Detective Ghost Empress

Beggars have nothing to lose. Unlike the villagers who had families and possessions that they cared about, a beggar would be willing to speak the truth for a single meal. Thus whether or not Lin Jinxiao was speaking the truth, it could be easily found out.

Zhai Tinayu rubbed the space between his brows, this man was really daring. Not only did he dare to smuggle the money that was sent for the village's development but he also usurped the crops that the villagers grew and then started selling them to the other country.

If he was not wrong, a few weeks before he did receive a letter of plea from Su Tai, he told him that the crop growth this year was not good in his village and he asked him to commission a budget that would help him and the villagers.

Sure enough, that man was lying through his teeth.

However, Zhai Tianyu did not rush into things. He had a feeling that things were not as simple as they looked, he remembered how Ji Yang told him that the conditions of this village were simply too wretched and asked him to sign the agreement of handing the funds to Su Tai.

As far as he knew about Ji Yang now, the latter was not someone who would be willing to help a small village, for him to actively help this village and Su Tai surely, Su Tai had some secrets regarding the Ji family in his hands.

He needed to get his hands on those secrets before he could deal with Su Tai.

On the other hand, Liu Hui Ying didn't have the same concerns as him. She turned to look at Lin Jinxiao before taking out the portrait of Lin Si's daughter and pushing it in front of him.

"We are here to look for this girl, she must be in her fifties or sixties now…but there is a mole under her lips right on her chin," Liu Hui Ying said to Lin Jinxiao and the rest of the children who peeked at the portrait before Lin Jinxiao's face turned pale.

He raised his head and then looked at Liu Hui Ying in fright before asking, "What do you want to do with my mother?"

"Your mother?" Liu Hui Ying's eyebrows rose. She didn't expect such a coincidence to take place. In fact, she thought that it would take her more than three to four days before she could find anything related to Lin S's daughter. However, she didn't expect to meet with Lin Si's grandson on the very first night of her arrival!

She looked at Lin Jinxiao whose face was pale and said, "There is no need for you to worry. We are only here because your grandfather left a will before dying." Of course, Lin Si did not leave a will behind but Liu Hui Ying had the authority to finalize the land that belonged to Lin Si before he died and then notarized the will.

She even made it look old and weary as if it was really fifty years old.

Lin Jinxiao was stunned. He never knew that his grandfather had left a will, his mother had often told him that his grandfather was a great rebel and fought for his rights but other than that he knew nothing about his grandfather for he had never seen him before, he only knew bits and pieces and that too because his mother wanted to keep his grandfather in his memories.

"My grandfather? But he was a rebel… how did he run into you, my lord?" Lin Jinxiao questioned.

Even though he did not show the suspicions he was having in his heart on his face, Liu Hui Ying could see that he was wary of them and was speechless.

Oh boy, what did he go through when he was young? He was suspicious about everything and anything. The second they open their mouth he looks at them as if they are going to stuff him in a sack and then sell him to a faraway land.

Though Liu Hui Ying was really annoyed, she didn't lose her temper. Instead, she smiled at Lin Jinxiao and explained, "Thats because your grandfather saved our young lord's father when he came to this village because of him our lord's father came back and lived a proper life," she wiped a tear as she continued, "A few days ago, our lord's father fell sick and his health deteriorated.

He was worried that he would not be able to come here so he sent our lord to fulfil the promise that he made to your grandfather when he was a child."

As she finished speaking she elbowed the man next to her who snorted.

Zhai Tianyu turned and glanced at Liu Hui Ying. He really had to admit that this woman was really good at convincing others, if not for the fact that he knew that his father had been gone for years, even he would have been worried about this non-existent father of his who was sick and lying on his sick bed.

"He is right. My father is now in a really serious condition, he wanted to come to this place but we live far away and it's not easy coming to this village. However now that he feels that his time is here, he wants to fulfil his childhood promise that he made to your grandfather," said Zhai Tianyu as he took out the will that Liu Hui Ying prepared and then placed in front of Lin Jinxiao.

Lin Jinxiao looked at the faded old document and felt a surge of emotions. He always felt that his mother and him suffered a lot while he was growing up, now that he had a land deed in his hands, hope surged in his heart.

If there was anyone else in his shoes, they would have questioned Liu Hui Ying and Zhai Tianyu why they had come so late and why didn't they come earlier but Lin Jinxiao didn't have the heart to blame them.

That year was the year of rebellion and with the passage of time, it's only normal that the father of this lord forgot about his grandfather.

As long as he remembered it was good enough.

"Thank you," Lin Jinxiao's voice was thick with emotions as he showed his gratitude to Zhai Tianyu and Liu Hui Ying. However, what Liu Hui Ying needed was not his thank you, instead she needed to meet Lin Jinxiao's mother. Only then could she send Lin Si to the underworld.

Liu Hui Ying said to Lin Jinxiao, "What about your mother? Can we meet her?" She wanted to fulfil Lin Si's wish as soon as possible and then leave this village. Being treated like a servant was not something Liu Hui Ying could get used to, especially in this era where slaves were treated with the lowest possible dignity.

'The mattress in my room is made of straw and fodder. There is no way I can sleep in that bed,' thought Liu Hui Ying with a furrow of her brows.

However her hopes were doomed to fail because a second later she heard Lin Jinxiao say,

"My mother, she is dead."

"DEAD!?" Liu Hui Ying shot up in her chair. Her voice raised several degrees as many of the guests including Lin Jinxiao and Zhai Tianyu turned to look at her.

Lin Jinxiao was covering the spot where his heart was, it was thumping too harshly and scared him as well. While the kids hid behind him. He nodded and said with a stuttering voice, "That is right. My mother was captured by county magistrate Su's father.

He announced to the village that she was a woman of low character and tried to seduce him when she was working at his house but I know that it is impossible."

He frowned even more as he cleared the doubts that Liu Hui Ying had in her heart, "My mother hated the Su family, she was only working there because she wanted to find evidence of their corruption to avenge my grandfather but till the end, she didn't find anything and lost her life." And he became an orphan.

"My daughter she is dead?" Lin Si's eyes turned red and Liu Hui Ying felt the resentment that he had buried in his heart to surge forth. Her eyes narrowed as she threw a calming talisman at him before turning to look at Lin Jinxiao and asking, "Your mother was captured by the Su family?"

"Yes," Lin Jinxiao picked up the cup of water and then drank a sip from it before he continued to speak, "They say that she died while she was struggling to escape but my mother was once a rebel. She had more courage than the entire Su family intact, there is no way that she got killed while she tried to escape. Most probably they killed her because of some reason that I don't know."

"It seems like she found out what she shouldn't have," Jia Li remarked and Liu Hui Ying agreed with her because she did feel a surge of resentment flooding inside the Su house earlier, however, she thought that it was because of the servants that were killed off by their masters.

Something that she sensed from the Dowager Empress as well. However looks like there was more to it.

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