Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

Of course, although it is said that they were entertaining well, there was actually not much to entertain, because everyone in the palace had a quota of food, and food could not be stored for long in ancient times because there were no refrigerators like we have today, so it was usually consumed on the same day it was distributed.

In other words, the guests could only be entertained with the food distributed that day. The lower-ranking concubines were better off, as they might be able to eat the food that Linlang, who was of a higher rank, would receive but which the lower-ranking concubines would not, so they could have a taste of something new. However, those who were higher in rank than Linlang had everything that Linlang had, and if they came to eat, they would have eaten what they had just eaten, so naturally they could not finish it. They just came to sit here for nothing.

In fact, there are naturally places to buy things in the palace, where you can buy things beyond the palace's quota. In this way, if Linlang doesn't have food that the high-ranking concubines can eat, and Linlang wants to treat those high-ranking concubines with some fresh food, that's also possible.

However, because those things are monopolized and extremely expensive, Linlang is not interested in spending money on such places to enrich the managers of those places.

Besides, asking her to spend dozens or hundreds of times more than the price outside to buy those foods, unless she is crazy, it would be better for her to spend the money on the eunuchs who flopped cards, at least she can buy the opportunity to be favored by the emperor and continue to advance.

It is a sheer waste to spend ten taels of silver on something like a tea egg.

Furthermore, those high-ranking concubines all wanted to win over Linlang, or had ulterior motives and wanted Linlang to fight with Concubine Li and others, so it didn't matter if Linlang didn't buy anything to entertain them.

However, when the high-ranking concubines saw that Linlang didn't buy anything when they came, they still cursed Linlang for being stingy in their hearts.

Linlang didn't care whether they scolded her or not. Her promotion had nothing to do with them anyway. She wasn't afraid that they would whisper in the emperor's ear and say bad things about her, so she naturally didn't need to care about their attitude.

Like other concubines of lower rank, if there were concubines of higher rank who were willing to pay attention to them, in order to please those concubines of higher rank, they might actually buy things that the concubines of higher rank did not have, to please the concubines of higher rank, not expecting them to say a good word for them in front of the emperor, but just to prevent them from saying bad things about them in front of the emperor.

But because Linlang had impressed the emperor with the Dream Talisman and was promoted, she naturally didn't need to curry favor with this group of people, and she just let them scold her for being stingy.

Besides, why can't we eat the cakes and fruits distributed by the palace every day? Everyone gets together to chat, so why can't we eat these cakes and fruits? If they feel that they are not distributed by the palace and there is nothing delicious to eat here, and they are unhappy, they can just not come. It's not her who invited them. If they come and still complain that there is no fresh food here, Linlang will not indulge them.

Those people thought Linlang was stingy, but there was nothing they could do. Since Linlang was the one they wanted to win over, they had to let it go.

However, she couldn't help but grumble in her heart, thinking, look at the other concubines of lower rank, when they came, which one of them was not attentive.

You have to know that before they came, they thought that the reason why Linlang could win so many prizes was probably because she spent money. In other words, Linlang was rich. Coming to Linlang could not only win her over, but also make her spend money to buy some expensive food that they usually couldn't afford to buy to treat them and satisfy their appetite.

But Linlang didn't buy it at all. She was too stingy. In fact, they were also wondering where Linlang got the money. After all, didn't they hear that Sun Linlang was born in the countryside and her family had no money? So where did she get the money to bribe the eunuchs?
Next time I will ask someone to inquire about Sun Linlang’s situation.

Linlang was not afraid of these people finding out that she had a bad family background and didn't have money to turn over cards, because it was simple. Even if they knew, what would happen? Would they say that she didn't have money to turn over cards and question where she got the money? But, how could they prove that she spent money to turn over cards? Would they let those eunuchs who turned over cards say that they took money to let Linlang turn over cards? How could it be possible!

If they admit it, it means they have dug up the eunuchs' way to make money, and cutting off their financial resources is like killing their parents. No, it's not just cutting off their financial resources. If the emperor finds out, they will probably be beheaded. Only fools would admit this. Not only will they lose their financial resources, they will also lose their heads. No matter how the concubines try to bribe them, no eunuch who flips the card will admit it.

Not only that, once those eunuchs see that a concubine has contacted them and want one of them to tell the truth so that they can deal with Linlang, it would be fine if those people would not agree. They are also afraid that the concubine will take it seriously and insist on investigating. Then they will probably find a way to deal with that concubine first - they might even kill her to silence her and put an end to it, so that the other party will not continue to do this while she is alive and bring danger to them.

If any eunuch who was flipping the card had lost his mind and was bribed by the concubine and really intended to tell the truth, I am afraid that even the eunuch who was planning to tell it would commit suicide.

So who would dare to admit it, who would dare to speak it out? Once it is admitted or spoken out, Linlang can imagine what will happen to the concubines who are involved in the matter and the eunuchs who admit it, after all, the interests of too many people are affected.

Moreover, the concubine who was holding on to this matter was afraid that she had spent money to buy the chance to turn over the cards. What should she do if she was found out? It was not worth it to question the unknown source of Linlang's money and end up getting herself into trouble.

As long as there is no eunuch to admit that Linlang spent the money, and there is no way to prove that Linlang spent the money, how can we question it?
So after they found out that the eldest branch of the Sun family had no money, they would wonder where Linlang's money came from, but they would never make it public, because there was no way to prove that Linlang spent the money, so there was no way to make it public.

In this case, Linlang was not afraid at all that they would find out that she had no money.

Of course, if the other party really wanted to fight her to the death and insisted on investigating this matter, the eunuch who turned the cards would be stupid enough to confess that she did pay for the qualification to turn the cards, and then the concubine would question where her money came from. Not only would she have to explain where the money came from, but she might also be punished for giving money to the eunuch who turned the cards. What should she do then...

This is not too difficult to solve.

First of all, if such a thing really happened, almost all the unfavored concubines in the palace had given money to the eunuch who picked the emperor's concubines. It would be unreasonable for the emperor to punish only himself and not the other concubines. After all, punishing everyone is not a punishment for everyone.

If the emperor is a tyrant - which of course he is not - and insists on punishing only himself and not others, then Linlang can also try to use the Dream Talisman to change his mind.

If it really doesn't work, then punish him. Pay the eunuch who flips the cards to put them a little bit in front. The person who flips the cards in the end is not the emperor, and it's not like he is forced to flip the cards. What is there to be afraid of? The punishment he will receive is at most solitary confinement, a salary deduction, etc. It shouldn't be banished to the cold palace, or even a white silk. (End of this chapter)