Detective Ghost Empress

144 Starting investigation

Before dawn broke, Liu Hui Ying woke up early because she needed something she had to do today.

She flung her feet off the bed and then walked over to the cabinet where Qui Ai and Nanny Gong placed the white powder and rogue thing that they used to ready her usually, she raised her hand and then picked up the thing that the people here called foundation and placed the tip of her finger inside the white powdery substance in the small wooden box but after she rubbed it between the pads of her fingers, Liu Hui Ying clicked her tongue.

” This won’t do,” she placed the wooden box back on the cabinet and then clicked her tongue. ” This is too thin and white if I use it then there is a chance that I will look like a clown and more importantly, this is not waterproof. The task of investigating requires a lot of running around, there is no way this will work if I was to use it.”

Then she picked up the rogue that was sitting next to the foundation and then picked it up as well, she took a good look at the rogue and then shook her head. ” And this can’t be used as well, I need something to contour my features, this will not do the job.”

She turned to grandma Lan Fen and then asked, ” Can you still do your usual things while being here? Don’t tell me that your spaces are not going to work here ?”

” I can try,” Grandma Lan Fen was one of the police officers who had to live undercover for a very long time and in very different cases as different people. Thus, she was used to doing a lot of makeovers for the sake of looking like how the person involved in the case that was handed to her looked, which was why when she died she got the power to use her hands as a great makeover artist.

Like Jia Li who inherited her forensic tools and Li Gang inherited his great strength, after their family members burned those things before burning their corpses, the thing that she got was–

Grandma Lan Fen closed her eyes and then stretched her hand out, as she stretched her hands, the entire space of the room turned into a small makeover room, as the small and ancient cabinet turned into that a high-quality dressing table with a number of masks, brushes, wigs and makeup objects like foundation and eyeshadow boxes.

” Looks like we still have our powers with us,” Jia Li excitedly clapped her hands, she was worried that she would not be able to summon her forensic lab with her but now that she knew that she could summon that space as well, she was really happy. ” I can’t wait to examine the corpses anymore.”

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” You will get a chance soon,” Liu Hui Ying replied as she walked over to the stool that was sitting in front of the dressing table with a number of tools on it, the heels of her feet thumping over the marble floor that has replaced the wooden floor. She pulled the stool behind by dragging it by hooking her feet around the legs of the stool and then sat down as she looked at her reflection in the mirror.

In the bronze plate, her reflection was not that good and now that she was looking at her features that seemed to have softened by a hundred points, Liu Hui Ying clicked her tongue and commented, ” Make sure to make me look fierce, I don’t want to look like a sweet eye candy.” This girl looked like a sweet girl who wouldn’t harm a fly no wonder everyone thought that she was easy to be bullied.

” Aiye, Aiye mam,” Grandma Lan Fen saluted upon receiving the commands and then raised her hand to pick up the brushes that were placed on the cabinet and then turned to look at Liu Hui Ying before she placed her hand at the bottom of Liu Hui Ying’s chin and tipped her face up. ” Now please close your eyes, I am going to start now.”

Liu Hui Ying did as Grandma Lan Fen said and closed her eyes before she allowed Grandma Lan Fen to do her makeover, she knew that the woman was good with her hands which was why she was not at all worried that she will make her look like a clown and as Grandma Lan Fen asked her to open her eyes after fifteen minutes she knew that trusting Grandma Lan Fen was the right thing to do.

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When Qui Ai woke up, the first thing she did was stretch her body and then walk over to the small kitchen where she boiled water for Liu Hui Ying to wash her face. She hummed a soft tune as she poured the water that has been boiled nicely into a small bronze bowl and then mixed some cold water when she saw that the water has gotten a bit warmer than it was needed.

After she was done, she picked up the bronze bowl and placed it on the tray and then walked out of the small kitchen, as usual, she walked back to the courtyard like usual and pushed the door of Liu Hui Ying’s room as usual but what was unusual was that there was no sleeping Liu Hui Ying in the bedroom.

At first, Qui Ai thought that her mistress was inside the bathroom taking a bath but when she did not hear the usual ‘Bam Bam,’ song from inside that her missy sang every time she took a bath, Qui Ai peeked inside the bathhouse but the second she peeked inside the bathhouse, she saw that there was no one inside.

This time Qui Ai was a bit worried which led her to look all over the courtyard and when she did not see Liu Hui Ying in the courtyard she felt her heart thump just as she was thinking about what she needed to do, she saw a small paper scroll on the cabinet of the dressing table and picked it up, her eyes grazed over it and then she shouted, ” NANNY GONG!”

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