Detective Ghost Empress

Zhai Tianyu placed Su Tai on the pillow before turning on his heels and stepping out of the room where Su Tai was entertaining him. For the sake of pretending that he was going to sleep, he faked a yawn with his hand in front of his mouth.

He then opened his room's door and went inside. Zhai Tianyu knew that the shadow guards must be paying attention to his room to make sure whether or not he was sleeping. After all, Su Tai was the kind of man who was only gentle and hard-working on papers, if the truth were to come out then that man would be the one who would suffer the most!

He closed his eyes and silently counted the number of shadow guards that were neatly arranged next to his room.
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'One, two…three and four.. damn..just how many guards did that man arrange near my room?' Zhai Tianyu cursed in his head. He was wearing the appearance of his most useless cousin and yet this man was still this cautious? Surely there was a secret that he was trying to hide very much and even though Zhai Tianyu was unaware about it, he wanted to get his hands on it as soon as possible.

He pretended to sleep for a while and waited until the guard of the Shadow Guards was dropped and then used his special Qing Qong to disappear from inside his room without alerting the guards.

Zhai Tianyu did not head over to the room where Liu Hui Ying was placed and instead turned to head out of the house, before turning to look at Li Gang who came to look for him.

"Did your master send you to look for me?" Zhai Tianyu asked with a touched expression. He did see Li Gang enter the private room where Su Tai was pouring drinks for him. However, he pretended not to see him.

Li Gang rolled his eyes before saying, "There is no need for you to feel so touched just because she sent me, the only reason she asked me to come and get you was because you are her money keeper."

As Liu Hui Ying was playing the role of the servant, she couldn't keep too much in her pocket and thus, she had to rely on Zhai Tianyu and the gold in his pockets to purchase anything that she wanted. So how could she leave without her personal purse?

"Oh does that not mean that she is getting used to me? Because only a wife would wait for her husband to pay money for her purchases, what do you say?" Zhai Tianyu turned around and questioned Li Gang who looked at him with a pitiful gaze.

Even if Li Gang hated how this man was trying to make a move on Liu Hui Ying, he had to admit that this man was way too deluded.

"You know, your majesty? There is a term in our world.. it's called delulu is not solulu, do you understand what this means?"

Zhai Tianyu shook his head. Seeing him shake his head, Li Gang felt that this man was even more innocent than the child in front of him. He patted him on the shoulder and explained, "It means do not delude yourself. Because it's not good for your health."

After he finished speaking, he walked past the wall of the courtyard, leaving a very stumped Zhai Tianyu behind.

Does he mean to say that he was deluding himself? That shouldn't be the case.

Zhai Tianyu thought worriedly. He then chased after Li Gang and asked, "What do you mean? Hey, at least tell me."

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"That will be three hundred copper coins," the shopkeeper smiled at Zhai Tianyu as he handed the yellow talismans to Zhai Tinayu including the red cinnabar powder. He seemed quite happy with the generous amount that he had sold off his useless paper and cinnabar powder for!

Zhai Tianyu sighed as he paid for the purchase and then turned to look at Li Gang who tilted his head to the side with an expression that said, 'Now you understand what I mean?'

Of course, he did!

Liu Hui Ying only wanted him to be by her side because she literally took her as her purse! She did not even a word to him, it was as if he was really a lifeless purse that did not even have a voice feature.

"The shopkeeper was looking at us as if he was looking at two fools," Zhai Tianyu said to Liu Hui Ying.

"Well he must have thought that we were only purchasing so many yellow talismans for no reason other than curiosity," Liu Hui Ying replied for the first time. In fact, she too thought that she was being too much. The poor man was walking next to her and even protecting her silently while making sure that no man would touch her.

He even paid for her purchases and she had been ignoring his questions and presence altogether.

"The yellow talismans and cinnabar powder are completely useless. If not for the person using it, they can only be considered as paper and useless red powder," Liu Hui Ying explained as she walked past the crowd that was filling up the night market. She looked at the stalls that were lined up on either side of the road and clicked her tongue.

Didn't that man called Su Tai, say that the villagers were doing good? Upon seeing their sunken cheeks and the dark circles under their eyes, they did not look like they were doing good.

If this was good then there was no difference between these villagers and the people at the slums dwellers at the Imperial City.

Her eyes flickered as she heard Zhai Tianyu say, "Are you saying that it comes down to who is skilled in using her or his spiritual energy correctly?"

"That's more or less correct," Liu Hui Ying replied as she walked over to a small stall that was selling grilled squid.

She was about to ask for the price when she heard the sound of something jingling. Her eyes flashed as she reached out behind her and caught the wrist of the little boy who was trying to steal from them.

"What are you doing?" She questioned as she threw the young man over her shoulders. The young man's back hit the ground and he groaned in pain. He looked at Liu Hui Ying and Zhai Tianyu before saying, "What…what did I do? I was just passing by! You have injured me gravely… you n better compensate me!"

Liu Hui Ying sneered as she rolled her sleeves and then tied a handkerchief on her right hand before saying, "Let me see who dares to ask for compensation."

"Li Gang!" She ordered and Li Gang who was standing behind her, walked over to where Liu Hui Ying was standing and then walked right inside her body.

Liu Hui Ying's black eyes flashed before she felt a surge of energy rush inside her veins. She then picked up the thief who tried to steal from her and yet dared to cry wolf.

Her lips curled into a cruel smile as she said to the young man, "I will teach you how to be a good person."

The young man's pupils shook as he let out a painful scream.

"Dang! Little Cai was caught!" Another young man who was hiding behind the alley, worriedly remarked, he looked at Liu Hui Ying who was hitting Little Cai and turned to look at her friends before saying, "What now? If this goes on then Little Cai will be killed."

Behind him were two young women and three young men. Two kids looked really worried about Little Cai.

"We should stop that man," said the young woman dressed in a red shirt and baggy patched-up pants. "He seems to be the servant of that nobleman. Even if he kills Xiao Cai, no one will say a thing!"

That was true even though the stall owners could see Xiao Cai getting beaten up, they did not even make a sound. Maybe they thought that it would be good if thieves like them were killed.

"Let's go and save Xiao Cai!" The young man next to the woman who just spoke up chimed up. He turned to look at his leader and then said, "We cannot leave him alone."

The leader nodded and said, "Fine let's go!" Though he was scared, these kids were like his children, he could not watch them die, could he now?

He then turned on his heels and then rushed out of the alley before shouting, "You boy! Let go of my brother!"

Behind him, the rest of the thieves also rushed out of their hiding spots.

Liu Hui Ying who was punching Xiao Cai looked up and stared at the group of thieves. A sinister sneer etched on her bloodied face as she sneered, "You all came out very soon."