Chapter 1080: Delivering One's Own Head from a Thousand Miles Away

She said this, and Nianci invited the Clan Leader over!

Ji Yingjie wore a long purple robe, looking graceful and luxurious.

The woman knelt at her feet, prostrating herself.

With her hands clasped together and placed on her chest, she offered a blessing: "My most noble one, may you always maintain your beauty, and I wish for your Clan to be prosperous and flourishing for generations to come, with branches and leaves spreading far and wide!"

This short sentence made Ji Yingjie beam with joy.

She loved such blessings the most; every word the woman said touched her heart.

"Good, good, reward her!"

Nianci brought over a tray of money and gave it to her as travel expenses.

After all, anyone who could walk into the Forest was either being hunted by enemies or was destitute, and they would need money to leave.

Moreover, the woman's clothes were very tattered, and she did not look like a rich person.

But the woman did not want the money.

She shook her head repeatedly, refusing the reward, saying that her benefactor had saved her life and she could not accept her benefactor's money.

Furthermore, she was willing to offer all her worldly possessions to her benefactor.

She took five bright yellow gold bars out of a tattered, dirty bundle and offered them to Ji Yingjie with both hands: "Clan Leader, these are for you. I have nothing else to thank you with, only these. I only ask that you give me a place to eat; I have nowhere else to go."

Ji Yingjie asked: "Did you run into some trouble?"

The woman told her that her name was Wang Guihua, her ancestral home was in L Country, and because her husband loved to gamble, he had gambled her away to the Chieftain of a tribe in Q Country.

The Chieftain brought her back to the tribe, and only then did she discover that the Chieftain had more than just one wife!

He had dozens of women, and every one of them was fierce.

She was brought back to become the new favorite, but she became a thorn in the side of all the wives; everyone was jealous of her and always wanted to get rid of her.

She also missed her relatives and children back in L Country, and spent her days washing her face with tears; she had no heart to compete for favor, and she disliked the dark and ugly Chieftain even more.

After the initial novelty wore off, the Chieftain threw her to the back of his mind and ignored her. She naively thought she would return to her country and reunite with her children, but she did not expect to fall into someone else's trap.

They framed her for stealing money and placed the gold bars under her pillow.

If the frame-up succeeded, she would be burned alive. At the critical moment, she ran out.

Since the gold bars were the evidence used to frame her, she simply took them with her.

But she was in a strange place and did not know where to go; she just kept running without stopping, and in the end, she got lost and fainted.

Ji Yingjie: "You want to return to your country and reunite with your family, right? That is easy to handle. I will send someone to escort you back to L Country. Rest assured, no one will make things difficult for you along the way."

The woman cried miserably, acting as if she would rather die.

"Please, I beg you to take me in. I cannot go home. If I go back, my family and children will be finished; those people will definitely not let them go."

She also said that she could do anything, and was especially skilled at beauty and fitness.

Since she had nowhere to go, Ji Yingjie took her in!

What she hated most was men bullying women, and the country she disliked the most was L Country.

L Country was full of male chauvinism; those stinking men, regardless of their lack of ability, all had huge tempers.

At first, the woman was assigned to the kitchen to cook.

But her cooking was terrible—no, it wasn't just terrible, it was completely inedible!

The woman emphasized that she was a beauty specialist and was also very good at body sculpting; she had never cooked at home.

Thus, she was brought before Ji Yingjie.

Ji Yingjie: "I heard you have methods for body sculpting. My current figure needs to return to its pre-pregnancy level. How long do you think it will take?"

Wang Guihua: "One month. If you are willing to cooperate with me, I guarantee that in one month, I will make you lose at least twenty jin, and there will be no side effects on your body."

"Good, one month it is."

She became the Clan Leader's body sculptor, so naturally, she could not live with the servants, and was thus arranged to live next door to Wang Yingzhi.

Wang Guihua was indeed quite skilled; the fitness plan she formulated for the Clan Leader made the Clan Leader lose ten jin in just a few days.

Wang Guihua became the new favorite of the Ji Family.

Her status rose rapidly, and Wang Yingzhi "fell out of favor."

She was very unhappy; she had been full of joy thinking she was coming to see the Treasure, but it turned out to be a warehouse.

Fortunately, Ji Yingjie was quite good to her, and she lived quite comfortably here, acting like a fox borrowing the tiger's might.

But now another Wang Guihua had come, and as soon as she arrived, she lived next door and stole her spotlight, which made her very annoyed.

The conflict erupted completely on this morning!

In the morning, when the servant delivered bird's nest, Wang Yingzhi discovered that what was delivered to her was not Blood Bird's Nest, but white bird's nest.

So she was dissatisfied: "Why is it white bird's nest? It is usually Blood Bird's Nest."

Servant: "There is not enough bird's nest in the kitchen. Until the next purchase arrives, you can only eat white bird's nest."

If everyone was eating white bird's nest, that would be fine, but the key was that she discovered that Wang Guihua next door was actually eating Blood Bird's Nest!

"On what grounds? On what grounds does she get Blood Bird's Nest while I get white bird's nest? No, this is unfair." Wang Yingzhi was furious; she felt that Wang Guihua had come and occupied her resources. Originally, these should have all been hers, but now they had become someone else's.

Wang Yingzhi had a loud voice and had been walking sideways since she arrived at the Ji Family; she did not know how to restrain herself.

With her loud shouting, the person next door heard it.

And she heard it clearly, not missing a single word!

Wang Guihua said sarcastically from next door: "Yo, who is this short-sighted person with no experience? Getting all worked up over a bowl of bird's nest is truly ridiculous; never seen good things before..."

"Who are you calling short-sighted?"

Since arriving at the Ji Family, Wang Yingzhi had always had things go smoothly; a person who had always had smooth sailing could not take being slighted, and the two of them soon started arguing.

When it came to arguing, Wang Guihua was a cut above!

She suppressed Wang Yingzhi at every turn, not only mocking her for being old and ugly, but also mocking her for being stupid and unable to see her own position—she was just someone watching a warehouse, not even as good as a servant, so on what grounds was she living under the same roof as her?

Wang Yingzhi was so furious she couldn't take it anymore and started a physical altercation.

Wang Guihua had been feeling rather smug these past few days and had lost her sense of direction; besides, she was the type who wouldn't take a loss lying down, so if they were going to fight, they would fight—who was afraid of whom?

The two escalated from a war of words to a physical brawl, even tearing each other's clothes, but they were evenly matched and neither gained any advantage.

Soon, this matter was brought before Ji Yingjie.

Ji Yingjie sat on the throne that symbolized the status of the Clan Leader, looking down at the two of them from a position of superiority.

"Speak, who sent you here?"

Wang Yingzhi cut in: "You invited me here, originally saying it was to see the Treasure, but then you deceived me; making me look at an empty room all day is incredibly boring..."

"Shut your mouth, I didn't ask you."

Wang Guihua trembled all over, hanging her head and not saying a word.

She realized belatedly that she seemed to have been tricked; she hadn't accomplished any of the things she wanted to do, and her identity had likely already been exposed.

Ji Yingjie called her out directly: "Wang Guihua, speak."

Being called out, she could no longer play dead.

She couldn't play dead, but she could deny it: "I don't understand what you are talking about, no one sent me here, I am all alone and helpless..."

"Smack!"

Ji Yingjie stood up majestically and pointed a finger at her nose: "Do you take us members of the Ji Family for fools? Someone come, lock her in the Dungeon, and if she doesn't confess honestly, use torture!"