Chapter 431 - 407: Master is Taken Away Again
"No way, Brother Monkey, they all said it was for the Buddha Lord!"
Zhu Bajie said with some curiosity.
Sand Monk also said with some curiosity, "It indeed seems unlikely, but this is really strange. How could so much oil possibly be burned in three days?"
The old abbot said, "In each vat here there are forty-nine large lamp wick structures, all made of lamp wick twisted into bunches, wrapped in silk floss, thick as a chicken egg, only lit tonight. We saw the Buddha Lord reveal himself, and by tomorrow night the oil will be gone, and the lamps will dim."
Zhu Bajie said with a chuckle, "It really could be that the Buddha Lord took even the lamp oil away."
The old abbot nodded and said, "That’s exactly the idea. For ages, all families in the city have told this same story. If the oil runs out, it means the Buddha Ancestor has taken the lamp, and the harvest will naturally be abundant."
"If one year it doesn’t run out, it will turn out to be a year of drought, with unseasonable winds and rains. That’s why families make such offerings."
"But would Buddha Lord have so much free time to come here for some lamp oil?"
Sun Wukong couldn’t help but shake his head with a smile.
However, Sun Wukong’s voice wasn’t loud, and given the surrounding boisterousness, no one else heard what he said, only Zhu Bajie, whose ears were extremely keen, caught it.
Full of curiosity, Zhu Bajie asked, "Brother Monkey, what have you noticed?"