Chapter 606: The Lie That Went East
The rest of the estate had to look normal.
Yanning kept the rear garden sealed without increasing the guards on the outer wall. The kitchen fires were lit on schedule. Servants crossed the yards carrying water and ledgers. At first light, a cart of dyed cloth rolled out through the western gate because the same cart left every ninth morning.
From the street, the Shen estate remained an exhausted merchant household recovering from a caravan attack.
Leon left through a concealed spatial fold and emerged four streets away. He circled the compound once before noticing a man in a rented upper room above a noodle shop across from the eastern wall.
The location offered clear sight of two gates and three escape routes. The observer looked like a thin, middle-aged clerk in plain brown robes. His cultivation was far below the four raiders', but his qi had been compressed so carefully that an ordinary sweep might have passed over him.
