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1.08% Detective Ghost Empress / Chapter 6: A mouse to catch

章 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?"

" 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?"

" 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."

" 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."


章 7: Scaring the little maid

The maid that was sneaking inside the cold palace was named Xiao Mi, she was the youngest out of Concubine Shen's maids but she was one of her trusted servants, after all, she once put her life on the line for her mistress and even got a scar on her face for the sake of her mistress. Thus, even if Xiao Mi was young, she was trusted by Concubine Shen because of her sacrifices, even this task of hiding the abortion medicine in the cold palace came into her hands, after all the Liu family was putting pressure on the Emperor to let Empress Liu go and since the evidence was faint, there was a chance that the Empress would be able to get away from this matter but what if they were to provide a piece of evidence? Then what will the Liu family do?

" Hehe, after I finish with this task, I will be rewarded by concubine Shen," Xiao Mi chuckled under her breath as she skipped past the guards that were guarding the gates and walked inside the cold palace through the dog hole that was at the wall of the back of the palace. " I just need to bury this thing here and then the Empress will be finished——" just as she took out a bowl to dig into the ground of the palace, she felt a burst of cold wind sweep past her, stunned she dropped the bowl and stuttered, " Wh...Who is here? I am telling you…I am concubine Shen's personal maid, don't even think about coming at me."

A cold voice snickered as a dark shadow swept through her. " Concubine Shen …Concubine Shen she says..! Ahahaha what fun! This little maid thinks that she can scare us off with the name of a mortal Concubine, Hehehehe!" The shrill voice echoed through the dark courtyard causing Xiao Mi's heart to turn cold. She was already spooked when the shadow walked through her, and when it went through her, she felt like she has been dumped into a frozen lake, she has been staying in the palace for a long time, and she has heard all the rumours about the cold palace being haunted because of the number of concubines and Empresses took their life here, at first she thought that they were just rumours but now that she was experiencing it, Xiao Mi felt like she was going to lose her life.

She immediately threw the abortion medicine carelessly on the ground and tried to flee but she was blocked by another dark shadow and a snickering voice echoed in the courtyard. " She is running, she is running…come and catch her or else our meal will be gone!"

Meal? She was going to be eaten?

Nervousness and fear flooded her system and she immediately turned around to leave but just as she was trying to run, she came face to face with a figure that was dressed in a long robe. " Are you running after sinning?" The black figure said in a loud and domineering voice causing Xiao Mi's face to turn purple and she shook her head, " I didn't...I didn't commit a sin."

" LIES!" The figure boomed loudly and raised his hand in the air as if he was clutching someone's throat and Xiao Mi suddenly couldn't breathe anymore. Her eyes popped as she looked at the figure and strutted, " Please...Please let me go...I didn't...I wasn't the one who did it…"

" But you lent your hand, didn't you?" said the black robe figure. " Because of you, an innocent soul will die… tonight …I cannot look away from this terrible sin… you will have to come with me and become the meal of those two…"

He unclenched his hands and Xiao Mi dropped to the floor, bursting with fear she turned her head to look over at the dark figures that were approaching her and shuddered. No, she couldn't be eaten! If she was to get eaten then what will happen to her brothers? But if she was, to tell the truth, she will be punished then as well.

Li Gang saw the calculations in her eyes and he immediately smirked, fooling and blackmailing people was something that he knew best. He immediately took a step forward and said, " If you don't tell the truth… and save that innocent soul from dying, then your entire family will die tonight...I will take them with myself!"

Xiao Mi shuddered as she turned to look at the black figure, its eyes were dark pits with a fire burning in them, she could almost imagine her family being roasted alive in that burning fire.

" I will...I will go and tell the truth to the Emperor right now! Just let me go!" Xiao Mi cried as she looked at the figure in front of her. " Please …I will do as you ask me to but let me go!"

" Uh-huh." The figure shook his head. " You have committed a sin, only when you correct it will you be freed."

Xiao Mi gulped and unsteadily got up from her spot and walked towards the exit of the cold palace when something came zooming towards her, smacking her right across the face. She was almost going to yell out loud when she saw that it was the pouch of the abortion medicine that she was burying in the ground just now, stunned she looked over at the figure who said, " Don't try to act smart with me, take out all the evidence you have against the concubine and go the Emperor with me or I will send you to hell along with your family."

This time Xiao Mi didn't act up anymore, she obediently walked to her room and took out all the letters and their responses that she has hidden under the cabinet and pulled out every single thing that she could find against Concubine Shen and brought it to the Emperor, what was even scarier…no one seemed to have seen her as she did what she does right now, it was as if she was invisible.

A shudder went through her spine as she approached the Emperor's palace and announced the reason for her arrival.


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