Underneath the artificial rock mountain of the Qingfang Room, there's an underground chamber. When Zheng Fan moved in, the people at the Fan Mansion informed him of this place.
Now, it's conveniently being used to house the princess.
The chamber is quite a distance from the artificial rock mountain, with a long channel inside that sunlight cannot penetrate. After the princess moved in, Siniang ordered the walls of the channel to be sprinkled with rather pungent incense ash.
Before meeting the princess, Zheng Fan was asked by Siniang to take a bath, not in the soup pool, but in the pond, scrubbing himself with the mud at the bottom.
After changing clothes, Zheng Fan followed Siniang into the chamber, and formally met the princess of Chu State.
