第二十八回 · 揪醒呆子 Waking the Sleeper — Journey to the West

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揪醒呆子 Waking the Sleeper

且qiě不bù言yán三sān藏zàng逢féng災zāi。卻què說shuō那nà沙shā僧sēng出chū林lín找zhǎo八bā戒jiè，直zhí有yǒu十shí餘yú里lǐ遠yuǎn近jìn，不bù曾céng見jiàn個gè莊zhuāng村cūn。他tā卻què站zhàn在zài高gāo埠bù上shàng正zhèng然rán觀guān看kàn，只zhǐ聽tīng得dé草cǎo中zhōng有yǒu人rén言yán語yǔ，急jí使shǐ杖zhàng撥bō開kāi深shēn草cǎo看kàn時shí，原yuán來lái是shì獃dāi子zi在zài裡lǐ面miàn說shuō夢mèng話huà哩li。被bèi沙shā僧sēng揪jiū著zhe耳ěr朵duo，方fāng叫jiào醒xǐng了le。道dào：「好hǎo獃dāi子zi啊a！師shī父fù教jiào你nǐ化huà齋zhāi，許xǔ你nǐ在zài此cǐ睡shuì覺jiào的de？」那nà獃dāi子zi冒mào冒mào失shī失shī的de醒xǐng來lái道dào：「兄xiōng弟dì，有yǒu甚shén時shí候hòu了le？」沙shā僧sēng道dào：「快kuài起qǐ來lái，師shī父fù說shuō有yǒu齋zhāi沒méi齋zhāi也yě罷bà，教jiào你nǐ我wǒ那nǎ裡lǐ尋xún下xià住zhù處chù哩li。」且qiě不bù言yán三sān藏zàng逢féng灾zāi。却què说shuō那nà沙shā僧sēng出chū林lín找zhǎo八bā戒jiè，直zhí有yǒu十shí余yú里lǐ远yuǎn近jìn，不bù曾céng见jiàn个gè庄zhuāng村cūn。他tā却què站zhàn在zài高gāo埠bù上shàng正zhèng然rán观guān看kàn，只zhǐ听tīng得dé草cǎo中zhōng有yǒu人rén言yán语yǔ，急jí使shǐ杖zhàng拨bō开kāi深shēn草cǎo看kàn时shí，原yuán来lái是shì呆dāi子zi在zài里lǐ面miàn说shuō梦mèng话huà哩li。被bèi沙shā僧sēng揪jiū着zhe耳ěr朵duo，方fāng叫jiào醒xǐng了le。道dào：「好hǎo呆dāi子zi啊a！师shī父fù教jiào你nǐ化huà斋zhāi，许xǔ你nǐ在zài此cǐ睡shuì觉jiào的de？」那nà呆dāi子zi冒mào冒mào失shī失shī的de醒xǐng来lái道dào：「兄xiōng弟dì，有yǒu甚shén时shí候hòu了le？」沙shā僧sēng道dào：「快kuài起qǐ来lái，师shī父fù说shuō有yǒu斋zhāi没méi斋zhāi也yě罢bà，教jiào你nǐ我wǒ那nǎ里lǐ寻xún下xià住zhù处chù哩li。」

逐句解 Line by line

且qiě不bù言yán三sān藏zàng逢féng災zāi。卻què說shuō那nà沙shā僧sēng出chū林lín找zhǎo八bā戒jiè，直zhí有yǒu十shí餘yú里lǐ遠yuǎn近jìn，不bù曾céng見jiàn個gè莊zhuāng村cūn。且qiě不bù言yán三sān藏zàng逢féng灾zāi。却què说shuō那nà沙shā僧sēng出chū林lín找zhǎo八bā戒jiè，直zhí有yǒu十shí余yú里lǐ远yuǎn近jìn，不bù曾céng见jiàn个gè庄zhuāng村cūn。

But let us say no more of Tripitaka meeting disaster. Sha Monk, meanwhile, had gone out of the wood to look for Bajie, a good ten lǐ or more, without seeing a single hamlet.

The story cuts away mid-disaster to the two disciples, and the timing is the joke. 三藏 takes zàng; 那 is nà.

他tā卻què站zhàn在zài高gāo埠bù上shàng正zhèng然rán觀guān看kàn，只zhǐ聽tīng得dé草cǎo中zhōng有yǒu人rén言yán語yǔ，急jí使shǐ杖zhàng撥bō開kāi深shēn草cǎo看kàn時shí，原yuán來lái是shì獃dāi子zi在zài裡lǐ面miàn說shuō夢mèng話huà哩li。他tā却què站zhàn在zài高gāo埠bù上shàng正zhèng然rán观guān看kàn，只zhǐ听tīng得dé草cǎo中zhōng有yǒu人rén言yán语yǔ，急jí使shǐ杖zhàng拨bō开kāi深shēn草cǎo看kàn时shí，原yuán来lái是shì呆dāi子zi在zài里lǐ面miàn说shuō梦mèng话huà哩li。

He stood upon a high mound looking about, when he heard someone talking in the grass; quickly he parted the deep grass with his staff, and there was the blockhead inside, talking in his sleep.

He hears voices in the grass and it is Bajie 說夢話 — talking in his sleep. Found not by tracking but by noise, and the noise is the man narrating his own nap. 聽得 takes the unstressed de; 草中 takes zhōng.

被bèi沙shā僧sēng揪jiū著zhe耳ěr朵duo，方fāng叫jiào醒xǐng了le。道dào：「好hǎo獃dāi子zi啊a！師shī父fù教jiào你nǐ化huà齋zhāi，許xǔ你nǐ在zài此cǐ睡shuì覺jiào的de？」被bèi沙shā僧sēng揪jiū着zhe耳ěr朵duo，方fāng叫jiào醒xǐng了le。道dào：「好hǎo呆dāi子zi啊a！师shī父fù教jiào你nǐ化huà斋zhāi，许xǔ你nǐ在zài此cǐ睡shuì觉jiào的de？」

Sha Monk grabbed him by the ears and finally roused him, saying, “A fine blockhead you are! The master sent you to beg food — did he give you leave to sleep here?”

揪著耳朵 — grabbed by the ears — is how you haul a child or a truant, and it is how a disciple of the Buddha is retrieved here. Note the two readings side by side: 教你 takes 教 as jiào, ordered you, not jiāo, taught you; and 睡覺 takes 覺 as jiào, sleep, not jué. 揪著 ends in the unstressed zhe.

那nà獃dāi子zi冒mào冒mào失shī失shī的de醒xǐng來lái道dào：「兄xiōng弟dì，有yǒu甚shén時shí候hòu了le？」那nà呆dāi子zi冒mào冒mào失shī失shī的de醒xǐng来lái道dào：「兄xiōng弟dì，有yǒu甚shén时shí候hòu了le？」

The blockhead woke with a start and blurted, “Brother, what hour is it?”

冒冒失失 is a doubled phrase for blundering and thoughtless. His first question on waking is what time it is, which is the one thing he has been trying not to find out. 那 is nà; 有甚時候 takes shén.

沙shā僧sēng道dào：「快kuài起qǐ來lái，師shī父fù說shuō有yǒu齋zhāi沒méi齋zhāi也yě罷bà，教jiào你nǐ我wǒ那nǎ裡lǐ尋xún下xià住zhù處chù哩li。」沙shā僧sēng道dào：「快kuài起qǐ来lái，师shī父fù说shuō有yǒu斋zhāi没méi斋zhāi也yě罢bà，教jiào你nǐ我wǒ那nǎ里lǐ寻xún下xià住zhù处chù哩li。」

Said Sha Monk, “Get up, quick. The master says food or no food, never mind — he's told you and me to go find lodging somewhere.”

教你 takes jiào, told you to; 那裡 takes nǎ, somewhere. The order has already changed from find food to find shelter, and neither of them hears anything wrong in it.

總評 Commentary

The scene restores the chapter's comic register at the worst possible moment. While the master is roped to a soul-fixing stake, his protector is found face down in the grass talking in his sleep and hauled up by the ears like a truant. The juxtaposition is deliberate: the disaster and the dereliction that caused it are shown in the same breath, and the reader has to hold the peril and the absurdity at once.

Sha Monk's reproach — did he give you leave to sleep here? — carries the chapter's judgement without a word of moralising. The two disciples are now, without knowing it, exactly on the path the demon foresaw: they will go looking for their vanished master and be drawn to the gate. The comedy of the waking is the last light moment before the search turns grim.