Detective Ghost Empress

300 autumn hunt

Zhai Tianyu paused his work when he heard that Liu Hui Ying was feeling stressed. He raised his hand and then placed it under his chin and turned his head to the window that overlooked the harem and hummed softly.

A part of him could not believe that the Queen was feeling stressed after all, his queen was not a woman who will feel stressed in fact she was one of those women who will make the entire imperial palace feel stressed while she munched on her meal while humming a soft tune.

” You said that the queen is stressed, do you know why?” He asked Yu Lingyun who was standing in front of his table and reporting everything that was going on in the imperial palace.

” Of course, I don’t.” Yu Lingyun frowned and replied. ” One, I don’t understand the queen, she is somewhat ….I don’t know crazy..?”

But then he saw Zhai Tianyu turn his head and look at him with a raise of his brow and immediately changed his words, ” I mean she is weird … no that’s not it.”

Yu Lingyun tried to mend the situation but the more he tried to mend it the more he made a mess.

In the end, Zhai Tianyu couldn’t see his general bumbling around like a baboon and said, ” Stop, there is no need for you to … change your words just go on.”

Feeling a bit relieved that he wouldn’t have to change his words, Yu Lingyun heaved a breath and went on speaking, ” Secondly, the queen seemed to be inside her courtyard, I cannot ask what is going on with her … as for little Ai.”

He trailed off and then turned his head to the side but Zhai Tianyu could see an angry red print on Yu Lingyun’s neck which looked as if his general was smacked on the neck with something flat and by someone who was short in stature but was very angry to care about their height differences.

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” Were you beaten by the Queen’s maid?” Zhai Tianyu asked as he looked at the angry mark on Yu Lingyun’s neck, the latter has obviously tried to hide it with his robe but the uniform of his general made it impossible for Yu Lingyun to hide the mark.

” Of course not!” Yu Lingyun drawled making sure to stretch the ‘not’ long and nice. ” I am so handsome, as long as I smile and apologize with a gift who will dare to say no to me?”

Zhai Tianyu did not say anything he simply stared at his flustered looking general and then after a long pause remarked, ” You were hit …not only were you beaten by a maid half of your size, you were even chased by her, were you not?”

He could, of course, see the several welts on the back of Yu Lingyun’s hands, the marks made it seem like Yu Lingyun was hit on a whim and his attacker attacked him wherever they could get an opportunity to hit him.

If he was to ask Yu Lingyun to take his robe off, Zhai Tianyu was sure that he will see many welts on Yu Lingyun’s arms as well.

Yu Lingyun who was caught flushed red in shame, he glared at his best friend and then said in humiliation, ” So what? It is not my fault! Your wife, she is such a man-hater that she is raising an army of women by filling their ears against men!”

” You just wait one day, the Queen will come attacking the imperial palace to conquer the world with a bunch of angry women holding rattan sticks!”

“I am so overwhelmed with the bravery of my general,” replied Zhai Tianyu dryly as he lowered his head and looked down at the document that was in front of him. ” The general who fought battles after battles was beaten by a woman with a rattan stick, awesome.”

” You…do you think that I was defeated because I wanted to?” Yu Lingyun looked at his friend in disbelief. Who was the reason behind this? Who was the one who caused this trouble?

If not for Zhai Tianyu who punished the queen by handing her a jar of poisonous wine, he wouldn’t have been beaten like a wet dog!

“I am a man who will not find faults with a young woman, I simply …I simply let her generously hit me! Nothing more.”

The truth was that Yu Lingyun as soon as he arrived in front of Qui Ai who was working in the courtyard of the queen was attacked by the latter like a rooster protecting his hen and chicks.

He did not even get to say another word other than ‘hello’.

” Sure, sure whatever that helps you in sleeping at night,” Zhai Tianyu on the other hand knew the truth, even if Yu Lingyun’s opponent was a woman, he could have stopped her but he couldn’t which means that Qui Ai took him by surprise.

Yu Lingyun knew that his friend did not believe a thing that he said and pursed his lips and murmured, ” Just wait for your turn, do you think you are safe? I was attacked by the vice commander of the Queen but you will be attacked by the Queen, herself! Let’s see how you escape. You will be hit by a whip while trying to slither into the bed of the Queen, see how I will laugh at you.”

” Did you say something?” Zhai Tianyu asked as he looked at Yu Lingyun who was muttering darkly. Of course, he heard what his general was saying but he was going to ignore his comments for now.

After all, he did not want to think about the pain he will have to go through while trying to get close to the Queen.

“Nothing,” Yu Lingyun answered with his back straight as he looked at Zhai Tianyu while feigning innocence.

Zhai Tianyu scoffed at his green tea general and then looked down at the document that was causing him a headache and asked, ” Who was the one who asked for the autumn hunt to be pushed ahead again?”

” It was Ji Yang, the left prime minister, your majesty.” Seeing that they were back to serious business, Yu Lingyun answered solemnly.

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