Chapter 136: Poison
Shang Wan gave him a sweet date at the right time. She touched the child's soft hair and said, "When the house is repaired, I will give you a separate room."
Chu Xu glanced at her. Because of the grievance, the cat's eyes were filled with water. He flattened his mouth and reluctantly agreed, "Okay."
"You should have a good rest. The more you sleep, the faster you will feel better." Shang Wan helped him lie down. "In a while, Shitou will help you wash up and carry you to the cubicle to sleep."
Chu Xu reached out and grabbed Shang Wan's arm.
Shang Wan looked down at him, "What's wrong?"
"I...I..." Chu Xu murmured for a long time, then squeezed out a few words in a voice as quiet as a mosquito, "I want to eat meat tomorrow."
He had no money, but he tried to be thick-skinned.
The young master never thought that he would have to worry about not being able to eat meat.
The child's face was flushed with embarrassment, but his little hands grasped Shang Wan's arm, as if Shang Wan would not let him go until Shang Wan agreed.
"Okay." Shang Wan took off his little hand and pinched his cheek, "You can eat meat. I will record the amount in your account and pay it back later."
"Okay, it's all down to the accounts. I want to eat eight-treasure duck." Chu Xu's cat-like eyes curled up. Compared with living for nothing, he was more likely to accept the accounting method, and he felt confident in making demands.
"If you don't have Babao Duck, you can eat whatever you want, and you won't take orders." Shang Wan patted him. He was very good at climbing along the pole.
Chu Xu pursed his lips in grievance, "Can't you go buy it?"
"No." Shang Wan put a thin quilt on him, "Close your eyes and sleep, there will be everything in your dreams."
Chu Xu:...Hmph!
Shang Wan pushed Lu Chengjing out and went to see the ewe first.
The ewe has had poor appetite since morning, as if she is sick.
This is an important ration for his own cubs. Shang Wan fed the ewe a drop of spiritual spring water, and now it seems to be better, and the fodder in the trough has been eaten cleanly.
After adding fodder to the troughs of the ewes and cattle, Shang Wan picked two small yellow wild flowers and pinned them on Lu Chengjing's temples.
He looked at it seriously for a moment and nodded, "Yeah, she's very pretty."
Lu Chengjing: "..."
"Lady."
His tone was full of helplessness, but he didn't raise his hand to take off the flower.
Shang Wan leaned over and fiddled with the two small flowers on his temples, and gently tapped the end of his red eyes with her white fingers, "You have been looking unhappy since just now. Why, are you worried that those assassins will come to your door?"
"I am indeed worried." Lu Chengjing tried his best to be honest in front of Shang Wan, "But I am not worried about the assassins, but the people behind the assassins."
He grabbed Shang Wan's hand and gently closed it in his palm, "A bright arrow can be guarded against, but a hidden arrow can hurt someone."
"It's not that bad." Shang Wan advised him with a broad mind, "Don't worry. Worrying will make you old quickly and cause wrinkles."
Lu Chengjing: "..."
My daily worry is that I will be abandoned by my wife after I turn ugly.
Shang Wan poked his fox in the face, "Why don't you say anything?"
Lu Chengjing sighed, "I'm thinking about how to live forever."
Shang Wan:?
“Do you really want to become a vixen?”
"..." Lu Chengjing said, "Madam, have you ever heard a saying that those who treat others with sex will never last long."
Shang Wan felt confused, "So?"
Lu Chengjing raised his eyes and stared at her with a pair of dark eyes.
Shang Wan had an inexplicable feeling of looking down on a betrayed man. She blinked and realized that what Lu Chengjing had just said touched her.
But...what's wrong with her just liking to look at beauties? Beauty is so eye-catching, can't you have some hobbies?
She didn’t bring them all back to raise her, so why did she lose her heart?
"Ahem, immortality is impossible, don't think about it." Shang Wan changed the subject, "I have to go around the mountains in a while to look for traces of those assassins. You go to bed first, don't wait for me." Lu Chengjing: "..."
Everything was silent, and the moon climbed higher and higher.
Animals that forage at night climb out of their nests, their green eyes searching for their targets in the mountains and forests.
"So, where did you come from?" Shang Wan lowered his head and stared at the energetic Yuanyuan Zai with wide-open eyes.
Shouldn't this baby sleep with Xiaohuan? When did you come to the mountains?
Yuanyuan opened her little mouth and smiled, brushed off the grass blades on her face, crawled over and hugged her mother's calf, and sat her butt on the shoe, determined to use it as a pendant.
Shang Wan reluctantly picked her up and squeezed her soft little face, "Tell me, what do you want to do?"
If you don't sleep at night, you will definitely want to act like a monster.
Yuanyuan leaned over and kissed her mother's face affectionately, then pointed her little hand deep into the forest, "That!"
Something nasty got into her mountain!
I need my mother’s help!
Shang Wan jumped up into the air with the man in his arms, stepped on the branches and leaves, and ran several feet away.
The direction of Yuanyuan's finger kept changing, and the mother and daughter finally stopped on the top of a large tree nearly six feet high.
The little hand turned a corner and pointed downward.
Shang Wan jumped up, like a cat, and landed lightly on the branch closest to the ground. The branch did not even sway.
She looked down and found that there were corpses of various small animals below.
There was no one around, so he jumped down from the tree. Shang Wan held his cub in one hand and squatted down to inspect the body.
Yuanyuan also frowned and tilted her head to look.
Except for the deer, which only had half its body left, the other dead animals had no external injuries on their bodies, but there was foam around the mouth.
"Are you poisoned?" Shang Wan murmured. Just as he was about to check carefully, his ears suddenly caught the sound of very slight footsteps approaching from far away.
She swayed and jumped up the tree again, wearing green clothes and perfectly hiding among the dense leaves.
Yuanyuan obediently said nothing. One arm was around my mother's neck, and the other hand was covering her mouth. She lowered her head and looked down curiously.
A man in black clothes and a black scarf came into view. Under the moonlight, the dagger in his hand reflected the dim light, and it was very sharp just by looking at it.
The man was tall and almost silent as he walked.
He looked around vigilantly, inspecting the animal carcasses one by one, but found nothing out of the ordinary.
"My trip was in vain!" The man was so angry that he kicked the hare carcass in front of him away and muttered dissatisfiedly, "I clearly heard a noise here, the little bastard ran very fast."
The man searched around and even looked above his head, but found nothing.
He kicked the tree trunk angrily and returned the way he came.
Yuanyuan immediately let go of her little hand covering her mouth, grabbed her mother's skirt and tugged to get off.
Shang Wan didn't move, and nuzzled under the tree.
Yuanyuan lowered her head and looked down. The man came back and walked around again before leaving.
Yuanyuan blinked and pointed down with her little hand. Can you go down now?
Shang Wan shook his head and took her to hide under a tree.
Not long after, the man came back again and ran straight to the tree where the mother and daughter were hiding. He jumped onto the tree with a tip of his toes and stabbed with a dagger.
From time to time, sharp daggers leaked out from among the dense branches and leaves, which made my eyes widen as I subconsciously hugged my mother's neck tightly with my little hands.
Shang Wan touched her little head comfortingly, and when the man finally gave up and left, he jumped down from the tree with his daughter in his arms and continued to examine the animal carcasses.
He was indeed poisoned to death.
It's so good. What's the point of poisoning small animals?
(End of this chapter)