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

It took an hour to put out the fire in Dingbei Palace.

Not only was the pharmacy in the palace burned down, the fire spread outward with the wind and even burned to the courtyard where Yue Zihuan lived.

It is said that Yue Zihuan and the servants in the courtyard fought desperately to snatch a bunch of books from the study, and Yue Zihuan's clothes were burnt with several holes.

By the time the fire was put out, half of Yue Zihuan's yard had been burned down, making it uninhabitable.

In the evening, Yue Ran pushed Yue Yuan to Yue Ziyu's Qiyun Pavilion.

Yue Zihuan stood in the study of Qiyun Pavilion and bowed to Yue Yuan across the threshold:

"Father, I thought today...I would never see you again."

His voice was choked up at the end, and his eyes gradually turned red.

Yue Yuan looked at his son, whom he once had high hopes for, with a complicated expression, and an indescribable pain surged in his heart.

This son was once his heir whom he had nurtured with great expectations.

Before Yue Ran returned to Beijing, he had even written a memorial requesting that he be conferred the title of Crown Prince.

Yue Zihuan is already 21 years old this year. If he can be named the prince of the royal palace this year, there will definitely be noble ladies in the capital who are willing to marry into the royal palace, and Yue Zihuan will officially become one of the heirs in the capital.

In the families of kings, princes, generals and ministers, the circumstances are completely different depending on whether their children can become heirs.

Especially since Yue Zihuan's biological mother was promoted from a concubine to a wife, her status was lower than Yue Ran's.

Once he becomes the prince of the royal palace, all the powerful people in the capital will look at Yue Zihuan with higher regard, and his status will be incomparable to before.

Yue Yuan had also painstakingly arranged his future.

All these previous arrangements and intentions were burned to ashes by Yue Zihuan's fire today.

Yue Yuan took a deep breath and spoke calmly:

"I'm glad you're okay. You'll be under house arrest for a few more days. Just stay in your second brother's courtyard."

Yue Zihuan thought he had heard wrongly and quickly looked up at Yue Yuan.

He was almost burned to death today, and his father actually wanted him to continue to be confined to his home?

Although he was the one who set the fire, his father didn't know about it!

Yue Zihuan pinched his thigh hard, tears welling up in his eyes:

"Father, I heard that all the herbs in the pharmacy were burned. What should I do? What should I do with your medicine in the future?"

He spoke hastily:

"I am not a talented son, but I am willing to leave the capital to find the ghost doctor Zhang Bujiu and ask him to prescribe new medicine for my father..."

Yue Yuan waved his hand to interrupt Yue Zihuan's words:

"No need. Today, Ranran came to the palace and asked Ning Xin, the female doctor who works for the Queen Mother, to come to me. She is Zhang Bushu's niece and can prescribe medicine for me."

Upon hearing this, Yue Zihuan's face suddenly changed, and turned as pale as paper in an instant. He clenched his hands unconsciously, and there was deep fear in his eyes.

Fortunately, after he heard from the servant today that Yue Ran had brought someone back, he immediately decided to set fire to the pharmacy.

Otherwise, the ghost doctor's nephew would definitely discover that the medicines had been tampered with.

Yue Zihuan gently turned his head to look at Yue Ran, and couldn't help but look at this sister carefully.

He seemed to never understand Yue Ran.

He knew the female doctor Ning Xin, who was the empress dowager's personal doctor and even the queen couldn't invite her to see patients.

He also knew that Ning Xin was an excellent doctor, but because of the presence of the Queen Mother, he never thought that Ning Xin would leave the palace and come to the palace to treat his father.

What did Yue Ran do after entering the palace? Why was she able to convince the Queen Mother to send Ning Xin?

Before this, he had always believed that Feng Xiaolou was the smartest woman in the capital.

He also firmly believed that Feng Xiaolou could easily push Yue Ran into the abyss from which there would be no rebirth.

But after this month, he had to re-examine Yue Ran.

Ever since Yue Ran returned to Beijing, all his and Xiao Lou's plans had failed, and now it was even more difficult for him to contact Xiao Lou.

All this is because of Yue Ran!

Yue Ran noticed Yue Zihuan's gaze and swept his eyes lightly across his face with a hint of inexplicable smile in his eyes.

Yue Zihuan took a deep breath without realizing it, feeling that his thoughts were exposed under Yue Ran's sight.

He tried hard to adjust his expression, trying to hide his resentment and anger. He took a step back and forced a smile at the corner of his mouth, although the smile looked a little stiff and unnatural.

"My sister is thoughtful. In front of my elder sister, I am really useless."

A wry smile appeared on Yue Zihuan's lips, his voice was half hoarse, with a hint of sadness between his brows, and his handsome face exuded an air of immortality.

Whenever the noble ladies in the capital saw him like this, they would let down their guard.

However, Yue Ran raised his eyebrows slightly, his tone indifferent and calm:

"It's okay. I'm used to it."

If Yue Zihuan really had some sense of responsibility, she wouldn't have gone to the battle for her father back then.

He wanted everything, but he didn't want to sacrifice anything.

He would even team up with Chu Hantian and Feng Xiaolou to steal everything she had worked so hard to gain.

He is the eldest son of the Dingbei Palace, but he acts like a thief.

Yue Zihuan felt suffocated by Yue Ran's words.

Yue Ran is targeting him!

Could it be that Yue Ran discovered something?

Yue Zihuan raised his eyes to look at Yue Ran, but could not see anything unusual.

Yue Yuan has already opened his mouth and ordered:

"In the next few days, your father will cooperate with Dr. Ning to treat the patient. All matters of the palace, big or small, will be decided by your eldest sister and the two concubines."

!!! There is clearly still the eldest son in the palace!

The king would rather let Yue Ran and the concubine take charge of the situation than lift the house arrest early.

It has been like this since childhood. Father is too partial to Yue Ran!

Yue Zihuan suppressed his emotions, bowed his head and said:

"My son understands. He will stay in the hospital until the confinement period is over."

Yue Yuan didn't want to look at his son any longer at this moment. He said a few words casually and urged Yue Ran to push him away.

Yue Zihuan stood up straight, watching his father and sister go away. The cold sweat on his back made his clothes stick to his body, but he didn't care.

Will the ghost doctor's nephew be able to diagnose the poison in my father's body?

He gritted his teeth and his eyes were gloomy.

Even if it was discovered that his father was poisoned, what would happen? The pharmacy was burned down and there was no evidence. No one knew what he and his mother had done in the past five years.

After nightfall, Yue Ran took off the pearl hairpin on her head and gently rubbed her wrists.

Today has been a really tiring day.

But it's worth the effort.

She showed the tattoo on her shoulder in public in the palace. Although it still made her look unique, it was much better than being forced to undergo a physical examination by the nanny.

From now on, she and Hall were completely done with each other.

With the Queen Mother's promise, I can bring the female doctor Ning Xin back to the palace, so that someone can finally save my father.

As for the few imperial doctors in the Imperial Hospital who were in cahoots with the Song family...

Yue Ran narrowed her eyes, thinking that this matter must be the work of Crown Prince Chu Hantian.

She will slowly settle this account with Chu Hantian.

Speaking of which, no one knows what the current situation is of the manor in Qingquan Mountain where Chu Hantian secretly went.

I hope the trap she set there will treat Chu Hantian well.