"What the hell is going on? What's with that person lying outside the bathhouse with a protest banner?"
Xie Songde entered Leng Zhiyuan's office and got straight to the point without any preamble.
Startled by Xie Songde's arrival, Leng Zhiyuan hurried to his feet.
"What brings you here, bro?"
"If I hadn't come, how were you planning to handle this?"
Xie Songde sat on the sofa and looked at Leng Zhiyuan.
From Xie Songde's demeanor, Leng Zhiyuan knew someone had tipped him off.
But he hadn't done anything wrong!
Leng Zhiyuan made Xie Songde a cup of tea and said with a smile, "Bro, it's already been handled. Sorry you had to come all this way."
"Handled? Then what's going on outside?"
Leng Zhiyuan's expression stiffened. He said helplessly, "I'd already sent the troublemakers away, but I didn't expect more than two people to be missing."
Without looking at Leng Zhiyuan, Xie Songde asked, "What exactly happened? Tell me everything, from the beginning."
Seeing how serious Xie Songde was, Leng Zhiyuan stopped hiding things.
"Two days ago, someone said their family member never came home after visiting the bathhouse. They accused us of selling them off."
"At first, I thought it was someone so desperate for money they'd come to extort us. But then someone else came to make trouble the next day, so I had people check the surveillance footage. And when they checked-"
A grave look appeared on Leng Zhiyuan's face.
"What? Someone really disappeared?"
Xie Songde asked.
When Leng Zhiyuan nodded, Xie Songde frowned.
"If someone really disappeared, why didn't you just call the police? Don't tell me you actually sold them off?"
Leng Zhiyuan smiled.
"Bro, how could I possibly do something like that?"
"As for not calling the police-there was a reason."
As he spoke,