Detective Ghost Empress

“Let’s go Xiaolin, we should go for a walk,” she told her maid who was crouching on the floor and sewing new shoes for her miss, this was something that Xiaolin liked to do even when Ji Yu told her that there was no need for her to make embroidered shoes for her anymore. ” We should go and pay respects to the deceased even though she never got along with us, it would be rude of us to not pay our respects when she is still in the imperial palace.”

” Oh, oh,” Xiaolin hurriedly placed the shoe on which she was working and then walked after her miss who was heading out of the room. However, after taking a couple of steps, Xiaolin paused and then turned to look at her miss and asked, ” Your highness, why are you going to see concubine Liu? I heard that even her majesty hasn’t gone to see the deceased yet.”

As Empress Liu Hui Ying was supposed to be the one who should have gone to see Liu Fei Fei and pay her respects but instead she stayed where she was in her courtyard and did not even say anything nor did she send any word of mourning to the courtyard that belonged to the late Concubine Liu Fei Fei.

“It’s because the Empress has never been close to Concubine Liu,” replied Ji Yu with a calm expression as she turned to look at the little girl who was walking a step behind her. ” And she knows that showing closeness and respect to concubine Liu now will only cause everyone to suspect her even more, which was why she won’t be showing her face so soon. Instead, she will go to pay her respects after Dowager Empress does. After all, she is no fool.”

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” Concubine Liu was killed,” Zhai Heng returned to Zhai Tianyu’s study after he was done investigating everything, even though there was an obvious sign of someone cleaning up the crime scene but even then it would be impossible for them to wipe everything off which was why he was able to get enough evidence to prove that the woman was killed instead of committing suicide.

” Someone dragged her body after she was drowned and there was something in her hands, there is obvious damage from someone scratching her hand, but what she was holding in her hand or what was taken out of her hands there is no sign of it,” Zhai Heng reported to Zhai Tianyu who was sitting on his seat with a sombre look on his face, his fingers were linked together as he carefully thought about what he needed to do now.

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” If someone killed her then it is obvious that she knew something,” Zhai Tianyu’s eyes flickered as he remembered the woman who was an obvious idiot. She acted smart but the truth was that she did not even have enough wits to save herself from a little bee if it was to attack her.

” The girl though witless was nosy, she must have seen something that she should not have and was thus silenced but what worries me is what did she see?” Zhai Tianyu murmured as he looked at his brother who shook his head.

” I don’t know, I tried to ask her nanny if she knew something but the woman refused to say that her miss really did kill herself over the fact that you never went to see her,” which was the truth, Zhai Tianyu has indeed not visited any women other than the Empress and Ji Yu in the harem, even those two women cannot be said to have gained his affections. ” But I don’t think that the nanny is speaking the truth, she is most likely being threatened by someone because she was really resentful throughout the time I was there.”

“Must have been the Dowager Empress,” even though no one knew that the Dowager Empress and Liu Hui Ying went to see Liu Fei Fei, nothing could be hidden from him as long as he wanted to find out about it and since he was bent on finding everything that happened, Zhai Tianyu was able to find about the visit of Dowager Empress and Liu Hui Ying to the Liu Fei Fei’s courtyard.

And was so looking forward to getting an answer from the Empress once he was done with the work.

” Did the left prime minister say anything?” He asked if he knew that Liu Dong Ming was not a man who will silently take a loss. Liu Fei Fei might have been a worthless chess piece for him but she was a chess piece that was controlled by him, for someone to throw that piece away and then make it irrelevant, Liu Dong Ming would not be pleased with it.

” He did not say anything,” Zhai Heng crossed his arms behind his back and answered respectfully. ” But I think that this is scarier than him speaking, that man has never taken a loss in silence every time something like this happens to him, he had retaliated ten times fold. I worry that the incoming days will not be peaceful.”

Zhai Tianyu’s gaze turned heavy at his brother’s words, he had to admit that what his brother said was the truth, Liu Dong Ming was a man who has never taken a loss without making his opponent pay him back ten times the interest for him to stay silent at this moment and agree that Liu Fei Fei’s death was indeed suicide…. A storm seemed to be brewing.