Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

Although Master Sun came to see Grandpa Sun and Old Madam Sun, the Second House knew that he must have come to announce good news, because if he didn't come to announce good news, Master Sun would never come to their place. After all, he was driven away by their family in the past. If it wasn't for announcing good news, who would want to come to their house?

But they didn't want to hear the good news from the first wife, so they were not present. The people from the second wife didn't hear what Mr. Sun said about the negative and positive words from the second wife, but when Old Master Sun and Old Madam Sun heard it, they felt embarrassed. After all, they didn't dare to say a word when the second brother treated the first wife like that before, because the second brother was so powerful in the past and they were afraid of him and didn't dare to say anything.

But the eldest family's situation was getting better and better, and they seemed to have a chance to surpass the second family - after all, Linlang had only been in the palace for two years, and she had already gotten an official position for Master Sun, and who knew how great her future would be - and now the old couple began to fear the eldest family and dared not say anything.

After Master Sun said this, he saw that Master Sun and Madam Sun looked embarrassed and felt that he had achieved his goal, so he left.

He said that on purpose. Although he had already fallen out with the Second House before, the Second House was not afraid of them breaking up due to their low status. But now, he felt that he had the possibility to challenge the Second House, so naturally he would not swallow his anger and wanted to vent all the anger he had suffered before.

After Master Sun left, Madam Sun Er and Sun Linyun, who were at home, came over to ask Madam Sun what Master Sun came for. Could it be that Linlang had been promoted again?

Speaking of which, they found it incredible that Linlang was promoted to a noble lady so quickly. After all, the speed was too fast. You know, as far as they knew, it was quite difficult for an ordinary woman to be promoted to a fifth-rank noble lady. Only the daughters of officials could be promoted quickly. The fact that Linlang was promoted to a noble lady before made them think that Linlang was quite amazing. She should be the best among this batch of newcomers.

If only two months had passed and Linlang had been promoted to the fifth rank talent, it would have been beyond their imagination.

Especially Sun Linyun. She had heard before that Linlang was promoted to the fifth-rank noble lady, a title she had heard of in her original world. She found it a little unbelievable at the time. After all, she had seen Sun Linlang after coming to this world. How could she be favored in the palace with her dark and thin appearance? Were all the women in the palace ugly? Were those like Sun Linlang considered beautiful?
No, this is not the dynasty in her world where the harem is selected from the family, which leads to the low quality of the harem. This dynasty is a nationwide audition. There must be beautiful ones, how can there be ugly ones? So how did Sun Linlang become a noble? It's too weird. Don't tell her that the emperor likes dark and thin people. It's impossible.

It’s a pity that she can’t enter the harem, otherwise I would definitely find out the reason.

Although she was so curious, Sun Linyun had never thought about entering the palace. Because of Linlang's entry into the palace over the years, the second house had been inquiring about the news in the palace. As a result, she also knew that the probability of the concubines in the palace being killed was too high. If they were lucky, they would just be sent to the cold palace; if they were unlucky, they would lose their lives.

Under such circumstances, how could Sun Linyun dare to enter the palace? With her intelligence, she was afraid that she could not defeat those people in the palace, so she naturally did not dare to enter the palace. She only said sweet words and asked the girls in her family to learn the palace rules and etiquette well and enter the palace to become a favorite concubine in the future.

Those girls were not aware of the cruelty in the palace. Although they heard that someone in the palace had bad luck, they only saw Linlang rising step by step. They didn't know what the other concubines looked like, but the girls in the second room knew what Linlang looked like. They thought that if someone like that could be favored, wouldn't they be more favored with their looks? So they were full of confidence and wanted to enter the palace to steal Linlang's limelight and help the second room get more benefits in the future.

So when Sun Linyun encouraged them to study etiquette and rules well and become concubines in the future, they did not realize Sun Linyun's bad intentions. They really thought that what Sun Linyun said was right and that they would definitely become concubines in the future, so they agreed confidently at that moment.

Without mentioning the situation of the girls in the Sun family, let's just say that Sun Linyun asked Old Master Sun and Old Madam Sun why Master Sun came. After hearing Old Master Sun and Old Madam Sun say that it was not that Linlang had been promoted again, but that Linlang had asked for a reward from the first house so that Master Sun could become an official. She couldn't help but be even more surprised.

Although Sun Linyun would be surprised if Linlang advanced to the next level in such a short period of time, since Linlang had been promoted at the same speed before, Sun Linyun would not be that surprised if she really advanced.

However, after hearing from Grandpa Sun and Madam Sun that Linlang had actually obtained a reward of an official position for the first wife, Sun Linyun was even more surprised, because such a reward was not easy to obtain. Not only did the concubine need to be favored, but she also had to be good at speaking to the emperor so that he would be willing to give her the reward. Otherwise, if she was favored, she would have to ask for benefits from her natal family, which might anger the emperor. By then, not to mention giving rewards to her natal family, she might even fall out of favor. Therefore, in order to maintain her wealth and favor in the palace, most concubines did not dare to ask the emperor for these things.

Sun Linlang had only just been promoted to a fifth-rank noble lady, but she dared to ask the emperor for a reward. The emperor didn't get angry, and even gave it to her. How could Sun Linlang not be surprised? She wondered what kind of poison Sun Linlang had cast on the emperor that he could be satisfied with such a thing?

Because she had been paying attention to Linlang's situation in the palace, Sun Linyun naturally knew that Linlang's superior, Concubine Liu, had not received any rewards from her natal family even though she was a concubine. So it was naturally surprising that Linlang, a noble lady, could receive any rewards.

At that moment, Sun Linyun asked Old Master Sun and Old Lady Sun about the specific situation of this official. She heard that the eldest master Sun worked in the Imperial Household Department. Sun Linyun didn't know much about the official system of the dynasty. After the second master Sun came back from work, she asked him what the Imperial Household Department did.

When Master Sun Er heard that Master Sun Da had not passed the imperial examination, but got a job just because his daughter was a concubine in the palace, his face turned grim. After all, it was unacceptable for anyone to toil for thirty years and finally an uneducated peasant to become an official like himself. Of course, he would not think about why the other person was an uneducated peasant while he had studied for thirty years. That was the other person's hard-earned money. If the other person had not given him the money, and he had used it to study, maybe he could pass the imperial examination like him, and then he would not be the uneducated peasant he looked down upon.

Fortunately, the other party worked in the Imperial Household Department, not in other official places, which was a little better. When he heard the family asking, he said, "This is the place where the royal family's supplies are made. The Imperial Household Department makes everything needed by the palace, as well as the various princes' and princesses' houses. There are ranks, but basically they have little to do with the court and do not participate in court affairs. The people who work there are indeed the sons of various nobles or relatives of the royal family." (End of this chapter)