[{"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-27":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},1202437,1553,"Chapter 27: Fifth to the Mansion","clan-prosperity-starting-with-my-servant-girls-chapter-27",27,"\u003Cp>The young masters were more than impressed with the poem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the deeper they thought about it, the more details about it there were that made it great.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It reflected on the passage of time, fading beauty and lost youth, themes that resonated with them and were always lingering in the back of their minds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The poem also made use of nature like flowers, moonlight, rivers and the east wind to create symbolic imageries from nature with human emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And after that it made use of physical things like carved railings and jade steps to compare their permanence against the transience of youth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Last but not least, and the sentence that hit hardest for them, the eastward-flowing river symbolizes both the endless continuity of time and the inevitability of separation, deepening the melancholy mood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a poem they could never come up with in their lifetime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heck, even their teachers couldn’t come up with a better one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And to think that Lin Xuan Qi came up with this poem in such a short time, they were thoroughly impressed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That was a great poem. It’s an honor to be here to witness it first-hand.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of the young masters stood up and proposed a toast to Lin Xuan Qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, I concur.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s my luck to wake up early today and be here for this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let’s have a toast to young Master Lin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"To young Master Lin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They shouted and drank the wine from their cups.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some were so excited that they drank straight from the wine bottle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Others had their servants write down the poem on paper and keep it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would come in handy when the opportunity arose for them to showcase the poem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Making it seem like they knew Lin Xuan Qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan Qi nodded at them and all he could think of was to get down from the stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was after all, the hard work of Li Yu and not him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Shi Shi was the culprit. He thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Master Lin, that was just magnificent!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sima Long came up to Lin Xuan Qi, giving him an admiring look with his eyes wide open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I apologize for what happened, nearly had things go out of hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I would like to pay a visit to your house and make up for it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sima Long said, and he bowed to Lin Xuan Qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This caught Lin Xuan Qi by surprise as he didn’t think much about what happened earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He glanced over at Lee He Song, to see if he knew more about this Sima Long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lee He Song gave him a grin and nodded furiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well, if you insist, I’m living in the Lin Mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ve just moved into Hong Feng City recently so you might not have seen me before.\" Lin Xuan Qi replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His reply got Sima Long excited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sima Long bowed to Lin Xuan Qi again and said, \"Then, it’s a deal. I’ll be visiting tomorrow soon.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan Qi nodded, got down the stage and sat back at his seat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m impressed. You surprised me.\" The culprit of it all, Liu Shi Shi said as she scanned Lin Xuan Qi from head to toe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s nothing. There’s more from where that came from.\" Lin Xuan Qi said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Shi Shi picked up her cup of wine, bottoms up and said, \"Guess I lost the bet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m ready to join the mansion at any time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan Qi was glad with her response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That meant that there would be more rice per day to sell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lee He Song interjected and said, \"Great, that means there’s someone else to take care of security other than me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The education for the servant girls would also be taken care of.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He glanced over at Sima Long in the distance and said, \"That young master, if I’m not wrong, is from the Sima Family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They are a reputable and wealthy family making Artifacts for the cultivators in Qing Feng Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It wouldn’t hurt to get close to him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan Qi was pleasantly surprised at the information.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had never expected such an unassuming young master to come from such a family background.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seems like the adage of not being an arrogant young master if you want to live longer is true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You’ll never know who you are messing with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan Qi thought silently to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took out a tael of silver next and placed it onto the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Here is the money for your employment, lasting for a year.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thanks, Master Lin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Shi Shi wasn’t in need of money, but she appreciated Lin Xuan Qi’s straightforwardness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would be a fun time for her in the mansion to try and discover Lin Xuan Qi’s talent in poetry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She thought silently to herself as she kept the tael of silver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let’s be on our way.\" Lin Xuan Qi said and they left the building shortly after Liu Shi Shi got her baggage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they walked along the way, Lin Xuan Qi thought about the seven taels of silver he had left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had to work harder now that there were five other people he had to take care of in the mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Xuan Qi frowned when he saw the young masters lingering in the streets filled with lust and nihilism.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No two young masters were the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xue Cong was trying to clear the pond in the garden when Lin Xuan Qi and the others came back to the mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Lin Xuan Qi stepped into the mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A familiar sound erupted in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ding!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Congratulations to host for recruiting the fifth person to the mansion.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[5KG of rice will be delivered to the mansion daily.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Bonus: The total amount of rice delivered daily would be doubled as a bonus for getting the fifth person to the mansion.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Extra Bonus: Able to see a summary of any person in the mansion daily at the end of the day.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Lin Xuan Qi saw the system’s information panel in his mind, he was all smiles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fifty kilograms of rice daily meant that he would be able to negotiate for twice the price with Hun Xiong Kun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the summary, he didn’t know what it meant, and he would have to wait until the end of the day to try it out.\u003C\u002Fp>",1060,"2026-06-03T13:58:56.692Z",1,"novelbin.me","a0af5a8f88359c41f11e41fc8e8438bd0f5a75b3ab2aadf73abe8b9b607a773e","clan-prosperity-starting-with-my-servant-girls-chapter-28","clan-prosperity-starting-with-my-servant-girls-chapter-26",469,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fclan-prosperity-starting-with-my-servant-girls-cover.jpg"]