Detective Ghost Empress

” Two.”

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” Ten”

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” Twenty.” Liu Hui Ying grounded out as she pushed her body to finish the twentieth push up but then her hands started to tremble and she fell on the floor with a loud thud.

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” Your majesty, what are you trying to do?” Qui Ai was fanning Liu Hui Ying who was covered in sweat, her eyes filled with worry as she looked at her missy’s weird antics. ” Why are you doing something so painful when you can’t? Isn’t it okay to sit down and drink a cool summer drink?”

As she said this Nanny Gong who was pouring ice into a cup of juice immediately jumped off the porch in the backyard and then rushed to Liu Hui Ying as she placed the chilled juice in front of Liu Hui Ying and said, ” That is right, your majesty... the chef has made this sour and sweet sugar plum juice for you, why not drink this and relieve the heat?”

” Oh keep it away from me,” Liu Hui Ying pushed the cup of juice away from her face when she saw that Nanny Gong was trying to place it against her cheek and said, ” I am covered with sweat, if I drink something this cold just after working out then I will catch a cold.”

” But your majesty, why do you have to do something so strenuous?”Nanny Gong cried as she scrambled to her feet when she saw that Liu Hui Ying has gotten to her feet as well. ” I mean why punish yourself like this? You have been doing so great, did the Emperor say something to upset you? Is this why you are trying to hurt yourself like this?”

Liu Hui Ying was preparing herself to start rabbit hopping but then she heard Nanny Gong’s words and almost fell face-first on the floor.

” Your majesty!”

” Your majesty!”

Both Qui Ai and Nanny Gong screamed as they reached to help Liu Hui Ying who was almost on the verge of falling and then helped her stand up straight.

Liu Hui Ying whose heart was still thumping wildly blinked her eyes and then took a deep breath as she turned to stare at Nanny Gong. ” Nanny, are you sure that you are here to take care of me or are you here to get me a heart attack? How can you say something so disgusting? I punish myself for that jerk? Who is for me to hurt myself?”

” Of course, not your majesty,” Nanny Gong’s eyes widened as she dropped to her knees and knocked her head to the ground. ” This one lives and dies for you, your majesty... how can I ... even think of hurting you? I would rather have the heavens strike and kill me before I so much as hurt a strand of your hair!”

” Goodness, I was just ...I was just joking, stop hitting your head, all right” Liu Hui Ying stopped Nanny Gong from hitting her head any further as she looked at the elderly woman and said in a heavy voice, ” Nanny Gong, if you want to stay by my side then you better learn how to take a joke, I can’t have you smashing your head every time I say something weird. Got it?”

” I will do as you say, your majesty,” replied Nanny Gong as she wiped her tears and sniffed.

Liu Hui Ying was sure that even though Nanny Gong said this, she would do the same thing again in the future as well, she sighed in both annoyance and tiredness before she turned to look at Qui Ai and asked her to bring her a jar of ointment.

” Nanny Gong,” Liu Hui Ying took the old woman to the porch and then helped her to sit down before she took the ointment from Qui Ai and then opened the lid of the porcelain jar. ” I am not punishing myself, this is called exercising, I am trying to make my body strong.”

“But why?” Nanny Gong was if possible even more scandalous, she could not understand why her miss wanted to get stronger. After all, she was the Queen and there were enough guards and people to protect her, was there any need for her to work so hard and make herself strong? ” Don’t you have guards to protect you, your majesty?”

” I had guards even the last time when I was attacked, what happened?” said Liu Hui Ying as she finished applying the ointment on Nanny Gong’s forehead. She stood up from the porch and then rolled her shoulders as she added, ” Those guards are useless, last time if I wasn’t quick enough then I would have already died.”

” Your majesty!” Nanny Gong interrupted her as she rushed over to Liu Hui Ying’s side and said, ” You cannot say such unfortunate words!”

” I am not saying unfortunate words, I am speaking the truth, Nanny,” Liu Hui Ying patted Nanny Gong on the shoulder. ” I know what I am doing since we cannot rely on anyone. Then we must rely on ourselves, you understand Nanny Gong? We are not going to rely on men with ulterior motives, we are going to rely on ourselves!” And her ghosts.

As the thought of her ghosts popped into her head, she turned around she looked at her ghosts who were eyeing the pond with fascination, apparently, they have seen such big koi fish for the first time in their lives and they have been taken by those koi fish ever since the morning when Grandma Lan Fen told them about it.

Li Gang sensed her gaze and cheerfully raised his head as he said, ” Hui Ying, can we eat them?”

Liu Hui Ying: “....” These fools someone would come and kill me and these guys wouldn’t even know that their master has been killed!

” What are you thinking about, your majesty?” seeing that Liu Hui Ying has stopped speaking, Qui Ai asked her, looking in the direction where Liu Hui Ying was looking. ” Is there something in the pond?”

” Nothing,” said Liu Hui Ying as she crossed her arms behind her back and then squatted on the floor as she sighed heavily. ” I just realised that I am surrounded by idiots in one way or another.”