Chapter 67 He is the craziest one!
Sang Luo's heart was shaken. "You! The soul mark can only be marked once. Aren't you afraid that I will erase the soul mark, and then you will become a stray beast!"
With a thin layer of sweat on his face, Duotu smiled miserably, "I don't care. If you want to erase the mark, then erase it!"
"...Do you really think I will be soft-hearted?" Sang Luo laughed in anger, "How many of the words you said are true?"
"Luoluo, everything I said to you was true! I didn't lie to you!"
The bed curtains were tangled and trembling, and the shadows cast on the wall kept coming together and apart, endlessly.
"What...what exactly do you need to do...to let me go?" she asked weakly.
He suddenly hugged her tightly, buried his head in her neck, and a low, suppressed growl came out of his throat.
Almost pleading,
"Child...Leave me a child, and I will let you go."
"Ugh, asshole!"
"Asshole or despicable, just give it to me, okay?"
Her heart is no longer with him, and she seems to be able to leave him at any time. If one day he really can't keep her, he must at least keep the child that belongs to him and her!
In the next month, Sang Luo will have very few moments of wakefulness. In a daze, she heard an orc outside the door saying that the previous dynasty wanted to see her about something, so Duotu left, giving her time to rest.
Sang lay on the bed for a long time to recover. Her throat was extremely dry. She used her water ability to clean her body instantly, put on a piece of clothing and got out of bed. Her legs and feet went weak and she almost fell to the ground.
Damn! My body hurts everywhere! This was the first time she was so miserable that she needed to use healing magic.
Looking at the bottles and jars scattered on the ground, Sang Luo's forehead twitched wildly.
It turns out that he is the craziest one!
Sang Luo calmed down, put on his clothes, walked to the table, opened the drawer, took out the invitation, and disappeared in the palace in an instant.
The next second, she appeared on a quaint street with a lot of traffic. She was surrounded by tiled and stone houses, and the tallest building was no more than five stories high.
The city of Valru is a medium-sized town with a population of 200,000 to 300,000 and is relatively wealthy.
The beast world is vast and sparsely populated. There are not many orcs on the streets, but somewhere in the city it is very lively.
She glanced at the address on the invitation and walked over with a smile.
It was a restaurant that had just opened. It wasn’t very big, with only three floors, but it was packed with people.
Sang Luo went straight to the back kitchen. He wanted to ask the waiter where the boss was, but he caught a glimpse of a familiar white figure. He curled his lips and said jokingly, "You've become a boss, but you still wash the dishes yourself. You're really good at saving yourself labor costs."
"Madam, you are here!"
Xiaobai turned around and saw her. He was so surprised that he stopped washing the dishes and quickly wiped his hands with a dry towel. He smiled and said, "I sent you an invitation more than a month ago. Since you didn't come, I thought you were too busy and wouldn't come again."
"I promised you that I would definitely come, but I was a little...busy these days." Sang Luo looked at the restaurant's decoration style. It was classical solid wood and quite elegant. He took out a fragrant wood carving in the shape of a fortune cat from the space. "It's a pity that I didn't make it in time for your opening ceremony. I give this little thing to you. I hope it's not too late."
"It's not important. Hehe, ma'am, your visit to this station will bring honor to my restaurant! But you came without informing me in advance, and I didn't have time to clean up. I'm sorry to make a fool of myself. Let me change my clothes." Xiaobai happily accepted the gift, handed it to the waiter beside him, and put it on the counter.
"Your little mouth is getting more and more lively. This life is much better than the one you had in your family."
“There’s simply no comparison!”
Xiaobai quickly changed his clothes, gave a few words of advice to the two waiters, and then took Sang Luo to the VIP room on the third floor. He personally cooked more than a dozen dishes, and Sang Luo didn't need to say anything, as all of them were her favorites.
Sang Luo took a sip of the duck blood vermicelli soup, and then took a bite of the crispy and tender sweet and sour fish, and said with great emotion, "I haven't tasted your cooking for a long time. The taste hasn't changed. No, it's even better than before."
"Madam, please don't make fun of me. The delicacies from the mountains and sea in the Beast King's Palace are definitely better than these home-cooked dishes I made."
"That's not true." Except for Lan Cang, she was used to eating the food she cooked.
Thinking of this man, she didn't know how he was doing now. As usual, she would receive a large box of beast crystals from an unknown address every month. Except for a break in the month when she moved to the Beast King Palace, she continued the next month.
Sang Luo once returned to the manor where he and Kaisar had lived before. It was now deserted, the servants had all been dismissed, and a thin layer of dust and fallen leaves had accumulated on the ground. It seemed that no one had taken care of it for a long time. All the windows had been broken by unknown orcs, and the furniture and valuables in the house had been swept away. Those that could not be moved were smashed and destroyed. The house was in a mess, with almost no place to step.
Sang Luo originally wanted to go find something as a souvenir, but found nothing.
Before leaving, she found the missing box of crystals in a corner of the wall. The box was made of a silver-gray wood, which Sang Luo had never seen in lumber shops or buildings on the Western Continent. She thought it must be a unique wood from other continents.
Unfortunately, the box was opened and the beast crystals inside were gone. I think it was done by the nearby thugs and stray beasts.
Sang Luo had previously suspected who had sent these boxes of beast crystals, but now he had guessed who had sent them. He sighed and could hardly eat.
"Madam, are you worried?" Xiaobai took out a large bag of dried shrimps. "Try this, it tastes delicious!"
"You still understand me." Sang Luo took it and chewed it. It was crispy, fragrant, and delicious with a spicy taste.
It is the perfect snack to satisfy your cravings during pregnancy. When she was pregnant, she especially liked to chew this kind of flavored dried meat snack.
"Can you give me a few more bags?"
"I just made a few dozen kilograms this morning and haven't sold them all yet. I'll go pack them all up for my wife!"
Xiaobai was extremely surprised to see more than ten kilograms of dried shrimps disappear in an instant and be collected by Sang Luo into the space. This talent really makes foodies envious!
"I see that there are several restaurants in the city that are doing pretty well. Your newly opened inn might be suppressed secretly, which would put a lot of pressure on you. Let me give you some suggestions. You can organize some promotional activities, such as discount coupons for full-scale crystal reduction, or even some discounts for inviting people..."
"Once you have established your brand, you can open chain stores and have others pay to buy your brand influence and the right to use your food secrets. When they make money, you can get a share of the profits..."
Xiao Bai listened to her words one by one, his eyes lit up, "Madam, you are really a business genius!"
Sang Luo took a sip of water to hide his embarrassment. It was all because of the experience of being cheated by unscrupulous businessmen in his previous life.
"Xiao Bai, there are quite a few customers at noon today. Let me help you take care of it."
A handsome and handsome silver-haired orc walked in from the door. Seeing Sang Luo stunned, he shouted, "Husband... Madam!"
Many guests looked over here, and Sang Luo really wanted to punch him.
"Don't shout so loudly."
She didn't want to attract attention.
Leon walked over quickly, scratched his head and laughed, "I just haven't seen the madam for too long. I thought I was seeing things just now. I was too excited!"
The two of them were still used to calling her Madam, and Sang Luo didn't ask them to change, so they just kept calling her that. Leon took a pot of wine, "Since the master left, I have been transferred to another department and am no longer on duty in the imperial capital. I thought I would never see you again in this life! I toast you a glass, and I hope we can meet again this time!"
Xiaobai, "I'd like to toast to the Madam as well!"
Sang Luo poured a glass of juice, toasted the two of them, and asked Leon, "Where are you on duty now?"
Duotu was magnanimous and forgiving on the surface, firstly to win the hearts of the people, and secondly to conceal his true intentions. But Sanglaochai Liong's situation was not very good. He was probably semi-exiled to a border city, holding a nominal position with little real power.
How could Duotu possibly allow Caesar's people to do things under his nose?
The guess is pretty good.
Leon drank a few sips of wine decadently and complained. The beast pattern on his arm became deeper, which meant that his strength had also improved.
He said, "After working in the military for a few more months, I want to resign and come over to run the restaurant with Xiaobai. I wonder if the boss is willing to take in a poor male beast like me?"
He didn't like the military's social activities, he just did it for a living. Now that the person he had loyally followed had fallen, he had long since stopped wanting to stay in that kind of place.
Xiao Bai smiled and said, "As long as you come, I will accept you. My wife and I just discussed opening a branch store in the future, and the store is short of staff."
"Okay, then I'll follow you and make a lot of money."
Sang Luo had noticed before that one of them liked money and cooking, and the other liked money and delicious food. He smiled and said, "You two really have a lot in common in this regard."
She looked at Leon and raised her eyebrows, "But isn't it a waste for you, a level 7 orc, to work as a handyman in a restaurant?"
"Madam, you don't know that some diners are always cunning and always come here to eat for free. Some orcs, seeing that Xiaobai is a female, want to have evil thoughts. I have used force to teach them a lesson! The restaurant business is getting better and better. Other restaurant owners in the city want to buy it. If soft tactics don't work, they want to use hard tactics. They always send people to cause trouble. Xiaobai can't handle it alone. My coming here can at least deter them."
Xiao Bai thought of the difficulties he had gone through in the past month, and his face turned ugly. "Those people from the clan came to me once. They wanted to take back all the crystal stones I earned in the name of the clan, and it was Brother Bao who helped them to settle it..."
Sang Luo held his chin up and looked at the two of them. Their simple and affluent life was quite enviable.
After dinner, Xiaobai brought over a purse filled with a lot of crystals and gave it to Sang Luo.
"The store is doing well. I'll choose a location and open a branch in a few days. Madam will definitely get more share in the future!"
"I wish your business will be more prosperous, and I can also benefit from it~"
During the time that Sang Luo and Duotu were together, they actually didn't lack crystals, but after they broke up, she felt a little uncomfortable using his things... and they were destined to separate in the future, so it would be nice for her to have some income of her own.
Sang Luo, Xiao Bai and Leon hadn't seen each other for a long time, so they reminisced and chatted and asked about their recent situation.
When the two asked her how she was doing in the Beast King Palace, Sang Luo was vague and only talked about the good things, without mentioning Duotu too much.
Leon has followed Sang Luo for so long and was worried that she was not living well in the palace. He heard that the Beast King has not given her a partnership ceremony yet, so he is relieved now. If the Admiral were still alive, he would definitely hope that his wife would have a better life.
Before I knew it, it was getting late.
At dinner time, the restaurant welcomed many customers again. Sang Luo asked the two to go to the restaurant first. She stayed in the private room, eating snacks and leisurely for a while.
Suddenly, there were shouts and chaotic footsteps from people downstairs. Sang Luo thought someone was coming to cause trouble. Just as he was about to go downstairs, he saw Xiao Bai hurried upstairs.
"Madam, it's the Beast King who is here to see you. He's here to take you back to the palace..."
what?
Isn't he very busy these days? Why did he come here in person?
Sang Luo's face darkened. He walked to the window and saw a large army of orcs ready to go below.
Duotu actually brought his army here with great momentum and pressure. They surrounded the entire city layer by layer, and the restaurant was surrounded so tightly that no one could get in or out. The guests in the building and the orcs nearby were all scared away, thinking that something big had happened.
And at the front, the blond man was tall and straight, particularly eye-catching.
The moment Sang Luo opened the window, the man also raised his head and their eyes met.
His tense nerves were instantly soothed.
"Luoluo!"
"..."
She slammed the window shut.
It was intentional, absolutely intentional!
Xiaobai and Leon didn't know the inside story and simply thought that Duotu was going to take her back to the palace, but the scene was a bit too exaggerated.
"Madam, it's getting late. You'd better go back quickly. It seems that His Majesty the Beast King is very worried about you. He may think that something happened to you." Xiaobai had never seen such a scary scene in his life. He drooped his ears and said a little scared.
"Well, when I have time later, I will come to you to reminisce about the past."
Sang Luo smiled at the two of them, and when he turned and went downstairs, his eyes were cold.
Since Duotu was able to find this place, he must know that she was fine. He was deliberately warning her to stay in the palace and not run around.
When Duotu saw Sang Luo coming down from the building, he immediately rushed over and hugged her tightly in his arms.
"Luoluo, I couldn't find you in the palace. I thought you...why didn't you tell me when you came out?"
"..."
Seeing Sang Luo remained silent, Duotu's joy of regaining what he had lost was slowly dispersed by inexplicable panic. He couldn't help but tremble in his voice, "Don't leave me, don't disappear from my sight..."
Sang Luo sighed, "Let's go back to the palace."
She finally understood it completely.
He wouldn't let her go unless she gave birth to his child.
She can’t just keep giving birth!
Sang Luo felt like she was about to be driven crazy, so she just gave up. She pushed him away, looked up and said coldly, "Don't you just want an heir? Okay, when I get back, I'll give birth to one for you!"
"Luoluo..." Duotu was stunned, but there was not much joy on his face. He wanted to hold her hand, but was shaken away.
"After the birth, you let me go, and we're done with each other, right?"
Duotu stared at her deeply, his Adam's apple rolling as he whispered, "If you want to leave, I won't..."
"Okay, come back to the palace now, and I will give birth to you immediately!"
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