In the winter of the 23rd year of Yonghe, a prison car carrying Wu Guiren, who had not been pregnant for three years, drove out of the side gate of the palace and was dispatched to the northern Xinjiang military camp. Thousands of miles away, Jiang Yunyao, a fisherman from the south of the Yangtze River, took fifty taels of silver from Yuan Shen and entered the palace draft for her sick daughter Shen Lingyi.
In the Courtyard of Beautiful Girls, Jiang Yunyao met two people - Wenzhou wealthy businesswoman Wen Xueluo, who was hiding from the wealthy gentry and was forced to marry, and Ji Wantang, the daughter of the guilty minister who sneaked into the palace to reverse the case for her father. A fisherman's girl who pretended to be an imposter, a rich man's daughter who was forced into the palace, and the daughter of a criminal who wanted to reverse the case - three people who did not even dare to use their real names made an oath under the old locust tree using dried salted fish instead of wine.
Mei Shangqi and her niece Shen Wantang of Shangqiu Bureau focused on them. An arson and frame-up allowed the three sisters to see the light of swords within the palace walls for the first time - but it also made Mr. Zhao, the Superintendent of Ceremonies, notice these three girls who "had no background but could work". He bet on them.
Jiang Yunyao found an empty box in the archives of Shang Dormitory Bureau - it was supposed to contain the copy of Ji Wantang's father's case file. The key is in Mei Shangqian's hand. The three-year countdown to the draft heir system is like a knife hanging above the head - concubines who cannot bear children are sent to northern Xinjiang.
The word "ginger" is engraved on her fish-cutting knife. She wouldn't give this knife to anyone.
