Detective Ghost Empress

Chapter 16: He is still young

The three ghosts were shocked into speechlessness by Liu Hui Ying’s shamelessness but there was nothing they could say against her because she was indeed right. She was sharing her spiritual energy with the three of them and even if they wanted to say that just because she was sharing her spiritual energy doesn’t necessarily mean that she was doing all the hard work here while they were having the time of their afterlives, they couldn’t do it– so, with a heavy heart, Jia Li and Grandma Lan Fen dragged Li Gang away who was cracking his knuckles as if he was preparing to throw fists at their master.

” Why did you two drag me out? Li Gang tore his arms away from Jia Li and Grandma Lan Fen and angrily pointed at the courtyard where Liu Hui Ying was. ” Do you really like being ordered around by that woman? She always spouts out difficult orders left and right as if they are easy to carry out, don’t you think she is being too much? She might be sharing her spiritual energy with us but we are the ones who are doing all the hard work here.”

Jia Li rolled her eyes at him as she simply said, ” Then go ahead and tell her that you don’t want to follow her orders, I and Grandma Lan Fen will wait for you right here.”

” Do you think I don’t dare to? I will do it.” Li Gang looked at Jia Li with great determination if she dared to say anything against him, he will definitely raise his fists and fight with her.

“Go ahead then,” with her chin slightly tilted Jia Li tipped her head towards the courtyard. ” Go and tell her that you are done taking orders from her and won’t be following her anymore.”

” Fine,” with a grave expression Li Gang turned around and rolled his shoulders making it look like he was preparing himself to step into the battlefield but inwardly he was praying that Grandma Lan Fen would stop him. He really didn’t want to say anything against Liu Hui Ying because the last time he went against her, she trapped him in a small glass bottle and refused to let him come out until he started begging her.

He raised his feet and then looked over his shoulders but as soon as he turned around and looked at Jia Li and Grandma Lan Fen, he was surprised to find that the two of them were actually looking at him without any intention of stopping him. His momentum slightly flailed as he said, ” I am really going in.”

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” Go then,” replied Jia Li with her arms crossed and her face a mask of complete calmness.

Seeing that she really wasn’t bothered, Li Gang swallowed and then turned to look at Grandma Lan Fen as he said, ” Grandma, I am really going in...so if something happens to me then make sure to sacrifice some good wine as offerings for me.”

After saying this, he turned around and started walking towards the wall of the courts but under his breath he kept muttering, ” Please stop me, Please..please, I am banking my hope on you Grandma Lan Fen.”

” Wait!”

Just as he reached the wall and raised his feet to step inside, Grandma Lan Fen’s voice came from behind stopping Li Gang just on time. His heart soared and his lips curled into a big smile but then he suppressed the grin and then turned around to look at Grandma Lan Fen as he looked at her with a solemn expression. ” What is it, Grandma Lan Fen? Do you know that you are being annoying?”

” I am sorry dear but,” with a hesitation-filled heart, Grandma Lan Fen looked at Li Gang as she said, ” If you go in there then you know what she will say.”

As soon as Grandma Lan Fen said that, those horrifying memories of the past came surging up as they all remembered the lecture that Liu Hui Ying gave them the last time they tried to go against them.

[ It was one fine day in summer and they were looking for a serial murderer because the case was tricky the three of them had to work extra hard given that the murderer never buried the body as soon as he killed his victims, instead he would keep their body trapped somewhere and would only dump it after the body was completely rotten. What was even more surprising, the murderer knew how to disguise himself in such a way that he wasn’t caught by the CCTV cameras in fact with his makeup skills he was able to escape right under the nose of the police department.

The three of them were asked to work overtime and when they refused.

” Are you saying that you don’t want to work overtime?” Liu Hui Ying had looked at them with a calm expression, her glasses resting at the bridge of her nose, she didn’t shout or get angry with them instead she calmly looked at them, leaned forward on the table and dangerously whispered, ” If you don’t work overtime then I do not have any use for lazy bums like you, since you don’t want to work hard, then you all can go to the underworld, I will look for some other ghosts, I bet many of them want to escape the clutches of the grim reaper.”

After that neither of them dared to say a word.]

But till this day they could remember the spiritual pressure that Liu Hui Ying used on them.

” Grandma Lan Fen–” Jia Li wanted to tell Grandma Lan Fen that there was no need for them to worry about Li Gang since they weren’t the ones who were finding trouble with Liu Hui Ying this time but before she could say that Li Gang interrupted her at once. ” Fine, Fine ...since you two are such scaredy cats I won’t go and make trouble with Hui Ying, lets’s go we will look for the ghost of that Empress.” Then he swaggered past Jia Li as if he was worried she will stop him again.

” You should have just let him poke the tiger in the eye,” muttered Jia Li as she rolled her eyes at the haughty profile of Li Gang.

Grandma Lan Fen chuckled and said, “It’s all right, he is still young.”

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