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十三年前
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十三年前 The King's Lament

國guó王wáng聞wén言yán，滿mǎn眼yǎn垂chuí淚lèi道dào：「自zì十shí三sān年nián前qián不bú見jiàn了le公gōng主zhǔ，兩liǎng班bān文wén武wǔ官guān也yě不bù知zhī貶biǎn退tuì了le多duō少shǎo，宮gōng內nèi宮gōng外wài大dà小xiǎo婢bì子zi、太tài監jiān也yě不bù知zhī打dǎ死sǐ了le多duō少shǎo；只zhǐ說shuō是shì走zǒu出chū皇huáng宮gōng，迷mí失shī路lù徑jìng，無wú處chù找zhǎo尋xún。滿mǎn城chéng中zhōng百bǎi姓xìng人rén家jiā，也yě盤pán詰jié了le無wú數shù，更gèng無wú下xià落luò。怎zěn知zhī道dào是shì妖yāo怪guài攝shè了le去qù。今jīn日rì乍zhà聽tīng得de這zhè句jù話huà，故gù此cǐ傷shāng情qíng流liú淚lèi。」国guó王wáng闻wén言yán，满mǎn眼yǎn垂chuí泪lèi道dào：「自zì十shí三sān年nián前qián不bú见jiàn了le公gōng主zhǔ，两liǎng班bān文wén武wǔ官guān也yě不bù知zhī贬biǎn退tuì了le多duō少shǎo，宫gōng内nèi宫gōng外wài大dà小xiǎo婢bì子zi、太tài监jiān也yě不bù知zhī打dǎ死sǐ了le多duō少shǎo；只zhǐ说shuō是shì走zǒu出chū皇huáng宫gōng，迷mí失shī路lù径jìng，无wú处chù找zhǎo寻xún。满mǎn城chéng中zhōng百bǎi姓xìng人rén家jiā，也yě盘pán诘jié了le无wú数shù，更gèng无wú下xià落luò。怎zěn知zhī道dào是shì妖yāo怪guài摄shè了le去qù。今jīn日rì乍zhà听tīng得de这zhè句jù话huà，故gù此cǐ伤shāng情qíng流liú泪lèi。」

逐句解 Line by line

國guó王wáng聞wén言yán，滿mǎn眼yǎn垂chuí淚lèi道dào：「自zì十shí三sān年nián前qián不bú見jiàn了le公gōng主zhǔ，兩liǎng班bān文wén武wǔ官guān也yě不bù知zhī貶biǎn退tuì了le多duō少shǎo，宮gōng內nèi宮gōng外wài大dà小xiǎo婢bì子zi、太tài監jiān也yě不bù知zhī打dǎ死sǐ了le多duō少shǎo；只zhǐ說shuō是shì走zǒu出chū皇huáng宮gōng，迷mí失shī路lù徑jìng，無wú處chù找zhǎo尋xún。 国guó王wáng闻wén言yán，满mǎn眼yǎn垂chuí泪lèi道dào：「自zì十shí三sān年nián前qián不bú见jiàn了le公gōng主zhǔ，两liǎng班bān文wén武wǔ官guān也yě不bù知zhī贬biǎn退tuì了le多duō少shǎo，宫gōng内nèi宫gōng外wài大dà小xiǎo婢bì子zi、太tài监jiān也yě不bù知zhī打dǎ死sǐ了le多duō少shǎo；只zhǐ说shuō是shì走zǒu出chū皇huáng宫gōng，迷mí失shī路lù径jìng，无wú处chù找zhǎo寻xún。

Hearing this, the king's eyes brimmed over, and he said, 'Since the princess vanished thirteen years ago, I know not how many officials, civil and military, I have demoted and dismissed, nor how many maids and eunuchs, within the palace and without, I have had beaten to death. We supposed only that she had wandered out of the palace and lost her way, and there was nowhere left to search.

兩班文武官 = "the two files of civil and military officers"; 貶退 = "to demote and dismiss." 婢子 (子 = zi) 太監 = "maidservants and eunuchs." Over thirteen years the king has discharged his grief upon his innocent household — a note of royal cruelty the passage does not soften.

滿mǎn城chéng中zhōng百bǎi姓xìng人rén家jiā，也yě盤pán詰jié了le無wú數shù，更gèng無wú下xià落luò。怎zěn知zhī道dào是shì妖yāo怪guài攝shè了le去qù。今jīn日rì乍zhà聽tīng得de這zhè句jù話huà，故gù此cǐ傷shāng情qíng流liú淚lèi。」 满mǎn城chéng中zhōng百bǎi姓xìng人rén家jiā，也yě盘pán诘jié了le无wú数shù，更gèng无wú下xià落luò。怎zěn知zhī道dào是shì妖yāo怪guài摄shè了le去qù。今jīn日rì乍zhà听tīng得de这zhè句jù话huà，故gù此cǐ伤shāng情qíng流liú泪lèi。」

Throughout the city, too, I interrogated the common households beyond all number, and still there was no trace. How was I to know that a demon had carried her off? Only today, hearing these words all at once, am I so wounded in heart that I weep.'

滿城中 (中 = zhōng) = "throughout the whole city"; 盤詰了無數 (數 = shù) = "interrogated countless people." 乍聽得 (得 = de) = "hearing all at once." The lament closes a long fruitless search, resolved in an instant by the letter.

總評 Commentary

The king's lament opens a darker vein beneath the courtly decorum. His grief has not been passive: for thirteen years it has fallen upon those nearest at hand, on demoted ministers "beyond count" and on maids and eunuchs "beaten to death," whole households punished for a disappearance no one could explain. The novel reports this without comment, but the report is itself a judgment — the same despotic temper that will presently offer to make Tripitaka a sworn brother is here shown venting itself, blindly and lethally, upon the powerless.

The passage also turns on the pathos of belated knowledge. The king had assumed the ordinary explanations — a girl wandered off, a road lost — and exhausted every human means of search; the one true cause, a demon's abduction, lay wholly beyond his reckoning. That the answer should arrive so suddenly, after so long, is what breaks him: 只today, hearing the words "all at once," does the grief he has carried for thirteen years find its object and overflow.