Detective Ghost Empress

Chapter 98: Looking down at her

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Liu Hui Ying cursed her luck, she didn't even get a chance to step out of the palace and she was already caught! But somehow she managed to keep her calm as she faced the guards and answered their question, " I… I am a eunuch working in the palace of the Queen, she was missing some candied hawthorns from the shop in the market which is why she asked me to buy some for her."

As she spoke she took out the palace badge, that was looked like a shiny golden tablet with inscriptions written on it, Liu Hui Ying didn't have to worry about anything given that Qui Ai has taken care of everything from sneaking the clothes of a eunuch out of the laundry room, she even prepared an identity tablet for Liu Hui Ying.

" This is my identity tablet," Liu Hui Ying showed the golden tablet to the guards who took a look at the name that was written on the golden plate.

" Junior eunuch Li," the guard on the left read the identity tablet and then frowned as he looked to his colleague who shrugged and said, " Don't look at me, do you know how many eunuchs are there in the palace? He must be newly hired by the palace after the arrival of the Queen since he is still a eunuch in training."

" But still," said the guard on left with his brows furrowed as he looked at Liu Hui Ying and brought his hand to his chin as he pondered over something. " He is the eunuch of the Queen's courtyard, should he be allowed to leave this late in the night?"

Everyone has heard about the Queen who just married over to the palace, it hasn't been more than three days and yet the fame of the Queen has risen so much that even the guards with the lowest rank have heard all about her.

"Didn't the queen kill a maid and feasted on her heart?" The guard on the right said suddenly with a shiver as he looked at his colleague. " Xiao Li, I think we should let the little eunuch go, if the Queen finds out that we stopped him, then what will you do if she came looking for our hearts as well?"

Xiao Li also stiffened and then swallowed hard as he said in false bravado, " What are you saying? The maid was a sinner and that is why she has to hand over her heart to the Queen, I haven't done anything wrong."

" Do you think the queen will think the same?" asked the other guard and Xiao Li stiffened even more as he turned to look at the little eunuch with a terrified look on his face.

Liu Hui Ying listened to the conversation between the two guards and was simply speechless. She has been here for less than two days and now she was already being rumoured as a heart-eating monster.

Well they weren't wrong, she indeed went for the heart of the maid but she did not feast on it!

" But can we allow the eunuch of the Queen to leave the palace at such an odd hour?" Xiao Li asked, he was worried that he will be punished by the head guard. " I mean everyone knows that the Queen is not favoured, no offence to your mistress," he added quickly as he spoke to Liu Hui Ying.

" None taken," replied Liu Hui Ying with a wide smile that nearly closed her eyes. Haha, even these guards knew that she wasn't favoured?

What an interesting life she was living. That damned Emperor he really didn't want her to survive did he? Even these small fries were looking down on her!

One of these days she will get hold of his tree and …

" Why? Why can't my sister's eunuch leave the palace as he pleases? Now even you puny guards are looking down on my sister?" A masculine voice came from behind and the guards turned to look at the man who was walking towards them with a fan in his hands.

His swagger was cocky and he looked rather arrogant with that tilt of his head.

" Prince Kang, that wasn't what we meant," the two guards bowed in front of and Liu Hui Ying followed suit as she bowed in front of the man. " We were just worried that we will be blamed after all the royal kitchen can prepare anything that the Queen wants to eat, allowing the eunuch to leave at this hour…it will be suspicious."

The man prince Kang raised one of his brows and smiled at the two guards as he asked, " So are you saying that the Liu family is acting suspiciously?"

" No, absolutely not—— that's not what we meant…" the two guards started speaking but Prince Kang wasn't willing to listen as he scoffed at the two of them.

" Then what did you mean?" he asked them imperiously. " If you are questioning the eunuch of the queen then you are questioning the Queen and if you are questioning the queen, aren't you questioning the Liu family?"

He leaned down and then snapped his fan close as he sneered at the two guards who were shivering. " Should I tell my uncle that you are questioning the Queen and the Liu family? He will be very willing to see you two. "

"No, No…we did not mean that," the two guards shivered as they hurriedly gave their permission to the eunuch who belonged to the Queen's courtyard and then even sent him off respectfully.

Liu Hui Ying saw how the two of them were acting and was speechless. Seriously, the power struggle has been embedded in the very vein of this country. Earlier these two men were acting so obnoxiously but no sooner the prime minister was called out they sent her off so respectfully?

What unfair treatment!

She was really upset but she didn't even have the chance to be upset as she looked at the man who was walking next to her with a smile on his face.

Now, what should she do with him?

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