"It was brought up from the seabed."
"What? The seabed?"
Chen Lusheng's eyes widened, clearly finding Feng Ye's words hard to believe.
He stopped what he was doing, moved closer, and only after seeing the mottled marks on the statue did he begin to believe it.
However, he still had some doubts and asked, "Are you telling the truth? Did you really bring the statue of Mazu from the bottom of the sea?"
“Uncle Lusheng, it’s true. At first, the trawling net brought up the Thousand-Mile Eye, and then Ah Can and I dived down to look for it. We actually found Mazu and Shunfeng'er, so we brought them up.”
Ah-chan added, "These three statues were stolen by the Japanese and lost at the bottom of the sea. We found a Japanese warship and a lot of Japanese bones at the bottom of the sea."
"Those despicable Japanese devils, they deserve to die, they deserve to die! They even dared to steal the statue of Mazu, the goddess of the sea, they are simply audacious and utterly disrespectful..."
Chen Lusheng vented his righteous indignation, then knelt down and kowtowed several times to the goddess Mazu.
After getting up, he continued, "What are you planning to do with these three statues? Are you going to put them in the temple?"
"Of course, I can't possibly keep it at home as an altar, can I?"
Putting it at home for worship is not only inconvenient due to lack of space, but also because it's too big.
If it's a small statue of a deity, then I might consider it.
"Uncle Lusheng, don't rush off after you've sold the fish. Help me carry it."
"Okay, it's settled then. If I come back after selling all the fish and there's nothing for me, I'll be furious."
Without a second thought, Chen Lusheng agreed, muttering to himself, "I wasn't selected when Mazu made her pilgrimage, but I should be included this time..."
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