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 went

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

is double-entry bookkeeping. It

"You understand it?"

it in

ledgers. Colby watched her intently and said, "I didn't realize my wife was

what I studied? I'm a finance major. How could I manage a company

but in her heart, she

she liked James, and to help him, she diligently learned everything related to finance. She had encountered many things and learned quickly. If not for

scrutinized the ledgers, her frown

"What's wrong?"

recorded amounts

"How so?"

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

it's even stranger. The annual revenue

was in agriculture, with an annual revenue of two hundred thousand

opened the Aldridge family ledger and said, "Here, the total annual revenue

spent went to

and Colby looked at

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

words, the first year's accounts

written in these ledgers is false, then we only need to note the total annual revenue in the Aldridge family's ledger to

equivalent to more than 1.2 billion dollars