"Just believe half of it. It won't take much of your time anyway. Go now and bring it back as soon as you can, so we can get started sooner."
Su Qiao wasn't angry.
After all, she knew perfectly well what the original owner had been like.
Besides, she was only fourteen. How could the adults believe that she could really earn silver?
Only someone like Zhou Lihua, who had money on the brain, would readily believe such a thing.
Zhou Lihua hesitated. "But your grandpa said we're not allowed out these next few days."
Su Qiao rolled her eyes at her. "Then where did you go first thing this morning?"
"I only wandered around the entrance a couple of times. I didn't go anywhere."
Caught red-handed, Zhou Lihua didn't panic at all. She even looked completely justified.
"Wasn't I just checking whether anything was going on outside?"
Su Qiao snorted coldly. "Do you think I don't know you? You went wandering around the village, didn't you?"
"Your grandpa said it was best not to go out, but he never said you couldn't go to the vegetable patch or cut pigweed. Take your back basket with you. Even if Grandpa and Grandma see you, they won't say anything."
"But remember this: don't say a single word outside. No matter what anyone asks, just shake your head. This is important."
"If that mouth of yours can't keep a secret, be careful someone chops off the head on your neck with one slash."
As Su Qiao spoke, she raised her hand like a blade and drew it across her neck.
Zhou Lihua was so frightened that she nearly choked on a sunflower seed shell. "R-Really... is it that serious?"
"Losing your head isn't an exaggeration at all. You might even be sentenced