Detective Ghost Empress

301 a guardian

The autumn hunt was a festival that marked the beginning of winter in the imperial city. At the autumn hunt, Zhai Tianyu as the Emperor was responsible for hunting an animal that was plump and healthy which would signify a bountiful winter where no one would go hungry even though the forest, crops and everything else will be covered in snow.

That was the autumn hunt, strictly speaking, it should be a wonderful time for Zhai Tianyu to take a few days off in fact he was looking forward to it.

After all, his official wife who was dainty and naive exchanged her soul with a firecracker-like woman who cussed him day in and day out.

Or every other time when he went to see her.

He was being haunted by ghosts every night because he could see them, the ghosts of the imperial palace were now taking him as their emotional tree hole where he has to listen to everything that they say to him.

It has reached the point where he could no longer sleep without getting pitch drunk.

And the memorandums were making his head explode….he thought that he would have a good time hunting and take some time off and de-stress himself by taking his anger out with his bow and arrows.

But now ….

Ji Yang pushed the hunt ahead of its time.

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“I don’t understand, why can’t they take a rest for a single day? I mean I understand that they are all used to scheming but don’t you think it’s too much work? Like the villains don’t go on vacation or something ?” Zhai Tianyu muttered as he stared at the document while scratching his head.

What Ji Yang wrote in the document was indeed correct. According to what he wrote in the memorandum, the winter was coming early and if they did not arrange the hunt soon then the animals will go into hibernation making it impossible for them to hunt decent prey and causing a great disaster to their land.

The report was completely fine and so was the explanation but ever since Zhai Tianyu found out that the Ji family was not as simple as he thought he couldn’t help but be wary of them and this report was making him sit on the edge.

” Is the winter really arriving soon, Lingyun?” He asked Yu Lingyun who nodded seriously and answered, ” The winter is indeed coming soon, Lord Shen from the astrological department told me that the winter was going to arrive sooner this year.”

“Which means that he must have told the same to the right prime minister as well.” Zhai Tianyu tapped on the table as he carefully thought over the problem that was in front of him but what made him even more confused was the fact that ——-

” Liu Dong Ming agreed to this hunt as well.”

It was a known fact that the left and the right prime ministers never agreed with each other in fact it wouldn’t be wrong to say that they have never ever agreed on something.

There was one time when Ji Yang said to Liu Dong Ming that it was raining too heavily and the latter instead of agreeing with Ji Yang walked in the heavy rain while his clothes dripped with water and his hair got wetter than a sea otter’s fur and then claimed stubbornly, ” Its just some drizzle.”

Zhai Tianyu peeked out of the window and worriedly said, ” Is the world coming to an end?”

” Honestly, you are not the only one who is worried about this, your majesty,” remarked Yu Lingyun, the court of officials was similarly worried about the world coming to an end, a few of them even wrote their wills thinking that they will be dead by tomorrow morning.

One of them was his poor father who already choose a coffin and told him that in case he was attacked tomorrow then he should bury him in the coffin he choose for himself.

Zhai Tianyu looked at the signatures on the document that seemed to be agreeing with the hunt and rubbed his forehead before he muttered, ” Looks like the two of them are planning something.”

Ji Yang was too silent despite losing his nephew and Liu Dong Ming was even calmer than usual, the silence of these two was indeed rather worrying to Zhai Tianyu.

And now that the two have agreed on this hunt, it only made him even more suspicious of them.

” So, should we cancel the hunt?” Yu Lingyun asked, he was still not able to process the entire scheme that the Ji family planned for dethroning Liu Hui Ying.

It was as if they knew that Liu Hui Ying will be the queen and prepared everything accordingly. Though he was suspicious of them, he threw the matter in the back of his head after all, how was it possible for the Ji family to know the future?

” We can’t do that,” If possible Zhai Tianyu would have done that as well but he couldn’t do that—— first he was just the king in name if the two families wanted to push the hunt, there was no way he could refuse them.

And in case he was to struggle, there was a high possibility that they will get suspicious and then try to dethrone him before he could make a move against either of them.

He looked down at the memorandum and then sighed in helplessness. ” Let them do what they want to, I will just——-”

Zhai Tianyu was still speaking when he suddenly felt a chill that was colder than the snow of the winter climb up his spine, more importantly right now he certainly felt someone’s murderous intensity!

He stood up from his chair and then looked around the room feeling a bit confused since he could not see anyone.

” Your majesty, what’s wrong?” Yu Lingyun looked at Zhai Tianyu with confusion in his eyes. He was fine just a second ago, why was he looking so pale all of a sudden?

Zhai Tianyu stared at the window where stood no one and frowned, “It’s nothing.”

...…..

“My,” a man dressed in black robes like a priest with golden jewellery and eyes black as ink stared at Zhai Tianyu through a distance and smiled. “He is quite sharp for a human. You have found a wonderful guardian, Hui Ying.”