Detective Ghost Empress

274 Difference between novice and expert

” The maid killed herself?” Yu Lingyun asked with a frown as he looked at Zhai Heng who solemnly nodded, they have been looking for the killer who assassinated Consort Liu and Consort Su, after much looking around they finally caught a clue and were so looking forward to dealing with this case once and for all but then the clue was killed as well!

Zhai Heng had asked one of his shadow guards to keep an eye on the maids of the kitchen, in fact, he did not think that he will find any clues after so long but surprisingly his shadow guard brought him the information that one of the maids from the kitchen was actually acting suspicious, she was responsible for filling up the barrels but these days she was refusing to do so and she even stopped washing the barrels.

The information was enough to point out that maid was in cahoots with the killer but they still did not attack her at once instead they waited to collect as much information as they could and it was only after they found out that the maid was carrying a talisman everywhere she went and was spooked out at the smallest thing did they come to the conclusion that she was indeed involved with the killer.

Tonight they were supposed to be interrogating the maid but before they could even catch her, one of the guards told them that the maid died by jumping in the pond and killed herself.

” What’s going on, why are they all dying in the pond one after another ?” Yu Lingyun could not understand why the killer was killing everyone by throwing them into the water, just like consort Su and consort Liu, they knew that the maid did not commit suicide instead she was killed by the killer. Just like Consort Su and Consort Liu, they found traces of her being killed.

There were finger imprints at the back of the neck of the maid and her eyes were open, why would a maid who wanted to kill herself keep her eyes open? If she was jumping down the pond to kill herself then she would have closed her eyes. But when they found the body of the maid, her eyes were open and she was staring at the horizon with terror etched on every single line of her face.

” I don’t understand either,” Zhai Heng didn’t want to ask Liu Hui Ying’s help, she got injured so badly when she was looking for the clues regarding this case, and he did not want her to get attacked again which was why he wanted to find all the clues by himself. But the thing was that he was not an investigator, he was a leader who was supposed to be leading the special army of the Emperor.

The crime investigation department was under the Ji family, if they were to ask for their help, the Ji family will take the opportunity to frame the Empress and they did not want that which was why even though they were having a hard time flying around like a pair of headless flies they could only do what they were capable of.

” Maybe the guy has some water fetish,” a voice joined them out of nowhere and Zhai Heng along with Yu Lingyun who did not expect this to happen at all jumped up. They looked left and right but did not see anyone, Yu Lingyun who got terrified even at the mention of the word ‘ghost’ let out a whimper and turned to look at Zhai Heng.

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” My…My dear friend, you also heard that right? Please tell me that you heard it as well,” he said to Zhai Heng, he did not want to be the only one who was being haunted by a ghost.

At the same time he could not help but curse Zhai Tianyu for being too much of a bully, he was the one who went ahead and fought with the queen and yet as his friend he ended up getting burned by the flame that his good brother ignited.

Zhai Heng on the other did not seem as scared instead he raised his hand and then unsheathed his sword before whipping it out and then pointing in the direction from where the voice came and said, ” Who is there? Come out now before I shred you to pieces.”

” You are really impatient aren’t you? Are you the type of guy who rips than taking something off?” Liu Hui Ying was on the way to the courtyard of the consort Su when she saw these two men talking, which was why she stopped and listened to their conversation, it was just that she ended up getting a bit too engrossed with their conversation and theories that she completely forgot to take the invisibility talisman off her body and spoke up.

Zhai Heng was stunned when he heard the voice coming from behind, he whipped around with a twist of his feet and then aimed the tip of his sword at Liu Hui Ying’s neck.

” Woah what are you doing?” Liu Hui Ying leaned back as she pushed the sword away with the tip of her fingers. ” I am here to help you, this is not the way you should be treating me.”

“Your..your majesty, what are you doing here? No, that’s not important how did you come out without being caught?” He heard from Zhai Tianyu that Liu Hui Ying’s father was very upset with him and sent a bunch of guards of his own family to guard his daughter upon finding out that the Emperor did not take proper care of his daughter which was why he thought that there was no way Liu Hui Ying would be able to sneak out of the palace.

Turns out that he was the one who was foolish enough to believe something like this.

” Oh that was pretty simple,” Liu Hui Ying replied as she lifted the talisman in her hand and said, ” You see this right?”

The two men nodded, seeing them nod Liu Hui Ying stuck and then unstuck the talisman on her body. ” I can get invisible with this so..what’s wrong with you general Yu?”

She noticed the burning gaze locked on her face and could not help but ask.

Yu Lingyun looked at the invisibility talisman with a dreamy look in his eyes and said, ” Do you need a dog, your majesty?”

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