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The courtyard was planted with various flowers and plants, as well as several lush trees.
Many wealthy households typically only planted low-lying flowers and grass in their front courtyards and fruit trees in their backyards, as well as ornamental trees, and would construct fish ponds, cool pavilions, and the like.
But this Old Master Huang did the opposite.
Qin Niu also noticed that only the path he walked on was paved with floor tiles, while other places were either lawns or bare earth.
Close to the entrance corridor of the house, there was a lotus pond that was ten feet square.
Inside, one could see the black mud and the lotus flowers that were in full bloom.
However, Qin Niu discovered that the lotus flowers in the pond contained an astonishing amount of energy and emitted a strong medicinal fragrance.
