"Why ask that all of a sudden?"
The Verdant Green Maiden frowned and glanced at Liu Yong.
"Curiosity!"
Liu Yong said.
His eyes were full of curiosity and the urge to find out more.
"I heard the fishermen say the Lin Family Immortal Aunt answers prayers remarkably often! I thought someone as widely traveled and knowledgeable as you, Lady Shao Dian, must have heard of her too. What do you think? Has the Immortal Aunt truly manifested, or is she just an ordinary fisherwoman playing tricks and pretending to be divine?"
After he asked, the Verdant Green Maiden's expression turned strange.
"What counts as playing tricks and pretending to be divine?"
"And what counts as a real Immortal Aunt?"
The Verdant Green Maiden answered with two questions of her own.
Liu Yong was at a loss for words.
"Well..."
The Verdant Green Maiden picked up her little knife, speared a piece of octopus tentacle, and ate it while it was hot.
Then she breathed out a puff of hot air.
"Phew..."
"All things in this world rise and fall like the tides!"
"One who wins the people's love is a god even if she is no god; one who fails to win it is nothing but rotten wood and crumbling clay in a temple, even if she calls herself a god."
"If she can help the fishermen here, what does it matter if they call her an Immortal Aunt?"
At those words, Liu Yong felt a sudden flash of understanding. He could not help marveling that only someone who had lived so long could have such insight.
To most people, Immortals were Immortals.
The slightest disrespect toward them was unthinkable.
"Lady Shao Dian, may I drink today?"
Liu Yong asked.
The Verdant Green Maiden nodded. "You may, but don't drink