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.”

then they went into the room

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

It looks

“You understand it?”

haven’t looked at it in a long

watched her intently and said, “I didn’t realize my wife was so talented. You even understand this kind of

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

heart, she was grateful

diligently learned everything related to finance. She had encountered many things and leamed quickly.

scrutinized the ledgers, her frown deepening. “Something’s

“What’s wrong?”

amounts

“How so?”

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

business was cosmetics, and it’s even stranger. The annual revenue was one

revenue of two hundred thousand

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

went to the Aldridge

at each othof

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

the first year’s accounts were

in these ledgers is false, then we only need to note the total annual revenue in the Aldridge family’s ledger to know they fabricated an extra 1.2 million dollars

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dollars was equivalent to more