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壘石設伏
The Stone Ambush
眾猴鼓掌大笑道：「造化，造化。做甚麼和尚，且家來，帶攜我們耍子幾年罷。」叫：「快安排椰子酒來，與爺爺接風。」大聖道：「且莫飲酒，我問你那打獵的人，幾時來我山上一度？」馬、流道：「大聖，不論甚麼時度，他逐日家在這裡纏擾。」大聖道：「他怎麼今日不來？」馬、流道：「看待來耶。」大聖吩咐：「小的們，都出去把那山上燒酥了的碎石頭與我搬將起來堆著。或二三十個一推，或五六十個一堆堆著，我有用處。」那些小猴都是一窩峰，一個個亂搬了許多堆集。大聖看了，教：「小的們，都往洞內藏躲，讓老孫作法。」众猴鼓掌大笑道：「造化，造化。做甚么和尚，且家来，带携我们耍子几年罢。」叫：「快安排椰子酒来，与爷爷接风。」大圣道：「且莫饮酒，我问你那打猎的人，几时来我山上一度？」马、流道：「大圣，不论甚么时度，他逐日家在这里缠扰。」大圣道：「他怎么今日不来？」马、流道：「看待来耶。」大圣吩咐：「小的们，都出去把那山上烧酥了的碎石头与我搬将起来堆著。或二三十个一推，或五六十个一堆堆著，我有用处。」那些小猴都是一窝峰，一个个乱搬了许多堆集。大圣看了，教：「小的们，都往洞内藏躲，让老孙作法。」
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眾猴鼓掌大笑道：「造化，造化。做甚麼和尚，且家來，帶攜我們耍子幾年罷。」叫：「快安排椰子酒來，與爺爺接風。」
众猴鼓掌大笑道：「造化，造化。做甚么和尚，且家来，带携我们耍子几年罢。」叫：「快安排椰子酒来，与爷爷接风。」
The host of monkeys clapped their hands and laughed aloud: “What luck, what luck! Why be a monk any longer? Come home to us, and take us along to play a few years more.” And they cried, “Quick, set out the coconut wine, and give our Sire a homecoming feast!”
做甚麼和尚 shén (“why be a monk”); 家來 jiā (“come home”), colloquial. 接風 the welcome-feast for a returning traveler.
大聖道：「且莫飲酒，我問你那打獵的人，幾時來我山上一度？」
大圣道：「且莫饮酒，我问你那打猎的人，几时来我山上一度？」
Said the Great Sage, “Hold the wine a moment. Let me ask you — those hunters, how often do they come up onto my mountain?”
那 nà (deictic, “those hunters”); 一度 how often / each occurrence.
馬、流道：「大聖，不論甚麼時度，他逐日家在這裡纏擾。」
马、流道：「大圣，不论甚么时度，他逐日家在这里缠扰。」
Ma and Liu replied, “Great Sage, whatever the season, they are here day after day, forever pestering us.”
馬、流 the marshals Ma and Liu (of the four 健將). 甚麼 shén; 逐日家 jiā (“day after day”), colloquial suffix.
大聖道：「他怎麼今日不來？」馬、流道：「看待來耶。」
大圣道：「他怎么今日不来？」马、流道：「看待来耶。」
“Why have they not come today?” asked the Great Sage. “They should be coming any moment,” said Ma and Liu.
看待來耶 kàn dài (“expect them”) — they are looked for at any moment.
大聖吩咐：「小的們，都出去把那山上燒酥了的碎石頭與我搬將起來堆著。或二三十個一推，或五六十個一堆堆著，我有用處。」
大圣吩咐：「小的们，都出去把那山上烧酥了的碎石头与我搬将起来堆著。或二三十个一推，或五六十个一堆堆著，我有用处。」
The Great Sage gave his orders: “Little ones, all of you go out and gather up for me the loose stones on the mountain, the ones scorched brittle by fire, and pile them up. Heap them twenty or thirty to a mound, or fifty or sixty to a pile — I have a use for them.”
燒酥了 the stones calcined brittle by 二郎's fire in ch. 27 — the ruin becomes his ammunition. 那 nà; 搬將 jiāng; 堆著 zhe (twice, durative).
那些小猴都是一窩峰，一個個亂搬了許多堆集。
那些小猴都是一窝峰，一个个乱搬了许多堆集。
The little monkeys, all in a swarm, went scrambling to and fro and heaped up many mounds.
一窩峰 (= 一窩蜂) “all in a swarm”; the source writes 峰 for 蜂 — encoded as it stands. 那 nà; 都 dōu.
大聖看了，教：「小的們，都往洞內藏躲，讓老孫作法。」
大圣看了，教：「小的们，都往洞内藏躲，让老孙作法。」
When the Great Sage saw it done, he ordered: “Little ones, go and hide inside the cave, and let this old Monkey work his art.”
教 jiào (“order,” causative), not jiāo. 藏躲 cáng; 都 dōu; 作法 to work a spell.
總評 Commentary
The homecoming turns to ambush. The monkeys' delight at reclaiming their king shades at once into the chapter's darker business: Wukong's first act on his own mountain is to prepare a killing-ground. The fire-scorched rubble of Flower-Fruit Mountain — the wreckage 二郎 left in chapter six and 二郎's hunters have compounded — becomes the raw matter of his revenge, stone that the mountain's own destruction has made ready to hand.
The scene is domestic and chilling at once. The coconut-wine welcome, the affectionate “come home and play,” the swarming little monkeys heaping their mounds — all the warmth of restored kingship is bent, without a seam, toward slaughter. Wukong hides his subjects safely in the cave and sends them out of the moral weather of what he is about to do, a tenderness toward his own that sits beside a total indifference to the men who are coming.