Revenge is Best Served… After Reborn

Chapter 507

Sophie had never noticed the thin piece of metal wire hidden within the necklace around Colby’s neck.

Colby inserted the wire into the lock core with a couple of simple twists, the padlock was picked open.

Standing by, Sophie opened her mouth in surprise and asked, “You can pick locks?”

“A bit.”

“Then why didn’t you just open the front door lock last time?”

“That lock was sophisticated, I couldn’t pick it. Besides, you had things you wanted to find out.”

Saying so, Colby opened the box, which contained several old journals that looked like they were from the early 20th century: The blue covers had yellowed with age, and the handwriting was clear and elegant, indicating the work of a skilled calligrapher.

Is this the Russell family’s ledger?”

Sophie glanced at a few others and said, “Here’s the Aldridge family’s, the Costello family’s, and the Tredgold family’s”

After a moment. Sophie added, “Could these be the ledgers from back then?”

“It seems the head of the Russell family was in charge of all four families‘ ledgers.”

“But… what use were these ledgers at that time?” Sophie was puzzled. While ledgers were important, it didn’t seem necessary to preserve them so carefully.

These books are old. We need to handle them with care. Let’s take them back and have a look”

“Okay.”

the ledgers back into the box, and then they went into

Sophie spread open the ledgers, which seemed to begin from when the four families

double–entry bookkeeping. It looks quite complicated.”

“You understand it?”

just haven’t looked at it in a long time.

and said, “I didn’t realize my wife was so talented. You even understand this

forget what I studied? I’m a finance major. How could I manage a

in her heart, she was

encountered many things and leamed quickly.

deepening.

“What’s wrong?”

recorded amounts are

“How so?”

hundred thousand dollars but expenditures of six hundred

stranger. The annual revenue was one hundred thousand dollars, and expenditures

an annual revenue of two hundred thousand dollars and expenditures of four hundred thousand

family ledger and said, “Here, the total annual revenue is 1.2 million dollars, but the expenditure

means the money spent went to the

and Colby looked at each othof in

family doubling their losses, ultimately funneling the money

the first year’s accounts

annual revenue in the Aldridge family’s ledger to know they fabricated an

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