叮囑大仙 Parting Instructions
你看他急整虎皮裙，出門來對大仙道：「先生放心，我就去就來。你卻要好生伏侍我師父，逐日家三茶六飯，不可欠缺；若少了些兒，老孫回來和你算帳，先搗塌你的鍋底。衣服禳了，與他漿洗漿洗。臉兒黃了些兒，我不要；若瘦了些兒，不出門。」那大仙道：「你去，你去，定不教他忍餓。」你看他急整虎皮裙，出门来对大仙道：「先生放心，我就去就来。你却要好生伏侍我师父，逐日家三茶六饭，不可欠缺；若少了些儿，老孙回来和你算帐，先捣塌你的锅底。衣服禳了，与他浆洗浆洗。脸儿黄了些儿，我不要；若瘦了些儿，不出门。」那大仙道：「你去，你去，定不教他忍饿。」
逐句解 Line by line
Watch him now: he hastily straightened his tiger-skin kilt, came out at the gate, and said to the Great Immortal, “Set your mind at rest, sir — I go, and I return.
虎皮裙 is the tiger-skin kilt that is Wukong’s signature garb; 你看他 ("watch him") is the storyteller’s cue to the audience. 就去就來 — "I’ll go and be right back."
But you must serve my master well — three teas and six meals a day, every day, with nothing wanting; and if the least bit is short, old Monkey will settle accounts with you when he returns, and stave in the bottom of your cauldron first of all.
好生伏侍 — "to wait upon attentively." 三茶六飯 ("three teas and six meals") is a set phrase for lavish, unstinting hospitality; 算帳 ("to settle the account") is Wukong’s mock-menacing idiom.
When his clothes are soiled, starch and wash them for him.
禳 (ráng) is used here in a colloquial sense, "grimy, soiled" (a variant of 穰); 漿洗, "to starch and launder." The reduplication conveys thoroughness.
Let his face grow the least bit sallow, and I’ll not have it; let him lose the least bit of flesh, and you shall not stir from your gate.”
The strings of 些兒 (xiē’er) ("a little bit") pile up Wukong’s fussing; 不出門 ("you shall not go out") is a comic threat of house arrest. The diminutive 兒 is the toneless suffix er.
The Great Immortal said, “Go, go — I will surely not let him go hungry.”
定不教他忍餓 — "will certainly not let him suffer hunger"; 教 is the causative jiào, "to let, to make." The Immortal humors his voluble guest.
This short scene is pure comedy of character. Wukong, having just secured the pilgrims’ release, cannot resist a departing torrent of instructions — three teas and six meals, laundered clothes, a face kept from turning sallow — punctuated by his trademark threats to "settle accounts" and stave in the cook-pot. The bluster is affectionate as much as fierce: for all his combativeness, Monkey’s care for his master is genuine, and here it takes the shape of nagging solicitude.
The storyteller’s aside "watch him now" (你看他) breaks the frame in the manner of the oral tradition from which the novel descends, inviting the audience to relish the spectacle. The Immortal’s weary, doubled "Go, go" is the perfect foil — a host resigned to indulging an impossible guest, and a small sign that the enmity between them is already softening into something like comic domesticity.