Chapter 3154 Harem 16

An Ran didn't take it seriously that Cao Bin was going to bribe someone to poison her again, because it would take a long time for Cao Bin to bribe someone to attack her again. After all, Cao Bin always wanted to bribe people. It's about time, and the person who poisoned him must have time to figure out how to do it, so that she won't find out.

And when this time passes, I might have exposed Cao's concubine.

Concubine Cao didn't know that her affair with Master Cao had been discovered, and she was still proud of her ingenious plan.

And just as An Ran thought, Cao Bin's last action failed, and her next action was not that fast.

Seeing that Concubine Cao's operation failed, Empress Liu couldn't help but secretly rejoice that she had not arranged it this time, otherwise she would have lost another man.

Because of repeated mistakes, she is now quite afraid of An Ran. Every time she does something, she wants others to do it, lest she personally send someone to take action. If she fails, the person does not commit suicide in fear of crime as she thought, but says The truth, then I will be in trouble.

This is also the reason why she asked Concubine Cao to take action recently, because she was afraid.

Let Cao Bin take action, even if exposed, the poisoner will be exposed to Cao Bin at most. After all, Cao Bin will not betray herself. After all, there is no benefit in betraying her, and if nothing happens to her, she can still help Cao Bin's family. In this way First of all, it is a matter of death. It is obviously better not to tell the truth than to tell the truth.

Now it seems that Concubine Cao is still planning to send people, so she doesn't care anymore and only engages in some conspiracy, that is, directly bullying An Ran and doing things to make things difficult for An Ran.

If she does these things, the emperor will not say anything. After all, it is not illegal. What can the emperor do to her? Unless it is illegal, the emperor dares to punish her. Otherwise, he will punish her for trivial matters. Her father, Liu Shoufu, is not a vegetarian. Yes, the imperial censor will definitely be sent to give advice. When the time comes, the big label of doting on concubines and destroying wives will be slapped on. The emperor probably does not want to be said like this.

To say that the person Empress Liu hates the most now is not An Ran, who keeps escalating and makes her feel in danger, but Queen Mother Yu. After all, if Queen Mother Yu hadn't insisted on bringing someone into the palace to sing against her, she wouldn't be here right now. Wouldn't worry about that.

——In fact, Empress Dowager Yu just wanted to win over the emperor, and did not want to act against Empress Liu. However, as a person who has lived in the harem for a long time, Empress Dowager Yu also knew that if An Ran became the favorite concubine after entering the palace, she would definitely have conflicts with Empress Liu. , so the current development is within her expectations.

Although it was expected, Queen Mother Yu did not feel sorry for Queen Liu. After all, men in this era originally had three wives and four concubines, and the emperor had many wives and concubines. In fact, strictly speaking, all women in the harem, including maids, Women who can be considered emperors, he can turn them into concubines at any time if he wants.

Under such circumstances, is there anything wrong with entering the palace safely and being favored? This is a normal thing in this era.

On the contrary, Empress Liu harmed An Ran many times, which is an illegal and criminal act in this era.

Since there is nothing wrong with An Ran entering the palace, Queen Mother Yu will naturally not feel sorry for Queen Liu.

Queen Mother Yu did not feel sorry for Queen Mother Liu, but Queen Mother Liu hated Queen Mother Yu to death, so when she was causing trouble for An Ran, Queen Mother Liu was also thinking about how to deal with Queen Mother Yu.

She felt that the Queen Mother Yu was An Ran's backer. If An Ran could not be dealt with, she would deal with the Queen Mother. When the Queen Mother Yu was dealt with, and Yu Anran no longer had the Queen Mother as her backer, there would be no need to be afraid of her.

——But she may not know how the emperor could let her take care of the Queen Mother and let An Ran's backer fall, and then let her family dominate. The emperor wanted to see the two of them fighting to the death. He was watching on the side. , feel better, and be able to vent the frustration of being treated as a puppet by the Liu family.

So when Liu Shoufu found someone to impeach the Queen Mother's family, the emperor knew that the Liu family was going to attack the family. Naturally, he didn't want An Ran's backers to fall, because he was also afraid that if An Ran's backers fell, An Ran would lose his power alone. It's too thin and can't hold the Liu family at all.

But he didn't dare to confront Liu Shoufu directly, so he saw that Liu Shoufu found someone to impeach the Queen Mother's family, which caused some disaster to the Queen Mother's family. Then he turned around in the palace and promoted An Ran two levels, making An Ran a full five. Pin Jieyu, he was thinking that as the Yu family's power weakened, Anran's power increased, and it might be useful to increase or decrease.

Just in case it was useless, the emperor also specifically inquired about Yu's father's situation and promoted Yu's father back to the sixth rank - he did not dare to go against Liu Shoufu, so Liu Shoufu had sent people to demote Yu's father before, and he had never dared to give Yu's father a promotion. My father was promoted back. This time, I took advantage of the opportunity given to An Ran to be promoted to Jieyu, and I was promoted back to my father's official position, pretending that I didn't know that the Liu family had demoted my father's official position.

The emperor thought that by using a two-pronged approach, promoting Yu Anran's status while promoting Yu's father, he could always offset the Liu family's weakening influence on the Queen Mother's family.

I don't know if it's useful or not, but An Ran's reputation as a beloved concubine is solid.

Jieyu was considered a middle-ranking concubine in the harem.

Coupled with the fact that An Ran is favored, it is completely different.

Especially Yu's father, who had just been promoted, felt this way.

He had been demoted by the Liu family before, and no one dared to promote him.

But now, his daughter was favored, Jieyu was granted the title, and the emperor personally took care of it, and his official position was promoted back. I think after this time, Liu Shoufu will not make a big move again, and find someone to demote him again, because if his daughter is promoted again position, the emperor can take this opportunity to promote him back. In this case, what is the point of demoting his official position? Anyway, the emperor can promote him back to his official position sooner or later.

My father and my mother now feel a little bit like they doted on their mother-in-law.

Although An Ran's status was very low when he entered the palace, and they were embarrassed to tell others about An Ran's status, in the past two years, their daughter has been promoted very quickly, from the lowest status to the middle status. Yes, it’s so fast, much faster than Yu’s father’s promotion.

Now everyone outside knows that An Ran is favored, and many people are optimistic about An Ran. Therefore, even though An Ran is only a fifth-grade Jieyu, since she was promoted, more people have come to flatter the Yu family. Obviously, many people have begun to bet on her. He noticed their daughter. He must have thought that their daughter had a bright future, so he came to curry favor with their family.

Such a development naturally made Yu's father and mother very happy. They secretly thought that sending their daughter to the palace was the right thing to do. Otherwise, would anyone look down on them if they were such a transparent family? At most, someone occasionally couldn't get through the door of the Queen Mother's house and came looking for them.

But there are very few such people, because with the prosperity of the Liu family, the power of the Queen Mother's natal family has dropped a lot since the death of the late emperor, and it is not as good as when the late emperor was on the throne and the Queen Mother was still the queen.