Detective Ghost Empress

" You mean to say that we are going to kill Ji Yu?" Ji Mo questioned with a startled look on his face which caused Ji Yang and Old Grand Dowager Empress to turn and look at him with questioning looks in their eyes as the two of them exchanged a look with each other before the Old Grand Dowager Empress looked at her grand-nephew and then asked with a smile,  " What do you feel pity for your sister?"

Ji Mo rolled his eyes as he scoffed, " Yeah right."

There was no way he will ever feel sorry for Ji Yu, if anything it did not matter to him whether she died today or tonight.

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Xiao Lin did not have any idea that Ji Yang and the Old Dowager Empress had come up with such a terrible plan for her mistress and her.

In her heart, she only knew one thing and that was to make sure that Ji Yu will remain forever happy which was why she did not even think of anything anymore nor did she question what was going on in actuality and why Ji Yang was asking her to poison Liu Hui Ying when he had more than enough shadow guards to do the same.

Instead, she snuck inside the tent where the maids were boiling the water for the Empress and everyone else to take a bath since the sky was turning dark slowly, with the moon and the stars slowly coming into view.

With her small stature, she wasn\'t detected by anyone and hid behind the small box of wood that was chopped and placed inside the box for the comfort of the members of the imperial family.

" I have to succeed," she told herself as she sat down on the ground with her back against the box as she held the pouch that she was holding tightly in her hand. " I have to succeed such that my missy will be happy till the end without the queen in her path.

It\'s not my or my missy\'s fault, its the Empress she was the one who came in between the Emepror and my missy!" She repeated trying to wash away the guilt that was filling her heart.

" Did you hear? The young master of the Liu family caught another deer, I heard that even the servants will be allowed to eat the game tonight," a maid who was talking to her friend walked inside as she discussed her plans of eating meat. " I never thought that it will such a fortunate day!

When I saw the Emperor missing the target and not killing the deer, I thought that we will have to practice vegetarianism on this hunt as well but it is a good thing that the young master of the Liu family came this time."

" Hush now," said the other maid whose eyes were slightly blue as she walked inside the tent and then placed more water in the bronze vessel in which water was being boiled. " If anyone hears you mocking the Emperor, I am afraid that you will be the one who might become the meal for the wild animals tonight, you know that right?"

The maid with her hair tied up in two buns on the side of her head poked her tongue at the other maid as she giggled and then said, " All right, all right. I will no longer mock the Emperor.

Oh no!" She was giggling one second and then in the other second, she gasped and exclaimed with a shocked look on her face causing the other maid whose hair was tied in pigtails to turn and look at her with a frown.

" What now?" The maid with pigtails asked while a look of confusion etched on her face.

" I forgot to tell the carriers to bring the carts since we need to take the water to the tents now," said the maid with buns causing her friend to roll her eyes and exclaim, " What are you doing here now? Ask the carriers to bring the carts now and ask the mammies to come as well!

The maids of the imperial family members will be coming now, the first one will be the Empress and Emperor, what are you doing? If we don\'t have this hot water boiled and placed on the cart, I am afraid that they will have our heads for dilly-dallying."

When Xiao Lin heard that the first group of maids that will be coming here belonged to the Empress fraction, she immediately rushed out of the tent from the back just as the maid with buns rushed out of the front which masked her light footsteps and did not alert the maid with pigtails who was stacking more firewood under the large vessels along with the others who walked inside and started to work again.

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Xiao Lin hid behind the tree that was closest to the carts that were being parked behind the tent and waited for the group of maids that were going to come and get the water for the Empress. She did not have to wait for long as she saw Nanny Gong rushing in front while leading the maids who were walking behind her.

" Is the after ready?" The old woman asked the mammies who were putting the large vessels that were filled with hot water that was steaming with white fumes wafting in the air.

"It is ready!" A mammy replied with a groan as she piled another vessel in the cart. " You can take it away just wait for me to place one more vessel."

"Please hurry up, her majesty had been waiting for her bath since the afternoon.," stated Nanny Gong to which the Mammy nodded and replied with a slight chuckle, " I am not even surprised, with all the things that she was carrying on her body.,. I am sure that her majesty must have sweated a lot in this weather."

" Mammy Xue, do not make fun of her majesty like that," said Nanny Gong reproachfully which only made the Mammy laugh even more as she started to order the maids to hurry and pour the hot water into the vessels fast.

Taking advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention to the maids who were silently standing behind Nanny Gong, Xiao Lin took out a poisonous flower from the pouch and headed to the maid who was standing at the last where she took one last breath to hype herself up and then rushed at the maid before covering the nose of the maid at the back.

The maid who realised that something was happening immediately started to struggle frantically as she thrashed against Xiao Lin while her eyes started to turn red as blood started to pour out of the corner of her eyes.

But Xiao Lin did not stop even though it was her first time killing someone this one was for her mistress and thus she did not even shake when she was holding the woman by her face and waist and pulled her along with her to the back of the forest where no one could see them.

The poisonous flowers were indeed potent, the maid who continued to thrash against Xiao Lin soon turned limp while bleeding from her eyes and mouth and Xiao Lin let her go. With a thump, the body fell on the ground and only then did  Xiao Lin start to tremble as she looked at her hands that were covered in blood as she scampered away from the body that was lying on the floor.

" I … I killed someone." She muttered to herself as she tried to calm her trembling body but then again she did not have the time to have a mental breakdown with her hands trembling, she covered her mouth and stopped herself from hurling everything that she ate and then closed her eyes before she turned to look at the body that was lying on the floor and then started to take the clothes of the maid as she crouched down.