Detective Ghost Empress

275 Not a damsel in distress

” What nonsense are you saying?” Zhai Heng was really embarrassed he turned to glare at Yu Lingyun who was standing next to him and wanted to smack him on the back of his head. This man did he really say something like that?

However, even though Zhai Heng was embarrassed on account of Yu Lingyun’s words, he did not hit Yu Lingyun given that the man was his friend and hitting him would be too humiliating and rude on his part but he still raised his feet and then stomped on Yu Lingyun’s feet to snap him out of the daze he was in!

No, sooner did he stomp on the foot of the latter, Yu Lingyun snapped out of his daze he turned his head to look at Zhai Heng before he turned to look at Liu Hui Ying who was looking at him with part disbelief and part confusion . Flames of embarrassment started to burn Yu Lingyun’s face as he lowered his head and said, ” No, it’s nothing.”

Just now he was very attracted by the invisibility talisman, if he had it with him then he wouldn’t have to worry about being killed in the war and would become the strongest undefeated warrior. At least with this talisman, he did not have to sacrifice a bunch of soldiers to break through the enemy army line to kill their general!

Liu Hui Ying too decided to ignore Yu Lingyun’s abrupt explosion, she did not wish to answer the question that he has just spoken and then turned to look at Zhai Heng and said, ” I heard that another maid has been killed, is her corpse kept in the ice house?”

The crime investigation department had a small morgue that was built next to the prison. The bodies of the criminals who killed themselves while they were being investigated were kept in the morgue that had beds of ice blocks inside it.

” Yes, she was killed just a few hours ago which was why her body is not taken away by her family.” The maid was not purchased by the imperial palace, she was the one who came to ask for work in the imperial palace on her own this was one of the many reasons Zhai Heng suspected her, he heard from the head maid that the woman was trying to leave her job from the past few days, but she refused because the kitchen was already having a tough time because of the lack of staff.

Since the maid could run away at any moment, she became one of the prime suspects in his eyes.

Liu Hui Ying nodded and then carefully pondered over before she took out her scalpel and said, ” Can you bring me to the body of that maid? I want to examine her corpse.” Her eyes flickered as she calculated in her head and added, ” I think the case will be over tonight.”

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Zhai Heng and Yu Lingyun were pleasantly surprised, sure enough, this was the difference between the novices and the expert, they were having a headache thinking about what they were going to do now but Liu Hui Ying, this expert said that she was going to solve the case tonight.

” Sure, sure,” Yu Lingyun immediately agreed, he was having a headache because of this case. Consort Liu was an adopted daughter and thus the amount of drama that her death brought could still be managed by him but his soldiers were having a hard time stopping the Su family members who were protesting outside the palace.

Everyday minister Su would take a jab at Zhai Tianyu before turning to the Ji family who will further argue that they were not in charge of investigating the case before emphasizing that the late Consort Su was the one who was at the fault for being involved with messy people and this will incite the wrath of the left prime minister who will further escalate the matter to the point where the court will become a fighting ring, he was completely tired acting as the referee of the wrestling matches being held in the court and his long hair was suffering so much by being pulled and tugged that he was going to go bald very soon.

Liu Hui Ying did not know the sufferings of Yu Lingyun, she only thought that the latter was in a hurry to solve the case. She followed him to the morgue with Zhai Heng who walked next to him, he seemed to be struggling with something.

Liu Hui Ying did not have any ill feelings towards this man, even though he was the brother of that blood-pressure-rising Emperor, he has been kind to her at least she did not see him doing anything that will raise her blood pressure and thus she turned to him and asked, ” What are you hesitating for just spit it out?”

She thought that she was being kind but Zhai Heng almost choked on air when he heard her speak to him in such an impatient voice. He cleared his throat while thinking that he might have done something to annoy Liu Hui Ying and said, ” I am sorry.”

” What?” Liu Hui Ying did not hear him since he spoke so lightly and turned to look at him with a frown. ” What did you say?”

” I said I am sorry,” Zhai Heng repeated, he took a deep breath and turned to look at Liu Hui Ying with an apologetic look on his face as he continued speaking, ” I am sorry for what happened to you, I should have stayed next to you and saved you when it was necessary because of my carelessness you got hurt like this.”

Liu Hui Ying stared at the man with her large eyes blinking and then scoffed, ” Why are you apologizing? I am the one who did not pay attention and it was my fault. You do not need to make it sound like you made a mistake while doing your duty.”

” But it is my duty——”

” No, it’s not anyone else duty to protect me.” Liu Hui Ying interrupted Zhai Heng as she raised a brow and firmly spoke. ” I am responsible for myself, don’t treat me like some damsel in distress who needs a man to save her. If I die then it’s because I was not good enough to fight back and not because someone else did not do a good job while protecting me.”

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