Xiao Changqi understood what the little bird meant. With just a glance, the chief eunuch immediately understood and waved his hand to drag everyone away.
Those who wanted to shout were all silenced.
"Shouldn't it be enough to give the others a few lashes each?" Yuan Danfei landed on the man's shoulder and said in a low voice.
"Whatever you say." Xiao Changqi raised his hand and patted the little bird's head.
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Back in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, after Xiao Changqi dismissed all the servants, Yuan Dan finally asked the man, "What do you plan to do with the old emperor's former concubines?"
Xiao Changqi sat at the table and ruffled the little bird's tail feathers: "I order someone to bestow upon it dove wine."
New Year:"?!"
"No, why would you kill someone without a word?" Yuan Dan hurriedly said, "Just give them some silver and send them out of the palace. They had no choice in the matter."
Xiao Changqi said calmly, "It will all be as Yuanyuan wishes."
However, just as Xiao Changqi sent this group of people out of the palace, someone in the court submitted a memorial urging Xiao Changqi to expand his harem.
It was customary for the royal family and their officials to use this method of sending their daughters to the palace to become the emperor's concubines in order to win over the officials and curry favor with the emperor.
Xiao Changqi lost his temper at the morning court session and removed the official hats of two ministers. This reduced the number of such memorials somewhat, but there were still those who persisted and submitted memorials every day, all mentioning the suggestion that His Majesty should select more concubines.
As the prime minister, Yuan Qing would help Xiao Changqi review some memorials, but after that, he would not even glance at them and would simply throw them aside.
Most of these ministers were former officials who feared that Xiao Changqi might find a pretext to get rid of them one day. They also had unmarried daughters at home, so they thought of using this method to please Xiao Changqi, hoping that he would let them off the hook because they were so sensible.
Although she stayed in the palace all year, there were many gossipy people around, and she heard that some ministers in the court were pressuring Xiao Changqi to take a concubine and establish an empress.
When Xiao Changqi returned from the Golden Palace, all the eunuchs who had accompanied him lowered their heads and dared not utter a sound.
During the New Year's holiday, I was discussing with Sparrow what she had done in the Heavenly Realm before.
It wasn't until today, when Jinjin was sent to the palace, that it was dragged out on New Year's Day to practice its magic of transforming into human form.
“The spell to transform into human form is the easiest spell for us little birds to learn,” Jin Jin said seriously, standing on the stone table. “But for little birds that haven’t blacklisted their intelligence, transforming into human form is a very slow spell.”
On New Year's Day, it raised its wings and asked, "When I was in the heavens, wasn't I also a bird?"
"That's because you suffered damage when you were in the egg." Jin Jin glanced at the silly phoenix. "Later, the Emperor repaired the Star Chess for you, and you took human form more and more often."
"So now..." Yuandan spread its wings, looked at its current appearance, "Can I still transform into human form?"
Jin Jin pondered for a moment: "Theoretically speaking, it is definitely possible."
Yuan Dan's eyes lit up, and then Jin Jin said, "It's just that the time it takes to transform into human form might be a bit long."
New Year's Day: "How long?"
Jin Jin: "One hundred years, I guess."
New Year:"……"
It takes a hundred years to take human form?
Whether she could live to see that time is another matter, but Xiao Changqi certainly couldn't.
"Isn't there a shortcut?" Yuan Dan raised her little head and looked at Jin Jin.
“There are no shortcuts to cultivation.” Jin Jin glanced at the Golden Palace not far away, her words tinged with hesitation, “Unless…”
On New Year's Day, he hurriedly asked, "Unless what?"
Jin Jin said in a deep voice, "Unless the Emperor returns your heart's blood."
But what the consequences will be for Xiao Changqi returning his heart's blood to the silly phoenix is something it doesn't yet know.
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