Just as they were pressing on, before they knew it evening had fallen.

A short hinge, turning the scenery back into a story: 正走處, just as they were walking along.

Sanzang said, "Disciples, the sky darkens once again — where are we to go and rest?"

In 那裡, meaning where, the 那 is the question-word nǎ rather than the pointing nà — the same two characters, two jobs, and this chapter uses both dozens of times. 安歇 is to put up for the night.

Pilgrim said, "Master, you speak amiss.

說話差了, you have spoken wrongly, with 差 as chà, to be off, to err.

One who has left the household feeds on the wind and lodges by the water, sleeps beneath the moon and beds down in the frost — everywhere is home.

Wukong answers with a string of set phrases about homelessness: 餐風宿水 and 臥月眠霜, dine on wind and lodge by water, lie under the moon and bed down in frost. 隨處是家, everywhere is home, is the motto they add up to — and a sharp jab at a disciple who has just started pining for a roof.

Why, then, ask where we shall lodge?"

何也, why so? And 那裡 is once more the question-word nǎ.

Zhu Bajie said, "Brother — do you know how light your own travelling is? What do you care for another's weary burden?

Bajie's reply is the complaint of a man carrying the bags for somebody who is not. 輕省 (qīng shěng) is travelling light and easy; 那裡管, as if you would care, is the 那 of rhetorical questions, nǎ again; 累墜 is the drag of a heavy load on a body.

Ever since we crossed the Flowing-Sands River, all this while it has been climbing mountains and crossing ridges, my body shouldering the heavy load — hard, so hard to bear!

一向 is all this while. In 挑著 the 著 is the little zhe that keeps an action running — shouldering, and going on shouldering. 重擔, the heavy load, takes 重 as zhòng; 老大 is a colloquial intensifier, greatly, mightily; 難挨 is hard to endure.

We really must find a household: first, to beg a little tea and rice; second, to restore our spirits — that would be the sensible course."

化些茶飯 — 化 is the monk's word for begging alms. Bajie lays his case out in numbered points, 一則 and then 二則, like a man presenting a budget. Keep an eye on what he is asking for: the 人家, the household, is about to appear on cue, and it is a trap.

Pilgrim said, "Idiot! Talk like this sounds like a grumbling, resentful heart.

獃子, blockhead, is what Wukong calls Bajie roughly every time he opens his mouth. 似有 uses 似 (sì), to seem; 報怨 here stands for 抱怨, to nurse a grievance.

Still hankering after the idle ease of Gao Village — shirking effort, seeking no blessing — that, I fear, will not do.

還 is hái, still. 高老莊, Gao Village, is where Bajie had settled down as a live-in son-in-law until Wukong hauled him out of it five chapters back; naming it is a low blow, and an accurate one. 倚懶 is to lean on your own laziness, and 不求福 to chase no merit at all.

Now that you are a monk who holds to the right, you must eat bitterness and bear hardship — only so do you make a true disciple!"

沙門 is śramaṇa, a Buddhist mendicant; 秉正 is to hold to the orthodox. In 做得徒弟 the 得 is the structural de of managing to be something, not the verb dé, to get.