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

Chapter 152 Tiger Head Tattoo
"Hey, hey, you can't eat that." Shang Wan waved her hand to shoo the wolf away.

There might be clues on the body; we can't let the wolves destroy them.

Surprisingly, the wolves listened to Shang Wan and obediently retreated, with the wounded wolf lying in the distance silently licking its wounds.

Chu Xu was stunned. Despite the heavy smell of blood, these wolves did not go berserk.

He moved closer to Shang Wan and asked curiously, "Why do the wolves listen to you so much?"

Shang Wan said that it would be good if they could just submit.

She looked up at the child beside her, slightly surprised, "You don't seem to be injured at all."

"That's right, I'm the best at dodging." Chu Xu proudly raised his chin. "You don't know how painful it is when Father and my brother beat people, I learned that from practice."

Shang Wan: "..."

Is this something to be proud of?

She handed Chu Xu a small bottle and told him to put a drop on the wounds of each wolf, not more.

Chu Xu sniffed the contents of the bottle, but there was no smell.

Although he was puzzled about what was in the bottle, he acted quickly and boldly approached the wounded wolves, doing as Shang Wan had instructed.

The wounded wolves gathered in one place. Chu Xu quickly completed his task and ran back to stay by Shang Wan's side. This was still the safest spot.

Shang Wan found him a nuisance and pointed to the man in black leaning against the rock, "That one is still alive. Go over and keep an eye on him, don't let him commit suicide."

"Oh." Chu Xu obediently walked over, originally intending to tie up the man in black, but upon closer inspection, he realized it was completely unnecessary.

The man in black had all his joints dislocated, and his mouth was unable to close, causing a pool of bloody saliva to drip from it. He was making painful "hoarse" sounds from his throat.

Chu Xu suddenly gained a new understanding of Shang Wan's ruthlessness. He rubbed the goosebumps that had appeared on his arms and secretly decided that he must never make Shang Wan angry again.

Yuanyuan was still fast asleep; the earlier chaos hadn't affected her sleep at all.

Shang Wan checked on Yuan Yuan and found that she had overused her supernatural power. In order not to affect the little one's growth, she also pried open Yuan Yuan's mouth and fed her a drop of spiritual spring water to help her recover.

Only after everything was dealt with did she have time to check on Lu Chengjing and Shi Tou.

Compared to Xiao Huan, their injuries were relatively minor; at least none of them were fatal.

Although Shi Tou has many knife wounds, most of them are just superficial wounds and have not damaged his bones or muscles. He can just eat more bok choy when he gets home.

Lu Chengjing was protected by two people, so his situation was even better.

Shang Wan breathed a sigh of relief, took over applying medicine and bandaging the two, and told them to rest while she went to check on the body of the man in black.

She removed the masks from the men in black and looked at them one by one.

Chu Xu, bored while watching over the unconscious man in black, curiously approached to take a look. Upon seeing the man's face, his brows furrowed immediately. "Isn't this a Western Xia person?"

Shang Wan turned to look at him, "You know him?"

Chu Xu pointed to the face of the man in black, "There are prisoners of Western Xia in the military camp. They all look like this. They have high noses and deep-set eyes. They look different from the people of our Great Zhou. You'll understand once you see a few more Western Xia people."

Shang Wan told him to go and check on the other men in black.

After reading them one by one, Chu Xu muttered a curse under his breath.

"Damn the Western Xia people, they're trying to use my head to demoralize our troops. The assassin from last time must have been sent by them too."

“No,” Shang Wan said, “the assassins who came last time were not from Xixia.”

Chu Xu insisted: "Then the Western Xia people hired them to do it."

Shang Wan neither confirmed nor denied this, but asked him, "Is there any way to confirm the identities of these men in black?"

Chu Xu looked up at the sky and thought for a long time before saying, "I only know one thing. Look at their backs, do you see a tiger head tattoo on their right shoulder blade?"

Shang Wan did as instructed, turning the man in black over, picking up the dagger from the ground, and slicing open the garment on his right shoulder, tearing it open along the seam to expose his entire back. There was indeed a tiger's head tattoo with its mouth open on his right shoulder blade. The tattoo was about the size of a coin, quite conspicuous against his fair skin.

“This is it,” Chu Xu said excitedly. “My brother told me that those with this tattoo on their right shoulder blade are all the personal guards of General Huwei of Western Xia.”

Upon hearing this, Shang Wan cut open the clothes on the backs of the other men in black one by one, and found that only three of them had tattoos on their right shoulder blades.

She stared at the tattoo for a moment, then turned to look at Chu Xu, "Does that Tiger General from Western Xia know you?"

Chu Xu shook his head. "When my father and brother went to the battlefield, they wouldn't let me go. They just told me to wait for them in the military camp. He probably never saw me."

Shang Wan said, "You've never even met me, yet you've sent your personal guards to kill you. Don't you think that's a bit odd?"

Chu Xu blinked. "What's the problem?"

Shang Wan sighed: "Of course, there are spies sent by the Western Xia in the Chu family army."

Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence?

"What?!" Chu Xu's mouth dropped open in surprise, and he instinctively retorted, "There couldn't possibly be any Western Xia spies in the military camp!"

Shang Wan didn't argue with him. She raised her hand and patted his little head. "You have a brain, so use it to think things through."

Chu Xu: "..."

"Sister, come quick, this person looks like he's dying." Shi Tou noticed that the only surviving man in black was bleeding black blood from the corner of his mouth.

Shang Wan hurried over, but it was too late; the man in black had already died.

Withdrawing her hand from the man in black's pulse, Shang Wan couldn't help but frown. She had clearly knocked out the man's poisoned teeth, so how could he still be poisoned?

"They must have taken poison beforehand."

Chu Xu temporarily put the issue of spies aside and consciously followed Shang Wan's movements.

"That's how spies in Western Xia are. They take poison before going on a mission. If the mission is successful, they can get the antidote when they return. If the mission fails, they will die. The spies will use their internal energy to make the poison in their bodies take effect early."

Shang Wan looked at him, "Why didn't you say so sooner?"

Chu Xu blinked innocently: "You didn't ask?"

Shang Wan narrowed her almond-shaped eyes with an unfriendly expression. Chu Xu felt wronged and pouted, saying softly, "I forgot for a moment. I won't do it again next time."

Hmph! So fierce, not at all likable.

Shang Wan stared at him: "Are you hoping for another assassination attempt?"

Chu Xu: "..."

No, he doesn't want to.

Shang Wan didn't want to see the child following her around, so she simply found him something to do.

“Now it’s just the two of us who can move. You put away all the assassins’ weapons and look for anything else useful on their bodies. I’ll go dig a hole so we can bury the bodies in a bit.”

Chu Xu agreed and ran off to get to work.

Shang Wan noticed out of the corner of her eye that her fox's expression was off. Instead of rushing to dig a pit, she walked to Lu Chengjing's side and grabbed his right hand to examine it.

My hands were trembling involuntarily.

Shang Wan frowned and rubbed a few spots, then asked, "Were you injured just now?"

"No, it's just a little sore." He said casually, but cold sweat soaked his forehead.

My right hand was already in the recovery period, and then I overused it, and now all the aftereffects are coming back.

My entire arm was sore, numb, and painful. The injured areas felt like they were being bitten by a million ants. I couldn't describe the feeling.