Most people in Liu Yang Village had never laid eyes on a county official, let alone an "Imperial Edict" which they had only heard of in plays or tales passed around the streets. When the peculiar tone of "The Imperial Edict has arrived" was announced, it immediately stunned everyone, who failed to grasp the significance of those three words.
Just then, a pale-faced eunuch with no beard, dressed in a Gemstone Blue Crane Embroidered Robe, wearing a Peacock Cap Inlaid with Green Gemstones, and holding a Bright Yellow Imperial Edict, escorted by seven or eight Little Eunuchs in green, passed through the second gate and came into view of the onlookers.
