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

Lin Mingyan didn't care what the young eunuch said, because the Fourth Master had burst the sandbag and his hand was bleeding.

"Ah~" she exclaimed after taking a breath, "Master, you are hurt!"

"Quick, Dujuan, bring me some clean Songjiang cloth."

"Su He, go to the kitchen and get a pot of water. Make sure it's boiling!"

......

Watching her busying around him, the Fourth Master stood there motionless.

The wound on his hand didn't hurt at all. After all, it was common for archers to be injured, so what was this little injury?

But when someone frowns because of such a small injury of yours, the feeling is always different.

In fact, the Fourth Master had wronged the women in the backyard. If he had been injured in front of them, they would have shown different concern.

But he was a very strong person. When he was injured, he would stay in the front yard and would not step into the backyard until he was fully recovered.

Lin Mingyan inexplicably picked up a ready-made feeling of being touched, but she didn't know why.

After a busy period, the Fourth Master's hands were finally disinfected, applied with medicine and bandaged.

She then remembered what the eunuch had just said and asked, "Master, what's wrong with the swing?"

She took down the swing with great pain, and it turned out to be a problem?

"Speak." The Fourth Master didn't know yet, and the little eunuch was still kneeling on the ground.

Upon hearing this, he spilled the beans from a bamboo tube and told the results of his careful inspection.

It turned out that someone had cut a small hole in the hidden place at the top of the swing rope with a sharp knife.

The hole is not noticeable and will not cause the swing to break down immediately.

But if Lin Mingyan swung on the swing frequently, coupled with her growing belly and increasing weight, she would not be able to support herself and would break.

By the time time has passed, there will be no trace of human activity in this small hole.

If something really happened, no matter how they investigated, they would only come to the conclusion that it was broken due to neglect for thousands of years.

Then we can only blame Lin Mingyan's bad luck.

Lin Mingyan didn't feel anything after hearing this, after all, these things hadn't happened yet.

Besides, she was very careful and knew that "dangerous" items like swings were high-risk areas for backyard fights.

I often ask Su He to go for a check-up. Even if it’s not obvious now, it will be obvious if it gets really bad.

But the Fourth Master is different. He has a stronger sense of crisis.

Commonly known as the "Emperor of Brain Supplementation".

Through the small cut on the swing, he had already imagined the scene of Cha Cha falling to the ground with a big belly and bleeding profusely.

Imagine a chill running straight to your head.

He threw the swing rope in his hand to the ground: "Investigate strictly!"

Lin Mingyan finally managed to calm the man down, but he became unhappy again.

I feel I have a long way to go.

In that case, let's get some benefits for ourselves.

She took the Fourth Master's hand and placed it on her belly, which didn't show any sign of pregnancy at all.

"Master, what did you touch~"

The Fourth Master's forehead was full of question marks: "Huh? What?"

A belly full of meat?

"Of course it's the baby?" Lin Mingyan said with her eyes wide open, "This is what I'm most afraid of today."

Fourth Master: “Hmm???”

Only three months old, and you're already scared?

He doesn't understand these things and no one has taught him.

When Song and Li were pregnant, they were afraid that their bellies would grow too big and look ugly, so they basically wouldn't let him touch their bellies.

Although Li often used her unborn child to win favor, she would always coax him over for a meal and use the child as an excuse to ask for some reward.

Cha Cha is also short of money?

He just gave me twenty thousand taels in a roundabout way. Has he spent it all?

The Fourth Master felt that he understood the problem and was about to ask Su Peisheng to get some rewards.

Lin Mingyan spoke first: "Of course it's scared! If the baby is scared, he must want to hear his father's voice. How about Grandpa read to him?"

She was a peony in her previous life, but she had also seen her colleagues get pregnant.

I heard that the relationship between a father and his child is not innate like the one between a mother and her child, but needs to be cultivated.

The best way to cultivate is prenatal education.

Think about it, if you keep a dog and talk to it every day, wouldn’t it be closer than not talking to it at all?

So, taking advantage of this opportunity, the important task of prenatal education was handed over to the Fourth Master.

The Fourth Master was truly stunned, his tongue almost knotted as he held the scroll that Lin Mingyan had asked someone to bring him.

Reading to a baby in the belly?

This is really the first time he has done this in his life.

The Manchus actually advocate holding grandchildren rather than sons. Fathers will not be too close to children who have not yet grown up.

Because children are very fragile, even in wealthy families, the child mortality rate is very high.

It's hard not to feel sad after investing so much emotion but not being able to keep the child.

To avoid heartbreak, just... treat it with indifference.

Seeing that Lin Mingyan had complicated feelings, the Fourth Master finally chose to compromise.

Who cares? What’s wrong with being willful once?

He believed that the child he and Cha Cha had would definitely have a good outcome.

Only Lin Mingyan and her husband were left in the room.

She lay on the chaise longue, while the Fourth Master sat in front of the wide-open window, reading a book word by word.

His voice was low and elegant, and the book he read was fluent and pleasant to listen to. Lin Mingyan listened with great interest.

After the prenatal education session, the Fourth Master drank the entire pot of tea, and his throat was a little hoarse.

Lin Mingyan had climbed on top of him without knowing when, and was casually playing with the buttons on his collar.

"My baby said he was very satisfied. Let's continue tomorrow~"

The Fourth Master sneered, and the unhappiness that had been accumulating in his heart had indeed almost dissipated.

Remembering the misunderstanding just now, he even asked with concern: "Has Chacha used up the 20,000 taels she earned?"

If it's like Fu Jin, where one dish costs a thousand taels of silver, then twenty thousand taels won't last long.

He was not the kind of person who treated his wives and concubines harshly. If the money was really used up, he would give them some more.

Lin Mingyan didn't expect him to ask this. She scratched her head and said embarrassedly, "I...I gave it to my brother and uncle."

At first, I was planning to buy a farm or a store, but after looking around, I couldn't find a good one.

When Su Hetai and Lin Mingheng went to the battlefield, she almost spent all her money and had no money left.

Now that I think about it, is this Voldemort's behavior?

If she posts something on Xiaohongshu in modern times, I guess a lot of people would scold her to death.

What's more, in ancient times, she even belonged to the Fourth Master, and the money she earned was used to support her parents' family... It's hard to judge.

The Fourth Master didn't expect this answer, but he didn't think that she shouldn't spend money on her parents' home, otherwise he wouldn't help cover up the New Year gift.

What made him angry was that Cha Cha's family sold her for a hundred taels of silver, and now they dared to coax her into giving them the money?

He said with a dark face: "What did they do with the money? But there is a patient at home?"

The Fourth Master had wanted to ask this for a long time. If he sold his daughter for a hundred taels, what if she came to his house and was bought by a bad guy?

He started to imagine again, and the more he thought about it, the angrier he got.

Lin Mingyan decided to confess and get a lighter sentence: "My brother was only eleven years old when he was chosen to go to war. I was afraid that something would happen to him, so I paid money to buy his life."

Fourth Master: Can I still buy my life? ? ? ?

"Going to war?" His expression was stern.

Fu Jin's younger brother has already caused him to lose his title of Prince, and the Cha Cha family is trying to make him lose his title of Beile.

He now has PTSD from going on the expedition!