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.”

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

seemed to begin

bookkeeping. It looks quite complicated.”

“You understand it?”

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

realize my wife was so talented. You even understand this kind of bookkeeping”

finance major. How could I manage a company if I

but in her heart, she

her past life, she liked James, and to help him, she diligently learned everything related to finance. She had encountered many

frown deepening. “Something’s off

“What’s wrong?”

recorded amounts are

“How so?”

Costello familys import business had an annual revenue of three hundred thousand dollars

it’s even stranger. The annual revenue was one

was in agriculture, with an annual revenue of two hundred thousand dollars and expenditures of four hundred thousand

the total annual revenue

means the money spent went to

and Colby looked at

each family doubling their losses,

first year’s accounts

annual revenue in the Aldridge family’s

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1.2 million dollars was equivalent to more