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Su Luo looked at the man in front of her, half male and half female, half yin and half yang, half human and half ghost. She then looked at the memorial tablet that had appeared on the lotus platform at some point, where the husband of Miss Min had become the wife of General Lu.
Generals die in a hundred battles, and brave warriors return after ten years, only to find their beloved gone. The world has changed, and things are no longer the same.
"So, General, what are you planning to do?" Since everything was out in the open, Su Luo wasn't afraid of him. He walked up to the lotus platform and sat down in front of the square table that resembled a coffin. He looked at the pale white cloth spread on the table below and said, "Kill me to prolong your wife's life?"
Seeing that Su Luo was so sensible, General Lu, dressed in a female theatrical costume, chuckled twice, sat down opposite Su Luo with a sinister look, and gently stroked the square table in the center, as if he were caressing his lover, tenderly and tenderly, afraid that he might accidentally hurt her.
"So what if it is?"
The implication is that in this bizarre dungeon, you can't possibly escape, can you?
Running? Of course, he can't run away, but who said Su Luo was going to run away!
Just as General Lu was showing affection across the white cloth covering the square table, Su Luo suddenly raised her hand and grabbed the white cloth with lightning speed, trying to pull it off with a forceful pull!
General Lu's expression hardened, and he instinctively grabbed the other side, glaring angrily at Su Luo, "How dare you!"
"Why wouldn't I dare?" Su Luo tilted his head. "You're going to use me to pay tribute to your deceased wife, so it's not too much to ask me to see what she looked like!"
General Lu was slightly taken aback. In all these years, this was the first time he had seen such a human being who was not afraid at all and had quickly found his weakness.
Yes, beneath the white cloth lay his Achilles' heel.
The ceremony is not yet complete; there is still one last person to go. The white cloth cannot be removed, otherwise all efforts will be in vain.
Sensing that the other party was about to make a move, Su Luo slightly increased the force of her grip. "Of course, you can make a move right now, but it depends on whether your hand is faster or mine is faster!"
After saying that, Su Luo exerted a little force and actually pulled a bit of white cloth from the other person's hand, confirming her threat.
General Lu hesitated for a long time after hearing this, but finally relented, "Fine, as long as you don't remove the white cloth, you can leave, I won't stop you."
To everyone's surprise, Su Luo shook her head, showing no fear of General Lu. She raised her hand and tapped the square table with the back of her hand, signaling General Lu not to panic, to sit down, and to chat with her.
"It's getting dark. If you kick me out now, where am I supposed to stay?" Su Luo said casually, as if he were just talking about eating and drinking, without any sense of urgency in a four-star monster instance.
"What's more, I even gave a gift of a thousand yuan in ghost money, and they won't even let me stay for one night. General Lu is too stingy."
General Lu: ...
Is this guy out of his mind? Who would willingly stay inside a monster instance and never leave? For a moment, General Lu thought this person was more like a monster than they were.
They even took the initiative.
"What do you want?" Despite his words, General Lu did not ignore the white cloth that Su Luo was holding tightly in his hand, and said coldly.
"Seeing how affectionate the general is, why don't you tell me your story?"
General Lu was taken aback upon hearing this, and his expression became dazed.
He has been here for so many years, and in the endless years he has only wanted to resurrect his deceased wife. But each marriage is like a slow and agonizing torture. His feelings deepen, but her face becomes more and more blurred.
If Su Luo hadn't mentioned it, he would have almost forgotten what his wife looked like.
The candlelight suddenly dimmed and went out. Su Luo immediately drew his dagger on alert and raised his hand to protect his vitals. A few seconds later, the candlelight was relit, and the scene before him became vivid and lively.
"Miss, you seem so happy today, is there something good happening?"
In the back garden, the woman addressed as "Miss" was combing her hair by herself, while several maids helped her pick camellias in the garden and string them into a bouquet to wear on her head.
"What other happy occasion could it be? Hongdou, you don't know yet, today is the day our son-in-law returns home victorious. Miss has waited for him for ten years, ten years of youth wasted. Now she can finally be with him forever."
"Stop being so glib." Miss Min turned around coquettishly, and Su Luo, who was watching from the sidelines, finally got a clear look at the woman in front of him.
Natural beauty, unadorned, like a lotus emerging from clear water.
What a graceful and elegant young lady from a prominent family!
Thinking back to General Lu's appearance, he was indeed slightly inferior.
"I don't know if my son-in-law will be in trouble. I heard that Yongzhou City has recently suffered from natural disasters and man-made calamities, with a rampant plague. Many people have been infected, and even the imperial physicians sent from the palace are helpless and no one has survived."
"The young master is going through Yongzhou. I wonder if something will happen to him," said the maid named Hongdou with a hint of worry.
"Plague?" These past few days, Miss Min had been so preoccupied with her beloved that she had forgotten about important matters. Upon hearing the news, she was slightly surprised.
How serious is it? How are the injured? What are their symptoms?
Upon hearing her mistress's words, Hongdou realized she had spoken out of turn and quickly lowered her head to shut up. Caixia, who was standing to the side, stepped forward to interrupt, "Miss, don't listen to Hongdou's nonsense."
"It should just be a common plague. Anyway, the officials above are in charge, so there won't be any major trouble. Miss, you can just wait for your husband to come home."
“That’s true.” Miss Min nodded. General Lu would marry her after his return. The Min family was a prominent family in the capital. Inviting guests and organizing the banquet were time-consuming and laborious tasks that could not be neglected.
But this wait lasted for three whole days.
The victorious generals made the emperor wait for three whole days before entering the capital. Contrary to everyone's expectations of a triumphant return, many of them were wounded, and their armor was stained with blood. Anyone who didn't know better would have thought they had just fought a battle outside the imperial city.
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