Detective Ghost Empress

72 Ask your father.

” What are you talking about?” Ji Yu thought that Liu Hui Ying was actually trying to muddle the entire thing up by coming up with a weird story. She had heard from her mother that the woman with whom her brother was supposed to elope married off to another town and she was living a very happy life. There was no reason for her mother to lie to her right?

” Why don’t you ask your father what I am talking about or maybe even the head of your family?” Liu Hui Ying heard Qui Ai and Nanny Gong’s complaints, she also heard them when they were trash-talking about the Ji family, calling Ji Yu a hypocrite.

It was true that the Liu family did not want their daughter to elope with the son of the Ji family, they were the ones who were behind sending the assassins after Ji Yu’s brother as well but the Ji family wasn’t filled with soft persimmons either. They too got wind of the fact that their son was eloping with someone from the Liu family, on the surface, it looked like the Liu family was the only one who was corrupt and cruel while the Ji family was filled with people with morals.

But if the Ji family was such an honest family then it wouldn’t have survived for so long against the Liu family.

So, when they found out that their son was eloping with this body’s big sister, they sent a bunch of assassins after that woman as well. Unlike the Liu family who only gave the orders to kill, the Ji family took it a bit far and gave the sister of this body a fairly disrespectful death.

In this way, it could be said that neither of the families was innocent, it was just that the Liu family was used to being pushed into the front of the battle and they were also hesitant to reveal the fact that a daughter of their family was killed like this.

That was why they never brought the matter up in the court for they didn’t want to lose face, this was one of the reasons why the Ji family ordered the group of assassins to kill the sister of this woman like that for they knew that they would be able to make use of this opportunity to turn the entire Liu family into villains while escaping worried free.

Seeing that Ji Yu’s face was rather pale, Liu Hui Ying smiled mockingly and then added swiftly, ” If I may add, you should ask your father whether he finds it easy to sleep at night after dishonouring a young maiden like this and spreading such disgusting lies about a woman who died under his hands.” She paused and then placed her forefinger on her chin before contemptuously sneering. ” I believe that he might find it easy after all if he had the slightest bit of humanity left within him then he wouldn’t have done something so ah, shameless and villainous.”

Liu Hui Ying smiled at Ji Yu before blinking both her eyes in a teasing manner and turning around to leave. ” Don’t make your family sound so pitiful, concubine Ji ... I find it rather disgusting.” She turned her head and looked over at Ji Yu whose face was pale and haughtily stared down at him. ” You might like the idea of making me sound like a villain but at least my family isn’t a bunch of hypocrites.”

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After that, she turned her head to face the front and then walked out of the garden leaving a stunned Ji Yu behind.

” Miss!” Xiaolin shouted for Ji Yu staggered to her feet and then almost dropped to her knees as she stared at Liu Hui Ying’s vanishing back.

She turned to Xiaolin and clung to her arms as she said, ” There is no way right, Xiaolin? There is no way for my family to do something like this right? She must be lying. She must be!”

For years she has hated Liu Hui Ying and the Liu family but now she was being told that her hatred was without a base? How can she accept it?

Xiaolin too was confused by the Queen’s words, she too believed that it was a lie but the Queen was too confident for that, in the end, she thought about it and carefully answered, ” Missy why don’t you write a letter to the master and ask him whether it is true or not? Maybe the Queen was just telling a bunch of lies to make you feel guilty.”

” Yes... I will do that, I will go and ask my father what exactly happened back then,” Ji Yu agreed with Xiaolin’s suggestion and then let her maid help her up, she was a bit too overwhelmed, and her mind was running with a bunch of thoughts. She has to think over things carefully but with her head buzzing like this ... she rubbed her head and turned to look at Xiaolin. “Let’s go to the special squad training centre, my head seems to be stuffy... I will make use of the time and practise some swordsmanship.”

Ji Yu was unlike the other girls who didn’t learn the martial arts skills from hunting to using swords she knew everything and that was why she was confident that she was the one who deserved to stay next to Zhai Tianyu but now —

She watched the entrance of the garden, she of course could no longer see the Queen but at the same time, she couldn’t help but bite her lips. What if what Liu Hui Ying said was the truth?

” That Concubine Ji, she is really!” Qui Ai did not finish her sentence but anyone could see that she was rather furious. “It’s clearly their fault as well but they only blame my missy for what happened back then, what’s wrong with them? Do they have no heart!”

” If they had a heart, they would not have done something so inhuman to the late miss,” Nanny Gong interrupted Qui Ai’s diatribe with a solemn look on her face, she glanced at Liu Hui Ying who was walking in front of her and silently worried inside her head — the missy was once again reminded of that incident, was she okay?

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