jdhmnovel Chapter 134 Poison
Chapter 134 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 room of your own."
Chu Xu glanced at her. Because of grievance, tears appeared in her eyes. She pouted and reluctantly agreed, "Okay."
"You should have a good rest. You will get better faster if you get more sleep." Shang Wan helped him lie down. "Shi Tou will help you wash up and carry you to the cubicle to sleep later."
Chu Xu reached out and grabbed Shang Wan’s arm.
Shang Wan looked down at him, "What's wrong?"
"I...I..." Chu Xu stammered for a long time, squeezing out a few words in a voice as weak 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 there would be a day when he would have to worry about not having enough meat to eat.
The child's face turned red with embarrassment, but he held Shang Wan's arm tightly with his little hands, as if he would not let go unless Shang Wan agreed.
"Okay." Shang Wan took his little hand away and pinched his cheek. "You can eat meat. I'll record how much you eat and you can pay me back later."
"Okay, put it all on the account. I want to eat Eight Treasure Duck." Chu Xu's cat eyes curved. Compared with free food and accommodation, the way of keeping accounts was easier for him to accept, and it was justified to make the request.
"We don't have Eight Treasure Duck. We'll eat whatever you cook. We don't accept any orders." Shang Wan patted him. This kid is really good at taking advantage of others.
Chu Xu pouted in grievance, "Can't I go buy it?"
"No." Shang Wan put a thin blanket on him, "Close your eyes and sleep. You can dream about anything."
Chu Xu: ...Humph!
Shang Wan pushed Lu Chengjing out and went to see the ewe first.
The ewe has had a poor appetite since morning and seems to be sick.
This is an important food for his own cubs. Shang Wan fed the ewe a drop of spiritual spring water. Now the ewe seems to be better and has eaten up all the grass in the trough.
After adding fodder to the troughs of the ewes and the cattle, Shang Wan picked two small yellow wild flowers and pinned them on Lu Chengjing's temples.
He looked at her seriously for a moment and nodded, "Yeah, very pretty."
Lu Chengjing: “…”
"Miss."
His tone was full of helplessness, but he did not raise his hand to take the flowers down.
Shang Wan leaned over and fiddled with the two small flowers on his temples. Her white fingers gently touched the corners of his red eyes. "You've been looking unhappy since just now. What's wrong? Are you worried about those assassins coming to your door?"
"I am indeed worried." In front of Shang Wan, Lu Chengjing tried to be honest, "But I am not worried about the assassins, but the people behind the assassins."
He grabbed Shang Wan's hand and gently held it in his palm, "Open arrows can be defended, but hidden arrows can hurt people."
"It's not that serious yet." Shang Wan was very relaxed and advised him, "Don't worry too much. Worrying will make you age faster and give you wrinkles."
Lu Chengjing: “…”
I worry every day that my wife will abandon me after I become ugly.
Shang Wan poked his fox's face and asked, "Why aren't you talking?"
Lu Chengjing sighed, "I'm thinking about how to achieve immortality."
Shang Wan:?
"Do you really want to become a vixen?"
"..." Lu Chengjing, "My lady, have you ever heard the saying that those who use beauty to seduce others will not last long."
Shang Wan was puzzled, "So?"
Lu Chengjing raised his eyes, staring at her dimly with his dark eyes.
Shang Wan inexplicably tasted a hint of a heartless man. She blinked her eyes and then realized that Lu Chengjing's words just now were referring to her.
But... she just likes looking at beauties, so what? Beauties are so pleasing to the eyes, isn't it okay to have a little hobby?
She didn't bring them all back to keep, so how could she be unfaithful?
"Ahem, immortality is impossible, forget it." Shang Wan changed the subject, "I have to go to the mountains to look for those assassins. You go to sleep first, don't wait for me."
Lu Chengjing: “…”
Everything was quiet and the moon was rising higher and higher.
Animals foraging at night crawl out of their nests, their dark green eyes searching for their targets among the mountains and forests.
"So, where did you come from?" Shang Wan lowered his head and stared at the round baby who was full of energy and had his eyes wide open.
Shouldn't this kid sleep with Xiaohuan? When did he run to the mountains?
Yuanyuan grinned and laughed, brushed off the grass leaves on her face, crawled over and hugged her mother's calves, sat her little butt on the shoe, determined to become a pendant.
Shang Wan picked her up helplessly and pinched her soft little face. "Tell me, what do you want to do?"
If you don't sleep late at night, you must be trying to do something naughty.
Yuanyuan came over and kissed her mother affectionately on the face, then pointed her little hand to the depths of the forest, "There!"
Her mountain, into something nasty!
I need my mother’s help!
Shang Wan leaped into the air holding the person, stepped on the branches and leaves, and ran several feet away.
The direction Yuanyuan pointed kept changing, and the mother and daughter finally stopped at the top of a tree nearly six meters high.
The little hand turned and pointed downwards.
Shang Wan leaped up and landed lightly like a cat on the branch closest to the ground, without the branch shaking at all.
She looked down and found the ground below was full of corpses of various small animals.
There was no one around, so Shang Wan jumped down from the tree, holding his baby in one hand and squatting down to examine the body.
Yuanyuan also frowned and tilted her head to look.
Except for the deer with only half of its body left, the other dead animals had no external injuries, but there was white foam around their mouths.
"Is he poisoned?" Shang Wan murmured. Just as he was about to check carefully, his ears suddenly caught the sound of very light footsteps approaching from afar.
She flashed and jumped back onto the tree, her green dress perfectly hidden among the dense leaves.
Yuanyuan was silent. She put one arm around her mother's neck, covered her mouth with one hand, and looked down curiously with her head down.
A man in black clothes and a black veil came into view. Under the bright moonlight, the dagger in his hand reflected a faint light and looked extremely sharp.
The man was tall and walked almost silently.
He looked around vigilantly, examining the animal carcasses one by one, but found nothing unusual.
"I made this trip for nothing!" The man was so angry that he kicked the dead rabbit in front of him away, muttering in dissatisfaction, "I clearly heard some noise over here, the little rabbit ran pretty fast."
The man searched all around, even looking above his head, but still found nothing.
He kicked the tree trunk twice angrily and returned the same way he came.
Yuanyuan immediately let go of the little hand that was covering her mouth, grabbed her mother's clothes and pulled them, trying to get down.
Shang Wan didn't move, just nodded towards the tree.
Yuanyuan looked down and saw that the man had come back and walked around again before leaving.
Yuanyuan blinked her eyes and pointed her little hand downwards. Can I go down now?
Shang Wan shook his head and took her to hide under another tree.
Not long after, the man came back and ran straight to the tree where the mother and daughter were hiding. He jumped onto the tree with a tiptoe and stabbed with a dagger.
The sharp dagger occasionally peeked out from between the dense branches and leaves, causing Yuanyuan's eyes to widen, and her little hands subconsciously hugged her mother's neck.
Shang Wan touched her little head soothingly, and waited until the man finally gave up and left before he jumped down the tree with his daughter in his arms and continued to check the animal carcasses.
He really died of poisoning.
Why would you poison small animals for no reason?