"The Wa People's Rice God, has it been obstructed? Hmm, didn't that four-fingered translator Watanabe once tell me? 'In a grain of rice, there are seven gods'... Yes! The Wa People greatly revere rice, just as we revere corn. He also recited an interesting little poem to me: 'To the small rice fields in the mountains, the silt-clogged paddy water. Now the relationship between the two is no more, it's been days without communication, truly saddening'..."
"Listening to the captured Wa People, in the southern villages of the Wa People, farmers must build long canals, allowing the mountain spring water to flow slowly, warm up before irrigating the rice fields. Otherwise, the Rice God will be upset, and the rice won't grow. From this, it's clear that the Rice God of the Wa People doesn't like the cold..."
