"Hahahaha, look at that cowardly face of yours. Got scared, huh? I was just joking. I rarely use it to scrape the bones of living people. I usually use it to dissect corpses."
Su Qiao laughed smugly as she deftly spun the Bone Scraper.
Wang Guizhi watched her practiced movements, feeling increasingly uneasy.
"You... You were lying to me, weren't you?"
The girl was only nineteen or barely twenty. No matter how she looked at her, she didn't seem like someone who had done such things before. Besides, when Chen Ligeng had brought her over, he had said that this little girl was merely a female student who had just graduated from high school and wasn't very brave.
Su Qiao raised her brows. "Don't believe me?"
The tip of the knife pointed toward the cowshed in the courtyard. "Believe it or not, in less than two hours, I can scrape your family's cow until nothing but an empty skeleton remains."
Wang Guizhi's heart clenched. She hurriedly shook her head and tried to stop her. "No, no, no! We still need that cow to plow the fields. We can't kill it."
Su Qiao shot her a sidelong glance, took a fresh cucumber from the basket on the stove, ladled some water from the water vat to wash it, and began eating.
Seeing this, Wang Guizhi didn't dare say anything. She efficiently prepared the cured meat and put it into the pot to boil.
Once Wang Guizhi had nearly finished and the meat only needed to cook before it could be served, Su Qiao drove her out. "All right, I can handle it myself."
"Go clean up a room for me. I'm going to sleep later. Also, the quilt and pillow need to have been washed and be clean. Don't bring me