Chapter 919: Unknowingly Striking a Spark

"Shi Yucheng, are you a pig?"

"Hey! Why are you insulting people?"

Ji Yingjie grabbed his ear and scolded: "So what if I insult you? You are a pig; calling you a pig is even a compliment. You are dumber than a pig. I am the high and mighty Clan Leader, yet you actually think I would play dirty behind your back? Is your brain filled with soy milk..."

Ji Yingjie had a sharp tongue and didn't stutter when scolding people; she gave him a thorough and satisfying tongue-lashing, leaving Shi Yucheng unable to get a single word in.

Once she had vented to her satisfaction, she remembered—Shi Yucheng had high blood pressure and was afraid of getting angry.

"Are you alright?"

She suddenly asked.

It wasn't out of concern, just fear that if something happened to him in the Ji Family, she would have to take responsibility and face complaints.

"Hmm?"

Shi Yucheng was still thinking about what had just happened, and upon careful reflection, Ji Yingjie's scolding was correct; it truly couldn't have been the old woman who did those things.

Although the old woman was detestable, she was arrogant and overbearing, and wouldn't engage in such petty tricks; everything she did was a major evil.

Because the scolding was accurate, he wasn't angry.

Yet, the woman who had just been scolding him so fluently suddenly changed her tone to show concern?

Shi Yucheng didn't react for a moment.

Ji Yingjie didn't know how to say nice things properly: "I'm asking if your blood pressure went up after I scolded you just now? Don't die here, it's bad luck!"

Shi Yucheng was not to be outdone and retorted: "My health is perfectly fine, I won't die. A scourge like you is still living well, so I will definitely die after you."

"Hmph! Old thing!"

"Tch, old woman!"

The two of them went back and forth, looking down on each other, yet the more they scolded, the more spirited they became.

They hadn't stopped even by the time dinner arrived.

Nianci reminded: "Clan Leader, it is time for you to have your evening meal."

"Old thing, get lost, I'm going to eat."

Shi Yucheng: "Apologize. You wronged me today; it's unfair not to have a single apology!"

Ji Yingjie, who had just prepared to call a truce, immediately bristled again upon hearing the word "apologize": "What did you say? No way, no way, did my ears hear that right? You actually want me to apologize to you?"

Shi Yucheng: "Yes! You must apologize."

Ji Yingjie laughed until tears came out, as if she had heard some incredible joke.

"Hahahaha..."

"Old thing, you're dreaming. I, the dignified Clan Leader of the Ji Family, the supreme woman, would apologize to a lowly commoner like you?"

Shi Yucheng immediately retorted: "Confucius said that only women and petty people are hard to deal with. A sage is a sage, and what he said is the truth. You arrogant woman, besides being self-righteous, you are nothing."

"Feudal society has been gone for so many years, yet you are still here playing with that feudal superstition; you'll be finished sooner or later."

"Old thing, say that again if you dare?"

If she wanted him to try, he would try.

Shi Yucheng repeated it several times without hesitation: "Old woman, what era is this, and you're still playing with that dictatorship; you'll be finished sooner or later."

"Definitely finished."

"Finished very soon!"

Nianci broke into a cold sweat, thinking that Shi Yucheng was done for.

He had touched the Clan Leader's reverse scale; there would definitely be no good outcome.

According to custom, Ji Yingjie would surely be furious and then lock anyone who dared to offend her authority in the Dungeon, where they would be skinned alive even if they didn't die!

As it turned out, she didn't.

She glared with gritted teeth: "Old thing, my Ji Family will specifically not be finished, just to spite you to death."

"You wait, I will lock you up for a lifetime, and let you, this old thing, witness our renewed glory in the Ji Family for the rest of your life!"

"Nianci, send people to move the mill to my Bedchamber and have him live next door to me."

Nianci:...

She was so surprised that she even forgot to agree.

What kind of situation was this?

Had the Clan Leader taken the wrong medicine?

Shi Yucheng didn't know, but she knew that no man had ever been qualified to live next door to the Clan Leader!

Even Zhu Yiwen, who had been the most favored in the past, was only summoned into the Bedchamber when the Clan Leader needed him, rather than being arranged to live right next door like this.

"What are you dazed for? Go arrange it quickly."

"Yes."

Nianci arranged it quickly.

The two of them ate dinner together!

Shi Yucheng and Ji Yingjie sat opposite each other. The dishes were very sumptuous: eight meat dishes, eight vegetable dishes, eight seafood dishes, eight mountain delicacies, eight staples, plus four types of soups and four types of desserts.

Abalone, lobster, shark fin, bird's nest, matsutake, ape lips, camel hump, monkey head mushroom, bear paw, wild duck breast, and deer tendon.

Shi Yucheng was someone who had seen good things, but he was still shocked by this table of food.

Even an emperor couldn't eat like this, right?

Ji Yingjie really put on quite a show.

Shi Yucheng asked: "Do you usually eat like this, or did you add these dishes because I came?"

Ji Yingjie glanced at him sideways: "I eat like this all the time. You don't think I had people make these because I'm rewarding you by letting you eat at the same table as me, do you? Don't take yourself too seriously; you are not my guest, just a prisoner of the Ji Family."

Shi Yucheng put down his chopsticks and lectured her solemnly: "You woman really have no redeeming qualities at all. Your temper is huge, your character is poor, and you are extravagant and wasteful everywhere. Can you even finish all these dishes by yourself?"

"Your Q Country isn't very wealthy, is it? How many impoverished children could the good things you waste every meal support if they were turned into money? You should accumulate some virtue and do some good deeds; you've committed so many evils that you'll surely go to hell when you die."

"Slap!"

Ji Yingjie threw her chopsticks onto the table as well and scolded: "Old thing, shut your mouth! With a pig's snout stuffed with green onions, who are you trying to act like an elephant in front of me? If it weren't for the sake of Xuanxuan, would an old thing like you even be qualified to eat at the same table as me?"

"Give an inch and you take a mile; you actually dare to point fingers at me."

"Hmph!"

Shi Yucheng stood up and walked straight toward the exit.

"Stop him."

"Where are you going?"

He turned back: "Do you think I care to eat at the same table as you? I'm not eating anymore; I'm going back to my room to eat in peace and quiet by myself."

Within half a day, Ji Yingjie had been contradicted several times.

She actually still maintained patience toward Shi Yucheng and did not lose her temper, but instead explained: "Your room is next to mine; from now on, you will eat at the same table as me."

"Aren't you heartbroken looking at this food? I insist that you sit with me and watch me eat."

He was unwilling, but his word didn't count.

This place was full of Ji Yingjie's people; the guards held him down and forced him to sit back down.

Ji Yingjie ate one more bowl of rice than usual.

She took a bite of every single dish.

But Shi Yucheng didn't eat a single bite; he was already full from the anger.

After the meal.

She stood up with satisfaction and ordered: "Accompany me for a walk to digest the food."

Shi Yucheng: "I'm not going."

"Heh, you're not going?"

She laughed triumphantly: "Do you think you can refuse? This is my order; on my turf, you only have the duty to obey, not the right to refute."

Shi Yucheng was stubborn too; trying to force a cow to drink water by pushing its head down?

No way, he just wouldn't go.

"You all, drag him along to go for a walk with me!" Ji Yingjie gave the order.

"You female bandit, you unreasonable, fierce woman; no wonder you've never married in your life. Who would dare to want a woman like you?"

Shi Yucheng kept on chattering incessantly, so Ji Yingjie had people tie his arms, seal his mouth with tape, and then she pulled on the Rope, leading Shi Yucheng along as if she were taking a pet for a walk!

"Mmph! Mmph!"