Lu Mingshu immediately sought out Hui Niang once she'd left the Truth Courtyard.
The Nine Jade Palace's workers, who'd been chosen from the Jiulü Province, were the ones mainly responsible for the chores in the sect. They were registered in the Nine Jade Palace, thus they could be conferred techniques.
The Nine Jade Palace also had some hard labor that required more manpower than it had available, thus they would occasionally hire external help. As they were external hires, these people wouldn't be registered in the Nine Jade Palace's register. Not only were the jobs they did extremely tiring, they even had low status and were basically laborers.
Since Hui Niang and Ah Sheng weren't from the Jiulü Province, their only choice was for them to become workers if they wanted to stay.
When Lu Mingshu found Hui Niang, she was in the midst of washing laundry.
