Over the last few days, Fang Qinghuai, the Winter Garden Master, had specifically hired a group of workers to carry out urgent construction inside the Greenhouse Garden.
A section of the beautiful flowerbeds that had once been carefully tended was ruthlessly leveled.
In its place stood a new feature—a small pond of roughly fifteen square meters.
The pond was positioned directly beside the Director's office.
All one had to do was draw back the curtains to admire the pond through the glass.
More than ten varieties of rare aquatic plants had been transplanted into the pond, while dozens of beautiful water flowers dotted its clear surface. Many fish frolicked within it as well.
Though the pond was small, its layout had been designed by a Gardening Master, making it quite pleasing to the eye.
Labor, design, and all the other associated expenses added up to more than one hundred Gold Coins.
To ordinary people, that was unquestionably an enormous sum.
The reason the Fang Family had gone to such lengths was naturally to curry favor with the Director.
After all, every extra day Director Cheng remained in the Winter Garden made the Winter Garden's reputation that much greater.
And the greater its reputation, the smoother the Fang Merchant Association's business became. The profits earned from that would far exceed one hundred Gold Coins.
Even a fool could do that math.
Naturally, the Fang Family feared that they might not serve him attentively enough.
At this moment.
Fang Qinghuai personally led two servants into the Greenhouse Garden.
The latter carried a transparent glass fish tank containing several small fish as red as fire, each nearly half a palm in length.
Fang Qinghuai glanced ahead and reminded them, "There's a narrow turn up ahead. Slow down a little, and whatever you do,