Detective Ghost Empress

154 Where is the evidence hidden?

” Now, that we are done crossing the obstruction that was ever so minutely raised..why don’t you tell me who you were closed with?” Liu Hui Ying asked again, her voice was still sweet as she turned her head slightly to the front such that she was looking at Zhai Chenguang again, when she turned her head to look at Zhai Chenguang, the latter was still hesitating, seeing that Zhai Chenguang was still not speaking Liu Hui Ying rubbed her forehead and then decided to go back to her usual state.

” Come on, do you want me to use my hands and make you spit everything out?” Liu Hui Ying’s expression changed as she threatened Zhai Chenguang. ” If you waste my time then I will have you known I will raise my price as well, do you want me to suck your precious nephew’s blood now? If you want then you can go ahead and waste my time. Anyway, your nephew will be the one who will have to pay for it.”

” My husband and his disciple,” Zhai Chenguang replied, she knew that Liu Hui Ying will really do what she was saying and she did not want to trouble her nephew anymore than she has already done which was why she lowered her head and told what Liu Hui Ying was asking her. ” My husband was the one who was closest to me and his disciple Ren Shu Chen was the one who stayed with me when my husband left for work, the two of them were the only ones with whom I spent my time.”

“That Ren Shu Chen, are they a woman?” Liu Hui Ying asked Zhai Chenguang who shook her head and replied, ” He is a man, he was adopted by my husband when his friend died and ever since then the two of them have been living like a scholar master and disciple.”

” A man huh?” Liu Hui Ying pondered carefully as she tapped her chin and then looked at the coffin that still had a lingering Yang energy, one could see that the person who came to see Zhai Chenguang was a man as well but together with him was a woman because there was a hint of Yin energy.

If the disciple of Scholar Wei was a man then this woman can be his lover, since Scholar Wei had an alibi. According to what Zhai Chenguang said, she was heading to see her husband in the next city and from what she has heard the man was in the next city that was at a distance of two days away from the imperial city.

Meaning that scholar Wei more or less had an alibi that could prove that he was not at the imperial city.

” This disciple, did he leave the city with your husband?” Liu Hui Ying asked to which Zhai Chenguang nodded in surprise. ” Disciple Ren did go with my husband. But because he broke his ankle, he departed a day later but he still left before I decided to go to my husband, there is no way that he would have known that I was leaving.”

” Hmm.” Liu Hui Ying pursed her lips before she turned to look at Zhai Tianyu and said, ” Where did the accident take place again?”

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The cliff where Zhai Chenguang’s accident took place was at a distance of three hours from the imperial city, it was a desolate cliff with nothing but sandy dunes and a narrow path that led to the other city, because this time period did not have anything that was called dynamite which was the cliff was carved in a way that a narrow path was made out of it which was why the carriage driver was driving the carriage really carefully by the time Liu Hui Ying and the others arrived at the top of the cliff, the sun was on the way to set down.

” This is where it happened,” as Zhai Tianyu stepped out of the carriage and then waited for Liu Hui Ying to step out before he pointed to the path that has caved in after the landslide that took Zhai Chenguang took place. The entire path was still half covered in dried mud and stones, and only the part that was dug up to rescue Zhai Chenguang was clear other than that the entire place was full of dirt and debris.

Liu Hui Ying peered at the caved-in path before she turned to look at the flat surface of the cliff, her eyes surveying the entire space before she took out the beads of blood that she has taken from Grand Dowager Empress from her hand where she has been wearing it for a long time to refine it in a good weapon to be used.

She did not think that it will come in handy so soon thought but it was a good thing that she has been refining it for a long time, and now she will finally be able to use it.

” But why are we here?” Zhai Tianyu asked, he did not see why Liu Hui Ying asked them to come back here when he has been telling her that there was nothing on this cliff. ” My soldiers have already searched this entire place and yet they have found nothing, I don’t think that we will find anything here.”

” That is where you are wrong,” Liu Hui Ying told him as she smiled at the cliff that has been left alone for a very long time. “It’s true that your soldiers did not find anything but ...” she paused causing Zhai Tianyu to stiffen. ” That is when they were looking around, that is to say on the day when you all found out that Zhai Chenguang is dead but after that did either of you come to look at this place?” She turned her head over her shoulders and then looked at the Zhai Tianyu.

After realising what Liu Hui Ying said, Zhai Tinayu’s mind started to function at a rapid speed as he shook his head in response. ” You mean to say–”

” The perfect place to hide a piece of evidence is where no one will look ever again.”