Chapter 578

Willow quietly soothed Alice and Agatha before turning a cold gaze toward the two men as they brazenly took away ninety percent of the thick stack of orders, leaving only Mr. Edward’s few remaining. The sheer scale of profit involved made Blake and Director Evan’s eyes gleam with barely concealed excitement and greed. In this era, a thousand dollar was already a fortune, and households with ten thousand dollar were exceedingly rare. Yet the sums on these orders far surpassed that—and the unit was in *dollars*. With stakes this high, who *wouldn’t* be tempted? Of course, Travis and Director Evan dared to openly plunder from Green Mountain Sauce Factory for another crucial reason—they had investigated and found no powerful backers behind it. Willow, Alice, and Agatha were all genuine peasants, born and raised in the rural backwaters. The factory’s success, they’d heard, was only due to Green Mountain County being selected as an economic reform pilot zone, combined with some secret recipe