I swept the harem by pretending to be weak

"Rou'er, my dear daughter, why are you suddenly in a daze again? Are you feeling unwell?" Zhao asked worriedly.

"I'm fine, mother, I just suddenly thought of my sister. I don't know if she can adapt after I leave..." Liu Zhirou reacted quickly and covered up her gaffe.

Of course, she couldn't be talking about the illegitimate daughters born to those concubines, but only her sister Liu Zhilan, who was born of the same mother as her.

Zhao also thought of her two daughters. Unlike other families where sisters were jealous of each other, the relationship between her two daughters was very good, almost like conjoined twins.

After she married into the Liu family, she was unable to give birth to a son, and because of this she was criticized by many old stubborn people.

But what made her feel relieved was that both daughters were smart and sensible. Especially the eldest daughter, who could now enter the palace to serve the emperor. As long as the eldest daughter could stay in the palace, the Liu family would be considered as royal relatives in the future, and her master's career would surely develop rapidly.

"Mother, now is a critical moment for me. If I can really gain some good reputation, or even a certain status, Zhilan's marriage in the future will be much smoother." Liu Zhirou knew that it would not work to say good things directly to Aunt Bai, as that would only make Zhao's anger grow even greater.

What's more, Liu Zhirou will leave sooner or later. After she enters the palace, Zhao will still torture Aunt Bai at will, or even beat her to death.

Liu Zhirou didn't have a good impression of Aunt Bai, but as a modern person, her simple moral values ​​meant that she didn't want to see such a poor woman who was sold into the Liu family being beaten to death.

Moreover, if Zhao really killed a concubine casually, it would be like burying a big bomb for her future life. In the heyday of the Liu family, at this critical moment when she was about to enter the palace for election, Liu Ming would not say anything and would help to minimize the impact of this matter. But when she lost power one day, it might become a fatal mistake.

Liu Zhijing was unreliable. She was like a mouse meeting a cat when facing her stepmother Zhao. She didn't dare to disobey.

Thinking of this, Liu Zhirou couldn't help but sigh. Now Aunt Bai was being tortured by Zhao at home. How could she know that she would not be tortured by the high-ranking concubines after she married into the palace?

However, Liu Zhirou did not intend to tell Zhao about this matter. After all, even if she told Zhao about it, Zhao would have no way to deal with it and could only worry about her daughter at home. This made Zhao still have naive ideas and think that she would enter the palace to enjoy herself.

"I know. Anyway, I have no plan to do anything to that girl. I just want to teach her a lesson to prevent her from doing evil again." Zhao waved her hand, looking very gentle.

"But we must also take what you said seriously. Our family... Alas, it is our family that has dragged you down."

"It's not a burden or not with this kind of thing. It's all decided by God. But mother should keep a close eye on Zhilan. Although she is very talented, she mostly doesn't follow the right path. I'm afraid she will be deceived by evil people in the future and go astray." Liu Zhirou reminded as if she suddenly thought of something.

"Don't worry, I will definitely take good care of her." After Zhao said this, she seemed to suddenly think of something and dragged out a large box from under the bed.

Liu Zhirou quickly reached out to help.

Zhao opened the box and found a whole box of gold, silver and jewelry inside.

"These are the dowries your grandmother prepared for your mother. Originally, your mother should have prepared dowries for you and Lan'er, but you are a promising person and have become the daughter-in-law of the royal family. As for dowries, a family like ours cannot prepare a lot. But you must have some money to rely on. This is only part of it. I have also prepared three or five large farms and a dozen shops on Wang Street for you, so that your food, clothing and daily expenses can be said to be endless."

When she said this, Zhao kept talking, and her eyes kept flashing. She stretched out her hand and wanted to pull down a large box, but Liu Zhirou stopped her.

"Mother, with my conditions, I won't be able to get a high position after marrying into the palace. I can probably only be a top-notch concubine. If I dress up so lavishly, what will the ladies in the main positions think?" Liu Zhirou advised.

When she saw these things, she would be lying if she said she wasn't moved. After all, these riches were also an important guarantee for Zhao's future livelihood and retirement. Zhao had no son, and Liu Zhen's stepson was only a favor to him at most. But when she saw that Liu Zhirou might need these things, Zhao took them out without hesitation.

But precisely because I was so moved, I couldn’t take it.

After all, she is no longer the original owner.

It turns out that Liu Zhirou was a talented woman in feudal society. She was the most outstanding commodity that merchants desperately selected. She was the future concubine of the emperor and possibly the future mother of the prince and princess.

But she is different, she is a new woman from socialist society with free thoughts, she can't force herself to identify with this feudal society.

If there really was no hope at all, she might have just accepted her fate, but the hope was right in front of her, and she absolutely could not give up like that.

Liu Zhirou had prepared herself mentally. She was never a particularly kind person, not someone who could sacrifice herself for others. Her coming here was an accident. In order to return to the world she belonged to, she was willing to pay all the chips. At that time, she would not care about anything else.

If I really get implicated, then I get implicated.

If she took advantage of others but did not put their safety and honor first, Liu Zhirou would look down on herself.

Liu Zhirou tried her best to persuade Zhao to take back half of the things, but Zhao insisted on giving her a large amount of gold ingots.

In Zhao's words, after she entered the palace, rewarding servants and winning people's hearts were things she had to do. In this situation, being short of money was absolutely not an option.

Thinking of this, Liu Zhirou nodded and agreed.

Liu Zhirou was actually quite worried about Zhao.

Zhao was also born into a merchant family, the youngest daughter of a big merchant. Because she was the youngest in the family, she was loved by her brothers and sisters, and her dowry was very generous.

She had been relatively innocent since childhood and had not experienced much. It was precisely because of this that she suffered a lot of losses after marrying into the Liu family.

It was not until Liu Zhirou grew up and had some success and was valued by her father Liu Zhen that Zhao's life became better. Later, after Liu Zhirou was selected as a concubine, no one in the huge Liu family dared to say disrespectful words to Zhao.

Perhaps because of the memories left by the original owner, Liu Zhirou is not particularly fond of her own father.

Liu Zhirou didn't believe that her father asked Zhao to marry him for love. He probably saw the wealth of Zhao's family, but this was inherently unstable. Zhao's father, Liu Zhirou's grandfather, was old. When Zhao's brothers came to power, they might not pay a lot of soft capital for this sister whom they hadn't seen for many years.

By that time, the only ones Zhao could rely on were the daughters in the palace.

Liu Zhirou was very confident in herself. If she couldn't deal with a few ancient people even with the cheats, then she would be too useless. However, she had no confidence in Zhao at all.