Revenge is best served cold

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

spread open the ledgers, which seemed to begin from when the four

is double-entry bookkeeping. It looks

"You understand it?"

of, just haven't looked at it in a long time. Need to

didn't realize my wife was so talented. You even understand this

finance major. How could I

but in her heart, she was

James, and to help him, she diligently learned everything related to finance. She had encountered many things and learned quickly. If not for her knowledge from her past life, she wouldn't understand

scrutinized the ledgers, her frown

"What's wrong?"

recorded amounts

"How so?"

section mentions the Costello family's import business had an annual revenue of three hundred thousand dollars but expenditures of

Russell family's main business was cosmetics, and it's even stranger. The annual revenue was one hundred thousand dollars, and

annual revenue of two hundred

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

money spent went to the Aldridge

and Colby looked at each

each family doubling their losses, ultimately funneling

words, the first

then we only need to note the total annual revenue in

that time, 1.2 million dollars was equivalent to