In order to eat, I signed a contract with the system

"Can you really make me achieve what I want?"

Concubine Hua decided to take revenge herself, but she was still uncertain about Lingrong's ability. She didn't believe that Lingrong, the daughter of a mere county magistrate, who came from a remote area, had the ability to make her pregnant.

As early as after finding out about Huan Yixiang's problem, Concubine Hua asked Jiang Cheng and the others to diagnose her pulse and forced them to tell the truth. Her body had been almost ruined, and even if she took care of herself, it would be difficult for her to get pregnant again.

"Of course, Your Majesty, you may as well give it a try. If I really deceived Your Majesty, I will be in the palace anyway. When the time comes, no matter how Your Majesty wants to punish me, I will have no complaints."

"Humph, since you are so sure, I will believe you this time!"

"Tell me, what do you want?"

Ling Rong was not vague and spoke directly: "My background is not prominent and my position is not high, so in order to live a better life in the palace, I want Your Majesty to agree to two conditions from me."

"Humph, I didn't expect you to be so self-aware. Come on, tell me!"

At this time, Concubine Hua is not like in the plot. Nian Gengyao was sentenced to death, the Nian family was abolished, and she was demoted. Only the true love between herself and the emperor kept her alive. Now Concubine Hua has a stable position and a prominent family background. No matter what conditions Lingrong puts forward, she is confident that she can solve them.

Ling Rong did not continue to argue, and directly put forward her own conditions: "First, I want 20 taels of silver; second, I do not intend to follow the queen, nor do I want to be an enemy of the queen. I hope the queen will not embarrass me again in the future."

After hearing Lingrong's two conditions, Concubine Hua rolled her eyes. She was expecting Lingrong to make a big request, but she didn't expect it to be just this?

"Alright, I agree to these two conditions. I need to think carefully about the specific timing. Go and prepare the elixir first. When I decide on the right time to get pregnant, I will send someone to find you."

Hua Fei called Song Zhi, and when Song Zhi came in, she told her to get the banknotes. While waiting, she suddenly asked Ling Rong curiously, "I want to know how you know all this?"

"This is a long story." Lingrong felt that the question asked by Concubine Hua was not impossible to answer. She sat on a chair beside her, picked up the teacup on the table, poured herself a cup of tea, and drank it slowly.

Then he stretched out his hand to signal Hua Fei to sit down and listen carefully.

Hua Fei did not put on airs with Ling Rong anymore. Without waiting for Song Zhi to come back to change the tea, she drank a cup of cold tea like Ling Rong did, then signaled Ling Rong with her eyes, "Go ahead!"

"My father's ancestors were in the spice business. When I first saw you on the day I came to pay my respects, I smelled the scent of musk on you."

"Later, I found out that the scent on your body was the scent of Huan Yi Xiang. I heard that your Majesty had been using it when she was still in the palace."

"Then I also learned about the origin of the Huan Yi Xiang and the fact that Your Majesty had never had a child in the palace."

"In all these years, there have been very few concubines in the palace who have gotten pregnant. And the few who did get pregnant either gave birth or gave birth to a princess, which is indistinguishable from the Empress anyway."

It has to be said that Lingrong's words touched Hua Fei's heart. She always felt that the Queen was not as virtuous as she appeared to be. She was just frustrated that she had no handle on the Queen. Instead, she was wrongly accused by the women in the palace because of her arrogance.

Lingrong didn't care whether Hua Fei was wronged or not, she just wanted Hua Fei to cause some trouble for the Empress Dowager and the Queen. After she was favored these days, the Queen's little tricks had never stopped, and even the Empress Dowager's palace was filled with her seductive words, which really made Lingrong unhappy.

"The Queen Mother helped the Queen to prevent the Madam from getting pregnant. Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, I wonder if the Queen Mother feels guilty about using the things that have been sent to the Queen Mother's palace over the years?"

Concubine Hua felt as if there was something else in Lingrong's words, but she couldn't understand it at the moment. However, those words still entered her ears clearly and she inadvertently remembered them in her heart.

Lingrong was too lazy to wait for her to figure it out. As soon as Songzhi came back, Lingrong quickly walked over, took the box from Songzhi's hand, opened it, put the banknotes inside into her arms, and turned and left.

Concubine Hua was too lazy to look at Lingrong like that, so she waved her hand to signal Songzhi not to worry about her and told her to go.

Lingrong went to Concubine Hua for no other reason than to live a comfortable life in the past few years. In order to maintain her own image, the Queen usually would not embarrass the concubines in public. As long as Concubine Hua did not cause trouble for her, with the 20 taels of silver, she would be able to live a free and easy life.

Then draw everyone's attention to Zhen Huan, Shen Meiyu and even Concubine Hua herself. Wouldn't Lingrong feel uncomfortable just being a bystander and watching the show quietly?

Lingrong did not tell Concubine Hua that the Nian family would be liquidated by the emperor in two years. Anyway, she only made a deal with Concubine Hua to make her pregnant, and she did not say that she would guarantee that she would give birth. Whether the child could be born, whether the Nian family could be saved, and whether Nian Gengyao's life could be saved, were all Concubine Hua's own business.

After the matter of Concubine Hua is over, based on her current favor, it would not be impossible for her to become a concubine or even a consort. By then, apart from the Queen, no one else would be so idle as to deal with her.

As for dealing with Empress Lingrong, she was not in a hurry at all, and she did not plan to get pregnant. She could not hurt the Empress's heart with her current favor, so she decided to let Concubine Hua give the Empress a good stab!

Lingrong was thinking whether to snatch Hongli, who looked like Zhen Huan, or to save a concubine's child and adopt him. Hongli was not young anymore and he might look down on her. Lingrong also didn't like Hongli's personality and was reluctant to do so.

Of course she wanted to be the empress dowager for power and to prevent others from looking down on her. If she adopted Hongli, she might have to suffer from Ruyi when she was thirty years old. Lingrong didn't want that.

If we want to save the concubine's child, it doesn't seem to be very simple.

In the plot, until the emperor's death, the only pregnant concubines were Zhen Huan, Noble Fucha, Shen Meiyu and herself. Forget about herself, as she has already decided not to have any children. Except for Longyue, the other two children Zhen Huan aborted belong to the emperor. The remaining two, Hongzhan and Lingxi, are actually Prince Guo's. Would he adopt Zhen Huan's children to ascend to the throne?

Lingrong shook her head and said no. No matter whether Zhen Huan could live to that time, she would not help Zhen Huan give birth to a prince. As for Shen Meizhuang, in the plot, the child Shen Meizhuang gave birth to was not the emperor's child, but Wen Shichu's. Although Lingrong didn't care, she was a girl after all and had no chance of ascending the throne.

"Alas, is it possible that we can only choose the baby in Noble Lady Fucha's belly?" Lingrong was somewhat unhappy. Not to mention why the Fucha family would hand over the prince to a Han army banner like her, Lingrong could not guarantee that the baby in Noble Lady Fucha's belly would be a boy.

What's more, Lingrong didn't want to help Noble Lady Fucha at all. After all, she had received a lot of cold stares from Noble Lady Fucha in her previous life, and Noble Lady Fucha still had her own plans after losing her child.

Do I have to give birth myself? Or do I have to find a way to make deals with the concubines who want children and ask them to give birth?

"It would be great if I could let someone else give birth to my child!" After Lingrong had reached an agreement with Concubine Hua, she took Baoli back to the Yanx Palace while thinking about the future.