The entire Nathaniel Shangguan family shuddered and fell to their knees on the ground.
"---The Emperor has issued an order: Anyone who carries the Phoenix Pearl without permission will be punished with thirty strokes of the cane, regardless of rank or position! This is the order!"
This decree was actually made up by Zhang Kuo on the spur of the moment. If it was a fake imperial decree at ordinary times, he would not dare to do it even if he had the guts; but this decree, I guarantee that after Emperor Alexander Qian knew it, he would only think that the number of canings he imposed was too small.
Zhang was dragged out by the guards for no apparent reason, without even being able to utter a word of injustice. A wife of an official who had been domineering for most of her life, who boasted of her peerless beauty and grace, was pinned down and caned thirty times in public.
The sound of caning came from the courtyard, and the Nathaniel Shangguan family members knelt down, shaking like sieves. A guard held the Phoenix Pearl in both hands, handed it to Zhang Kuo, and whispered: "Can you return to the palace and give it to the emperor?"
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