Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

However, although Concubine Li's group of followers did not dare to cause trouble for Linlang, they were still in favor, so the emperor came to Concubine Li less frequently than before, which was equivalent to Concubine Li not being as favored as before. So, as Linlang had predicted before, Concubine Li shot herself in the foot. The people she brought in did not cause any trouble to Linlang, but caused her to get into trouble first.

As for Linlang not dealing with Concubine Li yet, is she planning some big move...

It cannot be said that it is not the case. After all, Imperial Concubine Li has put so many obstacles in Linlang's way, both openly and covertly. It is impossible to say that Linlang does not care and will not deal with Imperial Concubine Li. After all, how can one repay kindness with evil?

However, Linlang will not deal with Concubine Li for the time being. It’s not that she doesn’t want to, but that she can’t find a good opportunity to deal with her.

If you fail to hit the target with one strike, the opponent will become more alert and cautious, making it difficult to deal with him.

Therefore, we must find a great opportunity and try to hit the target with one strike.

However, this opportunity might be a little hard to find, because Concubine Li has a powerful confidant nanny who acts very cautiously and can remind Concubine Li of some precautions, so that Concubine Li will not make obvious mistakes. So Linlang wants to get rid of this confidant nanny first. Without this confidant nanny, Concubine Li's IQ is far inferior to this confidant nanny, so it will be easier to deal with her.

It is also not an easy task to deal with Concubine Li, the confidant of the nanny.

Although most of the things that helped Concubine Li deal with so many concubines in the palace were done by Nanny Wang, Nanny Wang was very shrewd and did not leave any handle. It was not easy to find her handle and then let other victimized concubines retaliate against her, or let other victimized concubines report her and let the emperor deal with her. Linlang could only continue to keep an eye on her. After all, if you walk by the river often, you will get your feet wet, and there will always be times when you fail.

Needless to say, the confidant nanny became more cautious after seeing that all those who caused trouble for Linlang ended up in trouble.

She was cautious before, and she is even more cautious now. If she wants to find any evidence, she can only wait. This is also the reason why Linlang has not dealt with Concubine Li yet.

Since Concubine Li didn't dare to deal with Linlang, Linlang naturally continued to rise without any impact.

At the end of the year of the selection, Linlang was successfully promoted to imperial concubine without any interference.

In fact, when Linlang was promoted to Imperial Concubine, she was just trying to see if she could succeed. After all, the position of Imperial Concubine was extremely high and not anyone could become one.

Linlang also holds the idea that if she cannot be promoted in one year, it will not be too late to try again in two or three years. After all, the imperial concubine is completely different from the lower levels, so if she cannot be promoted in one year, it is not too late to try again in two or three years.

It is certainly good to be able to get promoted now. Not to mention other things, Linlang is now on an equal footing with Concubine Li. When she manages palace affairs in the future, she won't have to help Concubine Li and then be tripped up by her. How great is that.

Although Linlang had taken action several times and frightened Concubine Li, making her dare not to trip up Linlang now, but no matter how much she dared not to trip up Linlang, it was still better than working under her. After all, there was someone above her to control her, and there was always a feeling of restraint and inability to be free. What's more, she was just frightened and dared not trip up Concubine Li. What if the deterrent effect was gone one day? If she continued to trip up Concubine Li, as Linlang's immediate superior, she would still bring trouble to Linlang. So Linlang naturally wanted to have no one above her to control her. This was also the reason why she tried to be promoted to Concubine Li. Unexpectedly, she succeeded at the first try, which was something Linlang had not thought of.

Of course, there was another reason for trying this, which was that... Empress Wu had been working hard and worrying about her family and her daughter's imprisonment, and her energy was greatly reduced. During a festival, Linlang saw her closely, used the treatment device, and judged from her own medical skills that she would not live long. In this case, Linlang hurried to try this thing.

Because once Empress Dowager Wu passed away, it was estimated that the Emperor would not promote her to the rank of noble concubine in the short term.

The low-ranking concubines in the harem might still be promoted. After all, there weren't too many ceremonies for the promotion of low-ranking concubines, and it was completed by Empress Dowager Wu.

However, once a high-ranking concubine was promoted, officials from the previous dynasty would serve as the chief envoy or deputy envoy, and there would be ceremonies such as holding the imperial seal to confer the title. When Empress Dowager Wu died, if such things happened, the ministers of the previous dynasty would definitely speak out.

Therefore, high-ranking concubines are the focus of everyone's attention. The emperor has to consider the impact and should not promote high-ranking concubines in the harem during the mourning period for the empress dowager. That would be no different from ordinary people marrying or taking concubines after their mother dies. There must be restrictions.

Linlang estimated that since Empress Dowager Wu had passed away, she would not be able to be promoted for the time being, so she tried it in advance, and it turned out to be successful, which naturally made Linlang happy.

And Linlang was able to be promoted from concubine to noble concubine in just one year. This was something no one in the palace had thought of. You know, even if Noble Concubine Li was so favored, it took her not only one year to be promoted to noble concubine. Now, Sun Linlang was able to be promoted to noble concubine in just one year. How could everyone not be shocked?

Fortunately, when Linlang reached her position, everyone was shocked and stopped attacking her, because they were no longer as good as her, so how could they attack her?

Maybe the palace masters above the rank of concubine would still attack her. After all, the palace masters above the rank of concubine were relatively close to Linlang's position, so they were still competitors. But for those below the rank of concubine, who couldn't even get to the rank of palace master, was there any point in attacking Linlang? They were no longer competitors, and were not on the same level at all. It would be better for them to come and curry favor with Linlang and see if they could get some benefits from the emperor through her.

Therefore, the only people who have ill will towards Linlang and want to attack her are probably those few people above the rank of concubine.

Also, the little followers that Concubine Li brought with her, as well as Cousin Sun, Wang Dani and others, might cause trouble for Linlang.

But as Linlang rose through the ranks, these people, as well as those who had caused trouble for Linlang, all got into trouble one by one, and they kept silent and dared not to cause trouble anymore.

Although she kept silent and seemed to be afraid to cause trouble, it was only because she didn't have the chance. Once she had the chance, Linlang believed that these people would try every means to bring her down, especially Cousin Sun and Wang Dani, who wanted to take revenge on her after all.

However... Linlang estimated that when the news of her promotion to Imperial Concubine reached the ears of the old couple of the Second House, things would change differently. After all, she was now an honorable Imperial Concubine, and she didn't believe that the old couple would not be tempted and want to mediate the reconciliation between the First and Second Houses so that she could bring benefits to Master Sun Er.

Even for Master Sun Er himself, Linlang felt that it would be difficult not to be tempted by such wealth and glory.

Linlang's guess was correct. The subsequent development of the second house was similar to what she guessed. (End of this chapter)