Quick Transmigration: Survive to the End

Chapter 785 World 333

Shen Ruyin couldn't even muster any anger at the village chief's wife's words.

Knowing what kind of person she was before, and never having any expectations, why would I be angry?

When the village chief came in from outside, he greeted her with a smile: "Yinyin, you're finally back! Have you adapted well to everything since you went to the Immortal Sect?"

"It's acceptable," Shen Ruyin thought, remembering the village chief's advice before she left and his silence after the sisters left, where he turned a blind eye to Su Wan'er's situation. She was willing to accept his kindness, but it was only a small part of it, and there were some things that needed to be said.

Just then, the village chief brought it up with a look of apology: "I know it's not easy for you to come back, but the Su family's matter is also causing people a lot of trouble."

"Whether Brother Su was affected by a cultivator or by a spell cast by the princess of the city herself, I had no other choice but to write to you."

“Village Chief,” Shen Ruyin said, straightening her expression, “I know whether there’s really no other way or if you’re not thinking of any other solutions.”

The village chief's wife acted as if nothing had happened, bringing in tea: "Since Shen girl entered the immortal sect, she must have eaten and used all sorts of good things. But our village's conditions are just like this, coarse tea and well water, just make do with it."

"You've only been here for less than a year, you shouldn't be having trouble getting used to the taste so soon, right?"

"Alright, alright," the village chief had listened to his wife's words privately, but when they got to the front, he had his own ideas. "Put down the tea and go out. Call the Su family over. Yinyin and I need to have a good talk."

After the village chief's wife left, the village chief asked seriously, "Yinyin, what did you mean by what you just said?"

Shen Ruyin feigned surprise: "The village chief doesn't know?"

She paused for a moment: "The Su family switched babies. Su Wan'er is from a noble family, so what about the Su family's child?"

The village chief suddenly stood up: "Yinyin, do you mean that the Su family's daughter is Princess Linghua?"

The village chief's expression changed when he heard her say something wrong.

It's perfectly normal for the village chief to write to Shen Ruyin for help if the villagers are harmed or injured by cultivators, especially those from good mortal backgrounds, using their magic.

This was clearly a family matter, yet it escalated to the village level, prompting the village chief to ask Shen Ruyin to return. Coincidentally, Shen Ruyin seemed to know the truth about it, immediately putting the village chief on edge.

Before he could speak, Shen Ruyin said, "Village Chief, it's not that I don't care about the village, but I'm a newly initiated disciple, and I'm quite busy with daily cultivation and receiving guidance from my teachers. I really don't have time to deal with these kinds of family matters often."

"Besides, sometimes when I go into seclusion, it can take months or even years. Even if you write me a letter and send it to me, I don't know when I will see it."

"As for the trivial matters in the village, I think it's best to follow the old ways and handle them the same way we did before. Don't you think so?"

Shen Ruyin's meaning was already very clear, but the village chief hesitated and couldn't utter a single word of dissent.

Although his wife's words were unpleasant to hear, she was right about one thing: Shen Ruyin would be incredibly wealthy and powerful in the future.

He should be grateful that Shen Ruyin is still sitting here and talking to him properly. Otherwise, if she really adopted the attitude of other cultivators, what other choice would he have but to obey her with trepidation?

"Yinyin," the village chief finally called out, still clinging to their past friendship, "why don't we just leave Su's matter alone?"

"You haven't gone home yet this time, have you? Have you visited your parents?"

“The villagers always look after you. How about I pack up and go with you to pay your respects?”

“No rush,” Shen Ruyin said. “Now that we’re back, we should still take care of Su Xiaodi’s affairs. But we don’t need the village to worry about my family’s yard and my parents’ graves.”

"Before I leave, I will use magic to hide these two places. As long as I am here, no one will be able to disturb them."

The village chief felt a bitter taste in his mouth, but he still smiled and agreed, "That's good too."

He paused, and before the Su family arrived, he finally asked, "Yinyin, if there's a crisis or life-or-death situation in the village in the future, will I be able to write to you again?"

Shen Ruyin looked up and met his gaze: "Of course, but it's uncertain when I'll see it. The village chief should be aware of this before writing the letter."

Upon hearing this, the village chief couldn't help but advise her: "Yinyin, you still have blood relatives in the village. In the past, you had a good relationship with the Zhao family and several other families who rented your land, didn't you?"

“Village chief, you may have forgotten something,” Shen Ruyin sighed, “I am just an ordinary orphan. After my parents passed away, I had no relatives in the village. During holidays, I am all alone at home.”

"As for Uncle Zhao and his family, haven't I continued to let them rent out their land? What could be more important to ordinary people than their own land?"

“Before I became a cultivator, they lived a smooth life. There’s no reason why their peaceful days would be gone just because I became a cultivator.”

"I think that title alone is enough to protect the village from some muddle-headed judges and to keep those villains in disguise from coming to the village to freeload, isn't it?"

The village chief knew he couldn't persuade Shen Ruyin anymore.

Back then, when the Shen family took advantage of Shen Ruyin's loss of parents and wanted to exploit her, he thought that since he was not Shen Ruyin's blood relative and that the Shen family would still take care of her in the future, he didn't say a word in her defense. It wasn't until the Shen family and the people who rented the Shen family's land had a big fight that he stood up for her.

If Shen Ruyin had stayed in the village and been under his control, it wouldn't have been a big deal. But since Shen Ruyin wasn't in the village and had even become very capable, that created a rift between them.

As for why the village chief was so certain, looking at Shen Ruyin's arrangements for those who rented her land and her indifferent attitude towards Shen's relatives, he felt that the matter was too obvious.

Shen Ruyin had no idea what he was thinking. If she did, she would have told him that he was overthinking it.

Holding a grudge against someone takes effort, and I don't have the time for that.

Unfortunately, the village chief didn't say it aloud, nor did he know what Shen Ruyin was thinking. His usual kind face couldn't hold up any longer: "Yinyin, you left with Wan'er from the Su family back then, didn't you?"

Shen Ruyin felt a mix of emotions, yet also a sense of understanding.

She used to think that although the village chief had some common flaws, he was generally a responsible and intelligent village chief. Now it seems that it was only because his interests had not been touched.

He and his wife truly exemplified that saying.

It’s not that one family doesn’t enter the same house.

Normally, you only see the village chief's wife treating people differently based on their status, and the village chief having to apologize to her. Now that I think about it, it seems like one of them played the good cop and the other the bad cop.

It's a pity that the village chief's wife's reputation has been used to pave the way for the village chief.