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Chapter 880 The Best Family 7
The people in the first house have no idea that the people in the second house have their eyes on their family's money. Of course, even if they knew, they would not give money to the second house anymore. After all, they now know that the second house is very rich, so why should they, who are so poor, support the rich second house? So no matter what, they will not give money to the second house. Even if the people in the second house brainwash Old Master Sun and Old Madam Sun, and ask them for filial piety in the future, they will not give it. Anyway, it is written in black and white that they will give alimony of several hundred kilograms of grain a year, and nothing else.

At that moment, the people living in the big house were just happy that they had changed their residence. Although the environment was still not very good, at least the place was much bigger and they could live more comfortably.

In addition, the whole family can go out and find some hard labor to cover their expenses and not live off all their savings.

Let’s not talk about the first wife’s life which is finally getting better in the capital, but let’s talk about the palace.

After knowing that she could be promoted as long as she gave money to the female officials around the empress dowager, Linlang was not worried at all about her low position and being unable to climb up. After all, apart from other things, she had a lot of money in her space.

However, Linlang intends to control the time for the upgrade.

They selected the show in March, so Linlang planned to upgrade before the Dragon Boat Festival.

This will probably take another twenty days, because the show was selected in March, and then I stayed in the palace for a month for internship. Now it is early April, and there is less than a month left until the Dragon Boat Festival.

The reason why Linlang planned to control it before the Dragon Boat Festival was very simple. First, she would give the promotion gift to her original body's parents as a Dragon Boat Festival gift. Second, she wanted to annoy the second house before the Dragon Boat Festival so that they would hear that she had been promoted and would not have a good Dragon Boat Festival. After all, as far as she knew, the people in the second house thought that she would not be able to make it.

For the time being, Linlang has no plans to contact the emperor, because there is no need to contact the emperor for a promotion to a low-level position.

To know who the emperor wants to favor, the eunuchs before the emperor have the most say, and it is estimated that it will cost a lot of money, so Linlang does not plan to contact them for the time being. When she is promoted to a higher position, she will give these eunuchs money. When the emperor flips the cards, she will ask them to help put the cards in the position where the emperor will flip them. There is no rush to contact the emperor then.

Of course, this is not the only method. Linlang can also try other opportunities for contact through chance encounters and other methods.

When she was a concubine, she couldn't meet her by chance, but now that she's a concubine, it's naturally possible.

While Linlang was thinking about future affairs, Han Chengen came over from the next room.

This Han was also from an ordinary family with not much money. She entered the palace solely on the basis of her looks and strength, so after she entered, she was naturally only given the title of Cheng'en.

Of course, because the female officials around the Empress Dowager secretly accepted bribes, she might not know that those people with higher positions were bribed. She just thought that those people were promoted because they caught the eye of the Empress Dowager or those female officials.

At this moment, Han Chengen walked in and said, "Linlang, it's time to pay respects to Concubine Liu."

There are many women in the palace, and concubines of lower status have no right to pay their respects to the empress dowager, but they have to pay their respects to the concubines in charge of each palace.

Han Chengen and Linlang lived in the side halls of Zi Lan Hall, the palace where Concubine Liu lived.

Every time high-ranking concubines like Concubine Liu came back from paying respects to the Queen Mother, these small shrimps would pay respects to Concubine Liu. According to what Linlang had observed during her time in the palace with the help of the little bee, their main concubine, Concubine Liu, was not an easy person to get along with. She often brought her lackeys Concubine Song and Concubine Cao, as well as some concubines of lower rank who flattered them, to bully those concubines who did not listen to them. She was a group of bullies in the palace.

This Concubine Liu's family background was not very good - she was able to become a concubine because she followed the emperor when he was still a prince. After the emperor ascended the throne, she was an old lady before the great emperor, so she was able to become a concubine. Otherwise, with the current situation of selecting concubines every three years, it would be very difficult for someone like her to be promoted to a concubine unless she was particularly favored - her family could not support her, but there were many places in the palace that needed money. In order to make money, Concubine Liu set her sights on the low-ranking concubines living in her palace, and asked them to pay tribute to her every month. If they did not, she would bring people to bully them.

Of course, she didn't say directly that she had confessed. After all, if she did, she would be reported to the Empress Dowager and would not end up well. So she made an excuse.

It was said that she was sympathetic to the concubines of lower rank, and that if you gave her any amount of money, she would be exempted from paying respects.

If you don’t give, then you have to ask for your respect.

Of course, if you don't give these and pay your respects to her, she will definitely team up with those lackeys to bully the other party.

They excluded and used cold violence, gathered together to scold the concubines of lower rank, or made them kneel when they paid their respects, not allowing them to stand up, or made them stand in the sun at the entrance of the palace, not seeing them, and even beat the concubines of lower rank on the pretext of being disrespectful.

And so on.

In order to prevent being treated like this by the concubines, many of them had no choice but to give money obediently. After all, the palace provided food and accommodation, and the monthly salary was enough for them to survive.

All the money was taken away by Concubine Liu, so the low-ranking concubines had no money to spend and could not bribe others, so naturally there was no possibility of climbing up.

Because Linlang and Han Chengen had just entered the palace and had not received their monthly salary yet, Concubine Liu only told them that they could avoid paying respects as long as they paid money, and she did not do anything to them. So for the time being, the two were still safe. They paid their respects to Concubine Liu, and she did not do anything to them.

The main reason is that I heard that the two of them came from poor backgrounds and were extremely poor. Even if we asked them to give money now, they couldn't.

But after a month, when the monthly salary is paid but she is not given the money, they will probably target Linlang and Han Chengen and the others.

Linlang would naturally not give in to the evil forces, so she would definitely not give her money.

She gave money to the female officials because she wanted to, not because the female officials openly asked her for it. She gave it on her own initiative, which is completely different from others asking her for it.

If those female officials actively asked her for it and threatened to do something to her if she didn't give it to them, she would not give in and would cause trouble for them.

At this moment, when Concubine Liu met Linlang, Han Chengen and others, she mentioned the old saying again and said, "I still say the same old thing. I am an easy-going person. As long as you pay a little greeting fee, you can pay your respects instead of coming to pay your respects to me every day. You can save some trouble and relax. If you pay me monthly, I won't charge more. Just give me four taels of silver a month. If you don't have that much money, you can give me four hundred coins a day."

It does sound easygoing, but if anyone paid less than two taels of silver, or three thousand coins, as a monthly tribute - in this dynasty, one tael of silver was approximately equal to one thousand five hundred coins - Concubine Liu would ask her lackeys to cause trouble for those people.