Detective Ghost Empress

52 It’s a mess

Liu Hui Ying was going to lie down in her bed and sleep but then she heard someone cry wretchedly like they were being held at a gunpoint and asked to wash a week’s dirty laundry, she sat up straight in her bed and looked around as she turned to Li Gang and asked, ” Where is Jia Li?” Even without having any idea what happened outside she already had a hunch about what might have taken place in the silent corridors.

” I don’t know,” Li Gang replied sounding a bit alarmed as he looked back at her. ” I am not her personal assistant, she said she was going on a walk and that she will come back after she was done finding a nice spot to sleep and take a rest.”

As ghosts they could not just close their eyes and start floating where ever they wished, for the sake of cultivating their spiritual Yin energy they needed to find a spot to which they would feel connected and that was why Li Gang was the first one to call dibs on the ancient scroll that was hanging in Liu Hui Ying’s room as for Grandma Lan Fen, she chose the calm and peaceful pond outside, according to her, she was a nature lover when she was alive and would cultivate properly in the nature as well.

The only one who was left without a spot was Jia Li and even after roaming around the entire room and the outside garden, she could not find a decent spot, so she told Liu Hui Ying that she was going on a hunt. That was what she said but after hearing that wretched scream, Liu Hui Ying was a bit sceptical about Jia Li.

” Should I go and look at what is going on?” Liu Hui Ying was feeling rather tired, she has been dragged around the entire palace and her legs were almost on the verge of giving away. All she wanted was to lie down on her bed and sleep ignoring the cry for help, she has, after all, sensed that it belonged to a man and there was no need for her to disturb her rest for a man right?

” I guess?” Li Gang replied while arching his back. ” Jia Li is your ghost servant if she was to make a mess, you as her boss should go and take a look at it.”

Liu Hui Ying shot him a deadpan look and said, ” What are you talking about? If we go by that then you as her senior will have to go and take a look first, I as your boss would come last...that’s how the corporate world works, all right?”

” I ....” Li Gang didn’t get a chance to say anything when Jia Li came rushing through the wall next to him, she looked a bit excited and scared as she jogged to the spot and exclaimed, “It’s a mess, it’s a mess! I think I made a mistake!”

Li Gang exchanged a look with Liu Hui Ying before he raised his hands and calmly said, “It’s all right, you are always making a mess, there is no need for you to be so excited...Woah what are you doing?” He added when he saw that Jia Li caught hold of his wrist and started dragging him along with her. ” Where are you taking me? Hey! At least tell me, woman!”

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Hearing their commotion Grandma Lan Fen also floated inside the room and asked Liu Hui Ying, ” What’s going on? Why is Jia Li looking so scared like that?”

” Who knows?” Liu Hui Ying rolled her shoulders as she cracked her neck. ” Maybe she ended up dropping something precious, you know how clumsy she can be, right?”

With that, she was prepared to lie back on the bed and sleep but then she heard Li Gang rushing together with Jia Li and this time he too was jogging on the spot as he yelled, ” This is a mess! A big mess! You have to come and see it, boss!”

Liu Hui Ying frowned but seeing that Li Gang was calling her boss, she decided to push herself off the bed, Li Gang hardly ever called her boss and that too when the situation was indeed serious. So, she put on her shoes and then followed the two ghosts who rushed out of the room.

When Liu Hui Ying stepped outside of the room, she wasn’t surprised that the maid responsible for guarding her including Nanny Gong and Qui Ai was fast asleep, in the presence of three ghosts, normal people like them could never withstand the chill and depressing energies.

They were bound to fall asleep.

She tip-toed around the row of maids and then chased after Li Gang and Jia Li who weaved through confusing corridors with apt accuracy and then rushed towards the corridor that led to the entrance of the courtyard, watching the two of them rush towards the entrance she was a bit confused.

What was it? Did Jia Li knock a guard or something? But then her gaze fell on the golden silk robe that glittered under the moonlight and her heart jumped to her throat. There was no way her luck was this bad right? There was no way, this would be happening to her, right?

But as she got more and more closer to the tall figure that was lying in the corridor, Liu Hui Ying had to take out her handkerchief to cover her nose as she took a glance at the face of the man who has fainted on the floor and almost swooned. Fortunately, today the poltergeist powers were being shared by Grandma Lan Fen and she caught her just in time.

Liu Hui Ying closed her eyes as she shook her head, ” Maybe if I don’t look at him, then he will go away.” She really very much wanted to avoid her reality!

“Let’s count to ten,” she cheered herself up. “Let’s count to ten and then open our eyes, I am sure this jerk will be gone by the time we are done....Let us go..one ...two ...” she counted to ten before opening her eyes.

However, when she opened them, the Emperor was still lying on the wooden floor.

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