Detective Ghost Empress

139 Suffer

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Nanny Gong looked at the closed door of the main hall before she sank to her knees and then immediately greeted the Emperor and the Grand Dowager Empress. ” Your majesty the Grand Dowager Empress and your majesty the Emperor, this humble one greets you two!”

As soon as she sunk to her knees, Qui Ai who has been looking at her also turned around and followed Nanny Gong’s greeting but she too was feeling confused when she saw the Grand Dowager Empress.

The emperor would visit the Empress’s palace once in a while and it was a normal occurrence for them, his presence was not that shocking but the grand Dowager Empress arriving here out of nowhere and for no reason scared them so much that they started shivering.

” You may rise,” the grand dowager empress was the one who came here to ask for help, she could not show her pride in front of the close servants of the Queen.

Right now, she could not even think of going against that woman, given her personality, she was already going to find trouble with her because she bullied her on the first day of her wedding, if she was to find out that she tried to show off her arrogance in front of these servants then she will only be digging her grave even deeper.

Nanny Gong and Qui Ai rose to their feet but they still kept their heads lowered as good servants they knew that they have to keep their heads lower in front of the imperial family members, even though the queen treated them like family and asked them to raise their heads in front of her but the same could not be said for the Emperor and Grand Dowager Empress.

If they were to make a mistake in front of these two then they would really be in big trouble.

” Is the queen inside?” The grand dowager empress asked, she was in a hurry to talk to Liu Hui Ying, so the second Nanny Gong and Qui Ai rose to their feet, she immediately asked about Liu Hui Ying.

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Her anxiousness to talk to the queen was so palpable in her voice that even Nanny Gong and Qui Ai heard it, the two were confused by the anxiety of the grand dowager empress but then they nodded and Nanny Gong replied respectfully, ” The Queen is inside but Lord Zhai is talking with her at the moment. He said that he needed to talk to the Queen about something and asked us to leave the room.”

Nanny Gong was worried that the grand dowager empress would think that something was going on between the Empress and Lord Zhai so she carefully explained everything, after all, even though Lord Zhai was the eldest brother of the Emperor, there was a chance that Grand Dowager Empress would make a fuss.

That was what Nanny Gong thought but instead of making a fuss or snarky remarks, the Grand Dowager Empress smiled in an understanding manner and said, ” Is that so? Then there is nothing to worry about after all the brother-in-law and sister-in-law should get along with each other a little.”

Her words met with a shocked look on Qui Ai and nanny Gong’s faces after all they knew just how badly their missy was being treated in the imperial palace for the Empress to suddenly treat her this well what was she thinking?

The Grand dowager empress was a bit embarrassed, she will agree that she has not treated the Empress that well but she has not been cruel to her either and if not for the Liu blood flowing through her veins she would not have said a word about her, after all, they were the ones who were behind her son’s death, she too did not like coming here to this palace. But of all people who could have helped her daughter to attain reincarnation turned out to be this Liu Hui Ying!

She cleared her throat and then looked at nanny Gong before saying, ” Announce our arrival.” She knew that it was going to be difficult for her to deal with the Empress but there was no other choice left for her, she has to get along with Liu Hui Ying or else her daughter will have to roam the face of this world like an evil spirit.

Nanny Gong was stunned but she still nodded and then opened the door of the main hall in a hurry before announcing in a loud voice, ” The grand dowager empress and the Emperor are entering!”

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Zhai Heng was still thinking about what the queen said when he heard about the arrival of his grandmother and younger brother, stunned he turned to look at the two of them who were walking inside the main hall and then turned to look at Liu Hui Ying who was smiling at him with an ‘I told you’ so the expression on her face.

” This one greets your majesty,” Liu Hui Ying who finally saw her money bag coming towards her rose from her seat and then bowed her head in front of the grand dowager empress and the Emperor, she deliberately acted in such a manner to make the Grand dowager empress and sure enough her actions were enough to make the grand dowager Empress look a bit awkward as she looked at Liu Hui Ying who was bowing in front of her.

‘ This woman when she had to lower her head in front of me she was acting so lofty and now that she doesn’t have to lower her head in front of me, she is bowing so respectfully,’ Grand Dowager Empress was a bit flustered but she still nodded and said, ” You may rise.”

Liu Hui Ying straightened up and then flashed a smile at Grand Dowager Empress as she glanced at the Emperor who was standing behind his grandmother and asked in an innocent voice, ” So what brought you here, grand dowager empress?” She batted her eyelashes as she sweetly called Grand Dowager Empress by her title distancing the two of them.

Grand Dowager Empress: “.....” I should have asked her to call me grandmother. Now I will have to suffer.