No, I was just a concubine, how did I become the queen?

Feeling free and at ease, after the Fourth Master and Lin Mingyan's trip to Taiwan ended, he simply took her back to the mainland from Fujian, and then traveled all the way back to Beijing.

After so many years of hard work, there are now more than ten cities with railway access.

Wherever they go, they disguise themselves and experience it for themselves, which allows them to see all kinds of life.

Ordinary people certainly wouldn't be willing to take the train frequently. After all, the tradition of the Chinese people is to save!

Even though life is much better now, most people are still used to saving money for emergencies.

Although the price of trains was not high, in order to maintain operations, it was naturally impossible to keep the prices as low as in later generations.

So now most of the people on the train are wealthy businessmen traveling back and forth.

Transporting goods by train is so convenient and is less likely to be targeted by bandits.

The bandits all knew their limits, and no one dared to use their bodies to deal with such a big lump of iron.

If it gets hit, it will be torn into pieces.

Therefore, the people that the Fourth Master and Lin Mingyan met most often were traveling merchants, and of course there were also rich children traveling.

However, they are not interested in what the rich kids say, and what they want to know is the lives of ordinary people as described by traveling merchants.

Usually on the road, I would chat with traveling merchants.

Along the way from south to north, they truly felt that the lives of people across the country were getting better and better.

From sweet potatoes to high-yield rice and wheat, the foundation of a country has been laid very firmly.

Not to mention, they also widely promoted cotton and cultivated high-quality varieties, which saved the people from suffering from the cold.

In addition, textile mills and processing plants also used steam engines, which greatly improved productivity.

As the people's lives are getting better and better, won't people start praising the emperor and empress?

Almost every day outside, they could hear words of praise from the people.

Lin Mingyan, in particular, was praised as even more divine than the fairies in heaven.

At certain times, the Fourth Master often teased her by calling her "fairy".

Lin Mingyan pounded the bed angrily!

The happy days passed by like smooth water, and in the blink of an eye it was the 27th year of Yongzheng's reign.

Lin Mingyan actually tried to forget this year, but at this point it still came to her mind sensitively.

It was as if this year had been engraved in her mind long ago, and it came out naturally when the time came.

Because the current 27th year of Yongzheng's reign is the 8th year of Yongzheng's reign in history, will the Fourth Master be unable to rewrite his fate?

Lin Mingyan didn't know, but she was very worried.

At the beginning of the twenty-seventh year, when she was presiding over the silkworm-raising ceremony between the emperor and empress, she was in a trance while looking at the large agricultural machinery in the field, and several of the silkworms in her hands fell to the ground and died.

At that time, she felt that this year seemed to have offended Tai Sui, and no matter what she did, she felt unhappy.

The more she thought about it, the more restless and irritable she became, and sometimes she even started crying for no reason.

As a result, not only the Fourth Master, but even Honghui and other children became nervous.

She even suspected that the Fourth Master had let her down and was about to support the Empress Dowager and attack the Emperor.

The fourth master was so angry that he hit the children on the head. They were already in their thirties, but they could only pout and keep silent.

Carrying Lin Mingyan on his back, Honghui said to the Fourth Master with some worry, "What happened to the Empress Dowager? I am heartbroken to see this. What does the Imperial Physician say?"

The Fourth Master shook his head: "Even the Imperial Physician couldn't find out what was going on. Alas~~"

It is said that when a woman reaches this age, her period will disappear and she will become restless and irritable.

The shortest duration is a year or two, and the longest is several years. The only way to relieve the symptoms is to take some calming medicine.

Of course, it would be nice to be able to go out and relax.

Thinking of this, the Fourth Master changed the subject: "When the weather gets warmer, the Emperor will take your mother out to escape the summer heat. You can handle the government affairs on your own!"

Honghui thought to himself, wasn't it me who handled all this?

After the Fourth Master took Lin Mingyan to the grassland to escape the summer heat, Honghui still felt uncomfortable when he thought about it.

It was as if he had an uncomfortable premonition that something was going to happen.

So he wrote a letter to Yaliqi, who was far away in Goguryeo, asking her if she had time to come back.

I also sent a letter to Hong Zhou and the others. Although the letter might not be received since they were far away overseas, it was still a hope.

Hong Zhou and the other two occupied a large territory in the southern hemisphere. They built three kingdoms next to each other, all of which were vassal kings of the Qing Dynasty. The Fourth Master had already issued an imperial decree to confer titles on them.

There are many Qing Dynasty citizens living there now. After all, the land is vast and the population is sparse, so they live a better life.

It means going far away from home, and those who can go with you are adventurous and brave people.

Lin Mingyan didn't know what Honghui was doing, and she was still uneasy while playing outside with the Fourth Master.

She had to ask the imperial physician to take the Fourth Master's pulse almost every day, and she would even wake up at night with heart palpitations.

No matter how slow-witted the Fourth Master was, he knew that she was not experiencing menopause, but was worried about him.

I had vaguely guessed her background before, and now when I think about it, I can clearly understand why she is so nervous.

When he first guessed that this year was unusual, he naturally couldn't accept it.

He even couldn't help but want to stop Lin Mingyan's neurotic behavior.

But that night when he pretended to be asleep and heard her sobbing in the quilt, his heart couldn't help but soften again.

In order to reassure Lin Mingyan, he always kept the imperial physician by his side.

Even the supplements she asked him to take that he didn't like, he drank them all without batting an eyelid.

He also took her around to travel, occupying all her energy and leaving her no time to think about anything else.

They played until the end of September when the weather turned cold and they returned to Beijing.

The two were shocked when they entered the Old Summer Palace, because Yaliqi, Hongzhou and others had returned with their families!

In addition, Honghui and other sons also brought their grandchildren, and there was a large group of people in the Old Summer Palace, which looked very crowded.

For the first time, Lin Mingyan had a concrete concept of the term "a house full of descendants".

The Fourth Master was also a little surprised: "Why are Hong Zhou and the others back?"

Now that the railway has been built to Goguryeo, it is only a matter of sending a letter for Yaliqi to come back.

What’s rare is Hongzhou and the others. I heard they are on the other side of the ocean. How come they can come back so soon?

Hong Zhou said with a smile: "Father, it just so happens that the three of us brothers have finished our work, so we thought of coming back to see you and the Empress Dowager."

"It's just a coincidence that I ran into my second sister too!"

"We've already discussed it this time. We'll celebrate your birthday before we go back!"

Honghui also called the palace painter: "The Empress Dowager has always been talking about family portraits. Now that we are all here, let's paint a few scrolls as a souvenir."

Lin Mingyan and the Fourth Master sat in the center of the upper room, surrounded by their children and grandchildren. This happy moment was frozen in time in the painting...