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Chapter 944 The Best Family 71
The 20% off promotion was very powerful, and soon many low-ranking concubines in the palace were promoted.

Empress Dowager Wu didn't care that the promotion of the ranks of all concubines would bring financial pressure to the emperor. She just wanted to raise money.

She even complained a little about her son, saying that if the emperor had not given her more money, she would not have to do this.

So she got money in this way, and increased the emperor's annual harem expenses. What's wrong with that? The emperor is her son, so she should give herself money, right?

She would never think that when the emperor first ascended the throne and the Cheng'en family was not yet so abstract, the emperor was also very generous and gave her and the Wu family a lot of money.

But after the prosperity of the Cheng'en family, they became more and more abstract. The emperor hated them, but it was difficult to deal with his uncle's family. He could only reduce the rewards to express his dissatisfaction.

Originally, the money given to the empress dowager every year was not small, but the empress dowager gave all of it to the Cheng'en Mansion, which made the emperor uncomfortable? Thinking that it seemed that if he did not reward the Cheng'en Mansion, he would have to reduce the amount given to the empress dowager Wu, otherwise, it would be in vain to express his protest by reducing the reward.

As a result, the filial tribute that Empress Dowager Wu received from her sons became less and less every year, which made her very angry.

But her parents' family was so unreasonable that she did not dare to protest to the emperor. After all, the emperor had given her the monthly allowance and annual allowance according to ancestral rules. The rest were all extra given by the emperor. It was not the emperor who gave her whatever he wanted. Even if she protested, she could not do anything and the ministers of the previous dynasty would not support her.

Of course, even if she could protest, the ministers of the previous dynasty would not let the emperor give her too much money. After all, the ministers of the previous dynasty always felt that the emperor's money should be used in more needed places. How could it be wrong to give too much money to a female concubine in the harem? She already had monthly and annual allowances, so how much more money did she want? She could not be greedy.

At that time, Empress Dowager Wu was worried about her daughter's affairs and busy raising money for her parents' family. She was very busy every day. Not to mention making things difficult for Linlang, she even cancelled the rule that required concubines to visit their parents every morning and evening. This was because she had too many things to do and it was a waste of time to visit her parents every morning and evening. She didn't have so much time to waste. After all, she was old and needed to rest when she was tired. Therefore, she didn't have much time to be busy, so naturally she didn't waste time on messing around with her son's concubines.

Linlang saw that not only would she no longer be harassed by Empress Dowager Wu, she didn't even have to pay her respects, which made her very satisfied.

Some people are just like this. They won't behave themselves until others give them a beating.

If Empress Dowager Wu had not insisted on making trouble for Linlang, she would not have encountered these things at this moment, including her brother from her natal family would not have been imprisoned in the Dali Temple, and her daughter would not have been invited to the Dali Temple for tea.

It was obviously something that would harm others and benefit herself, but she insisted on doing it, and then paid a price that she could not afford. Who can she blame? It's her own fault for being so naughty.

The lady official Zhang beside her didn't know that it was Linlang who did it. She just saw that Empress Dowager Wu was so busy that she didn't have to bother her own master, and she didn't even have to pay respects. She could not help but clasp her hands together happily and said, "May the Buddha bless you."

Cousin Zhang didn't know that Linlang was being bullied by Empress Dowager Wu, because she was not qualified to pay respects to Empress Dowager Wu, so she naturally didn't know that Empress Dowager Wu was bullying Linlang. Of course, the main reason was that she didn't ask about what happened to Linlang at Empress Dowager Wu's place, so naturally she didn't know this.

So she still clung to Concubine Li and clung to her thigh, hoping that she could be promoted two levels more to the fifth rank noble lady. After all, the rank of noble lady meant a good status in the palace, and it could temporarily report to her family. At the same time, it could also shut up Old Master Sun and Old Madam Sun, so that they would not want their family all day long and apologize to the first wife.

Yes, cousin Sun naturally didn’t want to apologize to the first wife. To be exact, no one from the second wife was willing to apologize to the first wife.

Although they did not call the eldest wife a vampire and a pauper like Sun Linyun did, because she had stayed in their house since sending Old Master Sun and Old Madam Sun to Beijing - this was normal. After all, the eldest wife used to support the second wife, and now that the second wife has become prosperous, they are enjoying the wealth and prosperity. This is not normal, but they were called vampires and paupers by the people of the second wife - but they did not like outsiders living in their house, and they also did not like the people in the eldest wife, so they agreed to drive the eldest wife away.

Since they also agreed to drive away the people in the first wife's family, and now that the first wife's family has become prosperous, they are naturally unwilling to apologize to the first wife.

This includes cousin Sun.

She had not been promoted for a long time since she entered the palace, and she was anxious. She had thought about whether she should bow to Linlang so that Linlang would help her to get promoted. But now that she can be promoted, naturally she doesn't want to bow to Linlang.

After Cousin Sun showed her face in front of Concubine Li, just as Linlang had thought, someone soon began to investigate Cousin Sun's identity, and then found out that Cousin Sun and Linlang were cousins, and the two families had a very bad relationship in the past. She thought it was no wonder that Cousin Sun entered the palace but did not contact Linlang, it turned out that the relationship between the two was not good.

Those people were jealous of Linlang's rapid promotion and had long been thinking about how to cause trouble for her. Now that they saw that Cousin Sun was Linlang's cousin, they naturally took advantage of her as Linlang had thought and planned to use Cousin Sun to deal with Linlang.

As far as they know, the relationship between the second branch and the first branch of the Sun family is extremely bad. It is estimated that cousin Sun also wants to make trouble for Linlang. They can just lend a helping hand. This way, they can not only make trouble for Linlang, but they don't have to deal with Linlang directly. There will be no risk. How great is that.

These people wanted to use Cousin Sun to deal with Linlang and to lend a helping hand. Some of them directly sent low-ranking concubines of similar rank to Cousin Sun - those who could investigate Cousin Sun's identity would naturally not be low-ranking concubines, as low-ranking concubines would not have such power. Instead, they would be high-ranking concubines with certain strength, so it was impossible for them to condescend to talk to Cousin Sun about this matter in person. They only asked their lackeys (low-ranking concubines) to do this - they went to Cousin Sun and said they wanted to deal with Linlang together with her; some secretly provided convenience for Cousin Sun, who wanted to make trouble for Linlang, so that Cousin Sun could successfully deal with Linlang.

So when cousin Sun saw someone coming to her and saying that Linlang was favored, she asked if they could work together to find a way to deal with Linlang's favor, so that not only would Concubine Li be favored, but Sun Linlang would also be favored, and then they would have no way to survive.

Obviously, this person pretended not to know the relationship between Cousin Sun and Linlang, and only came to Cousin Sun in an ordinary way to discuss how to deal with Linlang together.

Naturally, cousin Sun had no objection to the other party's proposal. After all, before she entered the palace, her father had told her that if she had the chance, she should overthrow Linlang. That way, without Linlang's support, the first house would fall, and then her grandparents would not be so worried about asking their family to apologize to the first house and reconcile with it.

So when someone suggested that they join her in dealing with Linlang, she naturally agreed.