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The next day at work, Zhao Xiuquan still felt very idle and bored. He took another look at the small Bodhisattva niche on the wall opposite the counter. It was a wooden box one foot square, with glass in the front and a Bodhisattva inside. Two electric candles were lit in front of the Bodhisattva, along with an incense burner and a plate. Inside the plate were offerings, which were plastic fruits and the like.

Zhao Xiuquan couldn’t help laughing as soon as he saw this. Does the Bodhisattva also ignore people’s modern offerings? Real fruits are afraid of going bad and being expensive, so plastic ones are provided. They......