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."

then

spread open the ledgers, which seemed to begin

bookkeeping. It

"You understand it?"

it in

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

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

said this, but in her heart, she

everything related to finance. She had encountered many things and learned quickly. If not for her knowledge from her

her frown deepening. "Something's

"What's wrong?"

amounts

"How so?"

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

stranger. The annual revenue

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

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

money spent went

Colby looked at each other in

year, with each family doubling their losses, ultimately

other words, the first year's

note the total annual revenue in the Aldridge family's ledger to know they fabricated an extra 1.2 million dollars

million dollars was equivalent