Pacify when necessary, warn when needed.
Hu Ma deeply remembered what the Second Master had told him before leaving. He didn't use the arrogance unique to Reincarnators to understand this world. He calmly accepted the village's interpersonal dynamics, but the Second Master had also instructed him to take care of a few others, and he tried his best to do so.
After all, he had used the treasures left by the Second Master as goodwill gestures; he couldn't just turn his back on those relationships.
Regarding this village, there were, of course, some things he didn't like either.
But that's just how the village was.
They were greedy and dull-witted, willing to turn on you for a bit of benefit, yet they were also the same ones who would come over to help without being asked when something happened.
They were the ones who didn't reason, only recognizing ties of kinship, yet at the same time, they were the ones who would grab their tools and come over to fight without asking why.