Prince Chun's Mansion

Li Banfeng entered the abandoned house and looked around.

What a huge mansion!

It has seven courtyards running north-south and five courtyards running east-west, with large and small courtyards nested one inside the other.

After walking back and forth twice, Li Banfeng sensed no danger and saw no one. He returned to the front of the house and invited everyone inside.

No one, including Xiao Yeci, had ever seen such a large mansion. After entering the first courtyard, everyone looked around curiously, and some people headed towards the hanging flower gate.

Behind the hanging flower gate was the second courtyard. Li Banfeng stood in front of the gate and instructed everyone, "Find a place to take shelter from the rain immediately. You can only stay in the first courtyard. Once the rain stops tomorrow, we will leave this place immediately."

Compared to the other courtyards, the first courtyard is not large, but it has the most rooms.

The rooms here are called gatehouses, and because the rooms are all on the shady side, they are also called inverted rooms. There are more than thirty rooms in total, from east to west, and they are where the servants live.

Xiao Yeci was very satisfied. "There are plenty of rooms here, one for each of us is enough!"

Li Banfeng shook his head and said, "We can't have one room per person. At least three people per room. The rooms must be next to each other so we can look out for each other if anything happens. I'll go scout around the area. You all need to be very careful."

Despite claiming to be scouting ahead, Li Banfeng returned to Portable Abode.

"My Wife, I think I've left the Bastard Slope, but I've come across an abandoned house in the wilderness."

After hearing Li Banfeng's description of the abandoned house, the Wife sang softly, "Seven courtyards and five buildings, it should be the residence of a prince. It has been abandoned for so long without anyone taking care of it. Husband, you haven't stumbled upon Old Land, have you?"

Have we arrived in our Old Land?

Is this possible?

Yes, there really is.

Based on my experience visiting Fool's City, the condition for entering the Old Land is to travel a special route at a specific speed.

After days of trekking, coupled with heavy rain, this group of people were walking very slowly today.

Slow is also a specific kind of speed.

Xiao Yeci and Lu Chunying both felt they hadn't gone the wrong way. Suddenly, an abandoned house appeared on the road to Green Water Bay, much like when Li Banfeng unknowingly entered the Old Land.

Li Banfeng nodded and said, "I was also worried that we had arrived in the Old Land. Before, there was a day-night cycle, but when we arrived at this house, it was already late at night. It's hard to say what kind of place this is."

"The Old Land is more dangerous than the new land, my lord. Do not go out tonight."

After pondering for a long time, Li Banfeng said, "I've been to the Old Land, so I know more about it than those people. I was the one who brought them out of the Bastard Slope. If I don't help them get through this, wouldn't that be the same as killing them?"

The record player sang. "What you say makes sense, my lord. Our house has always been kind to you. It won't hurt for you to go out and look after them for the night."

But my lord, you must be very careful. If absolutely necessary, you must return home immediately and must not act impulsively.

Li Banfeng agreed, took the magic weapon, and left the Portable Abode.

Hong Ying murmured to herself, "There's actually a prince's residence that still exists today?"

The record player scoffed, "You slut, wanting to be a prince's wife again? Did you sell me out for this?"

Hong Ying remained silent for a long time before saying, "Wicked Woman, don't force me to talk about things I don't want to mention. You have to keep your word."

Late at night, in a small hut, Xiao Yeci was asleep by the fire, her clothes soaked through.

The bed was unusable; the wooden planks were rotten and the bedding that had been on it crumbled into dust with a single tear.

Fortunately, the house didn't leak. After trekking through the rain all day, Xiao Yeci was already very satisfied to have a dry place to sleep.

Xiao Yeci was woken up by Lu Chunying after sleeping for less than two hours. "Mom, come with me to the outhouse."

Xiao Yeci didn't even open her eyes. "There are buckets in the room, you'll have to make do."

If it were just the mother and daughter in the house, Lu Chunying would have made do. But Li Banfeng had said that there were at least three people in one room, and a little girl was sleeping in the room as well.

Although she came from a poor background, Lu Chunying had received a good education from Xiao Yeci, and she couldn't help but be reserved when there were outsiders around, so she had to bite the bullet and leave the house.

The rain was still heavy, and she didn't know where the outhouse was. As she searched around, a clap of thunder sounded, startling Lu Chunying.

I wasn't scared by the thunder, I was scared by the lightning.

In the flash of lightning, Lu Chunying seemed to see a figure in the courtyard.

"Who?" she asked, mustering her courage.

No one answered in the courtyard, and no one was seen moving in the darkness.

Did I see it wrong?

Lu Chunying didn't sense any danger due to her skill in Auspiciousness and Avoiding Calamity, but she felt she couldn't stay in the yard for long.

Unable to find a toilet anywhere, Lu Chunying relieved herself in a corner.

"Tsk tsk tsk..."

While I was relieving myself, I thought I heard someone smacking their lips.

You must have misheard; it must be the sound of rain.

Lu Chunying pulled up her pants and ran into the house as fast as she could. She had only taken two steps when she suddenly heard a burst of laughter.

"Hmph hmph hmph..."

Lu Chunying looked around, not daring to linger, and then ran back. When she reached the door, she pushed it open and was about to go in when she found that Xiao Yeci was not in the room, nor was the little girl who slept with them.

Where did they go?

A woman in green sat in the house, doing her makeup in front of a bronze mirror. With her back to Lu Chunying, she sang, "Hey, sister, you're a young lady, urinating in someone else's courtyard. Don't you have any shame?"

Lu Chunying trembled all over and retreated repeatedly.

She didn't know where the woman came from, nor could she tell what she looked like in the darkness.

Click!

Another bombshell!

Lu Chunying saw the woman's appearance clearly in the mirror.

If she hadn't just taken care of it, Lu Chunying would have definitely wet her pants.

The woman's face was pure white, whiter than snow.

With jet-black eyebrows and bright red eyes, this is a painted face.

An actor?

Without thinking twice, Lu Chunying took two steps back and quickly left the house.

She had just arrived in the courtyard when the woman in green came out after her.

Lu Chunying went around to the left, but the woman blocked her way. She went around to the right, but after a few steps, the woman was still in front of her.

The other person was faster than her!

Lu Chunying remained calm and stood in the courtyard, shouting loudly, "My Benefactor, Mom, a bad guy has broken into the yard!"

I called out for a long time, but no one responded.

Because the people inside the house couldn't hear her voice at all.

A woman in green robes approached, waving her flowing sleeves, and sang, word by word, "As a woman, I must reprimand you a few words."

"Having no shame and no manners, you've dirtied my yard. Today, I'll pay with my life as punishment."

Lu Chunying said, trembling, "Is it really worth risking my life for something as trivial as peeing?"

"Hmph~ Girl, once you're in my territory, you have to follow my rules! If you don't pay with your life, what else can you pay with?"

Whoosh!

As soon as he finished speaking, three silver dollars were thrown at the feet of the woman in blue.

"Let me give you some money," Li Banfeng sang as he walked, "This silver ingot, three taels and three fen, is for my sister-in-law to use as a stipend, to buy silk and satin, to make clothes, to make jewelry, to buy hairpins and ornaments, so that we can live out our youthful days together for a few more years!"

The woman in green was startled. She looked at the silver dollar on the ground as if she had suffered a great humiliation. She sang to Li Banfeng, "I don't want this silver ingot. I'll give it to your mother to make money for a stable home, to buy a treasure vault, to make clothes, to buy white paper, to make white banners, so that I can be known throughout the world as a filial son!"

Peking Opera, "Wujiapo".

Li Banfeng had been learning to sing from his Wife a lot during this time, and he happened to be able to match those two lines with the woman in green.

How did Li Banfeng know there was movement in the yard when no one else could hear anything?

This is the difference brought about by cultivation level. Li Banfeng is a fifth-level Travel Cultivator. He sensed danger inside the house and saw Lu Chunying walking towards the opposite side of the house as soon as he stepped out.

She was blinded by a ghost; she pushed open not the door to her room, but the hanging flower gate leading to the second courtyard.

Once she entered the second courtyard, no matter how much she called out, no one outside could hear her.

Thankfully, Li Banfeng followed us in.

He glanced at Lu Chunying, and without saying a word, Lu Chunying immediately understood and hid in a corner.

The sound of gongs and drums rang out in the second courtyard. The actor was about to start singing when Li Banfeng suddenly stepped forward and kicked the actor.

The actor flew into a rage. "Why did you hit me?"

Li Banfeng said, "That was a literary scene; now it's time for an action scene."

The actor shouted angrily, "Are martial arts scenes really about fighting?"

Li Banfeng laughed and said, "What are you saying? You just asked that girl to pay with her life, weren't you really going to kill her?"

"Alright, let's show off our skills and see who's the best!" The actor pulled out a fancy spear from somewhere and thrust it at Li Banfeng.

Li Banfeng could choose to dodge, parry with his sickle, or take advantage of his speed to launch a close-range counterattack.

No matter what he chooses, he will ultimately be the one who suffers.

Because he had seen it with his Golden Eyes Autumn Down, he knew that the actress in front of him was shimmering with green light, and she was not human at all.

Ghosts like these, who have become powerful enough, can switch between reality and illusion at will, and Li Banfeng will always be at a disadvantage no matter how he fights them.

"Then let's not fight," Li Banfeng said, raising his voice and shouting at the actor, "Waaaaah, you wretched creature, prepare to die!"

This roar made the actor's body go limp, and his soul almost left his body.

This is still Deep Mansion Technique. It's a singing style of the copper hammer painted face that Li Banfeng learned from his Wife. His singing skills include the ability to intimidate the dead.

Taking advantage of the actor's weakness, the Blood-Containing Pendulum rushed forward. She could injure ghosts, so she first opened a wound on the actor's body.

Enraged, the actor threw off the pendulum and charged at Li Banfeng.

Li Banfeng retreated and circled around to the back of the artificial hill.

The actor, familiar with the route, passed through the artificial hill and caught up with Li Banfeng.

At that moment, Li Banfeng had already used the key to open Portable Abode.

Seeing Li Banfeng standing still, the actor shouted angrily, "Are you just waiting to die instead of running away or hiding?"

Li Banfeng laughed and said, "You're hesitant to do it? Could it be that you've taken a liking to me?"

As long as the actress rushes over, Li Banfeng is confident he can get her into his Portable Abode.

The actor brandished his spear, revealing his true voice. "Hmph, what could I possibly want from a man like you?"

Well...

The voice suddenly became very rough.

Is this actor a man?

The door to her Portable Abode quarters was open, and Hong Ying lowered her voice, saying, "Listen, wasn't that Prince Chun's voice just now?"

The record player scoffed, "You shameless hussy, do you really still dream of becoming Royal Concubine?"

"I remember correctly," Hong Ying's body trembled uncontrollably, "It's him."

PS: Hong Ying almost became Royal Concubine back then.