Removing the Body divider; the output contains 35 body paragraphs. The title itself is also a separate required line, so the full response has 36 blank-line-separated paragraphs. 998. Chapter 996: ID 054-A High Monk Enters a Dream (5)

"May I ask where your cousin's grave is, and where the young woman from the Wanfu Tea House killed herself?" Wu Ling asked.

The middle-aged man looked puzzled, but he still answered Wu Ling's question. "My cousin's been moved to the public cemetery. Everyone in our family is buried there. As for the girl from the Wanfu Tea House... I heard she jumped into a well, but I don't know which one. Nobody's used wells for years. A lot of them have been filled in, so I don't even know if any are still around."

"I see... That must have been the biggest tragedy in Qingsha Manor's history, right? Besides that, have there been any other fatal accidents?"

The middle-aged man still looked puzzled. He stumbled over his words before replying, "I don't think so. As far as I know, there haven't been. It's pretty peaceful around here. After that incident, the tea farmers pretty much settled down, too."

"Right. We also noticed something interesting here. There doesn't seem to be much of a religious presence locally. There's only one temple, and it doesn't get many worshippers. In the cities where some of the tea shops we visited are located, there's usually some connection to Buddhism or Taoism, and they tend to favor an old-fashioned atmosphere."

The middle-aged man's expression relaxed a little. "Yes, that's how it is around here. Not many people believe in that sort of thing. They never really have. That temple was only built ten or twenty years ago. It was arranged by the authorities. At first, they even brought in a temple head from somewhere else. But his work didn't go very smoothly. How should I put it..." The middle-aged man chuckled. "People just didn't believe. Anyway, hardly anyone had faith. We kept selling tea