Chapter 1320
Marion cback, and Randy pretended to whistle, acting like he hadn't said a word.
Debra turned to see Marion holding the ledger.
"Was someone badmouthing me?" he asked.
Randy shook his head. "No way. Everyone was praising you as a role model for modern men."
"Really?"
"Absolutely."
Erica smacked his arm. "Stop the joke and let's see the ledger."
Debra spread it and said, "Based on our calculations, the Houston family's foreign goods business made 300
thousand silver dollars annually but spent 600 thousand. My family's cosmetics business earned 100 thousand
and spent 200 thousand. The Osborne family's agricultural ventures brought in 200 thousand but lost 400
thousand. As for the Potter family... Their annual incwas 1.2 million, but the expenditure was zero."
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtRandy mused, "So, our families were bleeding money to subsidize the Potters?"
"Exactly." Debra nodded. "Those two elders claimed the 1.2 million funded their intelligence network. But that
amount's way too high."
She flipped open the Potter family's ledger. The entries were quite different.
"Here," Debra pointed at a section, "the Potters received 1.2 million but spent 2.4 million on goods
procurement."
Erica leaned in. "Saltpeter, firearms... Weren't these banned back then?"
"No wonder they needed so much cash," Debra muttered.
"Contraband like that wasn't just expensive. It was untouchable," Randy chimed in. "You needed connections
even to get a whiff. Yet the Potters bought mountains of them? wild."
Erica shivered. "No wonder they hid this in the ancestral hall. During wartime, this stash would've gotten them
executed on the spot."
"But what's this got to do with the hidden treasure?" Randy frowned "You're not tellingour ancestors left
behind a crate of illegal guns? Those things are ancient junk now."
Erica turned to Debra. "Could we be wrong? Maybe these ledgers have nothing to do with the treasure?"
"Right." Randy threw his hands up.
"This isn't a treasyre neap. the
masterininid Behind all this was so
treasure long ago."
, they'd have found as ne
Debra's head snapped up. "What were you saying?"
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"Uh..." Randy blinked. "That if the
mastermind was sailed they
have fond the Cfeasure already?"
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