Detective Ghost Empress

Chapter 6: A mouse to catch

” All right, now you stay here,” pointing to the small couch that was sitting outside the room, Liu Hui Ying ordered Qui Ai. ” I have something really important such as preparing myself to think about how to get out of this situation all right? Let me think in peace, okay?” f𝒓𝑒e𝙬𝒆𝚋𝘯૦𝘷𝐞𝑙.c𝑜𝐦

” Will you be all right, your majesty?” said Qui Ai with a concerned expression. “The Emperor’s cruel decision shocked you a lot tonight, I don’t want to leave you alone, why not we think something in the morning?” 𝒇𝒓eewe𝒃𝑛𝒐𝘃𝒆𝚕.co𝘮

” Ah no, we can’t leave the matter till tomorrow, what if someone tries to harm us tonight?” said Liu Hui Ying with a smile. ” That’s why you stay here and protect the room, in case someone tries to barge in the room, you need to protect me, all right?”

Qui Ai immediately puffed out her tiny chest and patted it. ” Don’t worry, your majesty, I will certainly do that, you can leave your safety in my hands and I will surely protect you till the last breath.”

Liu Hui Ying simply smiled and nodded. ” You do that, we will talk in the morning then.” After that, she ignored what the little girl had to say and closed the door shut before turning to face the three employees of her. ” Now you three listen to me very carefully, that concubine Shen, I don’t know who the fuck she is but she got me in this mess and if I don’t retaliate now, then I will be writing my name backwards from tomorrow morning.”

After thinking it through carefully, Liu Hui Ying came to the conclusion that the only person responsible for her current predicament was Concubine Shen, she was the one who schemed against this sensitive woman, forced her into a corner and pushed her into committing suicide. So, the person that needs to be dealt with was none other than that Concubine!

” What are you planning?” asked Li Gang with a raise of his brow. ” I don’t like that expression on your face.”

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” My plan is very simple,” she walked to the bed that sitting at the end of the room and picked up the robe that she has thrown on the table and burned it, letting Li Gang wear it. ” From what I heard from Qui Ai, the matter only happened an hour ago — if we minus all the sympathy and pity party that might have happened at her courtyard, upon losing her child... I am pretty sure that Concubine Shen must have started cleaning the evidence right now, and from the basic structure of the servants’ hierarchy here, I can be sure that she must have at least three to four loyal servants, who will help her clean the scene. Since she just had a miscarriage, then that woman will be bedridden for a few days” raising her head she looked at the three of them and added, ” Go and catch the one who is hiding the evidence and have them confess make sure that it happens within an hour, I am not patient enough.”

Tipping her chin at the door where the crowd of guards was standing, she scrunched up her nose and said, ” I really hate breathing the same air as those men, get them away from me.”

” Got it, boss,” Jia Li took the lead as she saluted Liu Hui Ying and walked through the wall, Li Gang and Grandma Lan Fen followed suit as they came out of the room through the wall.

With his hands behind his head, Li Gang snorted. ” She always makes us work so hard, and yet we can’t even get a decent meal.”

” We will try to talk about that later with her,” getting up in the air, Jia Li opened the map that was drawn by Qui Ai and later on burned by Liu Hui Ying for her to study. ” Right now, our main focus is to stop her from dying, if we lose this host then I am afraid we will be taken by the Grim reaper since we will lose our jobs.”

Grandma Lan Fen shivered. ” I heard the grim reaper of this era were a lot stiffer and the rules of the underworld were even more strict, I don’t fancy going to the underworld of this time.”

” Then let’s make sure that host of ours doesn’t die,” cracking his neck, he rose to the air and said, ” Let’s split up, the one who gets hold of the person we are looking for, will make a loud screech for others.”

” God I hate screeching,” said Jia Li clearing her throat. ” It’s such an unladylike thing.”

” Then go and get another option,” said Li Gang before shooting out towards the north where Concubine Shen’s courtyard was.

” I will see you later dear,” said Grandma Lan Fen as she too flew away while muttering, ” All I wanted was a nice retirement and here I am working even after death.”

Jia Li flew to the south where the cold palace was — after staying at the forensic department she understood a few things, since they wanted to make it look like the Empress was the one who killed Concubine Shen’s child then they will surely hide the evidence where the Empress would be taken away in case she made out of the ordeal alive.

A cunning person always had a second option prepared.

And sure enough, as she flew towards the cold palace, Jia Li saw a maid trying to sneak inside the cold palace and immediately sucked in a breath before screeching as loudly as she could, ” The mouse is here at the cold palace! Hurry!”

She didn’t need to add the last word as Li Gang and Grandma Lan Fen teleported at once beside her causing her to choke. ” Oh, I forgot that we can do it.”

Grandma Lan Fen smiled. ” Isn’t it nice of Hui Ying to share so much of her spiritual energy with us?”

” What nice? She only shares it with us because she wants us to get her work done as quickly as she wants,” muttered Li Gang rubbing his head.

” Then let’s end this matter as soon as we can,” said Jia Li before flying down in the direction of the maid who was sneaking inside the cold palace. ” We have a mouse to catch.”