"Goddess Bai, bless our home with peace and our bodies with health, may everything go smoothly for An Susu... please bless us..."
At midnight, the couple eerily knelt on the balcony, kowtowing toward the open window.
Incense burned and blue smoke curled up, yellow paper thrown into the brazier also emitted strands of smoke. These streams of smoke gathered and drifted out of the window, from where an odd fluctuation immediately emerged, as if absorbing the smoke.
They had been followers of Goddess Bai since their time in the village, introduced by a neighbor.
The couple wasn't foolish; fearing the recommender might be a swindler, they initially made only slight contact. Later, realizing that Goddess Bai asked for no money or women, only demanding followers to burn three sticks of incense daily and worship at midnight on specific days, their suspicions gradually subsided.
