Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

Chapter 956 The Best Family 83
Linlang naturally knew that Master Sun Er wanted to continue suppressing her, but now Linlang no longer took Master Sun Er to heart, because with her current status and position, she was no longer someone that Master Sun Er could suppress just because he wanted to.

The tricks he could use on herself were becoming less and less effective against her.

After all, her status in the palace is getting higher and higher. It would be as difficult for his cousin Sun to bring her down as asking a child to bring down a big tree. How else can he suppress her?
As for his plan to trick the first wife into making a mistake and then implicate Linlang, Linlang had already found a smart person to serve as an aide to the first wife, and to have the person remind her when she might do something wrong. In this way, it would not be easy for Master Sun Er to harm the first wife.

Not only her, but also the first wife has the same mentality.

Master Sun Da was promoted to a sixth-rank official, which was a higher position than Master Sun Er, whom they used to look up to. Now it was Master Sun Er who had to look up to them, and all their awe towards the Second House had completely disappeared.

Now it can be said that Dafang has sailed across thousands of mountains.

Let’s not talk about the first wife’s mentality. She has already looked up to the second wife as much as she did a few years ago when she was a farmer in the countryside because the first master Sun was promoted to the sixth rank, which is higher than the official position of the second master Sun. Let’s just talk about the palace. Linlang was poisoned before, and was cured by Linlang using a therapeutic device. Of course, on the surface it was the imperial physician in the palace who cured her.

This incident also turned out to be a blessing in disguise for Linlang - when the emperor saw that someone wanted to harm her, he felt a desire to protect her, so he treated Linlang better. This was also the reason why Linlang later hinted to Master Sun about the sixth-rank official position, and the emperor actually agreed.

Not only did the emperor agree to promote Master Sun to a sixth-rank official position, but after a while, Linlang felt that the relationship was almost there and hinted at a promotion to concubine. The emperor agreed and Linlang was promoted to concubine.

This position is considered the best in the palace.

Because there is only one Concubine Li above her, and there is only one other person in the position of concubine, and including Linlang, there are only two people in total.

In other words, Linlang is now one of the three giants in the palace.

In fact, when Linlang became a noble concubine, she was also one of the major figures in the palace, because there were only two noble concubines besides her at that time. Including her, there were only five concubines above the rank of noble concubine. In this way, she was also considered one of the major figures in the palace.

That is to say, there are more concubines.

But five people are obviously still a bit too many. When there are three people, their status seems to be more respected.

First of all, she now has partial power to manage the harem.

Since the death of the previous queen, the emperor has never appointed another queen, but there must be someone to manage the harem. After all, even an ordinary family needs a wife to manage the household chores. What's more, there are so many people in the harem, how can there be no one to manage it?

So later, several concubines in the position of concubines jointly managed the harem, but their palace power was not as great as that of the queen, and there were some things they could not do because of their low status.

Later, Concubine Li was promoted to Imperial Concubine Li, one level higher than the concubines, so Imperial Concubine Li was in charge, and the concubines in the concubine position assisted in management, but in general, their power was naturally still not as great as that of the queen. Now that Linlang has ascended to the position of concubine, she naturally has some management rights over the harem.

Although the power is not great and she still has to follow the arrangements of Concubine Li, it is at least management power, which she did not have when she was a noble concubine before.

Although she had management power, there were also disadvantages. That was that Concubine Li went from being her colleague (they were all concubines before) to her immediate superior. Although as an ordinary concubine, she was managed by Concubine Li who had temporary management power over the harem, in order not to intensify conflicts, Concubine Li basically did not manage the concubines and only managed palace affairs. Naturally, there would be no conflicts with ordinary concubines such as Linlang, so everyone lived their own lives.

But now it’s different. She has been promoted to a management staff in the palace, and she is under the supervision of Concubine Li. As a result, she, who originally had no boss, now has a boss, which naturally makes her feel restrained.

It would be even easier for Concubine Li to do whatever she wanted - they didn't have to harm her openly. All they had to do was give her a difficult task, and if she didn't do it well, the emperor would probably dislike her.

Although she had the means and was not afraid of Concubine Li's messing with her, Linlang was a lazy person and did not want to work hard, so she considered becoming a manager. Although she would hold great power, there would be these inconveniences. So Linlang immediately told Concubine Li that she was of humble origin and had never learned these things since childhood, so she did not know how to do them. In addition, she did not have the ability, so she would not manage the palace affairs.

Naturally, Concubine Li would not agree to her application. Just as Linlang thought, she wanted to make trouble for Linlang's job and make Linlang suffer.

So she said to Linlang, "It doesn't matter if you have a low birth and have never learned anything. Just learn. As for your lack of ability, you haven't taken care of it yet, so how do you know it's incompetent? Take care of it first, and if it really doesn't work, it won't be too late to let you rest. Otherwise, if I haven't even let you try, His Majesty will think that I'm making things difficult for my sister."

Linlang thought to herself that by the time she realized that she was no longer capable, something would have probably already happened. It would be too late for her to rest then. She would probably be banished to the cold palace by the emperor, and in serious cases she might even be stripped of a white silk ribbon.

But Linlang refused again and again, but Concubine Li just didn't agree, so Linlang had no choice but to accept it.

She was indeed a little afraid of trouble, but if Concubine Li really thought that she could deal with her by forcing her to work under her, then that was purely wishful thinking. She was more than capable of dealing with Concubine Li.

When Concubine Li saw that Linlang accepted it, she couldn't help but be overjoyed. She thought that now it was great, Linlang would work under her in the future, so would she still worry about not having the chance to deal with her?
Without mentioning the fact that Concubine Li forced Linlang to take charge of palace affairs, Empress Dowager Wu was naturally dissatisfied when she saw that the Emperor promoted Linlang to the position of concubine, but she was in no mood to care about these things now. Apart from being unhappy, there was nothing she could do.

The reason why Empress Dowager Wu was not in the mood to take care of these things was that she had just spent all her money to compensate the victims harmed by her brother and obtained their forgiveness, so the emperor only sentenced her brother to three years. But she failed to save her daughter because she had no money to compensate the victims killed by her daughter. As a result, she naturally could not obtain their forgiveness. As a result, her daughter was imprisoned in Huai'en Palace because she killed too many people.

Although her brother was only sentenced to three years and his title was inherited by her nephew, and her mother's family's title was not deprived, she still felt sad even if it was only three years. After all, her brother had been the apple of the family's eye since he was a child. Now he was old and was imprisoned. How could he bear it in there?

Of course, her daughter, a princess, was also locked up. Although Huai'en Palace was different from ordinary prisons and was a royal prison with better treatment, it was still a prison. At least one prisoner was not free, which made Queen Mother Wu feel sorry for her daughter going to jail.

So she sent people to deliver things to her brother and daughter from time to time, and had people take good care of them in prison so that they would not suffer, and she would also listen to reports on their situation from time to time.