Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads...
"There is no one with the surname A in Qiaotou Village!" Everyone said, they are all native aboriginals, so there can be no mistake in the surname. It is absolutely true that there is no one with the surname A here!
After hearing this, Xiguan frowned. It was Qiaotou Village, so he came to the right place, so he opened the yellow roll in his hand.
It's the imperial decree.
"Ah, sorry, sorry, I saw it wrong on the way here. It's not the Jia family, it's the Tian family! Where is the Tian family?" Xiguan said embarrassedly.
"Oh, my heavenly king..." Upon hearing this, Datong Niang was so startled that she didn't scare anyone to death, but she fainted from fright...
"This is the Tian family, this is it!" Er Tong shouted happily, the gongs and drums sounded again, and the smiles on people's faces bloomed again.
"That's good, that's good. What's wrong with this grandma?" Xiguan asked.
"It's okay, it's okay, my mother is happy, happy." Ertong didn't wake up the old lady, so he just let her faint, which would save trouble.
Everyone almost held their breath. Although they had never seen the imperial edict, they knew that everyone had to kneel down when the official read it out, so the crowd was quiet as they waited for the examiner to read it out, and the sound of gongs and drums gradually ended.
Bai Haitang also stared at the imperial edict. The thing looked soft, but it was a pity that he couldn't touch it, otherwise he would know its composition. It must not just be dyed from the original color cloth, but maybe silk or something was added, otherwise the softness would not be good.
It would be so good.
The color is true yellow, like egg yolk, evenly distributed, without a single flaw, and dyed well. It must have been specially dyed by the dyer in the palace for imperial purposes.
Bai Haitang wondered what could be written in the imperial edict?
Official title? Unlikely.
The imperial edict of this official is made of seven-color imperial edicts above the fifth rank, and pure white silk is used for those below the fifth rank. The highest level is the seven-color imperial edict, and the scroll also has a saying.
The jade shaft for the first grade, the black rhinoceros horn shaft for the second grade, the close shaft for the third grade, the black ox horn shaft for the fourth and fifth grade. The imperial edict in the hand of the happy official in front of me is neither a colorful imperial edict, but an ordinary axis.
The wooden scroll seems to be only used for notification and has nothing to do with the official appointment.
"Ahem", the examiner cleared his throat, breaking the silence of the mountain village at night, "Qiaotou Murata Datong accepts the order!"
His voice was so high that the whole village seemed to be echoing his voice in the dusk.
"Students accept the decree." Tian Datong shook his clothes and knelt down on the ground, and everyone else knelt down. Although Bai Haitang was reluctant, she knew that the one we valued most was the emperor who was far away in the capital, and the imperial decree represented the emperor's will.
, had no choice but to kneel down.
I just hope that the edict will be short and don't talk nonsense, otherwise if you kneel for a long time, you will easily get spiral legs.
"By God's blessing, the emperor issued an edict... Tian Datong, a scholar from Qiaotou Village, won the first place in the imperial examination and was specially awarded the title of Number One Scholar in Literature. He will soon go to Beijing to meet the emperor. I admire this."
Haitang and Lamei knelt behind the crowd, listening in confusion.
"What does it mean to be bound by heaven?" Lamei was confused when she heard the imperial edict for the first time.
"He who receives orders from Heaven is given by Heaven's will, so he who is called the Son of Heaven also regards Heaven as his father and serves Heaven with filial piety. This is the origin of worshiping Heaven," Haitang said.
"The five elements are mutually reinforcing and restraining each other, and the five elements are matched with the five virtues. Each dynasty represents one of the virtues. The Yellow Emperor promoted earth virtue, the Xia promoted wood virtue, the Yin promoted gold virtue, and the Zhou promoted fire virtue. The five virtues circulated, and dynasties rose and fell. This is about luck anyway.
That's what "the emperor who was ordered by God to inherit the destiny of the world issued an edict," Haitang explained.