Detective Ghost Empress-Chapter 490: A cliff and a rock

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" Achoo!" Zhai Tianyu sneezed causing Ji Yu to look at him with slight disgust, she raised her head from the painting that she was making and then said, " Was it necessary for you to come here, your majesty? There are more than fifty concubines in the harem who would have loved your presence."

Zhai Tianyu wiped his nose and then leaned on the couch. His eyes fell on the portrait that Ji Yu was making and tilted his head before saying, " Yeah but compared to them, you are the safest at the moment. Is that Xiao Lin? How come I never knew that she was this beautiful?"

" She might not be beautiful in your eyes, but she is in mine," stated Ji Yu as she added a few strokes to her painting. Once Xiao Lin's face was etched on the paper, Ji Yu's eyes softened as she softly traced the face that was smiling down at her with her fingers. " But why are you here? I don't think that I have done anything that would make you visit me."

" You didn't but your father did," Zhai Tianyu smiled with a tired expression. He raised his head and then placed them on the table in front of him before heaving a sigh which showed how annoyed and frustrated he was, seeing Ji Yu frowned before getting up from the floor and walking towards the cabinet.

She took out a porcelain bottle and pulled open the stopper before walking towards Zhai Tianyu. Her hands tilted slightly as she poured the oil into her palm and then started to massage Zhai Tianyu's forehead, this was something that she used to do when they were young and thus her habits were still the same even after growing up.

" Did my father find trouble with you again?" She questioned while her fingers rubbed the space between Zhai Tianyu's brows and then down to the side of his forehead.

" No, this time he found trouble with the entire Liu family," replied Zhai Tianyu as he explained what happened to Ji Yu.

However by the time he finished, Ji Yu was frowning so hard that her hands instinctively stopped. She lowered her head and then asked, " How come forty thousand taels vanished into thin air like that? If Liu Yu Nan says that he did not take the taels then who did?"

" Thats the thing," Zhai Tianyu straightened up as he motioned Ji Yu to sit down. The latter did as he told after washing her hands in a water vat and then heard Zhai Tianyu say, " The case is full of loopholes. If Liu Yu Nan was the one who stole the gold taels, then why did he leave his signature on the tally? He should have avoided that and if was not the one who stole the taels then who did?

But the thing is that the box stayed with Liu Yu Nan and his team till the end, no one touched the box. This was something that Liu Yu Nan confirmed as well as the key of the lock was with his guard all the time while he was carrying the fake."

"They changed the lock midway which means that no one else had the key to the lock except Liu Yu Nan and his bodyguard but neither of them moved the taels the thing is that the evidence heavily points towards them."

Zhai Tianyu was having a headache just thinking about the matter, " I don't know how the Liu family will even solve this case."

" Can't you do something?" Ji Yu asked with a frown on her face. " If they are proven as criminals then they would lose their lives and her majesty would lose her throne."

This was something that Zhai Tianyu was aware of as well but he had no idea how to solve this matter either. His gut told him that the matter was related to ghosts but if it was related to ghosts then how would the Liu family clean their hands off this matter? Wouldn't they be blamed in the end?

On the other side in the cold palace.

After hearing the entire crux of the matter even Liu Hui Ying was a bit depressed. The taels vanished in the middle and the key was with Liu Yu Nan till the end, they did not find any traces of the lock being opened and when Liu Yu Nan opened the trunk after waking up the next day the taels were there in the box but when the box arrived at the imperial finance department the taels were gone.

" This had to be the work of a ghost," Jia Li stated with furrowed brows. " I bet there was an end-to-end array drawn on the box."

An end-to-end array allowed two different poles to be attached with a portal between them. Thus a person despite being at another place could touch and take things from a completely different location. It was a difficult array to draw but if a ghost's cultivation was high then they could draw the array with ease.

Liu Hui Ying narrowed her eyes, her guess was the same but——

" The box is inside the Yamen office and even if I were to use an array to bring back the money, it might lead to another rumour which would further cause trouble for the Liu family," said Liu Hui Ying. Bringing the money back was not difficult, the thing was to show the world that the taels without showing any supernatural element added to it.

If the taels were to surface because of a talisman then it would just throw another pile of blame on the Liu family for doing black magic. Ji Yang and his officials would certainly make things difficult for the Liu family.

" I have to admit that …that man is really smart," Liu Hui Ying sneered as she thought about how she was trapped by Ji Yang his fraction. If she left the taels unfounded then she would be dethroned and if the taels were found then she would be killed along with her family.

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Either way, it was going to be her death sentence!