Ming Lingyi had already arranged for Yao Niang to work in the back kitchen of Ming's Restaurant. She had picked Yao Niang up from outside the prison, but first she had to escort her to a Daoist nunnery. After all, this was one of the reasons Jingzhao Mansion had considered reducing her sentence.
At the Daoist Temple, Ming Lingyi saw many young women. Though their situations were different from Yao Niang's, many of them had once been entertainers. They had been forced to seek refuge in the temple to escape harassment from patrons.
Life as a nun was exceptionally meager. Most people in the Capital City were Buddhist, preferring to donate incense money to the nearby Qinglong Temple or the more distant Daxiangguo Temple.
But Daoist Temples like this one in the market were far poorer in comparison.
The nuns mostly sustained themselves through embroidery work, which didn't fetch a high price, making life quite difficult.
