Detective Ghost Empress

" I …should I save the queen or should I save the tiger?" Though Zhai Tianyu knew that it was a stupid question looking at those eagle-like sharp eyes, he could not help but feel that the one who was in more danger was the tiger.

"It's better to leave it in the hands of faith," Yu Lingyun commented from the sidelines sagely because Zhai Heng was following Zhai Tianyu earlier, he stayed behind and now as he sat under the shade of the tree, he was sporting a dark blue wound under his left eye while he held his hands in front of him like he was praying.

If he did not speak just now neither Zhai Tianyu nor Zhai Heng would have noticed him even Ji Yu was slightly surprised when she saw the great general sitting under the shade of the tree with a tobacco pipe smoking at his side.

Why was he acting like a man who was on the verge of giving up the ties of the world?

"What's wrong with you?" Zhai Heng was the one who asked the question which was going on in the head of everyone else.

Yu Lingyun opened his eyes and then mockingly lifted a side of his lips as he muttered, " I went to save the queen and was beaten up for trying to damage the goods which can be sold for a lot of money."

Zhai Heng : "….." Oh.

Zhai Tianyu: "….." Ah, I forgot about this.

Ji Yu turned to look at Zhai Tianyu and Zhai Heng, she noticed that the two of them of looking exasperated but not surprised which meant that this was not the first time when the Queen was doing something like this.

So, she was willing to face the tiger alone because it was a good which can be sold off for a lot of money?

" D..Did no one tell her that even if she hunts that tiger, it cannot be sold?" The tiger was offered to the king as an offering earlier by Ji Yang, even if that tiger was killed by the Queen, it would not be sold but buried since the things which belonged to the Emperor could only belong to the Emperor till the end, wasn't this was the reason why many concubines were buried along with the Emperor after their death?

" Ah, I forgot to tell her that!" Yu Lingyun finally snapped out of his melodramatic stage as he raised his head and looked at Liu Hui Ying who was calmly staring at the tiger.

" You….of all the things you should have told the queen, you forgot to tell her that the tiger cannot be sold?

are you out of your mind, Lingyun?" Zhai Tianyu could not be blamed for his reaction, he was well aware of the fact just how much Liu Hui Ying adored the shiny cling cling of gold and silver taels if he became an obstacle in between her and the shiny taels, maybe she will skin him alive and sell his skin in the market instead of the tiger pelt.

Yu Lingyun made a sheepish expression as he rubbed the back of his head and then said, " Oops… I made a mistake?"

Oops?

" You made a mistake …. Do you have any idea how much drama your little mistake is going to bring into my life?" Zhai Tianyu asked while a nerve throbbed dangerously in his forehead.

The queen was so angry because of the theft that took place in the Liu house, if she was to find out that the tiger which she hunted after working so hard can't be sold for money, she will either lift the imperial palace on her head or she will lift him over her head and send him flying.

Zhai Tianyu was angry enough to end their years-old friendship but he did not have enough time to go through with it which was why he turned around on his feet and then looked around, he needed to send this message to the queen before she makes a move.

He whipped his head head left and right trying to find someone and finally his gaze fell on Witch Mao who was sitting on the branch over the tree under which they were standing and hurriedly walked over to the position where her feet were dangling and then raised his hand to tap on the calves of the old woman.

Witch Mao was inclined on watching the exciting show when she suddenly felt a burst of Yang energy coursing inside her existence, she looked down and found Zhai Tianyu looking up at her, with a raise of her brow, she tilted her head such that she could see the face of the man who interrupted her fun and then asked,

" What is it, your majesty? Do you need this elderly woman for something? But I have to warn you, it is going to cost you a little."

Zhai Tianyu was speechless when she heard the words of Witch Mao.

' No wonder she was willing to follow, Hui Ying.

These two women, they seemed to be cut from the same  piece of cloth!' He thought in his mind but outwardly he maintained his polite smile as he looked at Witch Mao and then replied with a flattering note in his voice, "It's nothing, I just wanted to ask Witch Mao to go and tell her majesty that the tiger even if its get killed under her hands will not be sold off, so if you do not mind would you be kind enough to relay the queen this small message of mine?"

" I can," Witch Mao agreed with a nod but then she pointed to her waist. " But I am too old even if I were to drink yin energy I do not have much energy left in me, so why doesn't his majesty make it up for me? I heard deer meat is really good for replenishing the human body, maybe if you send a fresher one for me——"

" I will have it arranged, but for now please go and relay the message to the queen," Zhai Tianyu insisted though his smile was a bit stiffer than before, a fresh deer? Did this elderly ghost know how hard it was to hunt a deer down? No matter how upset Zhai Tianyu was, he could only agree to the conditions laid down by Witch Mao for the sake of escaping the anger of the Queen.

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