第三十回 · 獃子懷怨 Bajie's Grievance — Journey to the West

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獃子懷怨 Bajie's Grievance

八bā戒jiè道dào：「兄xiōng弟dì，另lìng請qǐng一yí個gè兒er便biàn罷bà了le。那nà猴hóu子zi與yǔ我wǒ有yǒu些xiē不bú睦mù。前qián者zhě在zài白bái虎hǔ嶺lǐng上shàng，打dǎ殺shā了le那nà白bái骨gǔ夫fū人rén，他tā怪guài我wǒ攛cuān掇duō師shī父fù念niàn緊jǐn箍gū兒er咒zhòu。我wǒ也yě只zhǐ當dāng耍shuǎ子zi，不bù想xiǎng那nà老lǎo和hé尚shàng當dāng真zhēn的de念niàn起qǐ來lái，就jiù把bǎ他tā趕gǎn逐zhú回huí去qù。他tā不bù知zhī怎zěn麼me樣yàng的de惱nǎo我wǒ，他tā也yě決jué不bù肯kěn來lái。倘tǎng或huò言yán語yǔ上shàng略lüè不bù相xiāng對duì，他tā那nà哭kū喪sāng棒bàng又yòu重zhòng，假jiǎ若ruò不bù知zhī高gāo低dī，撈lāo上shàng幾jǐ下xià，我wǒ怎zěn的de活huó得dé成chéng麼me？」八bā戒jiè道dào：「兄xiōng弟dì，另lìng请qǐng一yí个gè儿er便biàn罢bà了le。那nà猴hóu子zi与yǔ我wǒ有yǒu些xiē不bú睦mù。前qián者zhě在zài白bái虎hǔ岭lǐng上shàng，打dǎ杀shā了le那nà白bái骨gǔ夫fū人rén，他tā怪guài我wǒ撺cuān掇duō师shī父fù念niàn紧jǐn箍gū儿er咒zhòu。我wǒ也yě只zhǐ当dāng耍shuǎ子zi，不bù想xiǎng那nà老lǎo和hé尚shàng当dāng真zhēn的de念niàn起qǐ来lái，就jiù把bǎ他tā赶gǎn逐zhú回huí去qù。他tā不bù知zhī怎zěn么me样yàng的de恼nǎo我wǒ，他tā也yě决jué不bù肯kěn来lái。倘tǎng或huò言yán语yǔ上shàng略lüè不bù相xiāng对duì，他tā那nà哭kū丧sāng棒bàng又yòu重zhòng，假jiǎ若ruò不bù知zhī高gāo低dī，捞lāo上shàng几jǐ下xià，我wǒ怎zěn的de活huó得dé成chéng么me？」

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八bā戒jiè道dào：「兄xiōng弟dì，另lìng請qǐng一yí個gè兒er便biàn罷bà了le。那nà猴hóu子zi與yǔ我wǒ有yǒu些xiē不bú睦mù。八bā戒jiè道dào：「兄xiōng弟dì，另lìng请qǐng一yí个gè儿er便biàn罢bà了le。那nà猴hóu子zi与yǔ我wǒ有yǒu些xiē不bú睦mù。

Bajie said: "Little brother, better fetch some other one. That monkey and I are on poor terms.

In 一個兒 the noun-forming 兒 is er; 那猴子 takes 那 as pointing nà and 子 as the suffix zi. 不睦 is "not on good terms" — an understatement of considerable size, as the next line explains.

前qián者zhě在zài白bái虎hǔ嶺lǐng上shàng，打dǎ殺shā了le那nà白bái骨gǔ夫fū人rén，他tā怪guài我wǒ攛cuān掇duō師shī父fù念niàn緊jǐn箍gū兒er咒zhòu。前qián者zhě在zài白bái虎hǔ岭lǐng上shàng，打dǎ杀shā了le那nà白bái骨gǔ夫fū人rén，他tā怪guài我wǒ撺cuān掇duō师shī父fù念niàn紧jǐn箍gū儿er咒zhòu。

Before, on White-Tiger Ridge, when he beat the White-Bone Lady to death, he blamed me for egging the master on to recite the Tight-Fillet Spell.

Here is the back-story the chapter has been leaning on. 白虎嶺 is White-Tiger Ridge and the 白骨夫人 the White-Bone Lady, the demon of the quarrel that got Wukong expelled from the company. 攛掇 is to instigate, to egg on; in 緊箍兒咒, the Tight-Fillet Spell — the incantation that shrinks the metal band welded round Wukong's skull — the 兒 is the suffix, er. 那 is pointing nà. Bajie is the one who talked Tripitaka into using it.

我wǒ也yě只zhǐ當dāng耍shuǎ子zi，不bù想xiǎng那nà老lǎo和hé尚shàng當dāng真zhēn的de念niàn起qǐ來lái，就jiù把bǎ他tā趕gǎn逐zhú回huí去qù。我wǒ也yě只zhǐ当dāng耍shuǎ子zi，不bù想xiǎng那nà老lǎo和hé尚shàng当dāng真zhēn的de念niàn起qǐ来lái，就jiù把bǎ他tā赶gǎn逐zhú回huí去qù。

I only meant it in jest, but that old monk took it in earnest and set to reciting, and so drove him away.

耍子, in play, as a joke, takes 子 as the suffix zi; 那老和尚 takes 那 as pointing nà. He admits his part and then hands the blame to Tripitaka for taking him seriously.

他tā不bù知zhī怎zěn麼me樣yàng的de惱nǎo我wǒ，他tā也yě決jué不bù肯kěn來lái。他tā不bù知zhī怎zěn么me样yàng的de恼nǎo我wǒ，他tā也yě决jué不bù肯kěn来lái。

There's no telling how he resents me; he'll surely never come.

He is certain of the grudge — and that certainty is exactly what the horse is about to build a stratagem on.

倘tǎng或huò言yán語yǔ上shàng略lüè不bù相xiāng對duì，他tā那nà哭kū喪sāng棒bàng又yòu重zhòng，假jiǎ若ruò不bù知zhī高gāo低dī，撈lāo上shàng幾jǐ下xià，我wǒ怎zěn的de活huó得dé成chéng麼me？」倘tǎng或huò言yán语yǔ上shàng略lüè不bù相xiāng对duì，他tā那nà哭kū丧sāng棒bàng又yòu重zhòng，假jiǎ若ruò不bù知zhī高gāo低dī，捞lāo上shàng几jǐ下xià，我wǒ怎zěn的de活huó得dé成chéng么me？」

And if a word or two should fail to match, that mourning-staff of his is so heavy — should he lose all sense of measure and fetch me a few blows, how should I come off alive?"

略不相對, "a word or two failing to match," takes 相 as xiāng; 他那哭喪棒又重 takes 那 as pointing nà and 重 as zhòng, heavy; 活得成 takes 得 as dé. 哭喪棒, "mourning-staff," is Bajie's own joking name for Wukong's iron cudgel — a mourner's staff being what a son carries at a funeral, so the joke is that it turns up wherever there is a corpse.

總評 Commentary

Bajie's objection supplies the connective tissue to everything before this chapter: the quarrel on White-Tiger Ridge, the killing of the White-Bone demon, and his own mischief in urging the Tight-Fillet Spell, which drove Wukong out of the company. His reluctance to go and fetch the monkey rests on a real and recent grievance — and it explains, in retrospect, why the pilgrims have been facing this demon without their strongest member.

It is also pure comic characterisation. His fear is entirely for his own skin — the mourning-staff and the blows it might deal — and his account neatly blames Tripitaka's literal-mindedness for a spell he provoked himself. That self-serving evasion is precisely why the horse's stratagem is needed at all.