"What? He was at your base? But didn't you tell me last week that he wasn't there? Or were you not the one that issued that command?" Xiuying asked.
"I was the one. But I only delegated the work, since I'm stuck here in the capital. What difference would it have made, even if I was with them?" Caishen tried to explain his side of the story.
The senior member's words made Xiuying get off the couch and stood up, moving back and forth to process the news, before he spoke.
"But even if you didn't do the work yourself, your boys were surely involved so why didn't they say anything about that when I first brought his composite sketch to you?" Xiuying asked with skepticism.
"Well, I also asked them the same question after finding out that he was part of those we had kidnapped recently, but they said that they were not the ones to kidnap him.
