Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

And since the Prince and his wife still hated Linlang, Linlang naturally could not let their cousin become the emperor.

Without mentioning how unhappy the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo's son was, just say that at the moment Linlang didn't want the Duke of Zhenguo's nephew to take the throne, so naturally she had to start investigating the situations of several princes to see how strong these princes were, who could take the throne, and what she could do in the meantime.

The current emperor has only three princes.

The Empress Dowager had no children, which was why the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion believed that the children born by the imperial concubine in their mansion could ascend to the throne.

Among these three princes, one was born to the Duke Zhenguo's sister, the imperial concubine, and the other two princes were of humble origins - apparently, this was also the reason why the Duke Zhenguo's Mansion felt they had a sure win, because they felt the other two families were not strong enough and were no match for them at all.

But Linlang knew that sometimes, the stronger the power, the better - unless one was a powerful official who had absolute power over the whole world, then he could make anyone he wanted the emperor.

However, although the Duke Zhenguo's Mansion has a certain amount of power, it is far from being able to cover the sky with one hand.

In other words, the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion could not make their own nephew the crown prince and ascend the throne to become the emperor as they wished.

Since the Zhenguo Mansion only has some power but is not all-powerful, it is not a good thing for the nephew of the Zhenguo Mansion to have such a background, but a bad thing. Because the Second Prince, the nephew of the Zhenguo Mansion, has such a background. If someone supports him to take the throne in the future, the benefits will definitely go to the Zhenguo Mansion in the end, and no one else will have anything to do with it.

This is obviously not what the important officials want to see.

As important officials, unless they are fools, they would want to support those without background to come to power, so that they can get the biggest piece of cake, instead of working hard to support the second prince to come to power, only to have the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion reward them with some leftovers in the end.

In this case, even if there are fewer princes and less competition, it will not be easy for the second prince to ascend to the throne.

What Linlang needs to do is to keep a close eye on the people of the Second Prince's faction, and not think about physically eliminating the First Prince and the Third Prince. By then, the Emperor will have no other sons, so he will have no choice but to take the throne.

As long as the other two princes are not dead, it will be difficult for the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion to help their own second prince ascend to the throne.

Not to mention that Linlang was keeping an eye on the movements of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion and several princes, but said that because Prince An's Mansion and the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion were both top-tier in the capital, the two mansions would invite each other for whatever they did.

So even though Linlang came to Prince An's Mansion, the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo was able to see her.

The Tianan Prince's Palace is holding a spring flower-viewing banquet. As the top aristocratic family in the capital, the Zhenguo Duke's Palace, which is in the same circle, naturally also received invitations to the flower-viewing banquet.

As for Prince An's Mansion, Princess An wanted to have good relations with all the concubines, so since last year, every time she held a banquet, she would assign tasks to all the concubines so that everyone could get something out of it.

In order to prevent direct assignment, some people would feel that she assigned them bad tasks, and in the end she would give others the opportunity to make money. Not only would she not get any praise, but she would also be blamed. Princess An wrote the tasks on paper and let everyone draw lots. Whoever drew the lot would be responsible for what.

Of course, she also made a small distinction. After all, there were good jobs and ordinary ones among these jobs, so she divided the jobs into three levels, corresponding to concubines, concubines and selected concubines respectively. Concubines and concubines below the selected concubine level were not eligible to get a job to make money. Everyone was allowed to do the corresponding job. This was fair and differentiated, which naturally satisfied everyone.

Linlang also received a task to arrange for the servants to clean the house.

She was quite satisfied with this because she didn't have to deal with food and drink. Accidents sometimes happened at such banquets, many of which were related to food and drink. Therefore, the job of being in charge of food and drink was more risky, while being in charge of cleaning was much simpler. She just had to lead the servants to clean up the place.

It's just that this job doesn't have much benefits. After all, the lucrative jobs must be chosen first from the concubines and the concubines. When it comes to selecting concubines, it's good enough to be chosen to take charge of a job. There are very few lucrative jobs.

Fortunately, Linlang doesn't care whether there is money or not. She just wants to be relaxed and not have to take any responsibility.

As a result, when Linlang was leading people to inspect the scene, they ran into the wife of the Prince of Zhenguo who was visiting there.

Linlang pretended not to see her and just went about her own business.

Although her status was indeed not as high as the wife of the Prince of Zhenguo, her status as the prince's concubine meant that she did not have to be afraid of her, so of course she could pretend not to see it.

After all, based on what this woman did to her concubines and her original body, she had no interest in dealing with her.

But Linlang ignored the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo's son, who was furious. She thought Linlang was a good-for-nothing, who had become frivolous after marrying into a high-class family. She didn't even say hello when she met her former master, which was really too much!

So the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo stopped Linlang and said in a sarcastic tone, "Why, Concubine Zhou has climbed up the social ladder now, and you didn't even say hello to your former master when you met her? This is really too inhumane."

The people around were silent after hearing what the wife of the Duke Zhenguo's son said. After all, the power of the Duke Zhenguo's Mansion was at its peak. Who would be so stupid as to bring bad luck to the Duke Zhenguo's Mansion?

But what she said was right. After all, they were master and servant. Now that Zhou Linlang had become the prince's concubine, she didn't even say hello when she met her former master. This was indeed a bit too much. Most people would pay attention to the social etiquette and would definitely say hello.

Of course, Linlang also knows the ways of the world. If she were to meet her former master, unless she was the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo, she would definitely say hello.

But the wife of the Prince of Zhenguo not only killed her original body and her child, but also caused trouble for her. Why would she greet such a person she disliked?

After hearing what the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo said, Linlang said calmly, "I don't seem to be your maidservant. My former master was the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo. Later, the madam arranged for me to serve the prince. My master is the prince, and I have never been his wife. Since we are not master and servant, and our relationship was not good before, isn't it normal for me not to say hello to you?"

She also did not mention that when she was in the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion, the Duke's son's wife had once caused her trouble, so she did not want to bother with her affairs now. She only said this. Anyway, the people around her could hear from her words that she must have had a bad relationship with the Duke's son's wife in the past, so there was a reason why she ignored her now.

What Linlang said was of course true, because the original body's real master was indeed the prince. After all, she was the prince's second-class maid, not the wife of the prince of Zhenguo. (End of this chapter)