I swept the harem by pretending to be weak

The old lady spoke very cautiously. After all, she was not sure what kind of feelings Liu Zhirou had towards these younger sisters.

Although when she was at home, Liu Zhirou always looked down on the sisters born to concubines, thinking that standing with her was a kind of contempt for herself.

But now she is no longer a girl at home, but a lady in the palace. After entering the palace and becoming the emperor's concubine, she has experienced many things that are considered magnificent for ordinary women, and has probably gained some other insights into life.

At this time, Liu Zhirou might have missed the family affection she had at home.

As it turned out, the old lady's gamble was right. When Liu Zhirou heard that her rather rebellious sister had suffered a certain blow but her life was not in danger, she did show some relief.

"That's really the best thing. Maybe a simple and ordinary life is the real beauty. As for the issue of husband, fourth sister is still young anyway. She can just wait for a few more years, wait for the storm to pass, change her name, change her clothes, and maybe everything will be fine." Liu Zhirou sighed sincerely.

Liu Zhirou didn’t think it was a lucky thing to live in this depressing era, nor did she think that Liu Zhijin would have a bright future.

Having seen a better life, the beauty of feudal society under various constraints can no longer arouse any nostalgia in people's hearts.

But fate is sometimes so unreasonable that they were thrown into this cruel situation without knowing anything.

Many times, except for life and death, everything else is trivial. Liu Zhijin seemed so impulsive at home, and was lucky to be able to save his life in such a cruel political struggle.

Liu Zhirou is not a compassionate saint. She will not deliberately carry the fate of others on herself, nor does she feel that she has an obligation to protect Liu Zhijin, who seems to be a time traveler like her.

They are all in the same boat, but one has the advantage in intelligence and the other has the advantage in ability.

Liu Zhirou also secretly reminded herself that although she had encountered many conspiracies and plots along the way, she had been going quite smoothly, so she inevitably let down her guard and thought that everything was just like that. With her abilities, getting into a small place like the harem would be like a dimensionality reduction attack.

But the waters of this world are actually very deep. The phantom that he saw in a trance when he first slept with her, the blackened front of the Buddha statue that the empress dowager carried up when she held a banquet, and the occasional sense of disharmony that Ai Ziyi revealed after she became pregnant, all revealed unusual meanings.

She had to be extra careful.

After a few more casual pleasantries, Liu Zhirou finally turned her attention to what she cared about most.

But Zhao obviously misunderstood Liu Zhirou's meaning.

"Your Highness is still young and in good health, so you will eventually get pregnant. Although I don't particularly believe in ghosts and gods, it is unwise to use this method to pray for a child, and it is also easy to offend the taboos of those nobles..."

"Zhao, be careful with your words! The queen certainly knows her limits!" The old lady immediately rebuked her in a stern voice.

Zhao still treated the gorgeous woman in front of her as her own daughter. Everything she thought and said was from a mother's perspective. However, the old lady did not dare to treat the gorgeous woman in front of her as her granddaughter.

The person sitting in front of them now is their family’s supporter, the person they are counting on, the person who can send them to the ninth heaven or the ninth hell with just a few words.

This description is not an exaggeration. If there is no favored empress in the palace to support them, given the small size of the Liu family, they will either be treated as dogs by others or be divided up as fat meat by others.

The reason why Liu Ming was able to open up a new world in the capital was definitely partly because of his own ability, but more importantly, it was the support of the Dingguo Mansion. Facing the existence of such a large size of the Dingguo Mansion, Liu Ming did not even have the slightest thought of disobeying.

The daughter of Duke Dingguo, Concubine Shu, had not given birth to a child in the palace, so she needed to recruit a young and beautiful girl to enter the palace to help her win the heart of the emperor and give birth to a child for him to adopt as soon as possible. Liu Ming immediately offered his third daughter, the best daughter he had raised at home.

Because Liu Zhirou did not follow Concubine Shu's arrangements and violated the rules explained by the nanny and appeared in the palace to take the blame for Concubine Shu, which made Concubine Shu lose face and made Duke Dingguo very dissatisfied, Liu Ming immediately gave his beautiful fifth daughter to Duke Dingguo's son as a concubine, showing his submissive side without any dignity.

And the moment Duke Dingguo fell, it meant that all the political and economic assets owned by the Duke Dingguo's Mansion would be divided up by the victors, and the Liu family was of course one of them.

Outsiders like this who have no official background can only gain a foothold in the capital and get a share of the capital's commercial activities by relying on the banner of Duke Dingguo. They are simply the easiest piece of fat to bite.

Fortunately, Liu Ming had a good daughter. Although the child was lost due to the conspiracy of Concubine Shu, she left a mark in the heart of the emperor and gained a firm foothold in the palace as an empress. The people around him were intimidated by the majesty of the royal family and did not dare to pounce on him immediately. He had the opportunity to continue to develop and contact other backers.

It is because of this that the old lady does not look like a grandmother facing her granddaughter at all, but rather like a humble servant.