Detective Ghost Empress

49 So much food

” I see,” nanny Gong was still in a bit of shock even though it has been hours since Liu Hui Ying told her what she wanted for dinner but even now Nanny Gong felt like she was sleepwalking. However, as a maid and the servant of the Queen, she was taught to keep her nose in her business and never poke it into Liu Hui Ying’s matters since the Queen has said that she will be fine then surely she will be fine?

” I will as the maids to bring your dinner,” Nanny Gong bowed in front of Liu Hui Ying before leaving the room. Liu Hui Ying peered at Nanny Gong’s back and then stood up from the stool before she headed straight to her hall where a small dining table along with a pillow was prepared for her.

Liu Hui Ying stared at the dirty pillow that was lying on the floor and then raised her leg to trodden the pillow cushion under her feet, immediately a cloud of dust billowed out of the pillow cushion and she scoffed with an annoyed expression, ” I bet there is no queen as pitiful as this woman, her family doesn’t seem to care about her, her husband hates her and wants her dead and her life is worse than a vagabond roaming on the streets, no wonder she chose to commit suicide, if I was her I would have killed myself as well.”

” The only difference is that you would have killed the Emperor along with you,” objected Li Gang at once, he knew Liu Hui Ying too well, she wasn’t the type of woman who would just simply commit suicide, she was the type of the woman who would drag at least two people with her before she went inside the casket.

” Isn’t that natural?” Liu Hui Ying was not at all offended as she patted the pillow cushion with her feet and then sat down at the dining table. She turned her head and shot a look at Li Gang, ” Isn’t it only fair that the one who is responsible for all the ‘worse things’ happening in my life to come down to hell with me? You know I am a sweetheart if someone is nice to me, I will be nice to them but if they are an a-hole to me then I will do everything in my power to make them rue the day when they woke up and decided to go against me.”

Li Gang rolled his eyes but when Liu Hui Ying turned her head to catch him in the act, he immediately raised his head and looked around the ceiling as he muttered, ” There are too many cracks in the ceiling that Emperor sure is an a-hole.”

Jia Li scoffed at his antics while Grandma Lan Fen simply shook her head and sat down on the floor next to Liu Hui Ying before she said, ” What are you both doing? Come on sit down, it’s time for dinner.”

Only then did Li Gang and Jia Li sit down on the floor.

No sooner did they sit down, the maids responsible for bringing the dinner opened the sliding door and then one by one they entered bearing trays that were filled with bowls and plates that were filled with food to the brim.

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Li Gang rubbed his hands as he took a whiff of the food and sighed in content, “I can smell my black chicken! Haha! At least coming here brought me some sort of advantage!”

” How boorish,” Jia Li muttered in distaste as she sat down politely and waited for the dishes to be served.

” What do you know,” Li Gang retorted at once as he looked at her. ” Showing your excitement for your meal means that you are respecting the chef who cooked it for you... if you went through an empty stomach for more than a week then you would know how it feels to be me.”

Jia Li opened her mouth but she was silenced by Liu Hui Ying who shot her a look. Seeing that the fight was diverted, Grandma Lan Fen drew in a breath of relief before she calmly said, ” No fight kids, we don’t want you making things difficult now, all right?”

Li Gang and Jia Li did not say anything instead they turned their faces away from each other with a harumph.

Maybe it was because she was paying attention to the two of them Liu Hui Ying had no idea when the maids finished setting up the four tables worth of food, she only snapped out of her daze when she heard nanny Gong speak, ” Your majesty, the meal has been set up, you can eat now...”

As for how Liu Hui Ying was going to eat the food that was worth four tables and more Nanny Gong had no idea.

” Oh yes,” Liu Hui Ying picked up her chopsticks but then she paused and then smiled at Nanny Gong in embarrassment. ” Nanny, why don’t you go out in another room, I am afraid that you will find me displeasing to the eye if you see me eat.”

Nanny Gong wanted to say that she would never find Liu Hui Ying displeasing but then again she understood that her lady wanted her to go out with Qui Ai, so she bowed her head and brought Qui Ai who was done with tasting the food to another room.

Liu Hui Ying kept smiling until the two went out before she turned to Jia Li and asked, ” Are they gone?”

” Wait I will see,” Jia Li once worked in the forensic department and it was said that no matter what clue or even the smallest injury could not escape the scrutiny of her eyes. Her powers only exceeded even more when she died and became a ghost, now she could not only see things miles away like an eagle, she could even see through walls and paper.

So, she didn’t even have to get up from her place as she turned her head and looked past the paper door and raised a thumb. ” They are gone!”