Detective Ghost Empress

220 can you withstand it

Nanny Zheng who was waiting outside was given permission to enter the room of the queen with Liu Hui Ying’s concession to let her enter. Once she walked inside, she only glanced at Liu Hui Ying who was sitting on the seat in the main hall where she was supposed to meet her visitors but after a quick glance Nanny Zheng lowered her head and immediately.

She took a few tentative steps forward and then knelt in front of Liu Hui Ying with a submissive attitude as she banged her head on the floor hard before parting her lips and saying, ” Your majesty please help my missy, I understand that you do not have any favourable impression of my young miss but my missy was truly a poor little girl with no one by her side ….she …she was just lonely, your majesty.”

” Are you saying that she bullied me because she was lonely?” Liu Hui Ying asked as she looked at Nanny Cheng who had her head lowered and was not looking at her but everywhere she could, with her head lowered Nanny Cheng bit her lower lip and gritted out after a long pause, ” I know that you would not believe me but that was how my missy was, she was insecure and was worried that you will look down on her which was why she acted as if she was really knowledgeable but the truth was that she just wanted to play with you.”

” You really say anything Nanny Cheng,” Liu Hui Ying stated as she looked at the old woman who was still trying to make Liu Fei Fei sound like she was a delicate young woman who did not know what was good and bad.

Nanny Cheng knew that she would not be able to make Liu Hui Ying soften her stance which was why she raised her head, her forehead sporting a bluish bump because she has knocked on the floor as hard as she could and then stared at Liu Hui Ying. She did not want to plead for her young missy with Liu Hui Ying because she knew that the woman did not have any good feelings for her young mistress but as Liu Fei Fei’s nanny who has watched Liu Fei Fei grow up, she could not simply ignore everything which was why she bit her lips and then lowered her head in front of Liu Hui Ying again.

She has to get her missy justice this was the only thing that she could do for her missy.

” I understand that you do not want to listen to what I have to say, your majesty. After all, what my late mistress did cannot be treated as if she has never done anything but for the sake of fairness would you please help her?” Nanny Cheng thought about how her smiling and playful missy suddenly turned into a cold corpse and her entire face lost three shades of its complexion, her eye rims turned red and she shed a few tears before wiping them and kowtowing in front of Liu Hui Ying again. ” I am not saying that I want her majesty to forget everything but please as her little sister give her the justice that she deserves.”

” My missy was bossy and she was a bully with no filter on her mouth but she was not someone who would kill anyone or much less hurt them physically. She was a good woman or as good as the women of the imperial harem could be, your majesty …just for the sake of my missy who lost her life so unjustly can you ask for an investigation to take place?”

” You want me to go against the Dowager Empress for your missy? Have you forgotten that she and I have nothing to do with each other and I don’t think that she has ever done anything for me that I will think of helping her, so what makes you think that you can make me such a request?” Liu Hui Ying asked as she leaned down and looked into the eyes of Nanny Zheng who stiffened and lowered her head even more.

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That was right, what right did she have to ask her majesty to help her missy when she has done nothing to help her? The two of them have been like fire and water never mixing together, it would be surprising that the Queen will help her mistress get her justice.

” Please, your majesty!” In the end Nanny Cheng decided to give up on everything that held dear to her. ” I will give you everything that I have if you want I will be your loyal dog until the day I die just help my missy once. Just once, your majesty and I swear that I will never do anything to go against you, your majesty I promise. Just …just investigate the death of my missy and punish those who were behind her murder.”

” I have raised her ever since she was a young child who did not even know how to say anything and now all of a sudden that child whom I have brought up is lying in a coffin ready to be buried, can…can’t you just pity me a little?” Nanny Cheng spoke as she raised her head and looked at Liu Hui Ying with her eyes shining with new tears as she thought about how she will have to let go of her missy without giving her proper justice if the Queen did not agree.

Liu Hui Ying looked at Nanny Cheng who was looking at her through her grey eyes that were glittering with tears and asked, ” Do you really want to find the truth?”

Her sudden question caused Nanny Cheng to look at her in surprise. ” Your majesty?”

” Sometimes you might believe that the truth is what you want but once you find it …you will receive nothing but a bone-crushing defeat…. Despite knowing this will you still look for this so-called truth of yours?”

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