Chapter 854: Righteously Wearing a Green Hat

Nianci blocked the doorway: "Why did you suddenly come back? You didn't even give a heads-up."

Lao Qi was puzzled: "Do I need to give a heads-up to return to my own home? And give a heads-up to whom?"

Nianci immediately changed the subject: "You haven't seen the Clan Leader yet, right? I'll take you to see the Clan Leader."

He shook off Nianci: "I traveled thousands of miles to see my wife and daughter, not to see that... Clan Leader." The words "old witch" almost slipped out, but he managed to control himself at the last moment.

"It's better to see the Clan Leader first. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. This is the Ji Family, not Jiangzhou; it's better if you follow the Ji Family's rules." As Nianci said this, she came over to pull at Lao Qi, insisting he go see the Clan Leader first.

It was very abnormal.

When things are abnormal, there must be a demon.

The more Nianci wouldn't let him in, the more he wanted to go inside.

"Move aside, or I won't be polite."

"Who is making a racket outside? How bold."

A scolding voice came from inside the room—it was a man!

Lao Qi was furious; he pushed Nianci aside and burst in.

The scene before his eyes made him explode with rage.

There were men in the room, and not just one!

His wife was sitting in a wooden tub taking a medicinal bath, and behind her, a man was massaging her to relax her muscles and clear her meridians.

The child he had never met was being held in the arms of another man, and that man was feeding the child formula.

Nianyin was very surprised to see Lao Qi: "Why did you come?"

"Ha, I came to ruin your good time, didn't I? I can't control what you want to do, but you cannot let my daughter grow up in this kind of foul atmosphere."

"Give the child to me." He went over to snatch her.

"No, you can't have the young miss." The man holding the child screamed and dodged, his expression looking exactly as if Lao Qi were robbing him of his child.

Nianyin had already wrapped herself in a bath towel and stepped out of the tub, standing barefoot in front of him, furious: "What do you mean? You traveled thousands of miles just to pick a fight, right?"

The husband and wife were often apart, and Ji Yingjie had often spoken ill of Lao Qi in Nianyin's ear.

She said he didn't consider his wife's feelings, wasn't gentle, wasn't considerate, and didn't listen; such a man was completely useless.

At first, Nianyin didn't take it in, but after hearing it often, she started to believe it.

"I'm picking a fight? Ji Nianyin, ask your conscience, what man wouldn't be furious to see other men in his wife's room? I..."

He suddenly felt that he was ridiculous.

At this point, what was there left to argue about?

He turned to leave, but was blocked at the door by Nianci again: "Don't be angry. This is our Ji Family's tradition. It's different from you people in Jiangzhou, but they really have nothing going on. I didn't let you in just now because I was afraid of a misunderstanding."

Lao Qi: "Does this still need a misunderstanding? I saw it with my own eyes."

Nianci: "You really did misunderstand. They aren't real men; they are eunuchs, specifically for providing postpartum recovery care."

Lao Qi:...

Eunuchs?

What era is this?

How could such a cruel thing still exist?

It really did exist.

The Ji Family was a magical place where super-modernity and ancient feudalism coexisted; it wasn't strange for strange things to happen here.

Nianci wasn't lying; those who took care of the postpartum confinement in Nianyin's room and helped her with care were all eunuchs.

And the voices he heard on the phone at the time were also their voices.

As for Nianyin being cold to him during this time, it was because pregnancy was very hard, and the work that needed to be handled in the clan every day was very busy; she didn't get comfort from her husband and was also being questioned, so she wasn't happy either.

Shi Youxuan was right; if there is something to say, it should be said face-to-face, and it shouldn't be kept bottled up inside.

With the misunderstanding cleared up, Lao Qi apologized to Nianyin and admitted his mistakes.

He hadn't accompanied her to take care of her when she needed it most, and he had also wrongly suspected her of having an affair with other men; he was also at fault.

"Forget it, this matter can't be blamed entirely on you; I also have responsibility."

Nianyin was a member of the Ji Family. Although the women of the Ji Family were overbearing, they wouldn't harp on one thing endlessly.

Since her husband had already apologized, this matter was considered over; bygones would be bygones.

He stayed behind to take care of his wife personally and made those who "served" her stay outside the room; although they weren't normal men, they were still an eyesore.

If it were just the husband and wife, there would basically be no conflict.

But living in the Ji Family, it was impossible to bypass Ji Yingjie!

When Lao Qi was changing his daughter's diaper, she came in.

Seeing him standing, she was furious and ordered: "Kneel down to change it."

"On what grounds?" He wouldn't kneel.

Ji Yingjie: "On the grounds that she is our Ji Family's noble young miss, and you are just a lowly commoner!"

Lao Qi laughed in anger: "A lowly commoner? I am the child's father, she is my daughter, how am I a lowly commoner?"

Nianyin kept winking at her husband, meaning for him to stop talking and not to talk back to Mother.

She treated Ji Yingjie as Mother, but Lao Qi did not.

He could tolerate it appropriately for his wife's sake, but he could not be blindly obedient.

Ji Yingjie sneered: "The child's father? You really take a chicken feather for an imperial decree, thinking that because you gave birth to a noble daughter of heaven, you can rise to the heavens with the chickens and dogs? Keep dreaming."

"The child is the child, and you are you. Meiyin is Nianyin's daughter and your master. She has had a noble status since birth, and you are a lowly commoner, forever a lowly commoner..."

The more she spoke, the uglier it got, and Lao Qi couldn't stand it anymore, so he made a move.

However, he didn't even hit the corner of Ji Yingjie's clothes before he was stopped by Nianyin.

"Move aside."

"I will not."

"If I don't teach this old hag a lesson today, I swear I am no human."

"Impossible. As long as I have a single breath left, it is impossible for you to harm a single hair on my mother's head."

While the two were arguing, the Guards swarmed in and quickly subdued Lao Qi.

"Lock him in the Dungeon, turn on the cold air blower, and let him sober up properly," Ji Yingjie ordered.

"Mother, please don't. I beg you, for my sake, spare him this once," Nianyin pleaded, kneeling on the ground.

She told her daughter to get up: "Get up, you spineless thing. He is a lowly commoner, and you are not worth this. By debasing yourself like this, you are not fit to be a member of the Ji Family."

No matter what she said, Nianyin did not talk back, only incessantly begging her mother to let her husband go.

If Lao Qi had said a soft word at this moment, this matter might have passed.

But he did not.

Not only did he not beg for mercy, he told his wife to get up and not beg her, saying if they wanted to lock him in the Dungeon, then so be it; could the old hag live forever?

Once she died, the sky of the Ji Family would change, and everything she took pride in would cease to exist, turning to dust and ashes!

All the anger he had endured, the grievances he had suffered, and the unfairness and contempt he had encountered during this time all turned into vicious words, venting entirely upon Ji Yingjie in retaliation.

Ji Yingjie was so angry she was fuming.

On her own turf, to be cursed like this with such venomous words against her and the Ji Family—he should not think about leaving alive!

She wanted to kill Lao Qi immediately.

Nianyin blocked her desperately, and Nianci personally escorted Lao Qi to the Dungeon; only when he was out of sight did Ji Yingjie's temper subside a little.

Not killing him was fine, but he had to leave the Ji Family immediately and was not allowed to come here ever again.