"Thousand Miles Away" became popular overnight. After Su Xiaomei sang that night, many people remembered the melody lyrics.

The next day, it began to sing in brothels, and then spread from brothels to folk.

While the song became popular, the original singer "Ge Huang Fairy" and the songwriter Du Ruo also became famous among the people of Meizhou.

No one knows who Ehuang Fairy is, but everyone knows that Du Ruo, the magistrate, knew that for a while, rumors about Du Ruo were everywhere, but most of them were praise and beautiful talks, and Du Ruo was not bothered.

The only thing he was worried about was the teachings from his elders. Sure enough, two days later, his mother, Liu, was the first to call him to ask, mainly asking him how he learned to compose music. Du Ruo dealt with it before she could pass her level.

Just as Du Ruo was wary of Du Shouyi's sue, Du Shouyi didn't look for him for a long time. Instead, his future father-in-law Su Xun came to him. Before seeing Du Shouyi, he directly found Du Ruo. On the premise that he was sure that the song "Thousand Miles Away" was indeed good, he criticized Du Ruo and urged him to study hard.

Du Ruo then brought out the tricks he was preparing to deal with Du Shouyi, first telling what books he had been studying recently, then asking Su Xun to ask questions, and then answering them smoothly, letting him know that he had not abandoned his studies and spent most of his time studying.

“It’s almost the same.”

Su Xun nodded, and then said some encouragement words to learn from time to time, review the old and learn from the new, and finally left.

That night, Du Shouyi finally called Du Ruo to the study. What surprised Du Ruo was that Du Shouyi looked even more haggard than when the case was not solved two days ago.

"Dad, your promotion is ruined?"

Calculate the time, it is still a long time before the resignation of Chengdu prefecture, and Du Shouyi would not know the result so quickly.

"I think it's about the same." Du Shouyi smiled bitterly, "The case has not been solved for a long time. If you continue to drag it down, let alone promotion, it would be good if you don't get demoted."

Du Ruo frowned: "What? The case has not been solved yet? Haven't you found the real murderer for you?"

Du Shouyi said: "Wang Lei did admit that he was the real culprit of theft, but he refused to tell where the stole the hidden silver was hidden. If he could not find the dirty silver in one day, the case could not be closed. The amount involved in this case is quite large. If it is delayed to the end, even if the merchants admit defeat and do not pursue it, Huang Pei would not let me go."

After pinching his eyebrows, Du Shouyi continued: "As far as I know, he has written to the Chengdu Prefecture Road Supervision Envoy to impeach me to deliberately delay and intend to embezzle the stolen money."

In the Song Dynasty, administrative units at the Huizhou level and above were "roads", which was equivalent to "province", but they were very different from provinces.

According to the core idea of ​​decentralization of power in the official system of the Song Dynasty, the road was divided into four institutions, namely: Transportation Commission, Promotion of Changping Commission, Promotion of Criminal Commission, and Comfort Commission.

They are in charge of money, grain and taxation, warehousing and water conservancy supervision, judicial and military affairs in a state.

The nominal transfer commander is the largest, but the four departments are not affiliated with each other, and the leaders are mostly appointed by the provincial government chiefs, and the office locations of the four departments are not together, so they play the ultimate in the separation of power and balance.

The "Supervisor" is an official of the "Transportation Commission Department" department, which is equivalent to the deputy magistrate of the Transportation Commission, who specializes in supervising the Transportation Commission and the officials of various states.

"It's actually framed, damn!"

Du Ruo already understood why Huang Pei sneered that day.

Du Shouyi shook his head and said, "He is a magistrate and is under the Censorate. He has the right to be innocent of the news. If the Supervisor comes to Meizhou, he will inevitably investigate me first. Although I am not afraid, I will delay the investigation of the case after a while. Therefore, I must find the dirty silver before the Supervisor starts investigating me! Otherwise, there will be no hope of promotion!"

Du Ruo asked: "When will the supervisor come to Meizhou? Do dirty silver have eyebrows?"

"It will be here in about three to five days. As for the dirty silver, I have no eyes. If that guy Wang Lei doesn't say anything, I can't do anything." Du Shouyi sat on the chair, picked up the teacup, and then put it down deeply.

"Is the punishment available?" Du Ruo asked.

Now that the suspect has become a criminal, of course he can be tortured.

"He used the heaviest punishment, and the skin was broken, but he still didn't say anything."

The Song Dynasty was open-minded. The Song Dynasty's Criminal System clearly stipulated that even if criminals were punished, they could only be punished once a month, and they could not cause disability or death. After the punishment, they must be treated by a doctor to ensure the health of the criminals.

Du Ruo had this memory in his mind, and officials attached great importance to legal education for their children.

After recalling this passage, Du Ruo felt deeply moved and could not believe that this was a law established by the evil old society. But this also restricted Du Shouyi. Otherwise, even if Wang Lei was a man of iron, Du Ruo would have harmed him and asked him to confess.

As a history enthusiast, he had some knowledge of the Zhaozhu of the Ming Dynasty and the top ten tortures of the Qing Dynasty in his previous life.

"Have you started from other places, such as his family?" Du Ruo asked.

"His parents have died, a bachelor... In short, I have investigated everything you can think of, and found nothing."

Du Ruo took a sip of herbal tea, slowly put it down, and suddenly smiled: "I feel much more comfortable when I vomit bitter water in front of you. How can you not get bored, I am very pleased for my father."

Du Shouyi was a heartfelt word. In the past, Du Ruo did not care about his government affairs at all, or even rejected him, and would not have listened to his complaints, nor would he be so concerned about asking questions.

In his opinion, Du Ruo changed after the serious illness, became sensible, and could communicate with him. He liked his current son.

"It's a pity that I can't help my father."

Du Ruo shrugged. The last time he could help Du Shouyi was relying on fingerprints. This time he had no experience in finding things and had no technical means that were more advanced than those of the people of this era, so he was powerless to do anything about it.

In fact, whether Du Shouyi is promoted to a high-ranking official is not very important to him. He is very satisfied if he can ensure that he has no worries about food and clothing.

But Huang Pei was still a little unwilling to accept it.

"I never thought about asking you for help." Du Shouyi smiled gently, and suddenly became a little serious again: "I called you here today because I want to ask you about your academic matters. If you are playing or making trouble, you still have to read books. What books are you reading recently?"

Du Ruo honestly answered that Du Shouyi, like Su Xun, carefully examined the classics in Du Ruo's book, and found that Du Ruo's answers were not abandoned, so he asked without asking about "Thousand Miles Away" and let Du Ruo go back.

Lanterns are hung everywhere in the mansion, and the courtyard is bright.

When he walked into the East Courtyard, Du Ruo saw Shangguan leaning against the pillars of the corridor holding a sword, motionless, and seemed to have his eyes closed, as if he had been there for a long time.

But Du Ruo knew that he must have been to Du Shouyi's study with him just now, and he might have just come back.

He didn't seem to like being too close to Du Ruo, so he adopted this secret protection method. Du Ruo didn't care about this. He just complained: "You have to fly over the eaves and walk around and jump around, aren't you tired?"

"Shangguan."

But when he approached, Du Ruo still called him, Shangguan put down his sword and walked slowly to Du Ruo.

"What's the matter?"

"Wang Lei refused to say the dirty silver hidden place, what do you think?"

Shangguan is a man in the world. Du Ruo asked him for advice, and wanted to see if he could find another way to help Du Shouyi settle the case.

"The young master asked me for nothing. This is the government's business."

Shangguan's answer was still straightforward. Du Ruo smiled awkwardly and said, "This case also has some connection with you, so I asked casually. Since you have nothing to do, my father can only ask for more blessings."

Du Ruo was about to go back to the room to sleep, when Shangguan behind him suddenly remembered something: "By the way."

"how?"

Du Ruo turned around and Shangguan continued, "I suddenly remembered that when I was in the cell, late one night, I had seen that guy take out a handkerchief."

"Handkerchief?" Du Ruo was surprised.

Shangguan nodded: "He was looking at the moonlight shining under the skylight, and seemed to cherish it very much."

When he was in jail, Wang Lei's cell was not opposite Shangguan, but diagonally across the two cells. He would shout when talking and communicating, which would inevitably alarm the prison head, but Shangguan's eyesight found that this was not difficult.

"Okay! That's the clue!"

Du Ruo was overjoyed and wandered around in the spot. He decided not to tell Du Shouyi and to investigate secretly.

If Du Shouyi obtains clues, he can only use the power of the government to investigate, but Huang Pei is also the second-in-commander of the government.

Du Ruo suspected that Huang Pei and Wang Lei had collusion, and even had a great relationship with this case. Otherwise, how could he not panic at all when he decided to be evil in Wang Lei that day?

It was obvious that Wang Lei would bite him to death and refuse to confess!

‘There is quite water here!’

After thinking about it carefully, Du Ruo was secretly shocked. Du Shouyi found nothing during this period of investigation. It was probably Huang Pei who had tampered with it. It was very likely that Huang Pei's people were lurking among Du Shouyi's confidants.

‘If I tell you in advance, I will probably destroy the evidence if I use fingerprints to solve the case.’

Frowning slightly, Du Ruo looked at Shangguan Jinsuo and asked solemnly: "Shangguan, I want to investigate this matter secretly. Are you willing to help me?"

"I am the young master's guard. I don't call me when I'm beaten, nor do I call me when I do business. Why are the young master keeping me for doing?"

To Du Ruo's surprise, this time he spoke too much and his expression became much more vivid.

"Haha! It's my fault, isn't you still a little unaccustomed to it! Sorry, sorry!"
Chapter completed!