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Chapter 999 The Best Family 126
After listening to her father's words, Concubine Li thought that this made sense, so she let it go.

Just as Li Fei's father, Master Wang, said, even if Li Fei did not take action, other concubines in the palace would.

Just like those beautiful girls selected in the last talent show.

They were also unlucky. Not long after they entered the palace, Queen Mother Wu passed away. It was such a bad time and it completely blocked their path to success.

You know, they were all very pretty. After they entered the palace, they were favored, and they even remained favored afterwards.

Logically, with such favor, based on their appearance and their family background, they should have been promoted to the rank of concubine in recent years. After all, their positions when they entered the palace were not low.

But the damn Empress Dowager Wu died, and the emperor had to observe a three-year mourning period. During these three years, they had no promotion at all. It was only until the year they entered the palace that some of them were promoted a little.

There was no way. Their positions when they entered the palace were already high, and it was not suitable for them to move up further in these three years, lest the emperor be impeached by the ministers.

The emperor did not love them to such an extent that he was willing to be impeached by his ministers for them, which resulted in them wasting three years of their most youthful and beautiful time.

Therefore, the person these concubines hated the most was Empress Dowager Wu. Linlang often heard them scolding Empress Dowager Wu for not dying earlier or later, but at this time. Her complaints were exactly the same as those of Master Sun Er.

With so many people blaming Empress Dowager Wu, I'm afraid it will have an impact on Empress Dowager Wu's family. After all, Empress Dowager Wu is gone, and everyone has nowhere to vent their resentment. Where can they vent it? They can only vent it on Empress Dowager Wu's family, the Wu family. As a result, Empress Dowager Wu's family will probably have an even more difficult time after her death. After all, the people who were more favored in the last beauty contest all had good backgrounds, and their families have the power to clean up the already declining Empress Dowager Wu's family.

This is also retribution. After all, Empress Dowager Wu indulged her younger brother and other people from her natal family and did so many evil things. She should have been punished. It is only now that she is suffering misfortune. It is already many years late.

Without mentioning that the Wu family will be targeted, let’s just talk about the concubines who entered the palace last time. Now, three years have passed, and they can be promoted. But after three years, the favor of some people has faded. After all, unless they are particularly favored, the emperor will get tired of them after three years.

What's more, Concubine Li has regained the emperor's favor recently for some reason, which has diverted the emperor's visits to them, making them even less favored.

Under such circumstances, even after the mourning period for Empress Dowager Wu was over, the emperor did not promote them much. The good ones were considered good if they could be promoted two or three levels, while the bad ones were only promoted one level, or even not promoted at all. This was obviously still a bit far from the position of the head of the first palace, which naturally made them dissatisfied. So these people began to scold Empress Dowager Wu again, blaming her for her fault. If Empress Dowager Wu had not died at the wrong time, they should have been promoted to the position of the head of the first palace based on the momentum of their favor when they entered the palace.

No matter how much you curse, Empress Dowager Wu has been dead for several years. There is no point in cursing her. The most important thing right now is how to deal with the newcomers.

They themselves were favored as newcomers a few years ago, so naturally they were afraid that this year's newcomers would also be favored. If there were more favored people by then, how much of the favor would have to be shared? In addition, Concubine Li was favored and Concubine Sun was not out of favor, so what would be left for them to do? So they must deal with the newcomers so that they cannot share their favor.

There was no way. Concubine Sun's favor could not be taken away, and Concubine Li's favor had been restored, which could not be taken away either. The only thing they could do was to stop the newcomer from gaining favor, otherwise, if the newcomer gained favor, they would have no chance of success.

Linlang looked at the concubines sharpening their knives, ready to deal with the newcomers, and couldn't help shaking her head, thinking that these newcomers were really unlucky. The emperor was old and no longer pleasing to the eye, and there were also a group of lunatics who wanted to make trouble for them. Speaking of which, these women in the palace were really pitiful. The emperor had too many women, and it was impossible for them to go to the harem every day. It was good enough to go to the harem half of the time in a month. In this way, there were too many people and too little porridge. How many opportunities could each person get to sleep with the emperor? No wonder everyone fought and bleed. They had to fight. No opportunity to sleep with the emperor meant no chance to have children, and without children, what future would they have?

In fact, if you don't consider ambition, it doesn't matter if you don't have children. But if you don't have children and your rank is not high, when the emperor dies in the future and moves into Ci'en Palace, several people will have to live in one room. After all, Ci'en Palace is not a big place, and it will be crowded with all the concubines living in various palaces. If there are many people alive by then, except for those with high ranks who can probably get a room alone, those with low ranks will definitely have to share with others. Otherwise, one palace will not be able to accommodate all the concubines in the six palaces, and unless most of them are dead, it will be possible for each to live in a room.

This is probably why everyone is working hard to climb up the ladder and hopes to have a child.

Generally speaking, as long as a woman has a child, her status will not be too low. After all, having a child is a great contribution to the royal family and should be rewarded.

Another thing is to give dignity to the princes and princesses, so that the mother's status will not be too low, which will make them lose face.

As long as you have children and a position, that's good enough. If you're lucky enough to get the throne, you'll be rich.

This is also the reason why everyone is competing for the chance to sleep with the emperor.

It's really pitiful that so many people are fighting for one person.

Moreover, they will live under the power of life and death held by others, and will do anything to please the other party. It is so pitiful just to think about it.

Fortunately, the future has become a civilized world, and people in the future no longer have to lick others against their will in order to please the person who holds the power over their life and death.

Yes, he licked against his will. After all, the emperor liked young, beautiful and pleasing concubines. What about the concubines? We are all human beings, so it is natural that they like young, handsome and pleasing men. Who would want to please a middle-aged uncle whose appearance has declined, and this middle-aged uncle can't do anything to please himself? Who would like that?

I can only say that women in this era are so pitiful.

Soon a new round of talent shows began. This time, Queen Mother Wu had passed away, but the final stage had to be hosted by someone, so Linlang, as the person with the highest rank in the palace, hosted the talent show together with Concubine Li and another concubine.

Linlang has seen it, and there are many beautiful girls in this talent show. This is normal. In this kind of public audition, if you are not beautiful, how can you make it to the final round.

Linlang actually hoped that the concubines in the palace would work hard and do something to keep these people out so that they would not come in and suffer.

However, these people were not very powerful. They did use some tricks, but they were not very effective. Those beautiful ones still entered the palace.

Linlang could imagine how these people would be treated next. It would definitely not be any better than how she was treated back then.