"I want to take you away from Baihua Tower. As long as you help me get things done, I will return your deed and give you a clean identity."
"When the time comes, I can take you anywhere you want to go, Jiangnan or Saibei."
"Even if it's the thing you want most, I can think of a way for you."
Qin Yanning looked at Hongyun and said with a somewhat distant smile on his face.
Hong Yun was stunned when she heard this, but then she laughed, "My dear Madam, you are so precious, how could you possibly know what I want most?"
"child."
Hongyun looked at Qin Yanning in shock.
"I know what you want most is a child. When you were a teenager, you were the most popular courtesan in Baihualou. You were pregnant at that time, but the madam forced you to take medicine to abort the child."
"Then the doctor said that you had damaged your body and would never be able to have a child again. For so many years, you have been seeking medical treatment and seeking medicine, just hoping to wait until you were free so that you could have a child of your own."
"Am I right?" Qin Yanning looked at Hongyun with certainty.
Hong Yun smiled bitterly, "A woman like me naturally wants to have a child to rely on for the rest of my life, but I'm not destined for that."
"I can help you, as long as you do it beautifully."
"Everything in this world is difficult, and children are even more difficult to force. Can I trust you, young lady?"
Qin Yanning tapped the jade token in his hand. "Believe it or not, your contract is in my hands. Do you think you have any choice?"
Hongyun nodded and sat back on the bed as if accepting his fate.
"What the young lady said makes sense. What do you want me to do?"
Qin Yanning knocked on the table and said, "I will give you an identity and let you live in the Qin family of the Minister of Works. I want you to find a way to seduce the Minister of Works, Qin Hongan, and make the Qin family uneasy."
"Besides that, help me find out how Qin Hongan's previous wife died."
"If there's anything else I need you to do, I'll send someone to find you."
Hongyun widened his eyes when he heard this, and then laughed.
"The Regent Princess is indeed filial. She actually wants to honor the women in the building to her own father."
When Lan Yue saw Hong Yun guess the identity of her princess, a trace of panic flashed across her face.
Qin Yanning didn't take it to heart, "How did you recognize me?"
Hong Yun took a sip of tea and said, "The man who came to redeem me that day was a servant. I inquired for a long time before I found out that he was the servant of the eldest young master of the Yan family."
"Today I saw the young lady wanting to send me to the Qin family. How could I not have guessed it?"
Qin Yanning had no intention of hiding her identity from Hong Yun. She also took a sip of tea and said, "Now that you know who I am, you should do your job well. Otherwise, the Regent will have plenty of ways to deal with you."
"Don't worry, I won't lose anything I promised you."
"Just because the young lady wants to restore my innocent identity, I will do my best. After all, we are all serving men, and serving one is definitely easier than serving so many."
"I'm just curious, how did the young lady know that I have always wanted a child?"
Qin Yanning sighed inwardly. The reason she knew Hong Yun was because of the original owner.
Not long after the original owner married Shen Yuanan in her previous life, the emperor placed Shen Yuanan in the position of Jingzhao Yin to gain experience.
One day, Shen Yuanan was on vacation and told the original owner a story for fun.
It is said that Hongyun, the former top courtesan of Baihua Tower, saved enough money to redeem herself and gave it to a peddler. The peddler helped Hongyun redeem herself and even married her.
Later, the peddler used the money Hongyun had saved to buy two stores and became a small shopkeeper.
The story should have been a romantic tale at this point.
But later on, the peddler disliked Hongyun's infertility, so he took a mistress outside and had a son.
In anger, Hongyun reported to the Jingzhao Yin, demanding a divorce from the peddler and taking away all her property.
In the end, Shen Yuanan ruled that the divorce was not allowed, and even advised Hongyun that since she was a prostitute who had turned good, she should be cherished.
No one knew what happened later, but Hongyun ended his life with a piece of white silk.
What did Shen Yuanan say to the original owner at that time?
He said Hongyun was born with a silver spoon in her mouth but didn't know how to appreciate it. It was good enough that a man was willing to marry her as his wife and give her a roof over her head.
But Shen Yuanan forgot that if it weren’t for Hongyun, the peddler would just be a peddler walking around the streets.
He clearly lived a better life thanks to women, but then he turned around and trampled women's efforts into the dirt.
Qin Yanning despises this kind of people the most.
Therefore, Qin Yanning asked Yan Mingye to help her redeem Hongyun.
She is not a saint, and she redeemed Hongyun in order to deal with the Qin family and find out the truth about Yan Xun's death.
But she is willing to help Hongyun restart her life after everything is settled.
Qin Yanning originally wanted to get rid of the Qin family as soon as possible, but after thinking about it, he gave up.
Firstly, she was not sure who was behind Yan Xun's death. Secondly, Qin Yurou was about to marry Shen Yuanan. If the Qin family was dealt with at this juncture, there would be no more drama to watch in Shen Yuanan's Prince's Mansion.
Of course the most important point is that she felt it was not enough.
The suffering Zhou Xue, Qin Hongan and Qin Yurou had endured was not enough, so she would lift them up high and then drop them down heavily.
How could they understand the pain that the original owner felt when she was abandoned by her family and hurt by someone she regarded as her own sister?
Seeing that Qin Yanning didn't answer, Hongyun didn't dare to ask any further.
Qin Yanning looked into her eyes and asked, "Miss Hongyun, do you still need to question the Regent's ability?"
Qin Yanning knew that Shen Ziyu was very famous outside, so he decided to take advantage of the situation.
Sure enough, Hongyun sat up straighter after hearing this.
Seeing that Hongyun understood, Qin Yanning did not hesitate. She glanced at the gauze dress that half-covered Hongyun's body and shook her head.
"Your clothes are not good. Find some simpler ones. The material can't be too good."
Hongyun was just about to say that the girls in their building didn't have any simple clothes, but then she thought of the cook in the building.
She opened the door and went downstairs, and soon came back with a few cotton dresses.
Qin Yanning saw that Hongyun had changed and nodded with satisfaction.
"Take off the makeup, undo the bun and re-do it, do a girl's hair."
Hong Yun held out his hand unhappily, "Silver, these rags cost me a quarter of a silver coin."
Lan Yue only had silver leaves on her. She reluctantly took out one and gave it to Hong Yun, "Give me more if you want more."
Hongyun accepted the silver leaf without hesitation, "It's a reward from the master, so I won't return it."
Qin Yanning laughed when she heard this. She almost forgot that her son Lan Yue was a little miser.
"Here's a reward for you. Hurry up and take off this hair of yours."
Hongyun then let her hair down and combed it into a girl's bun. Qin Yanning chose a simple hairpin and put it on for her, smiling with satisfaction.
"Pack your things, I'll take you to the Qin family."
Looking at Hongyun's delicate face in the mirror, Qin Yanning couldn't help but feel happy when he thought of the uproar that was about to be set off in the Qin family.
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