In the eagerly awaited expectation of the crowd, the imperial envoys from the court finally arrived at Nanyang County on the twenty-second day of the twelfth month.
On this day, the Nanyang County Princess personally led her officials and county magistrates out of the city to welcome the envoys.
The one who came to deliver the imperial decree was Vice Minister Dong from the Ministry of Rites.
Vice Minister Dong was forty-five this year, the prime of a man's life. He was once ranked second in the imperial examination, scholarly and erudite, and had been serving in the Ministry of Rites, rising to the position of Assistant Minister in just a few decades, a Standard Third Rank high official at court.
