Though he was somewhat afraid of the phonograph, Li Banfeng had always slept very well inside the Portable Abode.
After a good night's sleep, he lit a candle, opened his Pocket Watch, and found it was ten o'clock again.
Li Banfeng was a little thirsty. He bent down to look for water beneath the bed, only to find that the bucket had vanished again.
Before going to sleep last night, Li Banfeng had specifically gone to the river to fill a bucket, boiled the water, let it cool, and placed it beside the bed. After one night's sleep, it was gone again.
Li Banfeng knew that the Home Spirit liked things clean.
But when you tidy things up, shouldn't you also take my living habits into consideration?
Holding the candle up, Li Banfeng searched everywhere for the bucket, but after looking for ages, he still could not find it.
The missing bucket was no great matter. At worst, he could buy another one.
But something else was missing too.
The Copper Lotus was gone!
The veins on Li Banfeng's forehead immediately throbbed!
Last night, the Copper Lotus had refined Rong Jin'an's corpse into two Red Pills. Li Banfeng had personally collected the Lotus Seed and watched the Copper Lotus close its petals in the corner. How had it vanished in the blink of an eye?
Had the phonograph put it away?
Where had she put it?
He searched the entire room several times, yet found no trace of it.
Besides the phonograph, the tables and chairs he had taken from the House Cultivator Old Woman's room were gone, as were the various medicinal ingredients he had taken from De Cai the Poison Cultivator's room.
"Wife, where did you put everything?"
The phonograph did not respond.
Li Banfeng's heart sank, and