獃子東行 Bajie Flies East
真個獃子收拾了釘鈀，整束了直裰，跳將起去，踏著雲，徑往東來。這一回，也是唐僧有命。那獃子正遇順風，撐起兩個耳朵，好便似風篷一般，早過了東洋大海，按落雲頭。不覺的太陽星上，他卻入山尋路。真个呆子收拾了钉钯，整束了直裰，跳将起去，踏着云，径往东来。这一回，也是唐僧有命。那呆子正遇顺风，撑起两个耳朵，好便似风篷一般，早过了东洋大海，按落云头。不觉的太阳星上，他却入山寻路。
逐句解 Line by line
The blockhead duly gathered up his nine-tooth rake, cinched his cassock, sprang aloft, trod a cloud, and headed straight east.
釘鈀 is Bajie's nine-tooth rake, his weapon throughout the novel; 直裰 is his monk's cassock. In 跳將起去 the 將 carrying the motion is jiāng; in 踏著雲 the 著 is zhe.
This time too, Tripitaka was fated to live.
The storyteller reassures the audience directly. Whatever happens over the next few pages, the master is fated to survive it.
The blockhead met a following wind, spread his two ears like a pair of sails, and was soon across the Eastern Ocean, where he set his cloud down.
One of the chapter's best jokes, and it is entirely visual: 撐起兩個耳朵，好便似風篷 — he spreads his two enormous pig-ears and uses them as sails. 似 is read sì; 那 is pointing nà. The thing that makes him ridiculous is also, for one paragraph, the thing that makes him fast.
Before he knew it the sun had risen, and he made his way into the mountains to seek the road.
In 不覺, "before he knew it," the character 覺 is jué, to perceive — not the jiào of a stretch of sleep that the same character carried when he woke in the wallow. 太陽星 is the sun.
The passage carries Bajie east with comic economy: the ears spread as sails, a following wind, the ocean crossed in a stroke. Vernacular fiction routinely leavens its transitions this way, and here the buffoon's absurd anatomy becomes, for a moment, the engine of his flight. The narrator's reminder that Tripitaka is "fated to live" quietly assures the reader this reluctant errand will come off.