Detective Ghost Empress

153 Who is in charge?

” This...” Zhai Heng was done looking at the stab wound and now his heart was in chaos, he has thought that the person who was behind the murder of his aunt was from the Liu family but now that he was looking at the stab wound he realised that he was thinking in the wrong direction.

The Liu family might be the most ruthless family of all the families in the imperial city but they never dirtied their hands, they believed that they were too noble for doing something like this which was why they always hired an assassin to kill anyone who came on their target list.

So, if this was not done by the Liu family then who was the one who did this? Zhai Heng bit his lips as he thought about everything that might have gone down but even after thinking it over and over again, he could not come up with a decent conclusion while looking at Zhai Tianyu who was narrowing his eyes peculiarly he knew that his younger brother did not know anything better than him.

“If someone knew about everything about your aunt, then I am afraid that they were either with her all day long or someone whom she trusted a bit too much to hide her actions from,” Liu Hui Ying summed up her theory as she pushed the drawing that she has made while looking at the wound.

On the paper was a sword drawn with careful precision, one look at it and Zhai Tianyu thought that it was made by some sort of a skilled artisan, he looked at the drawing of the sword and then asked, ” Do you want me to look for who was the one who made this sword?”

” No,” Liu Hui Ying shook her head with a solemn look in her eyes. ” The reason I drew that was to tell you that this was the weapon we are going to look for and on the basis of the sword, we can narrow down the list of suspects.” As she finished speaking, she turned to look at Zhai Chenguang who was staring at the drawing of the sword and asked, ” How many people you had next to you when you were alive, Miss Zhai.”

” I ... there was a lot of maids with whom I use to live with but I did not tell them everything that was going on in my life... there was, of course, my mammy and personal maid but,” Zhai Chenguang remembered the time she spent with her mammy and personal maid before she bit her lips and clenched her fingers tightly, she has never thought that she would be betrayed like this but she still could not believe that those two women would betray her and the reason was –.

” But they were selected by mother, they would not betray me.” The mammy and the personal maid both of them were selected by the Grand Dowager Empress, even though Zhai Chenguang and her husband scholar Wei married after falling in love, the old Grand Dowager Empress was still worried that her daughter will be bullied which was why she sent her own people in the Wei house, the mammy and personal maid being one of them.

“In such a situation it’s better to bring them under the suspect list,” Liu Hui Ying said not caring about how upset Zhai Chenguang will be after finding out that she might have been betrayed by someone whom she has trusted but there was nothing that she could do either. She was here to work, not go all go go and ga ga with Zhai Chenguang, if she was to sympathise with her then how was she supposed to work?

.....

She then turned to look at Zhai Chenguang and asked, ” Anyone else?”

” No one else–” Zhai Chenguang began but Liu Hui Ying shook her head as she crossed her arms in front of her and then explained the question that she has asked a bit more clearly. ” What I wanted to ask was the people you were close to, that includes your husband and everyone else related to him or you.”

Zhai Chenguang got immediately worked up when she heard Liu Hui Ying suspect her husband, she hysterically shook her head and then said, ” There is no way that my husband would be involved, he was on a lecture and the city where he was, is at a distance of two days away from the imperial city there is no way that he will be involved in the killing.”

” She is right,” Zhai Tianyu too chimed in and then turned to look at Liu Hui Ying, he knew that she was just doing her work but he has to admit that his uncle-in-law was not someone who would kill his aunt given that he has always cared about his aunt, when his aunt died, his uncle in law stayed next to her grave for a very long time, he would come to see her every night and did not leave till the morning.

” Scholar Wei is not someone who would do something like this,” he confirmed and Liu Hui Ying snorted.

” Who is the one overlooking the case and investigating?” Liu Hui Ying questioned as she looked at the man in front of her.

“It is you, my queen,” Zhai Tianyu replied feeling a bit awkward as Liu Hui Ying smiled at him and then sweetly said, “That’s right, I am the one who is in charge of this investigation, so would you please leave it to me? If you think you can do it better than you are free to do so...” she paused as her face twisted maliciously. ” If you think you can.”

Zhai Tianyu took a step back as he looked at the expression on the face of Liu Hui Ying, when Zhai Heng and Yu Lingyun looked at him with a pathetic expressions on their faces, he narrowed his eyes and then hissed under his breath, “If you two think that you can deal with this matter much better than me why don’t you try?”

Zhai Heng: “.....”

Yu Lingyun: “.....”

Both of them took a look at Liu Hui Ying’s expression and then took a step back simultaneously. They could not deal with this woman.