Cut off my tendons in my hands and feet to make me marry? Prepare to die!

Thinking of this, Song and Yue Zihuan found that each other's faces were covered in cold sweat.

Song stood up and said fiercely:

"We can't just sit there and wait for death!"

The housekeeper power has already fallen into her hands, and she must die to hand it over.

Yue Zihuan was not as excited as Song.

He held Song down and said in a deep voice:

"Mother, to be honest, my son is currently working for a distinguished person."

He pointed to the east, signaling the Song family not to make any noise.

"This matter must be kept secret. If it succeeds, my son will surely be very successful in the future. If it fails, my son will probably be left with nothing!"

Song's face gradually turned pale.

She grabbed Yue Zihuan's hand tightly, her bright red nails almost digging into the back of Yue Zihuan's hand:

"Is it that person? If it was that person, how could he lose?"

Yue Zihuan lowered his voice:

"Mother, I cannot say a single extra word, but you must not confront Yue Ran head-on."

"We must not let Yue Ran find out what my son is doing, otherwise..."

Yue Zihuan stared into his mother's eyes and whispered:

"The housekeeper's power is gone, so we can't let Yue Ran doubt us. If she wants the housekeeper's power, you should hand it over."

"Don't forget, as long as the plan continues, this palace will eventually belong to us, mother and son!"

Yue Zihuan's voice became lower and lower, but Song knew what he was referring to.

That's right, she hasn't lost yet.

She has something more important to do than housekeeping power.

Her gaze turned to the largest courtyard in the palace.

My Lord, you forced me to do this.

An hour later, Concubine Qin and Concubine Liu came together to pay a visit to Song, waiting to get the matching keys.

Song looked at the two concubines with cold eyes, her lips tightly pursed, and the cards in her hand were almost broken by her.

She threw the cards and keys on the ground and said coldly:

"Although the prince has asked you to take charge of the household affairs temporarily, I have to say this in advance. If anyone is tempted by the wealth and splendor of the prince's mansion and tries to do something about it, don't blame me for being rude!"

Qin and Liu squatted down calmly to pick up the cards and keys, without any anger on their faces, and bowed:

"I will remember the teachings of my concubine."

These words almost made Song faint.

What's wrong with the concubine? The concubine is also the principal wife!

These two bitches keep calling her a concubine. Are they afraid that she will forget that they were also a concubine?

Song's chest heaved with anger, and she took another sip of tea:

"Okay, step back!"

Qin and Liu left Song's yard with their heads lowered.

When Yue Ran suggested that the two of them be the housekeepers, she didn't think that they would be able to take charge of the household chores so quickly.

As long as they can make the Song mother and son feel fearful and cut off their spies and connections in the palace, that will be enough.

However, what surprised Yue Ran was that it only took Qin five days to thoroughly review the account books of the entire palace.

Finally, Qin brought several accountants to find Prince Dingbei and Yue Ran, and listed all the suspicious accounts in the palace in recent years.

"In the past five years, the palace has had a huge amount of unreconciled accounts of one hundred thousand taels. I have asked these accountants carefully. I dare not hide what they said in the end. I can only come to find the prince to make a decision."

The accountants looked unhappy. Some of them tried to remain calm and said nothing, while others turned pale and had cold sweat on their foreheads.

Yue Yuan didn't expect that he actually found out the bad debts, and they amounted to as much as 100,000 taels.

Seeing that the accountants were trying hard not to speak, Yue Ran gently put down the teacup in his hand and cleared his throat.

An accountant with a face covered in cold sweat suddenly felt weak in the knees and fell to his knees on the ground with a plop:

"Please spare my life, my lord, please spare my life, my humble servant always listens to Shopkeeper Zhao. If you don't obey, my whole family's livelihood will be in jeopardy!"

The fat shopkeeper standing at the front immediately turned around and shouted with fierce eyes:

"Wang Zhi! I've always been very kind to you, how dare you frame me?"

Yue Ran didn't say anything. A cold look flashed in Yue Yuan's eyes, and then the teacup in his hand hit the fat shopkeeper on the forehead.

The fat shopkeeper came back to his senses with a pain, and immediately knelt down, covering his bleeding forehead:

"Your Highness, please calm down. I am just worried because I was wrongly accused..."

Yue Yuan sneered:

"Anyone who dares to call himself the master in front of me is now dead. You are quite courageous!"

He said slowly, word by word:

"It seems that just because I broke my leg, some people really think I am useless?"

For someone who has led troops in battles for more than ten years, he doesn't need to roar loudly when he gets angry, the murderous aura will already permeate his body.

The fat shopkeeper broke out in cold sweat on his back and his throat suddenly felt bitter.

In the past few years, he has done a lot of things for the Song family and felt that he was the Song family's confidant. He has never seen Prince Dingbei ask about the financial affairs of the palace. In his heart, he really regarded this prince with a broken leg as a useless person.

It was not until his head was smashed just now that he finally reacted. King Dingbei had killed countless people in the past.

The fat shopkeeper fell to the ground unconsciously:

"Your Majesty, please calm down. I deserve to die. I deserve to die!"

Yue Yuan snorted coldly:

"Tell me everything you know. You look so bloated, I'm sure your whole family is living a comfortable life. If you don't think about yourself, you should think about your wife and children!"

The fat shopkeeper felt like he was sieved all over, and drops of cold sweat from his forehead dripped onto the ground.

If he told it out loud, he was afraid that the Song family would kill him.

If he didn't tell it, King Dingbei would kill his entire family right now.

"I, I said..."

Yue Ran sat next to her father, listening to Shopkeeper Zhao explain the whereabouts of all the wrong accounts one by one.

Qin stood by and calmly ordered someone to record it.

After Shopkeeper Zhao finished speaking, he collapsed to the ground:

"Your Majesty, please spare my family. I have an 80-year-old mother and a 5-year-old child..."

Yue Yuan waved his hand in annoyance:

"Drag him away and lock him up!"

"Considering that he sincerely pleaded guilty, his wife and children will not be harmed!"

Shopkeeper Zhao was crying with cold sweat as he was dragged away like a dead dog.

Yue Yuan's face gradually darkened.

Concubine Qin placed the confession on the table and bowed:

"I retire."

Why did I let such a useful person go to waste in the backyard in my previous life!

Yue Ran cast an admiring look at Qin's slender back, then picked up the confession and looked at the whereabouts of the accounts one by one.

Over the years, the Song family has privately purchased a lot of properties and farms, but this is not the bulk of it.

Of the embezzled money, a total of 80,000 taels of silver flowed into the Eastern Palace through Yue Zihuan's hands.

This matter can be big or small.

To put it in a broader sense, the Dingbei Palace secretly supported the prince, hoping to gain the credit of being a follower of the crown prince.

Yue Ran was almost certain that in the eyes of Emperor Shengwen, Yue Zihuan's actions were equivalent to the actions of the Dingbei Palace.

"Father, we have to take the initiative to inform His Majesty."

The Dingbei Palace has the Dingbei Army, so why do we need to follow the dragon?

As long as the Dingbei Army exists, the Dingbei Palace will be the pillar of the northern border of the Great Chu.

Yue Yuan clenched his back teeth and trembled with anger.

That rebellious son! How dare he secretly take sides without telling him.

If he took the initiative to petition Emperor Shengwen, the palace would naturally be relieved of its responsibility, but Yue Zihuan would never be able to obtain the position of crown prince in his lifetime.

In other words, this son is completely ruined.

If he doesn't go to see the emperor, and wait for the emperor to investigate the matter himself, the Dingbei Palace will be like yellow mud stuck in the crotch of the pants, which cannot be washed out!

Yue Yuan took a few long breaths, and finally closed his eyes tiredly:

"Ranran, tomorrow you and your father will go to the palace to meet the emperor."