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

the ledgers, which seemed to begin from when the four families first formed an

is double–entry bookkeeping. It

“You understand it?”

in a long time. Need to

carefully examined the ledgers. Colby watched her intently and said, “I didn’t realize my wife was so talented.

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

this, but in her heart, she

she liked James, and to help him, she diligently learned everything related to finance. She had encountered many things and leamed quickly. If not for her knowledge from her pastlife, she wouldn’t

the ledgers, her frown deepening. “Something’s off about these

“What’s wrong?”

amounts are

“How so?”

import business had an annual revenue of three hundred thousand dollars but

and it’s even stranger. The annual revenue was one hundred thousand

two hundred thousand

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

spent went to the

looked at

doubling their losses, ultimately

other words, the first

then we only need to note the total annual revenue in the Aldridge family’s ledger to know

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was equivalent to more than 1.2 billion