Chapter 616: Doubts Arise Once Again! (1/2)

“Remember, there are some things you can’t just judge from hearsay. Only what you see and hear with your own eyes and ears is trustworthy and able to provide a basis to make the most correct judgment.”

Bai Xiaofei was not as dissatisfied with An Yue’s answer as the latter had imagined. There was even a smile on his face.

“To be a good leader, your personal strength is never the most important on the list. It is whether your people are willing to become your most reliable support. In the next month, I will guide your puppet cultivation, but that won’t be the focus,” Bai Xiaofei paused, his eyes flashing with a firm light as he looked at An Yue. “What I want to teach you is how to be a good emperor that is admired by his people!”

Upon Bai Xiaofei’s declaration, An Yue was first stunned. Moments later, he bowed and cupped his hands towards Bai Xiaofei with new rising excitement. “I will follow your teachings!”

Bai Xiaofei placed the teacup on the table as the smile on his face deepened. Giving A’Tao a reassuring look, he turned back to An Yue.

“I’ve heard about two outsiders answering the imperial announcement recently. Do you know what happened to them? And what’s with the dissident party thing they said? You can’t be in the dark about this, right?“ Finally getting to the main business, Bai Xiaofei was secretly hopeful. As long as An Yue could answer his doubts, the first layer of fog covering this imperial city would be cleared!

However, he really thought too much this time.

“Only Imperial Father knows the specifics, but those two Teachers of the Nation have been put in prison.” While An Yue didn’t know why Bai Xiaofei would want to know about this, he still answered with what he knew.

Put in prison?! With all that talk about them being favored?! Bai Xiaofei was shocked for a long time to hear this. After getting an answer that was 180 degrees from his expectations, he felt like his brains weren’t enough. Just what the hell is that An Bang Ting plotting?!

“Prison? You mean those two Teachers of the Nation offended your father?” Still in disbelief, Bai Xiaofei had to reconfirm.

“Yes, Imperial Father said that they were deceiving people and then directly sent them to prison. I think they’ll be executed soon,” said An Yue seriously. He didn’t seem to be lying at all, and there was no need to lie about this anyway.

Fortunately, An Yue didn’t think much about it and still answered him honestly, “This student doesn’t know, but after Imperial Father locked those two men up, he seemed to have changed into an entirely new person. He had never intended to decide an heir at all, but after that happened, we four were called back from various places.”

Bai Xiaofei frowned. It seemed that there was nothing more to be dug out from An Yue, and the information he got was exactly the opposite of what he had expected. Now, instead of being uncovered, the fog had become even thicker.

The string of information in Bai Xiaofei’s mind was broken into pieces by some words from An Yue, not to mention that this string was already very thin in the first place. Now, he had no clue to connect the events at all.