Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

Chapter 970 The Best Family 97
Therefore, after listening to the words of the second branch of the Sun family and confirming that it was true and not false, the only people who came to flatter them were those who did not know the situation yet and were at a similar level to the second branch, or even those who were worse off than the second branch.

As for the people in the second branch of the Sun family, except for the children, they were very happy to see others flattering them. Master Sun Er, who wanted to get promoted and make money, naturally did not want to see such a result. He also wanted his family to make its identity public so that those in power would look at him differently and promote him. Otherwise, it would be a waste of risk.

Yes, it’s risky. Master Sun Er also knows that if it is made public, once Linlang knows about it and denies it or even blames them, the second branch of the Sun family will be in trouble. So isn’t it risky?

Since it is an adventure, if he doesn't get the corresponding reward, that is not what Master Sun Er wants to see.

Therefore, Master Sun Er has been scheming recently, hoping to take advantage of the opportunity of revealing his identity to see if he can get promoted. Once he is promoted, it will be useless for Linlang to deny it.

Little did he know that none of the people who could help him get promoted would respond to his words, leaving him helpless.

Many of those who helped him get promoted were powerful people. Logically speaking, they should not be afraid of the imperial concubine in the palace, let alone a childless imperial concubine. What was there to be afraid of? Who knew if she would fall out of favor and become unlucky in a few years?

But, at least she is in favor now, so although they are not afraid of Linlang, they do not want to offend her, lest she say something in front of the emperor and affect their future, which is not worth it.

It's no wonder they think Linlang can influence people's hearts, because everyone in the palace now agrees that Linlang is more favored than Concubine Li.

——How could being out of favor be promoted faster than Concubine Li? This was everyone’s consensus.

As for why he went to Concubine Li more often than to Linlang, how could it be said that Linlang was more favored than Concubine Li...

They have their own logical loop. They think that it is because Concubine Li gave birth to a child, and the emperor went to see the child more often. Otherwise, if Linlang also had a child, he might have visited Linlang more often than Concubine Li.

Since they all felt that Linlang was more favored than Concubine Li, they naturally did not dare to offend her and promote the second branch of the Sun family, which had a bad relationship with their family.

Although they knew that Linlang might not have the last laugh, at least she was in favor at the moment. They were all smart people and would not be stupid enough to cause trouble for the other party and make themselves uncomfortable when the other party was strong.

In the future, if Linlang gets into trouble, they won't be afraid of offending her and can do whatever they want, but at least not now, so Master Sun Er is doomed to run into a wall. In fact, Master Sun Er's direct disclosure of his relationship with Linlang not only did not bring him good results, but also brought him bad results - even if people who thought Master Sun Er was capable and planned to promote him before, now seeing that he had disclosed his relationship with Linlang, they dared not do so, because they were afraid of offending Linlang.

The reason why they dared to promote Master Sun Er before was because Master Sun Er did not disclose his relationship with Linlang. Those who wanted to promote him were not afraid of offending Linlang, because they could just say that they did not know the relationship between Concubine Sun and Master Sun Er and still get away with it.

But now, Master Sun Er has publicly revealed his relationship with Lin Lang. If they promote Master Sun Er again, wouldn't that mean they are going against Lin Lang? They are afraid that Concubine Sun will think they are going against her and will be unhappy. Then she will cause trouble for them, which is not good. So naturally, they dare not promote Master Sun Er.

If Master Sun Er knew that they had originally planned to promote him, but decided not to promote him because he made his relationship with Linlang public, I wonder if he would regret it. But probably he would not regret it, and would only scold those people for being hindsighters, saying that they had not promoted him before, but now that he had made his identity with Linlang public, they jumped out and said that they had originally planned to promote him, but decided not to promote him because he made his identity with Linlang public and they did not dare to offend Linlang.

Master Sun Er still didn't know why everyone didn't promote him. He just saw that he had made his relationship with Linlang public. Apart from receiving some flattery and fawning from some classes that he didn't need, no one from the powerful class extended an olive branch to him and offered him a promotion. He felt depressed and wondered what was wrong with these people. Why were they so unreasonable? They had already said that he was Concubine Sun's second uncle, so why didn't anyone promote him?

Master Sun Er thought that although his family had a dispute with the first wife in the past, it was a family scandal and no one told anyone about it, so outsiders should not know about it. Logically, they should have heard about his relationship with Linlang. Because of information asymmetry, they didn't know that the second wife and the first wife of the Sun family had a falling out and would promote him.

Master Sun Er had no idea that Linlang had been planning this for a long time. Every time someone investigated her before, she would have people tell others about the conflict between the first and second houses. This was to guard against the people from the second house. In the future, when they saw that she had become successful, they might forget how they treated the first house back then and want to take advantage of the first house. So they told others about what the second house had done back then early on. Those people had even thought of using cousin Sun to deal with her, so how could they not know about the conflict between the first and second houses.

The previous arrangement finally worked now, allowing Master Sun Er to take the risk of revealing his relationship with Linlang. Linlang did not cause him any trouble, nor did she bring him any benefits.

Seeing this result, Master Sun Er was also confused - those powerful families naturally would not tell him that they knew everything about him and the first wife.

Of course, they also thought that Master Sun Er knew about their family affairs and that they had spread throughout the capital. They never thought that the truth they knew was specifically released by Linlang and was not known to everyone, including Master Sun Er himself.

Because Master Sun Er didn't know that their family's affairs had spread throughout the capital, these powerful families were quite surprised by Master Sun Er's reaction. After all, their family had a bad relationship with the favorite concubine, Concubine Sun Guifei. Why did they want to disclose their relationship with Concubine Sun to others? Isn't this stupid? After all, others don't know your relationship with Concubine Sun, and they may be confused and still give you a promotion. You have made it clear, and others find out that you have a bad relationship with Concubine Sun. Who would dare to give you a promotion? Isn't this counterproductive?
This is caused by information asymmetry, which is why both parties are confused.

One party didn't understand why the other party was so stupid as to tell others that they were relatives of Concubine Sun; the other party didn't understand why, even after he said that he was a relative of Concubine Sun, no one promoted him in order to please Concubine Sun?