Chapter 97

97 Caught!

” But your majesty, how can I wear the royal robe!” Qui Ai was stunned when Liu Hui Ying handed her the robe of the Empress after all she was just a maid, and no matter how well her mistress treated her, she couldn’t wear the clothes of her mistress!

” What are you talking about?” Liu Hui Ying rolled her eyes as she pointed her finger at Qui Ai and said, ” if you don’t wear it then Nanny Gong will find out that I am missing and then she will wake up the entire palace with her screams, do you want that to happen? I mean Nanny Gong does not mean to do any harm but she is the type of woman who would somehow create some sort of trouble.”

And this time Qui Ai had nothing to say because what Liu Hui Ying said was the truth if nanny Gong found out that their missy went out of the palace she will raise the sky over her head.

” All right, your majesty,” for the sake of protecting her mistress, Qui Ai agreed but she still looked terrified as she draped the bright red robe over her figure and then added in a hurry, “please do remember to come as soon as possible, I do not wish to see you punished again your majesty. And while you are outside please stay away from the Emperor, I heard that he has the habit of frequently visiting the brothel with his friends.”

Liu Hui Ying, who was walking towards the window to sneak out of the room, paused in her stride and then turned to look at Qui Ai and asked in a confused tone, ” Doesn’t the Emperor has concubine Ji? Why does he need to frequently visit the brothel?”

” For a man no matter how many women he gets to hold, they are less,” replied Qui Ai simply and Liu Hui Ying’s remaining respect for the emperor vanished in an instant as she turned around and placed her hands on the window sill as she said, ” Don’t worry, I will never stay under the same roof as that jerk.”

With that, she jumped out of the window and then snuck out of the queen’s courtyard.

” Ah now I feel like I am alive,” she stretched her arms over her head as she twisted her neck side by side and then walked around the palace. At night the big imperial palace looked rather scary but to Liu Hui Ying the entire palace was like a child’s park. She wasn’t scared of the souls that were lurking in the dark nor was she scared of the sounds of crickets and animals that would hop out of the wild.

” Thank goodness you came out of that courtyard, I was getting bored while being cooped in there,” said Li Gang as he looked around the entire place and then flew down to stand next to Liu Hui Ying.

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As the ghost servant of Liu Hui Ying, neither of her ghosts could go away more than three hundred metres away from her in case she didn’t give them special permission.

Something she rarely gave them since it required a lot of spiritual energy.

” Do you think I brought you out so that you can have fun?” Liu Hui Ying snickered as she turned her head to look at Li Gang, seeing her smile so creepily made Li Gang take a few steps back. ” I brought you three out with me because I want you to look around the palace and find out whether or not you can feel the presence of this woman, go around and ask the ghosts who are lurking in there whether they have seen this woman roaming around or not.”

” Why don’t you go ahead and ask them?” Li Gang asked sounding a bit annoyed and angry. ” You are the celestial master, you should be the one doing the interrogation! Why should we be working when you are going out to have fun?”

Liu Hui Ying smiled as she raised her hand and then placed it on top of Li Gang’s head as she said, ” Who do you think I am, Li Gang?”

” Hui Ying Sama,” quaked Li Gang as he felt the pressure of the spiritual energy coursing through his existence.

” That’s right, I am your boss the reason for your very existence, if you do not work for me then you can very well get lost in the underworld, do you want me to send you to the underworld?” asked Liu Hui Ying with a demonic smile and Li Gang shook his head left to right like a rattle.

” That’s good,” she then turned to look at Jia Li and Grandma Lan Fen before she asked. ” Do I have to make you two agree as well? Or are you going to go on your own?”

” We will go and take a look at once, Hui Ying Sama,”

” There is no need to trouble yourself, my dear.”

Jia Li and Grandma Lan Fen flew in the direction where the ghosts were lurking and Li Gang ran for it as soon as Liu Hui Ying loosened her grip on his head.

Seeing the three ghosts leave, Liu Hui Ying nodded and then arched her hands over her shoulders. ” Ah, I think I will go and take a look at the market that Qui Ai was talking about.”

She took out the small paper on which Qui Ai has drawn the directions of the town market and then started walking in the same direction as the one that was supposed to take her there but as she walked past the harem of the Emperor and headed towards the South Gate, she heard someone call her from behind.

” You there where do you think you are going?”

Liu Hui Ying’s eyes widened as she placed the map back in her sleeve pocket and then turned to look at the guards who were responsible for patrolling around the harem at night.

She blinked her eyes as she bowed her head and gritted them with a smile. ” Can I help you two?”

The guards looked at each other and then looked at Liu Hui Ying before frowning. The guard on the left with a sword in his hand asked, ” Who are you? We have never seen you here.”

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