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.”

ledgers back into the box, and then they went into

to begin from when the

is double–entry bookkeeping. It looks quite

“You understand it?”

a long time.

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

major. How

this, but in her heart, she was grateful

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,

scrutinized the ledgers, her frown deepening.

“What’s wrong?”

amounts are

“How so?”

business had an annual revenue of three hundred thousand dollars but expenditures of six hundred thousand dollars. Where

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

of two hundred thousand

the Aldridge family ledger and said, “Here, the total annual

the money spent went

at each othof

family doubling their losses, ultimately funneling the money to the Aldridge

other words, the first year’s

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 that year.”

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was equivalent to more than 1.2 billion dollars today.