This actor is full of tricks.

The ancestral hall in Buming Village.

Lin Jue sat leisurely on the open dam, basking in the sun, gazing at the villagers busily repairing steel ladders on the distant cliff.

He had rested for a while in the early hours of the day before yesterday and planned to go to the hotel owner during the day, but the owner seemed to have realized something and never showed up again. Just then, the people from the Jiuyuan Inspection Bureau came again, so he had no choice but to sneak back to Sanjiang.

He first went to the welfare home to play with Liao Fan for a while, then returned to Yangtao Street to rest for a night before setting off for Buming Village.

"Autumn special drink, cooled boiled water." Li Changming, the village resident, walked over with a glass of boiled water.

"Thank you." Lin Jue took the water and took a sip. "Are you really not going back to the Sanjiang Inspection Division? Sanjiang is severely understaffed right now, with only Bai Yao and Chen Fu filling the gaps."

Li Changming moved a small stool to the side and shook his head: "At least Sanjiang has its headquarters behind it, but the villagers of Buming Village can only rely on me."

"Where are Wu Hai and Sister Mei?" Lin Jue asked.

“That kid Wu Hai is having a secret affair with a girl in the village every day, thinking we don’t know. And you know about Wu Xiumei, in the villagers’ eyes they’re still considered strange.” Li Changming looked at the village: “Look, isn’t the Village of No Sound completely different now?”

It must be said that Buming Village has indeed undergone tremendous changes. These changes are not only reflected in the fact that the once closed village is now striving towards modernization, having applied for a signal tower and preparing to lay fiber optic cables, but also, more importantly, in the change in people's mental outlook.

When the hooded man started his charade in the village, there was always a sense of death in the village. Everyone was a puppet of the so-called gods, living mechanically, and there were taboos everywhere that could not be violated.

Now, something called vitality has appeared in the village, and the gloomy and oppressive atmosphere is slowly disappearing.

"It's really quite good." Lin Jue sincerely praised him. He had to admit that Li Changming had transformed the Village of No Sound very well. The group of strange brides must have also contributed to this. One was in the open and the other was in the dark. They complemented each other to achieve this.

"Alright, I'm not here as a lobbyist. I was originally planning to go to Quming, but I stopped by on the way." Lin Jue downed the water in his glass in one gulp. "Thank you for your hospitality. Next time I come, I'll bring you some good stuff."

Last time when dealing with the New World, the Ghost Bride and Li Changming came to help him without expecting anything in return. Although they didn't say they wanted anything in return, Lin Jue remembered this favor. This time he came in a hurry and didn't prepare anything. If the old man were still here, he would have to bring over a box of supplies.

Quming County was shrouded in ashes as always, and the small county town had a sense of twilight, as if it was gradually disappearing and being forgotten.

"Where did these ashes come from?" He Wen's voice rang out with some confusion.

"Do you recognize this ash?" Lin Jue perked up. This was his second time here, and he still couldn't figure out what the ash was.

The ashes fell from the sky and melted upon landing. The people of Quming County stayed in these ashes for a long time, but nothing unusual happened, as if the ashes had no side effects.

“I once saw a small clump of ash, similar to this, emerge from a hole deep within the mist,” He Wen said, surprising everyone. However, Lin Jue wasn’t too surprised, as he had guessed that the ash was related to that benevolent father, and this was just confirmation.

Those who manage to escape from the depths of the fog must be extremely vicious criminals.

He pondered for a moment and asked, "Did you see clearly what was in the ashes?"

"There was nothing there, just a cloud of ash. After escaping from the dense fog, it flew straight into the sky and disappeared." He Wen's words silenced Lin Jue. Perhaps the benevolent father did not have a physical form and needed to descend using a physical body. This was the information he had guessed earlier.

Lin Jue walked directly towards Ya Ya's house. The door to Ya Ya's house was open, and the caregiver he had hired was picking vegetables at the door. As soon as he saw Lin Jue, he hurriedly stood up and wiped his hands on his apron: "Mr. Zhao, you've arrived!"

"I came to Quming to take care of some business, and I thought I'd drop by to see Yaya." Lin Jue smiled, then turned his head and glanced discreetly at the second floor of the building next door. An old man was peeking out of a dilapidated window and waving at him furtively.

"Yaya hasn't finished school yet, please come in and sit down!" The caregiver invited Lin Jue into the house, which was tidy and orderly, a completely new change compared to last time.

Ya Ya's father was lying flat on the bed. Hearing the noise, he tried with some difficulty to lift his head: "Sister Yang, who is it?"

"Mr. Zhao is here." The caregiver hurriedly helped the man up. Upon seeing Lin Jue, the man's face lit up with surprise and delight: "Brother Zhao!"

"Brother," Lin Jue pulled up a low stool and sat down on the edge of the bed, "how have you been feeling lately?"

"It's like one is in heaven and the other is on the ground." The man was very grateful to Lin Jue. His life used to be like a stagnant pool of hopeless water, but now his days were becoming more and more promising.

"That's good." Lin Jue nodded slightly, took the water handed to him by the caregiver, thanked her, and then continued, "Have you encountered anything strange recently, such as hearing strange noises, seeing strange people, or smelling a bad odor?"

The man was taken aback by Lin Jue's question: "No, did something happen?"

"It's nothing." Seeing that the man didn't seem to be experiencing anything unusual, Lin Jue didn't press further. Instead, he changed the subject: "Is Ya Ya settling in well at school? How's her studies?"

"She's quite used to it. That girl is happy to go to school every day. She said she even became a class representative, but I've never been to school and don't know what that is." Although the man couldn't understand academic matters, his expression was full of pride.

"That's really great." Lin Jue was also very happy; the feeling of getting a return on such an investment was very satisfying.

"I have to thank you for this. If it weren't for you, Yaya would probably still be being dragged down by me, this cripple." Thinking of the past, the man's eyes couldn't help but moisten. His daughter was really too sensible. As a father, the last thing he wanted to see was his child becoming obedient and sensible at such an innocent age.

"Life will only get better from now on," Lin Jue comforted the man.

He chatted with the man for a while longer, and it was lunchtime. Ya Ya, with her pigtails swinging, skipped home to have lunch, but she froze as soon as she got to the door.

"What, don't you recognize your uncle?" Lin Jue smiled and opened his arms.

"Wow!!!!!"

Ya Ya burst into tears and ran straight into Lin Jue's arms.

(End of this chapter)