Yang Ruqing came to Yun Niang's room and happened to meet Xiao Yaxue coming out of it, holding a tray in her hand.

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There were two bowls on the tray, one with rice and one with vegetables.

But he didn't touch the food at all.

"Well, Yunniang still doesn't want to eat?" Yang Ruocheng asked.

Xiao Ya Xue shook her head: “She’s been crying there, worried about the sisters at Xiang Yu Lou. She hasn’t eaten in two meals.”

Yang Ruqing frowned slightly.

"Let me do it." She took the tray from Xiao Yaxue's hand and came to Yun Niang's bedside.

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"You've been seriously injured since you fell in the water, and your body hasn't fully recovered yet."

Yang Ruqing came to the bedside and looked at Yunniang, who was sitting on the bed, looking haggard and crying until her eyes were swollen. She said:

Yúnniang lifted her swollen red eyes and looked at Yang Ruocheng: "I'm really worried about Huājie and the others..."

They were all framed and now they are in jail, they must be suffering a lot.

"Sister Hua treats me like her own sister. It was because of me that she ended up in prison. I feel so sorry for her, I owe her a debt..."

"Yunniang!"

Yang Ruqing interrupted Yunniang's words.

"I understand how you feel."

But, things have already happened. You dwelling on this and panicking won't solve anything.

"Listen to me, wipe your tears, and eat your meal."

"Leave the rest to me. Your task is to take good care of yourself and be ready to help me turn things around!" Let me know if you'd like me to translate something else! ?

Yang Ruqing once again offered the food to Yun Niang.

Her words, Yun'niang should have heard.

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She raised her hand to wipe away the tears from her face and reached out to take the tray.

Then, he ate it in small bites.

Yang Ruqing also sat down on a stool beside the bed.

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"Hearing you mention Hua Jie so often, and how close you are as sisters, you must have known each other for a long time, right?" Yang Ruqing inquired.

In a brothel, women generally wouldn't all get along, would they? There's bound to be some conflict of interest.

For fear that the other party would steal her patron, how could Yun'niang and Huajie be such good friends?

Hearing Yang Ruqing's question, Yunniang seemed to have guessed Yang Ruqing's thoughts.

She put down her chopsticks, and said softly: "The women in the entertainment district are cunning and treacherous, but there are also true feelings."

“It’s just like me and Ms. Hua, we have a life-or-death friendship…”

“Oh? Then tell me.” Yang Ruqing said, she was free at the moment anyway and loved to hear other people’s stories.

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Yu-nü's face showed a bitter smile, and she began to immerse herself in memories...

“I've never known my father. My mother raised me and my brother.”

“Later on, my brother married a wicked stepmother. She was notorious in our street as a shrew. Within two months of her arrival, she drove my mother to death.”

“My brother is incompetent, he has a gambling addiction, and when he loses money, he doesn't dare tell my sister-in-law.”

Later, the creditors came knocking. They had no other option but to use me as collateral for their debt.

"The creditor's family had a foolish son who was twenty-five years old and hadn't married yet. They made me a child bride for their foolish son that year, when I was only ten years old."

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“Originally, it was said that when I turned fourteen and came of age, we would consummate the marriage.”

But one night, my father-in-law crept into my room and wanted to... wanted to...

Then, Yunniang said she couldn't go on.

A pair of shoulders trembled slightly, perhaps out of anger, or maybe fear.

Yang Ruqing said, "I understand, I understand. You go on."

Yunniang took a deep breath and steadied her emotions.

"As it happened, I was doing needlework during the day and left the basket of needles and thread on my bed."

“I felt a pair of scissors inside, and I plunged them into my father-in-law.”

“I escaped from that house, it was a winter night, I ran and ran, with all my might.”

“Half the village dogs came out chasing me. I ran as hard as I could, too afraid to look back,”

“That's how I ran out. When dawn broke, I arrived at a small town. I was utterly starving.”

"At that time, a woman came over and chatted with me. She was so kind and even gave me a steamed bun."

After eating that steamed bun, I fell asleep. When I woke up, I was in the capital city, locked in the backyard of a brothel.

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"It was only later that I found out, the woman who gave me the buns, was a slave."

"She sold me to a brothel in the capital for eight taels of silver. The madam thought I looked pretty good, so she kept me."

“The brothel owner, on one hand, arranged for masters to teach me to sing, play instruments, and dance. The owner didn't want to feed someone who didn't work, so he also sent me to serve the most popular courtesan in the brothel at the time.”

"That girl, she's Miss Hua."

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"When I met Huajie, I was ten years old and she was fifteen. She was at the peak of her beauty, and half the guests who came to the brothel were there for her reputation."

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“Seeing other maids like me being punished by the young ladies, I was very uneasy.”

"But, Ms. Hua treated me very well and never scolded or hit me."

“She hid some delicious food for me, even though I was wrong. She didn't scold me, but instead taught me many things about how to behave in a brothel.”

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“It’s not that I served her, it’s more like she took care of me for four years, treating me like a little sister.”

"Huo Jie knows the boss's plan. When I turn fourteen, the boss will have me start entertaining guests."

"Hua Jie doesn't want me to be like her, sinking deeper and deeper into the world of pleasure. So, when she was entertaining guests, she kept a close eye on things."

“I slipped a little extra from the tip the guest gave.”

She said she wanted to save money for me to redeem myself. I'm very grateful to her.”

>But heaven had other plans. Before she could save enough money for redemption, the news of Huajie’s situation was discovered by others in the brothel.

Those women exaggerated the matter to the boss, who was very angry and sent people to lock Huajie in the backyard firewood shed to punish her.

“The man who taught Aunt Hua a lesson, was bought off by a woman from the building.”

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That woman was jealous of Huajie's beauty because she was always outshined by her.

So, she bribed that turtle servant, and they gave Miss Hua a kind of medicine.

“I don't know what kind of medicine it was. Anyway, after Hualu was released, her body started to feel unwell.”

"The skin is often itchy and no longer smooth as jade."

She was the money-maker of the brothel. The boss was desperate, so he called many doctors to see her and gave her lots of medicine, but it didn't work. Let me know if you have any other text you'd like translated!

"In the end, Huajie's body was messed up by those drugs. She became all swollen, just like a steamed bun dropped in water..."

She could no longer receive guests, and in the brothel she was reduced to a lowly maid who swept the floors. Everyone bullied her.

And I, too, could not escape my fate. I was forced by my boss to go out and entertain guests.

“I never thought I’d make a name for myself in the red light district, but, as fate would have it...”

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