After bidding Mu Wanqing farewell, Song Qingshu left the room. By then, the search in the western wing had nearly run its course. Since they had found no trace of the intruder, the Mu Family instinctively assumed he had already left, and their defenses had slackened somewhat.
Song Qingshu seized an opportunity to leave the western wing and head to a row of rooms on the eastern side. He had just learned from Lin Pingzhi that the Mu Brothers' sabers should be kept somewhere in this area.
Their sabers were rare treasures in their own right. Because they were valuable, the brothers seldom carried them with them, only wearing them on formal occasions or when marching off to war.
He eventually found them in a room resembling a collection chamber. Fortunately, most of the residence's manpower had been deployed to the western wing; otherwise, a place like this would certainly have been heavily guarded and nowhere near so easy to access.
After obtaining the sabers, Song Qingshu headed toward where Lin Pingzhi was staying. The guest rooms were easy enough to find, but from afar, he could see layers of guards surrounding the place. Nominally, they were protecting him, but in truth, they were most likely there to watch and imprison him.
Casually using a few stones to draw the guards' attention away, he slipped inside without a sound. Lin Pingzhi was pacing anxiously back and forth in the room. Only when he saw Song Qingshu appear before him did he finally breathe a sigh of relief.
"Brother Song, your martial arts are truly unmatched. So many soldiers couldn't catch you," Lin Pingzhi said excitedly.
"Just luck," Song Qingshu replied with a smile. Then he sat down with him at the table. "I didn't expect you to come in person