Chapter 331: Want to Open a Branch Store? (Bonus Chapter for Donations)
After unloading the goods, Sang Luo could finally eat to her heart's content, feeling utterly satisfied.
Quan Jin paid the deer-beast youth a high-level beast crystal, "No need to give change."
The deer-beast youth was shocked, then shook his head, "That won't do, it's too precious. I'll go get change, please wait a moment, esteemed guests!"
The restaurant and residence were connected. The deer-beast youth ran to the backyard, "Mom! We have distinguished guests!"
Sitting on a stone chair in the courtyard was a dignified and luxurious female, her snow-white long hair particularly eye-catching. She was fanning herself with a small fan when she saw the youth rushing over in a fluster, and said with a smile, "What's the rush?"
"We have a very generous guest. They spent thirty-seven low-grade crystal cores at our restaurant and gave me a high-grade crystal core. I don't have enough change here, so I came to you for some small money."
The female was taken aback. High-grade crystal cores were something only beast kings could afford. One high-grade crystal core was worth tens of thousands of low-grade crystal cores, almost a month's income for her restaurant.
What was this person's background?
She had to meet them in person!
A tall, white-haired man walked over and patted the deer-beast youth on the shoulder, "Take Dad to have a look."
When he arrived, the man was dumbfounded, thinking he was hallucinating.
"General!"
This exclamation caused many guests to turn their heads.
The man quickly shut his mouth, hurried forward, and said with a smile, "Would you two esteemed guests please move to the private room on the second floor?"
Sang Luo smiled, "Leone, long time no see."
"Madam, aren't you already… Also, General…" Leone didn't know what to say, suppressing his emotions and leading them to the private room on the second floor.
Quan Jin looked at Leone, "I thought you would continue to stay in the military."
In these few minutes, Leone had also digested his emotions. Although he didn't know what exactly happened back then, there must have been hidden circumstances. He calmed down and said, "After you left, General, I was assigned to guard the frontier. If I worked hard for a few more years, I might have been promoted, but I originally joined the military because I admired you at the academy and wanted to follow you. After you left, I didn't stay any longer. With so much time, I might as well do something I really want to do!"
"What you really want to do… is open a restaurant?" Quan Jin teased.
"It's not me who wants to open a restaurant, it's her."
"Mom! You came too!" The deer-beast youth shouted towards the door.
The dignified and luxurious woman entered, also dumbfounded.
"I… I saw…"
Before Leone could say the unlucky word, he quickly covered her mouth, "General and Madam, alive!"
Xiao Bai covered her heart and took a deep breath, "People who disappeared for ten years have come back to life!"
She stepped forward, grabbed Sang Luo's hand, and trembled as she touched her face and hair. Warm, she was alive!
Tears fell, "The palace announced that Madam had passed away, and there had been no news for years. I thought Madam had already passed away."
"He and I are doing well. We went to live in other places for these years. This time, we came back to West Continent for a few days and happened to pass by the restaurant you opened. I thought it was a branch store."
"This store is a branch that just opened two months ago. I came to see how the business is," Xiao Bai put the beast crystal back in her hand and smiled, "I was wondering which lord came, being so generous. This meal is on the house, free of charge, eat whatever you want!"
"Then thank you," Sang Luo said without being polite, looking at the deer-beast youth, "Is this your child?"
A rabbit, a leopard, how did they give birth to a… deer?
Leone said, "His name is Lu Ming. He's a child that Xiao Bai and I adopted during the war. His biological parents are gone."
Sang Luo looked sad, "I'm sorry, I brought up your sad past."
The West Continent did often experience wars. In recent years, disaster beasts roamed rampant, causing great suffering and death, leaving many beast cubs as orphans.
Xiao Bai, "My fertility is low. I probably won't be able to have children in this lifetime. I feel pity for these poor children. If they are willing, I bring them home to raise. Xiao Ming often comes to the store to help! Besides him, there are five other children who are younger and playing at home."
Sang Luo took out six Qiankun bags, "A little something for the children."
Xiao Bai, "How can I accept this? I said I would treat you!"
Sang Luo, "Treating us two is treating us two, I'm giving gifts to the children, not to you."
"Quickly thank Auntie Sang Luo," Xiao Bai nudged the shy deer-beast youth.
The deer-beast youth accepted the Qiankun bag, blushing shyly, "Thank you, Auntie Sang Luo."
"So good," Sang Luo gave him the other Qiankun bags as well, "Take the others home and give them to your younger siblings."
"Okay!"
"Madam, wait for me," Xiao Bai left for a moment and came back with a heavy Qiankun bag, "These are the dividends that should have been given to Madam over the years. I saved them, thinking that I would donate this money in your name to the children in the orphanage, and the old and disabled beastmen in the city."
Sang Luo smiled and didn't accept it, "The children in the orphanage and others who need help need this money more than I do. Donate it for me."
Xiao Bai smiled knowingly, "Then I will thank Madam on behalf of those people!"
"Yeah, do you want to come to East Continent to develop?"
"Haha, I do have this ambition, but I am not a native beastman of East Continent. Going to East Continent requires a pass token."
Sang Luo glanced at Quan Jin, "Don't worry about the pass token, leave it to him."
Quan Jin nodded.
Leone came back to his senses and said gratefully, "Then we have to pack up and prepare well!"
Sang Luo handed Xiao Bai a communication jade slip, "When the time comes, let us know, and Caesar and I will send someone to pick you up."
…
Leaving West Continent.
Returning to the Teng Snake Imperial Palace.
Sang Luo also brought the other children over to play.
The children studied how to make talismans together.
The slightly older children had experience in successfully making talismans and were becoming more skilled.
Little Koi held the newly drawn talisman and ran over excitedly, "Mother! I want to go to the Void Demon Realm with Sister Xiaoyuan to play!"
Sang Luo hugged the little girl and rubbed her soft pink curly hair, "What are you going to do in that godforsaken place, the Void Demon Realm?"
Little Blue Eucalyptus and Little Koi were the only two children who couldn't play on the ground. Their growth period was long, and it was unknown how many years it would take for them to truly transform.
Lou Xian Yue and Sang Luo made two transformation artifacts that could be maintained for two hours a day, allowing the two children to transform into cats, mice, or even humans.
"I want to try if my talisman can work in the Void Demon Realm," Little Koi said.
"I haven't thought about this. Mother will discuss it with Uncle Quan Jin to see if we can take you there."
Sang Luo couldn't go to the Void Demon Realm by herself. Quan Jin took her there every time.
She didn't know how he could freely enter the Void Demon Realm.
Sang Luo asked Quan Jin.
"Okay," He took out a peculiar artifact.
Today is really a triple update.
The last update was blocked. It should be released as a reduced version tomorrow morning. I wrote it quite implicitly, crying.
