It's okay," Bai Ling said softly, "This Lord Cao is in sight, and even if he knows, he won't make trouble for himself." As long as our confessions are correct, he should not embarrass us. ”

Li Yiru suspiciously followed Bai Ling's advice.

However, unexpectedly, the recording of the confession on this night was almost perfunctory, and the reason why the interrogation was to be separated was only because it was a traditional rule in the yamen.

Bai Ling was very confused in his heart, the case of destroying the door is a big case in any dynasty, not to mention that the deceased is still the former prefect of Yuezhou, and now the "suspect" has been arrested, and the government should not have this attitude when collecting confessions.

But she didn't want to ask more questions of the people in front of her.

It can be seen that these officials don't pay much attention to the matter of taking confessions, but they can't write casually, so Bai Ling has to talk about the same issue back and forth, and only after an hour has finally been delayed will these officials finally be willing to release people.

With confusion, Bai Ling and Li Yiru went to meet the prefect Lord Cao again in the middle of the night, thinking that there was a friendship for dinner tonight, and this Lord Cao quickly put on his clothes and came out to meet him.

It's just that the face is not as good as it was at dinner.

The servant quickly brought hot tea to Cao Xun, but there was no share of Li Yiru and Bai Ling.

Cao Xun still smiled on his face, "Say, what's the matter with finding this mansion so late?" ”

Bai Ling pondered and inquired about the government's next disposition of Mu Cheng.

"You guys really have a good relationship," Cao Xun glanced at Bai Ling inexplicably, "I read that you are all friends of General Chang, and this government will not hide it from you, the person was arrested last night, but the above order was changed yesterday morning." ”

"Changed?" Bai Ling and Li Yiru exclaimed at the same time, "What did it change?" ”

"There is another person in the murder case of Yuezhou Mansion, this Mu Cheng counted him unlucky, he was the first to discover the scene of the crime that night, and he usually acted uprightly, provoking the chief officials in the yamen, and he just took the blame after the incident.

"Last month, Chuzhou just cracked a big case of Qinyuan's remnants, and during the interrogation, the main culprit just happened to recruit the crime in Yuezhou, so Mu Cheng's case was naturally closed."

Cao Xun said, blowing the tea foam on the cup.

However, as a fast arrester, he used his position to steal the blank letter of recommendation from the then prefect, and planned to flee with his whole family, which should still be punished. Yesterday he had beaten forty sticks, and when he was healed, he was able to leave. ”

"As for your confession," Cao Xun said, "Originally, there was no need to record it again after getting the new judgment yesterday, but the new judgment only said that the case on Mu Cheng's body was cancelled, and it didn't say that the confessions of the two of you could be canceled, so they were still recorded together, that's it." ”

Li Yiru stood up as soon as he landed, "Can we go see him tonight?" ”

"It's so late......" Cao Xun frowned.

"Tomorrow, the family army is about to leave for Yanzhou," Bai Ling also stood up, "If I don't see you tonight, I'm afraid that I won't have a chance in the future, so please be accommodating." ”

"Well," Cao Xun said with a smile, "but I have one condition." ”