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

Lin Mingyan felt guilty for a moment and her eyes dodged.

But it only took a moment for him to become confident.

Isn’t he just my cousin?

How can she control everything in the world and decide whether other people give birth to boys?

"Master, can't you come yet?" The Fourth Master sat down expressionlessly, and habitually stretched out his hand, trying to pull Cha Cha to sit on his lap.

But when he thought of his cousin, he stopped his half-extended hand and took a melon seed from the fruit bowl to eat.

The next second, he spat out: "...bad!"

Really, even a melon seed is annoying to me!

His eyes glanced to the side, and Lin Mingyan almost couldn't help laughing out loud.

"You little heartless thing, huh?" The Fourth Master couldn't catch his breath and put his hand under the hem of Lin Mingyan's coat.

Tickle Lin Mingyan's itchy spot!

"No, no, no~" Lin Mingyan was shocked and laughed until tears came out.

The Fourth Master finally felt relieved and curled his lips: "Cha Cha likes to laugh so much, just laugh a little longer~"

He was merciless, but he remembered that Lin Mingyan was pregnant, so he didn't make any big movements.

Just gently poking here and there made Lin Mingyan even more itchy.

She almost got a stitch in her side from laughing, and finally grabbed the Fourth Master's hand that was causing trouble, and said angrily, "Master, you are so mean!"

"Then who is better? Your cousin?" The Fourth Master himself didn't even notice the sourness in his words.

He just felt that Cha Cha's family treated her badly, and she was stupid for always remembering them.

Yes, he was just angry that Cha Cha was acting stupid again!

Lin Mingyan didn't expect him to be so blunt. She stopped laughing and said stubbornly, "Yes, my cousin has always been a very good person."

"We ran out of food several times, and it was only thanks to my cousin's kindness that our family of four survived starvation!"

What she said was true. Wang Jingcheng had really helped their family in the past few years.

Later, after he got engaged to Lin Mingzhen, you can't blame him for wanting to avoid suspicion.

The Fourth Master's face suddenly fell: "Wouldn't it be best if you could provide some food?"

The tone was like that of a sour chicken, but he was completely oblivious.

Silly Cha Cha, she has already remembered this little favor in her heart. She didn’t even know that the master gave her 20,000 taels!

The Fourth Master was so angry that he wanted to take her to the farm to see the nine lanterns he had placed there.

So that she will feel that her master is the best!

Lin Mingyan had long noticed the Fourth Master's little thoughts, but she thought it was funny and deliberately sang a different tune: "Of course, the aid they gave us wasn't just food, it was the lives of my family of four~"

"The kindness of helping someone in need is truly precious~"

Fourth Master: ...Are you really going to piss me off to death today?!

"Oh, then your cousin treats you the best~" The Fourth Master said one thing but meant another, a sour tone spreading across his face.

The cute Fourth Master is about to get angry!

Lin Mingyan then smiled lightly, leaned in Fourth Master's arms and shook her head: "No, you are the best to me!"

"Cousin, no, Wang Jingcheng helped our family a few times before, giving us some rice, grain, copper coins, etc."

"Then he got engaged to my cousin, and we stopped seeing each other."

Wang Jingben had no obligation to help their family, but he did it as a favor.

It was his duty to stop giving it later, and from another perspective, it was also a sign of his being a gentleman.

She is not the kind of person who repays kindness with enmity, and she will not hold a grudge against him for this.

After hearing this, the Fourth Master felt relieved, but he didn't think his cousin was a good person.

He hummed, "If you're engaged, don't you mean you're relatives?"

"If you don't help your relatives when they are in trouble, even though you have the ability to do so, are you still a good person?"

Thinking about how Cha Cha almost starved to death at home two years ago, he felt even angrier.

Humph, hypocrite!

Lin Mingyan was stunned when she heard this: Wrong logic! She had never thought about it this way.

But on second thought, the Fourth Master's twisted logic has already taken root in my heart.

Wang Jingcheng's initial help to her was not out of sympathy for their relative's hard life, but because he had some other intentions towards her.

Maybe this is a kind of investment, to gain her favor in the hope of getting a return.

After getting engaged to Lin Mingzhen, this investment no longer had any returns and even brought losses - making his fiancée angry.

Lin Mingyan couldn't help but think that if the Fourth Master was her cousin, he would not support her for any other reason.

After all, when he walked on the road, he could give her ten taels of silver just by seeing her crying pitifully.

Comparing the two, superiority and inferiority are obvious.

Lin Mingyan couldn't help but hug him and kiss him, saying, "You are the best!"

After emphasizing this for more than a dozen times, the Fourth Master finally showed his first smile of the day.

When he is in a good mood, he is still a very reasonable person.

"A gentleman judges deeds, not intentions. After all, he did help you."

The Fourth Master thought about it and decided that he couldn't owe this cousin anything. "How about this, I'll repay you. Don't think too much about it."

Lin Mingyan thought to herself, I have already repaid him, so I don’t care who he is from now on.

But the Fourth Master's words were really domineering and she was a little attracted to him, so she nodded desperately: "Okay, then Cha Cha is relying on me!"

Seeing that she really didn't care at all, the Fourth Master's mood inexplicably improved.

Seeing him ordering people to bring in a lot more books, Lin Mingyan asked curiously, "Master, aren't you on duty today?"

What's so strange about it? Today is not a day off for the Ministry of Revenue, so why is he in the backyard at this time?

Fourth Master: "I'll be able to spend more time with you in the future~"

His tone was very relaxed, and he even leaned back in the solid wood chair, looking very casual.

But Lin Mingyan knew he was unhappy at first sight, so she tugged at his collar and asked, "Master, what's wrong?"

Could it be that the people in the Ministry of Revenue were so bold that they kicked him out because he was only given the title of Beile?

It would be best if these people died after he came to power, otherwise they would die in a very ugly way.

"I've handed my errand over to someone else," the Fourth Master snorted, "Rest home for a while."

In fact, after the morning court today, the emperor called him to the Qianqing Palace and threw a bunch of philosophers at him.

"Fourth brother, please open it and take a good look!" Kangxi said in a flat tone.

The Fourth Master picked it up doubtfully, flipped through it, and then he lost his composure.

Because all these memorials were insulting him, and even if they were indirect insults, they were still insults!

Of course he argued with reason, he was just collecting the overdue payment, not because he had any selfish motives.

But in the end, he gave his job to Lao Ba and asked him to go home and recuperate.

Although I brought back several carts of rewards, what's the point?

He was doing a good job and had even seen some initial results, so he handed the job over to someone else!

"As long as we can withstand this wave, everyone will pay back the money unless the emperor gives any orders!" The Fourth Master was very unhappy.

All other matters of face are forgotten; the only thing he cares about is whether the national treasury is full.

But others don’t think so. They only care about whether there is something useful in their wallets.

"Hmph, if you don't ask me to take care of it, then I won't~" The Fourth Master was holding on to his treasure, saying one thing and thinking another.