When they arrived outside the Mother God's Temple, they kneeled down with the villagers and kowtowed nine times. Finally, they walked to the incense table and lit the joss sticks.
Once again, he led the entire village to kowtow three more times. Finally, he spoke on behalf of the whole village about their plea for food.
The people watching from the side began to mutter when they saw this. They had never seen such a formal request before, comparable to meeting the emperor.
Although they couldn't see faith itself, they could see that rays of sunlight quickly entered the Mother God statue along with the incense smoke.
When the manor's tenants heard about the sincerity from Xin'an village, the people who were still hesitating immediately gathered together to buy incense and candles. They went to the Mother God Temple to burn and offer incense in the evening.
