Gangster heir? Please call me a legitimate entrepreneur.

"Ding-dong!"

A text message notification tone suddenly rang out in the director's office.

Li Jianguo grabbed his phone, his presbyopia straining as he peered at the screen, staring intently at the line of text Shen Qinghan had sent.

[It's all square dancing and funny videos.]

The cigarette in his mouth fell onto the table with a thud, burning through several pages of documents underneath.

"Funny video?"

Li Jianguo suddenly stood up, the chair screeching against the terrazzo floor.

He grabbed Captain Gu, who was dozing off beside him, and tapped the text message on the screen.

"Look at this! Old Gu! This kid spent a billion yuan on software just to watch square dancing?"

Captain Gu rubbed the white gauze on his head, still not recovered from the continuous overtime work.

He yawned, his breath reeking of garlic.

"Director, this... what's so strange about this? Su Ye doesn't play by the rules. Yesterday he was handing out eggs to old men and women to download it."

"fart!"

Li Jianguo slammed his hand on the edge of the table, making the teacup lid bounce.

"A billion! Even if you used it to reclaim land from the sea, it would still make a splash! Su Ye is a businessman, and a businessman who rose to power through organized crime!"

He gritted his teeth and paced back and forth in the office, his leather shoes clattering loudly.

"This is absolutely a new money laundering trick! We're outdated; we can't understand modern cybercrime!"

"Old Gu! Download that... Sihai Short Video app for me right now!"

Li Jianguo pointed at Captain Gu's nose, spitting everywhere.

"I want you to keep an eye on it 24/7! See exactly how they launder this dirty money!"

……

Early the next morning.

Hongxing Street Neighborhood Committee, Chengnan, Longhai City.

The small electric heater was on inside, and its orange-red light made people feel warm and cozy.

Aunt Zhao was wearing a bright red down jacket and red armbands.

She sat next to the fireplace, holding a brand-new, large-screen smartphone in her hand.

His thumb swiped frantically upwards across the screen, the movements so practiced it was almost painful to watch.

"Oh my! Sister Wang! Come quick, come and see!"

Suddenly, Aunt Zhao let out a loud howl, which made the windowpanes vibrate.

She was so excited that she kept slapping her thigh, and her reading glasses almost fell off.

"Yesterday, I filmed that little thief who stole batteries from Old Li's house and uploaded it to Sihai Short Video. Guess what happened?"

Sister Wang was picking through a bunch of rotten celery when she heard this, and quickly wiped her hands haphazardly on her apron.

He leaned closer, squinting at the glowing screen.

"What happened? Did Lei Hu and his gang put a sack over the thief and beat him up?"

"What the hell are you talking about! Who hits people these days? It's illegal!"

Aunt Zhao looked smug and pointed a short, stubby finger at a small golden ingot on the screen.

"Look! This video has over 100,000 views! Sihai's backend immediately sent me a 500 yuan bonus for the tip! The withdrawal was instant!"

She shoved her phone screen almost right up to Sister Wang's nose.

"That's real money! Five hundred yuan! That's more than my monthly pension!"

Sister Wang's eyes widened instantly, bigger than a cow's eyes, and celery leaves fell all over the ground.

"Oh my god! I can earn five hundred just by shooting a video?"

She swallowed hard, making a gurgling sound in her throat.

"This Boss Su is more generous than a living Buddha!"

"you do not say!"

Aunt Zhao jumped up, full of energy.

She stuffed her phone into her pocket and casually picked up a large stainless steel megaphone next to her.

"There's a 'Local News' section here. Boss Su has declared that anyone who films illegal parking, petty theft, or spitting in public, and it's verified, will receive gold coins!"

Aunt Zhao shouted with great force.

"Let's go! Let's inform all the older women in our neighborhood!"

"No square dancing today! Everyone's out on the streets! Catch traffic violations! Earn some extra cash!"

Less than half an hour.

The neighborhood committee aunties throughout Hongxing Street, and even those in most parts of Longhai City, have all gone crazy.

Hundreds of middle-aged and elderly women wearing red armbands and holding smartphones.

Like a well-trained special forces unit, they marched in a mighty force into the streets and alleys.

10:00 AM.

The entrance to the most bustling pedestrian street in Longhai City.

A young thug with dyed yellow hair was sneaking around a female college student carrying a backpack.

He was holding a pair of long-handled tweezers in his hand, and he had just quietly slipped them into the female college student's backpack zipper.

It caught a pink wallet.

"Snap!"

A crisp shutter click rang in the thug's ears.

Immediately afterwards, "click, click, click," the continuous sound of the shutter went off like a machine gun.

The thug was so frightened that his hand trembled, and the tweezers clattered to the ground.

He turned his head and his face turned green.

A dozen or so middle-aged women wearing red armbands were holding up their phones and surrounding him.

The camera was practically shoved into his nostrils.

"Old Zhang! Quick, take a picture! This kid stole a wallet!"

"Hey, don't push me! You're blocking my view! This 500 yuan is mine!"

"I've already uploaded it! I've even thought of a title: 'Blonde-haired thief spotted on pedestrian street, caught red-starred auntie on the spot!'"

The thug was dumbfounded.

He worked as a pickpocket for three years, was arrested by the police, and was beaten by victims.

But I've never seen a group of middle-aged women staring at me like I'm a monkey with my phone in hand!

Is this some kind of large-scale documentary filming location?

"What...what are you doing!"

The thug panicked and stammered as he backed away.

"I...I didn't do anything!"

"Didn't do it? This lady has high-definition video evidence!"

Aunt Zhao sneered, her aura even stronger than that of the criminal investigation team.

She grabbed the thug's blond hair, making him yell in pain.

"Come on! Let's go to the police station with this lady! You're practically a walking 500 RMB note!"

……

Municipal Public Security Bureau Criminal Investigation Division, Command Center.

The large screen flashed alarms and reports from various districts.

Captain Gu, sporting dark circles under his eyes, held a cold meat bun in his hand and had just taken a bite.

"Ring ring!"

The emergency phone on the table started ringing incessantly.

Operator Xiao Li hurriedly answered the phone.

"Hello, 110 command center. Huh? They caught him? They caught him again?"

Xiao Li put down the phone and stared blankly at Captain Gu.

"Captain Gu, at the North City Farmers Market, a motorcycle thief who snatched a gold necklace was stopped by a group of middle-aged women using shared bicycles."

He swallowed hard, his voice trembling.

"The women didn't physically assault him. They...they filmed the thief with their phones for half an hour, and the thief was so moved by the filming that he cried and begged us to arrest him immediately."

Captain Gu dropped a steamed bun on the table, and the meat filling rolled all over the floor.

He was still in a daze.

The sound of a patrol officer panting heavily came through the walkie-talkie again.

"Calling the command center! This is vehicle number 03! We're at the Jiefang Road intersection... It's nothing serious, but the traffic police say they've received an overwhelming number of complaints about illegal parking this morning!"

The patrolman's voice was tinged with despair.

"It was all elderly people, shoving their phones against people's car windows to take pictures. The illegally parked drivers were so fed up with being filmed that they drove off that very night!"

Captain Gu suddenly jumped up from the chair, which aggravated the wound on his head, causing him to gasp in pain.

He grabbed the mouse on the table and opened the "Sihai Short Video" app he had just downloaded on his computer.

Home.

It's packed with local breaking news.

Shocking! I caught my neighbor, Old Wang, dumping trash illegally!

"The Electric Bike Killer Arrested: The Hongxing Street Aunties' Team Makes a Great Contribution!"

The drunkard who urinated and defecated in public has been sent to the neighborhood committee for ideological education!

Each video has hundreds of thousands of views.

The comments section was buzzing with excitement.

"This auntie is awesome!"

"This feature from Sihai Group is amazing! It's even more exciting than watching a movie!"

"Caught a wild thief! Got the gold coins, feeling great!"

Captain Gu felt a chill run down his spine, all the way to the back of his head.

He slumped back into his chair, dejected.

Is this what they call money laundering?

This is clearly stealing our city bureau's job!

Su Ye, that kid, directly transferred the underground intelligence network of those thugs to this crappy software.

Using the lure of cash withdrawals in gold coins, they mobilized hundreds of thousands of Chaoyang aunties throughout Longhai City!

This intelligence gathering capability, this speed of police response.

Captain Gu touched the pistol at his waist and suddenly felt that it was as superfluous as a fire poker.

"Old Gu!"

Li Jianguo strolled in at some point, holding a thermos in his hand.

The old man stared wide-eyed at the rapidly declining street crime rate statistics on the big screen.

"What... what's going on?"

Li Jianguo pointed to the precipitous drop in the curve, his fingers trembling.

"The crime rate dropped by 30% in just half a day? What kind of secret operation has the city police been carrying out?"

Captain Gu turned the computer screen away with a bitter expression.

"Chief. We didn't carry out any operation. It was Su Ye."

He sighed, his voice filled with a deep sense of helplessness.

"He started a local tip-off program where people could get a cash reward. Now, even the thieves and hooligans outside are afraid to go out."

"I'm afraid that if I go out, dozens of middle-aged women will surround me with their phones and treat me like an ATM to make money."