Chapter 86

86 Dowager Empress call (part 1)

” What were you thinking,” Jia Li screamed as she came flying to float in front of Liu Hui Ying as she glared at her boss, with her eyes narrowed as she looked at Liu Hui Ying and flailed her hands in desperation. ” You killed someone in front of the Emperor, do you think we are not in enough shit already? I just want to laze around and go back home, why are you making such a simple thing so difficult?”

” I am not making things difficult,” Liu Hui Ying rubbed her temples when she heard Jia Li scream in her ears. She didn’t tune out Nanny Gong to listen to Jia Li’s screams. ” And would you stop screaming? I am the one who is your boss, it’s not the other way around. Got it?”

Jia Li had to close her mouth even when she didn’t want to because as her master Liu Hui Ying’s orders were absolute, she couldn’t go against her as per the laws of a contracted spirit.

” But you just showed off your powers to almost everyone in the training ground, do you think that they will leave you alone now that the rumour about your might is going to spread all over the palace?” Jia Li still couldn’t help but grumble under her breath. ” You said that you weren’t here to get yourself involved in anyone’s mess, but you helped that Ji woman for no reason today and ...”

” And saved my life,” Liu Hui Ying rolled her eyes as she calmly turned her head to the side and then looked at Jia Li. ” You are right, we are not going to get entangle ourselves in anyone’s mess but this mess was indirectly linked to me, and that is the only reason that I was willing to take matters into my hands other than that I really don’t care what happens to Ji Yu or the Emperor. Now go and stand in a corner, I am trying to take a relaxing bath, and it’s proving impossible with you screaming in my head.”

Jia Li still looked unsatisfied but there was nothing else she could do, with a dissatisfied sigh she flew in the air and then came to stand next to Li Gang who was hovering in the bedroom with his arms crossed behind the back of his head.

Even Grandma Lan Fen looked calm, it was as if she was the only one who was being as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.

” Why aren’t the two of you scared?” Jia Li walked towards the bed and sat down as she turned to look at Li Gang and Grandma Lan Fen. ” Aren’t you worried that Liu Hui Ying will be involved in some other drama?”

” Even if she is there is nothing that we can do,” replied Li Gang as he flipped over and then started flying on his tummy. He turned his head and locked his gaze on Jia Li and said casually, ” You might think that you can control Hui Ying but she is not as easy to rein on, and her temper is really ugly as well. Being attacked like this, again and again, she was bound to explode, I am glad that she exploded on someone who was not very troublesome.”

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” Exactly, remember the time when she caught hold of the superintendent who was trying to get cosy with her?” Grandma Lan Fen offered as she chimed in together with Li Gang. ” You might not remember him but the man was trying to get all chummy with Liu Hui Ying, asking her to come on a date and when she refused he tried to get her drunk and take her home with him, have you forgotten what she did to him?”

” How can I forget?” Back then Liu Hui Ying was running for the head of the detective department because she was pretty and rich many men were willing to marry her.

But Liu Hui Ying was allergic to men, getting married to men was simply impossible for her. So, she refused every proposal that was handed out to her, one of the proposals belonged to the superintendent of the department who thought he could bite more than he could chew.

In the end, his balls were almost smashed by Liu Hui Ying who was enraged upon realising that the superintendent tried to force himself on her.

This was one of the reasons why despite being the best detective, Liu Hui Ying had to wait till her mid-thirties to become the head of the department.

” You should be glad that the maid was of no importance and that no one will come looking for trouble with us at least,” Li Gang who was used to Liu Hui Ying causing trouble everywhere she went was used to it. He wasn’t worried but then he was slapped in the face very soon.

Liu Hui Ying hardly stepped out of her bathhouse when the maids who were standing on guard announced that the Mammy from the Empress dowager’s palace was looking for her.

” I knew it,” Jia Li was the first to jump up from the bed where she was lying and then rushed to Liu Hui Ying’s side. ” I knew it, most probably the empress dowager was on the same side as that Concubine Chu or maybe she already knew what was going on with Ji Yu and now that you have interrupted her, surely she came looking for trouble with you.”

Something behind them exploded and Liu Hui Ying turned her gaze sideways and said, ” Stop agitating my sister, she hates it when I am in trouble.”

Now that her sister was more awake than she was before, Liu Hui Ying could feel her presence even more strongly within her and surely he sister could hear everything that was going on around her.

Everyone turned to look at the vase that was on the floor and blinked their eyes before Nanny Gong frowned and then turned to look at the maid who was in charge of closing the windows after cleaning them. ” Why didn’t you close the window? Can’t you see that the hot summer breeze is flowing even more intensely than ever? Now, what are you looking at me for? Clean.”

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