Therefore, Palace Lady Li did the right thing by not mentioning Concubine Liu before. Otherwise, if Concubine Liu was implicated and she was not punished, she would probably take revenge on her crazily afterwards.

Now, because she didn't mention Concubine Liu, and then the troubles with Concubine Song and Concubine Cao were also caused by the incompetence of the spies in Zi Lan Palace, and then the emperor found out, it had nothing to do with her.

Even if Concubine Liu felt that it was her refusal to give money that led to Concubine Song and Concubine Cao asking for money and the emperor found out, she was still the culprit, but at least she did not mention Concubine Liu. Even if Concubine Liu retaliated, it would not be that serious, because those who are at the top of Concubine Liu's hatred list right now must be those who took this opportunity to come out and tell the emperor about Concubine Liu. When Concubine Liu's confinement is over and she comes out, the first people to retaliate will definitely be these people. Palace Lady Li is definitely not into this.

What Palace Lady Li thought was right, because Concubine Liu now realized that nothing serious had happened, just as she had thought. After she felt relieved, she began to hate those people who had made the complaint. She had already planned to severely punish these people when she was released from solitary confinement.

Without mentioning what a farce this was, let's just say that after Concubine Song, Concubine Cao and others were executed, the emperor saw that Palace Lady Li was so miserable, so he ordered her to be promoted three levels as compensation.

After hearing this, Palace Lady Li could not help but be overjoyed. After all, being promoted to a seventh-rank lady would not only give her more monthly wages, but it would also be easier for her to save money and offer it to the eunuch who picked her, thus giving her a chance to be favored. More importantly, she would have an extra room to live in. This benefit made her happiest.

In fact, having an extra room to live in is not a very good treatment for most people. Logically, Palace Lady Li would not be so happy. The reason why Palace Lady Li was happy was because she felt that Concubine Liu might not have two extra connected rooms to live in, so she could then move to another palace with vacant rooms.

Lady Li couldn't help feeling happy when she thought about being able to leave Concubine Liu, who stole her money, and after leaving, she wouldn't have to worry about Concubine Liu's right-hand men, Concubine Song and Concubine Cao, being gone, and Concubine Liu taking revenge on her next.

After all, as your status rises, you will have more money, and you won't have to worry about others stealing your money. You can give your money to the eunuchs who choose you, and have more chances to sleep with them and get more opportunities to upgrade.

So this time, she was able to turn bad luck into good fortune, and the bullying she suffered from Concubine Song and Concubine Cao was not in vain.

After the emperor left, the female officials assigned a room to Lady Li. As expected, Concubine Liu did not have two extra connected rooms, so the female officials moved Lady Li to another palace.

In fact, after Concubine Song and Concubine Cao died, they had extra houses connected to each other, one with three rooms and the other with two rooms.

But considering that Lady Li had been bullied by these two men before and then died, Lady Li said she didn't dare live in their house. The female official took into account that Lady Li had been bullied before, and the fact that the emperor was a little concerned about Lady Li's situation, so for the sake of the emperor, the female official moved to another palace as Lady Li had requested.

Lady Li left happily, probably thinking that she could live a good life after leaving places like Concubine Liu, where people begged for money. However, unless she had enough brains, she might not be able to live a good life in other places. After all, other places were more dangerous than Concubine Liu's place. She might lose her life one day, but it would not be obvious on her face.

After Lady Li left, the Zi Lan Palace seemed a lot emptier.

The main reason was that three people were missing all of a sudden, especially Concubine Song and Concubine Cao. They already had two people, plus they had eight maids serving them, that is ten people, plus Lady Li and the maid who served her before, that is twelve people. A palace without twelve people would naturally appear much more empty, after all, the others were concubines of lower rank, with only one maid serving them, while Concubine Song and Concubine Cao had as many servants as ten concubines of lower rank, so after these three people left, Zi Lan Palace was almost one-third less populated.

While Concubine Liu was put in solitary confinement and her loyal lackeys, Concubine Song and Concubine Cao, died, life became a little easier for other low-ranking concubines in Zi Lan Palace, because Concubine Liu's other lackeys, seeing that Concubine Song and Concubine Cao were dead and Concubine Liu was locked up again, did not dare to act recklessly anymore.

So everyone finally lived a life where no one came to cause trouble and no one came to collect money, which made Linlang very satisfied. After all, no one disturbed her, which was naturally the best.

Not long after Linlang dealt with Concubine Song and others, she spent fifty taels of silver to buy another chance to flip the cards.

Although the money was spent early, the emperor would not actually visit her until a month later. There was no other way. The emperor would not flip the cards every night, and even if he did, he might not look for her, unless Linlang used the dream talisman on him to make him want to find Linlang.

Linlang had already made plans. As long as she spent the money and the man didn't come back to her within two months, she would not use the Dream Talisman. After all, in this world, she might need to use the Dream Talisman many times. She was afraid that she would use it up and have nothing to use, so she tried to save as much as possible.

As long as the emperor would look for her, Linlang would use the Dream Talisman to advance, so as not to waste the money she spent on the opportunity to be favored by the emperor.

So this time, as Linlang wished, she was promoted to the next level, and finally became a seventh-rank lady, with two rooms and two palace maids serving her.

There are two rooms, a bedroom and a study which also serves as a guest room; there are two serving palace maids, one is responsible for personal affairs and the other is responsible for running errands and doing miscellaneous tasks.

Linlang was not afraid that it would be unlucky to live in Concubine Cao's house after her death, so after Concubine Cao's death, the two rooms that were vacant were arranged by the palace female official who was responsible for arranging residences for promoted concubines to live in Linlang's house.

Perhaps because she was afraid of Linlang, and like Lady Li before her, she didn't want to live in this place, so the female official generously gave Linlang a set of bedding, teacups and other household items.

Originally, things like these were limited in number. If you felt that there were not enough, you could buy more, but it would cost money. Moreover, because of the monopoly in the palace, the prices were extremely high. If you didn't have money, you could only bear with it and use the ones you were given.

The reason why the female officials were willing to give Linlang a set of household items was because these concubines who did not have their own palaces and depended on the masters for life would need help from people like them once they were promoted to move. Otherwise, the lower-ranking concubines would have to do it themselves, and it would take a long time for them to clean up the old residences of these people and give them to the next person.

Since they were the ones who had to move, they naturally didn't like moving across the palace, as the journey was long and tiring. Unlike Linlang, it would be much more convenient if she moved in Zi Lan Palace. So seeing that Linlang was willing to live in Concubine Cao's house, the female official was naturally happy and gave her some things. Anyway, these things were nothing to them who were distributing items. (End of this chapter)

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