Chapter 760: The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor
Chapter 760: Capturing and Entering the Palace to Plead for Mercy (1)
The disappearance of Si Ni'er, who had been sold and whose whereabouts were unknown, was a deep pain in the hearts of everyone in the Wu family. It also temporarily eased the tension between Wu Shi and her son, Tie Tou.
As Mo Yan left the Wu house, her thoughts were tangled. The first time she heard Tie Tou mention “Qingqing,” she found the name familiar. When she connected it to the fact that the woman had also come from a brothel, she was almost certain of her identity. Yet, she couldn't let go of that last shred of doubt and asked in her mind, reaching out to the snowball-like figure in her consciousness: “Is the Qingqing that Tie Tou mentioned the same person who helped orchestrate the plan against the Old Mo family—Liu Qingqing?”
Soon, the voice of the snowball, sounding older than it was, echoed in her mind: “Who else could it be?”
It really was her!
Mo Yan rubbed her forehead, suddenly feeling that she had made a foolish decision.
To help Tie Tou and his siblings escape the Old Mo family, Mo Yan had once used a token given to her by Yan Junyu and visited the Yanyu Tower to find a woman to stage an act. After all, respectable women valued their reputations more than anything else, and no amount of money would persuade them to participate in such a ruse.
Yanyu Tower was a place that Yan Junyu had won in a bet years ago. On the surface, it looked like any ordinary brothel, but the women inside were stunningly beautiful and had been carefully trained as spies, gathering all kinds of information from their customers.
The women there would entertain the guests, and whether or not they spent the night with them was up to the individual woman, with Yanyu Tower not interfering as long as the women gathered the necessary information.
Liu Qingqing was a special case. She had been one of the original girls at Yanyu Tower before it was restructured. After the other girls were dismissed by the madam, she was left with nowhere to go. Having been deeply hurt by her family, she knew that even if she returned home, she would only be sold again.
Upon learning that she would no longer need to accompany clients, she had begged to stay, intending to earn some money and find a quiet place to live out the rest of her life.
Although Yanyu Tower was wary of keeping an “outsider,” they couldn’t resist Liu Qingqing’s pleas. Seeing her truly pitiful, they relented and gave her a new contract, with strict orders not to divulge any secrets of the tower. She was then allowed to remain, tasked with entertaining regular customers. Whether or not she spent the night with them was left to her discretion.
Having escaped the dark life of the brothel, Liu Qingqing refused to return to it. She spent her days playing the piano, dancing, and reciting poetry for the guests. With the protection of Yanyu Tower, her life was relatively comfortable, and over the years, she saved enough money to think about changing her life.
Because Liu Qingqing was intelligent and obedient, she had brought a lot of business to the tower, and learned many valuable secrets. The madam, reluctant to let her go, wanted to keep her for a few more years and even promised to find her a good family to marry after that.
However, Liu Qingqing had long abandoned the thought of marriage and was unmoved by the madam’s promises. When Mo Yan came to the Yanyu Tower, Liu Qingqing was in the middle of negotiating with the madam.
The madam, recognizing Mo Yan as a friend of her master, was very polite and, upon hearing Mo Yan’s request, eagerly gathered the girls together for her to choose from.
At that time, Liu Qingqing saw it as an opportunity to leave Yanyu Tower, and so she stepped forward. Her condition was that Mo Yan help her plead with the madam to release her contract and allow her to leave the brothel.
The madam, seeing that Liu Qingqing was determined to leave, knew it would be futile to force her to stay and that it might cause more trouble. Before Mo Yan could speak, the madam had already agreed, saying that once Liu Qingqing helped the guest resolve the matter, she would release her contract and set her free.
In the end, Liu Qingqing completed the task Mo Yan had entrusted to her and paid a hundred taels of silver to buy her freedom. She then left the brothel, accompanied by her maid.
(End of Chapter)
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