行者剖白 Wukong Protests His Loyalty
行者聞言，氣得暴跳道：「我把你這個尖嘴的夯貨！老孫一向秉教沙門，更無一毫嫉妒之意，貪戀之心，怎麼要分甚麼行李？」唐僧道：「你既不嫉妒貪戀，如何不去？」行者闻言，气得暴跳道：「我把你这个尖嘴的夯货！老孙一向秉教沙门，更无一毫嫉妒之意，贪恋之心，怎么要分甚么行李？」唐僧道：「你既不嫉妒贪恋，如何不去？」
逐句解 Line by line
At these words Pilgrim, hopping mad, burst out: "You sharp-mouthed blockhead!
暴跳 is jumping on the spot with rage — the English "hopping mad" is very nearly a literal translation. And look who gets it. Not the master, who has just condemned his nature and thrown him out; the pig who suggested he was after the baggage. That tells you exactly where his anger and his loyalty each live. (尖嘴, sharp-snouted, is aimed at Bajie's face; 得 is the toneless complement marker.)
"Old Sun has held to the gate of the Buddha all along, without the least thought of envy or a heart of greed — how should I want to split any luggage?"
沙門 (shā mén) transcribes the Sanskrit śramaṇa, a renunciant, and stands for the monastic order as a whole. He is saying: I have kept the discipline the entire time. And what he denies is not the act but the motive — not a hair's breadth of envy, not a heart that clings to things. His loyalty is a point of honour, and being accused of putting a price on it is what finally makes him shout. (教 is jiào; 行李 takes 行 as xíng; 甚 is shén.)
The Tang Monk said, "If you feel no envy or greed, then why not go?"
The elder's reply is quietly devastating because it is so reasonable. Very well — if it is not about the money, then go. It removes the stated objection and pushes Wukong toward the real one, which is the whole of the next passage.
Bajie's imputation of greed stings because it inverts the truth of Wukong's service. He answers by repudiating the motive itself — not the least thought of envy, no heart that clings — rather than by defending any claim on the baggage. And his fury goes to Bajie the slanderer, not to the master who has wronged him, which is a telling measure of where his loyalty and his anger each sit.
Tripitaka's reply is devastating in its reasonableness: if not for gain, then why not simply go? It removes the stated scruple and forces Wukong toward the real ground of his refusal — not property, not pride, but gratitude, and the impossibility of going home. The speech that follows answers that cool question with a full account of what staying has cost.
The register shifts here. The comedy of Bajie's luggage-mongering gives way to something graver, as the quarrel turns from petty motive to the question the chapter has been circling since its first page: why does the Great Sage follow this fragile, fallible monk at all?