Detective Ghost Empress

357 A crippled man——“Oh, dear!” Nanny Gong slipped in the spot when she noticed the sharp dagger that was sticking out of the trunk of the tree while Little Ai gasped in surprise as she looked at the shiny dagger that looked sharp enough to pierce the skull of a person.

” Wh...What is this?” Little Ai asked while looking at Liu Hui Ying who was crouching in front of an old grave. She had brushed the mound that was on top of the body to see who was lying inside since the grudge was bigger than she has anticipated but when she was done cleaning the upper half of the makeshift grave, she was surprised to find that there was only a small rabbit lying in there.

Her slightly bulging belly told Liu Hui Ying that the rabbit was pregnant before it died but there was no way a small rabbit would be able to carry so much grudge, right?

“What are you doing here, your majesty, the queen?” A voice called from behind them and Liu Hui Ying turned to look at the smiling young man who was sitting in a wheelchair with a servant following behind him.

His gaze dropped to the small rabbit that was buried in the place where Liu Hui Ying was crouching and then said, ” Did this rabbit die by your hands, your majesty?”

” No,” Liu Hui Ying buried the rabbit again before getting up from the ground and turning to look at the man behind her with a slight frown on her face. ” But who are you? Are you the one who threw the dagger at my maids?” As she spoke she pointed to the shining dagger that was sticking out of the tree trunk.

The man lifted his head and looked at the dagger that was sticking out of the tree and then smiled ruefully before he shrugged his shoulders.

” Young master, there is no need,” the servant told his master but the man shook his head and then said in a solemn voice, ” Her majesty is doubtful of my appearance here, and she is right to do so because she was attacked which is why it is necessary for me to prove my innocence as well, Qiao Hai.”

The servant named Qiao Hai looked troubled but he still followed his master’s orders and took off the shawl that was covering the shoulders of the young man, as soon as the shawl was taken down Liu Hui Ying’s brows furrowed as she looked at his hands that seemed to have been cut off by something years ago.

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” You see, your majesty,” the man smiled at Liu Hui Ying as he showed off his arms that were missing. ” I do not have the resources to harm you.”

” I see, I apologise if I made you uncomfortable,” Liu Hui Ying apologised as the servant bent down and picked up the shawl to cover the young master again.

The young man smiled and then shook his head, ” There is no need to worry, your majesty. You were attacked in the forest and you being suspicious of people around you is only right.” He then looked at the small grave and added with a joking smile, ” But I will like it if you keep good care of yourself and don’t go into places like this —— getting away from the public eye will only make you a more vulnerable target.”

Liu Hui Ying nodded as she thanked the young man for his suggestion but as she walked past the grave, she looked at the small mound and frowned. The yin energy around the mound looked a bit too much for a small rabbit, was the grave even deeper than what she dug?

Maybe she will come and check up on this place later on.

….

” My queen,” as she approached the palanquin where the bearers were still standing, Liu Hui Ying heard Zhai Tianyu’s voice and turned annoyed. She raised her head and looked at the man who was walking towards her with his green robe fluttering behind him and then raised a brow, ” What are you doing your majesty?”

Did he not have any other concubine to help or guide him? Holding their hands or holding them in his arms?

” I heard that you were attacked just now,” Zhai Tianyu did not expect that the people who were targeting the Queen would make a move so soon. She did not even take a step into the hunting grounds and yet she was already getting attacked. He was rather worried about her safety now.

Liu Hui Ying was surprised when she heard Zhai Tianyu’s words, she blinked her eyes and then frowned before saying, ” Did the news travel so fast? ”

” Young master Cai told me,” replied Zhai Tianyu as he pointed to the young man who was in a wheelchair. The man bowed his head before his servant started pushing him across the bridge, as the man called young master Cai left, Zhai Tianyu turned to look at Liu Hui Ying and said, ” He is your cousin and mine as well in a way.”

Liu Hui Ying blinked her eyes and only then did she realise that Zhai Tianyu’s mother was her aunt.

doesn’t that make them cousins? No wait, if she was not wrong then Liu Hui Ying’s father was distantly related to the dowager Empress, right?

But still!

” It was nothing, someone threw a dagger,” stated Liu Hui Ying, she was confused about how she did not sense the dagger coming. She had asked her ghosts to take a rest since she wanted to use them later but even so, her senses have never been dull before, how come she did not even sense the dagger coming her way and what was more ——- her eyes flickered as she looked at the young master Cai who was walking away with his head held high.

She did not sense that young master either.

This was something she could not understand given that the man was actually a crippled person.