Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 685 Two Imperial Edicts with Unpredictable Fortune and Misfortune (2)_1

Chapter 685: Chapter 685 Two Imperial Edicts with Unpredictable Fortune and Misfortune (2)_1

The incense table was soon ready, set up in the spacious courtyard. On the table were an incense burner and several dishes of fruit and pastries, which Mo Qingze personally scented and inserted into the incense burner.

The Imperial Edict was to be announced to Mo Yan and the five beasts. The five beasts could not kneel to receive the edict and were unwilling to humbly prostrate themselves on the ground, bowing to the supreme ruler of mankind. So they stood quietly by the incense table, as observers, paying close attention to everyone’s every word and deed.

Mo Yan led her family to kneel in front of the incense table, loudly exclaiming, "Long live the Emperor, long live, long live!"

Xiao Ruiyuan was not the official edict announcer, and kneeled on the ground next to the Mo Family with Xiao Eleven. This included the government officer who had not yet left, Yang Bao, the village elders, and many villagers as well as the six who had extorted the Mo Family. They too hastily knelt down, filling half of the courtyard, and shouted, "Long live the Emperor, long live, long live!"

Their voices were unexpectedly uniform.

The Proclamation Eunuch nodded in satisfaction, then opened the Imperial Edict with a serious face. His sharp voice rang out clearly, "By the Mandate of Heaven, the Emperor decrees, in the past, the Mo Family’s eldest daughter Yan, leading five beasts, relieved members of the Imperial Family from peril... The Mo Family’s eldest daughter Yan is as pure as jade and steadfast as pine, embodying virtue and benevolence... and is a model for all women in the world. Therefore, she is specially granted the title ’Hejia’, with rewards of ten pieces of jadeite, ten lengths of Tribute Satin, and ten hampers of pearls..."

As the Eunuch with the Duty of Announcing Edicts’s voice resounded, the rewards were carried in box by box by Little Eunuchs into the Mo Family’s courtyard. Even before the Imperial Edict was fully recited, the yard was set up with quite a few redwood boxes tied with bright yellow satin ribbons.

Not to mention that receiving a title directly from the sovereign of the nation was such a supreme honor, the long list of rewards alone, though their exact value could not be estimated, was enough to make everyone present stare in awe: The Mo Family, they’re truly going to rise to wealth and honor!

Families in good relations with the Mo Family envied them immensely, genuinely celebrating for the Mo Family; families with mediocre relations regretted not having established better ties with the Mo Family earlier. Now that the Mo Family was wealthy, would they bother with them if they tried to cozy up?

The ones looking most uncomfortable were Sister-in-law Wang and the like. These people had always had disputes with the Mo Family. Even if the Mo Family had been wealthy before, they wouldn’t have feared them. But now that the Mo Family had caught the eye of the sovereign, they, who were merely ordinary peasant families, didn’t dare to make an enemy of the Mo Family anymore, even if they had the audacity.

Human nature is mostly like this; if someone is just a bit stronger, some may feel jealousy. But if someone surpasses others by a great margin, to the point where they can’t even hope to catch up, that feeling of jealousy finds no footing.

Mo Yan knelt there with a calm demeanor, not much concerned about those rewards. She was quite surprised by the title "Hejia" gifted by Emperor Huian, but what worried her more was whether, upon rewarding her, the beasts would receive their Beast Badges.

Back at the Phoenix Mountain Palace, she had made it clear that she wanted no rewards but simply hoped Emperor Huian would give the five beasts a "legal" status. Emperor Huian had promised that he would have someone make Imperial Beast Badges for them, allowing them to move among humans, once he returned to the palace.

Now that she had received so many rewards and the beasts had not been mentioned once in the Imperial Edict, she was genuinely worried that Emperor Huian, being busy with the affairs of Noble persons, might have forgotten about it.

As it turned out, Mo Yan truly worried too much! If Emperor Huian forgot, the attendants around him would also forget, otherwise, once Emperor Huian remembered, he would not think it was because of his own poor memory.

After the Eunuch with the Duty of Announcing Edicts recited the long list of rewards, he finally got to the five beasts: "...the five beasts have extraordinary talents and unmatched bravery, they are heaven-sent Rui Beasts! Today, each is specially granted a Golden Beast Medal to honor their loyalty and courage. Let it be known—"

The worrisome matter did not occur, and Mo Yan’s eyes brightened. She glanced subtly at the composed five beasts beside her, the smile at the corner of her mouth too big to hide.