169 The Underground Organization (1/2)
Ye Shuang finally understood Han Chu's previous complaint. No matter how Anthony was, his ability to garner the favor of the elders was incredible. She had not been there to witness it for herself when she was out for work, but today, she finally got a real taste.
Father Ye was a serious person and preferred young people with actual talent; Mother Ye naturally liked those who looked pretty and had a sweet mouth. Anthony matched their taste perfectly; he would bounce to Father Ye to talk about economics and business, and then he would run to Mother Ye to act cute and be nice.
It was Ye Shuang who slaved away in the kitchen, but when she turned to looked, no one in the family cared about her contribution; they were busy having fun with Anthony.
It was unbearable!
”Tony! Come help chop the garlic!” Ye Shuang hissed through her teeth to order the large golden retriever.
”Okay!” Anthony entered the kitchen with a smiling face. His large body occupied almost half of the kitchen. Mother Ye was about to complain about how rude it was to order the guest around when Father Ye coughed to change the subject. As a father of a daughter, no matter how much he liked the young man, he would not put him above his own daughter. If the young couple did not have that intention, then he would not have minded, but if there was that possibility, how could the son-in-law not help around at home‽
Ye Shuang ordered Anthony to chop the ingredients. As she placed the lobster into the steamer, she perked her ears up to listen to the movement in the living room. Then she asked, ”By the way, I haven't asked you about yesterday. It's about those people who inserted Xu Jian into An Empire, right? You've shown your pair of jokers, so do you plan to just scare them away, or is that just a sign of what's to come?”
”I don't know.” Anthony smiled, and as he chopped the garlic, he asked, ”What do you think‽”
”Han Chu said you'll most likely make a bigger mess of this.” Ye Shuang looked at Anthony silently for half a minute and told him the result of her discussion with Han Chu on the phone. ”Our case is only fix the An family and not ruin the underground money-laundering organization. If you're going to create some trouble, stop coming over that often. My parents are old already; they can't stomach the stress.”
”It'll be fine.” Anthony shrugged and whistled. ”I just want to see how good they are. I have no intention of helping the US deal with their criminal gang.”
”Oh—” Ye Shuang dragged her inflection out. ”They're from America?”
”…” Anthony recovered and puffed out his cheeks to complain. ”Honey, you trapped me.”
Ye Shuang raised her thumb and signaled for the man to continue. Anthony shrugged and continued with a straight face. ”Actually, it's fine if you find out. In the real underground world, this kind of large money-laundering organization doesn't have just one local base; they have their own banks and many registered companies all over the world. Then they use the economy or the books between the companies to launder the money until it's clean.
”Since the books record the fluctuation during normal running of the company, increase and decrease in assets is something very common. Other than that, foreign transactions go through many hoops, so tracing the origin of the money would be very difficult. This way, they can use the transaction to move the money away, to become a clean and legal 'source of income'. San Lin City didn't have this kind of base before because of its size, but recently, things have changed. Therefore, more and more companies have fallen under their influence.”
After Anthony finished chopping the garlic, he was tasked with chopping the mushrooms. Ye Shuang wanted to hear the rest of the story, and she did not want to see the man keep brushing up on his affection level with her parents. Thus, she gave him plenty of task to do in the kitchen, and Anthony continued speaking while he worked.
”Sending a corporate spy to infiltrate established local companies is the most common method used by money laundering organizations when they enter a new market.
”Hmm… It's like a hacker using a Trojan virus to take over a normal person's computer to cover their own IP and sacrifice the other person's system to launch an attack.”
Ye Shuang thought about it. ”So, you mean, the An family is the computer system that was targeted‽ Now that you mention it, Xu Jian found his way into the board of directions and thus gain the power to control some stuff. I thought he was only in it for the money, but now it sounds like he's involved in some illegal dealings!”
Xu Jian was the Trojan, and the An family was the computer system. When the organization needed it, they could control An Empire through Xu Jian.