Detective Ghost Empress

351 Like a loving husband and wife ——” You are so cruel, Nanny,” Liu Hui Ying sobbed as she was pushed onto the palanquin, when she agreed to Nanny Gong’s suggestion, she thought that the woman will at least give her some space to breathe but instead—— but instead she actually tied her up with seven layers of clothing including the inner garments. She felt like she was now moving, talking little panda—— every step that she took was heavily brought down on the floor and Liu Hui Ying was sure that she saw the floor vibrate a little when she placed her foot on it.

” This is an important ceremony,” was all Nanny Gong said as she pushed Liu Hui Ying who could not move due to the seven layers of clothing that were stuffed on her body inside the palanquin including the golden crown whose tinsels moved with every step or move Liu Hui Ying made. ” We cannot have you roam around as you usually do, your majesty!”

She paused and then added in a whisper, ” And I hope with you looking like this, his majesty will give you an extra two glances.”

” What is the point,” Liu Hui Ying questioned as she sat down on the palanquin, usually her weight was bearable for the palanquin bearers but today they all stumbled a little when they felt the queen sit down on the palanquin.

Liu Hui Ying cast them a sympathetic glance but more than that she was sympathetic towards the palanquin bearers, she was more sympathetic towards herself. She turned to look at Nanny Gong who was looking at her with a hopeful look in her eyes and said, ” With so many layers, even if His esteemed majesty takes two glances at me, he will be tired by the third layer.”

Everyone understood what she meant, and while the palanquin bearers blushed in embarrassment, Nanny Gong glared at Liu Hui Ying as she gasped in a scandalised manner. ” Your majesty!” She said in a reproachful voice, ” Please be more restrained, what are you saying …if the others were to hear what will they think…?”

Would they not think that the Emperor, his majesty’s stamina was so bad that he could not even take the clothes off his wife? Much less get her pregnant?

Liu Hui Ying poked her tongue out but did not say anything as she placed her elbows on the armrest of the palanquin on which she was sitting, she has been very clear about one motto of her life and that was—— if she was not happy, then no one will be happy either! End of the story!

The palanquin bearers did not want to hear anything more, lest they hear something more scandalous they might have to lose their ears and in the worst-case scenario they will have to lose both their ears and tongue—— or maybe even their heads!

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They hurriedly picked up the palanquin higher and started to rush towards the grounds where the carriages were parked, it would be better to deliver the queen to the king! Only he was well versed in the art of reining the Queen a little!

What the palanquin bearers did not know was that the one who was holding the reins was not the Emperor but the Queen.

Zhai Tianyu was standing at the carriage grounds while his grandmother looked down at him with a disappointment-filled gaze. She looked around them and then said, “What’s going on with you, Tianyu? Why is it that you havent been visiting Ji Yu? Is it because of her condition? Are you upset that she cannot bear you children?”

” It has nothing to do with that, your majesty,” Zhai Tianyu replied as he looked at Ji Yu who was standing behind the Grand Dowager Empress. He did not expect Ji Yu to go and complain to his grandmother about their fall out, though she might have not told everything to his grandmother, she must have mentioned him being angry with her. ” I am just not feeling it these days, as you already know I am not visiting any of my wives.”

Grand Dowager Empress pursed her lips as she looked at Zhai Tianyu, she could see that the adoration and respect that Zhai Tianyu had for Ji Yu seemed to have vanished into thin air. Last night when she asked Ji Yu why Zhai Tianyu was not visiting her, the latter made some excuse but now she was certain that something must have happened between the two of them.

In the past, Zhai Tianyu has never ignored Ji Yu. Even if he was upset and did not want to visit a woman, he has gone to see her as a friend but now ——

” Is this because of the Queen?” asked Grand Dowager Empress as she looked at Zhai Tianyu with disapproval in her eyes. ” Did she say something to you, is that why you are ignoring Yu’er?”

She has seen many schemes by women of the harem but she has to admit that Liu Hui Ying was the most capable of them all, that woman was actually able to make Zhai Tianyu, her puppet even though when she was the one who has been brainwashing him for years.

” This has nothing to with the queen, either,” Zhai Tianyu replied with all the patience that he had in his body. ” I have not seen the Queen ever since the ceremony, even before that, I did not see her, grandmother. I just want to have some alone time, as the Emperor, I believe that I can spend a few nights alone to recover my heavenly body. With so many Concubines, how am I supposed to continue? I am trying my best to give you a great-grandchild, after all.”

What he said made sense as well but the Grand Dowager Empress was not satisfied, she had nothing against Zhai Tianyu visiting other concubines but the thing was that he needed to pay more attention to Ji Yu, that was the bottom line!

” I understand if that is what you want but I hope that you will remember what you said to me,” she turned to look at Ji Yu who had her head lowered and added in a commanding voice, ” You need to remember, Tianyu—— Ji Yu was with you when no one was, she is your benefactor. You cannot ignore her like this and favour one woman over someone whom you have known for years! Which is why I will be expecting you to drive in the same carriage as Ji Yu.”

She turned and sternly looked at Zhai Tianyu, ” Like a loving husband and wife.”