This actor is full of tricks.

Dazhu didn't leave in the end, because before dawn the next day, a strange bride came to his door.

As soon as Lin Jue walked down the stairs, he saw Dazhu running upstairs in a panic, yelling, "Hide quickly! There's a ghost coming in!"

"I just heard someone knocking on the door and was about to ask who it was when hair... a lot of hair came in through the crack in the door and opened the door lock!"

"It's the spooky bride! The spooky bride is coming in!"

As he said this, he wanted to run away, but was pulled back by the latter: "Brother Dazhu, forget what I told you yesterday. These ghosts are good ghosts for the time being and have no ill intentions towards us."

"She must have something important to tell us since she came so early."

Dazhu was stunned by what he said. How could this guy be so calm? What was the meaning of "temporarily good trick"?
Without waiting for him to struggle, Lin Jue dragged him downstairs. A strange bride was in the main room with her hair stuck in the altar, and it seemed that she was about to smash the altar.

Seeing Lin Jue and the frightened Da Zhu being dragged along, the strange bride hurriedly pulled her hair back, like a child caught in a mistake. She lowered her head and stammered, "Um... Sister Xiumei asked me to call the villagers to a meeting outside the ancestral hall."

"Look at this female ghost, she is so cute, she doesn't look like she would hurt anyone." Lin Jue looked helplessly at Dazhu who had been hiding behind him. It was indeed an unprecedented thing to let a ghost manage the village. The two sides had originally had a hostile relationship, and it was indeed a very difficult thing to live together harmoniously later.

But it was not his turn to worry about such matters. He could just let Wu Xiumei and the villagers worry about it.

Compared to Dazhu, Lin Jue was much calmer. After all, it was free time, so he wasn't afraid of his image collapsing. He asked directly, "What's the purpose of the meeting?"

"It seems..." The strange bride rolled her eyes upwards, pretending to be thinking, but she rolled them too hard, and only the whites of her eyes were left. Dazhu was so scared that he screamed again.

The strange bride finally remembered: "It's to discuss the future planning of the village."

It seems that Wu Xiumei is ready to start reforms.

"Are you calling the villagers? Can I go?" Lin Jue became interested. He wanted to see how a strange creature was going to reform the village.

"Yes, anyone can go... Anyone can give suggestions for future development." The strange bride replied, and then walked out on her own.

"Brother Dazhu, are you going?" Lin Jue looked at Dazhu behind him.

"Are you crazy? Gui asked you to go to a meeting, do you think it's really a meeting? They must have butcher knives and cutting boards ready there, waiting to eat you as soon as you get there."

Dazhu held Lin Jue tightly. He felt that this guy was so crazy that he was hopeless. He actually believed in the weird nonsense and was going to attend some crappy meeting.

"If she wanted to eat me, she would have done it long ago. Why bother with all this pretense?" Lin Jue took Dazhu's hand away. "It's okay, brother. If you don't want to go, then don't go. I'll go get some information first."

After saying this, he didn't care about the other party's reaction and followed the strange bride's footsteps towards the ancestral hall.

"Crazy! Crazy! Never mind! Never mind!" Dazhu saw that he couldn't persuade Lin Jue, and he was too lazy to care about his life or death anymore: "It just so happens that you all have to go to the meeting. I'll pack up and leave right away."

...The ancestral hall is located in the center of the village. When Lin Jue arrived here, tables, chairs and benches had already been placed in the large open space outside. It was a bit like a rural meeting in the last century. There was a long table in the front and rows of bamboo chairs below.

The strange brides were busy cleaning up the venue. Wu Xiumei stood beside the long table with a blank look in her eyes, not knowing what she was thinking about.

Apart from these strange things, only two living people came here.

One is Wu Hai, who has woken up and is sitting obediently in the first row. No one knows what kind of mental activity he is going through.

The other one was Li Changming, the village guard who was still sitting in the corner. He noticed Lin Jue's gaze and turned to look over.

When he saw Lin Jue's face, he was slightly stunned. This outsider gave him a familiar feeling. He had a similar temperament to Dr. Zhou last night, but his appearance, height and body shape were completely different.

He shook his head slightly. Doctor Zhou suddenly appeared and disappeared without a trace, very mysterious. He also felt that he might be related to the owner of the diary.

That's why he agreed so easily to let "Zhou Yue" take the diary away.

Li Changming nodded to Lin Jue as a greeting. Lin Jue smiled back and found a seat in the middle to sit down.

Until the meeting started, few villagers showed up, only seven or eight people scattered around, and they were all relatives and friends of these strange brides.

Even if they knew these weird brides, they were still huddled together in fear. Normal people had no way of facing weirdness, let alone holding a meeting with weirdness. They were all very courageous.

Most of the other villagers are now packing up and running away.

Most of those who couldn't escape were the elderly, the weak, the sick, and the disabled, along with their families.

Wu Xiumei looked at the few scattered people in the field and sighed softly. Changing the village was just a light talk, but it was very difficult to put it into practice. What's more, she was an unpopular ghost. If she couldn't get along well with the villagers, the change would die before it even started.

Although there were only ten people present, Wu Xiumei still expressed to them her determination to make the village a better place and her subsequent series of change plans.

For example, all the ill-gotten gains collected by the hooded man and those sorcerers and witches over the years were invested in building the village, repairing dilapidated houses for the villagers, discarding the vine ladders used for travel and replacing them with safer and sturdier steel pipes to build steel ladders, and trying their best to build a cement road leading to the outside world.

The second is to elect Li Changming as the representative of the living to manage the village together with the ghost brides. This decision is equivalent to giving the villagers peace of mind. After all, there is at least a great master here.

The third is to abolish the hanging coffins built by the gods, and bury the dead villagers according to tradition. All expenses will be paid by the village, and the excess money will be distributed as subsidies based on the number of people in each family, because the village is indeed too poor. Many people still live in wooden houses, and brick and tile houses are rare.

The fourth goal is a bit long-term. Wu Xiumei plans to continue the village's ancient traditions, preserve sacrificial activities and Nuo dance, and wants to build the village into a tourist village to increase income and improve the villagers' living standards.

Wu Xiumei constructed a beautiful blueprint, and Lin Jue was impressed by her. She had come up with a rough transformation plan in just one night. She truly wanted to lead the villagers out of the quagmire of the past. (End of this chapter)