Detective Ghost Empress

302 Paying respects

” Autumn hunt?” Liu Hui Ying turned her head and looked at nanny Gong who was helping her in getting ready for the ceremony of paying respect to Liu Fei Fei whose long-awaited funeral was finally held. With her body clad in white clothes that were even whiter than snow, Liu Hui Ying turned to look at Nanny Gong who nodded her head and then said, ” That is correct your majesty, after the ceremonies of the funeral are finished, we will set off to the forest of southern territory.”

Liu Hui Ying was not fond of hunting if anything she thought that the entire thing was nothing but a big trap exclusively for her.

After all, a hunt was where bows, arrows, knives and swords were allowed along with drugs to knock animals out for crying out loud. And if she was speaking the truth, she was more and less like an animal in the eyes of others after all she was being targeted by the people of the harem even when she was sleeping!

Wasn’t the murder of Liu Fei Fei like a big wake-up call for her? For the sake of dethroning her that Ji family schemed for so long, this autumn hunt will be like a big bonanza for them. It would be shocking for her if she returned to the imperial palace without getting targeted at least once.

” Should they not be stopping the festivities since two consorts died back to back in the palace?”Liu Hui Ying asked as Nanny Gong placed a lighter but still not light enough to stop her neck from cracking crown on top of her head and tied it securely around her head such that it would not tumble down when she paid her respect to Liu Fei Fei who was now lying in a tomb where she will finish her eternal sleep till her body crumbles.

Usually, as the mother of the nation, Liu Hui Ying was supposed to go to the graveyard where the imperial family members were laid at rest but because she was newly married and not even a year has passed after her marriage, it was considered bad luck by the dowager Empress for a newly married woman to attend a funeral just after her marriage.

Because of this Liu Hui Ying was only asked to send something that will be useful for Liu Fei Fei in her journey to the afterlife, and if Liu Hui Ying was sure the thing that she sent was buried together with Liu Fei Fei as long as no one intercepted it in between instead of attending the funeral.

Liu Hui Ying did not find that annoying at all, instead, she welcomed the order that was handed down by the Dowager Empress because she did not like going to the graveyard in the first place.

Now that Liu Fei Fei was buried and her tomb was finished, Liu Hui Ying was allowed to pay her respects to the unfortunate soul who died so young and that too so cruelly. If not for the fact that she was the mother of the nation and needed to show her face, she would have refused to go to the graveyard altogether.

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The reason for her refusal was simple, she did not like the extreme yin energy that floated around the graveyard and secondly the yin energy was like cat nip for the three ghosts of hers. They would go all excited and yammering once they sucked in the grudge that floated in the graveyard, she wanted to leave them behind but ——-

” You are not leaving us behind!”

” I am going with you no matter what! I need to get stronger! That fking thing caused me to be embarrassed like that!”

” Dear, I would like to suck in some yin energy as well, I am feeling so weak and dizzy after the last attack.”

Liu Hui Ying felt her head burst as the three ghosts stayed glued to her as if they were afraid that if they were to hover even an inch away from her, she will leave them behind. Something that was the truth but nonetheless, Liu Hui Ying was annoyed with the headache that they were causing her.

Though they all were speaking like they wanted to suck the yin energy because they wanted to get stronger and level up. Liu Hui Ying knew the truth, they all just wanted to let loose and go crazy in the graveyard since no one will stop them there.

” Hui Ying!”

” Hui Ying!”

” Hui Ying!”

” Fine!” She roared through telepathy while rubbing her forehead, she was going to set them right after she returns from the graveyard!

Nanny Yang tightened the belt around Liu Hui Ying’s waist before she answered the question that her mistress has asked her. ” They should but this hunt is equally important as well, it’s supposed to be held every year and cannot be postponed. More importantly, this hunt was pushed forward by the Ji and the Liu family together making it even more important.”

” I heard from the Dowager Empress that she wants this hunt to be moved forward because she wants the bad luck to be washed away with the beginning of the new season.”

‘Bad luck to be washed away, my ass.’ Liu Hui Ying thought savagely in her head, she was sure that the reason the Dowager Empress wanted the hunt to be renewed was that she wished to see the world burn while warming her hands. Or more accurately the Ji family burn.

She was a fool if she was to believe even one word coming out of the mouth of that old woman.

” Nanny, can I not go to the hunt?” She asked nanny Gong when the latter was finishing up the touches and urging her to go out of the courtyard. ” I mean there is no need for me to go to the hunt right?”

After all, a place where bows and arrows were allowed ——surely the Ji family would want that place to become her resting place, right?

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