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Chapter 1813 My Aunt is the Empress 20
Although Master Zhou had already turned his attention to the Sixth Prince, whom Linlang was also willing to marry, he was afraid because the previous princes had always gotten into trouble. Fortunately, Linlang was not too old, so Master Zhou was not in a hurry and decided to observe for a while longer to see if the Sixth Prince would also get into trouble.

Linlang didn't know if the Sixth Prince was the same kind of person as the Third Prince, but judging from the current situation, he was at least someone who could restrain himself, just like the Third Prince. After all, if he couldn't restrain himself, he would have had a woman long ago. It's impossible for him to be nineteen and still not have a woman. You know, noble children in this era usually understand this kind of thing by the age of thirteen or fourteen, and then they have a wife. Even if they don't understand, the maids around them will seduce them and make them understand.

With such a high status and position, it's difficult to resist temptation and stay away from those around you.

The fact that the Sixth Prince could resist temptations until he was nineteen and still had no woman clearly shows that he was an ambitious person. He probably knew that being chaste could win him favor with women, which is why he still didn't have a woman.

It's not that men in this world don't know what kind of men women like; it's just that most men won't compromise themselves for a woman.

However, once someone has wronged themselves for the sake of power or for a woman, they may retaliate fiercely after they actually gain power. Take the Third Prince, for example. After he became emperor, he wiped out the original owner of the body who had wronged him and the Zhou family. At the same time, he took in many concubines. Clearly, he had a desire to make up for the grievances he had suffered over the years.

In fact, the original owner was not arrogant and did not make him suffer any grievances. It was he who felt that he had been wronged by the original owner in order to rise to power. This is also what Linlang thinks is the most shameless thing about the Third Prince. He insisted on pursuing the original owner and he kept himself pure for her sake. It was not the original owner who forced him to do so. In the end, he felt that the original owner had wronged him. So after successfully rising to power, his true nature was exposed, and he killed the original owner and her whole family.

Of course, not everyone is bad; there are good people too.

Now it's the Sixth Prince's turn. Linlang wonders if the Sixth Prince will be like the Third Prince, patiently waiting until he ascends the throne before killing all those who helped him.

Therefore, she wanted to be with the Sixth Prince and carefully observe him to see what kind of person he was and whether he was the kind of person who would forget kindness.

So far it's not bad, even with surveillance cameras, they haven't found anything out.

Unlike the Third Prince, she could tell from the surveillance footage that he was indeed a hypocrite.

Often when he was alone, looking at the reports of the other princes enjoying their luxuries, he would grit his teeth and vow that once he ascended the throne, he would enjoy all of these things that he hadn't yet been able to enjoy.

No wonder that in the original world, after he took power, his true nature was revealed, and he reacted fiercely.

The sixth prince, on the other hand, usually only discusses with his advisors how to deal with the other princes' movements when he receives reports of their activities, without any other reaction.

Generally speaking, being alone in private is when a person's true nature is most likely to be revealed, but the Sixth Prince had nothing to say. When alone in private, he did not exhibit any unusual words or actions, and could be considered to be true to his word.

Seeing nothing amiss, Linlang turned her attention to the Third Prince, wondering how to deal with him as well.

The eldest prince who killed the original owner of this body has now entered Huai'en Palace, which is considered acceptable. After all, for people of their status and position, losing their status and being imprisoned in the royal prison is worse than death and is very painful.

Now that the eldest prince has been dealt with, it's time to deal with the third prince, since he also killed the original owner of this body.

Fortunately, this guy is currently under heavy attack from all sides. It's estimated that given enough time, he'll be punished by the emperor for messing up some task, even without her intervention. Leaving aside Linlang's plan to deal with the Third Prince, let's just say that now that the Fifth Prince and Consort Cai have fallen, and the source of the problem has been eliminated, Linlang found a pretext to send away the spies Consort Cai had planted around her. Then, she promoted another second-class maid whom she had observed for a long time and thought was quite good.

Linlang told Madam Zhou about this matter, and Madam Zhou simply assumed that Linlang disliked the maid and had sent her away, without any further suspicion.

Before this, Linlang had also sent away the spies that the Second Prince and the Fourth Prince had bribed.

These people have no hope of rising in rank, and they no longer need spies to pass on any messages, so Linlang can get rid of them without worrying that they will bribe new maids after the old ones are gone.

So in the past year, she has had quite a few changes in the people around her.

Unlike the original owner, the people around her basically didn't change unless they got married and left.

Although quite a few people were replaced, fortunately, Linlang came up with all sorts of ridiculous excuses for each person she replaced, so for the time being no one has suspected her underhanded tactics.

After removing some more nails, Linlang had some outdated jewelry exchanged for gold ingots at a jewelry store—outdated jewelry was no longer worn and would just gather dust, so it was better to exchange it for gold ingots, which would at least serve some purpose.

Although it was replaced with gold ingots, which are worth far less than the jewelry itself, it's still better than not using it and wasting it.

Moreover, Linlang wasn't exchanging pure gold jewelry for fancy pieces; she was exchanging for other kinds of jewelry. Although these fancy pieces were out of fashion, they could still fetch a good price. However, because they weren't pure gold and contained various other ingredients, they were difficult to melt into gold ingots on their own. Therefore, they were sold to jewelry stores to maximize their value.

In fact, some outdated, fancy pure gold jewelry pieces, which Linlang felt used too little gold and relied solely on their fancy craftsmanship to look large and take up space, were sometimes taken to jewelry stores and exchanged for gold ingots.

Even if it's pure gold jewelry, exchanging it for gold ingots will still yield more than directly melting it down into gold ingots; this is the result of Linlang's calculations.

This is quite normal. If the gold jewelry could be melted down into gold ingots and sold to a jewelry store for more money, she wouldn't be foolish enough to exchange it for cash. As for those gold jewelry pieces that are heavy and not flashy, Linlang didn't exchange them for cash because she knew that exchanging them would be a loss.

After exchanging the gold ingots, Linlang melted them down into gold beans and stored them away.

There were too many things, and they took up too much space, so Linlang replaced all the unused items with gold beans and put them in a box. After all, whether she was going to the palace or getting married, carrying gold beans would save space and make it easier to give rewards than carrying jewelry or gold ingots.

Besides gold beans, I also exchanged some silver beans, which I will use to tip people in the future.

If she doesn't go to the palace but gets married, she will buy houses and shops outside to rent out before getting married; if she goes to the palace, then she doesn't need to set up any properties, since properties are useless to her in the palace.