After becoming the widow of a ruined prince, Pei Qing fears losing her fief. She stuffs a pillow under her clothes, sticks out her belly, and pretends to be carrying the late prince's posthumous child. Then she gets down to the daily business of building up the fief, farming, and making money.
The servants of the prince's manor: The food's awful and the work's unbearable. Let's get out of here.
Pei Qing parts her lips, her eyes soft as spring water, and speaks in a clear, gentle voice: "I may hold everyone's contracts in my hands, but I'm the softest-hearted person you'll ever meet. Anyone who doesn't want doubled wages and a house of their own can walk out the manor gates. I promise you won't get a share of the year-end profits."
Later, the servants of the manor revere the princess consort like a goddess, happily buying into every promise she makes.
The eunuchs sent to abolish the fief: The King of Hell is easy to meet, but his minions are hard to deal with. If you don't pay us, we'll abolish the fief.
Pei Qing furrows her delicate brows, pressing a hand to her heart in the manner of Xi Shi. With a plaintive, tender voice, she says, "Everyone knows eunuchs are no good, but you gentlemen are praised for your loyalty, integrity, and virtue. Men of such saintly talent as yourselves surely wouldn't make life difficult for a widow and her orphaned child, would you? Surely not?"
Later, the eunuchs throw themselves into the fight for the princess consort, investing their entire fortunes in the fief's grand infrastructure projects.
The fief grows stronger than ever, and its future looks bright. But Pei Qing never imagined that the head of the hidden guards she had so carefully trained would turn out to be the supposedly 'late' Prince Li Junzi!
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