After the Little Bad King received the assignment to "confiscate the family's property" from Mora, he immediately led his men to the Garrison Prefecture.
Those accompanying him included not only two officials serving under Mora in the Inner Manor, but also a dozen or so minor civil officials from his own Logistics Office. They had all just been woken up, mainly to assist with the confiscation, and under Mora's orders, they were to obey Ren Ye alone.
Ren Ye certainly would not be foolish enough to think Mora had deliberately picked out a cushy assignment for him, intending to give him special treatment, win him over, and dote on him.
He was not Mora's biological father, and their relationship was nowhere near close enough to "embezzle together," so why would Mora treat him so well? That hardly fit the "sincere and candid" exchange of favors between adults...
Thus, throughout the journey, he wondered whether Mora had sent him to confiscate the property because he wanted to uncover something in the Garrison Prefecture, find something, and needed to send Ren Ye to investigate so that he could serve as Mora's staunch witness.
Or perhaps Mora was not interested in him at all, but in Arhat Yuyang behind him. That would explain why he insisted on dragging Ren Ye into the game and involving him in the upheaval at the Garrison Prefecture: it would make securing Arhat Yuyang's support easy.
All these guesses were possible, but the Little Bad King was certain of none of them. So far, he still had not discerned Mora's real assignment in North Wind Town, or precisely what purpose he harbored.
Still, Mora's sending him to the Garrison Prefecture suited the Little Bad King's wishes. On his way back, he had been thinking about how, if Wang