[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-clan-prosperity-starting-with-my-servant-girls":3,"chapter-clan-prosperity-starting-with-my-servant-girls-clan-prosperity-starting-with-my-servant-girls-chapter-181":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Clan Prosperity Starting With My Servant Girls",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1202821,1553,"Chapter 181: Meeting at Night","clan-prosperity-starting-with-my-servant-girls-chapter-181",181,"\u003Cp>Lin Xuan Qi was confident with his fishing skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had, after all, travelled to all the fishing ponds in his country when he was back on earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And among his friends he was the one with the best catch every time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Master Lin, sorry I took so long.\" Old Shao’s voice sounded behind him, and he quickly turned around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thanks!\" He took the fishing rods Old Shao had made and inspected them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These fishing rods in his hands weren’t what he was familiar with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rods were made of wood and weren’t that flexible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the fishing lines, they weren’t nylon or other synthetic material.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were made of hemp, rough but not as tough, compared to fish line made of nylon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Shao had used needles for the fishhook, improvising them by bending them into the required shape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan Qi was grateful for his ingenuity at such short notice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why don’t you join us?\" He asked Old Shao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Shao would be his father-in-law soon if things went well, and it wouldn’t hurt to try and establish a better relationship with him first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have some other chores to finish, Master Lin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Old Shao shook his head and rejected his invitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan Qi glanced over at Xue Cong who was busy, and the other servant girls around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yue Jie was helping Xue Cong and Yue Xin was by the side of the pond next to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Shi Shi leaned on the pillar of the pavilion waiting for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe this wasn’t the best time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He decided to wait for the matchmaker to settle it and nodded his head at Old Shao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Old Shao took his leave and went back to work, Lin Xuan Qi handed out the fishing rods to Yue Xin, Zhi Yong and Liu Shi Shi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They got to the side of the pond and he said, \"Let’s see who catches the most fish till dinner time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhi Yong nodded his head, didn’t waste any time, and ran over to a patch of grass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He squatted down and started to turn the soil looking for earthworms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn.\" Lin Xuan Qi got so excited about fishing that he had forgotten that he didn’t have any bait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhi Yong was indeed much smarter than he seemed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to go and join in with the search for earthworms, but Zhi Yong waved at him and ran towards him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Master Lin, me give.\" Zhi Yong stopped in front of him and stretched out his palm with a few earthworms wriggling on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan Qi felt comforted by his gesture of presenting him with the earthworms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thanks.\" Lin Xuan Qi thanked him, and he took one of the earthworms to hook it onto his fishing hook.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhi Yong smiled proudly at what he had done and did the same with one of the earthworms he had.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He also offered the earthworms to Liu Shi Shi and Yue Xin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you so much, Zhi Yong.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Shi Shi thanked him and put the earthworm onto her fishhook.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, it wasn’t the same for Yue Xin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn’t help but squirm when she saw the earthworm wriggling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s so scary... Long and bending...\" She said innocently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan Qi rolled his eyes at himself when he heard her and thought otherwise about what she had said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To redeem himself, he came over and helped Yue Xin with the earthworm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While he did so, he said to Yue Xin, \"Come to my room tonight, alone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What?\" Yue Xin couldn’t believe her ears and glanced over at Yue Jie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was worried that Lin Xuan Qi was now only interested in her instead of her sister.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan Qi frowned and flicked his fingers onto her forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ouch.\" She rubbed her forehead and gave him a plaintive look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s not what you think. I’ve got something important to brief you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She nodded and he led her to the side of the pond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan Qi planned to brief Yue Xin and Liu Shi Shi on what he had wanted to do, asking the hands of Xue Cong and Yue Jie for marriage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, he only had Liu Shi Shi left to approach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Splash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After he swung his fishing hook with the bait into the pond, he plunged the fishing rod into the ground and let it be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Shi Shi was fishing at the extreme end to his left, and he walked over towards her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mind began to ponder about how he should approach the topic with Liu Shi Shi later in the night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yue Xin wasn’t much of an issue for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew that she would be glad that Yue Jie would be with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Liu Shi Shi, he wasn’t sure about how she would react to the news.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would she be mad at the fact that Xue Cong would be his wife instead of her?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or would she be mad that Yue Jie was the concubine in front of her instead?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were so many possibilities but no matter what, he wanted to give her a heads up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Shi Shi who was sitting on the ground, holding her fishing rod, glanced at him and said in jest, \"Are you here to steal my fishing techniques?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huh, you wished I did that but...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan Qi sat down beside her and glanced at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do you want?\" Liu Shi Shi wasn’t sure why he was looking at her in that manner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gave her a smile and said, \"I need you to come to my room after midnight tonight, alone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Shi Shi pointed at her nose with her finger and said, \"Me? Alone?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t know what he was up to and she thought about what had happened recently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe he wasn’t happy with her performance as the security head, and he wanted something to be changed?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or did he want to...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She recalled about him holding her hand earlier and she lowered her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Shi Shi hadn’t been with anyone before, and she had told herself that the only person worthy of her was Lin Xuan Qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was talented with his poems and inventions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And on top of that, he was kind and fair to everyone in the mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan Qi was a man of her dreams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this thought in her mind, she nodded silently to what he had requested.\u003C\u002Fp>",1077,"2026-06-03T13:58:56.970Z",1,"novelbin.me","b7bc7def3ec46b2ff7ac63fba3839f32c3f21451060e6ca6239baf513cf8561a","clan-prosperity-starting-with-my-servant-girls-chapter-85","clan-prosperity-starting-with-my-servant-girls-chapter-84",469,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fclan-prosperity-starting-with-my-servant-girls-cover.jpg"]