Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

Except for the first year when the emperor ascended the throne, those who followed him from the beginning were given higher positions. Even if they were not of high birth, as long as the emperor did not disliked them, they could be made concubines. After that, none of the beauties who were selected through the selection, or ordinary civilian beauties, were ever made concubines.

Therefore, it would be quite difficult for Linlang to be promoted to a concubine.

Especially last time, Concubine Cai told Empress Dowager Wu that the rank of ordinary civilian concubines should be restricted, so that they would not be born into common people and lack etiquette, making jokes in public and losing face for the royal family. Although Empress Dowager Wu mentioned this to the emperor and the emperor did not agree, she agreed with Concubine Cai's idea, so when she saw that Linlang was about to be promoted to the position of concubine, she began to look unhappy. Obviously, Empress Dowager Wu felt that Linlang was not worthy of being promoted to the position of concubine.

Queen Mother Wu was not kind to Linlang. The eunuchs and maids in her palace, and even those from other places, all looked down on Linlang. Naturally, they also began to look down on her.

Linlang saw that Empress Dowager Wu didn't care whether her brother from her natal family had harmed some girls again, but had the leisure to care about the fact that she was born a commoner and was not qualified for promotion. She couldn't help but find it funny. She thought that Empress Dowager Wu was really something. She had a lot of troubles in her own family, but she still had the leisure to care about other people's affairs.

She doesn't even need to pay attention to her. As long as she starts with her parents' family, she will be so overwhelmed that she won't have time to target her in the palace.

Under Linlang's manipulation, some victims who were harmed by Empress Dowager Wu's brother went to the Dali Temple to sue Duke Cheng'en for forcibly abducting women, and some others sued Duke Cheng'en for plundering the wives of commoners.

In the past, these people were frightened by the two big hats put on them by the Cheng'en Mansion and the Queen Mother, so they naturally did not dare to sue.

But this time, Linlang deliberately sent someone to tell them that so-and-so in the Dali Temple was a great judge who was not afraid of power. Even if it was the empress dowager, he would not be afraid and would not yield. After hearing this, these people wanted to report to Cheng Engong.

Since Linlang, the great judge, dared to send someone to tell those people, it must be true.

Not only was that man an upright official, but more importantly, he was not from the empress dowager's faction, so naturally he would not protect the empress dowager's brother from her natal family.

So those people reported the case to the great judge, and sure enough, he took the case and actually "invited" Lord Cheng'en to the Dali Temple for questioning.

The people in Duke Cheng'en's mansion were shocked and rushed to the palace to ask for help. After all, they had heard of the reputation of this upright official and knew that giving him some money would not buy him off. They could only ask Empress Dowager Wu to step in person to stop it.

So naturally, Queen Mother Wu was so worried about her brother's affairs that she had no mood to cause trouble for Linlang, so Linlang's life returned to its previous peace.

Linlang's life was peaceful, but Empress Dowager Wu's life was not peaceful, because her brother had committed so many crimes, and the person he met was a famous judge in the court. Even if Empress Dowager Wu stepped in, the other party was unwilling to give in and let Duke Cheng'en go back. This made Empress Dowager Wu very anxious. How could her life be peaceful?

Every day Linlang watched Empress Dowager Wu scolding the judge and the victims who had sued Duke Cheng'en in the palace, but she never thought of teaching Duke Cheng'en a lesson and telling him not to do such evil things in the future.

Seeing that Queen Mother Wu no longer caused trouble for her, Linlang only asked Little Bee to check on her occasionally, but did not keep an eye on her all the time. After all, someone like Queen Mother Wu, whose weakness was too obvious - her brother was her weakness - was not worthy of being an opponent.

It is difficult to deal with people who have almost no shortcomings.

But Linlang's idea was right. Soon, Concubine Li told the emperor that she was pregnant and no longer served him in the emperor's bedchamber. Since the emperor could not look for her, he could only look for someone else.

In fact, Concubine Li had originally planned to wait until three months had passed and the fetus was stable before making any decision, in case someone in the palace wanted to harm her, it would be easy for her to be hurt.

But the emperor wanted her to sleep with him, and she was afraid that not telling him would harm the child, so she was in a dilemma and decided to tell him. The news of Concubine Li's pregnancy naturally made the childless concubines very happy. After all, they didn't have children, so they didn't have to worry that Concubine Li would get pregnant and give birth to a prince, and that he would compete with their sons for the throne in the future.

On the contrary, Concubine Li had not been able to serve the emperor in the emperor's bedchamber for nearly a year, and now their chance had come. How could they not be happy?
But those concubines who had already given birth to princes were unhappy. After all, once Concubine Li gave birth to a prince, since she was the most favored by the emperor, this prince would be more likely to ascend to the throne in the future than their sons.

So these concubines naturally did not want Concubine Li to give birth to a prince, and many of them began to make small moves.

Linlang estimated that during Concubine Li's pregnancy, some concubines would be executed with a white silk or sent to the cold palace. After all, if the act of harming the royal heir was discovered, there would be no good ending.

All these events naturally had nothing to do with Linlang. In fact, with the big news about Concubine Li, everyone's attention turned to Concubine Li. As she expected, the time she was summoned by the Emperor increased, but it did not attract much attention.

It was the matter of her later appointment as a concubine that made people take a little more notice.

Yes, near the end of the year, Linlang was promoted to the head of the palace as she wished.

After becoming a concubine, she can choose a palace to be the boss, which makes Zhang and other female officials very happy.

As for where Linlang would live, this time it was not the female officials who found a place for her, but the emperor himself arranged it for her, and ordered her to live in Qinghe Hall.

Linlang then moved to the Qinghe Hall.

This is a palace not far from the Zi Lan Palace.

This was quite good, because, after leaving Zi Lan Palace, she wouldn't have to worry about living in other palaces of concubines with worse personalities, which would bring her trouble. Concubine Liu would no longer have a reason to exist, and she would have to deal with Concubine Liu next. After all, Concubine Liu had bullied her so many times in the past, and she would definitely have to get some retaliation.

I live not far away, so I can just watch the excitement. Otherwise, if I live far away and want to watch the excitement over there, it would not be appropriate to go there directly. I can only watch it from Little Bee, which is a bit inconvenient.

Concubine Liu had no idea that she was about to be in bad luck. She was shocked to see that Linlang had been promoted from a commoner to a concubine. She thought that Sun Linlang might be even more favored than Concubine Li in the future. After all, it was much more difficult to climb up from a commoner than it was for Concubine Li.

Then he was worried that Linlang would take revenge on him.

In the past, she did those things without fear of retaliation from others, because she thought that those concubines of low position who were of commoner origin did not have the ability to climb up, so naturally she did not have to worry about them taking revenge on her, so she dared to bully them.

Now seeing that Linlang could really climb up, he naturally became anxious and scared.

But what did you do before? You are afraid now. Don’t you know it is too late? (End of this chapter)