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.”

back into the box, and then they went into the

room, Sophie spread open the ledgers, which seemed to begin from

double–entry bookkeeping. It looks

“You understand it?”

haven’t looked at it in a long time. Need to

intently and said, “I didn’t realize my wife was so

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

in her heart,

had encountered many things and leamed quickly. If not for her knowledge from her pastlife, she wouldn’t understand these ledgers

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

“What’s wrong?”

amounts

“How so?”

the Costello familys import business had an annual revenue of three hundred thousand dollars but expenditures of six hundred thousand dollars. Where did the

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

two hundred

“Here, the total annual revenue is 1.2 million dollars, but the expenditure section

the money spent went to the Aldridge

looked at each othof

ledgers only covered the first year, with each family doubling their losses, ultimately funneling the money to

first year’s accounts

written in these ledgers is false, then we only need to note the total annual revenue in

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time, 1.2 million dollars was equivalent to more than