1474 Top Glory after Death (2/2)
Yan Feiqing looked calm while Guo Hongyi looked a bit embarrassed. Watching Zhang Tie coming over here, Yan Feiqing revealed a smile. After throwing a glance at Zhang Tie, Guo Hongyi lowered her head as her ear roots and neck turned faintly rosy.
Watching the two people, Zhang Tie finally let out a sigh of relief. Although he wondered how they communicated with each other this period, he realized that the two people would really call each other sisters in front of him later on.
”Feiqing, Hongyi.” Zhang Tie opened his mouth.
”Hmm!” Yan Feiqing answered.
”Go light some incenses for my grandpa!” Zhang Tie said as he led them towards the mourning hall.
After Yan Feiqing and Guo Hongyi entered the mourning hall, Zhang juniors and the wives of the old man instantly fixated onto them. Yan Feiqing remained calm as usual while Guo Hongyi's face turned redder.
”Wait a moment!” Zhang Tie told Yan Feiqing and Guo Hongyi. After that, he told a butler in the mourning hall, ”Go fetch two linen belts...”
After hearing Zhang Tie's order, that butler was shocked for a second. Closely after that, he understood Zhang Tie's meaning as he rushed into the rear court at the fastest speed and brought Zhang Tie two white linen belts in a split second.
Under the gaze of everyone else, Zhang Tie gave a linen belt to Yan Feiqing and Guo Hongyi respectively, ”Fasten it...”
To wear a linen belt in this case meant that they were the late old man's granddaughters-in-law. All the women with linen belts were the wives of Zhang Tie's cousins.
The two linen belts were more persuasive than any swears.
Yan Feiqing took the linen belt and fastened it. Guo Hongyi also imitated Yan Feiqing as she took Zhang Tie's linen belt and fastened it.
After they fastened the linen belts to their own waists, Zhang family members in the mourning hall instantly looked at them with different eye light. Zhang Tie also let out a sigh of relief outright. After something became a fact, it would not haunt people anymore.
From then on, Guo Hongyi had become Zhang Tie's woman officially. As for whether the fact that he married Yan Feiqing and Guo Hongyi would incur him some dissolute gossips and the reproaches of some traditionalists or not, it was out of Zhang Tie's concern.
Yan Feiqing and Guo Hongyi then knelt down, kowtowed and served incenses in the mourning hall according to the rules of granddaughters-in-law...
After their sacrifice, Zhang Tie introduced Yan Feiqing and Guo Hongyi to the wives of the old man. After that, he led the two women to the rear court to meet his parents, mainly Guo Hongyi.
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In the following days, more and more guests with increasingly higher social status arrived to offer their condolences to Zhang Haitian, including representatives of Gold and Power Law and Lord Guangnan's Mansion, elders of Heavenly Fortune Sect, Cheng Honglie the commander of Northeast Military Region. Even Lord Xuanwu, Lord Jingtian, Lord Dingxi and Lord Yian had assigned representatives here with great monetary gifts.
Watching so many dignitaries converging Golden Light City for the sake of the death of the old man, even the servants in the old man had been downright spirited these days, not to mention Zhang Tie's uncles and cousins.
On the 5th day, the crown prince assigned representatives to offer his condolence with a great monetary gift. Additionally, His Majesty granted the late old man with the title of posthumous count.
According to the rule in the black iron age, only those who killed demons could be granted with the title of nobility. However, imperial dignitaries in Taixia Country were entitled to grant late people with posthumous titles, which couldn't be inherited and were exclusive to the late ones.
Because of Zhang Tie, Zhang Tie's dad was granted with the title ”lord” while Zhang Tie's grandpa was granted with the title of posthumous count. Therefore, everyone across Taixia Country knew how much the crown prince valued Zhang Tie.