The daily life of a space tycoon raising children, doting on his husband, and farming.

Chapter 136 Poison
Shang Wan offered a timely reward. She stroked the child's soft hair, "Once the house is repaired, you'll have your own room."

Chu Xu glanced at her; her cat-like eyes were glistening with tears from feeling wronged, and she reluctantly agreed with a pout, "Okay."

"You should rest well and get plenty of sleep to recover faster." Shang Wan helped him lie down. "In a little while, Shi Tou will help you wash up and carry you to the next room 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 stammered for a long time, finally managing to squeeze out a few words in a barely audible voice, "I want to eat meat tomorrow."

He had no money, but he tried his best to be shameless.

The young master never imagined he would one day be troubled by not being able to eat meat.

The child blushed deeply, but held onto Shang Wan's arm tightly, as if he wouldn't let go until Shang Wan agreed.

"Okay." Shang Wan took his little hand down and pinched his cheek. "You can eat meat. I'll put the amount on your tab and you can pay me back later."

“Okay, put it all on the tab. I want to eat eight-treasure duck.” Chu Xu’s cat-like eyes curved into a smile. He was more accepting of being paid than eating and staying for free, and he felt justified in making his request.

"No Eight Treasure Duck, you'll have to eat whatever we make, we don't accept orders." Shang Wan patted him, the kid's pretty good at taking advantage of the situation.

Chu Xu pouted, looking aggrieved. "Can't we go buy it?"

"No." Shang Wan draped a thin blanket over him. "Close your eyes and sleep. You can dream about anything."

Chu Xu: ...Hmph!

Shang Wan pushed Lu Chengjing outside to check on the ewe.

The ewe had a poor appetite since morning, as if she was sick.

This is an important food source for her own lambs. Shang Wan fed the ewe a drop of spiritual spring water, and now it seems to be better, as the fodder in the trough has been eaten clean.

After adding hay to the troughs for the ewes and cattle, Shang Wan casually picked two small yellow wildflowers and tucked them behind Lu Chengjing's ear.

He examined her intently for a moment, then nodded. "Hmm, very charming."

Lu Chengjing: "..."

"Miss."

His tone was full of helplessness, but he didn't raise his hand to take the flower down.

Shang Wan bent down and fiddled with the two small flowers by his temples, her fair fingers gently touching the corners of his reddened eyes. "You've looked unhappy since just now. What's wrong? Are you worried about those assassins coming to your door?"

"I do have concerns." Lu Chengjing tried to be as honest as possible in front of Shang Wan, "but it's not that I'm worried about the assassins, but about the people behind them."

He grasped Shang Wan's hand and gently cupped it in his palm. "You can guard against open arrows, but you can hurt people with hidden arrows."

"It's not that bad 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: "..."

He worries daily that his wife will abandon him if he becomes ugly.

Shang Wan poked her fox's face, "Why aren't you saying anything?"

Lu Chengjing sighed, "I'm thinking about how to achieve immortality."

Shangwan: ?
"Do you really want to become a fox spirit?"

"..." Lu Chengjing said, "My lady, have you ever heard the saying, 'Those who use their beauty to serve others will not last long'?"

Shang Wan was puzzled. "So?"

Lu Chengjing raised his eyes, his dark eyes fixed on her intently.

Shang Wan inexplicably sensed a hint of looking at a heartless man. She blinked and then realized that Lu Chengjing's words were directed at her.

But... so what if she likes to look at beautiful women? Beautiful women are pleasing to the eye, is it wrong to have a hobby?
She didn't take them all back to support them, so how is she being unfaithful?

"Ahem, immortality is impossible, don't even think about it." Shang Wan changed the subject. "I have to go for a walk in the mountains in a bit to look for those assassins. You go to sleep first, don't wait for me." Lu Chengjing: "..."

All was quiet, and the moon climbed higher and higher.

Animals that hunt at night emerge from their dens, their eerie green eyes searching for their prey in the forest.

"So, where did you come from?" Shang Wan looked down at the energetic Yuan Yuan, whose eyes were wide open.

Shouldn't this kid be sleeping with Xiao Huan? When did he run off to the mountains?
Yuanyuan grinned, patted the grass off her face, crawled over and hugged her mother's legs, then sat down on her mother's shoe, determined to be her little ornament.

Shang Wan picked her up helplessly and pinched her soft little face. "Tell me, what do you want to do?"

Staying up so late at night, they must be up to no good.

Yuanyuan leaned over and affectionately kissed her mother on the cheek, then pointed with her little hand into the depths of the forest, "There!"

Something nasty has entered her mountain!
I need my mother's help!
Shang Wan leaped into the air with the person in her arms, running several meters away, stepping on branches and leaves.

Yuan Yuan kept changing her direction, and the mother and daughter finally stopped at the top of a tree that was nearly six zhang tall.

The little hand made a turn and pointed downwards.

Shang Wan leaped up, landing lightly like a cat on the branch closest to the ground, without the branch even swaying.

She looked down and saw that the ground below was littered with the corpses of various small animals.

With no one around, Shang Wan jumped down from the tree, holding her child in one arm while squatting down to examine the body.

Yuan Yuan also frowned and tilted her head to look.

Apart from the deer that was only half its body, the other dead animals had no external injuries, but there was white foam around their mouths.

"Poisoned?" Shang Wan murmured, just as she was about to examine him carefully, when her ears suddenly caught a very faint sound of footsteps approaching from afar.

With a swift movement, she leaped back onto the tree, her green dress perfectly concealed among the dense foliage.

Yuanyuan remained obediently silent. She wrapped one arm around her mother's neck, covered her mouth with the other hand, and looked down curiously with her head down.

A man dressed in black and wearing a black mask came into view. Under the bright moonlight, the dagger in his hand reflected a faint light, and it looked extremely sharp.

The man was tall and moved almost silently.

He cautiously looked around, examining each animal carcass, but found nothing unusual.

"You made me come all this way for nothing!" The man angrily kicked the rabbit carcass in front of him away, muttering in dissatisfaction, "I clearly heard a noise over here, that little brat ran pretty fast."

The man searched his surroundings, even looking above his head, but still found nothing.

He angrily kicked the tree trunk twice and returned the way he came.

Yuanyuan immediately let go of her little hand covering her mouth, grabbed her mother's clothes and tugged at them, wanting to get down.

Shang Wan didn't move, but gestured towards the tree below.

Yuanyuan looked down and saw that the man had returned and wandered around for a while before leaving again.

Yuan Yuan blinked her eyes and pointed downwards with her little hand, "Can we go down now?"

Shang Wan shook her head and led her to hide under another tree.

Not long after, the man returned and went straight to the tree where the mother and daughter had been hiding. He leaped up the tree with a light touch of his toes and began stabbing them repeatedly with a dagger.

The gleaming dagger occasionally peeked out from among the dense foliage, making Yuan Yuan's eyes widen in amazement, and her little hands instinctively tightened around her mother's neck.

Shang Wan patted her little head reassuringly, and only after the man finally gave up and left did she jump down from the tree with her daughter in her arms and continue to examine the animal carcasses.

He did indeed die from poisoning.

Why would you poison small animals for no reason?
(End of this chapter)