Empress Dowager Cui naturally covets the profits from the royal kitchen, so there is naturally a place to make money, but she is mainly making money from this purchase, and the eunuch who serves as the kitchen is not her person.
But, if you can become her person, that would be a good thing.
Although they had a tacit understanding when they divided the power in the palace with Empress Dowager Ding, one of them made money in purchasing, and the other made money in catering, and they peacefully divided the money-making areas.
Logically speaking, in order not to cause disputes, she should stay within the realm of the well and not touch the sphere of influence of Queen Mother Ding.
However, if Empress Dowager Ding's people were caught making money, she wouldn't mind driving them away and replacing them with her own people. After all, it wasn't her who wanted to chase them away. It was Empress Dowager Ding's people who were accidentally exposed. , it has nothing to do with her.
So when Empress Dowager Cui got the evidence, she had it sent to the emperor.
Naturally, she did not dare to directly accuse Empress Dowager Ding, lest Empress Dowager Ding would be unhappy and cause trouble for her in the future.
Although the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law has not been good since ancient times, her relationship with Queen Mother Ding is naturally not that good, especially when a girl in the family enters the palace and competes with the Ding family, it is impossible to say that the relationship is good.
However, she was the emperor's grandmother, not his biological mother. She was separated by one floor and had nothing to do with Queen Mother Ding being close to the emperor. Therefore, she did not dare to directly deal with Queen Mother Ding's people, lest Queen Mother Ding would be unhappy and talk about her in front of the emperor. No, when the emperor is unhappy, even if he does not alienate her, it will not be good if he alienates the Cui family.
So naturally she could only deal with Empress Dowager Ding indirectly and let the emperor deal with him, so Empress Dowager Ding would have nothing to say.
This scene was naturally remembered by Linlang. She planned to expose the matter to Empress Dowager Cui in the future if her people were to serve as cooks, like Empress Dowager Ding's people, who gave her poor food. Queen Mother Ding came forward and asked Queen Mother Ding to deal with Queen Mother Cui and Queen Mother Cui's people.
Let’s not talk about what happened in the future, just talk about the present. When the emperor saw that someone anonymously reported the eunuch’s various money-making activities, Long Yan was naturally furious, and immediately ordered the eunuch to take down the eunuch.
Queen Mother Ding saw that the emperor had captured her man, and originally wanted to rescue him, but seeing that the other party had committed many crimes, and there was evidence for them, if she wanted to save him, she would definitely let her son know that this man was hers. , when the time comes, let her son know that her people have done so many illegal and criminal things. Even if they are not found out, it is what she ordered to do, and they will blame her and think that she, a mother, can condone such people. He is not a person who does not distinguish between right and wrong.
She didn't want her son to think that she was a bad mother, and she would not like the girls of the Ding family, or even the Ding family, so she had no choice but to shut up and let the emperor drag her down and behead her.
Her people were cut off, so she naturally didn't want to just let it go and wanted to find someone new to take over.
But Empress Dowager Cui also sent people to compete with her, and because Empress Dowager Cui had already prepared the successor before exposing the evidence of that person's illegal crimes to the emperor, the unprepared Empress Dowager Ding was naturally more vulnerable than Empress Dowager Ding. The Empress Dowager Cui was not prepared, so the seat of the food cook was occupied by Empress Dowager Cui's people.
This made Queen Mother Ding naturally unhappy, but no matter how unhappy she was, she had no choice but to stare at the person and think that when she found evidence of the person's crime and got rid of him, she would be in trouble again. I can send someone up.
Not to mention the confrontation between Empress Dowager Ding and Empress Dowager Cui, just saying that after the previous chief cook was eliminated and a new person took over, Linlang's food returned to normal.
Obviously, it's a new person with a new outlook. Even if this person wants to make money like the previous people, it will take some time and he won't do it right away.
Seeing that her food problem was indeed solved, Linlang couldn't help but be satisfied.
However, if you treat the symptoms but not the root cause, you will not be favored. Sooner or later, the food will be the same as before.
She wasn't worried about it. Anyway, she had recorded every move of Empress Dowager Cui, and then she would tell Empress Dowager Ding about it. Empress Dowager Ding knew that it was Empress Dowager Cui who drove her people away, not Others who reported it would definitely feel that Empress Dowager Cui did not follow martial ethics, violated the well-behaved river, did not abide by the secret agreement between the two, and wanted to rob her of the place where she made money. They would definitely find a way to get rid of this new wife. The person who comes up should be replaced by her person, so that her food can be normal again.
When Empress Dowager Ding's people became old and fried again, she would ignite Empress Dowager Cui and deal with Empress Dowager Ding's people, and this was a virtuous cycle.
It's just that the replacement cannot be done immediately. There will definitely be a period of time in the meantime, which will make her food not good, so she can occasionally let the emperor favor her to get through the bad times in the middle.
Although this also requires the emperor's favor, it is obviously much better than the people who did not take care of the food before, who always needed the emperor's favor to maintain the same food. At least the Dream Talisman can cost a little less, which makes Linlang Satisfied.
Soon the emperor finally summoned Linlang.
In fact, it is just a formality to visit all the people drafted into the palace. Then, those who are interested will be favored, and those who are not interested, such as Huang Bin, Feng Baolin and others, will no longer be summoned.
As planned before, Linlang arranged a dream talisman for the emperor, and weaved a dream in the dream talisman that the emperor was satisfied with her sleeping with her, in case the emperor would look for her again in the future, instead of being favored by the emperor like her original body. After this experience, the emperor had no interest in her at all and never favored her again.
Among the current batch of people drafted into the palace, Sun Jieyu is the most favored, and there is no sign of losing favor yet.
This is normal, because Sun Jieyu is the most beautiful among these beautiful girls.
Most people are obsessed with appearance, so it is normal for Sun Jieyu to be favored.
In fact, the reason why the previous Han concubines were favored was because of their beauty, coupled with their cold temperament, which was different from other people, so they were liked by the emperor.
Like the original person, her appearance is not bad, otherwise she would not be able to enter the palace, but in good conscience, she is not as beautiful as Sun Jieyu and Han Bi.
Maybe sometimes, after getting along for a long time, a person will ignore the appearance of the opposite sex because he likes the inner side of the opposite sex. Even if he is not the most beautiful of the opposite sex around, he will like it. But there are too many women around the emperor. This one today, that one tomorrow, How can he have time to slowly understand someone's inner self and then fall in love with them?
In this case, it is normal to only like a person's appearance superficially.
So when Linlang was weaving a dream, for the sake of long-term planning, she considered that her original appearance was not very beautiful and she would not be able to attract the emperor's favor based on her appearance. She also weaved a dream in which the emperor was satisfied with her character. Of course, she just wanted to do it casually. Mentioned it, but didn't emphasize it.
(End of chapter)
